"Hurry up, hurry up, and the last few boxes, hurry up and move them to the ship." Hu Xiaosi watched the soldiers of the Tiance Army coming and going by the lake, happily moving Xue Mei's treasures to the boat one by one, jumping on the side and shouting, which was sweeter than eating honey.

It is said that Xue Mei's treasures are really surprisingly many, and I don't know how he collected so many gold and silver treasures, when the cave where the treasure was hidden was blown open by the Flying Eagle Brigade, Hu Xiaosi and Wang Houchun almost fell to the ground, almost a cave was full, gold and silver were all over the ground, and boxes of jewelry were stacked there. Su Xiaohu casually pried open a box, and it turned out to be a whole box of jewelry, and the pearls inlaid on it almost blinded the eyes of these big men.

"Xiaohu, send someone to burn all the corpses, take all the prisoners onto the boat, and then let's return to Jinling. Houchun arranged for someone to write a war report and send it to the General Staff and Tianjin urgently. Yang Tiancheng also smiled excitedly after boarding the Fuxing.

Wang Houchun saw Su Xiaohu nodding at the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade, who sent someone to set a fire and said with a smile: "No matter what, the bet between the emperor and Mr. Cen has been cashed out." At least we have earned back the military expenses of Chen Fan's war in the north. ”

"Let's go, hurry back and see if there is a report from Chen Fan's side." Seeing that everything had been arranged, Yang Tiancheng nodded at Hu Xiaosi, who instructed the guards around him to escort Xue Mei into the cabin while letting Guo Chongtao return. Wang Houchun was a little surprised but was interrupted by Yang Tiancheng, Hu Xiaosi's character must not believe that a cunning guy like Xue Mei would have no other means, and Bacheng still wanted to squeeze out a trace of oil, at least to provide for the treasure troves of those big families in the city.

However, when a few people returned to Jinling with a large number of gold and silver treasures, Jinling City at this time flashed with a treacherous atmosphere. After several secret meetings, the five major families in the south of the Yangtze River, headed by the Pei family, united to fight back against the military management yamen headed by Li Jipeng. Organize people to cut off the supply of materials to Jinling and several surrounding cities, and contact the underworld forces to intercept the transport convoys of the Tiance Army along various passages. This time Li Jipeng and Yang Qiu were completely annoyed, and the elite team was transferred from the army to completely strangle these underworld green forests under the guidance of Xuan Yingwei, and at the same time, the land reform also officially began, after the basic officials were in place, first starting from Jinling City, with the Jinling Assassin Mansion taking the lead in the assault to divide the fields and land, and the army forcibly collected land and distributed it to the ordinary people. At the same time, the city began to carry out a comprehensive tax reform, abolishing the previous harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and uniformly promulgating the "Tax Law of the Tang Empire" approved by the Tax Department.

Moreover, Yang Qiu thought about it and added an article, from now on, the circulation of gold, silver and copper coins in the market will be completely banned, and the issuance time of Tang coins will be advanced. The Jinling branch of Datang Qianzhuang was put into operation immediately after its opening, and the private transactions of these people were forcibly cut off by violent means. Moreover, in order to pursue the effect, Li Jipeng directly invested the power of Xuan Yingwei to investigate, and arrested more than 100 large and small merchants who disobeyed orders and privately used gold, silver and copper coins as transaction currency to disrupt market order, disobey imperial orders, and sabotage finance.

Cutting off the gold and silver trade is actually equivalent to cutting off the means of these big merchant families in the industrial and commercial market. As for some small and medium-sized businesses supported by Xuan Yingwei and the five wealthy merchants themselves, they directly became positive benchmarks, exchanging gold, silver and copper coins and using Tang coins as the circulating currency, and with Xuan Yingwei's pervasive means, this wave was suppressed on the bright side. And as the process of dividing the land unfolded, the people who had acquired the land rejoiced and accepted these strange currencies with them.

