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The biggest obstacle to Yang Chao's Northern Expedition was not the slightly tired army, not the economy that had just suffered the baptism of war, but his own family. Fiction ※%,

The family strongly opposed Yang Chao's Northern Expedition, and the soldiers were in danger, so he didn't want to get into danger easily, not only his parents objected, but also several wives and concubines objected, especially the princess Zhu Yujiao, who was five months pregnant, and cried non-stop.

In fact, during this time, Yang Chao has always been in Nanjing, and he has not been to the front line once, because of his family, because his wife is pregnant, he also wants to accompany his wife until childbirth, so whether Azig or Hauge comes to attack, he always sits in Nanjing, and he has not been far from his family for a single step.

But this time it's different, this time Yang Chao must respond in person, he must give the Qing court a heavy blow, in order to make the Qing court honest, in order to really rest at ease, Yang Chao needs time too much, the reform in Jiangnan is only half, the economic reform is half, and the political reform has not yet been carried out.

It will take at least three years, one year of reform, two years of stability, and three years of development, so that there will be enough spare strength to wage a long-term war with the Qing court.

"Princess, listen to me. If you have a reason to stay, I won't leave you. But this time is different, this time no one can go, I have to come forward in person, it must be the army under the banner of Yang Zi to stab the Manchu Qing in the heart, they know that it hurts, only then do they know that they are afraid. ”

Zhu Yujiao wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

"But the child will be born in four months, and you said you want to stay with me."

Yang Chao sighed: "Princess, don't worry, when the child is born, I will definitely be by your side." ”

Zhu Yujiao also knew that Yang Chao had made up her mind. As a wife, it is really difficult to prevent a man from seeking meritorious deeds. Even if a discerning person sees Yang Chao's exploit now, it is to dig the root of their Zhu family's wall. But instead of being poached by others, it is better to give her a man, and let her be a woman, and those political affairs are not her to worry about at all.

So Zhu Yujiao could only nod: "The horse has to be counted when he speaks!" ”

Yang Chao hugged her gently: "It's not a matter of talking for my husband." ”

The princess's face turned red slightly, she was not used to it in broad daylight, but she enjoyed this kind of being held in the arms of a man, and there was his blood in her belly.

"Alright. You have to take care of yourself, and I'll know when I get back! ”

After a long time, Yang Chao let go of Zhu Yujiao. （）

Zhu Yujiao blushed and nodded.

"You have to exercise every day, your body is too weak, if you don't exercise, you will have to suffer when you give birth!"

The patient advice made Zhu Yujiao feel a sense of happiness, this feeling she originally thought that she would not have as a princess, but now she has all this, the first time Zhu Yujiao felt that it seemed that the failure of the Ming Dynasty was for her personally. But it's not too bad.

Leaving Zhu Yujiao, she began to persuade her parents and reason with her parents. Analyzing the situation, his parents are not tough people, especially now that Yang Chao is in a high position, his father even thinks that Yang Chao is fighting the world for the Yang family, and he doesn't want to organize it.

"Son, you have to remember, you must not be in danger, you are now the pillar of this family."

Father told me with a thousand concerns.

"Hey, the heirs are thin."

After speaking, he didn't forget to sigh, what he meant when he made this kind of sigh in the past was that he failed to take a concubine and have more sons, and every time he would be reprimanded by his mother for being unreasonable.

But this time, instead of reproaching, the mother showed a look of shame, as if she was guilty for not adding a few more mouths to the Yang family.

On the same day, the mother discussed with her father and said that she would find him two girls to be concubines, but this time the father himself refused, saying that his grandsons were about to be born, and he was looking forward to the princess adding a boy to the family.

After Yang Chao persuaded his parents, it was time to persuade a few concubines.

Speaking of which, the status of concubines is really low, the pregnant wife is the most unprovoked at this time, and the unreasonable parents can't afford to provoke the second, these concubines, they can still afford to provoke.

"Cry cry, cry what cry! For the husband to go to the battlefield and be loyal to the country, how unlucky it is for you to cry like this! ”

For the concubine, it is natural to put on the shelf of the big master.

In fact, it was Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan who were crying, Dong Xiaowan stared at Yang Chao with sad eyes, Chen Yuanyuan just cried in a low voice, Li Xiangjun didn't cry, just showed a worried look.

"Yes, don't cry. The husband is about to go on the expedition, unlucky! ”

After Dong Xiaowan sobbed a few times, she forcibly stopped crying.

"Then let the slave family serve the uncle well tonight."

Dong Xiaowan said shyly.

Chen Yuanyuan raised his head and said resolutely with a beautiful face at the level of calamity: "The slave family also has to serve the uncle." ”

Li Xiangjun wanted to speak again and again, and he couldn't let go, and he was afraid that he would be tired of Yang Chao.

Yang Chao laughed: "Okay, let's come together!" ”

It's dawning.

