The armistice agreement was signed, the People's Army and the Ming court officially ceased fighting, and the news of the armistice quickly spread under the rule of the Ming Dynasty and the People's Army, including the Ming court's compensation of 2.6 million taels of silver to the People's Army.

The common people who lived relatively close to Guangdong were relieved to know that the war was over.

The war has a great impact on people's lives, and large families can still pack up their gold and silver and go to farther places for refuge, they have money in their hands, and they can still live a rich life, but the people at the bottom cannot, the people at the bottom are already busy every day in order to eat enough, if they leave the place where they live and become homeless, maybe they will starve to death on the road at any time.

If they could, the people at the bottom were really reluctant to leave their hometowns, even in the areas where the People's Army and the Ming Army were fighting, there were some people who did not leave, and they either lived directly in their homes or took refuge in the mountains and forests.

Finally, the war is over, and the people at the bottom will soon be able to return to their old lives.

In fact, many ordinary people have heard that the people's army in Guangdong is very good to the common people, everyone has farmland, and a small number of ordinary people who really can't get by gritting their teeth and dragging their families to Guangdong, but more ordinary people do not have this idea.

The reason is very simple, the People's Army is so good to the people, so good that the people can't believe it without experiencing it in person, plus the Ming Army and the government have carried out malicious propaganda against the People's Army, all kinds of belittling the People's Army, and the people who can still get by have no choice to go to Guangdong.

The common people who are relatively close to Guangdong now hope that the landlords who fled will not come back, so that they will not have to pay the landlords rent for cultivating the land, and the whole family will be able to eat enough.

The common people at the bottom are just thinking about the problem of having enough to eat, they don't care whether the People's Army wins or the Ming Court wins, maybe the big people they know are only the magistrate and the landlord, and the emperor is too far away from them.

Unlike the common people at the bottom, the middle- and upper-class families in Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian, which directly border Guangdong, attached great importance to the People's Army and the Ming court's armistice.

They knew that after the People's Army occupied Guangdong, they raided a large number of large households, they knew that the Ming Army had been defeated by the People's Army several times, and they knew that the current situation in the Ming Court was not good, and that many powerful people had chosen to evacuate from Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian, because they were worried that these four places would fall.

After all, the people who left were a minority, and more people were still waiting, hoping that the Ming army could stop the people's army, but fortunately, the two sides finally stopped fighting, and there was no need to leave the place where they had been living for the time being, after all, their own industries were here, and the gold and silver they could carry may be less than one-tenth of their wealth.

In the city of Nanchang, the magnates, literati and scholars discussed the truce between the Ming court and the People's Army, and those who did not know the matter thought that the 2.6 million taels of silver taken out by the Ming court was the money to redeem the prisoners.

Most people were laughing at the stupidity of the People's Army, since the People's Army had gained the advantage, why not continue to attack and occupy more plates, then the People's Army would have a high chance of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.

"It's good that the damn thief didn't continue to attack, or we would have run north."

"The thief is so stupid, I will definitely exterminate the thief, I heard that the imperial court is going to recruit young people to form a million army to fight the thief."

However, there are also a small number of people who know that the 2.6 million taels of silver are the compensation given by the Ming court to the People's Army, and the Ming army lost very badly in this war, and if the Ming Court did not agree to negotiate peace with the People's Army, and paid a large amount of compensation, it was definitely a shame for the Ming court.

As for the People's Army's agreement to an armistice, many people feel that there is a problem here, and the People's Army is obviously not an ordinary thief, and the People's Army must have its own intentions in agreeing to the armistice.

Now the People's Army is still in Guangdong, and the magnates in Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangxi, and Fujian are not living in peace, and they are worried that the People's Army will come over.

In the restaurant and teahouse, the literati and scholars discussed a lot.

"Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang are one of them, leading hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress thieves, but they were defeated by thieves, if I come to lead the army, I will definitely be able to exterminate the thieves in one battle." A drunken scholar scoffed.

Hearing the words of this scholar, the people around him had different ideas, some people thought that this scholar was not self-sufficient, Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang were both important ministers of the imperial court, and if they were able to get to their position, their talents would be higher than these scholars who did not have official positions, if you had talent, then you would not sit here and talk drunk.

But there are also people who think that they have no talents, who think that they are very talented, but lack a Bole who knows people, so that they can be buried, and if they can become the generals of the unified army, they will definitely be able to kill thieves on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions.

Under the Ming Dynasty, the loudest discussion of the armistice between the Ming court and the People's Army was Jinling City and the capital.

In the eyes of those Confucian scholars, the Ming army was defeated by the People's Army several times, not because the People's Army was too strong, but because the Ming Army was too weak, and the Ming Army had degenerated, and a major change was needed to restore the Ming Army's former combat effectiveness and defeat the People's Army.

Not only the Ming army, but also some ministers in the imperial court also had problems, and they should be dismissed and given to those who have the ability.

Soon, several talented and well-known Confucian scholars came to the fore and became leaders of Confucian groups, they were the so-called capable people, who thought that as long as they became important ministers of the imperial court, they could lead the Ming Dynasty to defeat the People's Army.

Some ministers were expressionless, some were sneering, and some even wanted to send some Confucian scholars to the battlefield, so that they could see the cruelty of the battlefield and the ferocity of the people's army, and see that they would dare to speak big in the future.

The Ming court and the People's Army have officially ceased fighting, and now the most important thing for the Ming court is to actively expand the army and find a way to defeat the People's Army.

Zhu Yijun discussed with the ministers, and there were only a few ways, one was to expand the army as soon as possible, directly expand the army by one million, and train for another half a year or even longer, so that the new army would have combat effectiveness.

After that, it is to build chariots, artillery, firearms, earth-shaking thunder and other equipment for the new army, and the new army will fight with the People's Army with cold weapons, but it will definitely not be able to defeat it, and the chariots and firearms are indispensable, and even the kind of sharp firearms equipped by the People's Army must also be obtained.

The Ming Court's army expansion plan gave many ministers a headache, the expansion of the army needed silver, and the construction of equipment also needed silver, even if there was Zhang Juzheng's family foundation that he had laid down in the past ten years, it seems that it is not enough now.

The expansion of hundreds of thousands of troops can still be supported, and the expansion of the army by one million is too difficult, but it is difficult to continue to do it, if you can't do it, you can directly abdicate people, these are Zhu Yijun's words.