"What's so strange about that?" Jia Shifei said with a smile: "Jiangnan is prosperous, but it is not their prosperity. ”

Here's your chance!

Jia Shifei secretly encouraged himself.

Now is the time to show off your talent!

"If you want to say that Jiangnan is prosperous, this father and daughter are the most low-level people in the street who run horses and sell solutions, and they have the ability to do it, and they can't get it every day."

"Their best outcome is probably that their daughter marries into a wealthy family as a concubine, and the father can follow in and be a steward for the rest of his life."

"But if you say that Jiangnan is not prosperous because ......, hehe, I wonder if the little brother has heard a few proverbs?"

"Uncle? What proverb? ”

The father and daughter were resting, preparing for the next performance, and Xu Daixuan, who was slightly bored, turned his attention to Jia Shifei and regarded him as a storyteller in a teahouse.

Of course, it's not just her, Xu Daizhuo and Xu Daihuan are also very curious.

Jia Shifei cleared his throat and said loudly:

"The first sentence: Jia is not fake, white jade is a horse for Tang Jin."

"The second sentence: Afang Palace, three hundred miles, can't live in Jinling for a history."

"The third sentence: There is a lack of white jade beds in the East China Sea, and the Dragon King has come to invite the King of Jinling."

"The fourth sentence: There is a good snow in a good year, and pearls are like earth and gold like iron."

The two children looked dazed: "What do you mean?" ”

Xu Daizhuo understood what Jia Shifei meant by this-four very rich Jiangnan surnames.

"Jia, Shi, Wang, Xue, these are the four wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, and the above four proverbs describe their wealthy families."

"These four wealthy families all play a role, thousands of acres of fertile land, and thousands of beautiful houses. However, they only know that they indulge in pleasures every day, completely ignoring the fact that there are countless homeless people across the wall! ”

Jia Shifei said indignantly:

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, the road has frozen bones, and the prosperity of Jiangnan today is just like that!"

"Just now I heard that Xiaoyou is from Jiangbei, so I will say these words to Xiaoyou - today's world should be obtained by Jiangbei! What I think about day and night is that the Jiangbei army will go south, and Jia, Shi, Wang, Xue and other people who do not think about the society, only know how to praise the moths that accumulate wealth, completely eliminate them, and return the world to a bright future! ”

Jia Shifei's heart was certainly not as angry as he appeared, but he thought that his performance today was very good and he had completely achieved his goal.

There are a few things implied in what he just said:

First, the four wealthy families are very rich, and they can get a lot of money by killing them.

Second, the four wealthy families are rich and unkind, and their reputations are very stinky, and there will be no trouble with their reputations if they are killed.

Third, and most importantly, although I, Jia Shifei, am in Jiangnan, I hope that the Chinese Empire will unify the world.

Jia Shifei didn't expect Xu Daizhuo to understand these points immediately, but he felt that this young man could slowly figure it out.

When the Jiangbei army arrives in Jinling in the south, he should remember that he should have copied the homes of the four wealthy families, and at that time, he, the first champion, may be able to make a fortune from it.

Of course, more importantly, we must let this imperial grandson of the Northern Dynasty remember that he is a small minister who is in the south and has a heart in the north, so that when he ascends the throne, he will definitely have the opportunity to show his ambitions in the future!

And Xu Daixuan silently looked at the impassioned middle-aged man in front of him without saying a word.

……

The year 1794 of the Republic came to an end.

This year, the overall national strength of the empire reached a new level.

As a result of the annexation of Fuso, the total population of the empire reached a new level within a year, reaching a huge number of 13.7 million commoners, 5.5 million commoners, 11 million slaves, and a total population of 30 million.

However, this number is not healthy, because the fastest growth is among the common people and slaves, and the vast majority of the population is plundered directly by war from Fuso.

The number of these unreliable manpower has far exceeded the core population of the empire, and there is no doubt that it is very dangerous.

But the empire had to rely on these commoners and slaves to make them responsible for the heavy and dangerous work of serfs and miners, in order to free the core population to more important positions.

This became a paradox: the empire needed a large number of commoners and slaves, but too many commoners and slaves were dangerous.

The only way to resolve this contradiction is to rapidly increase the number of core populations.

Xu Shiyang did not have the ability to let all the children of the Han people grow up overnight, and the fertility rate of the empire was not low, but it was not possible to give birth to so many core populations in an instant.

Therefore, there was only one way left - to annex Jiangnan and dilute the proportion of common people and slaves in Jiangbei with the Han population in Jiangnan.

Jiangnan has a population of 50 to 60 million, the vast majority of whom are Han Chinese, and there will be no problem in diluting and digesting more than 10 million common people and slaves.

Moreover, Jiangnan was also the base camp of the empire's expansion into the South Seas, a very suitable industrial area and raw material production area, and also a sales market for the empire's goods.

For various reasons, when the empire has no room for expansion in the north (the expansion that King Qin is about to start is the indirect expansion of the vassal state, which has little impact on the empire, and belongs to the kind that will not feel distressed if you win and lose), it is imperative to eliminate the Great Zhou and annex Jiangnan.

To this end, the empire began a round of quiet preparations.

First of all, the field army began to expand quietly, and the empire directly expanded the original 100,000 field army to twice 200,000.

The number of recruits came from reservist re-drafts and a small number of militias, and the troops were not expanded, but doubled the number of personnel in each unit, and introduced a system of one veteran with one new recruit.

Since Jiangnan is also the core area of the Han people, Huaxia, which flaunts the Han Empire, does not plan to mobilize the Waibo soldiers who have been used in previous battles this time, lest there be a situation where foreign soldiers rob and kill the Han people under the command of the Han Empire, so that the nationalist propaganda that the empire has always used will become a joke.

In the plan of the General Staff, the significance of this southern expedition is greater than the actual combat significance, because the Great Zhou army does not have much combat effectiveness, and the biggest military resistance may come from Xu Shisong, who has an armed force loyal to the Great Zhou court, but there are not many troops, the firepower is weak (relative to Huaxia), and it is difficult to replenish, in fact, it is a one-time army.

As long as Xu Shisong's troops are defeated, then the remaining army of the Great Zhou, whether it is the forbidden army or the box army, is not to worry.

However, the General Staff has repeatedly stressed that this time there will be absolutely no massacres and robberies similar to those in Fusang and Liaodong!

All seizures this time, even if it is a piece of paper, must be handed over for archiving! No one is allowed to keep any loot privately! It is strictly forbidden to rob and harass civilians!

Generally speaking, Xu Shiyang began to inculcate in the troops such ideas as "three major disciplines and eight points of attention," and prepared to build the southward field army into a "mighty army and a civilized army" with extremely strict military discipline.

For this reason, Xu Shiyang specially equipped the troops scheduled to go south with a disproportionate proportion of military police.