Jiangling Fucheng is covered with ice and snow, and is covered with silver makeup.

It was really cold during the Little Ice Age! Even Jiangling, Hubei Province, which is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, had a continuous snowstorm in the past few days, and the temperature dropped below the freezing point. Even large areas of floating snow appeared on the mighty Yangtze River.

The ice... looks like it's going to freeze!

With this temperature, not to mention Zhu Heji and his Guangdong soldiers who were accustomed to warm weather, the Fujian soldiers couldn't stand it and had to winter along the Yangtze River. Even President Wu Sangui, who had grown up in the bitter cold outside the Guanhai Pass, was also

It was freezing enough.

He has lived in Kunming, which has warm winters and cool summers, for these years, and has become accustomed to warm winters. In addition, he is old and has insufficient yang energy. When winter came, he suddenly caught a cold without paying attention, and he coughed for half a month.

It didn't feel better until these two days.

However, after Wu Sangui recovered from his illness, he did not dare to show off anymore. He did not even dare to go outside to see off Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong, Wu Guogui, Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, Gao Dejie, Liu Xuanchu and other generals who were going on the Northern Expedition.

There are two tables in a warm lobby of the Presidential Palace.

Now that the banquet has ended, President Wu is sitting on a "presidential chair" giving instructions to several generals who are about to lead an army of 100,000 in the Northern Expedition!

His eldest son Wu Yingxiong, son-in-law Guo Zhuangtu, close confidant Fang Guangchen, and Wan Sitong were by his side, creating a harmonious and united scene.

"Ying Qi, Guogui, Shi Cong..." Wu Sangui looked at the coach, deputy commander and vanguard general of this Northern Expedition, and said seriously, "You three should remember it...I just want to

Beijing city!

Just Beijing! You don't care about anything. You don't divide your troops, you don't defend the city, let alone attack the enemy's fortified city. Just go all the way to Beijing and fight.

Unless the main force of the Qing captives comes to seek death on their own, don't ignore them. As for the cities where the Qing captive soldiers are stationed, go around them. There is no need to divide the troops to guard the cities captured along the way. They can just hand them over to the local powerful or officials who have taken refuge with us.

"

"Dad, with such a strategy, is the retreat too empty? Will Nanjing..." Wu Yingqi didn't understand his father's "strategic thinking", so he asked.

"What can the Nanjing man do?" Wu Sangui twirled his beard and looked at Wu Yingqi with a smile, "Ying Qi, do you know what happened at the consultation meeting held by Zhu San and his son in Nanjing?"

"Nanjing Council?" Wu Yingqi was stunned. He seemed to have heard of it, but he didn't know what it was for.

Wu Sangui shook his head. This son can fight, but he really doesn't know anything about political matters, and he has no interest... He was also present when Vance gave a report on this matter yesterday.

But now it seems like I haven't heard anything.

"Boss," Wu Sangui glanced at the boss Wu Yingxiong, "Go ahead!"

Wu Yingxiong laughed and said: "Zhu Heji announced at the Nanjing Consultative Assembly that land will be equalized in the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. He also announced that the imperial examinations would be gradually abolished and replaced by schools. He also announced that he would gradually strengthen the collection of commercial taxes."

"Is there anything wrong with this?" Wu Yingqi thought for a while, "Aside from abolishing the imperial examination, which may be a bit wrong, we are also doing things like land equalization and business tax collection!"

Wu Yingxiong smiled and said: "We are indeed equalizing the land, but our equalizing the land does not harm the interests of the landowners...at least on the surface. As for the commercial tax, of course we have to collect it, but we can collect it.

It’s very rough, and there are many people who can get it reduced or exempted.”

Wu Zhou held an empty Sichuan in his hands, and of course there was no need to cut off the landowners' fields to equalize them... Although after the tenants were turned into self-cultivators, the landowners could not rent out their land, so they had to cultivate it themselves.

But the earth is still there after all!

As long as you have more sons, they will come in handy in the future.

But under the rule of Zhu Heji, although the per capita cultivated land area in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi was not small, with eight acres if not ten acres, the average per household was the level of a rich farmer - a family of five was allocated forty acres of paddy fields.

Absolutely very happy! But after all, there are no large open spaces without owners to allocate. Therefore, the land balance in South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi must be equal, and many big landowners will inevitably lose their land!

