In a similar period of time, there are still many people in the land of China who lament similar words to Fang Nan and Zhu Yijun, and they all know that a big war will break out on the land of China in a year to determine the ownership of the land of China.

Most people in the KPA-ruled areas are optimistic about this war, and the KPA, which is bound to win every battle, will also win the next war, so that the people of the whole world can live a good life.

The merchants in the KPA-ruled areas were the happiest, especially the Guangdong merchants, who had more than doubled their business by occupying four new provinces in the last war.

There are still ten provinces in the Ming court-ruled area, and the People's Army has come to fight, and I don't know how many more wealthy gentry and businessmen will be raided by the People's Army, leaving an almost blank market for the businessmen in the People's Army-ruled area, and their business can develop rapidly by following the footsteps of the People's Army.

On the side of the Ming court-ruled area, the closer it is to the people's army-ruled area, the more they know about the people's army, the more the low-level people welcome the people's army to come, and the more the gentry and businessmen are afraid of the people's army.

If they could choose, the gentry and merchants all hoped that the Ming court would resist or even defeat the people's army, but they did not see where the hope of the Ming court to resist the people's army was, relying on those Ming troops who did not have much morale, or relying on the escort team only equipped with broadswords and spears.

In the face of the persuasion of the People's Army to surrender, many people are still hesitating and waiting to see if there will be a turnaround in the remaining time, and if there is no turnaround, they will choose to surrender to the KPA before the outbreak of war.

Around the area ruled by the People's Army, the Tang Qi Department of the Yunnan Ming Army, the Li Zhengmao Department of the Northern Ming Army of the Huguang and Yangtze Rivers, and the Zheng Yuewen Department of the Zhejiang Ming Army were the most powerful Ming troops.

The extra troops are mainly the escort team formed by the gentry and merchants in the range, all of which are accommodated, although the strength exceeds 500,000, but the three generals know that their own combat effectiveness is very poor, which is worse than the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the last war.

As generals with more than 100,000 troops under their command, Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen can't easily make a decision to join the People's Army.

Just when Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen continued to hesitate, agents from the Military Intelligence Department came, and they sent invitations to the three Ming court generals, inviting the three Ming court generals to send their men to visit the KPA military exercises.

Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen didn't understand what the "military exercise" was, but after the agents carefully explained it, the three of them understood that it was a demonstration of the People's Army's force, and they understood that this was the People's Army showing them force, and asked the three of them to surrender as soon as possible.

The three of them were full of anger but couldn't express it, the People's Army was too strong, if the People's Army came over, they would not dare to lead the army to resist at all, and they would retreat directly with their people, far away from the People's Army.

Just thinking about it for a while, Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen all agreed to send people to the KPA-ruled area to observe the military exercises, which was a good opportunity to observe the PLA's combat effectiveness.

They know that in the past two years or so, the People's Army has also been frantically expanding, will the People's Army's combat effectiveness not rise but decline after the expansion, or the combat effectiveness will not improve much, in this case, the Ming Court may also resist the People's Army with millions of cannon fodder.

In the Ming court-ruled area, not only Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen, but also other forces of some size were invited by the People's Army to send personnel to the People's Army-ruled areas to observe military exercises.

Anyway, they didn't go to the dangerous place of the KPA in person, and it was okay to send henchmen over to take a look, and their henchmen were not willing to go to the KPA-ruled area, but under the orders of the "chief", they had to go if they didn't go, and they could only hope that the KPA would not attack them.

It is expected that the first military exercise of the KPA will start in November, mainly because it takes time for the guests to hurry, and when this wave of guests has arrived, depending on the weather conditions, the KPA can start the military exercise.

A military exercise will not last too long, basically half a day, and the KPA will mainly demonstrate the power of firearms such as muskets, howitzers, grenades and rockets.

Simulating field battles and siege battles, showing the combat effectiveness of the People's Army in these battles.

For military exercises, the People's Army also has to spend some money, firearms and ammunition are made with money, as long as they are fought, the money will also be spent, and then the ammunition must be replenished.

Fortunately, at present, the Foshan Arsenal of the People's Army has a large number of hydraulic machine tools and newly added steam machine tools, and the productivity of the Foshan Arsenal is constantly increasing, and the firearms of the People's Army are not short of ammunition.

When the People's Army raised the flag, there was only the Hutoushan Arsenal, which had limited productivity, and had to be careful in every battle, worried that the barrel of the gun would be scrapped and that the ammunition would run out.

As October approaches, the sixth imperial examination in the KPA-ruled area is about to begin, and most of the candidates who have registered for the examination have already converged on the cities.

On the other hand, in two months, the students will graduate from elementary school, university, and girls' school, and during the summer vacation, they have already begun to think about the path they want to take after graduation.

More than two-thirds of the students chose to join the army or become officials, more than 5,000 students chose to apply for Guangzhou University, and less than 5,000 chose to be teachers.

However, more than 7,000 students will eventually become teachers, and those who fail to apply for university will become teachers, and after three years, they will choose to apply for university again or continue to be teachers.

Since they have made the choice to go to university, they will not give up easily, and when they are teachers teaching students, they can also buy books for college students to study on their own.

Girls at girls' schools are assigned to work as teachers at the newly built girls' schools after graduation, and a small number of students stay as teachers at their girls' schools.

When the next war is over and the People's Army establishes a new state, the capital will be set in Wuchang, Huguang, and most of Hu Xiaoya, Da Qiao Xiaoqiao, and the wives of other high-ranking KPA officials who are teachers at the school will follow to Wuchang.

In this way, the number of teachers in girls' schools is not too large.

Some of the students of Guangzhou University entered various research institutes, and the rest stayed in the school as teachers, and there were too many new students in the next class, and the number of teachers was seriously insufficient.