"Well, you have to be prepared, but you don't have to be too nervous, after all, our civilization level is higher than theirs, it's really not good, a few of us go back to the world of Dusi, we are still rich in the urban world, living in villas, driving luxury cars, spending money, and here we just played a game that we didn't clear. ”

Lu Yuan nodded and said with a smile.

Wen Qian only smiled slightly when she saw Lu Yuan say this.

Next, Lu Yuan continued to let the People's Army launch a winter offensive, but this time the second town was responsible for launching an attack on Yanzhou and Jinhua and Quzhou Prefecture, that is, the western Zhejiang region, but this area is mountainous, but it is also very suitable for training soldiers to fight in the mountains and forests.

As in the previous offensives, this time the KPA's winter offensive was still dominated by guerrilla tactics, that is, the tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, the enemy being stationed and harassing us, the enemy being tired and fighting and the enemy retreating and chasing after us.

"Don't fight for the gains and losses of one city and one pool, only for the purpose of eliminating the living force of the Ming army and disturbing its rear, and let its backyard catch fire, this is our idea of fighting on the outside line, so since the Ming army has entered the capital city of Yanzhou, don't care, immediately advance lightly and take Lanxi!"

After learning that there were 20,000 brave gentry in Yanzhou Mansion who spontaneously organized the gentry to defend the city, Wen Shouzhuo decisively decided to give up, and then quickly occupied Lanxi County with the second town of the People's Army.

And Zhejiang Governor Xiong Shaoming could only strictly order the local troops to transfer troops to recover Lanxi County after learning about this.

But as soon as the deputy envoy of the military garrison stationed in Yanzhou Mansion ordered a garrison to lead troops to rescue, he was ambushed by the People's Army on the way.

And this also led to the fact that the officials of Yanzhou Mansion did not dare to save Lanxi anymore.

In the end, Xiong Shaoming had to let the Hangzhou general army lead the troops to help, and directly dispatched 30,000 Ming troops.

But at this time, the second town of the People's Army resolutely withdrew and turned to harass other state capitals, and Xiong Shaoming still had no way to take the People's Army.

Xiong Shaoming naturally knew that the People's Army had now controlled Yuyao, Cixi, Fenghua and other counties.

But also because the People's Army kept sending troops to the outside line to launch offensives, as the so-called attack is the best defense, so that Xiong Shaoming's battalion soldiers recruited and trained could not be drawn out to attack the People's Army's current lair, namely Dinghai and other nine counties, but could only be used to guard Hangzhou and protect other states and counties from being occupied by the People's Army.

The KPA took advantage of this opportunity to continue its development, and the nine newly occupied counties have now completed a wave of autumn harvests, and the people who have been allocated land and harvests have naturally basically accepted the rule of the KPA.

Moreover, in order to focus on development, the People's Army did not even occupy the hinterland of Ningbo Fucheng, except for the cities of nine counties, in order to reduce casualties, after all, Ningbo Fucheng is not so easy to attack.

The People's Army only temporarily besieged the city of Ningbo.

Of course, the Ming court bureaucrats, scholars, and officers and soldiers in the city of Ningbo naturally did not have to worry about starving to death.

Because the People's Army also opened a general store outside the city of Ningbo, residents of the city of Ningbo could go out of the city to buy all the necessary goods and then go back to the city.

At the beginning, the officials in Ningbo still closed the city gates, and had no intention of trading with the People's Army, only hoping that reinforcements from the imperial court would arrive.

Of course, the Ming court officials in Ningbo did not intend to abandon the city and flee.

Because they are now surrounded, and there is no way to escape.

They didn't expect this bandit to fight in such an orderly manner, and they didn't fight wherever they went, like other bandits, but occupied all the exits around Ningbo Fucheng at the beginning, and then did not attack Ningbo Fucheng, but only surrounded Ningbo Fucheng.

Later, in order not to starve to death, and after the People's Army sent envoys to negotiate on the grounds that the people in the city would not starve to death, the officials and gentry in Ningbo finally agreed to open the city gate and let the people come out to trade with the People's Army's comprehensive store.

And the reason why these officials and gentry agreed was because according to the conditions reached in the negotiations, the People's Army allowed them not to surrender, and still governed Ningbo City in the way of subjects of the Ming Court, and the People's Army also promised not to attack Ningbo City, so that these officials and gentry in Ningbo City did not have to worry about being liquidated, and the officials did not have to worry about whether to surrender or keep the festival, it was nothing more than to stay in the city and wait for the imperial army to exterminate the People's Army, and then they could earn a wave of merit because they successfully held Ningbo City.

