Half a month later.

Guangzhou.

Of course, the name has now been changed to Chengtian.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is gracious!"

"Your Majesty, the little grandson is only fifteen!"

……

In front of the palace gate, which was originally converted into a yamen, a group of Semu elders wept and knelt there, one by one begging the emperor to be gracious and take back the holy decree of all the Semu men who had been recruited from fifteen to fifteen. Although the Yellow Pavilion elders only asked for 5,000 warriors who could charge with flowering bullets on their backs, plus 30,000 young people, His Majesty the Emperor discussed with the remaining pavilion elders, and for the sake of safety, it was better to recruit as many as possible!

After all, you can't lose this time.

Although they have not yet received the news that Yang Feng has entered Jiayuguan, since Xu Huizu has returned, according to what they knew before, Yang Feng is at most half a month later than Xu Huizu.

They still know a lot about the Western Regions.

After all, the speed of their messaging by sea is actually no slower than that by land.

The land route is at most 500 miles expedited, and it is only possible between some post stations, but the sailing clipper at sea can even run six or seven hundred miles in a day and night when the wind is suitable. At present, the widely used are basically the two-masted schooners built by Yang Feng for the trip to the Americas, the fastest or even more than ten knots, especially the vast majority of the wind can run downward, almost without any restrictions.

Even the average cargo speed can reach five to six knots.

Empty ships are faster.

They are much faster than riding horses on land.

It's just limited by keel wood, and it can't be built too big.

Therefore, Yang Feng quickly killed Timur and then suppressed the Western Regions, and the Guangzhou court knew about it.

Even the news that Yang Feng had finished his rest in Naturalization City and set off to return to the east had been sent to Guangzhou at this time.

And that was more than three months ago.

In other words, it is likely that Yang Feng has also entered Jiayuguan at this time.

Now they have one last chance.

If you can't open the capital this time, you will never have a chance.

Since the people of the color eyes are the best at fighting, then continue to use them, Da Ming can let them stay, it is already the emperor's grace, and now is the time for them to repay His Majesty the emperor. If from fifteen to fifty, all of them are conscripted, you can get together another 50,000 colored soldiers, although the old and the young are small, but fortunately, fighting at this time is not how good martial arts were needed in the past. Those who can ride horses are all flintlocked, anyway, they are just cannon fodder, there is no need to be too good, and now they can be used as cannon fodder for Emperor Jianwen, but they don't even have to be cannon fodder when Yang Feng comes back.

But......

The elders wept.

If this continues, even if the battle is won, at least half of the men will die.

After all, this is just the beginning of hitting the periphery of the capital.

If you really want to open the periphery of the capital, there are still hundreds of thousands of military households waiting inside, that is, it will be filled in with human lives, not to mention that it may not be able to win......

No, it's going to win.

If you don't win, it's really over.

"The Divine Decree has arrived!"

A shout rang out in front of the palace.

Well, this palace doesn't even have a city wall, it is the courtyard wall of the original political envoy Yamen, and then the gate is renamed Chengtian Gate, and the second gate inside is renamed Duanmen, and an additional noon gate is repaired in the back, and the original main hall is renamed Chengtian Palace, and the two sides are expanded outward, and the back is also expanded to make a royal garden......

In fact, it is the former site of the original Nanyue Palace, and the Ming Dynasty's Guangdong political envoy Si Yamen is at the former site of the Nanyue Palace.

Anyway, it's very sloppy.

After all, the palace.

The Guangdong gentry didn't want to spend money, and Jianwen and others didn't want to live permanently.

Those Semu elders looked at the eunuch who appeared in front of the door with tears in their eyes......

"Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and said, you and the others were originally the remnants of the Hu Yuan, all of them were enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and they should have been expelled from the Ming Dynasty and let you go back to your old hometown, but Emperor Taizu Gao was merciful, and you have lived in the Ming Dynasty for several generations, and there is nowhere to go back and forth, so you should wait for the people in the Ming Dynasty. This is the grace of Emperor Taizu Gao to you, you should be loyal to repay, now the traitor steals the capital, filial piety is uneasy, it is the time for you to serve the Ming Dynasty, even if it is your duty to sacrifice your life, how to still look like this?

How clear the wickedness is.

If you can't recover the capital on this trip, then Yang Feng will still have your life?

……”

The eunuch shouted at the top of his voice.

The elders continued to lie there and weep.

They actually know this reason, but the problem is, they can't use our family as cannon fodder!

Not far from them, a few people in a restaurant were watching with interest.