Riding a horse, I felt a burst of backache, in the end, it was a concubine in her twenties, and her body was too lacking in cultivation, so that Yang Chao's vitality was greatly injured to satisfy them.

Seeing that Zhao Kang and Sun Changfu were the same, Yang Chao knew that they had played too much last night.

With the cavalry troops first, the cavalry unit led by Zhao Kang is nominally Yang Chao's personal team, so in this unit, everyone has a special feeling for Yang Chao, and the soldiers are extremely enthusiastic about Yang Chao.

The army led by Sun Changfu moved slowly by boat, and the only role of him and Zhao Kang in going south this time was the last long-distance march training, except for consuming thousands of more loads of food, there was no contribution.

When the army passed through Yangzhou and Huai'an, they saw that the two cities had completely recovered, the broken houses had been rebuilt, and the streets had returned to their former prosperity.

Under Yang Chao's new verification system, Huaiyang salt merchants invested in the construction of 18 large salt farms by the sea, plus the government's original salt farms, Jianghuai salt production more than twice as much as in the past, the biggest advantage is that the perennial price of salted fish is far higher than that of fresh fish, the price of fresh fish fell below the price of fresh fish for the first time, and it is estimated that the salted fish produced by fishermen in seaside fishing villages will reach 1 million quintals next year.

The strange thing caused by the monopoly of China's salt industry is that the common people generally feel that the price of salted fish is lower than that of fresh fish, and the price of salted fish has always been high in the past, and ordinary people cannot afford to eat it. It's really because the price of salt is so high that only fishermen's families by the sea can afford it, because they boil their own salt, pickle it themselves, and save it for the winter.

But fishermen can not and dare not make a large number of salted fish, the first is that the cost of boiling salt is high, and it is also a criminal thing, secretly boiling salt for their own use The government will turn a blind eye, if you wantonly make salted fish for sale, it is tantamount to destroying the salt policy of the imperial court.

Now there is a large supply of cheap salt from the salt works of the Huaiyang salt merchants, and these fishermen can be free to make salted fish, men go to the sea to fish, women to pickle at home, the work is several times busier than in the past, but the income is also double that of the past.

As a country with a vast coastline, a large number of seafood gifted by the ocean, in the past, could only be enjoyed by fishermen, which is extremely unreasonable, you must know that the Netherlands, a maritime people, fish and meat provide a huge majority of their protein supply, even Japan's salted fish is also the lowest food, but it has become a high-end commodity in the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is that the government only collects one million taels of silver a year, and at the same time, the relevant officials and salt merchants take most of the benefits, and the price paid is that the whole country has to eat high-priced and low-quality salt.

Now that Yang Chao has passed the reform, a salt ticket and 100,000 taels of silver, salt merchants are qualified to participate in all aspects of salt production and marketing, and the backward business ideas and ambitions of salt merchants that have been restricted for thousands of years, coupled with their wealth and strength, make them all willing to invest desperately in these links.

Salt farms have to be built, salt ships have to be sold, salt shops have to be opened, a large amount of silver buried in the ground has been raised by them, put into the market and turned into currency circulation, and these investments in Huaiyang and Yangfu are absolutely inescapable, as an experimental distribution center, the rapid recovery of the economy of these two places has come from needless to say, and the development rate is extremely fast, if there are modern statistics, the Jedi will not be less than a year and a half of the growth rate.

However, the flow of silver from the salt merchants' cellars into the market does not mean that it will not only promote the development of the two cities of Huaiyang, but also drive a whole economic chain, such as fishermen by the sea, who used to be unable to transport fish to the big cities for long distances because they only ate and supplied the nearby markets for fishing, resulting in their little interest in production.

Now that there is a lot of salt, they can let go of the production of salted fish, and a huge market is suddenly open to them, like a black hole, no matter how much salted fish they produce, the market can digest it, and under the economic effect, fishermen will definitely invest in expanding their boats, building bigger and more fishing boats, and going to sea to fish farther away.

Then the shipbuilding industry grew, and the seafaring talents were trained, and these fishermen could catch fish during the fishing season, and they could also use fishing boats to transport goods during the off-season, and this is how the Dutch developed, and they developed a large herring fishing fleet, and after the fishing season, they drove small boats to traffic goods from northern Europe to southern Europe, and finally the Dutch developed into sea coachmen.

Huaiyang and Yangfu are developed, but to Xuzhou and other areas appear to be depressed, originally by the canal development of the city, due to the north and south of the grain cut off, business travel is also extinct, the market is suddenly light, not to mention the development, Xuzhou and other places are not a few years ago prosperous, the market is deserted, there are ordinary people are closed to go home.

However, compared with the depressed business in Xuzhou City, the population has not decreased, but may be more.

Because at this time, nearly 100,000 troops have gathered here, and they are ready to go and prepare for the Northern Expedition with high morale. (To be continued......)