Therefore, gradually, these people in Ningbo had to go out of the city to buy food and other necessities in order to survive.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the beginning of global trade caused by Columbus's geographical discoveries, the Ming Dynasty of this era, the maritime trade was very developed, Ningbo as an important coastal town, there were naturally many wealthy squires doing smuggling business in the city, and there were one or two gentry families with a million or two estates.

Therefore, the comprehensive store will often sell some "luxury goods" to these people in Ningbo.

Ten taels of silver, a glass silver mirror, twenty taels of human lubricant, etc., when these gentry in Ningbo City came to buy these things, they didn't blink their eyelids, and even bought them in bulk, even if they charged VAT, they were not ambiguous.

As a result, the suburbs of Ningbo Prefecture became an important commodity distribution center for the People's Army, and a new town was directly born.

This is also the reason why the People's Army did not conquer Ningbo Fucheng, not only to avoid a large number of casualties caused by the siege, no one can know what crazy moves these rich gentry in Ningbo Fucheng will make in order to protect their family wealth, but also to use this market to earn commercial profits.

This is a more advanced mode of hegemony adopted by the People's Army, which does not spend a lot of financial resources and manpower to occupy your big city, but instead uses your big city to make money, and implements the mode of fighting for hegemony by encircling the city with the countryside.

Gradually, even the People's Army began to allow these wealthy gentry in Ningbo to go out of the city to do business, but they were required to pay commercial taxes and customs duties.

Many of the wealthy gentry in Ningbo were themselves wealthy merchants, and the wealthy merchants naturally needed to travel to various places for trade.

Therefore, there are many rich gentry or agents of rich gentry who have to start doing business outside the city in order to prevent the profits of their own business from plummeting.

And some wealthy businessmen also found that this was actually profitable, for example, they could take advantage of the opportunity to get the first month near the water, wholesale the in-demand goods within the People's Army, and then use their own resources to sell them.

Of course, the People's Army also has a strict control system for the emergence of these wealthy businessmen, first of all, they must pay a huge amount of deposits, and secondly, they must have their families as hostages and hand them over to the People's Army, and they must go out alone.

After all, the People's Army can't know that these rich chambers of commerce will not go out and will not come back, nor can they know that these rich chambers of commerce will not go to inform the imperial court of information.

Of course, the KPA is not worried that these wealthy businessmen will go to the court to tell some information about the KPA, because the KPA now does not care whether the court will know that it is rebelling.

Some wealthy businessmen really just want to make money and are still very well-behaved, plus they don't dare to do anything for the safety of their families.

But there are still some dishonest businessmen, or those who are dissatisfied with the People's Army's heavy collection of business taxes.

However, the KPA is not bothered to pay attention to these opposing voices now, because the KPA has its own armed forces and is not afraid of any ghosts, snakes, and gods.

On the eve of the New Year in the twentieth year of Wanli, the second town of the People's Army completed the winter offensive, and naturally brought back a large number of property and a large number of domestic slaves and maids of the gentry.

According to the management system of the People's Army formulated by Su Yuqing, the beautiful ones will be selected and asked if they are willing to join the maid group or the art troupe, and then the beautiful maids and ordinary maids who are not willing to join will be directly incorporated into the nursing group.

And many are naturally willing to join the maids, after all, most of these maidservants will only serve people.

Lu Yuan also added another batch of maids because of this.

And because Lu Yuan and Yan Lu had already discussed before, they were going to send many maids who were only thirteen or fourteen years old to the girls' school, so Lu Yuan asked Yan Lu to take on the responsibilities of this teacher first.

But then there was the building of such a girls' school.

"If you sign in successfully, you will be rewarded with a girls' school".

However, to Lu Yuan's surprise, on this day, Lu Yuan signed in and got a girls' school.

And this school is twenty miles outside the villa area in the space of Lu Yuan's territory.

On the same day, Lu Yuan and Yan Lu came to this place.

Lu Yuan found that the location of this girls' school is very quiet, the school building is also very beautiful, and it is a combination of Chinese and Western buildings, the building is a repeating the top of the mountain, and the bottom is a brick wall, the outside is simple and elegant, but the interior is exquisite and gorgeous.

The environment on campus is also well furnished, and the dormitories are also spacious, which can accommodate more than 10,000 students at the same time.

And what Lu Yuan didn't expect was that this girls' school was not a simple girls' school, but in fact it was three schools, because this girls' school was divided into three parts, of which the scale was also divided into three parts, the largest almost occupied half of the area of the entire girls' school, and the smallest was less than a quarter.

