If these four regimental training groups are really trained, their strength can be said to be not weak, especially Shen Tingyang's victorious army, which can be said to be the most modern army in the Ming Dynasty at present......

The Dangkou army can't compare.

Yang Xin's Dangkou army was not actually firearmed.

In the north, those are simple spears, and even arquebuses are not standard, but the garrison of the fortress in the new city is equipped with arquebuses, and the rest are spearmen, but they are stationed in rotation and trained in batches, so they will also use arquebuses and cannons.

Moreover, the arsenal stock has increased to 10,000 and can be armed at any time.

And the south is Fengyang, which is mainly based on crossbows and spears, and their current identity is the hired labor of the Yang Dudu's family, not even the militia, they are purely the people.

And the people are certainly not allowed to have firearms.

Only the Marine Corps currently in Hangzhou is truly Morrisianized.

But Shen Tingyang's 6,000 men are much better equipped than them, and even the artillery battalion is a real heavy artillery, at least at the twelve-pound level, and there are some smaller ones, but they are definitely stronger than the three-pounder guns of the Marine Corps, and the muskets are also at the turtledove level. Xu Guangqi had purchased this from Songjiang before, and now the Songjiang gentry can be said to be crazy under the threat of the Red Turban Army, it is said that they can make 2,000 pieces a month, and they use it themselves, of course, it is impossible to be as exaggerated as the purchase price of the Ministry of Industry.

And Xu Xiake completely copied the Zhejiang army, but did not use small bird guns, and also used Songjiang turtledove guns for soldiers.

The Lu family was the Tianxiong militarization in the original history.

But the same turtledoves were procured for the infantry.

The one with the poor level of equipment is Ge Lin, and it is still a mess, but it is only a matter of time before Ge Lin purchases turtledoves, after all, they can't buy them at this time just because Songjiang has to give priority to supplying their own homes.

But it was not impossible for the Nanjing Ministry of Industry to make this kind of musket.

I have to say that these gentry and civil officials are not forced to be in a hurry, they will be crazy if they are really in a hurry, they have made the war level in the south evolve to the same as that of Europe in a few months, and even because of the sharp increase in steel demand, the number of Suzhou steel workshops in Wuhu has quadrupled in the past few months, and the supply of iron ore has begun to be tight. Similarly, Fujian's iron construction workshops also increased by fifty percent during this time, and Foshan's arms also began to appear in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, this person is not able to do without pressure, in the face of the three thousand years of unprecedented changes, the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are completely energetic.

But the problem is that they need time.

At least this year, their highly-anticipated army will not be able to do it.

They need a year, and they also have to solve the tenant problem, no matter what means they use, they must reorganize the interior, to ensure that the tenants all restrain the urge to rebel, otherwise their regimental training will be really an army, and the tenants will not be able to win the Red Turban Army after all.

Anyway, this year they endured.

They will have to do it next year before they are capable.

But next year......

Next year there will be a big drought in Hebei.

Actually, it won't take next year.

This year, this area will soon usher in more than a month of rain, in May Changzhou Jiangyin heavy rain for five days and nights, each drifted more than 5,000 families, men and women accumulated countless corpses, followed by Wuxi, Wujiang floods, Suzhou autumn harvest serious reduction, these will quickly destroy their dreams. The tenant serfs in their control area who have suffered from the flood and reduced production will be more eager to be like the Red Turban Army's control area, and now that the natural disaster mode of the Ming Dynasty is fully opened, they will have no time to take care of this place.

However, Yang Xin also didn't have time to toss anymore.

His purpose in building the Red Turban Army is actually mainly for a stable grain-producing area, because the next rent collection of the Apocalypse is to collect grain, so the militia in this area must also grow grain, and even plant grain on the land that was originally planted with cotton.

It's a given.

It was impossible for the gentry to collect the cotton of these militias.

In the past, they didn't accept cotton yarn in the Wuxi militia area, but they didn't accept it from Yang Dudu, and in fact they sold it to them in the end, but now this area must all encourage the cultivation of grain, and even forcibly prohibit planting others. If nothing else, even if there is a reduction in production, more than 2 million stone land rent can be collected in this area every year, while Zhenjiang Mansion originally had less than 200,000 yuan a year, and the tax here is very light, Zhenjiang officially recorded that the farmland area is equivalent to one-third of Suzhou Prefecture, but the land tax is only one-tenth.

After all, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's base.

Of course, this is not to say that the burden of the common people here is light.

It can only be said that the landlords here are happier.

Of course, the landlords of the Ming Dynasty are very happy, those who say that the emperor collects heavy taxes is not stupid and bad, last year the Apocalypse collected a total of more than 700,000 stones in the Changzhou Mansion, which is known as the heavy endowment, and Hua Yuncheng's family himself collected 480,000 stones in Wuxi County, which belongs to the Changzhou Mansion, although Yang Dudu still appreciates Hua Yuncheng, at least he was able to insist on not signing the Great Righteous Jue Mystery Record, but Yang Dudu still thinks that he should be beaten by the local tyrants to divide the land.

