The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army soon recovered Zhangde Mansion after recovering Weihui Mansion in Henan.

After recovering Shunqing Mansion in Henan, the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards moved westward into Shanxi and moved in the direction of Lucheng, Shanxi.

At this point, the entire territory of Henan was included in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty officially recovered the three provinces of Henan!

The news that the Ming Dynasty had successively recovered the entire territory of Sichuan and Henan was also quickly transmitted back to Nanjing, and the current Ming scholars were particularly sensitive to military news.

Because every time the news of a military victory is transmitted back to the city of Nanjing, the "Northern Expedition Ticket" will continue to increase in value significantly, and those who hold the "Northern Expedition Ticket" will have more and more wealth.

Based on this, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Central Bank of Daming will also jointly print more negotiable securities, namely "Northern Expedition Coupons", for sale, so that the military expenditure of the entire Northern Expedition will be paid by the people of the whole country.

It can be said that the Northern Expedition has now become a war in which the whole people participate.

No one doesn't want this war to be lost.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty could exchange an ordinary paper coupon for a wealth worth hundreds of silver dollars, but the reason why the people were willing to buy this ordinary paper coupon was because the real income they could obtain came from the income obtained during the Northern Expedition.

The land, money, human resources, and other revenues obtained by the Guards during the Northern Expedition were distributed to the people of the country in the form of Northern Expedition tickets.

This made the people of the whole country the biggest winners in this war.

Of course, these wealth are controlled by the central court, that is, the household department, which means that the use of this wealth is in the hands of the central court of the Ming Dynasty, but the central court of the Ming Dynasty has to share all the profits obtained in the process of controlling this property to the people of the Ming Empire.

From a certain point of view, the Ming Empire was similar to a company at this time, and those who held the "Northern Expedition" became shareholders of the empire, and the imperial court was just a board of directors that exercised management power on behalf of the shareholders' meeting.

Whether it was a civil servant, a military general, a merchant, or a handicraftsman, as long as there was surplus capital, they all began to invest a large amount of wealth in the empire by buying "Northern Expedition tickets".

If the imperial court fails to operate and there are unfavorable situations such as corruption, war loss, and major natural disasters, it will lead to a decrease in everyone's wealth.

It can be described as both prosperity and loss.

Now the Northern Expedition is the same, after the Hubu Shangshu Qu Shiyun issued the "Northern Expedition Coupon" in accordance with the instructions of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, he tied the interests of civil officials, gentry, military generals, merchants, scholars and other people to the chariot of the Northern Expedition, as long as the Northern Expedition was more thorough and smooth, the greater their benefits.

This is also the reason why the Guards used the name of punishing Han thieves to attack the northern gentry on a large scale during the Northern Expedition, and the gentry class in the south, that is, in the Ming Dynasty, has not had much opposition.

Because he has no way to object, the harder he hits the northern gentry, the greater the benefits they have obtained at present, and some officials who want to make the news of the Northern Expedition more vigorous and make the Northern Expedition tickets they hold more valuable directly suggest that every time they recover a city, they should slaughter the city for three days to achieve justice!

No one would have thought that in today's Ming Dynasty, there would be officials who would make such suggestions, because they would oppose war before.

Of course, there are also people who understand it clearly, and the consequence of this will be that the power of the gentry class will be greatly weakened, they will no longer be able to control the imperial court, and they will even be dismissed in the future, but these people cannot stop the madness of the whole people in the pursuit of increasing wealth.

In this, Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, is a person who understands.

When he learned that his brother had bought half of his savings for the Northern Expedition and that his housekeeper's nephew had taken most of the savings behind his back to buy the Northern Expedition tickets, he realized that his wealth had been controlled by the imperial court.

In the future, he will move him as much as the court wants, and he can only maximize the interests of the court as much as possible, otherwise his family will suffer huge losses.

Gao Hongtu was particularly depressed about this, in the past, the interests of the official gentry class like himself were not controlled by the imperial court, but now they are controlled by the imperial court, all of which are the pot of the household department Shangshu Qu Shiyun and Ruan Dayue, who first proposed this way of raising money, so Gao Hongtu now hates these two people very much, and can't help but write in his private notes:

"Today, everyone forgets righteousness in pursuit of profit, and does not think about the road to the future, all because of the collection of (Ruan Dayue character collection), Qitian (Qu style 耜字起田) is also, woo hoo lament, people's hearts are not ancient, the world is declining, all to talk about money as the right reason!"

But only people like Gao Hongtu lamented weakly.

And they themselves can't stop the general trend of the world, on the one hand, they criticize this phenomenon with the rhetoric that the gentleman is ashamed of their words and profits, and on the other hand, they let their families buy Northern Expedition coupons on a large scale, and even accept bribes in private, and they are not willing to accept silver dollars, which only want to collect Northern Expedition coupons that maintain their value and appreciate, after all, silver dollars are depreciating because of the rise in prices.

And the Northern Expedition was still going on smoothly, and they were like an army at the service of the capitalists of the entire empire, actively expanding the results of the war as much as possible according to the needs of the imperial interests.

The First Army of the Guards Army advanced step by step in Beizhili, uprooting the interests occupied by the northern gentry, the Seventh Army of the Guards Army had moved north to Shaanxi to prepare to acquire land and population in the northwest, and the Third Army of the Guards Army had also entered Shanxi and Beizhili respectively.

And now, the First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards Army has also left Xiangfan, crossed the Tangzi Mountain along the Baihe River, and entered the Nanyang Basin.

The Nanyang Basin is located in the south of the Qinling Mountains, which is the main grain producing area in Henan.

At this time, the Tiger Prison Pass was in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Zilharang also attached great importance to it, dispatching 3,000 Manchurian crossbowmen with red flags and 10,000 Han Army Red Banner Firearms Battalion and Infantry and 20,000 Green Battalions, and the veteran second-class boyden was responsible for guarding the Tiger Prison Pass.

Now the generals of the Manchu Qing Qingzhuang faction have long been lost in the two wars of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen and the twentieth year of Chongzhen, and in the end, they can only be guarded by these old men who are already about to become old.

And Yierden is one of them, the Manchu Zheng prince Zierharang still has high hopes for Yierden, after all, Yierden is also a famous Manchu general, and Zierharang also hopes that he can stop the Ming army in the Tiger Pass.

Yilden himself also knew how important the Tiger Prison Pass was to his Qing state, he had led the Manchurian iron cavalry to fight many battles in his early years, and he had also fought against the Ming army many times, and knew how to defend against firearms and cavalry.

These days, he personally led the Qing army in the entire Tiger Prison Pass to dig many traps in this area, waiting for the First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards to drill.

The First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards Army was led by Huang Degong himself, and Huang Degong was also a veteran of many years of war, and he had rich experience in actual combat, and he had always been very cautious, so as soon as he entered the vicinity of Tiger Prison Pass, he also began to be more cautious.

(End of chapter)