Zhang Xianzhong has been waiting for this moment for the past few years, and now the army is about to be dispatched, and it is absolutely unacceptable for him to stay in the rear of Chengdu, so he even rejected the suggestions of the ministers, and immediately issued an edict to make it clear that he must personally lead the troops, and no one can raise objections to this matter.

On the one hand, he must establish his own prestige and authority in order to control the army, so that even if his godsons have a change, the officers below will not support it, on the other hand, Zhang Xianzhong, who likes to enjoy, is also very coveted for the flowers and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River.

The ministers of Chengdu have no elites, in fact, they have long been accustomed to Zhang Xianzhong's domineering and ruthless style, and when they saw that persuasion was ineffective, they had to stop and drum, and they all began to focus on preparing for war.

This Eastern Crusade will be a battle to determine the fate of the Great Western Dynasty, so the Great West attaches great importance to this battle, and what they are facing in this battle, the biggest concern of the original, the elders' meeting in the north, the strength of the terrible Elders, once it is halfway through, it may be killed directly at any time, but now it is no longer a threat, those elders themselves sent out soldiers and horses to save some abandoned people, so that many talent-level characters still think that they are the true sons of heaven, and under the bloody rule of Zhang Xianzhong, everyone can be said to have reluctantly unified their understanding, That is, their expedition to Jiangnan this time is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Therefore, whether it was the spy department, or the six Shangshu who were like the grass platform team formed by Zhang Xianzhong, and even several godsons of the military, they all began to prepare for this war.

Everyone knows that this crusade will be a super-large-scale war, the military strength is not a big problem, our Zhang Dawang has Han Xin's confidence, the more the better, the biggest problem is the logistics supply, after the founding of the country, can be called the **** leadership policy, for the development of the economy is simply to give up.

Of course, with the geography of Sichuan, if you can't rely on the Yangtze River to strengthen foreign trade, it seems that everything is a matter of course, although the current strength is already very strong, but Zhang Xianzhong also painfully found that if you want to fight in the Sichuan Basin, it is also very difficult, and Zhuge Kongming could hardly do what he could do back then, so what about him. But the heritage of the country of abundance is still there, and the people of Sichuan can continue to resist the Manchus after Zhang Xianzhong's death for more than ten years, which proves that they are still very rich and powerful.

Finance and materials are very insufficient, for a big war to eliminate Nanming, the materials needed is an astronomical amount, the entire Sichuan ships are so little, want to build a ship, it is impossible to put in it without tens of millions of taels of silver, not to mention that this also involves the preparation of craftsmen and timber, with the production capacity of Onishi, and the time for them to prepare is also very hasty, it is a very difficult thing to complete such a large-scale material transfer and troop mobilization.

Although it was a mess, Stalin's strategy of building railways worked very well against these trembling poor creatures.

Fortunately, not long after the founding of the new country in Daxi, the various ministries have not yet formed a bureaucratic style, and the phenomenon of passing the buck between each other is not obvious, and everyone knows that Zhang Xianzhong himself is a Xu official who is good at stealing and playing tricks, and everyone knows that the result of stealing and tricking in front of him is not a joke of the light wind, but a real "heavy reward", so these poor civilian officials can only work together to build this war machine by squeezing the people of Sichuan.

Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong's plan this time is to be quick and ruthless, taking advantage of the fact that the elders are suddenly stupid, he will use his army on the red-haired people, and his goal is Huguang, Nanzhili, and Jiangxi, as long as he takes these places, King Zhang has confidence, with the wealth and materials here, he can completely fight against the elders.

Under such an iron-blooded and efficient deployment, a large number of people were mobilized, and Chongqing became a large military station, which began to pass through the Yangtze River in large quantities and go down the river, loading large quantities of grain, ammunition, and armor onto ships.

Due to the shipping policy promoted by the elders and the conservatism of many people, the shipowners who had been the main business in the canal began to work for King Zhang for the sake of money.

A large number of soldiers and horses from the Great West Kingdom were also drawn out from all over the place, and assembled towards the position of the boarding ship, this time Zhang Xianzhong except for a righteous son Ai Nengqi who stayed in Sichuan and prepared to respond with the last reserves, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu all advanced with the army, and Li Dingguo also received an order to find a way to develop the military as much as possible and strive to meet with his father-in-law. It can be said that the elite did their best to participate in this Northern Expedition, which involved the transfer of generals in many places.

