In the last battle of the Dongying battlefield, Wang Gebu and Chen Gonggong watched the whole battle. Wang Gebu and Chen Gonggong are both loyal and Confucian, and they are not used to Liaoning's reckless military force, although because Liaoning is a place of restraint, and this conquest, Liaoning has given enough face to the imperial court, and it is inconvenient for him to reprimand, but he also wants to see Liaoning meet in front of Xiongguan Jiancheng and break blood.

But reality turned their wishes upside down, and in their eyes, Odawara Castle, which was incomparably strong, collapsed in an instant, like a castle on the beach. The entire Battle of Odawara, from the beginning of the battle to the disembowelment of the Hojo clan, lasted 29 hours and 3 quarters, which was half an hour less than the 30 hours of the battle. The Hojo Army suffered more than 100,000 casualties (not that the firearms of the Liaoning Army were a little more powerful, but that they could not leave too many troops and population for the government. The casualties of the coalition army did not exceed 10,000, among them, the Liaoning army was not killed!

In the end, although Liaoning claimed not to participate in the "indulgence of military discipline", all parties who entered the city to loot invariably gave half of the harvest to the Liaoning army. According to the predetermined proportion, the Liaoning army distributed the rewards directly to each soldier, and even the firehead army received five taels of gold, and the whole army rejoiced.

Wang Gebu wrote in his diary: "Liaoning was poor and martial, while the country was strong and the people were rich (during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the place where people lived was called Yi, and the "Shuowen" explained: "Yi, the country also. "This is not about the country. ), the more you fight, the richer you get; Why did Tang Zong and Han Wu become poorer and poorer the more they fought? When the soldiers heard the battle, they were happy, bravely took the lead, and after the war, they were fruitful and had no complaints. Or as Governor Lee said: Those who have constant property have perseverance? Is there a mistake in the DPRK-China system? I should think deeply about it (ask in a fixed way, I will ponder). ”

Chen Gonggong's attention was focused on the use of firearms: "The first time I saw the wisps of green smoke, these few should be eroded, there is no sound to follow, not a cluster is broken, and the casualties of the Japanese army are not counted." There is also a famous "Keqiu Sand", a god fire flying crow, arson within a radius of hundreds of steps, no one who does not burn, and it cannot be saved...... This kind of fire* weapon is extremely powerful, and the Jingying magic machine is not as good as it. When I return to the palace, I should pay tribute to the Son of Heaven......"

The wishes of all parties have been fulfilled, and everyone is happy. In the end, Dongying implemented a new system: Huaxia ("Huaxia", not "Daming") was the suzerainty of Dongying, which was passed down from generation to generation; The king of Dongying is the religious leader and head of state of Dongying, and is not allowed to participate in secular affairs; The shogunate was a central government agency of Toei, and the shoguns were elected by the resolutions of the major names; The major mycoons supported their own armies to resist tyranny; The Shimazu family, the Nagamune family, the Namiko family, the Mune, the Uesugi family, and the Date family are local governments and must pay taxes to the central government; Open trade, free entry and exit.

The former dynasty and the inner court received more wealth: each received three and a half million taels of gold, to be paid in twenty years; The war was captured, and each of them received a hundred thousand taels of gold. It's a lot to learn.

The Jiangnan Shi clan obtained the ports of Songjiang (in charge of the Nanjing Imperial Court) and Jinling (i.e., Nanjing, in charge of the Inner Court), and they could trade with Chao Xian and Dongying, and they no longer had to sneak around.

Emperor Wanli got Dongying's submission and gained money, which can be said to have both inside and face.

After the Dongying incident, Wang Gebu and Chen Gonggong returned to Dalian, preparing to wait for the current indemnity to be paid before being escorted back to Beijing. However, in early August, news of the disaster came from Beijing, and the drought in the Central Plains, the wind disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, and the earthquake in Qujiang came as scheduled, but the results were very different from the original history.

The earthquake was far away in Yunnan, the land of the Mu family, and the details had not yet reached Jingshi.

In the case of the expansion of drought in the Central Plains, the potatoes urgently planted in the Central Plains have been "harvested". Of course, this "bumper harvest" cannot be compared with the original yield of 50 stone per mu, after all, the variety of potatoes has been degraded, but the yield of 20 or 30 stone per mu is still there. The yield of these twenty or thirty stones, compared to the lack of harvest of other crops, is already a miracle. Under the deliberate boasting of the government, "auspicious rain from the sky and save the Ming Dynasty" spread throughout the Central Plains. "There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart", the panicked hearts of the people who are panicking at the moment of the disaster have calmed down, and under the guidance of the government, they have fought the disaster and saved themselves.

