The top level of the two two provinces really didn't worry that King Qin would rebel, one is that Xu Zixian is still shallow now, and what he really masters is Fujian Road, which has some influence on Jiangxi Road but is not deep, and has no influence on Jingbei, Jingnan, Liangguang, Liangzhejiang, Jiangnan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other roads.

It is easy to garrison, to get the cooperation of local officials and gentry, to be recognized by public opinion, and to be supported by the people, but these things are not easy to obtain, and it takes at least a few years to operate.

Of course, the two important ministers of the two prefectures never expected that the gentry in Jiangxi, Jingnan and other places had already contacted and cooperated with the Eastern Domain, and had long regarded the King of Qin as the protector and spokesperson of the interests of all walks of life.

"We still have a headache down there." Han Zhong said with a strange expression: "King Qin insisted on asking for a reduction in the levy before, of course the two governments rejected it, and now that the Northern Expedition is so resultant, the prestige of the center will definitely fall, the situation in the court is turbulent, and all roads have their own calculations. This highness can be counted before others in everything, and he rarely miscalculates along the way...... His encounter will be surprising in later generations. ”

"It may be destiny." Zhang Guangen had no intention of opening anything, in the end, he was a martial artist, he was a member of the warrior tribe who worked for the Great Wei, when the Northern Expeditionary Army was encircled because of their decision-making, the center was even more helpless at this time, and when he sat back and watched the Northern Expedition Army ignore it, he thought that there was still hope for the south to survive, and it was also Zhang Guangen's last support.

"We have nothing to say about state affairs." Zhang Guangen finally said: "Fortunately, there is the shogunate of the king of Qin in the south, there is a sailor, the government army, there is His Royal Highness the king of Qin, and the military affairs are on top, and in the past few years, I can only be beaten passively. ”

Han Zhong was silent, the loss of 200,000 troops, of course, someone has to come out to take responsibility, the Son of Heaven is the loss of faith and the future, Han Zhong is to compensate for his future safety, and his reputation is also very bad, Zhang Guangen has little responsibility, after all, it has always been the Son of Heaven and Han Zhong who hosted, and Zhang Guangen was just an assistant, but at this time, Han Zhong couldn't go, and this black pot could only be carried by Zhang Guangen.

Zhang Guangen resigned, pleaded guilty, cut off his rank of knighthood, and spent his life in hard work, of course, it was heartache. But under the fiasco, if the Privy Council is held accountable, there will be a bunch of people who will be questioned, such as Xu Ziwei, Li Enmao, Li Jian and others, as well as Li Guorui and others on the front line, all of whom will be questioned, or demoted, or exempted from the ranks, and it is estimated that there will be more than 100 civil officials above the third rank who are responsible for this.

Only in this way can the anger of everyone be calmed, not only the people, but also the soldiers, officials, gentry, students, all classes have paid everything for this war, but the result is like this, if you don't pay a certain price to show sincerity, not only Han Zhong will be difficult to get out, even the Son of Heaven may not be able to keep his already unstable throne.

The pretending madness of the Son of Heaven with his head, the state affairs are entrusted to Han Zhong, and the turtle shrinks into the palace, is it fake?

"I hope Hai Bo will calm down first, and then King Qin can surprise us again." Han Zhong smiled bitterly, but he had no real confidence in what he said.

No matter how many miracles the King of Qin creates, what will happen in a few years, when he may face the troops of the Donghu Iron Cavalry?

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"The First Army has entered Qianzhou from Jianzhou, and the Second Army has entered Fuzhou." Fang Shao sat generously on Xu Zixian's right side and bowed his head, his expression was calm, and while speaking, he gently shook the folding fan in his hand.

It's only April, the weather on Fujian Road is already relatively hot, Xu Zixian and Fang Shaoqun and others are wearing thin shirts, the difference is that Xu Zixian is a military standard, with tight cuffs and a tightened hem, which looks still capable and neat, Fang Shaoqun is a looser robe, not a similar military robe that officials also wear.

