finally learned the truth, and the king of Zhennan, who was concerned about His Majesty the Emperor, then set off north along the canal.

Still alone in the north.

Of course, it's not really just one person.

His guard battalion still has to be carried, anyway, it is also the king of the county, it is impossible to go out alone, this kind of retinue similar to the honor guard is a must, and it is just a battalion, and it has nothing to do with the statement of bringing troops into Beijing with arms, so the king of Zhennan left Nanjing in a hurry with his second general and the guard battalion......

He left in a hurry.

He didn't even have time to inform his subordinates in various places to arrange after-leave work.

After all, King Zhennan was too loyal to the emperor, and as soon as he heard that His Majesty the Emperor was in danger, he immediately ignored everything, and wanted to arrive in the capital as soon as possible to protect His Majesty the Emperor from those rebels.

But this move quickly caused panic in the whole of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and just when he was traveling day and night with the guard battalion, the representatives of the four people of Nanjing who got the news gathered in the palace and asked to see the princess and ask what happened. At this time, although the Four People's Assembly had little actual power, it was still very influential as a symbol of public opinion, and those representatives of the Four Peoples were also respected in various places as the direct liaison between the shogunate of Zhennan and the local public opinion.

Their move immediately sparked tension throughout the city.

Soon when they arrived at the palace, they were already followed by more than 100,000 people.

Then in the face of public opinion, the princess took Li Shi, who had just arrived from the capital, to come out in person and told them the reason why the king of Zhennan was in such a hurry to go north, including Wang Huazhen also came forward to testify, so that the news that His Majesty the emperor was poisoned and in danger was officially spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

But......

That's not okay!

The king of Zhennan can go north to rescue the driver, but he takes the guard camp to the north, isn't it a sheep into the tiger's mouth, which just gives those traitorous ministers an opportunity to take advantage of!

For the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang or the new citizens, it is not important for the emperor to die or not, and there are not many good days when the emperor rules them, but the king of Zhennan must not be in danger, if the king of Zhennan is taken advantage of by the traitors, then the good life that everyone has just started will be over.

The autumn harvest has just ended.

For the first time, the militias everywhere really enjoyed happiness.

Although it is necessary to pay public grain, although the surplus grain can only be sold to the grain station, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the average yield per mu is calculated as brown rice, it is also two stones, and even if a family of five has 20 acres of land, the autumn harvest is at least 40 stones, and there are still 32 stones left after handing over an average of 20%. The family has 22 stones of brown rice, which is enough to dry up at once, and the remaining 10 stones can be sold to the grain station for at least seven taels of silver, and this year's unified purchase price is seven yuan for brown rice and five yuan for rice, so it can be said that the clothing of the whole family is enough.

You can even have money to buy something else.

And this is only a season's income, that is to say, the autumn harvest alone can give them enough food and clothing, but in fact, there will be wheat income next year, even if the yield of wheat is lower than that of rice, and in the end there will be more than 20 stone of wheat left.

Then there were at least ten taels of silver.

And that's not all, because you can also grow some miscellaneous grains or even pasture grass in the fields for money.

You can also raise a pig.

You can also go to the nearby road and water conservancy construction site to do some odd jobs, so that in the end, a family of five will not only have enough food and clothing, but also have at least 20 taels of silver left a year.

It is enough to feed the children to go to school, eat some meat and drink some wine once in a while.

It can be said that the dream-like good life really unfolds under their feet.

But.

All of this was propped up by King Zhennan.

Without the support of King Zhennan, their good life will collapse, which can be said to be no suspense, the surrounding turbulent waves, all ready to raze their good life, and with the great body to erect a dam for them, to protect them to continue to live like this, is the King of Zhennan.

If he was harmed by those traitors, what would he do?

No one needs to give orders!

Immediately after the meeting of the Four People's Congress, the Four People's Congress and the General Staff Department joined forces to urgently convene the command of all militia armies, including the commandery of all armed forces in active service, for 500 miles in the name of the Four People's Congress......

The Jingnan Army has been reduced to six armies.

This is Yang Xin's fulfillment of his promise to the apocalypse.

One of these six armies was stationed in Pizhou, one in Fengyang, one in Yingzhou, one in Anqing, and one in Quzhou, and the rest was the cavalry army stationed in Nanjing.

However, these active duties are not important, these are just training officers, similar to the Wehrmacht before the mustache, and it is the reserve troops in various places that really constitute the armed forces in the area controlled by King Zhennan. All reserve forces are divided into 36 reserve corps according to geography, and each brigade and battalion is composed of active duty officers at the third level, and even each battalion must have a squad at the battalion headquarters.

The main thing is to deal with local banditry.

These reservists must ensure how many days a year to be called up for military training, and even some of them have to enter the active duty rotation, and all the reserve army warehouses are stockpiled with the weapons of the whole army, and when it is needed, it is an order from the king of Zhennan, and all the reserve troops will be called up and transferred to active duty, and then they can go to the battlefield with weapons.