At this time, Yang Tiancheng and several people also returned to Jinling City, after learning about the means of resisting the family led by the Pei family, Hu Xiaosi didn't think about it, and directly asked Su Xiaohu to clear all the underworld forces within a hundred miles of Jinling City within ten days, and the rebels were killed directly, and the captured ones were sent across the river to do hard labor. This method of directly opening the knife without asking about 3721 played a huge role in the subsequent time, and the bloody butcher's knife made these underworld forces flee from the control of Jinling City in fear. In this way, the materials of the five wealthy merchants and the cabinet of the logistics department entered Jinling City in a big way, and the prices were quickly stabilized.

At this time, Pei Shixun contacted the Zhang family, the Gu family, the Wang family, and the Wei family to secretly hoard a large amount of money, and purchased all the materials transported by the five wealthy merchants and the food used by the cabinet for disaster relief, and then hoarded them, so as to drive the market prices to continue to rise. As a result, not only the prices of Jinling City are rising, but also the prices of nearby Changzhou, Lizhou and Suzhou.

"Minister Murong, how come this Pei family's methods look a bit like the ones we used to deal with Zhu Quanzhong before?" Murong Hanhai hurriedly rushed over from Bianzhou with Xu Xingxia, Yu Wenli and other five wealthy businessmen, and was stopped by Yang Qiu.

"It's not like, it's just. Before I came, the emperor sent me a message, saying that I would help you sort out the market in Jiangnan and then go north. It seems to have come at the right time. Brother Yang, the emperor said, there are two things that need you and Brother Jipeng to persevere, and I and Xiaosi will be responsible for the rest. Murong Han didn't have time to take a sip of the seawater, and said directly: "The emperor said that land reform is a matter of life and death for thousands of people in Jiangnan, and I hope that you and Brother Jipeng will not be delayed by anything, and must do this matter well." The second is the currency reform, which must eliminate the circulation of all gold, silver and copper coins in the southeast region, and if necessary, allow the military to participate in the encirclement and suppression of resistance forces. ”

Murong Hanhai's solemn expression made Li Jipeng and Yang Qiu get up together and give the order.

"As for the price hikes and hoarding that they are doing now, leave it to me and Xingxia to handle, the business war is also a war, rest assured, the strength and ability of our five wealthy businessmen will definitely not be worse than these rat-eyed people who don't know the times." Murong Hanhai glanced at Xu Xingxia, Yu Wenli, and He Wenjin who looked calm beside him, and said with a smile.

"Since Murong is so confident, let's simply expand the scope." Hu Xiaosi said with a smile: "At the beginning, the military administration area set by the emperor and the prime minister was the entire southeast, since this is the case, let's simply come together." Let Yang Yi lead the National Guard to rush south, quickly take over the Zhen Navy, and all the areas occupied by Qian Biao before, and take over all the Hongzhou and other places occupied by Xue Yang on the Western Front, and manage the entire southeast in advance, so that Pei Shixun and them cannot mobilize materials and money across regions to compete with us, wouldn't it be much less difficult? ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made everyone present ponder for a while, if the scope is really expanded, then the area will be expanded too much, but if it is only military management, it is not a big problem, and it is indeed as he said that it can make these big families unable to mobilize materials and money across regions.

"Minister Yang, Brother Jipeng, you two are the heads of the Southeast Military Region appointed by the emperor, and our military supports your decision, and if necessary, Chen Yu and Xue Wanli can suspend the pace of the offensive and assist you in stabilizing the rear." Yang Tiancheng groaned slightly and said the military's opinion.