Xu Zixian nodded slightly...... It is said that it is the first army and the second army, but Qin Dongyang, Ge Cunzhong and others have their own arrangements on the sides and behind them, such as the first army, followed by the seventh army and the ninth army, the eleventh army, the thirteenth army, and the first army actually formed a heavy army group of about 16,000 people in five armies.

According to Da Wei's approach, in fact, this is a wishful thinking, but Xu Zixian felt that 16,000 people were still too few to support a medium-sized battle of more than 100,000 people.

His plan was that 3,000 people would be an army, the 2,000 people in the Great Wei Army would be too small, the government army of more than 3,000 people would be an army, and the five armies would be about 16,000 people in the left and right compartments, and the left and right compartments would be combined into a single carriage.

If a big war breaks out in the future, then it will be necessary to set up a certain road governor to control three or four carriage capitals, and the main force of the government army of more than 100,000 people, which is enough to support a large-scale war on one or several roads.

Now the government army has formed two arrows on the left and right, the left side is the left side of the first army, and the right side is the right side of the second army, both sides are preparing to enter Jiangxi, the left side will go straight into Jingnan, and enter the south of Jingnan in the name of suppressing bandits, and the right side will go straight to Hongdu, and the armies will be stationed in various military states in Jiangxi, and then exterminate Jingnan together with the left wing.

"Thank you Li Kaiming," Fang Shaoqun said with a smile: "He raised things in the Tanzhou area, and also sent Deng Maoqi and others to the Fuzhou area to recruit troops and horses, which frightened the Jiangxi gentry." ”

Chen Zuocai on the side nodded with a smile and said: "Originally, although the gentry in Jingnan and Jiangxi were interested in King Qin, they were still hesitant about restructuring such as our Fujian Road, after all, it would touch their power and interests. As soon as Li Kaiming arrived, they also knew that if they hesitated any longer, they would not be able to burn the jade...... Li Kaiming no longer has great ambitions, or the binding force on his subordinates has weakened, his subordinates in Jingnan and Jiangxi are burning, killing and looting, coercing the people to enlist in the army, and in just two months, it has recovered to more than 100,000 people, but the combat power of the Liukou has weakened, far less than when he was in the Central Plains and in our Fujian Road. ”

Li Kaiming's actions in Jingnan and Jiangxi were of course shocked by the government and the opposition, but the shock was shocked, and the imperial court did not even plan to send a single soldier. Of course, there is no money and food support, Jiangnan East Road first opposed the additional endowment, Fujian Road followed closely behind, and Zhao Debang, the transfer envoy, also directly supported the shogunate, this year Fujian Road only handed over seventy percent of the positive endowment, about thirty percent of the direct reduction.

Xu Zi was the first to open his voice, and he also directly received the unreserved support of the elders of Fujian Road.

Under heavy pressure, when the prestige of the imperial court was not lost, it first asked for a tax reduction, and was severely reprimanded by the two governments and did not change its original intention, and after the tax reduction, the money was not used for the military expenses of the government army, but directly benefited the people.

It can be said that only the court and officials were damaged in Fujian Road, and the gentry and the people were all beneficiaries, after all, the Great Wei had a certain care for the gentry, but under the heavy burden, the gentry were also under great pressure, and only the officials were full of private pockets when collecting taxes, favoritism, and they could reap great benefits.

Many of the student class were dissatisfied with this, and proposed to raise taxes on the wealthy merchant gentry, first, to reduce the burden of the common people more, and secondly, in their view, the merchants and gentry benefited from the reduction and should bear more.

Xu Zixian directly refused, the merchants are rich, they can naturally hire more workers, the maritime merchants can build more ships to trade, there will be more factories, the tertiary industry serving the factories and trade will be more prosperous, agriculture will also benefit, and everyone will benefit in the chain of interests.

As long as the law is established, respecting the old and raising the young, building roads and bridges, subsidizing students, raising armies and building ships, and having money to do these public welfare affairs, it is enough to restrict unscrupulous businessmen and lawless gentry.

wants to create a completely fair and peaceful world, Xu Zixian also wants to do it, but he thinks he can't do it.

Under limited conditions, it is enough to be as fair as possible, to take into account all classes as much as possible, and to divide the pie well.

