The Xinghua Revolutionary Army quickly swept through the southern part of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and connected with the southern part of Anhui Province by taking advantage of the power of Nanjing, and the remaining eighty percent of the Qing army's Han green battalion in the Jiangnan area surrendered.

There was no major battle in the area of the two rivers for the time being, and the navy took a short break and sailed to the Qiantang River, where the Xinghua Marine Corps landed in Hangzhou Bay. Hanchen, who had been admitted to the imperial examination in Zhejiang, rebelled and joined the Xinghua Party under the contact of some enlightened scholars from the Zhejiang School of the Xinghua Party. On the military side, because the Green Battalions of various military towns in northern Zhejiang were vulnerable to fighting with the Xinghua Marine Corps for the first time, and in the later period, there were not a few Han generals, deputy generals, thousand generals, generals, and even foreign commissioners who led the troops to "revolt." For various reasons, the officers and men of the Xinghua Army who wanted to surrender slaughtered the bannermen and military attachés who wanted to flatter the original army, and regarded their heads as a certificate of surrender to prove that they were "uprising generals."

The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang fled to Fujian with his cronies under the protection of some of the superintendents. The Xinghua Revolutionary Army basically controlled northern and eastern Zhejiang.

It had been more than a year since the capture of Yungui, and by this time the Xinghua Party's control of Yungui had been laid by land reform and alliances with various ethnic groups in the southwestern frontier. Due to the people's influx to join the army and the screening and reorganization of some surrendered troops, the original Phoenix Division has been expanded into the Second Army of the Xinghua Revolutionary Army, which has jurisdiction over three divisions and one special operations brigade, including the retained honorary number "Golden Phoenix". When the Xinghua Army bombarded Guangzhou and landed and swept through Guangdong, the Second Army, under the leadership of Zhang Jinfeng, captured most of Guangxi.

At this time, Zhang Rui, who had already handed over all the internal affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou to the local government, took the staff of the "mobile central government" to Guangdong via Guangxi, and arrived in Nanjing on several large ships under the protection of the navy together with the party representatives of Guangxi and Guangzhou.

Yuyao also personally went to the Yangtze River Wharf in the northern suburbs of the city to greet him, not to welcome Zhang Rui, who took the lead, nor to welcome the Nian family who came with everyone, but to show the comrades and the people. Nian Yaoling assisted Wang Dun in Yunnan for a year, and now he combines the experience of domestic affairs in the old and new styles, and has played a great role in forming the cabinet affairs, and this time they also brought Nian Xiyao's family. Now Nian Yaoling and Nian Xiyao have also joined the party in Kunming, and Nian Yaoling has also seen the nature of her daughter's party, as long as she joins the party, she is her own person as long as she does not make a big mistake in principle, which is completely different from a non-governmental party consultant. She not only established a set of academically rigorous theoretical systems to control the unified ideological system of party members, but also created a complete set of personnel organization structure and party/member discipline system that were completely different from those of the Manchu court, as well as a unique military system under the leadership of the party.

These four sets of systems are proactive in dealing with the contradictions and difficulties in military and political affairs, never going around in circles, although there are also rotten branches, but the overall efficient operation, and the Manchu court is completely different, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty as a high-ranking official age has to be admired: the daughter is afraid that she is either the reincarnation of heaven or the reincarnation of demons, and the Manchu Qing cannot be her opponent, so she decisively took her eldest son into the party.

The day after the arrival of the central government staff, a three-day congress of the Xinghua Party was held to discuss the priorities for the next step.

The party delegates are mainly divided into radicals and conservatives.

The radicals are mainly some iron-blooded young people, who advocate force and have an extreme personality cult for Nian Yuyao. Most of these people were carried away by the victory, overconfident and eager to establish greater achievements, such as the Northern Expedition to cut off the head of Kang Lao Mazi. - This is what Nian Yuyao once called Kangxi in an informal setting, which extremely reflects her contempt for the Manchu royal family, and is also quoted by the radical iron-blooded faction, reflecting their madness.

The conservatives are mainly veteran people who have some knowledge and experience in internal affairs, economy, and people's livelihood, and they believe that although the Xinghua Party is now invincible, its foundation for territorial control is still shallow, and that Liangguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian in the southern hinterland have not been conquered, and this is like a needle stuck in their hearts. You must first take advantage of the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the advantages of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's waterless division, and digest the southern territory first and then go north, so that you can have no worries. Moreover, the huge amount of money and grain consumed by the Northern Expedition is unimaginable, and these territories must be operated before there is capital.

