The news of the war from the front line was transmitted back to Guangdong, encouraging the hearts of the people in the areas ruled by the People's Army.

The People's Army went to war with the Ming Army, and it was the People's Army that paid the most attention to the war, followed by 1 merchants, led by Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and other merchants, who made some preparations before the war began.

The merchants knew that as long as the People's Army won the war and expanded the area under its rule, the merchants in the newly occupied areas would be harvested in large numbers.

The surviving merchants will not continue to do business for a short time, and this is the opportunity for the merchants in Guangdong to expand the scope of their industry from Guangdong to the new territory of the People's Army.

After the People's Army defeated Li Chengliang's army, the merchants had basically determined that the People's Army would win the war, and the merchants began to make more preparations.

The actions of the businessmen were all in the eyes of Fang Nan, and they didn't care about it, and they didn't need to care about it, as long as it was a normal business activity under the rules formulated by the People's Army, the People's Army would not care about it.

Recall that when the People's Army first occupied Guangdong, most of the merchants were raided by the People's Army, and the commerce of the whole of Guangdong was severely damaged, affecting the lives of the people in almost the entire People's Army-ruled area, and the People's Army had to set up a People's Chamber of Commerce to sell all kinds of commodities in person to meet the basic needs of the people.

It was not until the merchants resumed doing business that the People's Chamber of Commerce gradually withdrew from some unprofitable businesses and handed them over to the merchants to conduct normal commercial trade.

Now that the People's Army occupies new territory, the situation in the new territory may be more serious than that of Guangdong in the past, and a large number of merchants have fled north, and there are merchants from Guangdong who have used to conduct commercial trade, which can save the People's Army a lot of trouble, and the People's Army even supports the merchants of Guangdong to carry out commercial trade in the new territory.

Skipping Shangjia, Fang Nan turned his attention to the KPA-ruled areas in the next few years, and after the end of this ongoing war, the KPA's ruled areas will include Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, or five provinces.

Originally, there were two capitals and thirteen political envoys in the Ming Dynasty, namely North Zhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan (the above are the five northern provinces), South Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan (the above are the five central provinces), Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan (the above are the five southern provinces).

After the end of the war, the People's Army occupied five provinces, and the Ming court only had ten provinces left, and the population ratio would not be too different, almost about one to two.

With a land of five provinces and tens of millions of people, the People's Army can even establish a state.

If there are people in the top ranks of the People's Army who are not in the People's Army system, they should have sent advice to Fang Nan at this time and asked Fang Nan to build the country after the war, but at present, the top leaders of the People's Army are all students of Fang Nan or students of students, and they understand that the matter of building the country is decided by the teacher (the Metropolitan Governor), and they do not need to say it.

The teacher thinks that the country can be built, then everyone listens to the teacher's instructions to do it, and the teacher thinks that if you wait, everyone will continue to wait, and no one dares to urge the teacher.

In Fang Nan's view, even if the People's Army has five provinces and tens of millions of people, it is not the time to establish the country.

In the war between the People's Army and the Ming Court, by the beginning of March at the latest, the People's Army will be able to occupy all the land in the five provinces, and the People's Army will turn from offensive to defense, and make every effort to develop the interior.

The founding of the country is not a trivial matter, at least the four newly occupied provinces must be settled down before they can prepare for the establishment of the state, it will take several months to stabilize the four provinces, and it will take several months to half a year to prepare for the establishment of the state, and it may take a year to establish the country.

If you don't make much preparation to build a country directly, if the people in Guangzhou and the area around Guangzhou know that the People's Army has established a country, it will take a few months or even more for everyone in the People's Army-ruled areas to know that the People's Army has established a country, and you are all the subjects of this country.

Whether it is the former or the latter, it will require a lot of time, a lot of manpower and material resources, it is better to wait for the People's Army to destroy the Ming court, and then prepare for the establishment of the country is more secure.

The founding of the country will take a few years, but Fang Nan believes that some things should be prepared in advance, such as the national capital.

Guangzhou City is the largest city in the area ruled by the People's Army, and has been moving towards modern times, and the People's Army has been operating in Guangzhou City for several years, and Guangzhou City can be included in one of the national capital selections.

If the People's Army's ruling area is only Guangdong or Guangdong, Huguang and other five provinces, it is okay to use Guangzhou as the capital, but when the People's Army's ruling area expands to the entire Chinese land, Guangzhou City, which is located in the southernmost part of the Chinese land, is not so suitable as the national capital.

In the same way, the current capital of the Ming court is not suitable as a national capital, the capital is too far north, in order to protect the capital, the Ming court needs to place a large number of Ming troops at the border to guard against the Tatars.

Jinling City can be included in the selection, but Fang Nan felt that Jinling City was relatively east, looking at the map, Fang Nan finally set his eyes on Wuchang City in Huguang.

Wuchang City is a district of Wuhan, a megacity with a permanent population of more than 10 million in later generations, located in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and is the economic and geographical center of China.

Wuchang City is located in the center of the land of China, as the capital of the whole country is a very good choice, convenient water transportation, rich in surrounding materials, not too cold in winter, better than the capital several times.

It happened that after the People's Army ended the war, Wuchang City was in the People's Army's ruling area, and the People's Army could develop and rebuild Wuchang City in advance, and put it into use as the capital of the People's Army a few years later.

Fang Nan circled "Wuchang City" on the map with a pencil, and after thinking about it for a while, Fang Nan drew four more circles on the map.

Three of the cities in the circle are very famous, namely Beiping City, the current capital of the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou City, the seat of the central government of the People's Army, and Rongcheng in Sichuan, and the last circle is a county town called "Shencheng" in the south of Songjiang Prefecture.

Fang Nan's idea is very simple, in the future, Wuchang City can be used as the central capital, and then set up four accompanying capitals: Beiping in the north, Guangzhou in the south, Rongcheng in the west, and Shencheng in the east.

The Ming court set up a team in the north and a team in the south, a team in the capital, and a team in Jinling City, once there is a problem in the capital, the capital can be quickly moved to Jinling City.

If there is a problem in the capital, you can move to the capital, which is also an important regional economic, military and political center second only to the capital, and radiates the whole country together with the capital, and its status is higher than that of other provincial cities.

For example, Guangzhou City, now the People's Army is focusing on the development of Guangzhou City, and when Wuchang City becomes the capital, the national center will be transferred, but the development of Guangzhou City cannot be stagnant, and it is a very good choice to give Guangzhou City an identity to accompany the capital.