The reason why I say this is because the meritorious lord system was originally formulated in order to compromise with the old aristocracy.

Fan Hongji, as a representative figure in the old aristocracy, was proposed by him to revise the system, and the old aristocracy had nothing to say.

However, at the moment, Yang Mu is not considering starting with the meritorious lord system.

In terms of the current financial resources of Cangguo, it is more than enough to raise such a group of nobles, and there is no need to worry about financial constraints.

Moreover, compared with the time when the meritorious service system was established, the main contradiction has changed.

In the court of Cangguo, although the proportion of the old aristocracy has always been very large in the main positions in several major departments, in the overall power structure, the power of the old aristocracy is very thin.

It can be said that if the current Yang Mu wants to change the meritorious lord system, he doesn't have to worry about the existence of the old nobles at all.

Cangguo has expanded rapidly over the years, but the number of old nobles has not changed, anyway, it is just a little bit, and it is a big deal to give them some preferential treatment or a promotion of the title when the time comes, which is enough to appease.

What really gave Yang Mu a headache was the nobles who had climbed up step by step through meritorious lords over the years and obtained the title.

If the meritorious lord system is rashly changed, the interests of this part of the people will inevitably be harmed.

Although Yang Mu is an emperor, he has not yet reached the point where he thinks he is a god, and when he really hurts the interests of those meritorious lords and nobles, he does not dare to guarantee that it will make people panic and the situation turbulent.

In particular, the war with the Five Kingdoms is currently underway, which can be said to be a battle that will determine the fate of the Cangguo.

Finally, Cangguo has mastered the strategic initiative because of the existence of the red-clothed cannon, and if it continues, not to mention whether it can win in the end, it is already invincible anyway.

At this juncture, we can't make the front-line soldiers dissatisfied because of the matter of the meritorious lord.

As soon as the war is over, it would be better to slowly settle the matter.

Yang Mu thought about it for a while, and then asked people to put away the box, not to think about it for the time being, and to make plans later.

Unconsciously, he remembered the conversation with the shopkeeper on the street during the day.

He realized that the unstable psychology of the common people really existed, and the imperial court could not do anything about it, no matter how brainwashed the "Dacang Times" was, the fear of the people at the bottom existed.

The only thing that can be done is to fight quickly and end this war as soon as possible.

As for currency wars......

Yang Mu has already started to prepare, and the Ministry of Household and Commerce have also received an edict and began to prepare.

Just after the New Year, it is a sunny day.

The earth is warming, the farmers are ready to start spring ploughing, and the season of recovery is a good time to send troops.

Although the weather was not very good, the weapons and baggage of the Ministry of Industry still arrived in northern Xinjiang and were allocated to the Guiyi Army.

At the same time, after receiving the order from the Ministry of War, the Guiyi Army had already learned that it was going to use troops against Kangguo, so it practiced intensively for a month, and at the beginning of February, twenty red-coated cannons arrived at the Guiyi Army and began to be loaded.

The Guiyi Army was divided into two batches, with 100,000 vanguard troops and 200,000 reserve main forces.

In fact, as early as when the Guiyu Army was first absorbed, it reached 500,000 people, but over the years, the number of troops has been continuously reduced, and now there are only 300,000 standing troops left.

100,000 vanguard troops is a very large number.

Because, even if it is the entire Kangguo, the number of troops that can be mobilized now is only two or three hundred thousand.

The Guiyi army was well-equipped, marching with an army of 100,000, and it was not a problem at all to attack the city and pull out the fortress.

In addition, with the help of twenty red-clothed cannons, it is like divine help.

"Woo-"

"Woo-"

"Woo-"

On the sixth day of the second month, with a muffled sound of horns, the 100,000-strong vanguard army launched an attack on the Jianli fortress on the southern border of Kangguo.

Similar to the Xuanwu Legion against the Three Kingdoms Alliance, with the artillery bombarding in the back and the crossbow chariots in the forefront, the Kangguo army gave up the idea of a frontal battle after a small temptation, and instead hid in the fortress.

However, the fortress that Kang Guo thought was strong only collapsed in half under a burst of artillery fire.

In the end, this fortress, which took countless efforts to build Kangguo, turned into a miserable ruin.

It should be said that this is the first time in the world that a city has been destroyed so badly.

After only half a day's effort, the Kangguo defenders, who couldn't resist the pressure, all withdrew, and even the Kangguo army, which happened to rush to Jianli Fortress to support, really evacuated after seeing that the situation was not good.

On the side of the Guiyi Army, the cost was only the lives of more than 1,000 soldiers, and the casualties were less than one percent.

In other words, the two armies did not really fight at all, and after the walls of the fortress were blown down, all the defenders were frightened and withdrew directly, so that even the Guiyi army attacked the city for half a day, and did not find out how many defenders were in the fortress.

The victory of the Jianli Fortress made the generals of the Guiyi Legion happy one by one.

This battle can be said to be the battle of the righteous army, and it is a battle to wash away the shame.

Over the years, the Guiyi Army has changed several batches from the generals to the soldiers, and the original Shengguo Guishun Army has been a complete Cangguo people, but because of the name of "Guiyi" on the head, the outside world always has some strange eyes, thinking that this is an army that has been surrendered, and subconsciously feels that compared with several other legions, the blood is not right, and there is a fundamental difference.

In addition, the Guiyi army has been guarding the north, and there has been no war for many years, especially in these years, the Cangguo has become stronger and stronger, and neither Kang nor Jin dare to provoke Cangguo, so even if there is unhappiness on the border, Jin and Kang are also the ones who swallow their anger, so the Guiyi army does not even have the opportunity to earn small achievements.

This led to the fact that in the impression of the people, the Guiyi Army was just a government soldier in the name of the legion.

Even the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of War are a little eccentric, and the good things are always close to the other five major legions, and there is nothing to do with the Guiyi Corps.

Even the high-ranking generals of the Guiyi Army, when they returned to Beijing every year to report on their work, felt inferior in the military department, and some could not raise their heads.

In today's battle, Jianli Fortress was captured in half a day, which is enough to show the strength of the Guiyi Army, worthy of the name of the legion, not a wasted name!

In the next five days, the 100,000 Guiyi army went deep into the land of Kangguo for 100 miles one after another, and captured more than ten cities.

However, by mid-February, the 100,000 rebel army found that the war was not so easy to fight.

I have to admit that the Guiyi Army is still inferior to the other five major legions in terms of experience and the quality of the soldiers in terms of marching and fighting, which is beyond doubt, plus the 100,000 army is stationed in the city, so that the main army is only more than 50,000 people.

As for the red-coated cannon, this thing is extremely bulky, even if it is dismantled and carried, it is extremely troublesome, so it can only follow the main army, and sometimes it can't keep up with the speed of the main army.

In order to avoid the army being attacked by a sneak attack, there was something wrong with the red-coated artillery, so the top management of the Guiyi Legion decided to let the vanguard army pause the advance and wait for the main army.

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