Yuyao naturally agrees with the latter now, but the monster of the former is meaningful to her in terms of political manipulation of public opinion and dissemination of values, and it also needs to be appeased, and it cannot be blindly suppressed and denied.

At the Party Congress, the first formal members of the Central Committee of the Political Committee/Governance/Bureau were decided, with Yu Yao as the leader, Zhang Rui, Zhou Ping, Fang Liang, Yan Peng, Yuan Keqin, Wang Dun, Long Xue and a Miao party member from the village owner as the Standing Committee.

Based on the results of the party meeting, a cabinet was formed, with Zhang Rui as the prime minister, Zhou Ping as the second minister, Chen Chaosheng as the minister of commerce, Nian Yaoling as the minister of finance, and Long Xue as the temporary director of the General Administration of Customs.

In terms of the army, Yuyao also set up the General Staff of the □□ and Xinghua Revolutionary Army to further expand the army, integrate training, and command phased military operations.

The focus of the Xinghua Party's work at this stage is as follows:

1. Further reorganize the army, attack Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and uproot the hidden dangers in the revolutionary territory; and first enter the strategic defense stage against the Qing army in Jiangbei.

2. Agrarian reform, promotion of agricultural production, and hoarding of grain.

3. To improve and implement the new "Criminal Law", "Nationality Law", "Commercial Law", "Labor Law", "Tax Law" and other legal systems closely related to the governance of the world, and to cultivate relevant legal talents, the Party began to discuss the drafting of the "Constitution". For example, the Nationality Law is relatively new and special, and the Xinghua Party government has provided an overview of the possession of "nationality" and a definition of "untouchable" status. There are many definitions of "Chinese nationality": any ethnic group in China that identifies with the Xinghua Party has Chinese nationality without a registered household registration; overseas people who have the blood of any ethnic group in China have Chinese nationality by default unless they declare that they have renounced their Chinese nationality; and those who apply for naturalization and are granted Chinese nationality with the consent of the Xinghua government. The untouchables are mainly the "banner people" at the current stage and the former officials and their families in the areas where the Qing court did not revolt or peacefully handed over. Except for untouchables, the basic safety of the person and property of those who have Chinese nationality is protected by Xinghua law.

4. Leading economic construction, encouraging the establishment of factories, fully opening up the sea ban, and encouraging overseas trade (exploration of colonies).

5. For the construction of basic education and vocational education, at least one primary school and one middle school shall be opened in each prefecture within three years. Party schools were established in Nanjing, Tongcheng, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Kunming, and branch campuses of Xinghua Military Academy were established in Kunming, Guangzhou, and Nanjing. Cooperate with private capital to carry out various vocational and technical education, such as: accounting vocational and technical schools, business schools, and vocational and technical schools that are most needed in all walks of life.

6. Prepare for the March 1708 examination of the civil service of the Xinghua Revolutionary Government, announce it to the world, and publish the "Criteria for the Examination of Civil Servants" and the "List of Posts".

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Just when the Xinghua Party/Central Committee was so busy that one person wanted to break it and use it for three people, Kangxi had also gathered a large number of troops from Manchu and Mongolia to prepare for the southern expedition.

Kangxi's original strategic plan to let Shao Mubu hold Nanjing has failed, and he naturally knows what this means when he has been emperor for many years. Liangjiang, Huguang, and Liangguang were either lost or cut off, the imperial court would go bankrupt at any time, and the southern expedition was forced by economic difficulties in addition to the political/political significance, and Kangxi at that time did not know that Nanjing would be defeated by the Xinghua army so easily, and it was too late for him to dispatch troops.

Mongolia was divided into dozens of tribes in the Ming Dynasty, and after the rise of Jin at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it allied and married with the nearby Mongolian tribes, and all the Mongolian tribes were submitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty except for a few tribes.

The Manchu Qing divided Mongolia into Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and each tribe set up flags, with Inner Mongolia having a total of 49 banners and Outer Mongolia having 86 banners.