Hu Xiaosi also nodded and said, "Don't worry, the arrangement of my Xuanying Guard in the southeast can be fully mobilized by you." Ji Peng's previous position will remain unchanged for the time being, and you can freely mobilize all the forces of the Southeast Branch. ”

"Alright, let's get started." Li Jipeng and Yang Qiu looked at each other and nodded. The earth-shattering changes also officially began from this moment. At the end of May of the second year of the Apocalypse, the Southeast Military Administration District in Jinling City issued a supreme order, and from now on, the land reform will be fully spread to all imperial regions in the southeast. When the order is issued in all prefectures and counties in the southeastern jurisdiction, the military management officials in each locality must immediately organize the personnel to take inventory of the land, divide the land among all the people who have settled down, and distribute all the land in accordance with the imperial land law. Any excess of the limit will be levied mandatorily. This is really a stone that stirred up a thousand waves, completely cut off the lifeblood of all the big families in the entire southeast, and countless landlords who tried to resist the military government were arrested and convicted, and then killed and convicted. The people who had acquired a large number of land were grateful to the Tiance Army, and the people's hearts in Jiangnan suddenly completely reversed.

And with the gradual implementation of the household registration policy, a large number of people who were previously hidden by the big family landlords also surfaced, under the spontaneous report of the people and the verification of Xuan Yingwei, some big families were arrested for the crime of hiding people, and the Gu family was the first to bear the brunt this time, and a big family actually hid nearly 100,000 people in various parts of the southeast. This news made Yang Qiu, who was in charge of civil affairs, furious, and his personable temperament in the past was gone, and he directly mobilized the army to take all the bases of the Gu family in Jinling, Changzhou and Suzhou, and all the clansmen of the Gu family were escorted to Jinling to be handed over to the urgently established legal court for trial, and all the assets of the Gu family's fields and houses were seized and rushed into the treasury. And issued the most severe circular, within a time limit for all big families in the southeast to register the population, and arrange for everyone to settle down, otherwise there will be no forgiveness. The bloody butcher's knife was raised after the legal court heard the facts of the Gu family's crime, and more than 1,100 people from the Gu family's direct family were all escorted to Jinling City to be killed, and the rest of the clan moved to various parts of the Central Plains to serve hard labor. In just ten days, this big family that was so important in the southeast was completely overthrown by violence, which also made the other families who wavered fearful and seriously considered accepting the policy of the military district yamen.

At the same time that the government vigorously suppressed the big family, Murong Hanhai mobilized five wealthy merchants to transfer the massive materials hoarded in various places along the canal and the Yangtze River to Jinling and surrounding prefectures and counties, dumping them at a slightly higher price before the war, and with the help of the convenience of the Tiance Army in various places, a large number of materials were purchased into the prefectures and counties to stabilize prices, and at the same time cut off all commercial and trade ties with the southeast resistance forces, and the garrison blocked the entry and exit channels of various places, and only allowed merchants and merchants who issued passes in the military administrative area to divide and cut off the various forces. At the same time, a large amount of funds were mobilized to reverse the takeover through the channel of the bank. At this time, the major families fell into a situation of fighting their own battles, and their funds quickly ran out. Moreover, with the regularization of the land reform work, the money village and the currency system reform was put in the first place by the military administration district yamen, and a large number of gold, silver and copper money transactions in the early stage of the black market were investigated and dealt with one after another, and the people who were the leaders were not only copied from the family property, but also the heads of the people rolled to the ground, in the face of the incomparably powerful means, the implementation of the currency reform also began to go smoothly, the money village collected a large number of gold, silver and copper coins, and mobilized a large number of Tang coins from the base camp to supply the market. The copper coins were also distributed to the five wealthy merchants, who were taken to other places to secretly hoard supplies and prepare for the next stage of the war.

After Jinling and other places were successively turned into normalization, the Tiance Army on the southern front also concentrated on the war. Yang Yi's National Guard and the new battalions that arrived from the rear took over the defense of various places and cooperated with the military district government, and the eastern and central lines of the regular army of the Tiance Army gathered in Huzhou and Wuxi after sweeping all over the country and began to plan the war against Hangzhou. And Xue Yang on the Western Front defeated Du Hong's main force in the first battle of Yuezhou after taking Zhong Chuan's territory, compressing it in Yuezhou City and unable to move. The three armies began to prepare for the next stage of the plan. Unlike the Eastern Front, Xue Yang is facing a major event of entering Chu. The current envoy of Chu is Ma Yin, a general who was born under Qin Zongquan and became inseparable from Qin Zongquan after occupying Chu. After being exterminated by Zhu Quanzhong, Qin Zongquan simply established himself as the king of Chu and divided one side. When Xue Yang attacked Du Hong, Ma Yin also gathered troops on the border of Yuezhou, originally planning to profit from the fierce battle between the two sides, but was blocked by the suspicious troops arranged by Xue Yang.

