In fact, this decision in the north caused a problem for the Great Zhou court:

If you do not agree with the north to plant pox for the people, then the imperial court does not pay attention to the common people, and the legitimacy of the Great Zhou regime will be even more shaken.

If you agree to the north to plant pox for the people, then the people will only remember the good of the northern court, and will not thank the court of the Great Zhou.

Zhang Mingyi was lying here, and he felt that the imperial court must be in a dilemma now.

However, what does the court's embarrassment have to do with him and the grass people?

"Someone!"

Zhang Mingyi called out, and a family member ran over in small steps, bowing his head and waiting beside him: "What does the master command?" ”

"Bring pen and paper."

No matter what Jiangbei's purpose is, since it has been published in the "Science and Technology Daily", it is at least technically fine.

In this way, Zhang Mingyi of course wants to get some benefits for his own family first - such as asking the north to send doctors first to sow pox for his children.

Jiangbei will still give Zhang Mingyi this face, in fact, he often seeks similar benefits, such as obtaining authorization from Jiangbei to become the Huang'an and sugar medicine agent in Fujian Province.

This business was not bad, and it brought a lot of wealth and a good reputation to the Zhang family, so Zhang Mingyi planned to continue these businesses.

In fact, many people in Jiangnan have made a lot of benefits from their trade with Jiangbei: Jiangbei is willing to import a large amount of grain, raw silk, coal, iron ore, saltpeter and other materials, and is also willing to let the gentry or wealthy merchants attached to officials act as agents for special medicines, glass products, furs, Dongzhu, deer antlers, soap, matches, perfumes, distilled spirits, sugar, and other goods that can obtain high profits.

Huaxia can obtain a large number of raw materials from it, the gentry and wealthy businessmen can make a lot of profits from it, and those who act as agents of drugs like the Zhang family can also earn a good reputation, and the common people can also enjoy Jiangbei medicines and daily necessities.

Everyone can get a little benefit to a greater or lesser extent, except for the court itself.

Zhang Mingyi felt that if this continued, when the Huaxia Empire crossed the river and attacked, I am afraid that there would not be many people left in the court who were willing to resist.

However, it is still the same sentence, what does this have to do with his Zhang Mingyi?

Even, Huaxia annexed Da Zhou, he Zhang Mingyi can be out of office again, and then there will be no more people who say that he serves the second master - after all, he didn't go out of Huaxia when Da Zhou was still there, right?

……

Jiangbei, Yanjing.

The war in the northwest direction finally ended, which made Xu Shiyang somewhat relieved, in fact, for the current Chinese Empire, it is still very difficult to conduct two wars with more than 100,000 troops at the same time.

It's not that you can't win, but it's too expensive.

The Pingxia War in the Northwest cost about 60 million taels from the beginning of the preparation to the final solution of all the problems!

Even if Huaxia has money and the financial situation has been good, this expense still makes people feel too distressed, so much so that Xu Shiyang wanted to rush to the front line in person several times and let the overly cautious Li Jinghuai launch an attack as soon as possible.

In the end, he didn't do this, the only reason was Li Jinghuai's style of play, at least to minimize his own casualties.

Fortunately, all this is finally over, the pseudo-Xia has perished, and the Chinese army can already enjoy the fruits of victory.

The gold, silver, silk, horses, camels, cattle and sheep accumulated by the party nobles could greatly subsidize the huge treasury, and it was even possible to make up for the empire's expenses in the Pingxia War.

The land population of the party is a huge benefit of reality.

In such a situation, the ongoing Fuso War would put much less pressure on the national treasury.

Of course, in fact, the war in Fuso had already stabilized at this time.

……

After Lin Chong replaced Feng Sanhu as the commander of the Fusang Expeditionary Corps, the Chinese army continued to conquer the city in Fusang.

Different from Feng Sanhu's harsh repressive policy, Lin Chong adopted some gentle methods, such as although he also suppressed the Yixiang sect, Lin Chong invited some high-ranking monks from China to promote local Buddhism to the Fusang people, which comforted the Fusang people in terms of spiritual beliefs.

Second, Lin Chong implemented a rent reduction policy in Fuso.

In the past, most of the tax rates of the local daimyo in Fuso were six gongs and four people, and even three gongs, seven people, and even eight gongs and two people, so in the eyes of Fuso farmers, being able to five gongs and five people was considered benevolent.

Lin Chong stuck on the lower limit of this "benevolent government" and announced the unheard-of "super benevolent government" of the four princes and six people in the occupied areas, which made the Fuso peasants gain great economic benefits.

Of course, there are also prerequisites for the four princes and six people, for example, the local people are not allowed to resist the rule of Huaxia, and if there are more than 100 resistance groups in a region, then the super benevolent government will become the ordinary benevolent government of the five dukes and five people.

If there are more than 500 resisters, then six dukes and four people.

If there were more than a thousand resisters, there would be no ...... of citizens, and Lin Chong would order the Chinese army to sweep the area and reduce everyone to slavery.

It is a very standard policy of sticks and carrots in one hand, and the resistance of the people of Fuso has gradually subsided.

For the Fuso daimyo who still existed at this time, Lin Chong agreed to negotiate with them, and his bottom line was to end the war on the spot, with the current Line of Control as the border between the parties.

This bottom line is actually the purpose of the Chinese army in the first place to launch this war (which was later changed to the complete conquest of Fuso, and now it has been changed back).

However, Lin Chong demanded that if there was an armistice, it must be a complete armistice, that is, in addition to the Chinese army not continuing to attack, the war between Fuso daimyo such as Hashiba Hideyoshi, Shibata Katsuie, Hojo Shinao, Uesugi Keimori, and Tokugawa Ieyasu must also be stopped.

This is to prevent any of them from achieving a total victory and thus becoming a unified force.

Until the full annexation of Fuso, it would be more beneficial for China to maintain the division of Fuso.

Now, Lin Chong's policy, the only flaw is that he can't send the Fusang Emperor back, which is a threshold that all Fusang daimyo can't bypass.

As a result, Hideyoshi Hashiba proposed that the parties could temporarily cease the war, but not sign any treaty on paper, and the armistice period would be two years, giving the parties a buffer time.

Of course, Hideyoshi's goal was to get as much respite as possible, after all, he had suffered considerable losses in the previous war, and the territory he currently controlled was sandwiched between all sides, and if the war continued, the next target of the Chinese army, which had already annexed Maori, would definitely be the area under his control.

The other Fuso daimyo were at least separated from the Chinese army by Hashiba Hideyoshi, so they were not interested in the current armistice, at least Shibata Katsuie, who belonged to the same Oda system as Hashiba Hideyoshi, had the idea of solving Hashiba Hideyoshi first, and then armisticing the war.

Non-Oda daimyo such as the Hojo clan and Uesugi Keisei were also not interested in an armistice, and their expectation was to eliminate all the remnants of Oda Nobunaga, such as Hideyoshi Hashiba and Katsuie Shibata.

Each side has its own ideas, and such negotiations are unlikely to succeed, but at least they can buy the parties some time.

Including Lin Chong, everyone is taking advantage of the good time of autumn to stock up on food, recruit soldiers (Lin Chong is collecting grain in the occupied areas), and do pig comparison to deal with the next situation.