By order of the Emperor, the Crown Prince, the Cabinet and the General Staff, the gendarmerie had the right to execute any officer and soldier who had committed serious disciplinary violations during the southward campaign.

The so-called serious violations of discipline include, but are not limited to: the tip of a gun, indiscriminate killing of innocent people, looting people's property worth more than five taels, and so on.

In the face of accusations of serious disciplinary violations, officers and soldiers have one opportunity to appeal: the soldier can appeal to the lieutenant, the lieutenant to the colonel, the colonel to the general, and the general to explain directly to the cabinet.

Of course, in addition to strict military discipline, the cabinet also demanded that the troops maintain the basic order in Jiangnan as much as possible during the war - all local robbers in Jiangnan should be dealt with strictly, especially those who satisfy their own selfish desires under the banner of responding to the Chinese army, and they must be severely punished, so as not to damage the image of the empire in the hearts of the people in Jiangnan.

Of the 220,000 troops of the main force of the Chinese navy and army, 120,000 were lined up along the Huai River, and once an attack was launched, they directly crossed the Huai River and entered the state of attack.

Another 30,000 men were deployed on the southwestern side, and when the war broke out, they would enter Jinghu, join Xu Shiliu's troops, and then enter Sichuan Province.

In addition, the navy and marines, as well as some army units, totaling 50,000 men, were deployed in Taiwan and Peng, and after the war began, they were responsible for attacking the coastal provinces of the Great Zhou, and at the same time entering the Yangtze River to assist the main army force in crossing the river.

The Chinese army is expected to have 200,000 troops and 660 cannons of various calibers.

In addition to direct conquest by force, the empire also intends to launch an offensive of public opinion.

The Xu family has been investing in the newspaper industry in Jiangnan for more than ten years, and almost half of the newspapers and magazines with the largest circulation in Jiangnan are the property of the empire, and the remaining half also have a large part of the shares of the empire.

The empire required that all reports be censored before publication when the army moved south, and that those newspapers directly controlled by the empire must even publish articles that circulated from the empire in prominent pages.

Blatantly waving the flag for the Empire.

The diplomatic department of the empire will also send a large number of personnel to liaise with the enlightened gentry and bureaucrats in Jiangnan, most of whom own shares in factories or estates in Jiangbei, and it is of practical benefit to support the unification war of the empire.

Along with the field troops, there were also some students from the Empire's high schools and universities, some officials from the Empire's controlled areas of government, and some veterans to be discharged.

These people are now in intensive study, short-term cadre training, and in the process of the empire's control of Jiangnan, they will work with some local officials who can be retained to establish the empire's grassroots rule over Jiangnan.

In addition, there are task forces for the advocacy department and the medical department.

In order to buy the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, the empire specially prepared 3,500 kilograms of sulfonamides and 20,000 kilograms of sugar drugs mainly used to treat parasites.

In order to ensure the stability of prices in Jiangnan during the war, the empire also specially prepared a large amount of salt, sugar, grain and cloth.

The cabinet believes that as long as the prices of people's biological resources in Jiangnan do not fluctuate too much, the people of Jiangnan should not consciously and voluntarily shed blood for the Great Zhou and resist the unified action of China.

Of course, it is not enough to rely on the empire itself in this regard, and during the war, the empire will severely suppress hoarding in Jiangnan - the death penalty and exile await such lawbreakers.

In short, we must take a multi-pronged approach in the military, governance, propaganda, economy, medical care, and so on, and we must strive to resolve the Jiangnan issue in the shortest possible time.

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"That person's name is Jia Shifei, a native of Huzhou, who has been raised in Longdao for three years, and has taken the exam several times after that, but he has not been admitted to the Jinshi. He let go of the county lord Bo, and in the tenth year of Longdao, he successfully overthrew the other party because he first sued the county order of their county, and he became a county official. ”

A middle-aged man with an honest and loyal face, who looked particularly reassuring at a glance, stood in front of Wen Yue and Xu Daizhuo with his head bowed, and reported in a respectful whisper:

But at this time, he was disliked by his colleagues, and later he was brought down by someone for a reason. And directly became a white body, three years ago he joined the salt patrol under Lin Ruhai as a master, and it is said that he is still Miss Lin's tutor. ”

"Some time ago, the Lin family's fleet met us on the Yangtze River, and His Royal Highness and Lord Wen also talked to Lin Ruhai once, and then they went to Jinling, and Lin Ruhai helped him run the lord of a county under the jurisdiction of Jinling."

"Heh, Longdao's three-year lifting ......." Wen Yue shook her head and smiled: "This guy has been mixed up for more than ten years, and he has mixed back into the main book." ”

Xu Daizhuo also smiled and said, "Well, that is to say, it was not by chance that I went out and met him that day." ”

"Of course not, in fact, the father and daughter who are running horses and selling horses also have some connection with this Jia Shifei." The middle-aged man with a loyal face continued: "That old man turned out to be a member of the Western Army, after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, he fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and mixed in the green forest for a while. ”

"Later, Fang La's affair was defeated, he escaped the pursuit of the officers and soldiers, at that time their father and daughter were taken in by Jia Shifei for a period of time, and it was rumored that Jia Shifei wanted that daughter to be a concubine, but for some reason he never did it."

"Later, Jia Shifei was appointed as an official in other places, and the father and daughter were exiled again, but when they left, Jia Shifei gave them a lot of entanglements, so the father and daughter were very grateful to them."

"Hehe, that father and daughter are also trying to attract my attention?" Xu Daizhuo thought this was quite interesting, he, the imperial grandson of Jiangbei, had never received this kind of attention in Jiangbei: "No wonder he wanted to use the skills of the father and daughter to lead the topic at the beginning." ”

"They were only sold in the neighborhood after His Highness lived in the Wen Mansion." The middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at Xu Daizhuo, and whispered, "They live in a nearby store—with what their father and daughter earn every day, they don't even have enough room fees." ”

This is not surprising, who knows when Xu Daizhuo will go out? Therefore, the father and daughter could only live near the Wenfu and wait for the rabbit.

After all, there are two prime ministers in Wenfu, Wen Jiefu and Wen Zhong, and Wenfu will naturally not be located in the wilderness, and if you want to live in a hotel, you can only live in a high-cost store.

As for why the father and daughter have the money to eat and live in the main store every day, ...... need to be said? It must be funded by Jia Shifei.

However, this is probably not easy for Jia Shifei, right?

There is also that horse, which is nothing in today's Jiangbei, after more than ten years of development, it has a large amount of income from the grassland trade, and swallowed the reserves of the Jurchen and the party, as well as the supplement of the Western Regions horses, the inventory of 500,000 horses in the empire is still there, and after the mixed breeding of the Pars horse and the Western Regions horse, the quality of the horses is also very high.

That horse was worth between ten and fifteen taels in the empire, which was barely a war horse.

But in Jiangnan, the value of such a "good horse" that can be used as a war horse will not be less than fifty guan.

"In order to attract your attention, this Jia Shifei has invested a lot of money." Wen Yue said with a smile: "It must have taken more than a hundred times before and after, right?" ”