Mongolia has set up a banner under the banner, and there are 1,000, 100, and 10 households under the banner, and in addition to the flags set up by various tribes, several tribes also set up alliances. The establishment of the alliance flag made the strength of the Mongol departments cut off and limited to one banner, and there was no strength to confront the Manchu central government. The Manchu court still contributed to the unification of multi-ethnic China in the history of the Mongol period, but in the late Qing Dynasty, it actually lost control of Outer Mongolia. For the southern ethnic groups represented by the Han nationality, the appeasement rewards or administrative capital of dozens of Mongolian nobles through Mongolia also increased their burden. (Note: The author's knowledge is shallow, and he thinks that if the Manchus controlled Mongolia or not, it seemed that the Han Chinese and the southern peoples were lambs to the slaughter.) For example, the Manchu Qing Dynasty controlled the Qing Manchus and had to intensify the exploitation of the Han Chinese and the various ethnic groups in the south in order to have sufficient rewards and administrative costs, and if they were not controlled, the Mongols would be unified and strong, and it would be the common people who would invade the south and suffer. The Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities in the south have no other way out but to strengthen themselves. ）

Kangxi first transferred some of the troops of the six league banners of Inner Mongolia, numbering 80,000 horses, most of them cavalry, led into Beijing by military generals such as the imperial court. Due to the crisis in Nanjing, these Mongolian Eight Banners were only entertained by Kangxi in the capital for three days, and then went south with the Jianrui Battalion led by the eldest brother, as well as the Xiaocai Battalion, the Fire/Gun Battalion, and the newly formed Shenwu Artillery Battalion.

The total number of troops in this southern expedition reached 120,000, and they even recruited people to transport logistical grain and grass through various places.

Tong Guowei is the marshal of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Tong Guowei is Kangxi's uncle, the father of Kangxi's filial piety and Empress Yiren, and the grandfather of the crossing woman Tong Jialanxuan. Now the famous generals of the Manchu Kangxi Dynasty, such as Tong Guogang, Wei Xiaobao's four Han generals who worshiped his brothers, Shi Lang and so on, have died. And in the later period of Kangxi, such as Nian Qianyao, Fourteen Elder Brother, Yue Zhongqi, etc., Nian is now the "anti-thief female bandit leader" The elder brother also joined the party, and the fourteenth elder brother was arrested to teach in Nanyang, Yue Zhongqi is not only shallow but also Han Chinese, where do you dare to use it in a sensitive period now?

Tong Guowei is Tong Guogang's younger brother, and he also accompanied Kangxi to conquer Galdan, and the eldest brother's identity is different, and he needs an emperor's relative to suppress it.

In order to entertain the expenses of supplying this army, the Manchu court almost had to be used as pants, which also increased the expropriation and extortion of all parts of Jiangbei.

The prefectures, prefectures, and counties of Hebei and Henan that they passed through had to cooperate with these large armies on the march.

However, the army also arrived safely and stationed along the Yangtze River, and the sailor ships of the Jiangbei state capitals were beaten and robbed, and the work of requisitioning civilian boats to cross the river was also difficult.

The Qing army also realized that there was a natural danger of the Yangtze River, and it was not easy to cross the river to conquer Nanjing, so they stationed 30 miles along the river in the north of the river to prevent the northern expedition of the Xinghua army.

In this way, the Xinghua Party and the Qing Manchus entered a phase of standoff, and in the next two years, except for small wars (almost all of which were small losses for the Qing army), both sides invariably ceased to fight.

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In the following two years, the Xinghua Party basically unified the south, carried out bloody land reform, and established governments at all levels from the central to the local level, as well as party committees below the township level.

In addition to discovering areas for agriculture, opening factories, and strengthening infrastructure construction, the Xinghua government's economic policy also includes the establishment of various types of banks with modern business models to support economic construction in terms of financing. However, the biggest event of the foundation, and even the greatest impact on future generations, was the establishment of the three companies.

In 1708, the Xinghua government formally established the "China COSCO Co., Ltd.", a strict for-profit public-private joint venture group company, with Long Xue as the general manager. However, the large and small branches with complex shares are almost all originally from the Caoyun Alliance, and the rivers and lakes call this public-private partnership "company" "Cao Gang", and Long Xue, the recognized leader of the martial arts alliance on the rivers and lakes, is respected as the "gang leader", and until the founding of the People's Republic of China for more than ten years, he still controls the customs, and has great power.

In 1709, the people of the Thirteen Lines faction in Guangdong were not willing to be left behind, and also learned the advanced and strict organization and management methods of the "Cao Gang", with an official stake of 15%, and the joint operation of the Thirteen Banks of Guangdong Province was established by the private Guangdong Thirteen Banks, and the "Hanhua International Trade Co., Ltd." was established, with countless large and small branches. Chen Chaosheng's elder brother Chen Mingsheng served as the general manager, or the leader of the Cantonese faction.

At the end of 1709, the Chinese lords of the Nanyang manors reached an alliance, and Yuyao himself was also represented by Datuk. The Chinese estate owners (including representatives of Yuyao Nanyang Property) established the "Huaxia Trade and Logistics Cooperation Co., Ltd.", with Yuan Keqin's father as the first general manager, and he was the leader of the overseas faction. Although the Nanyang faction was counted overseas in the early days, the Chinese all had "Chinese nationality" and paid a certain amount of taxes to the Xinghua government, which was protected by the Xinghua government.

