After several official letters were issued, Fang Yuan began to prepare for the military deployment of the southern expedition to Guangdong and Taiwan.

The purpose of the conquest of Guangdong, and even more, was the issue of trade. Before Fang Yuan's conquest of Fujian, the main foreign smuggling channel was from Zheng Zhilong's pirate group. After Zheng Zhilong was defeated, Fang Yuan included Fujian's foreign trade into the management of the special municipal shipping department, and Jinyiwei collected the municipal shipping tax full-time, and the Fujian government could not interfere.

As a result, the marine smuggling syndicate could not stay in Fujian, and all of them moved to Guangdong, which was further south, and mainly concentrated in Guangzhou Prefecture, as well as Macao, where the Francois people had stolen their possession. As long as Guangdong is in the bag, all the ports of foreign trade in the Ming Dynasty will be under the control of Fang Yuan, but all goods that go to sea must be paid truthfully.

Only by controlling the maritime trade tax and filling the treasury can the collection of agricultural taxes be gradually reduced and the burden on the peasants can be lightened. Increasing the trader's tax and reducing the agricultural tax were also Fang Yuan's national policies to consolidate his political power and maintain long-term peace and stability.

Therefore, it is imperative to go to Guangdong this time and destroy the last den of the marine smuggling syndicate! With Fujian's experience from the past, Guangdong will never rest on its laurels. The annual trading volume of at least 50 million taels of silver, the profit of 30 million taels of silver, and the huge market tax of 3 million taels of silver are a huge cake.

The so-called "one letter" can make Guangdong honestly obey is a fool's dream. It will have to be smashed with a stick before the smugglers who collude with the Francos will stop.

Guangdong is now regarded as an ownerless wilderness, and the local military and political forces have not played a game to unify Guangdong. The conquest of Guangdong, militarily speaking, is not a difficult problem, and it can be easily broken one by one.

The number of people who went to Guangdong this time should not be too much, as long as the elite of the 10,000-foot battalion, the 15,000 soldiers of the mountain special battalion went south, plus the 10,000 Xuanjia soldiers from Fujian, and Shi Lang's 10,000 sailor fleet, a total of 45,000 sergeants were enough.

Due to the hot weather in the south and the preparation of grain and grass for the expedition, Fang Yuan chose the date of the expedition in October of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, after the autumn harvest, when the autumn was high and cool. It's July and a half, and there are still two and a half months to prepare.

During these days, Fang Yuan received a letter from Zuo Liangyu asking for peace.

The effect of the military competition was immediate, and it was only two or three months since Zuo Liangyu had obviously felt the tremendous pressure of exhausting his life and depleting his financial resources.

Open the floodgates and release water, and at least 60,000 displaced people flee to Zhejiang through the Jiangxi-Zhejiang border every month, dragging their families and mouths, in groups, stretching for dozens of miles, and fleeing like this for another year, most of Jiangxi's population will be drained.

Economic sanctions, Jiangnan under the jurisdiction of Fang Yuan is the market with the strongest purchasing power in the whole Ming Dynasty, the porcelain of Jingdezhen, the largest seller of wood in Linjiang Prefecture, the trade in the Zhezhi region has been cut off, Jingdezhen porcelain, Linjiang wood is all piled up, can not be exchanged for silver. The left army had a weak economic foundation, and as soon as the source of silver was cut off, some of the left army already had a situation of arrears of wages. If this continues, it is estimated that it will be a year, and the left army will mutiniate everywhere.

The most fatal thing is the Cold War and the military race. Fang Yuan constantly sent fleets to harass Anqing, Luzhou, and Jiujiang, an important town on the Yangtze River. Once the defense line was slightly leaked, it was attacked by the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry who came and went like the wind deep into the interior to attack the granary of the Left Army, only burning but not looting, and when most of the Left Army arrived to support, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry had already boarded the ship.

The left army wanted to counterattack, but the sailor was delivering food to the Xuanjia army, and as soon as he left the port, he was annihilated by Shifu's sailor fleet before he could go out for a day.

The sailor is inferior, Zuo Liangyu does not dare to make a desperate gamble and have a large-scale decisive battle with Fang Yuan, and the only choice for the left army is to gather heavy troops to guard the important towns along the Yangtze River and strictly defend them. However, the Xuanjia Army Sailor pointed to the east and the west, and there was no trace of it, so the left army could only be led by the nose all the time, exhausted. In less than two or three months, I was exhausted and miserable.

Zuo Liangyu solemnly apologized to Fang Yuan in the letter, and proposed to marry the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Zuo family to Fang Yuan as a concubine, with a dowry of one million taels of silver. To sacrifice a daughter as a concubine is to beg for peace with Fang Yuan, and the so-called dowry is to compensate Fang Yuan's money.

