The new emperor was quite shocked when he learned about this, he did not expect that the officials and landlords in the south would be so disgusted by the exemption from servitude in the world, and he did not hesitate to turn against the imperial court because of this.

"Am I too aggressive, Princess?"

The new emperor couldn't help but ask Wen Tiren and Bi Ziyan and others because of this.

Bi Ziyan resolutely stepped forward at this time and said, "In the humble opinion of the ministers, it is not that Your Majesty is radical, but that Your Majesty happened to encounter such a time. The conflict between the central court and the local gentry is inevitable!"

"Because, the wealth of the world, the people of the world, if they are not in the court, they are in Haoqiang, and the court wants to seize the wealth of the Haoqiang, and the Haoqiang will not be like the people who are at the mercy of the court!"

Wen Tiren also chimed in, saying, "That's the truth. Your Majesty, war is inevitable, and besides, the landed clans in the south have actually been dissatisfied with Uncle Guo for a long time before he left the customs, just because they knew that Uncle Guo would leave after His Majesty's wedding, and endured that there was no war to meet, so they still pinned their hopes on Your Majesty, hoping that Your Majesty would be willing to give them their favor, and thus avoid a fight."

"How can I let that!"

"300,000 guards and millions of tiger soldiers, as well as so many clan lords and bureaucrats in the world, are waiting for me to send money to support them. If they are all let out, what will I use to support the guards, the nobles and ministers of the world, and what money will I take to provide disaster relief?"

The new emperor spoke.

"You can only raise an army to rebel! The world cannot tolerate such a betrayal of the king's will!"

Sun Chuanting, the secretary of the military department, directly put forward his own views at this time.

"Then beg for it!"

The new emperor also gritted his teeth and said, "It's just how to ask for it, how many troops do you need to transfer, and how do you need to fight?"

"Why don't you ask Uncle Guo to come back?"

Wen Tiren asked at this time.

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: "No need, Your Majesty, in the eyes of the ministers, now is the time for Your Majesty to establish his authority."

The new emperor also nodded: "What Lu Qing said is right, there is no need to let my uncle come back for the time being, I have also been taught by him for many years, even if he is not here, I can basically guess what he will do." The current war, to put it bluntly, is caused by the unwillingness of the landlords to give up enslaving their compatriots, and what they say will restrict the free movement of the Han people in the south, and they will go against the imperial court."

At this point, the new emperor said, "And the more unwilling they are to give up enslaving their countrymen, the more our court should elevate the status of all Han Chinese. For example, if ordinary Han employees also have holidays and rest time, they can also discuss politics, and they can also enjoy the same treatment as scholars, such as not kneeling when they see officials, not kneeling when they see me, if they are wronged by the officials, once they are *** Zhaoxue, they can also ask the court to compensate them, if they can have four hours a day for factories and workshops, four hours for themselves, and four hours for sleeping, etc."

"Your Majesty! But the minister thinks that he has to come step by step, because at the moment he is doing this, in order to distinguish himself from the southern rebels, in order to eliminate the southern rebels as quickly and thoroughly, so it is better to give this kind of treatment to the Han people in the name of joining the army, that is, to join the army as a national soldier, that is, all the Han people in the world who are willing to join the army to rebel for the imperial court can obtain official status, can be treated by His Majesty without kneeling, can only be limited to four hours at work and the salary can not be reduced, and protected by the imperial court, and the work workshop shall not be expelled from the Ming Dynasty, once dismissed without reason, It is necessary to compensate the expelled soldier ten times the annual salary! and allow the members of the country to form their own social alliances."

Wen Zhenmeng, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said at this time.

When the new emperor heard this, he agreed with it and asked the Department of Planning to carry it out.

The population of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was not as large as that of the south, but under the stimulus of the new policy of joining the army, that is, the national soldiers, a large number of Han people in the north suddenly actively joined the army, so that within a few months, the number of soldiers and horses of the newly formed rebel army exceeded more than 600,000.

Of course, this is a later story, for the Ming court, soon after the new emperor issued an edict to train national soldiers, it suddenly received an urgent war report that the landlord armed forces in the south had taken the lead in marching north under the leadership of Zuo Liangyu and other generals, and had crossed the river to capture Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, and at the same time divided troops and went down to Henan to Guide Mansion without a fight.

What made the new emperor even more stunned was that not long after, Jiang Xuan, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and Jin Shenghuan of Datong also marched eastward, wanting to enter the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, and had occupied Ningwuguan and Taiyuan.

The new emperor had a headache about this, so he could only let Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting try to hold Gyeonggi as much as possible.

Fortunately, the guards in Gyeonggi were not vegetarians, and they fought fiercely at Bauhinia Pass and in the Xuanfu area, Jiang Jiu, Jin Shenghuan, etc., and finally repelled these two soldiers and horses, making it difficult for them to parry.

At the same time, because there were too many Han people who were willing to join the army on the side of the imperial court, so that the imperial court soon added hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in addition to the guards, and many of them were veterans who were discharged from the army.

As a result, the new emperor soon formed a rebel army of 200,000 and went directly south, and directly defeated the southern rebels at Wuqiao, Dezhou.

Many of the rebels in the south are also retired officers, and their combat effectiveness is actually not weak, and the main reason why they were defeated is that the number of people is insufficient, and the gap between the industrial productivity of the two sides is too large.

The Department of Industry on this side of the north directly provided a large number of firearms, so that every rebel army could be armed to the teeth.

However, many of the firearms of the southern rebels were still in the stock of the local government treasury once placed by the imperial court, and because of the corruption of the local bureaucracy, a large number of them were rusted and rotted, not to mention that they could not be replaced in time.

In addition, the northern side can transport grain to the front line by rail, and the logistical supply capacity is very strong, so that the southern side has just set up camp and is not stable, and it is charged several times.

Zuo Liangyu also kicked over the chair in frustration after retreating to Jinan: "Why did the imperial court have so many more soldiers and horses at once! A scout battalion is the size of a regular barracks in our south! Immediately send a letter to the southern princes, asking them to recruit more brave soldiers, at least another 200,000! Now it's not a shortage of officers, it's a shortage of soldiers, a serious shortage of soldiers! Before the arrival of the new strong man, Ben Shuai will not attack again, and will even retreat back to Germany, so as not to run out of food and grass!"

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"Recruit the brave?"

Feng Xuexian, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, couldn't help but ask after hearing this, and then said quite angrily: "Tell him Zuo Liangyu that he can only recruit tens of thousands at most, and 200,000 brave and 100,000 is impossible!" Unless I no longer plough in the south, the key is not spring ploughing, what can I do to feed so many of them? Because of excessive food and military conscription, there have been rebellions against the people in many places! If we don't let people plough in the spring and let people fight, there will be more rebellions!"

Cheng Kegong also couldn't help but say after Feng Xuexian said at this time: "Originally, I wanted to strike first, and take advantage of the imperial court's failure to react, and defeat the imperial court in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect that the troops were still insufficient!"

"The main reason is that the imperial court is despicable, and he actually engages in the army, that is, the national soldier, in order to make the Han people willing to serve him, the new faint monarch does not hesitate to set the policy of not kneeling when the national soldier sees the king, and even does not have to worry about being innocently fired by the factory owner, etc., so that all Han people want to be a national soldier, want to give him his life, and want to keep the court!"

Feng Xuexian said.

After hearing this, Cheng Kegong said, "Yes, this trick is really vicious!"

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