The pragmatic, cautious attitude and style of the Qin king made the gentry everywhere greatly appreciated.

Li Yi said: "Chen Duzhu, Wei Jiuzhen They have always spoken for us, and introduced many powerful businessmen from all walks of life, plus salt has entered everywhere, and they have already dealt with each other, and the king is pragmatic and cautious, the gentry and businessmen are heartfelt, and the people support them, which is also reasonable." ”

Fang Shaoqun nodded and said: "I'm waiting for the water mill kung fu at the bottom, the government army will enter the two roads, and the gentry and people will return to their hearts, this is preliminary." Then the shogunate officials entered in the name of the aftermath, assisted the officers, stationed officials, organized the armor, and set up officials, which was the second step. These two steps are done, cooperating with the garrison, clearing officials, reducing taxes, and striving for the real support of the people, which is the third step. After these three steps are completed, you will basically master all the ways. ”

Everyone nodded, and Li Yi said: "Over there in Jiangxi, as well as Jingnan, there are big families who have sent their children to study in the official school, which can be regarded as the beginning of the second step." ”

"Next is Jingbei, Liangguang, Guangnan East Road is easy, the sailor controls the open sea, the merchants of the Guangnan East Road want to go to the sea to trade, and they have long been dependent on our sailor to shelter, and then influence the gentry of the state capitals and counties, and then take Li Kaiming to Liangguang, a year or two later, Lianghu, Jiangxi, Liangguang, Fujian, this southeast part of the country is basically controlled by the shogunate."

"Gotta seize the year or two." Fang Shaoqun glanced at Xu Zixian first, and his eyes were full of admiration.

His Royal Highness the King of Qin, after calculating this vacuum period of the imperial court in advance, tried his best to develop the government army, desperately asked for a reduction in taxes, and then decisively sent troops, it was only a matter of time before these roads in the south were under control.

After two or three years, more than 10,000 shogunate officials were stationed in various provinces, and the gentry used the law of the parliament to actually control the localities, so that even if there were nominally state and county officials sent by the imperial court, there was a shogunate, a local assembly and public opinion, as well as a garrison and a large number of officials to control, in fact, the imperial court's control over these places was zero.

This is also what Fang Shaoqun meant, the imperial court will recover after two years, and it is difficult to say whether it can tolerate such an expansion of the Qin King Shogunate.

"I'm afraid the imperial court won't wait a year or two." Li Yi's face was gloomy, and he said slowly: "Guangzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou, as well as Hongdu, Tanzhou and other important military states have all been transferred to the north. The imperial court is obviously handing over the entire south to our king and the government army, the northern defense line, nothing to do in half a year, even if Donghu can completely destroy my Northern Expedition army, its vitality is also a big injury, no troops can be sent within half a year, there will be no accidents in the first half of next year, within half a year, the imperial court will consolidate the border defense, if we are still expanding, I am afraid there will be disputes. ”

"It's okay." Xu Zixian sat cross-legged on the couch and didn't participate in too many discussions, only then did he smile and wave his hand, and said: "The imperial court will not come out to do much, and no one will ask about the situation in the south, well, as long as at least sixty or seventy percent of the taxes are paid to the center, the two governments and the Son of Heaven will not say anything strange about the affairs of the south, let alone any measures." ”

"Why is that?" Fang Shaoqun frowned and said: "The threat of Donghu is on the side, it is understandable that the imperial court will deal with it like this, if Donghu does not come, why do the imperial court and the two governments sit back and watch us expand and control the southeastern roads?" ”

"First, the imperial court needs us to guard the southeast to prevent rogues like Li Kaiming from entering the southeast, or sitting in the southeast." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "Second, the imperial court has no intention of taking care of the southeast at all, and we need to guard the sea frontier, whether it is Kang Tianqi or Pu Xingfeng, we have to resist it, which is also quite obvious." Third, the imperial court will soon have greater troubles, and it will not be too busy to take care of itself, and in a year or two, the two governments will not be wary of me and restrict me, but will hope that I will be stronger and the government army will be more powerful. ”