The chain reaction has finally begun.

After learning of the artillery battle in Huishan, the Tianxiong army stationed in Liyang mistakenly thought that Changjie's army had officially started the war without knowing the truth, and Chen Mingxia, who was in charge there, immediately ordered a raid on Huxi Fort of the loyal army.

Then blocked under this bastion.

Although there were only a few hundred loyal soldiers guarding Fort Lakestream, it was not something that could be captured by a surprise attack.

Immediately after that, a brigade of the loyal army stationed in Jintan went south to reinforce, and the two sides carried out the first battle of the new army of the Ming Dynasty outside Huxi Fort. After a bloody battle with no worse technical content than the current Europe, the final result was that the loyal and brave army won, but because the cavalry of the Lu family rushed to reinforce, the loyal and brave army did not pursue, and the total casualties on both sides were more than 900......

"The Loyal Warriors are more tenacious."

Yang Huan said.

"The reason why they won was very simple, that is, they were able to withstand the casualties, and the casualties of the two thousand loyal warriors were not at all chaotic, but the regimental training casualties were less than three hundred and began to flee.

However, the cavalry of the Lu family is very capable of fighting.

After the defeat of the infantry, in order to cover the retreat of the infantry, the 500 cavalry of the Lu family rushed to the loyal brave army, and rushed through the rotation of muskets to intercept, but in the end they still failed to break through the spear array, and more than 100 elite cavalry crashed into the spear forest. However, relying on their cover, those defeated infantry withdrew from the battlefield, and then the cavalry that could not break the formation also retreated, and the loyal and brave army did not continue the pursuit because of the heavy casualties, but then the second army of Jintan began to assemble and prepare to move south. ”

He went on to say.

Yang Xin was still in Zhenjiang at this time, but because of this sudden conflict, Shang Zhouzuo, Zhaoyi City Supervisor Liu Shimin, and Nanjing Garrison Eunuch Zhao Bingyi all rushed here from Nanjing.

"There's nothing we can do about it.

There are only a few people in our family, saying what kind of city supervisor they are, but in fact, they are just trying their best to appease, they are all strong and strong, and they are obedient to give face to our family, and there is nothing to do if they don't listen to our family.

To say that they are actually loyal to the Lord Banzai.

They are also sensible and abide by the rules, although there are no officials of the imperial court to manage them, but they are still in order, and they can be called safe and obedient. In these years, there are a lot of rents that should be paid, all of which are paid by themselves, and even if there was a disaster last year, there was no deliberate delay in paying the rent, and they were sent to Jiangyin without complaint.

They are all good citizens.

It was true that they were not right before.

But at this point, His Majesty has also given compensation, and those houses, shops, etc., have also been returned to the original owner, that is, some land has been divided, and some slaves and maids have been released.

Why bother?

It's useless to fill in so much silver now!

Our family has no choice, and now we can only ask the Hou of Hejian to go over to suppress it, and our family will play the long live Lord to ask for sin, alas, this laborious, but thankless drudgery is not done! ”

Liu Shimin said in the style of his good friend.

Shameless, of course.

He has made enough oil and water over the years, Zhaoyi City does not collect field taxes, and the conscription converted into field taxes does not collect silver and Ding silver, in short, only the emperor's rent is collected for farming, but the industrial and commercial taxes are collected, and part of this tax is used for the subsidies of the loyal soldiers and those local officials. Theoretically, they don't take off production, but in fact, according to the level, there are subsidies similar to Yulu, and this one is quite a lot, after all, at this time, the head of the village also receives it, but there is no corruption, and they don't collect those messy donations.

They all chose for themselves.

Whoever dares to be corrupt is careful that someone will give a shot directly, at least not yet, of course, these officials can still get some additional benefits, this is another matter.

And the rest of these are handed over to the imperial court.

But Jiu Qiansui didn't expect this silver, he was already very satisfied with the food, and he didn't care about the commercial tax in these places for a year in the past, but in fact, this commercial tax had a lot of surplus in addition to feeding the loyal soldiers. At present, Zhaoyi City has a population of more than 1.5 million, all of whom have achieved food and clothing and have spare money to spend, not to mention anything else, and each person can afford to buy a few new clothes a year.

Such a huge domestic demand market, as well as a bunch of factories in Yang Xin brought in wage income, and because there were almost no restrictions on industry and commerce, it created a great prosperity in industry and commerce, and it was a very amazing year in full accordance with strict industrial and commercial taxes.

1.5 million people is not a lot.

At this time, the total population of the Netherlands, the maritime overlord, was only so large.

Then all the rest of those industrial and commercial taxes were divided up by Liu Shimin and these guys.

Of course, he also got gifts everywhere, nine thousand years old, Yang Xin, the palace, including Neiku, he actually paid some, but even so, in his own calculations, he has made at least 400,000 taels in the past two years, which is a real fat difference.

So he supported Yang Xin.

He was not afraid of the Loyal Warriors occupying a few more counties.

"It seems that this is the only way to go!"