"It's so ruthless, fifteen to fifty, Hua Rong's poisonous plan is to make all their men die!"

Liu An, the shopkeeper of the bank's Guangzhou branch, sighed.

He was invited back by the gentry of Guangzhou, who was originally the shopkeeper of the Guangzhou branch of the bank, but after Jianwen went south, the gentry of Guangdong couldn't wait to expel him, and even robbed the bank, but soon it was really painful to buy northern industrial products with gold and silver......

Otherwise, you will have to use treasure money.

Anyway, the banknotes printed by Jianwen Dynasty are definitely not wanted in the north.

The maritime trade of the gentry in Guangdong was transported to the South Seas by the industrial products of the north.

They have to buy goods from the north.

And what they can sell to the north is the spices of the South Seas, but this is not valuable, after all, there are too many people engaged in this trade, and the sea route is indeed not good, but there are also land routes, Myanmar to Yunnan, Guangxi to Huguang, and even from India to the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Liao king also opened up another route, that is, from Keelung to the east coast to the south and then to the north of Luzon, and then from the east of Luzon to the south, and then trade with the natives on the islands in the east of the South Ocean. The He family's ability is only to control the coast of the South China Sea to Malacca and Java, but there are still places like the Maluku Islands in the southern Philippines, and his family's hand cannot reach out. The King of Liao is on this line, but his real purpose is to leapfrog to Nauru and other guano islands step by step, and he has already been mentioned by Yang Feng, and his current ambition is to control the guano industry.

In the end, because of these competitors, there was actually a serious deficit between Guangdong and the north, but without banks, there would be no treasure money, and without treasure money, they would have to use gold and silver to buy from the north, and the difference between the real value of gold and silver and treasure money was of course clear to the Guangdong gentry.

No matter how strong the treasure money is, it is still paper.

Wastepaper.

In essence, it is a waste paper that is not good to use in the toilet.

Its value is artificially manipulated.

But gold and silver are eternal.

Buying goods from the north with gold and silver certainly can't be done forever, and it's still the most cost-effective thing to buy with treasure money, and you can even use treasure money to buy spices in both Nanyang and Annam......

This is Taizu's treasure banknote.

There is no such thing as a traitor.

So in the end, I had to invite Liu An back, let him open a bank in Guangdong again, and then continue to engage in various financial services such as loans as in the past, so that treasure money appeared again in the Guangdong market, as for the gold and silver they robbed the bank, because no one recognized it, it had to be converted into loan vouchers.

Of course, it was borrowed by the Ministry of Household of the Jianwen Dynasty in the name of Jianwen personally, and all of it had nothing to do with the Guangdong gentry.

"Not only Hua Rong, but the Guangdong gentry also want to kill them, these guys listen to King Guangze, take advantage of this opportunity to all die, even if the attack on the capital fails, King Guangze continues to be in a corner of peace, and completely falls into the hands of the Guangdong gentry. At that time, he had to do whatever he wanted, but Huang Zicheng had already said that if they wanted the gentry not to pay for food, even if they couldn't beat the capital, and when they came back, they didn't have these eagle dogs, and the Guangdong gentry would also let them cash in on the gentry's lack of food.

The gentry did not pay for food.

That is, the peasants pay the taxes, and then all the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are pressed on the peasants' heads.

Farmers went bankrupt.

They had to sell their fields to the gentry, and then they became tenants of the gentry, or they became vagrants, and went to these factories in Canton to work as coolies, and from then on they became destitute with nothing, until they were drained of their blood and sweat in the factories.

In this way, the land gentry in the countryside annexed the land and fields, and the industrial and commercial gentry in the cities got the cheapest coolies, and only the peasants lost everything, which is what Ambassador Yang said about sheep eating people. ”

The new accountant next to him said.

This is a graduate of Wutai Mountain, but he didn't go to the imperial examination.

In fact, among the graduates of Wutai Mountain, the real top performers did not go to the imperial examination, but were signed by the bank and other little princesses' industries early, and it can be said that the backbone of the bank like the accountant has a salary five times that of the county. Of course, the county has a great future, but as long as the princess is still in power, the backbone of these industries has a greater future than the county, after all, the county is an official of the imperial court, and they are employees of the princess's family, which are all real cronies.

"Sheep eat people, but here sugar eats people, cotton eats people, and even hemp eats people."

Liu An looked at the ragged coolies outside.

