"Our army uses the art of war in the Central Plains, and Henan will be conquered in a few days!"

The entire page of Jiangnan Daily immediately published this sensational news shortly after Yang Chao's departure.

In an instant, the whole Jiangnan was a sensation, and then the whole world was a sensation.

Although Henan was a battlefield between the Ming army and the peasant army from the beginning, if it is said that after the season, the worst is Sichuan, then the second worst must be Henan, Sichuan was killed nine-tenths, and Henan was at least eight-tenths.

But this province is of great significance, and as a southern soldier, it seems that the Northern Expedition will always be unjustified if it does not fight the Central Plains.

At that time, the Northern Expedition in the mouths of Lu You, Xin Qiji, and Yue Fei all referred to the Central Plains of Henan.

The Hou family in Jiaxing gathered a large group of scribes, both old and young, all attracted by this news.

"Seniors, brothers, I am determined to go to the Central Plains to watch the troops!"

After the eager discussion, Gu Yanwu immediately said excitedly that he had already commented in the newspaper that Jiangnan soldiers were already capable of recovering Beijing, and criticized Yang Chao's conservatism in using troops several times.

"Brother Gu waits for a while, and I am willing to go."

"I'm going to make a wish."

"I'm going to make a wish."

Soon, a large group of young scholars said that they were also willing to go to Henan to watch the army together.

Guangdong, Zhaoqing, small court.

Li Ruyue was furious with a base of newspapers in her hand.

"This is the Jiangnan Tang newspaper collected by the minister, Yang thief scavenged in Jiangnan excessively, with half the world of Jiangnan, poor 20 million taels of silver, 10 million tons of grain, the people are poor, and the people are not happy."

"This thief not only took taxes, but also issued paper copies indiscriminately, and the people of Jiangnan had no silver in their hands, so they had no choice but to use paper to copy. and with bonds. forced the people to borrow, and it was as much as 30 million taels a year. ”

"Weichen implores His Majesty to send troops quickly and recover Jiangnan, one minute late. If the people are injured, one moment later, the people will be embarrassed. ”

"If this thief is not punished, heaven will not tolerate it!"

After Li Ruyue finished speaking, she grabbed her head on the ground and cried bitterly.

The newspaper in his hand. Yang Chao sent out to inform the people of Jiangnan, how much tax was collected, how much tax was used, how to use it, and the money inspection believed that the use of the tax was publicized, which belonged to the government's right to know the people's travel, as long as the people knew that the taxes they paid were used where they should be used, and they were used, the resistance to paying taxes would be reduced.

At the same time, it is also cultivating people's sense of social contract. Let them slowly feel that the government is not the institution that rules them. It is an organization that protects them, a public welfare organization with which they have a natural contractual relationship, not a gang that is imposed on them.

It is not surprising that Rousseau's "Theory of Social Contract" will not appear until a hundred years later, when the West is still in the transition period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and Rousseau is a figure who will be born when the Enlightenment develops to a mature period.

However, Yang Chao believes that as long as he insists on doing so. After three and a half years, there will always be intelligent literati in the world who will understand the social contract relationship, and only the common people will truly accept the social contract relationship, and the government will also recognize this relationship. And with this way the government was formed, and the society really entered the modern society.

It's just that Li Ruyue obviously can't realize this kind of goods, and he even ignores the use of taxes and silver announced above, so he grabbed Yang Chao for collecting too many taxes and saying things, to be honest, although heavy taxes are not a good thing, but the government that can't collect taxes is completely unqualified government. It's a kind of government that manages out of control.

Compared with 20 million taels of tax silver, it is not a matter at all for a huge country like the Ming Dynasty, even for a place in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not a thing, you must know that the British in this era received a tax of 22 million taels of silver, and the British only have a population of five or six million, the area is not as large as Suzhou, and the economy is far less developed than Suzhou, but the economy not only did not collapse, but developed rapidly, until it became an empire on which the sun never sets.

It can be seen that the tax potential of the Ming Dynasty is far from being explored, Yang Chao predicts that if the Ming Dynasty collects taxes in the Western way, it will probably be able to receive 200 million to 300 million tax silver, but the Ming Dynasty in most of the time, the tax is less than one-tenth of the times.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Without waiting for the little emperor to reply to Li Ruyue, suddenly a eunuch staggered in, this person is called Pang Tianshou, from Beijing to Guangdong, at first he was just a small eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, but after following him to Guangdong, his status naturally increased, after all, he was the only one who could follow the emperor all the time, and the other eunuchs were just eunuchs of the local palace, and they were not as old as him, so after running to Guangdong, he finally got to the position of the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi.

"Pang Aiqing, what's the alarm?"

The little emperor is embarrassed by Li Ruyue, where does he have the strength to send troops to Jiangnan, but this Li Ruyue is now very famous with targeting Yang Chao again and again, and all the clear streams are gathered around him, as if he is the leader of the officials, if he doesn't deal with it well, it will cause a lot of criticism from the officials.

At this time, Pang Tianshou came, and he was relieved, although Pang Tianshou's expression did not seem to be good news.

"But the Catholic Church won't send reinforcements?"

