Zhou Lang has returned to Fujian, with him there are thirty big ships loaded with harvest, of which gold alone, there are one million taels, China's gold and silver ratio is one to ten, which is equivalent to 10 million taels of silver, which greatly saves space, otherwise these ships may not be able to fit, after all, there are too many treasures in the Old Summer Palace, 1.8 million treasures, many of which are large and take up space.

These treasures made Wang Fuqian crazy, he was so excited, not because he loved money, but because he felt that these things were too right.

Zhou Lang's attack on Beijing was a declaration in a political sense, and from then on Zhou Lang was going to stand up and fight for the world with the Manchus.

Fighting Beijing once will definitely cause a sensation in the world, but it is difficult to say how much significance it can achieve, because Zhou Lang did not take Beijing, which is not clear, the public said that the public is reasonable, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely make-for-tat propaganda, describing Zhou Lang's retreat as the mighty military power of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but it can make the people of the world believe that the Haikou can't beat the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry on the shore.

The lie that the Eight Banners are invincible, which has been propagated for more than 100 years, is difficult to puncture in the hearts of the people of the world in a short period of time.

But Zhou Lang plundered the Old Summer Palace, the lie of the invincibility of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was instantly exposed, and your emperor was robbed by Zhou Lang, and he was invincible.

The only pity is that Zhou Lang exchanged the captured Eight Banners soldiers for ransom, if he can capture thousands of Eight Banners and come back and exhibit them in various parts of Fujian, it will confirm Zhou Lang's victory in the Northern Expedition.

What made Wang Fuqian's regret make up for it was that he found that among the treasures of the Qing Palace, there were more than a dozen Qianlong jade seals.

Qianlong lived in a prosperous era, and is very pursuing pleasure, the pursuit of calligraphy and painting, jewelry, jade, tireless, making and collecting jade seals is one of his great preferences, according to statistics, Qianlong carved more than 1,800 square seals in his life, most of them are made of jade carving, he carved jade seals alone, probably more than all the emperors of ancient China combined.

These jade seals were hidden in the Qing Palace, the Shenyang Imperial Palace, and the Old Summer Palace. When the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, some soldiers divided the jade seals that Qianlong placed here, and later these jade seals were auctioned by their descendants, and the top grades of them were often hundreds of millions.

Although these jade seals are nothing compared to Qianlong's countless jade seals, their political significance is extremely significant, and even the jade seals have been robbed, what do you have to do, this will hit the prestige of the Manchu Qing Dynasty hard.

So Wang Fuqian asked for the jade seal and a large number of Qing palace treasures, and he wanted to exhibit the reincarnation in the whole Fujian, inviting literati and scholars from all over the world to come to appreciate the treasure, called the treasure, which is really a boast!

While doing these things, Wang Fuqian also discussed the next plan with Zhou Lang.

Zhou Lang has withdrawn to Fujian, and his prestige in Fujian has greatly increased, and even soon his prestige will shock the entire southeast, so it's time to expand.

In southern Zhejiang, Chen Zhouquan is entrenched, and he is still an ally with the Heaven and Earth Society, and Chen Zhouquan is needed to continue to resist the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the defenses of Guangdong and Jiangxi are relatively empty, Guangdong is rich, and the capture of Guangdong is very helpful to the current increase in strength; Jiangxi produces rice, and after laying Jiangxi, there is no need to worry about the supply and demand of grain and grass, and it can be practiced with Huguang, and the local White Lotus Sect and Chen Zhouquan of Zhejiang can be combined to directly win half of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Wang Fuqian is more inclined to take Guangdong, so that he can avoid the Qing army's troops in Hubei, anyway, guarding Fujian, the geographical location has an advantage, the Qing army wants to enter from Jiangxi, it is difficult to climb to the sky, once Jiangxi is captured, it will face the Qing army in the open area; There were no such concerns when attacking Guangdong, which, like Fujian, was relatively independent in terms of geographical location. Meiling, Shaoguan and other checkpoints in the north, Jiangxi and Hunan are very difficult to enter and exit Guangdong.

There is only one Guangxi connected by waterway, not only do you not have to worry about Guangxi's counteroffensive, but it is easy to take Guangxi in the next step, when the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Guizhou will be connected as one, and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight to see the battle between the Qing army and the Heaven and Earth Society and the White Lotus Sect in making decisions, and even the Henghe Vertical Heaven and Earth Society, the White Lotus Sect and even the Qing Court, their own side has taken the initiative.

Wang Fuqian made a lot of sense, and it was obvious that this matter had been carefully considered by him, and it was not even the consciousness of one person, but the result of a concerted effort and discussion by his shogunate; Zhou Lang was also very moved when he heard it, Fujian has been completely stabilized, even under the harsh conditions proposed by Zhou Lang, the big landlords began to enthusiastically send their children under Zhou Lang's command. The civil officials preferred to start as officials, and the military attaches were willing to start from the grassroots level, because Zhou Lang's plundering of Beijing really shocked them. Zhou Lang is not a candidate for the king who is very polite to them and is willing to lean over them, but Zhou Lang is the strongest candidate for the king, with the right person, not with the one who is good to you, but with the one who can laugh and laugh at the end. Zhuge Liang is such a hero, and he took refuge in Liu Bei, and he can only settle in Shuzhong.

Standing in line, the first thing to pay attention to is to stand right, once you stand wrong, there is no once.

Therefore, the small officials are the small officials, and the small officers are the small officers, taking advantage of Zhou Lang's current general trend and still needing a lot of talents to assist him, it is better than the canoe that he is squeezing the imperial examination after he becomes the emperor.

