Li Yuyao angrily bombarded Yanjing City, and Jiangnan, who was being attacked by the two rivers, picked up his life.

Gangnam has several meanings.

First, it means south of the Yangtze River, then there are seven provinces in total, Jiangnan Province, Qianzhou Province, Yunnan Province, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, Jiangdong Province, Lingnan Province, and Jinan Province. Along the Yangtze River from west to east are Jiangnan Province and Jiangdong Province, and their south is Qianzhou Province, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and further south is Yunnan Province and Lingnan Province, and further south is Jinan Province. Of course, the Extreme South Province does not exist, it is just a royal fabrication to reflect the authority of the dynasty, just like the Extreme North Province, the Western Desert Province, and the Donghai Province. Therefore, people say that Jiangnan Seven Provinces, which means Jiangnan Six Provinces.

The six provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have a total of 2 billion people, accounting for just half of the population of the Ming Dynasty, but they have no status. The reason is simple, they can't fight.

They can't fight because they're afraid of death. For example, when the northern province was fighting, nine-tenths of the people in the province died and they had to continue fighting until the last person was killed, while the southern province quickly surrendered as soon as a few people died.

Since you have surrendered, you have to spend money to buy protection, so most of the taxes of the Ming Dynasty are from the south. No way, who made the South cowardly and rich. Do you think, the north starts over every few decades, and the south can live in straw huts for hundreds of years, can they not have money?

Second, Jiangnan means Jiangnan Province.

Jiangnan Province has a population of more than 200 million, the provincial capital of Xiangyang City, as well as Jingzhou, Yizhou, Xiangzhou, Ezhou four counties, more than 300 counties. Jiangnan Province is actually quite rich, you can see it by looking at the Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain. The line of one of them is the head of a hundred Shaolin monks, but it is useless, the Wudang faction is still Shaolin extinction.

There is a scholar family in Jiangnan Province who was selected as the twelfth family of Tianzihao, and that is the Jiangnan Cui family.

The current head of the family is Cui Weichao, who is also the governor of Jiangnan Province. He was selected not because of how powerful he was, but because he was too rich.

However, it was still useless, when the Central Plains Army invaded, he sent his younger brother Cui Weifu to spend a lot of money to operate in Gyeonggi, but those military leaders still did not send troops after taking the money. Cui Weichao, the head of the Cui family in Jiangnan, had no choice but to pack up and prepare to flee to Yunnan Province.

When the news broke, all the big families were ready to run away. There are more than 200 million people in Jiangnan Province, and there are only more than 1 million royal troops, and they are pampered all day long, and they have no combat effectiveness at all. And those big families would rather raise maids than dogs, so Jiangnan Province has no soldiers at all. The only Wudang faction that could have a war was actually plotted by Shaolin monks.

It seems that the fall of Jiangnan Province is certain.

But when the news of the bombing of Yanjing came, the Shaolin Army and the Central Plains Army, which had already set up camp on the south bank of the Yangtze River, began to pull out their camps and move north.

The two giants of Gyeonggi who had been preparing with the money before - Li Guozhong, the prime minister and the head of the Li family in Longxi, and Yang Mingyang, the minister of survival, the minister of law, and the son of the Yang family of Hongnong, were also suddenly ready at this time, and immediately sent troops into Jiangnan Province to beat the Central Plains army that was evacuating.

Now, the Central Plains Army has indeed withdrawn, and the Gyeonggi Army is here again! Jiangnan Province is responsible for the food and clothing of hundreds of thousands of troops, so Cui Weichao has no choice at all.

He continued to spend money on activities in the imperial court, wanting them to withdraw their troops, but it was still the same sentence - there was no way at all.

Cui Weichao was furious, and he finally turned to the Jiangnan Party for help.

Third, Jiangnan means Jiangnan Party.

Although the laws of the Ming Dynasty have always strictly forbidden party strife, stipulating that all scholars and commoners are only allowed to listen to the emperor and the imperial court, however, what is forbidden by the imperial court indicates what is most fashionable, such as: party strife.

The Jiangnan Party is the largest party in the imperial court, quite simply, it represents 2 billion people, and the Ming Dynasty is only 4 billion (of course, tens of millions have died in recent years). Although the biggest is not necessarily the strongest, at least people are very loud. When there was no major event at the court meeting, these Jiangnan parties were noisy and shouting at the court meeting all day long, showing the appearance of the largest party in the world.

There are very many small and medium-sized scholars in the provinces of Jiangnan, after all, Jiangnan has not experienced a war like the apocalypse. Among the many scholars, there are three that are the largest - the Jiangnan Cui clan, the Jiangdong Lu clan, and the Lingnan Lin clan.

Jiangnan Cui's has already been introduced, and he is the first to be wronged.

Jiangdong Lu's family sits in Jinling, Nanjing, and is simply a tyrant of the Ming Dynasty. The head of the family is Lu Yuanzhou, the leader of the Jiangnan Party. The leaders of the Jiangnan Party are different from other parties, probably because they have no fighting capacity. When they elected the party leader, the big and small scholars sent representatives to meet and then elected the party leader by secret ballot. This is simply laughing to death, which of the other party leaders does not speak with their fists, and which does not rely on their sons to speak.

The Lingnan Lin clan is even more terrifying.