Pang Tianshou was baptized by the Portuguese in Macau and became a Catholic, so he came up with an idea to borrow troops from the powerful Catholic pope in the Portuguese population, and Pang Tianshou was busy with this matter during this time.

Pang Tianshou panted and walked to the emperor's side: "Your Majesty, the newly sent Tang newspaper from Jiangnan, Zhongyibo, has made a Northern Expedition to the Central Plains." ”

After gasping for breath and finishing his words, the court suddenly became cold, and even Li Ruyue raised her head, a little dumbfounded.

But Li Ruyue reacted immediately, jumped up directly, and went straight to the emperor, startling the little emperor.

"Your Majesty, if you hesitate any longer, the general trend has gone!"

Li Ruyue looked like a mad tiger, ran to the front of Que, and shouted: "Yang thief wants to follow the constant temperature of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuye!" Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone! ”

After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty favored the south of the Yangtze River, and the Song Dynasty of later generations, the scholars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also had a complex of the Northern Expedition, so they had the right to propose the Northern Expedition again and again, and once the Northern Expedition was successful, it would gain super prestige, the leader was Liu Yu, Liu Yu's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, not only laid down Luoyang, but also laid down Chang'an, with the huge prestige of the two capitals, returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and took the position of the emperor, known as the Southern Song Dynasty, opened the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Hengwen was a powerful minister before Liu Yu, and he also held a heavy army, and defeated the nomadic regime in the north many times, but it was a pity that his northern expedition was not successful, and he died before he had time to usurp the throne.

Li Ruyue compared Yang Chao to constant temperature and Liu Yu, which really made the little emperor very frightened, and his face suddenly turned pale.

"Your Majesty, will you send troops?"

In fact, the little emperor also hated Yang Chao deeply, not how sorry Yang Chao was for him, just because Yang Chao could collect tens of millions of taels of silver in taxes, but he didn't hand over any of them to him, which was enough for him to hate.

"Li Aiqing, I also want to send troops, but where do the soldiers come from?"

Zhu Cihuan sighed and said, he only has about 10,000 people in his hands, and they are all members, where can he fight.

Wang Deren and Jin Shenghuan, who nominally submitted to him, are warlords who are more warlords than Yang Chao, one occupies Guangdong, the other occupies Fujian, and the two of them scrape the ground in the territory.

Li Ruyue couldn't help but be overjoyed when she heard that the emperor had finally loosened up and revealed her intention to send troops.

"Weichen has a Yi, Changguo Gong Jin Shenghuan, Guangchang Hou is loyal, as long as His Majesty orders the two of them to go north, the minister is willing to be the superintendent, Changguo Gong goes north to Zhejiang, Guangchang Hou enters Jiangxi, Yang thief sends troops to Henan, Jiangnan must be empty, and the minister guarantees that Jiangnan can be recovered in one go."

Li Ruyue agitated.

The little emperor couldn't help but get excited in his heart, Li Ruyue's analysis was very good, Yang Chao sent troops to fight against the Manchus, wouldn't it be a great opportunity.

But the little emperor didn't know that a literati like Li Ruyue would not do a prior investigation, everything was based on speculation, and it might be useful if he guessed correctly, but it was indeed too unreliable for military operations such as using troops to fight.

"Okay, I'll be allowed to play by Li Qing. Feng Li Qing is Wen Zhongbo, supervising the vast army of Fujian, and immediately the Northern Expedition! ”

Li Ruyue was overjoyed, and kowtowed to the ground again, but refused: "The ministers are loyal to the country, not for high-ranking officials, but to serve the court, I dare not think about it, and ask Your Majesty to take back the reward of Wen Zhongbo!" ”

Zhu Cihuan immediately stood up excitedly, pointed to the minister of the court and said, "This, this is the important minister, my loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty." However, God does not bless me Daming, but such a loyal minister cannot be used well. ”

At this time, the other ministers hurriedly followed the emperor's words and said: "My emperor's life is assisted by his own virtuous ministers, and the ministers congratulate His Majesty!" ”

Li Ruyue set off on the second question, took the emperor's holy decree, and looted in Zhaoqing to get a thousand taels of gold and silver and rushed to Nanxiong, where is Wang Deren's military camp.

Guide to the province.

The strength of the Qing army stationed in Guide has been maintained at about 30,000, which is only less than the Qing army in Beizhili, because it is also facing the threat of Yang Chao, so it has to send troops to deploy.

It's just that the Qing army in Guide is obviously not as good as Beizhili, there are only 1,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners here, and the rest are all local green battalion soldiers, but they are also elite, and they are screened out from the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, thieves and the rest of the Dashun army who surrendered, and the leaders are all Eight Banner generals.

"Battle-free card?"

In Yang Chao's sight, there was the Qing army city wall ten miles away, and a big sign was hung high on it, on which the word "Exemption from War" was written.

Of course, Yang Chao's eyesight is not so good, the reason why he can see it is because there is a monocular, the Dutch sent a thousand telescopes last year, for which Yang Chao paid hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"This is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?"

Putting away the monoculars, Yang Chao sighed.

"Give Li Wuliu a flag message, since the other party does not dare to fight in the field, then attack it. It's a pity that the governor still wants to see Li Wuliu's new formation. (To be continued.) )