"On the night of July 21, Suzhou, Songjiang and other prefectures, the east wind rolled angrily, and the water of Taihu Lake was more than two feet high. The wind pulls out the wooden servant house, and the fields are all gone. After the 27th, the heavy rain lasted for ten days, day and night, the seedlings rotted, and the houses drifted away." Then things are different, after all, there is still food in the original history, and now the time and space are almost empty in the official warehouse in Jiangnan!

Since Liaoning began to fight to the south, it has continued to use the war to capture and Liaoning industrial products, through the Qufu Kong family, to buy grain from the south of the Yangtze River. In the face of huge profits, the officials in Jiangnan sold only half of the grain in the official warehouse. Lin Shenhe has made a lot of contributions.

In April, Liaoning used 50,000 taels of gold to buy grain from the imperial court. The imperial court collected the money and allowed Liaoning to transfer it directly from the Jiangnan Guancang. After giving some cheap industrial products to the officials in charge, Li Sijin led the navy on the Western Front, and then contacted the maritime pirates who obeyed Liaoning, and emptied the official warehouse in Jiangnan.

The officials originally wanted to wait for the late grain to come down and then replenish it, but they did not expect the typhoon to come. "The people are hungry, and there is a great epidemic, and the price of rice is expensive, two coins of rice and silver, and one penny of wheat silver." In Suzhou City, there are extremely hungry people rushing to attack the official warehouse, hoping to grab some rice and grain to survive. As a result, the hungry people beat away the officials and soldiers guarding the guards, and when they opened the granary, they were all dumbfounded, the granary was empty! None of the rats!

Knowing that there were hungry people attacking the official warehouse, the first reaction of the officials was not to mobilize the army to protect the grain depot, but to "let them rob"! That's right, it's "let them rob"! Because in this way, it can be said that the official warehouse has no food, and it is said that it has been robbed by the mob. Upon learning that the hungry people had rushed into the grain depot, the officials celebrated with their hands, and the officers and soldiers who suppressed the repression were delayed.

The political structure of the Ming Dynasty was somewhat strange. Staying in Nanjing, except that the emperor was not in this city, he actually retained a complete set of central government bureaucratic system, which can be described as a "backup of the imperial court". The eunuch system of the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Five Prefectures and the Inner Court is readily available. The officials of the Nanjing court were of the same rank as their counterparts in Beijing, and mainly managed the affairs of the Nanzhili (14 prefectures and prefectures around Nanjing, with no provinces, and directly managed by the imperial court). Although the power is not as good as that of officials in Beijing, it cannot be said to be idle. Because the area under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili is the most economically developed and culturally prosperous area, more than 30% of the world's taxes come from here.

In addition to the complete six departments in Nanjing, there is also the Xu family, a large gongfang that can legally own private soldiers, and the town guard eunuchs who control the army. In order to ensure that the "mob seized the official warehouse," the Nanjing regime immediately mobilized the army to "suppress" the imaginary riot and wantonly arrest and massacre.

At the same time, the news of "no grain in the official warehouse" quickly spread around the city. From the record of "Suzhou Prefecture Chronicles", it can be seen that in the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of free laborers in Suzhou City, who were "a group of people", "standing bridges to be called", "satin workers standing flower bridges, yarn workers standing Guanghuasi Bridge, and turnsmith Lixi Bridge", waiting to be hired. According to the records of the "Records of Mingshenzong", it is estimated that the number of employees in Suzhou is not less than 10,000, and the employees of various cities, towns and towns are not counted.

In other words, at that time, there was a large non-agricultural population in Suzhou Province, and they had to eat. When they knew that the official warehouse was empty and there was no food for disaster relief, but the government sent troops to suppress it, the emerging non-proletarian * rank broke out!

Although the government said that it was sending troops to suppress it, it deliberately delayed and acted slowly, so as to give the people enough time. The hungry proletarians picked up the tools at hand, rushed to the surrounding shops, rushed to the high-walled wealthy, and smashed and looted everywhere.

Unfortunately, food in the city was really limited, and the civil unrest began to spread to the surrounding areas. The news that the Jiangnan official warehouse was empty and there was no grain for disaster relief soon spread to the nearby prefectures and counties. For a time, rumors spread everywhere, civil uprisings were everywhere, and the vicinity of Suzhou Mansion entered a chaos.