my days with tyrants

Chapter 286 Entry?

Ma He did not disappoint Yang Feng in the end, he was still loyal to Zhu Di after all.

Of course, he did not openly defect.

On the same day that Han Sheng's raid on Suzhou failed, Ma He's fleet suddenly left Taicang.

Without receiving any order, and without explaining the reason for leaving, this fleet, which is currently the strongest in the Yangtze River and even the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, quietly left Taicang, and then sailed out of the Yangtze River into the sea. Of course, no one knew where it was going, but this move made Taicang, Jinshan and other guards were all in panic.

After all, if they really turn against each other, they may land on any coast at any time...

Ma He is a close friend of King Yan.

And this fleet was built by King Yan himself.

It can be confirmed that the ones in Suzhou City are Ma He and the thousand sailors under him.

Although they are sailors, their actual combat effectiveness is not weaker than that of the Shenji Battalion. In order to ensure that they could use force to solve the resistance of the natives in the event of an accident after arriving in America, this sailor is not only equipped with the latest equipment, but also almost the same as the Shenji Battalion. tactics for training.And Ma He's fleet currently has more than 8000 sailors, and his warships also have powerful artillery on the shore. Once he really attacks the coastal guards, with the current strength of the coastal guards, it is really difficult to guarantee that they will not be captured.So let alone Taicang, Jinshan and other guards dare not move, even the guards along the coast of Zhejiang also dare not move. They are schooners, not only fast, but also hardly care about the wind direction. It takes only a few days to raid Hangzhou from the mouth of the Yangtze River. .

Ma He's move gave Suzhou's Yao Shan the maximum time to form a team for training.

The gentry from Changzhou, Wu County, and even Kunshan, Wujiang, Changshu, and even Changzhou, Songjiang and other places that secretly joined took the opportunity to quickly transport batches of Japanese slaves to Suzhou, and also transported a large number of weapons obtained in various ways, including firearms and ammunition, to Suzhou. .

At this time they are extremely efficient.

After all, the gentlemen are really fighting for their ideals this time.

Not to mention the tax package system alone, it seems that they have returned to the happiest Yuan Dynasty.

After serving the foreign conquerors, they can enslave the people at will. It is said that many of them can even exercise some kind of privilege. This is not only exercised by the gentry in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu in the Qing Dynasty, but also by the gentry in Zhejiang in the Yuan Dynasty. Dry.The inevitability of foreign conquerors, after all, they don't need to care about face, what they want is stable support, so they can maximize the privileges of those gentry over the poor at the bottom.

This is an exchange.

In exchange for the latter, they will search for wealth for them and ensure their enjoyment.

The latter is protected by force, and can search the people as much as they want, without worrying that they will not be able to suppress them when the people rebel, and their masters will take action.

In fact, it is like the earth kings of India.

The nostalgia of the Ming gentry for the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty is no different from the nostalgia for the Great Britain of the Indian kings.

While the gentry in Suzhou was reorganizing the army and waiting to face the imperial crusade, the gentry from all over the country, including Zhejiang, used various methods to hold back the officers and soldiers heading to Suzhou, buying them as much time as possible.

Block the canal.

Destroy bridges.

They even colluded with bandits to burn grain depots.

……

From Zhejiang to Zhili, almost all the gentry and local civil servants tacitly created obstacles for the army to march into Suzhou.

The same goes for civil servants.

They don't necessarily support Zhu Yunqi.

After all, these civil servants are from other places. For example, Yao Shan is actually from Huguang Yingcheng. Their real purpose is to fight against the imperial court. If the Suzhou gentry can succeed, then of course the gentry in their hometown can follow suit.After all, the so-called Zhu Yunqi promised that the gentry everywhere is eager for it. Don't the Fujian gentry like to open up sea trade?

Don't Guangdong gentry like open banking?
Don't Sichuan gentry like to cancel tea?

Don't Zhili gentry like to open up the salt industry?

Everyone likes those, but they don't dare to jump out yet, but they dare to cooperate secretly and cause trouble for the emperor, so not only the local government does this, but even some officials of the court will cooperate secretly.

For example, when deploying military supplies, a small mistake will have a major impact.

There are even local officials and gentry who directly buy the official army in the name of rewarding the army.

Reward the army!
Very reasonable.