At this point, Zhou Lang finally subdued the landlords and gentry class in Fujian, relying not on leaning down, but on the general trend of panic.

With the support of Fujian scholars, Zhou Lang also has the ability to open up a new territory, in fact, he went to Beijing to take advantage of the situation, borrowing this momentum, the purpose is to expand, the power of this kind of thing, you must take advantage of the rising momentum, once you miss the opportunity, even if you pay a thousand times the effort, you can't catch up.

Now that Zhou Lang is in full swing, it is a good time to expand, and no matter where he hits now, it is estimated that it will be easier. For example, when Hong Xiuquan went on the Northern Expedition to the West, the momentum was like a rainbow, and the partial division could also hit Tianjin, but the main force lived in Nanjing, and this momentum was immediately hidden, and then it was pressed and beaten by the Qing army, and it was entangled and beaten, although it won the battle again and again, but it was impossible to get rid of this mud pit.

Zhou Lang is definitely going to take advantage of the situation, so Ali is a problem.

No matter how you look at Jiangxi, it is not a good choice, and if you hit Jiangxi, you can be in direct contact with the Qing army, once this is the case, the Qing army will definitely immediately turn its guns and regard Zhou Lang as a confidant and enemy, then the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society, and the forces of the White Lotus Sect, will take advantage of this vacancy to rise, and when the time comes, Chen Zhouquan will occupy Jiangnan, and the Heaven and Earth will occupy Sichuan and Shaanxi, but Zhou Lang will be dragged in Jiangxi by the Qing army, or can only use Fujian Province as a base to compete with these forces.

But Zhou Lang was very worried about one problem, that is, it was easy to conquer Guangdong, and how long it would take to restore order in Guangdong. Guangdong's iron is of strategic significance to the current Zhou Lang, and although Zhou Lang's army has strong firepower, the more advanced the weapon, the more it relies on resources.

Unlike the cold weapon army, which relies more on human factors, you can arm a soldier with a knife, but there is really no knife, and you can fight if the bamboo is sharpened.

But Zhou Lang's army had to be issued with standard rifles, and they would be scrapped when they were used to a certain extent. For every rifle, wrought iron is forged into fine iron, and the fine iron is rolled into a barrel, as well as complex parts such as triggers, exciters, screws, and springs, which are based on iron.

Iron that can hit three knives may not be able to make a rifle, and in the time it takes to scrap a knife, several rifles are scrapped.

There are also cannons, which also need iron support from Guangdong, and iron is also needed for shipbuilding, and a ship should have several tons or even dozens of tons of iron, all of which Fujian cannot be self-sufficient.

Now there is a secret agreement with Changlin in Guangdong, which can be obtained from Guangdong through trade, once the agreement is torn up and a military operation is launched against Changlin, Guangdong can be occupied in one year, and Guangdong may not be stabilized in two years.

One after the other, Zhou Lang may not be able to obtain a stable source of iron for three years, what will happen in these three years, who can say well, this huge opportunity Zhou Lang really does not want to pay.

Hitting Jiangxi is causing trouble, and hitting Guangdong has to pay an unknown opportunity cost, it seems that Zhou Lang's momentum is very good, but once he wants to expand, he can't touch it anywhere, which makes Zhou Lang quite depressed.

He asked Wang Fuqian: "If I take Guangdong, will you be able to stabilize the place within a year?" ”

Wang Fuqian thought about it and shook his head seriously: "Guangdong is a complicated place, Tuke, Miao Yi live together, and the place is already unstable. ”

Zhou Lang shared his concerns and told Wang Fuqian that if he delayed in Guangdong for three years, it would be difficult to judge what changes would happen to the situation in the Central Plains, especially his Northern Expedition, which attracted a large number of main forces of the Qing army, Heaven and Earth would be in Zhejiang, and the White Lotus Sect would be in Sichuan and Chu, all seized the opportunity to strengthen their strength, if this momentum spread, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not suppress it, the White Lotus Sect would occupy Huguang, and Heaven and Earth would dominate the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhou Lang would become the weakest one at that time.

Zhou Lang hoped that Wang Fuqian would come up with a foolproof strategy, or find a place that was very easy to expand and would not fall into a passive situation to expand.

Just when Zhou Lang and Wang Fuqian were hesitating about how to decide the next direction, something happened in Guangdong, and a Hakka uprising broke out in the Chaoshan area.

Or simply call the rebels, Zhao Wen, the Hakka landlord of Changle County, took the opportunity of the banquet to invite the county order, killed him at the banquet, and then returned to the army to occupy Changle County.

Jiaying Prefecture was busy mobilizing troops to suppress it, but was defeated by the Chang Orchestra Lian, and then the other party occupied Chengxiang County (Meixian District), the capital of Jiaying Prefecture. Xingning County's regimental training took the opportunity to start an incident, followed the example of Changle County, attacked the county seat, and killed the county order. After that, the two armies converged and took Zhenyuan (Jiaoling) and Pingyuan counties, and since then the five subordinates of Jiaying have all been attributed to Zhao Wen.

The five counties of Jiaying Prefecture are all typical mountainous counties, the land is barren, the population is large, mainly the Hakka people, and the contradiction between the government has been very large, after Zhao Wen seized Jiaying Prefecture, recruited new soldiers, and trained them, the poor and poor guests in Jiaying Prefecture after the accumulation of social contradictions have responded, and soon had tens of thousands of soldiers.

Governor Changlin, a note to the Chaozhou Government and the Huizhou Government to immediately suppress it.