His family is not much.

It is said that the Qian family in Suzhou received 900,000 yuan.

Apocalypse only collected two million in the entire Suzhou Mansion.

Kong Yinzhi is indeed a representative symbol, the Kong family has 200,000 acres of sacrificial land, but he is a fart in this area, Master Dong's own family is one million acres, and he may not be able to rank first in Songjiang Mansion.

This is the Jiangnan gentry.

In short, at present, these four and a half counties can bring at least two million stone of grain to the Apocalypse every year.

Even if these grains are not transported to the north, staying in this area as a similar regular liquidation and putting them into the market to stabilize grain prices when grain prices are soaring, can also make it easier for the people.

But to say that all the local tyrants in this area are divided into fields......

That's a real rebellion.

Such a piece of land will force the regimental training out, if it is really all destroyed, then the entire Ming gentry will organize the regimental training to run, just like these people who have shaved their heads, in that case, it will cause a heavy burden to the people in other places, which is also the reason why Yang Xin intercepted those reinforcements. But he is here, riding on the line of rebellion and non-rebellion, and he will not drive the entire Ming gentry crazy, they will shout a few times at most, they will not really help the gentry in this area, and they dare not really stimulate him.

Even some compromises will be made.

In this way, this small area can be transformed into a granary without affecting the situation in the whole country, and in the final analysis, Yang Xin can't care about anything else now.

He's just looking for ways to increase food production.

It's useless to pull the rest.

He could actually be said to be dancing on the tip of a knife now.

Rebellion, that is, the world chaos, even if the final complete transformation can be completed, during this period because of war, famine and other population losses, will not be less than 10 million, this number can not be lower, the food supply of the whole country is already on a dangerous critical line, and then chaos immediately large-scale production reduction, he is a human being, not a god, he can't conjure up food out of thin air. Even if he is playing very dangerously this year, he has to suppress it here himself, so as to ensure that this year's agriculture will not be delayed, but he cannot suppress the entire country, as soon as he leaves now, those civil officials and gentry will immediately mobilize the surrounding troops to attack the Red Turban Army frantically.

Then the entire Zhenjiang Changzhou agricultural delay this year.

Floods will exacerbate the reduction in production, and the result will be a large-scale famine in the area in the fall.

Similarly, the famine in Changzhou and Zhenjiang will cause a shortage of grain in the entire south of the Yangtze River, because this is the main grain-producing area, and then more people will be involved in the famine, and there will also be less food here, and the price of grain in the capital will skyrocket, because a large part of the grain transported every year comes from here.

In this way, even the north will be affected by this.

And soon Hebei will also be earthquake, in fact, it has already been shaken, eastern Hebei, including the capital, have suffered earthquakes, and even caused many deaths, but it is a special period, no imperial history dares to say that he provoked the heavens, and it is not as ruthless as Nanjing. But in the following June, there was a six-point earthquake that affected the entire Hebei and parts of Shandong, this one was the most ruthless, followed by the Xuzhou Yellow River burst, it can be said that the following year from north to south disasters continued.

He didn't dare to play big.

He worked hard for all these years, and finally drove the wild boar skin back, at least for now, there is no threat, but natural disasters are the most terrible, no natural disasters wild boar skin is a fart, the Ming Dynasty also consumed him to death with national strength, saying that Chongzhen has been fourteen years, even Changzhou Mansion has eaten leaves, such natural disasters are not something that can be dealt with by system changes, and it is useless to say anything if food production does not increase.

The most important way to increase grain production is stability.

Of course, we also have to develop supply channels.

"Send a letter to your sister Fang, ask her to send a batch of canned food, I want to see how she is doing, and let her leave it alone with the question of how much silver she spends, from this year onwards, everyone in Gegu will make canned food, even if you don't want it, you must do it, and stuff it into the cellar after you finish it. The quality must be guaranteed, and at least one million catties must be made before the end of the year, and we will also dig deep holes to accumulate grain, and send a group of workers who make cans and cans, and then transfer a batch of trawlers, all of which will be sent to Zhoushan to wait for me. ”

Yang Xin said to Wang Wanqing.

This is arguably the most important means of supplementation.

Next, not only in the north, he will also do this in Zhoushan, and hoard it after doing it, anyway, this thing is not afraid of being bad, especially the Zhoushan fishing ground has many whales, just take whale meat to make canned food, and it has barely been able to support it in the past two years. But three years later, from the first year of Chongzhen in the original history, the natural disaster mode of the Ming Dynasty was officially opened, the south flooded and the north drought and the east locusts were extinct, and then the drought gradually replaced everything, and it spread from the northwest to the east, until the fourteenth year of Chongzhen entered the peak of the comprehensive drought.

In other words, from three years later, he had to face a pervasive famine.

From south to north, from east to west, the entire Ming Dynasty is crying with hunger, the current earthquake is a fart, that is the real natural disaster falling, this is at most a shout in advance.

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