"Husband, this is just the right place to start a girls' university, a girls' middle school, and a girls' elementary school, and the first batch of maids who don't have any educational foundation can go to elementary school first. ”

Yan Lu said on the side.

Lu Yuan nodded: "Yes, yes, but there is a serious shortage of teachers." ”

"Let's take the youngest batch first, it should be enough for me to add the four or five maids I taught before to be teachers, let's train normal students first. ”

Yan Lu said.

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. ”

Lu Yuan said and continued to walk around with Yan Lu.

……

As Wen Qian said, because the People's Army was attacking fiercely in Zhejiang, Emperor Wanli once again announced that a court meeting was held.

"The matter in Zhejiang, it is really out of my expectations, just bandits, why has it dragged on until now, is this Xiong Shaoming too incompetent, or is this bandit too difficult, what do you think?"

Wanli asked, Huoluo Chigang in the northwest plundered Qinghai and left, and now Bibai rebelled in Ningxia, but now the bandits in Zhejiang have always existed, which made him feel very depressed.

Wang Jiaping, who replaced Shen Shixing as the first assistant to the cabinet a few years ago, is a native of Shanyin, Zhejiang, and naturally hates Lu Yuan's People's Army even more, after all, some people in his family have been liquidated by the People's Army.

Therefore, Wang Jiaping stood up first: "Your Majesty, according to the report from the ministers and villagers, the Zhejiang bandits are good at bewitching the people to rob the gentry of their wealth, so they are getting more and more popular, and they are also entrenched in Dinghai, Cixi and other places to divide the land, pay taxes evenly, and remove the lowly nationality. Self-establishment of official positions and laws, at the same time, but also sent troops to raid all parts of Zhejiang, causing Zhejiang Governor Xiong Shaoming and others to be tired of coping, it is enough to see that this bandit has the ambition to win the world, not a desperate person, obviously has been planning for a long time, so the minister believes that the court can not be taken lightly, when the imitation of the temple of the old things, set up the southeast governor, transfer troops to suppress, when the early pacification of this bandit is. ”

Shi Xing, the secretary of the military department, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Shoufu said is very true, this bandit is not the same as the bandits in the past, and the war is quite orderly, and the soldiers will suppress it as soon as possible, otherwise it will become a disaster for the Ming Dynasty." ”

After listening to the proposal of the ministers, Wanli also thought so.

Therefore, soon after, the Ming court issued an order to remove Xiong Shaoming from his post as governor on the grounds that he was ineffective in suppressing bandits, and promoted Ye Mengxiong, governor of Gansu, to the governor of the military department of Shangshu, the southeast military affairs, that is, the governor of the southeast, and the people's army of Lu Yuan was transferred to suppress Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan also learned of this news soon after, so he also had to convene a council of governors.

"Ye Mengxiong, good at military affairs, if it weren't for us making a bit of a big fuss in Jiangnan this time, he would replace Wei Xuezeng as the governor this year, quell the Bibai Rebellion, and now he is responsible for exterminating us, we can't take this person lightly, he is a capable minister. ”

Lu Yuan said.

Wen Qian first said: "He Ye Mengxiong once served as a sea patrol envoy in Zhejiang, strengthened Zhejiang's maritime preparedness, and trained fishermen along the coast of Zhejiang to defend the sea with their own weapons. ”

"It's no wonder that when I recruited local fishermen for the training of the navy, these fishermen quickly adapted to my military training, and many fishermen were very skilled in broadside warfare and artillery operation, and it seems that he helped us. ”

Xiao Ying said at this time.

"Who made these coastal gentry and the government too greedy and overtaxed, so that these fishermen are now our people. ”

Su Yuqing said with a smile.

"Let's get down to business, after this Ye Mengxiong comes, how do you think he will exterminate us?"

Yan Lu asked.

"Only the troops can be transferred, it may be the local Zhejiang soldiers, it may also be the Sichuan soldiers or the white pole soldiers, the Miao soldiers, or other border troops, the war in the late Ming court is very different, will transfer all kinds of soldiers to start a general battle, and usually will prepare their own food. ”

Wen Qian said at this time.

"You said that since Ye Mengxiong is a capable minister, will he already realize the difference between us and take other methods?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"It's possible!" Wen Qian nodded.

Lu Yuan looked at Wen Qian and the others: "These days, strengthen the management and review of the foreign population, but on the surface, if people don't notice it, prevent Ye Mengxiong's people from coming to our internal investigation, people with a little wisdom know not to fight uncertain battles, since he Ye Mengxiong is a famous capable minister in history, he should not know this truth, he will send someone to investigate us." ”

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