"Master, good news, good news, the People's Army has captured the city of Guangzhou."

A maid happily ran back from outside to give Xu Xinzhi the good news, Xu Xinzhi, who heard the maid's words, was expressionless, and waved his hand slightly: "I know." ”

Seeing the old man's movements, the smiling little maid retired, and she wanted to tell the good news to the others in the house.

After the maid left, Xu Xinzhi sighed deeply, this news is good news for ordinary people under the rule of the People's Army, but it is not good news for a wealthy gentleman and businessman like him.

Haifeng County was captured by the People's Army for only a few months, and the People's Army has already won the support of ordinary people, and the foundation of the previous imperial court's rule for hundreds of years has been destroyed.

Ordinary people may not know the city of Huizhou, nor do they know the city of Guangzhou, they only know that the People's Army won one battle after another and defeated the official army, so that the imperial court would not come back, and they would be able to live a good life if they owned the land.

This is true of the peasants outside the city, and the same is true of the maids and attendants in the mansions of the few large families in the city, and now the maids and attendants are not sold to the masters, they are free people, they are all allocated to the farmland, and they stay to accept the employment of the masters, and they can still get wages, even more than the income from farming.

Therefore, the maids and attendants also hope that the People's Army will continue to rule here, their lives are much better now than before, and the master will not beat them at will, at most they will scold a few words.

Under the rule of the People's Army, the ordinary people are living very well, and the only remaining gentry and businessmen are not doing well, they have not bullied the people before, and even do good, but this does not mean that they can accept the current situation, they want to return to the previous high-ranking life, and the maids and attendants at home beat and scolded casually.

But the official army has always been defeated by the People's Army, and they can only continue to live like this under the rule of the People's Army.

They thought that the imperial court was so strong, with a million troops, and the people's army only had more than 10,000 troops, occupying a few counties, and it was so weak that it would soon be exterminated by the official army.

However, as the official army was defeated by the People's Army again and again, the territory of the People's Army continued to expand, and now it has captured the core city of Guangzhou, which means that it will not be long before the whole of Guangdong will fall into the hands of the People's Army.

The People's Army, which controls the whole of Guangdong, is not the same as the People's Army that has just raised its flag, and the strength of the People's Army is growing rapidly, and the seemingly impossible goal of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty" is possible.

Under these circumstances, the confidence of the majority of the wealthy gentry and businessmen living under the rule of the People's Army in the hearts of the officials and the army to exterminate the People's Army is constantly declining.

Some people have already chosen to defect to the People's Army, and when the news of the capture of Guangzhou City by the People's Army comes back, I am afraid that more people will choose to defect to the People's Army.

Of course, the KPA did not accept the surrender of those people for the time being, but only told them that they could conduct normal business activities under the KPA rule, and that they must abide by the laws of the KPA when conducting business and trade activities, and violators would be severely punished.

In fact, there is a very big gap between the commerce under the rule of the People's Army and a few months ago, and the commercial and trade activities are mainly carried out by the gentry and merchants, but the People's Army has raided most of the gentry and merchants, and the only remaining gentry and merchants are waiting for the officials and soldiers to drive out or exterminate the People's Army before resuming business and trade activities.

Nowadays, commercial and trade activities under the rule of the People's Army are basically carried out by the People's Military Government itself, and whenever there is a shortage of daily necessities in any county, the People's Military Government will transport a batch of goods from other places to sell to the common people.

There are also ordinary people who want to do business, but they don't have much capital to do business.

If commerce under the rule of the People's Army wants to develop, it mainly depends on the People's Army Government and these remaining wealthy gentry and merchants.

After receiving the news that the People's Army had captured the city of Guangzhou, all kinds of chaotic thoughts appeared in Xu Xinzhi's mind.

"The People's Army has won again, when will the official army be able to exterminate the People's Army."

"Could it be that Da Ming is going to die?"

"If Da Ming dies, where should I go?"

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Xu Xinzhi felt that he was about to sit still, and perhaps the next big victory of the People's Army would force him to accept the rule of the People's Army and integrate into the rule of the People's Army.

Xu Mansion has a lot of money compared to ordinary people, but there is also a limit, continue to live in luxury like this, there is no problem for a few years, but after a few years, the People's Army will still rule here, so what should Xu Mansion do.

The farmland under the name of the Xu Mansion has been greatly reduced, and it is necessary to make other livelihoods to earn money to support the family.

The news that Guangzhou City was captured by the People's Army came back to Yongan County and Haifeng County, which were the earliest territories of the People's Army, and some hesitant gentry and businessmen finally made up their minds.

Through the victory of the People's Army again and again, and the defeat of the official army again and again, they could not sit still, and perhaps the official army could not fight back.

So many wealthy businessmen have been raided, and the market is blank, this is an opportunity, they can expand the scope of the industry, make more money, and the family will also grow and develop.

Yes, whether the Ming court or the People's Army rules the world, it doesn't matter to them, what is more important is to develop their own family, there is no thousand-year-old dynasty, only a thousand-year-old family, the dynasty will perish, but the family will not perish so easily.

Before, it was because they did not know about the People's Army, and they were also worried that the official army would soon destroy the People's Army.

As the People's Army continued to defeat the Ming Army, some areas under the rule of the People's Army tended to stabilize, and except for the timid and loyal to the Ming court, no one else would let go of this opportunity to develop the family industry.

However, there are also a small number of people who really want to join the People's Army and become officials or officers.

In their opinion, the People's Army continues to defeat the Ming Army, with the possibility of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, a group of chaotic people can continue to defeat the Ming Army, and those who have more military and civil affairs knowledge will join in, which will make the People's Army stronger and the probability of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty will also greatly increase.

As long as the Ming Dynasty is overthrown, or the world is divided with the Ming Dynasty, these people are all heroes, and maybe they can learn from Sima Yi.

After all, the top leaders of the People's Army are all young people, and they are all from mountain people, and in their opinion, it is not easy to deal with a group of young people.

There are even people who regret it, they can't imagine that the Ming court will be so weak, easily defeated by a group of chaotic people, if they know the weakness of the Ming court, then they can rebel, with their ability, wouldn't it be easier to defeat the Ming army?

It is not strange that there are often arrogant people, but people who are arrogant to a certain point can be called stupid, and perhaps one day they will be killed by their own arrogance.