On the same day that Yang Xin announced the Qing monarch's side and the Yasukuni disaster, Tianqi also inspected the triumphant soldiers outside the gate in the capital.

100,000 troops.

It is also modeled into 12 armies based on the new armies of the south, with four infantry brigades in each infantry corps plus a cavalry brigade and artillery battalion......

The Ministry of Industry procures it itself.

Anyway, take out the style and standard, and then order it from private businessmen, and some of the Ministry of Industry makes it themselves.

The quality is not bad.

After all, those iron factories in Hejian were also trained by building the three major halls, and technically, because of the support of the scientist emperor and the Academy of Sciences, they were actually even slightly better than Su Steel, for example, they themselves were already experimenting with something similar to crucible steel. The last time the three halls were repaired, a craftsman proposed that Tianqi himself convened a group of people in the Academy of Sciences to experiment, and it can already be manufactured, after all, the emperor must have a knife to make a boring machine.

It's just that the cost is high, the output is low, and it can't be popularized for the time being, but with the quality of the product, it is enough to make the spring of the flintlock pistol.

Of course, flintlock pistols still can't be popularized.

After all, arquebuses have the advantage of being simple to manufacture, and this is not comparable to flintlock pistols for the time being, in fact, it is not only the apocalypse, but also the gentry of Songjiang and Foshan industrial bases, who can make impact flintlock pistols if they really work hard.

This is not some black technology.

He who can make arquebuses, of course, can also make flintlock pistols.

The price is not too expensive, of course, and there is no comparison with the arquebus.

Because there are too many manufacturers at present, the competition is fierce, coupled with the soaring steel production, it is about to run to the bird, and the distant Foshan turtledove has begun to sell less than four taels in order to squeeze into the market. Because of the large amount of purchases, coupled with the variety of coastal sources and easy selection, the latest batch of turtledove guns won three and a half strokes, and it is said that the Ministry of Industry used to make shoddy inferior bird guns are two taels.

Jiangxi and Huguang are more expensive.

And what Zhu Xieyuan purchased for the Sichuan soldiers was pitted by the profiteers to ten taels.

And it's old-fashioned heavy.

The Sichuan soldiers who were carrying more than a dozen pounds of this thing complained.

But the latest dog lock flintlock pistol, even on Yang Xin's side, the cost is still more than ten taels, but he is because of the high treatment of workers, coupled with strict quality requirements, the price has been raised, in fact, if it is really controlled, it can almost be in seven or eight taels. The price was not expensive, and the cavalry had two revolver lighter pistols, which was basically the price, but the flintlock pistol was limited by the number of craftsmen who made the springs, and could not be compared with the arquebuses of the rotten streets, which could be made even by some blacksmiths.

This advantage during the war was unparalleled.

It is true that arquebuses are inferior to flintlock muskets, but during the war one can be made by a blacksmith shop, and the other has to be a high-level craftsman, so it is difficult to say that there is an absolute advantage, and a battalion has just been armed here, and almost a corps has already been put on the field.

However, Apocalypse only has six infantry corps.

The other six were cavalry corps, and his advantage was the large number of cavalry.

Among the six cavalry corps, four are new-style cavalry troops, that is, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, although the Guanning Iron Cavalry is a joke, but these four cavalry can really be called the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, all of which are Cao Wenzhao-style elite cavalry tactics.

Spear impact.

Skilled in cold weapon fighting.

Ranged weapons have been replaced with bows and arrows instead of short guns that fire with wheels.

A whole four such cavalry corps.

They were commanded by Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Luo Cheng and You Shiwei.

In addition, there are two cavalry armies, which are Mongol soldiers commanded by the king of Shunyi and Shunchang respectively, they are also ancient archers, equivalent to the light cavalry in this army, mainly with the help of these mercenaries who are not afraid of death, and they are to give the court their lives in exchange for rewards, these rewards can help their people survive the famine.

This is the new version of the Twelve Armies of the Apocalypse.

After the review, His Majesty the Emperor directly issued a holy decree, with Lu Xiang promoted to the rank of minister, and the governor's army went south......

Certainly not rebellion.

It is to let the people of Daming feel the great military power of Daming at close range, so that these meritorious soldiers who have just returned from the battlefield can accept the cheers of the people everywhere, but it has nothing to do with the current war situation in the south.

Besides, there is peace in the South.

The emperor was amnesty, and the Datong army couldn't wait to go to Shang Zhouzuo to surrender, and now there is no Datong army, only the Zhejiang regiment training army that surrendered according to the amnesty edict and accepted the command of Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, and the original regimental training status of the Changsheng army was also restored. As for what Yang Dudu is doing, that is also not a rebellion, it's just that Yang Dudu doesn't understand some things, so he needs to ......

Need to be aware.

"You want to be emperor?"

Fang Congzhe said with a sad face.

He was sent by the Apocalypse to tell him, and Yang Xin announced that after the Qing Dynasty and the Yasukuni disaster, he immediately sent Li Zhong's Zhejiang Front Army south, while he commanded the Nanjing Army directly under him to quickly take Hefei and complete the control of Fengyang with the cooperation of Fengyang's family.

