The Chinese army fought two consecutive battles in one day and won all the battles, but the number of casualties reached more than 1,000. In order to the day with the largest casualties in a single day since the war with the imperial court, the war in the eastern suburbs of the capital also resulted in more than a thousand casualties. , but the statistics after two consecutive days of combat were held at that time.

The Second Brigade rushed from Wuqing County and replaced the First Brigade as a rear guard. The Chinese infantry evacuated the Hexi War battlefield and retreated to Wuqing County the next morning. The cavalry regiment pursued the official army and went to Baoding City and returned three days later. Wuqing.

A large number of prisoners of the government army were taken to Tianjin Wei. Now, the large colony west of the Acropolis has become a prisoner camp.

On the coast of Dagukou, in the temporary camp that stretches for more than a mile, a large number of prisoners are waiting for transfer. Hundreds of small sampans, local fishing boats and even simple rafts are all at the mouth of Dagukou River, and the beach is busy. A large number of people were transported to the China Company fleet three miles away from the coastline. On the Bohai Sea, where flowing ice was still floating, hundreds of large sailboats with blue Chinese flags were busy "loading" there.

There were about thousands of locals waiting on the beach who wanted to immigrate to Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon or the South China colonies. Most of these North China farmers were tenants from the imperial villages near Beijing, Tianjin and Wei, and the Chinese army did not have them. Yin Feng never thought of attacking the power of the land system. For the general landlord class, the Chinese army would not touch them as long as they did not make trouble. The principle of the Chinese army was to attack the Zhu Ming royal family and the emperor. The relatives of the country confiscated their property, burned the land deeds, and dissolved the tenants. Many tenants in the imperial village were worried about being retaliated by the government and decided to evacuate with the Chinese army.

However, those who were waiting to go out to sea on the beach were more prisoners of the government army.

After the battles on the Northern Front, more than 50,000 prisoners of the official army were produced. When the Chinese army fought against the Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese, they often used enemy officers and soldiers to make money, because the Ming army did not redeem them. Going back to his own military officer tradition, the Chinese army treats these officers and prisoners differently: middle and senior officers with fame and fortune in martial arts will be released to create an atmosphere of reconciliation with the court; all officers who rely on military merits will be shipped overseas ;Like most soldiers and prisoners, they need to do two years of hard work in the Chinese company colony to redeem themselves. After that, they do whatever they want and can go back to their hometown.

Of course, there are also some lower-level officers and soldiers who voluntarily join the Chinese army. There are quite a few of these people. Among the more than 50,000 prisoners, about 8,000 people are willing to join the Chinese army. Chen Zhongji does not want the Ming army's military discipline to lead the Chinese army soldiers. I did not want to suppress the "motivation" of Ming soldiers' surrender, so I formed several bare-handed auxiliary troops on the spot, which were actually coolies in the military camp. However, I had agreed with the small officers in advance that the Chinese military discipline was the same. Relatives do not recognize each other. Moreover, if they want to join the regular Chinese military, they can only participate in the local security team as soldiers at the beginning, and they must pass the military academy and pass the assessment, or participate in the garrison combat mission of overseas colonies, and then they can The possibility of entering the regular army and being promoted to an officer.

In Chen Zhongji's view, those who can still insist on joining the Chinese military field forces after these procedures should have been almost assimilated by the Chinese company's concept.

After the battle on the North Canal ended, the government troops stopped operating on the whole line. The local troops and the king-supporting troops in Jingqu and Zhili were all rested on the spot. Within just one day, the Sichuan Baigang and Che, who were highly anticipated by the war faction in the court. The battalion troops were almost destroyed, which disappointed the bureaucrats of the war faction.

The faction that advocated scourge jumped out and the momentum suddenly rose.

At this moment, the situation on the southern line was very calm. After the Battle of Anqing, along the coast of Taihu Lake, Yan Siqi led the Fifth Brigade to the south to the city of Huzhou, and then Shi Shiran returned to Suzhou. He defeated the tens of thousands of troops gathered by Zhang Heming again. , which included thousands of Miao chieftain soldiers in Guizhou.

In the following months, both the official and Chinese troops stopped operating.

The Commerce and Trade Department of China United Company almost transferred all the staff from the headquarters to Jiangnan. While they celebrated the New Year in the prosperous Jiangnan, they were doing business. Zeng Jingshan brought people from the Luzon branch to Jiangnan, and several of the company's board of directors were on the board of directors. The giants have also come, claiming to wipe out all silk goods, tea, cloth and other handicrafts produced in Jiangnan this year before the north wind changes in winter.

At this time, the Jiangnan region had generally planted economic crops such as cotton. The resulting derivative products promoted commercial prosperity in these areas, and the income from pure grain production was higher than that of pure grain production. From Huating in Songjiang Prefecture, Shanghai to Jiading in Suzhou Prefecture, Taicang, Kunshan, Changshu, most of them are "three parts suitable for rice and seven parts suitable for kapok", farmers have "multiple kapok", "specialized textile", cotton planting and related textile industry income have become the main source of income for farmers here. The income from cotton production has exceeded that of rice production, and the income from spinning and weaving is even more considerable: "Rural textiles are particularly exquisite. When you are free of farming, you can produce tens of thousands of cloths to help you farm."