This is the real military strength of King Zhennan.

And there are also reserves under the reserves, that is, all young adults, or militia.

All men between the ages of eighteen and fifty were assigned to the reserve militia as long as they were not disabled.

All for military training.

In fact, the plan is that children and women will be trained every year.

King Zhennan's goal is that anyone who can hold a musket must learn to shoot.

Of course, at present, the real responsibility for the defense of this land is the six active duty troops, plus the thirty-six reserve troops that can be called up at any time.

And the commanders of these forty-two armies, after receiving the summoning letter sent by the Four Peoples Assembly in an urgent manner for 500 miles, also immediately understood the severity of the situation, and the king of Zhennan could go north, but he definitely couldn't just take a guard battalion. If he doesn't go north with an army of 100,000 people, he is not alone now, behind him is more than 40 million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and his loyalty to the emperor is his business, but the more than 40 million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will not let the pillars of their happy lives risk like this......

He went north with a battalion?

Who does not know the relationship between him and the northern gentry?

For these people now, he is completely an evil demon, a symbol of evil, and it requires everyone to work together and kill them by any means, especially after Jiangsu and Zhejiang have stabilized, and even the poor people in the north have gone south to the light. Even if you go to the mountains under the militia system to reclaim the famine, planting corn and sweet potatoes is stronger than enduring the oppression of the landlords in the north, not to mention the natural disasters in the north for many years, in fact, the yield of corn planted in the south is not lower than that of wheat in the north.

And there are still two seasons in the south.

And you don't have to pay more than 50% of the rent and a bunch of harsh taxes.

The taxes of Beizhili are indeed small, but it is the emperor who collects less, and it is not the local officials' less, one mu and five liters are indeed not much, plus three percent of the fire consumption, plus all kinds of donations are different.

It's just that these can't get into the emperor's pocket.

Now all the checkpoints have begun to strictly prohibit the northern refugees from going south, but this kind of thing cannot be forbidden, after all, the lines that need to be blocked are too long, especially at sea, those who go south only need to go to the new city, and the guano boats there will carry them by the way.

In the long run, who will plant the fields of the northern gentry?

It can be said that Yang Xin's scourge is not eliminated, and the northern gentry will be played to death by him sooner or later, and at this moment these people are digging out their hearts to want his life!

It's just that Yang Xin can't start in Nanjing.

Now it's delivered to the door by itself.

And it was as if he had committed suicide, and he was sent to the door with hundreds of cavalry.

It would have been better for him to take the sea route, but now that he is going north by land, there are countless people waiting for him in every county and every prefecture in front of him, and there are countless guns aimed at him.

No matter how much he can fight, he is not truly immortal after all.

The turtledove can't be killed, and there are rifled guns.

Rifled guns can't kill, and cannons.

The cannon was not enough to be stacked with gunpowder to explode.

As long as he goes north like committing suicide like this, those traitors have a way to kill him, in the past they could only assassinate, but now they have already torn their faces, and the officials and gentry in the north will use open sieges again and again to quickly solve his battalion. Then he continued to attack him by all kinds of means, until he died on the way to Beijing, from Xuzhou to the capital, there are still nearly two thousand miles away, even the cavalry has to walk for more than twenty days, so long enough for those officials and gentry to kill him.

And if he dies......

What about the 40 million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

He must not be allowed to go north, or he must not be allowed to go north like this.

Before the long-distance commanders arrived in Nanjing, the first 20 or so commanders to arrive held a meeting with the representatives of the four peoples in Nanjing to discuss how to deal with the matter.

Huai'an.

"Brothers, don't be cranky!"

King Zhennan waved his arms and shouted hoarsely.

At this moment, he was already surrounded by groups.

However, it was not the enemy who surrounded him, but the countless soldiers and civilians who knelt down in front of him and prevented him from boarding the boat to cross the Yellow River, and they stopped the king of Zhennan from continuing to advance with their cries......

"King, you can't go!"

"King, if you go north like this, those traitors will not let you go!"

……

The whole dock was filled with cries.

"Brothers, you all understand what Yang said, but now Your Majesty is in danger, not to mention that it is just a little dangerous, it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, and Yang must also go! If Yang sits back and watches those rebels poison His Majesty, how can he be worthy of the temple and treat His Majesty's grace? In any case, Yang has to go on this trip! ”

Yang Xin shouted very sensationally.

"King, then let me wait to go north with an army of 100,000 first, and clear out the traitors for the king, since the traitors are plotting to kill the emperor, let's go and kill all the traitors."

Said one of the nearest brigade commanders.

Then the officers chimed in.

"Bastard, what do you want to do? Do you want to put this king in injustice? ”

Yang Xin reprimanded angrily.