Yang Xin's expression was as heavy as his.

It was as if some arduous task suddenly pressed on his shoulders, and he suddenly felt a heavy sense of mission.

"Hejian Hou, Xiaguan repeats it again, this is a holy decree, Hejian Hou must leave for Jiangxi immediately!"

Shang Zhouzuo said sternly.

"Shang Shangshu, you're wrong, can't you go to Zhejiang if you take the canal? To say that the road to the canal is still short, in the name of the Marquis of the River, whether it is the loyal and brave army or the regimental training, that is, he went to take a trip to deter the army, and these people will be afraid. Then continue to go forward to Zhejiang, from here to Jiangxi still have to go against the current, the wind direction is not right and you have to wait for the wind, take the canal and the slender man, which is faster needless to say.

Our family knows that you are a good person, and we are worried that Sang Zi will be attacked by the rebel party.

But then you should let the river Hou take the canal! ”

Liu Shimin said dissatisfiedly.

"Hejian Hou, Xiaguan ......"

Shang Zhouzuo said.

"Shang Shangshu, are you trying to mess up Jiangnan?"

Yang Xin shouted.

"Hejian Hou, the lower officials don't want to mess with Jiangnan, but the lower officials see that the Hejian Hou wants to mess with Jiangnan!"

Shang Zhouzuo said unceremoniously.

"Both of them are angry, left and right are for the sake of Long Live Lord, to say that the general order of the Ministry of War did let Hou Ye go to Jiangxi, but when the Ministry of War issued this general order, didn't he expect this kind of thing? If the two sides really fight, then this Jiangnan will be completely chaotic, Zhejiang is already like that, even if it is urgent, it is useless, this side is imminent. ”

Zhao Bingyi said with a smile.

"Father-in-law Zhao really knows the general situation, no wonder my uncle has praised him many times."

Yang Xin said.

"Since the little one left Beijing, he misses the nine thousand years old day and night, and now he burns incense every day and worships him."

Zhao Bingyi wiped his tears and said.

Shang Zhouzuo got up angrily......

"Hejian Hou, when the war in the south of the Yangtze River is raging, the next official will see how you end!"

He said hatefully.

After saying that, he left proudly, and almost bumped into Gao Hongtu when he went out, the latter hurriedly saluted, Shang Zhouzuo returned the salute, and then Gao Hongtu looked at Yang Xin, but finally didn't say anything, turned around and left with Shang Zhouzuo, obviously they couldn't do anything, and finally didn't stop Yang Xin from going to Suzhou. The rest is not something they can solve, it depends on whether the gentry can endure it, but at present, it is very suspenseful, this is not a matter of Yang Xin going to militia the land of several families, but after he has done this again and again, it has reached the point where the gentry can no longer bear it.

He did this again and again, constantly smashing a nail on the gentry's territory, eroding the gentry's peaceful and prosperous era to a thousand holes, and then violently pushing it down.

His wishful thinking is very good!

But the gentry are not stupid, they have already seen it!

If people endure it any longer, they will be strangled to death little by little by him with the rope of the militia.

This time, I'm afraid they won't put up with it anymore.

However......

"Master Hou, I'm afraid they will really fight!"

Liu Shimin said.

"Then do you think they can win?"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"Master Hou, not to mention that you personally went out to fight, and there are more than 10,000 elites, even if the five armies of the loyal and brave army are all assembled, it is not something they can win, simply counting the loyal and brave army, it is enough to defeat the four regimental training, but I am afraid of reinforcements from the officers and troops elsewhere. But now that Zhejiang is in chaos, all the officials and troops can fight are there, except for the Chang'an army, which has not moved so far, it is estimated that no one will come to help them, so it can be said that we are sure to win. ”

Liu Shimin said.

He knew better than anyone the strength of the Loyal Warriors.

The standing forces of one army, the reserves of four armies, and more than 200,000 reservists are all capable of firing guns and lining up to form a spear formation, and such a place is invincible in Nanzhili.

Team training?

If 2,000 people were killed and wounded and collapsed in less than 300, how could it not be chaotic with the formation of 2,000 people killed and wounded and 400 wounded, and still be able to resist the impact of 500 elite cavalry?

If you want to let the loyal and brave soldiers go out to fight, they are really hard to say, but if they are on their territory, resist those who try to ruin their good life, then in Liu Shimin's view, they are really invincible, and they will not give in if they don't fight to the last person. He had been there for two years, and no one knew better than him the fighting spirit of the militia to defend their homeland, let alone men, even women would pick up knives and guns, and even children would pick up their short spears.

In fact, militia women and children really do military training.

And those women also had special hand crossbows, which, although not very powerful, had no problem shooting through the musketeers' cuirass at close range.

"That's fine, why don't you do it?"

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Huan, order all the departments to board the ship and go south immediately, and tell the brothers that I will take them on a trip to this flower world!"

He immediately shouted outside.

Anyway, the thieves didn't see it as the flower world in Jiangnan in history, so this time he will take them on a trip!

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