Although he has just made a fortune, but under the temptation of the land of flowers in the south of the Yangtze River, Sun Kewang still shook his spirits, dispatched elites, and participated in this feast, he cobbled together 100,000 horses, but there are many troops with good reliability, although the Tusi army is not strong in military discipline and training, but the barefoot men who dare to fight are not weak.

Liu Wenxiu's army gathered 30,000 cavalry horses, as well as quite a variety of firearms, and the escape of the craftsmen of the former Ming Dynasty gave them a good opportunity. And their goal is very clear, that is, to advance in the direction of Jiangnan, their main enemy is a scattered Nanming army, so far, the opportunity is simply too good.

As for Zhang Xianzhong himself, as the emperor of the Great Western Dynasty, he personally commanded 50,000 elite soldiers and horses, this march, there were more than 100,000 soldiers who were really soldiers, plus the hired strong men who were captured, the total was close to 200,000, and Zhang Xianzhong was very honest and did not blow too much, but falsely doubled, falsely claiming to be 500,000 troops, compared to tens of thousands of troops claiming to be 800,000, the festival is simply full. Assemble in Chongqing Prefecture, along the Yangtze River, and kill downstream.

The real main force of the three-way army is actually the troops led by Zhang Xianzhong, as a person who knows the goods, he controls the artillery that can be collected, and Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang's troops are in charge of those small cities, and after the army is ready, it will set off quickly, even if it is mobilization, it is simple and clear.

"Brothers, we old and young masters are all real men, but those landlords have occupied the best land for generations, and the mother-in-law and aunt who have formed a good group can bear this? If you can't bear it, then it's the opposite of them, I declare that any meritorious soldier, as long as he has made enough meritorious service, is qualified to find a landlord, kill this fat pig, and give his family property to his comrades-in-arms, wife and concubine, and the land to you. ”

The time was thunderous, and many people shouted hoarsely.

The much-anticipated Eastern Crusade of the whole Sichuan finally set off in Chongqing, more than 200,000 people boarded the ship, but it was a huge project, even the Presbyterian Council would be crazy, not to mention the Onishi with a serious lack of dominance and political power, fortunately, it was not a somewhat tricky elder army raised by the Presbyterian Church, in order to go to the rich Jiangnan to rob, they could still endure it, and according to the appointed time, all of them were assembled in Chongqing, and at the same time, there were thousands of ships full of various grains, ammunition and materials, As the last belongings to sell his underwear, Zhang Xianzhong really made a lot of money.

Starting from Chongqing, out of Wushan, after the elders occasionally worry about the Three Gorges, naturally it is Huguang, the first to bear the brunt of Badong and Guizhou, not to mention, has been announced ten days in advance of the surrender, the prefect of Guizhou is very single, with a family and the millions of furniture looted over the years fled, at the same time set off an escape boom, some officials and defenders in the city killed some colleagues who tried to resist, opened the city gate to send people to find the soldiers of Daxi, and dedicated Guizhou to Zhang Xianzhong.

So Zhang Xianzhong originally planned to take the oath of office, and the idea of taking the Guizhou sacrificial knife first only fell in the empty space, of course, the army under his auspices, for those who were stubborn, they refused to donate money to donate money to the army, and refused to let the family help in the war, so it is obvious that the property was divided.

If you don't work hard, if you don't work lazy, you will be beaten for not long-sighted.

Although Huguang is large, but the Hengshan Mansion, Yongzhou Mansion, Baoqing Mansion in the south, and the Jingzhou Xuanwei Division, which are obviously unstable, are all in great difficulty, and naturally cannot form a joint force on the top, in the final analysis, the government structure of the Ming Dynasty has many problems.

Classical government is driven by taxation.

In order to increase tax revenue, the grassroots government will inevitably use the activities of increasing the population, cultivating land to increase production, and cracking down on tax evasion and evasion.