Xu Guangqi said in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs": "(Songjiang) soil is only a hundred miles away, and the farming acres cannot be added to other counties. The tuition of a million yuan has been thirty-hundred years. Those who store interest are all relying on this machine and a loom," There are actually not many farmers who simply grow grain crops. Trade development has made agriculture, especially grain production, no longer the main production activity in the Jiangnan region, and the textile industry The handicraft industry represented by the south of the Yangtze River has become the economic pillar of the Jiangnan region. Therefore, although Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, it also requires foreign grain transportation to adjust the market. Ordinary farmers usually have their households to textile before the beginning of spring, and eat cloth and rice, which is poor. The family often has no remaining grains, so when they go to the fields to work in May, they will take winter clothes and pawn them for rice and eat them.

It was the first time that the Chinese soldiers were stationed in the prosperous areas of Jiangnan. Wars always caused damage, especially along the southeastern coast of Suzhou and Taihu Lake. Many villages were burned down during the tug-of-war between the Chinese army and the government army, and crops were also destroyed. Moreover, due to the war, the government troops blocked all major roads, and the grain in Huguang could not be smoothly transported to Jiangnan, and some areas experienced food shortages.

Fortunately, the Chinese company has Taiwan, Luzon as a base, and Taiwan's military farms have been developed for many years and have entered a high-yield period. After the large tract of land in Luzon was purchased by major merchants, the economy of the large plantation plantation developed rapidly, and the rice produced was produced. Crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes have begun to be sold to various parts of the mainland.

Before the beginning of winter, Yin Feng ordered the company to organize hundreds of large-scale transportation sailboats, carrying a large amount of grain to the Jiangnan area. The major shareholders of the China Company also organized many of their own ships to take the opportunity to do business in Jiangnan. , by the way, help the hungry people and win people's hearts.

After many founding meritorious deeds in Southern Zhili, high-ranking officials and wealthy people have been "rich families and huge families, fighting to buy land and houses" since the beginning of the country. The new nobles of the six kings of the country, and the twenty-eight marquis were as early as the fourth year of Hongwu (1371) There are already 38,194 tenants, and there are countless land tenants with senior officials. The Chinese army in Jiangnan only pointed the finger at these nobles and relatives who are causing trouble, while those who are hiding at home honestly The nobles did not touch their interests in the Chinese army. All these eased measures actually did not cause too much shock to the economic interests of the officials and gentry classes in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

The biggest impact of the Chinese army on the gentry class is that the Chinese army showed good military discipline and integrity to the most economically developed regions in the country, and showed a powerful force to the gentry nationwide, which could subvert the existing ruling order. , and it is an armed force led by merchants.

This completely chaotic the traditional order of scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial, and thus shakes the concept of governing the country in traditional culture. The Chinese military is super powerful, the Chinese company is rich in the world, and the ship is strong. This did not arouse too much disgust among the gentry and literati, because it was explained by the strange skills and tricks of overseas barbarians, which was not enough to shake the cultural confidence of these literati, which was what Liu Zongzhou and his group called "the way to establish a country, respect etiquette." Not to emphasize power and strategy; the fundamental plan is in people's hearts, not in skills." However, the Chinese Army and Chinese Company have made clear political and educational minds, trade fair, tax reduction, and even repaired the Confucian Temple School and developed water conservancy. A businessman group has actually started all dynasties What you did during the prosperous era is so rebellious.

China and ethics are the only people in the Ming Dynasty who can be proud of themselves and defend themselves. This has shaken the foundation of the belief of the Chinese people. However, the remarks and performance of the Chinese company just shake this point and reflect When he left the court, he was not as good as others. From the system of artifacts to the knowledge of people's hearts, this made some scholars feel like they were lost and the sky and the earth was sinking.

These days, Yin Feng was wandering in the occupied areas of Jiangnan. Zeng Qi, Zeng Jingshan, Han Jing and others came to help in government affairs and trade. Ye Hua, Li Xing, Lin Shuisheng and others were worried about military affairs. Zeng Shan was the propaganda work. Xu Hongji and others were organizing, while Yin Feng himself was concentrating on inspecting various Chinese military garrisons in the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, he was traveling around Jiangnan with beautiful women.

Tonight, in a luxurious mansion under Huqiu, Suzhou, multiple charcoal braziers raised the temperature of this study to the point where you can wear single clothes.

This is Yin Feng’s habit of spending winter in Jiangnan. He has been used to staying in tropical places for many years. He is a little unaccustomed to the winter temperature in the Yangtze River Basin.

On the mahogany desk, a beautiful girl from Jiangnan, the top Mei Xinlan of the Qinhuai River Tamyan Book House is splashing ink to draw a picture of plum blossoms, Yin Feng sat inside the desk, beside Mei Xinlan, he smelled the girl's body unique to her body fragrant.

In the past two years, as a music teacher in a senior Taiwanese company family, Mei Xinlan actually has few opportunities to contact him. However, everyone knows that this beautiful girl from Jinling was brought by Yin Feng and Yin's ship owner, although there are many men in Taiwan. The girl is young, but no one dares to make any decisions about her.

Yin Feng looked at Mei Xinlan painting, but his mind was not on the painting. The room was very hot, and Mei Xinlan took off her shirt.

Yin Feng knew that he was wearing a strapless shirt in Mei Xinlan's extremely thin silk shirt. He had indeed paid attention to Mei Xinlan. He knew that this beautiful girl in Jiangnan summer tube top was made of gauze, musk and some kind of fragrant shavings.

Hidden in the compartment, the winter strap is made of crepe. Just now, when Mei Xinlan unbuttoned her shirt, a breath of intoxicating fragrance covered Yin Feng faintly, which almost made him feel a little uncontrollable.
Chapter completed!