With Yang Qing's seal on the holy decree, the fragmented Ming Dynasty completed the formal unification in a sense......

It's like a bald guy.

And, of course, there was the Jiannu stealing from the north.

This can be put on hold for the time being, just like the Japanese army occupying the northeast.

But in any case, with King Gui officially giving up the imperial title and retiring to the vassal king, the special period of the two emperors in the Ming Dynasty standing side by side ended, whether it was the vassal king or the warlord, after all, the courtiers of the Ming Emperor all used the same Longxing era name.

What happened to the vassal king?

The vassal king was also the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xiaotuozi and the bald guy almost divided China equally, ruled nine provinces and three municipalities directly under the central government, and had a territory larger than the bald guy, isn't he the deputy commander of the navy, army and air force appointed by the Nationalist Government to camp in Beiping to control Northeast and North China? He has his own army, appoints local military and political officials, and collects taxes by himself, all of which can't change the fact that King Gui has re-become the minister of the Son of Heaven of Longxing! Just like Zhang Xiaomaozi, the army collects its own taxes and appoints military and political officials, but it still can't change the fact that he is the deputy of the bald guy.

In short, now the Ming Dynasty is finally unified!

Whether it is the prison of Nanjing, the two feudal domains of Guijingjiang, the king of Qin who has ruled until the Western Regions, or the prince of Shu in Sichuan, they are all ministers of the Son of Longxing. Just like even if they play their brains in Chibi, the three families are also Liu Xie's ministers, but since they are also the ministers of Longxing Tianzi, they have to bear some obligations!

Like what......

Donate money to ransom the emperor......

Uh, support the King of Qin on his westward expedition.

Since they are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty, then this money can't just be paid by the prison regime, the king of Qin is going to contribute, so the rest of the money has to be paid together, just let Nanjing Jianguo and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Nanzhihu, Guangyun, Guizhou, Shandong, Henan, these provinces come out, what is it? Is it honest to bully us? If you want to pay, you have to pay for it......

Gui Fan is a clan, and he is also the emperor's uncle, so he must take the lead.

The emperor was embarrassed to say such a thing.

Then the Nanjing prison state should not let his brother share his worries......

On the fifth day after the holy decree of pardoning King Gui and King Jingjiang, increasing their fiefdoms, guarding, and granting them the right to inherit the worship of the two arrived in Guangzhou, in the stunned gaze of Lingding Ocean, a huge fleet of more than 30 warships opened the gun door and showed nearly 1,000 cannons, and slowly sailed through the standard double column and headed straight for Humen. Immediately after the Pearl River Estuary, the warships of the Gui Naval Division of Humen quickly poured out, and they lined up at the mouth of the Pearl River with their backs to the Humen Fort, and they also formed a strong navy over the years, with twenty of the same new cruisers.

But there are only ten ships in Humen.

Because the other ten ships of the fleet have gone to Ha Tien to deal with the pirates flooding the Gulf of Siam.

However, there are still hundreds of old warships of all kinds and armed merchant ships in Hong Kong, and the merchant ships from Guangzhou to the South Seas are all carrying cannons, and they are not weak in terms of their own strength. Even the six armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company, which had just begun the construction of Hong Kong, sailed over, and the Portuguese in Macao also sailed four armed merchant ships.

But none of them dared to act irrationally.

Because the Ming army still had two battleships.

A real battleship.

Although it was still a double deck, it was equipped with more than sixty cannons, sixty-four per battleship to be exact, and they stood out from the crowd of warships at the mouth of the Pearl River with European sails. Like a Tyrannosaurus rex roaming the African savannah at two ends, it looks down on all beings with a difference in rank, and suppresses those small gunboats and armed merchant ships like cicadas.

In fact, they also had terrifying thirty-two pounders, and the two battleships together had more than forty of these new naval guns.

Armed merchant ships against this is to deliver food.

On the other thirty cruisers, the twenty-four pounder guns were also ferocious to these thin-skinned ships. More than 100 warships from all sides combined were strangely facing each other and constantly spreading panic outward, and soon the same chickens and dogs jumped in the city of Guangzhou.

It is said that in the nearly four years of confrontation between the two sides, this is the first time that the army of the Nanjing Prison State has appeared at the mouth of the Pearl River, especially on such a large scale, and even two battleships that are said to have just joined the country a few years ago have been dispatched. Combined with the news of King Gui's pardon that had been spread through the newspapers, those who were sober-minded immediately thought that it was obvious that this move had angered Yang Qing's traitorous minister, and he was going to prepare to kill King Gui in one fell swoop to make an example of the monkey.

It's time for the real war!

The Ming army base was in Xiamen, and it was still February at this time, and the coast was still under the control of the strong coastal currents of Fujian and Zhejiang, and it would not take a few days to move south from Xiamen.

At least until the summer arrives.

In summer, the northward monsoon flows, the Taiwan Strait and the coast north of the Pearl River estuary are basically controlled by two opposite currents in the season, the coastal flow from north to south in winter, and the southwest monsoon pushes the warm current northward in summer. As for the other side of the strait, it has always been under the control of the Kuroshio tributary, and in winter, because of the different directions of the two sides of the strait, a whirlpool area eventually formed, which is why the Taiwan Strait is not easy to cross. This season is suitable for moving from north to south, and with the seakeeping capacity of the Ming army and the Nanyang Company, with the help of ocean currents and northeast winds, no less than 100,000 troops can be transported in a month to attack Guangzhou.

