The reason for the Lord and the faction was very simple, but it was very good in the eyes of Emperor Jianxing.

According to them, Bao Longtu's belief that the Jurchens were powerless to go south was just a guess.

It's a guess that you might be wrong!

If you ignore the Jurchens and abandon all the achievements of the previous peace talks, once the Jurchens get angry and go south, and Bao Zheng is wrong, this is to put the emperor and the Great Zhou Sheji in mortal danger!

As for the proposal of the main battle faction for the Northern Expedition, ...... is even less worth refuting.

The Lord and the faction clung to the Jianxing Emperor's mind that his own safety was more important than anything else, and finally won the debate.

As a result of the court's deliberations, the officials of the main battle faction ignored the emperor's retention and all hung up their seals.

This may be the ...... of the Great Zhou, no, the first time in the history of China in this plane that a certain political faction has collectively resigned.

By the way, spare a Bao Zheng who is deeply loved by the people.

When Emperor Jianxing had not yet accepted the resignation of the main battle faction, the people had been completely fried by the quarrels in the court.

Under the quiet promotion of the officials of the main battle faction, various facts and rumors were mixed together, and the civilians in the area controlled by the Great Zhou fell into complete chaos.

The first is a fact: as part of the harmony, the Jurchens asked the Great Zhou to send 3,000 craftsmen to marry.

As soon as this news came out, the craftsmen of the Great Zhou, mainly in Lin'an Mansion and its surroundings, began to flee on a large scale.

It is a miracle that the civilian population of a country, without the threat of real war, can produce a large number of skilled refugees because of the fear of a hostile state!

At first, it was just a few blacksmiths who were planning for a rainy day, but when the news became conclusive, the situation began to become serious.

Some of the officials immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to make money, and they wantonly detained civilians on the pretext that the court and their relatives were recruiting craftsmen (whether they were craftsmen or not, everyone had some small skills anyway, and the Jurchens were not sure what kind of craftsmen they were), and they were only allowed to go home after paying a high amount of money.

If the amount of payment is larger, the officials even promise that they will not be involved in such people (whether it will actually affect them, the officials do not care).

Before the dust had settled on the craftsman's affairs, a rumor arose: in order to appease the anger of the Jurchens, the emperor planned to select 10,000 young and beautiful unmarried women among the people and hand them over to the Tartars!

If it is said that the craftsman only lost his personal freedom when he went north, there is still a way to live, and what will happen to the beautiful woman falling into the hands of the Tartars, the common people don't even dare to think about it!

Although this is indeed a rumor, but with the matter of the previous craftsmen as the foundation, the people who are not well-informed enough can believe it even if they don't believe it - not to mention that the emperor is resigning for Bao Longtu and the officials of the main battle faction, which has caused a headache for the court lord and faction to completely dominate the matter, and he has not ordered to clarify the rumor at all.

And so, the disaster began.

Families with young, unmarried daughters began to join the ranks of fleeing or bribing officials, and some of them realized that bribery was not safe, so they fled after bribing.

The hearts of the entire Lin'an Mansion are fluctuating, and all the surrounding areas are not much better, and many civilians even flee directly into the mountains and become fugitives!

The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty are like festivals, eating their brains full of fat, and the lord and faction who preside over the court can naturally share a lot of fat in it (they will not do it themselves, but their families and relatives will, and in the end it will flow into their pockets).

This is a carnival of the combination of officials and officials, and everyone who can benefit from it can't help but stretch out their hands, stretch out their hands, and create bigger rumors, and become the promoter of it.

So, the bigger rumors really came.

Someone claimed that the imperial court would pay 10 million guan coins and a "dowry" to the Tartars!

The officials immediately pushed the rumor that the imperial court did not have so much cash (whether there was really no common people and did not know), so they demanded that from now on, the summer grain and autumn taxes should be changed to pay money instead of paying grain!

In this society with an extremely underdeveloped market economy, the hard currency among ordinary people can only be grain, and even in a good year, it is impossible for them to store a large amount of silver money at home.

This means that in order to pay the tax, the civilians in Jiangnan must first sell the grain, and there is no doubt that they will be stripped of a layer of skin by the families of officials and officials during this period!

This is not a big deal, and experienced officials and local officials are well aware that if this rumor continues, or even becomes a real policy, in just two or three years, yeoman farmers and even small and medium-sized landlords who lack the ability to negotiate with the government will fall into the trap of bankruptcy.

There will be a period of collapse in the price of grain and land, when officials, officials, and large landowners and gentry will have the opportunity to swallow up large tracts of land and tenants at very low prices, and gain greater wealth.

Countless gentry and wealthy families saw this opportunity, and they were gearing up for the feast that was about to begin......

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Xu Shiyang didn't know about the chaos in Jiangnan now, and his Dengyingzhou had just arrived in Rizhao Port.

On the way back, Xu Shiyang did not engage in piracy, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't find a suitable target - most of the pirate ships of the Lee pirate group were traveling to and from the Nagasaki front line in the entire eastern seas.

The Xu family is currently an ally with the Li family, and of course it is impossible to rob them.

Because of the activity of the Li Group, the Japanese ship seems to have undergone a strategic contraction, and it has not been seen at all along the way.

Rizhao Port is now unprecedentedly prosperous, and it can even be said that the prosperity is a bit excessive.

The port facilities of this small private port are completely unable to accommodate the fleet of ships transporting supplies to the Xu family at the same time - the transport ships are not finished when they arrive at the place, and the minimum condition is to ensure that the materials can be unloaded in time and put into reserve or transportation.

The Rizhao Zhangjia simply can't do that, so at least 20 ships stop outside the port every day, waiting in line to enter the port.

As one of the core leaders of the Qingzhou Army, Xu Shiyang himself did not have to queue up outside the port, but before landing, he did see the ships waiting to be unloaded.

After landing, the people who followed Xu Shiyang south almost breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - although Jiangnan was good, it was not their hometown after all, and now they finally went home.

Subsequently, Xu Shiyang entered Rizhao non-stop to negotiate with the main leaders of the Zhang family.

It was only at this time that Xu Shiyang roughly understood the situation in Qi Province today:

After Xu Muhe killed people and established his authority, the progress of the Qingzhou Army became significantly faster.

The newly attached Wubao has been in a stalemate with yesterday's attack on the old Qingzhou capital city and Changle County, and the direction of Weixian is still deadlocked, but I think the opposite side has not been able to hold out for long.

But there is also bad news.

Some of the newly joined Wubao obviously have a tendency to be unstable, they are afraid that they will become the next chickens to be killed and set an example, and they seem to have the idea of uniting against the Xu family.

In addition, the enemy, which was also divided in the original form, showed signs of uniting to resist under heavy pressure, which would obviously become a new obstacle for the Qingzhou army.