But how could so much wine and meat have to delay the generals and soldiers for a long time, right?
In the end, relying on their concerted efforts, Zhu Yunxi sent an army from the Shenji Battalion from the capital, which was also the only army he stayed in the capital. It took fifteen days to reach Suzhou, and the heavy artillery it carried was sunk by the Xicheng Canal. It was blocked and could not be transported in a short time. The leader of this army was Wu Shouan, the younger brother of Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin. He did not wait for the heavy artillery and directly ordered the attack on Suzhou.

As for the outcome of the battle...

"Wu Shouan failed.

His performance of the Shenji Battalion was actually qualified, and he was also very brave. He once rushed up the city wall, but was eventually driven off the city wall. It is said that the Suzhou gentry gathered hundreds of hand grenades, and at the most critical moment, these grenades knocked the Shenji Battalion away. After blowing it back, I have to say that you threw grenades at the beginning, and it is still a disaster to the local people.

Moreover, Wu Shouan's logistics team was attacked by Taihu water bandits, and a batch of ammunition was blown up. The main reason was that the magistrate led people to reward the transport team, and as a result, everyone from the officers to the soldiers drank too much.

Or maybe drugged.

In short, dozens of water bandits completed the attack on the transport convoy of hundreds of people, and then set off dozens of ships of ammunition with fireworks.

Ah, the water bandits still call themselves Zhang Mazi.

And also wearing a nine-tube mask.

As you said, it really feels like the Dutch are rebelling against the King of Spain now.

The emperor was still too young, too impatient. He felt that his grandfather could do whatever he wanted. Since he was the emperor, he should of course do whatever he wanted. You can do whatever you want, but he doesn't have such deterrent power, and the gentry have brought advances in weapon technology because of your appearance, so that the common people can create force against the imperial power in the shortest time.

In the past, the gentry could only tremble in the face of a fierce general of Sapphire's level, but now all they need is to hold a matchlock gun.

Not to mention Sapphire, even Chang Yuchun just pulled the trigger.

The firearm blasted the imperial power away. "

Sister Liu said with a smile.

So the culprit was still Yang Feng.

All kinds of new things he brought, no matter technology or thought, have brought about a real change, but this kind of change must be started by the gentry first.

This is true of any change.

Those ordinary people who are honestly farming and paying taxes in villages and villages cannot stand at the forefront of contact with change, they can only be those educated and well-informed gentry.And Yang Feng's series of tossings also made the deterrence of the imperial power continue to decline. After all, he dared to point a gun at Lao Zhu in public. From that moment on, the gentry's fear of Lao Zhu had actually disappeared.But Lao Zhu's prestige can still be sustained after all. In addition, the rapid expansion of these years has indeed given the gentry a taste of sweetness, and the promotion of various new technologies has also enriched the people, so they don't want to make trouble.

In particular, Lao Zhu has always insisted on not changing the imperial examination.

this point is very important.

This old guy is very cunning, he knows that as long as he is still taking the imperial examination, the gentry will not rebel.

Isn't I the Qing Dynasty?
Lafayette was able to hold on to the corrupt imperial examinations in the late Qing Dynasty until she was about to die. Lafayette was wise. She knew that as long as the imperial examinations were still taken, the gentry would not abandon the Qing Dynasty. She's already getting old.

It's not her fault.

As a result, within a few years of the abolition of the imperial examinations, the Qing Dynasty died.

Lao Zhu was also very clear-headed on this issue, and he was not bewitched by Yang Feng from the beginning to the end. Even if the North and South list made him furious, those Jinshi in the south would not be affected either.

But Zhu Yunxi reformed as soon as he came to the throne.

This really made the gentry intolerable.

"He still doesn't know how to play. Now he directly decrees that all the fields in Suzhou will be divided. Wherever there are gentry rebellions in the future, the fields will be divided. I promise that without him doing it, the people of Suzhou will go and open the city gate."

Yang Feng said.

"That would mean that he rebelled, so you are not afraid that Lan Yu will return to Beijing urgently, and then ask him why His Majesty rebelled?

He is the emperor.

Behind him is Xungui.

If he dared to do this, he would really be cut off from the world. Maybe Wu Shouan would raise his arms in Suzhou and go back to King Jingqing's side. How could their Wu family, a marquis's family, have tens of thousands of acres of land?If the emperor can divide the fields of the gentry, can't he divide their fields?The land equalization system in the Tang Dynasty knew that the land of those aristocratic families could not be touched, and at most it just equalized the unowned wasteland.