In fact, the Ming fleet was indeed followed by a large number of troop carriers.

At the same time that the fleets of all sides were facing each other off the coast of Humen, these troop transports from Xiamen had already laid down a brigade of marines in Daxi Mountain and began to unload all kinds of supplies as a forward base. Next, as long as the fleet opens the Humen Battery, this marine corps with all flintlock muskets can ride the tide and rush straight from Daxi Mountain to the Pearl River and complete the landing. Under their threat, not only was the Humen Fort on standby, but the Gui army of a brigade also arrived at Xin'an as quickly as possible, and prepared to resist the landing outside Xin'an City. The Portuguese in Macau also quickly organized their militia and deployed it with reinforcements from the Gui army in Xiangshan.

War clouds shrouded both sides of the Pearl River estuary.

However......

The people of Guangzhou guessed wrong.

"Donate?"

In the Guiwang Mansion in Guangzhou, the original Yongli in history, the current Guiwang Zhu Youlang was stunned.

"Yes, the king, they said that since the king is the king of the Ming Dynasty, he should respond to His Majesty's call to contribute to the western expedition of the king of Qin, and when the fifteen million taels are raised in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Liangguang will also get a part."

Ding Kuichu, who had just come back from negotiations, said.

"How much do they want?"

Yongli immediately calmed down.

Obviously, this was Yang Qing's revenge, and he wondered how this villain could seal the holy decree so easily! It turned out that he had been holding back this thought for a long time, so it seemed that it would not work if he didn't pay something, if he didn't pay for it, Yang Qing would definitely use this excuse to start a war, and it was more cost-effective to pay for peace than this.

You can't beat it.

At this time, the main force of the Gui army was in Shaoguan, and he actually only had 40,000 new troops, 30,000 on the front line in Shaoguan, only 10,000 in Guangzhou, and 30,000 old troops who had not completed the new armyization in Chaozhou and Chengxiang and other places to defend the flanks. And it is definitely impossible for these two places to be withdrawn, which means that he only has 10,000 new troops to guard Humen, and the rest depends on whether those gentry can work together with him. But in any case, it is the most undesirable to fight, the first army of the Ming army and the three militia corps of Fujian can quickly enter the battlefield, the difference in strength between the two sides is obvious, although the population of Guangzhou at this time is more than one million, but even King Gui knows that those workers in the slums will not fight for the factory owners.

The final result is likely to be that once the tiger gate is broken, it will basically be out of play.

"Two million taels."

Ding Kuichu said cautiously.

"Two million?!"

Zhu Youlang exclaimed.

"Guangdong will pay two million, and Guangxi will pay one million."

Ding Kuichu cautiously added.

"Convene a meeting of the Advisory Bureau, this traitor deceives people too much, he really thinks we are afraid of him, two million? Why didn't he go and grab it? ”

Zhu Youlang said hatefully.

This figure is impossible to accept, it is acceptable to pay tens of thousands of taels or even hundreds of thousands of taels, after all, Yang Qing was obviously provoked at this time, and it was impossible to appease him without taking out some money. Zhu Youlang was mentally prepared for this, and it was impossible to expect Yang Qing not to pay a price, but two million was still too exaggerated, it was impossible, even if he agreed with the Guangdong gentry!

Yang Qing's Four People's Congress is just used by this guy to manipulate public opinion, but the Guangdong Consultative Bureau really has the final say.

Who of those gentry will pay for it?

They are indeed very rich, and in recent years, Guangzhou has exported countless silk, sugar, and porcelain to Europe every year, and their ability to absorb gold is not inferior to that of the customs in the north, and they even have more obvious advantages here. After all, it was originally engaged in maritime trade, and compared with Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were hastily launched, the economic system with maritime trade as the core in this area had been established and operated for many years, and it began to grow explosively immediately after some institutional restrictions were lifted.

In particular, Guangcai porcelain has begun to accept orders from Europeans, such as depicting noble coats of arms on porcelain plates, and even orders from European royal families are often received.

Not to mention that it's also a sugar hub.

There are also countless mulberry gardens all over the Pearl River Delta and a steady stream of tea from the Xijiang River, and iron ore from the Dongjiang River, and Foshan's ironware is very popular in Nanyang. And these things earned countless gold and silver for the Guangdong gentry every year, and two million taels were actually the family property of one of the top five richest people.

But......

Why give him the money he earns with his ability!

Those gentry really don't care about King Gui, just like King Gui doesn't care about them, the two sides are just a cooperation of interests, the former needs King Gui to take them to divide the territory, and the latter needs the gentry to help him divide one side. But Yang Qing wants two million, then it will definitely cause public outrage, King Gui has a fart money, and his palace is still the political envoy in the past! Every money he spends has to be agreed by the members of the Consultative Council or the official names of the townspeople! If these two million are really to be released, in the end they can only be made up by the gentry.

So what else is there to say.

Wok Fighting!