These are all landless peasants.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang's system was basically destroyed by the gentry in Guangdong, and large-scale land annexation began long ago, it can be said that as soon as Jianwen came, the Guangdong gentry kicked Zhu Yuanzhang's system aside. Moreover, the prosperity of exports made the industrial and commercial gentry around Guangzhou urgently need labor and raw materials, and cotton, hemp, and sugar cane all needed land to grow. Annexation of peasant land, introduction of slaves to grow cash crops, and then expulsion of landless peasants to the factories of the cities.

So that the labor force is there.

Raw materials are available.

As for the grain......

Purchased from Annam, from the north, from Java!

Java has three standard crops a year, Siam is full of paddy fields, not to mention that the grain production in the north increases every year, and it is very cheap, of course, the workers in Guangzhou will definitely not be cheap to buy rice, here they are paid, and then the rice shop is used to take it back, the gentry know how to play, anyway, they don't starve to death, and they can also go to the factory to spin and weave.

Eventually, the city is now full of slums, so to speak.

100,000 landless peasants huddled into small rented houses and even haphazardly built shacks to live without food for a day without work.

As Yang Feng guessed, the gentry who were thoroughly indulged would quickly enter a new role, running into liberal capitalism, and even contract labor was not uncommon, and it was only three years, and they had completed three hundred years of evolution in three years. They have evolved directly from local tyrants and inferior gentry to capitalists, and they are also capitalists dripping with blood and dirty things, in the final analysis, there are many things that do not need to be learned, as long as they are greedy and shameless enough, bold enough or non-binding, it will not take three years at all, and they will be able to learn without a teacher in three days.

"Shopkeeper, Boss Lin is here."

A staff member walked up behind them and said.

Liu An turned his head to look out the door, and a dark and thin middle-aged man was looking at him.

"Lao Lin, how is this business?"

Liu An said with a smile.

"It's going well!"

The latter said and walked in.

The clerk immediately withdrew, and then Lao Lin walked to the window, took out the folding fan inserted in his waist, pulled out the upper end of a large bone, took out the secret letter hidden in it and handed it to Liu An, and then looked at the elders outside who had already cried and left with the accountant.

And the ragged coolies were all there watching and laughing, and the elders walked sadly, one by one like the walking dead.

They still accept the reality after all.

Next, they will have to throw all the men from fifteen to fifty into the battlefield as cannon fodder.

I'm afraid that even if these people win, it's good that they can come back alive a quarter.

At present, more than sixty percent of the soldiers in the imperial camp have died, and those who have been trained for a long time are all real soldiers, and the next ones to go north are all pure cannon fodder, and even the training has to be carried out on the ships going north. Time is already very tight, there is no time for them to train, assemble a batch of ships, load a batch, issue weapons on the ship, learn how to use them on the ship, and then transport them to the capital and directly distribute them to the imperial camp. As for the flowering bullet, now Foshan has almost the largest steel base in the Ming Dynasty, and even the flintlock pistol has been built, not to mention casting some large flowering bullets, thirty pounds apiece, and then hang it with an iron chain on the chest, and the rest is rushing.

This tactic actually works.

After all, now the key is incendiary bombs.

When incendiary bombs ignite them, they also detonate their flowering bombs.

Thirty pounds of flowering bombs.

As soon as this power exploded, all the surrounding feet were blown away.

Even if it is black powder, but the current black powder is not only scientifically proportioned, purified and pure, but also added with white sugar, the power is not weak, and the power of thirty catties of flowering shells has almost caught up with an eighty-two mortar shell.

And then five thousand warriors!

"Look at these coolies, look at this city that is getting more and more prosperous, what do you think?"

The accountant looked at Lao Lin.

"The richer the richer, the poorer the poorer, in the past, there were a few grass houses and a few acres of thin fields, even if you can't eat, you can dig some wild vegetables, pick some wild fruits, catch some fish, now the poor is really abject poverty, there is no tile on the head, there is no inch of soil under the feet, and there is no place to bury it when you die!

But this rich man is really starting to get rich. ”

Lao Lin sighed.

Then he looked at a garden just built by the local gentry in the distance, and among the rockery ponds and marshes, he could see the flowers and green warblers and swallows.

"When I drove Taizu, I had to raid the house like this, and I couldn't find a place that didn't exceed the system."

He said.

"It's over!"

Liu An in the back said suddenly.

Lao Lin and the others turned their heads in amazement......

Lao Lin was only in charge of delivering the letter, and he didn't know the content of the letter.

"Go to Humen to find Huaying, it depends on him whether their family can keep it, let him make all the preparations, and Ambassador Yang will escort the princess to Guangzhou."

Liu An said to Lao Lin.