In addition, the industry and commerce in the territory under Wu Zhou's rule were very underdeveloped!

Therefore, Wu Zhou did not attach much importance to commercial taxes, and naturally he would not offend the scholar-bureaucrats in the country for a small amount of commercial taxes.

Wu Yingxiong continued: "But the most offensive move of Zhu Heji's time this time was to gradually abolish the imperial examination! He not only wanted to gradually abolish the imperial examination, but also opened schools widely and promoted education... He wanted to make everyone

Having books to read allows all talented and intelligent people to have the opportunity to study and make progress. This is to dig into the roots of scholar-bureaucrats!"

In fact, in the era of advancement through imperial examinations, those who can truly reach the stage of high school Jinshi are the top academics with particularly good brains.

However, the monopoly of land and educational resources by the scholar-bureaucrat class also prevented a large number of smart children from poor family backgrounds from competing for their upward path.

In addition, the imperial examinations focused on liberal arts, and it was easier to "fix" the eight-part essay, so the scholar-bureaucrat class who monopolized land and educational resources was easy to "solidify".

This is similar to the elitization of private education and the joyfulization of public education in some later countries.

Wu Yingxiong added: "Moreover, Zhu San and his son have rarely recruited Qing captives and generals since they launched their army in Guangdong... and they often execute captured Qing captives. They are especially harsh on those who become bannermen!"

Although there was the exception of the Battle of Purple Mountain, the Qing Dynasty's military officers and defenders still knew who to turn to when the Qing Dynasty lost its deer. So the second brother just went north, without occupying the prefectures, counties, and counties.

The second brother's army can approach Beijing, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, and the whole place can be determined!"

Wu Sangui nodded after listening to his eldest son's analysis and said to his second son, "Second son, do you understand?"

Wu Yingqi nodded heavily: "I understand... Dad, brother, just wait for the good news in Jiangling! My army of 100,000 marches from Xiangyang north to Beijing, which is only two thousand miles away. It takes only one and a half months to cover fifty miles in one day."

We’re here! If Kang Mazi still dares to fight to the death, huh... Send him back to the west, and then the whole world will have the surname Wu!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wu Sangui laughed loudly after hearing this, "Okay, my father is waiting for your good news!"

Wu Yingxiong also laughed in response to the situation, "Second brother, Brother Yu is also waiting for your good news!"

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On the Monan grassland north of the Great Wall, the climate this year is still as cold as ever. A heavy snowfall at the beginning of winter has covered thousands of miles of ice. Thousands of miles of snow has drifted, and there is only a white expanse between the sky and the earth. The cold wind

Rolling past, the vastness above the wilderness is like mist. The few rivers meandering on the grassland have long been frozen into a single piece by December. They are as hard as iron and require a big hammer to hit them.

Break some down and use cow dung. The iron pot can only be used after it has been burned.

For the herdsmen of the Chahar Banners who are located north of the Great Wall, on the Monan grassland and the Liaohe Hetao grassland, this kind of cold is definitely very unbearable... Because of the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, they now have no

There was no way to drive the livestock to warmer places in the south to escape the cold before winter came. It was also difficult to obtain materials from the Han Dynasty through looting or trade to survive the winter, so we could only suffer year after year.

However, this winter is a rare exception. The herdsmen of the Chahar Eight Banners and Chahar Banner (Chahar Eight Banners and Chahar Banner are two systems) who were originally divided into various places by the Manchu Qing court and were strictly prohibited from large-scale migration.

Somehow a large number of them were concentrated in the area north of Zhangjiakou, belonging to the Chahar Xianghuang Banner among the Eight Chahar Banners.

On the snow-covered grassland outside the mouth, yurts are gathered together, probably numbering in the tens of thousands!

And in the middle of these tens of thousands of yurts is a particularly dazzling and huge golden-domed tent!

In front of the golden-domed tent, a Chahar Eagle flag was erected that still fluttered tenaciously in the wind and snow!

This blue eagle flag is not the symbol of the Eight Banners of Chahar or the Zhasak Banner of Chahar. It belongs to the glorious central ten thousand families of Chahar in the eyes of Mongolians. It can also be regarded as the symbol of the Mongolian Khan.
Chapter completed!