Although Lin Jiaxiang, the former head of the Lingnan Lin family, was placed under house arrest by the imperial court, his younger brother Lin Jiaxi became the new head of the Lingnan Lin family. Lingnan has a population of 600 million, and its wealth is even richest in the world.

In fact, when I listened to the idlers chatting in Luobei County, they said: "Lingnan is so powerful, why don't you kill Chang'an and become the emperor?" ”

And now, the idlers in Xi'an County are talking about: "Lingnan has rebelled, but why don't you call yourself king or emperor?" Why didn't they enter Chang'an and become emperors? ”

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On October 20, the fourth year of Daming Honghua, the palace Mingde Palace, the court meeting.

The ministers were full of joy.

Lianghe is now clearly on the defensive, and they have begun to build the Great Wall on the border between the Central Plains and Hebei.

Jin Yuguang, head of the household department: "Your Majesty, with the help of the Holy Land, the suppression of the rebellion in the two rivers is just around the corner." ”

Confucian sect leader Kong Youli: "Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, sons! Now is the time to go all out, eliminate the traitors, dominate the world, and wait from the beginning, facing the sky! ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong: "I am willing to lead the Royal Army to attack Lianghe again, even if I can't conquer the Zhao family's lair, I will definitely be able to recover the Central Plains!" ”

Yang Mingyang, Minister of Survival and Minister of Law, also stepped forward: "Your Majesty, I am also willing to lead the government army to help the prime minister." ”

Jin Yuguang sneered at the two of them: "The royal law clearly stipulates that the royal army prohibits the noble clan from serving as the commander, and the commander of the imperial army is either the royal family or the inner court. Prime Minister, what do you mean by being a foreign dynasty and a scholar clan commanding the emperor's army? Do you also learn from your predecessor to engage in rebellion? Minister Yang, as the minister of the Ministry of Law, you don't even know this, I doubt your ability! Let me be the Minister of the Law and teach you how to enforce the law. Ha ha! ”

Li Guozhong and Yang Mingyang's faces changed in shock, glaring at Jin Yuguang angrily, but they couldn't say anything.

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Lu Yuanzhou, the leader of the Jiangnan Party, stepped forward: "Your Majesty, the Wudang faction is loyal to the country and full of heroes." I ask Your Majesty to crown Wudang as the 'Royal Wudang Faction', and ask for the inscription, and then rebuild Wudang! ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong pouted: "A group of waste, who still claims to be the first in the world, and are also 'full of heroes', are they 'beheaded all over the house'." ”

Emperor Zhu Honghua nodded: "Shaolin rebelled, colluded with Zhao Zhengbao, and used the crooked evil way of poisoning, so Wudang is still the first in the world." ”

Lu Yuanzhou continued: "Thank you, Lord Longen. There is another thing, the Longxi Mansion Army and the Hongnong Mansion Army helped the Central Plains Army when it invaded Jiangnan, and Jiangnan thanked them. But now that the Central Plains Army has run away, the government army can now go back. ”

He stared at Li Guozhong and Yang Mingyang.

No one spoke.

The hall was quiet for a while, and everyone was playing dumb.

Lu Yuanzhou walked in front of the two people and said to them: "Let's bring the government army back, the Central Plains army no longer has the strength and intention to attack Jiangnan." ”

Li Guozhong said: "Who said no? Zhao Zhengbao is that madman, who knows what he wants to do! The government army stayed in Jiangnan to protect them! What is that sentence called, oh, by the way, 'The dog bites Lu Dongbin, and he doesn't know the hearts of good people'. ”

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, stepped forward and said to the three of them: "The forbidden navy has gone west to the Yangtze River, and I have already told them to bombard the Central Plains rebels on the south bank of the Yangtze River. But I forgot to tell them that the Central Plains rebels had fled, and it was the Gyeonggi army that was staying there. Hey, what a headache. ”

Li Guozhong's eyelids blinked, and he said to Liu Xingchao: "The forbidden navy is not staying in the sea, what are you doing in the Yangtze River?" ”

Liu Xingchao said: "Of course, it is to fight the two river armies on the Yangtze River, do you think that the inner court is grabbing territory like you all day long." You'd better withdraw quickly, you won't be able to withdraw if it's too late. ”

Li Guozhong glanced at Liu Xingchao, then at Yang Mingyang, and said: "This time to send troops to Jiangnan, it costs a lot, who will pay for this?" ”

Cui Weifu, the younger brother of the head of the Jiangnan Cui family, who was watching anxiously from the side, hurriedly stepped forward, nodded and said, "This money, Jiangnan Cui's family." ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong touched his chin and beard with his hand, his eyes looked at the ceiling, his eyes rolled, and finally said, "Hmm." 4,000,000 gold dollars. ”

Cui Weifu immediately said: "Okay." ”

Li Guozhong immediately added: "Don't want paper gold dollars, ask for gold coins." ”

Cui Weifu immediately said: "Okay." ”

Yang Mingyang next to him: "Everyone." ”

Cui Weifu: "Okay. ”

Li Guozhong: "Every month." Well, two months in total. ”

Cui Weifu: "Okay. ”

Li Guozhong stared at him for a long time and said, "Okay, this time it's over, but when the Central Plains Army fights you again in the future, don't come to beg me." ”

Cui Weifu nodded and said, "Okay." ”