These three large capitalist companies were the three major trade and logistics conglomerates that became world-famous (and later historians called "infamous") for more than 200 years. After that, they cooperated with the powerful Xinghua government (especially the Xinghua navy, which was an official to China and a bandit to the outside world), and did business all over the world. And in the later period, there were many reasons why China and overseas conquests were the reasons why these three companies wanted to get greater benefits. Among them, there are two greedy women who have invested in all three companies, that is, Yuyao himself and Chen Qi, who takes Yuyao as an example, but at the beginning they wanted to make money, but then they were also convicted by the capital group to do a lot of crimes/evil things, such as: single-handedly promoting the cruel "slave trade". Women tend to be the most poisonous species, that's a foreign saying.

Of course, these large companies are still in the growth period.

For example, in 1708, the "China Ocean Shipping" undertook the business of operating potato seeds and Kunming phosphate fertilizer for the Xinghua government, and the branches of the branches in various places also contracted the sales business of the "China Supply and Marketing Cooperative" next year.

In the past, those "lower ninth-rate" and "master" who begged for life on the rivers and lakes have gone to the sun, and their lives have tended to be stable. It's just that there is one thing that makes them distressed, the government and the company let them study, and from time to time there are various exams, and those who don't do well even if they have a little equity in the branch company, but the level of the position is not high.

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By 1710, our 18-year-old Comrade Nian Yuyao, chairman of the Xinghua Party, now had a new trouble, and the Nine Hardships Master wanted to send the descendants of the Ming Dynasty clan who had been selected and cultivated for several years to Nanjing to ascend the throne and become emperor.

This was unanimously opposed by almost all party members at the party congress, and it was the first time that she had suffered such a setback, which had always been in high prestige.

Among them, the most radical are Yuan Keqin of the Nanyang Department, Chen Chaosheng of the Guangdong Department, and Chen Qi, general manager of the "Songhu Shipyard" and president of the "Songhu Shipbuilding Industry University".

Yuan Keqin spoke: "The leader was young at the beginning, and it is understandable that he signed the "Secret Covenant of Maolu" for the recovery of Heshan as soon as possible in the future, but now the situation of the great cause of recovery is not as bad as the leader thought back then. Besides, more than a dozen emperors of the Ming Dynasty were almost unworthy of the throne, causing chaos in the court, and they were loyal and good to serve the country, not to mention that they were almost succumbing to death, how could such a person be the emperor in the country that our party had worked so hard to build?"

One by one, the party representatives nodded with blazing eyes, Chen Chaosheng stood up, and said excitedly: "When Sanbaoye (Zheng He) went to the West, the prospect of ocean trade was good, and Siyi surrendered to my Huaxia, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the sea ban began, and the officials who were in the position of corpses and vegetarian meals guarded one acre and three points of land, and they knew that with the so-called merit and fame to annex the land, the imperial court only knew how to suck blood on those bitter farmers. If such a person becomes an emperor, will half of our country have to return to the time before the liberation? What about our goal of becoming a maritime power?"

Chen Qi jumped up and said: "Our Xinghua Party has not had an emperor for so many years, and if we still lay down the territory and govern the territory, it means that we can have our party in the world, and we don't need the emperor at all. If the world really needs an emperor, or else, senior, you ascended the throne and was crowned the "Empress of China", and I also admit it. ”

When this bomb was released, the party delegates exploded like a pot, and they called for Yuyao to ascend the throne by himself.

Yuyao sighed, and also stood up and took the stage to speak: "Comrades, I am very touched and grateful for your support and affirmation of my work. The "Secret Covenant of the Thatched House" was signed with Princess Changping when I had just established the Xinghua Party when I was a child, and I was still in a state of confusion about the prospects of the revolution. At the beginning, I thought that if the Han people and all ethnic groups today are not politically awakened, then 'opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty' is also a relatively widely accepted ideology. The liberation of rivers and mountains requires the guidance of a unified ideology. Although at that time, the Xinghua Party was only my group of people in the primary school hall of the manor outside Wuchang City, but it had indeed been established. By signing this agreement, I also represent the party's commitment. Although it is a bit unjust for you to bear my original contract as party members, our party must not break its promise. Princess Changping has not interfered in anything with our party and our army in the past few years, and she can be regarded as keeping her contract. ”

In the end, after Yuyao explained that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty only enjoyed the title and could not interfere in any military and political affairs, the party members and representatives were appeased. However, for the Ming family to ascend the throne and officially establish the country, the country name should be called "Daming", and the Xinghua party members always feel aggrieved.