The reason why he dared to disdain the gentry was because he had the basic background of honor.

The latter is loyal to him.

But if he dared to divide the land, even Xungui would abandon him. "

Sister Liu said.

This is a fact.

Zhu Yunxi dared not be a gentry, and changed the imperial examination if he wanted to. His fundamental willingness was that the Xungui Group behind him was always loyal to him, and until now, this group is still the strongest political force in Ming Dynasty.

"So, this kind of thing is only dared by me who is not afraid of death. You tell the little princess to pay attention to safety. I always feel that in this situation, something must happen in the capital."

Yang Feng said.

The problem now is that if the rebellion in Suzhou continues, other places will definitely respond, and among the civil servants of the imperial court, there may be the next Qitai.Qi Tai didn't expose himself, but because Yang Feng knew his role in the original history, so he kept staring at him. The little princess also told Zhu Yunxi without catching him.

If not, he might still be Minister of the Ministry of War.

Since he is like this, are there any other civil servants in the court who hide deeper?Will they simply solve the problem fundamentally and kill the emperor directly?This is the simplest and most effective. As long as Zhu Yunxi dies, neither Zhu Di nor Zhu Yunqi will carry out any reforms, even Zhu Di will not. Zhu Di is a copy of Lao Zhu, and he will only continue Lao Zhu's line.

In short, Zhu Yunxi is really in danger now.

but……

"Hurry up and get to work!"

Yang Feng shouted.

The men around him, who looked at him like worshiping gods, hurried to their work.

And their job is to...

"Are you really using glass as a greenhouse to raise rice seedlings?"

Sister Liu said curiously.

"What else? Glass greenhouses are the only thing that can be used in this era. Anyway, the cost is higher, but no matter how high the cost is, it will not be higher than transporting it by sea and land thousands of miles away. Besides, burning glass is not expensive. "

Yang Feng said.

Well, he's doing riceification.

His reclamation area is Wuchang, so I'm sorry for the name if he doesn't produce rice.

Because it is impossible to have plastic greenhouses, we can only build glass greenhouses. Now he is building, and the cost of this thing is not important. After all, he is burning glass by himself, sand is worthless, and coal is mined by himself.Moreover, there is no high-end technology to use cast glass to make glass plates. It is just to get a polished thick steel plate, then pour the glass melt on it, and then use the screw on it to press another polished steel plate to press it out.

Then make a frame out of wood and inlay the glass piece by piece.

The only danger is hail.

But this problem can be solved by adding a movable plank on the top. Once it is going to rain, this layer of plank can be pulled up.

It can also be used to grow vegetables in winter, after all, the temperature inside should not be too low.

It will be frozen and fried.

Anyway, it's just raising seedlings.

One production team will do one to solve the supply of rice. After all, he can't always rely on losing money to support the various armies in Huining. If he wants the Han people here to live in peace, he must let them grow rice here.Although spring wheat and the like can also be grown, but this era is limited by seeds, and the yield cannot be compared with that of rice. A normal one is about one and a half stones, and one may start with four or five stones in this kind of place.In the face of this production gap, the cost is acceptable. The key is that the cost of transportation from the south to Huining is already extremely high.

No matter how high the local production cost is, can it exceed shipping from the South to Maokouwei, and then transporting it overland to the Songhua River, and then transporting it by water?

In terms of cost, one stone in the south only needs Baochao consistent rice, and the real price of transporting it here should be six to seven. However, Yang Feng is not a business at all, and the rice he transports here is supplied by rationing.

No money.

In fact, those reclamation team members would exchange the rice with herdsmen and fishing and hunting tribes.

Eating meat is better than eating rice.

In short, the cost issue is cost-effective anyway.

Glass greenhouses are not disposable, they can be used for decades after maintenance.

That's even lower.

However, only collective farms like him can do this kind of model, not to mention individuals, even those military households in Huining can’t do it. can afford...

"You have this energy and dedication, where is it better than here, and you have to get entangled with this kind of minus thirty degrees?"

Sister Liu said.

"Nonsense, I belong to the science and technology demon town. As long as I can turn this place into a farming area, there will be no rise of those messy forces in the future, and then enter the customs!"

Yang Feng said.

"And then you entered the customs instead?"

Sister Liu said.

"Ha ha!"

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(End of this chapter)