Fang Yuan didn't want to think about it, so he scolded Zuo Liangyu's envoy and ordered him to bring back Fang Yuan's peace negotiation conditions, which was acceptable to Jinnu, but he had to send his daughter to the governor's mansion first. The dowry of one million taels of silver is far from enough, and it must be added to the seven million taels of silver looted from the two prefectures of Anqing and Luzhou, and five million taels must be returned.

Fang Yuan's condition was that the lion opened his mouth, and Zuo Liangyu couldn't accept it at all, so he immediately summoned Zuo Mengeng, Jin Shenghuan, Wu Xueli, Ma Jinzhong and others to discuss countermeasures.

The result of everyone's discussion was to send Ma Jinzhong to lead 30,000 left troops to cross the river from Anqing Mansion to attack Chizhou Mansion, which was regarded as a return gift for the other party's original sneak attack on the left army.

As a result, Ma Jinzhong won the first battle and captured the three counties of Chizhou Prefecture, but was cut off by Shi Fu's sailors, and the 10,000 Xuanjia iron horsemen at the Taihu Lake base galloped to the aid of the starry night. In less than three days, Zhao Quanzhong's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry completely defeated Ma Jinzhong's sneak attack of 30,000 left troops.

The left army either surrendered or was completely annihilated, and none of them fled back to Anqing Province. Even Ma Jinzhong was captured alive, Fang Yuan didn't say a word, and directly beheaded Ma Jinzhong, who begged for mercy again and again, and sent his head back to Nanchang Mansion to demonstrate to Zuo Liangyu.

After this battle, Zuo Liangyu was angry and his old illness recurred, and he was seriously ill in bed, and he couldn't get out of bed again. Zuo Mengeng and the commanders of the Left Army were even more shocked, who would dare to touch Fang Yuan's tiger whiskers again? After Zuo Mengeng discussed with Zuo Liangyu, he decided to give in to Fang Yuan.

Cession of Anqing Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, and five million taels of silver cannot be fully agreed, and Fang Yuan's offer must be lowered. But the two sides are now on the same footing, and the envoy sent to the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang was kicked out by Fang Yuan almost as soon as he entered the door, how can he negotiate?

The method proposed by Zuo Mengeng was to send his sister Zuo Nan to curry favor with Fang Yuan first. Zuo Nan still has eight or nine points of appearance, although it is very unlikely to persuade Fang Yuan, but if he can make Fang Yuan happy on the bed and calmly negotiate with the envoy of the Zuo family, he will be most successful.

Although Zuo Liangyu was reluctant to give up this precious daughter, he didn't think that sending his daughter would make Fang Yuan discouraged and sit down to negotiate with the Zuo family. But Zuo Mengeng insisted on offering his sister to be good, and he could only let his son go.

Ten days later, Zuo Nan, the daughter of the Zuo family, brought 100,000 taels of silver with her and sent them to the governor's palace. Whether it was Zuo Nan or silver, it was given to Fang Yuan to dissipate gas and reduce fire.

Fang Yuan met Zuo Nan in the Governor's Palace, although this girl is not as graceful and luxurious as the princess, Xiaoyuan's charm and enchantment, she does have a bit of beauty, and before the crossing, she is at least a school flower-level beauty.

Fang Yuan ordered Zuo Nan to raise her head, looked up and down for a while, and then ordered Mama Liang to take her to the inner room to examine her body, whether she was a virgin, whether her body was clean, and whether there were any flaws.

Princess Kunxing on her side has been pregnant for four or five months, and her belly has become more and more visible, seeing that Fang Yuan ordered Mama Liang to inspect Zuo Nan's body, it seems that she has an idea about this Zuo Nan, so she asked, "The horse wants to take her into the backyard?" ”

Fang Yuan groaned and said, "Should you allow it?" ”

The princess chuckled and said, "I'm thinking, the horse snubbed me for two years because I was the enemy's daughter, and now Zuo Nan is also the enemy's daughter, how can the horse say that he will accept it?" ”

Fang Yuan grabbed her hand and said with a smile, "Jiao'er is the wife of Ming Media, and Jiao'er's son is the rightful heir of our Fang family, of course, it must be strictly reviewed; Zuo Nan is just a pet in the house, what tricks can she play? How can you two be compared? ”

The princess retracted her hand and said with a smile, "This is considered a pass for the colt, and the colt will accept her if she wants to!" ”

The princess promised Fang to accept Zuo Nan, also out of her own interests. The Governor's Mansion is just two women who sleep with her and Mrs. Yuan, she is pregnant now, if she doesn't introduce a plaything to warm Fang Yuan's bed, do you want Fang Yuan to spoil Mrs. Yuan? Mrs. Yuan and this Zuo Nan, she can still tell which is more important.