But the Ming Dynasty, basically the opposite, the so-called heavy agriculture, became the state tax suppressed on the peasants, and connived at the gentry large-scale robbery of land, so that the annual agricultural tax could not be collected at all, and the commercial tax was under the slogan of Confucianism and the people to compete for profits, close to being abolished, and finally, the rich did not pay taxes, the landed did not pay taxes, and they desperately clamored the poor to pay taxes.

This is similar to that of the later generations of dish-cooked countries.

For example, a political party of a certain orientation likes to announce welfare policies to voters, that is, to give you money, but this is very dangerous.

Under such a policy, the party is more inclined or wants to create a large number of poor people who need to receive welfare benefits, so as to ensure that his party can have a large number of votes.

On the contrary, if the basic market of a political party is the votes of the wealthy above the middle level, then it will inevitably expand this population base, which will be conducive to overall progress.

Of course, the situation is complicated.

At the same time, Li Dingguo's army in Jiangyin, after resting for a few months, has already completed the war preparations in advance with the assistance of local wealth, as the commander of the army, Li Dingguo personally came to the front line, to boost the morale of the soldiers, after the elite of Zuo Mengeng was annexed, in fact, his troops were not damaged, in fact, the strength was still there, this time it was enough for those cowardly Nanming officials and gentry to drink a pot.

Of course, Li Dingguo's move at this time can be said to have done quite a considerable ideological struggle and borne huge pressure, which is a difficult decision, because the elders will send someone to tell him that this time he went south to save those Li people, and if Li Dingguo is willing, he can be appointed as the general of the front line, but it is to have a decisive battle with the red-haired people in Nanyang to determine the fate of both sides, and completely drive them out of the sphere of influence of the Celestial Empire!

Li Dingguo, who has seen the map of the world, is still very entangled, the idea of making contributions as a soldier is naturally there, and it is not interesting to say how to fight a civil war, but in the end he still put aside his concerns, he still has to consider for his subordinates, and resolutely sent troops to respond to Zhang Xianzhong's call, and began to be ready to move on the surrounding state capitals, and equipped with weapons from the northern industry, put on a military uniform, and began to recruit rebels in the name of the general vanguard of the Daxi East Route Army.

Not only that, Zhang Xianzhong has also done everything possible in the past few months to contact several princes who have been suppressed by the Council of Elders, as well as many careerists, all of whom have been used by him in the name of Emperor Daxi, what governors, generals, and solicitations, anyway, the military system of the Daxi Army is chaotic and layered, and these papyrus letters of appointment are useless internally.

Although Li Dingguo has a strong ability to conquer the east and the west, and the centripetal force of his subordinates is sufficient, this is based on continuous victories.

The Presbyterian Church does not have a celebrity collecting fetish, but it is just to co-opt useful talents as much as possible, this point of the Presbyterian Church has no distinction between high and low people of race and origin, for Li Dingguo, who is upright and resolute and can fight for the Ming Dynasty to the end, they are very respectful, and although this person is born in the north, he has won a few battles in the south, it can be said that if he gets to Nanyang, he is a bandit garrison commander and specializes in dealing with the natives, it is simply more suitable, Therefore, many salesmen of NORINCO knew that the elders would accept Li Dingguo, so they were also very polite to Li Dingguo in the process of Li Dingguo's business.

That's right, there are no big or small businesses, here are two gold ingots, tell me, which one is noble and which one is low?

Li Dingguo tasted the bitter fruit of the arms race, and the surrounding state capitals began to purchase weapons from the imperial capital with the emblem of the Northern Industry, although weapons could be seized through battle, but such an idea was obviously to treat the soldiers of the Southern Ming Dynasty as dead.

Li Dingguo is very clear that he is very dangerous at present, and the internal part is for the old brothers, Zuo Mengeng's subordinates, and the three groups of displaced people recruited in Jiangnan, which is different from the modern recruit company system of the Presbyterian Church, the training, management, and command of the army are separated, and in the absence of civilian support in the rear, Li Dingguo not only has to manage the army, but also has to intervene in civil affairs, and the speed of the people's flight, after those rich and rich families run away, the so-called poor and lowly cannot be moved, that is, but the decline in production efficiency, It makes his control over the soldiers weakened, and it is difficult to maintain morale except for the old brothers.