There were no real battles during this period.

Those gentry simply surrendered, there was no point in them resisting, and Yang Xin could not be said to be victorious at this time.

They just wait.

If the imperial army defeats Yang Xin, then their land will still be kept, if the imperial army fails, then they can't resist, and the resistance will not only lose the land, Fengyang Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, Chuzhou, and Hezhou, which are temporarily under Yang Xin's clutches, all honestly accept the reality, and then pin their hopes on the emperor. And Lü Zhaoxiong continued to hold on to Yangzhou, Shang Zhouzuo commanded all armies to stand by on the eastern front, Huguang and Jiangxi armies also held on to Chizhou, and everyone was waiting, waiting for the arrival of the emperor's army.

And Yang Xin is still absent-minded, except for the south, the other armies are still in a standoff.

The main thing is that it is too cumbersome to establish local power.

Because there is no real cadre team, he can only rely on those family members, although Yang Xin has cultivated some over the years, but after all, his ability is limited, and he has to personally guide many things, but Zhaoyi City has provided a lot of magistrates.

They are relatively experienced.

Then, in this situation, the former cabinet chief assistant arrived in Nanjing from Zhe.

"Not interested!"

Yang Xin said very simply.

"And what are you for?"

Fang Congzhe said.

"If I say that from the next year, the Ming Dynasty will begin to last for decades of famine, one-third of the county will fall into devastating natural disasters, and then the plague will kill nearly half of the people in the entire Beizhili, and the capital will carry out thousands of dead bodies every day, and then the hungry people will swarm everywhere and eventually lose more than half of the country's population, would you believe it?"

Yang Xin said.

"What does that have to do with what you do?"

Fang Congzhe said.

His niece must have said that.

"It's very simple, I want this land, I want this grain producing area to restore grain production, and restore Suhu Lake to mature the world, instead of buying grain from Jiangxi and Huhu every year."

Yang Xin said.

"That's it?"

Fang Congzhe said in amazement.

"Yes, that's it!"

Yang Xin said.

Fang Congzhe still looked at him in disbelief.

Obviously, this explanation made the cunning man feel a little unbelievable.

"You can go back to your majesty, I'm not interested in the Ming Dynasty, but I need to face the natural disaster in the future, and when facing the natural disaster, I will take any means I think is necessary, including what I am doing now, I have never thought of being an enemy of Your Majesty, but I will be an enemy of anyone who hinders me from facing this natural disaster.

No matter who it is.

Even if this person is the emperor.

But this is not a war between me and Your Majesty, I never thought of a war with Your Majesty, this is a war between me and the gentry, if he helps the gentry, then I can only be his enemy, if he remains neutral, then I will not be his enemy.

Even if I win, he will still be the emperor.

For the time being, I only need this land, and even the annual tax paid on this land in the past, I will still give it to him.

Cao Yun will also not stop. ”

Yang Xin said.

"For the time being?"

Fang Congzhe said vigilantly.

"Yes, for the time being, it depends on whether I can cope with natural disasters in the future, if it is not enough, I will continue to expand until it is enough to deal with natural disasters, so whether I will continue to expand depends only on whether there will be a large number of starving people to death in the land controlled by the imperial court.

If it will.

If the imperial court does not have the ability to solve it.

Then I'll take over, and then I'll figure it out. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Fight local tyrants and divide the land?"

Fang Congzhe said.

"Yes!"

Yang Xin said.

"In other words, your troubles are not limited to Jiangnan?"

Fang Congzhe said.

"Yes, as long as there is a large-scale starvation of people, I will take over there, since the officials of the imperial court and the local gentry have no ability to keep the common people from starving to death, then I must go, I can't watch the starving people piled up in the ravines, and in this process, whoever dares to stop me, I will regard whoever is the enemy."

Yang Xin said.

Of course, he won't stop his luck.

As soon as Caoyun stopped, the capital immediately starved all over the place.

And this year, the capital has to suffer from earthquakes and large-scale floods one after another, and the original historical explosion does not know if it will happen, so it can be said that this year the capital will have to face the problem of food shortage, and the apocalypse is eager to solve this side because the water transport can not be affected.

Fortunately, the war in Liaodong is over.

The food supply there can be reduced because of the 100,000-strong army moving south.

But even so, the price of grain in the capital has begun to skyrocket, mainly because those merchants are worried about the cut off of transportation, plus the Yang family has stopped transporting grain.

In fact, it has stopped, Mrs. Yang ordered the forts in Tianjin to prepare for war, all the grain stocks stopped being transported to the capital, and the price of rice in the capital instantly exceeded two taels. However, his holy decree will basically be regarded as a fart, and Sun Chengzong can't help it, most of these grain merchants are relatives of the emperor, and it is impossible for him to be like Yang Xin, and he will bring the honorable regiment in the capital to a pot.

Besides, the nobles can be served, how can the main gentry who control the grain in various places be served?

That's his basic plate.

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