Princess Changping has been taking the descendants of the original third prince Zhu from Ningbo to Quzhou to live in seclusion. In fact, Princess Changping doesn't know that Yuan Chengzhi is still alive, but Quzhou is Xia Qingqing's hometown, and Yuan Chengzhi broke the Wen family's formation here.

She taught the third prince Zhu's youngest grandson to read and practice martial arts in a low-key and careful manner, and now this youngest son is eighteen years old. In the second half of the year before last, the Xinghua Revolutionary Army had already hit Quzhou and swept through western Zhejiang.

At that time, she was still very happy to be able to "oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", but when she saw that the "Wang Shi" was only under the banner of the "Xinghua Revolutionary Army" and did not have the banner of "Daming", she calmed down again, worried that they would not support the Ming Dynasty. So she has been hesitant not to go out of the mountain, hoping that the "Xinghua Party" will come to welcome Qianlong to the throne, but she has not waited.

It was only when the internal affairs personnel of the "Xinghua Party" came to Quzhou to take up their posts, and then, starting last year, a vigorous "agrarian revolution" was carried out, and five or six out of ten of the Quzhou gentry were killed and seized land, and most of the rest of the land was forcibly ransomed. That's not all, there were very few scholars in last year's "civil service examination", and the imperial court did not have any kindness to scholars.

The third prince of Zhu used to be a teacher, and his son was also a scholar, and he also had connections among those scribes. They waited for the Xinghua Party to welcome the "Qianlong Dragon" to the throne, and the son of the third prince of Zhu couldn't help but spread it among the scholars.

Later, the news spread out of control, and the son of the third prince of Zhu was surrounded by a group of scholars who came to see Princess Changping and asked her to show the "Secret Covenant of the Thatched House". Princess Changping was forced by her nephew, and she couldn't wait to take it out.

Then, the facts developed even faster, and those who read ignored the clauses that restricted the emperor, and set their eyes on the clauses that supported the Ming Chamber's accession to the throne, in black and white, to see how the Xinghua Party relied on. Ignoring the clause restricting the emperor from participating in politics is because it is regarded as a joke by them, the emperor is the supreme being, and the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's ministers, why should you a courtier restrict the emperor from ruling the country? The emperor only listens to the death of these scholars and loyal people and does what they want!

They vigorously promoted the "Secret Covenant of the Thatched House" to win over those old literati who were angry and vomited blood in the Xinghua Party's civil service examination or were seized of land.

Some scholars from western and southern Zhejiang, and even Jiangxi and Anhui, who did not accept revolutionary ideas, came to serve the "new emperor" one after another, and these scholars soon established the "Ming Dynasty" small court. And it was this "small court" that was going to move to the old capital of Nanjing to ascend the throne.

Some of the gentry who had no human lives in their hands were not raided, and although they were forced to sell their land, they still had money. However, it is clear that a large part of them do not accept revolutionary ideas.

The Xinghua Party's "equality," "universal education," and "abolition of the gentry's privileges for the management of the villages," all the tenant peasants were allocated their own land, and they did not even pay taxes and grain through their hands.

As long as the farmers are willing to pay an extra 5% handling fee at the open price, they can sell grain to the local supply and marketing cooperatives and then use the money to pay taxes to the popular banks.

Moreover, those "collection departments" are commercial operations, in order to attract more businesses to make more money legally, the service is very thoughtful, and it is completely different from the old officials, which makes the farmers who are naturally afraid of the government very welcome.

The "mobile agency departments" of these banks or supply and marketing cooperatives are engaged in the business of providing grain payment services during the harvest season, the business of agricultural tools, seeds and fertilizers during busy farming hours, the business of daily necessities on weekdays, and the information service of urban recruitment of workers during the slack season.

These ghosts are digging up the roots of scholars and gentry! The Xinghua Party is doing perverse things and destroying the peaceful rural and pastoral life!

As a result, they paid filial piety to the "new emperor", contributed money and food, and the small court was also decent.

In this way, Princess Changping couldn't stop it, and sent a letter to Yuyao that the Ming family was going to enter Beijing.

This is the contradiction between the old and the new systems of the Xinghua Party, which was hidden under the bottom or the Xinghua government did not take those talents seriously at all. Now it's on the bright side.

The old literati and the stubborn landlord class, who did not know the height of the sky, used the "Secret Covenant of the Thatched House" to take the Xinghua Party or Nian Yuyao's army. (. Just Love)