"Li Yang, the battle of Yuezhou will be handed over to you, I will give you 30,000 horses, take Yuezhou within ten days, and then go north to sweep Jiangling and other places. The rest of the men and horses crossed Yuezhou with me, approached Tanzhou, and oppressed Ma Yin in Tanzhou and other places. Xue Yang instructed the staff officers around him to write a battle report and report to the command headquarters, while instructing Li Yangdao.

When Xue Yang made up his mind to enter Chu to attack Ma Yin, Jinling's command headquarters also received a report on the battle situation from the north, and more than 400,000 troops on the northern front flocked to the north, starting from Zhongjing and Shangjing, and attacking along the predetermined route. The Battle of the Northern Front officially began.

"It seems that your army has reaped enough benefits in these battles, and it has the ability to start a war in the north and south at the same time." Li Xuanqing of Tianjin Shipyard smiled as he looked at the battle reports sent by the north and south lines at the same time.

"Your Majesty, don't laugh at me, if it weren't for Xiao Si's efforts to extort all the treasures of Xue Mei, and the benefits brought by the big families of the soldiers and the big families who were not long-sighted, I doubt that the cabinet is ready to impeach the Tiance Mansion next year." Xu Tianxiang smiled bitterly.

Cen Tianshi was very conscious, nodded and smiled: "Tianxiang seems to be very self-aware, I heard that the Bohai Kingdom is not inferior to the wealth of Jiangnan, let Chen Fan give me some heart, otherwise the emperor should be in debt." With so much money, I feel that it is not enough to sell the industrial group by Qiaoxi. ”

"What are you talking about, big brother, the Ocean is about to have its first keel, let's go to the observation deck." Qiaoxi walked over with Fu Yao and Murong Feixue and said with a smile.

Several people walked up to the viewing platform, and the steel resonance of the shipyard at this time continued, not the light of steel splashing, and the fiery red molten steel burst out of the fiery red torrent, a busy and lively scene.

"Qiaoxi, I heard Zhang Qiang say that your hydraulic press has been successfully manufactured? Why didn't you see it this time? Li Xuanqing saw that the first keel had begun to emerge and nodded, and the first steel plate was quickly cut out in the sparks of the cutting machine in the forging factory.

"It's already on the way, because it was designed by the headquarters, so it needs to transport the corresponding equipment from Chang'an to the Yizhou manufacturing plant, so it's a little slower." Qiaoxi smiled: "But I can still catch up." This time, our Ocean has absorbed the previous mortise and tenon technology, and the method of combining rivets has been re-improved. Other people didn't understand Qiaoxi's words, but Li Xuanqing raised his head in surprise and said with a smile: "Have you found a suitable tenon joint?" It's a new technology. ”

"Yes, I plan to build a sea ship for Brother Xu after I finish building the Ocean, and a new dock is being built over there. By the way, I moved all the docks and manufacturing of civilian ships to the south, and all the warships in the north were renovated. Qiaoxi said with a smile: "In the future, Tianjin Shipyard will gradually improve and become the largest shipyard in the empire." ”

"Qiaoxi, are you planning to build a second shipyard?" Cen Tianshi, who was on the side, heard the last sentence and immediately asked, in his eyes, one family is enough, and any more will be wasted.

Li Xuanqing smiled: "How can one family be enough? In the future, there will be no dozens or hundreds of purchases. And the tonnage of shipbuilding will get bigger and bigger with the development of technology, and the dock will also get bigger and bigger. Our voyage has only now really begun. ”

"That is, Brother Zhang's family sent people to the east of Suzhou to find the Yangtze River estuary, and prepared to plan to build a new shipyard there." Qiaoxi smiled.