my days with tyrants

half a month later.

Guangzhou.

Of course, it has now been renamed Chengtian.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please have mercy!"

"Your Majesty, my grandson is only fifteen!"

……

In front of the palace gate that had been transformed from the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, a group of lust-eyed elders were crying and kneeling there, each one wailing and begging the emperor to show mercy and withdraw the previous imperial edict to recruit all lust-eyed men from fifteen to fifty.Although Huang Ge's memorial only asked for five thousand warriors who could charge with explosive bullets, plus an additional [-] young men, His Majesty the Emperor discussed with the remaining Ge elders and decided to recruit as many as possible for the sake of safety. Bar!

After all, we can’t lose this time.

Although they have not yet received news that Yang Feng has entered Jiayuguan, now that Xu Huizu has returned, based on what they knew before, Yang Feng is at most half a month behind Xu Huizu.

They still know the Western Regions very well.

After all, their message transmission speed by sea route is actually no slower than that by land route.

The land route can be expedited at most five hundred miles, and it is still only possible between some stations. However, if the wind direction is suitable, a sailing ship at sea can even cover six to seven hundred miles in a day and night.The ones currently widely used are basically the two-masted schooners that Yang Feng originally built for his trip to the Americas. They are even faster than ten knots and can run in most winds with almost no restrictions.

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

An empty boat is faster.

They are much faster than riding horses on land.

It's just that due to the limitations of the keel wood, it can't be made too big.

Therefore, the Guangzhou court knew that Yang Feng quickly angered Timur to death and then suppressed the Western Regions.

Even the news that Yang Feng had finished his rest in Guihua City and set off to return eastward had been sent to Guangzhou by this time.

And that was more than three months ago.

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

Now they have one last chance.

If we cannot open the capital this time, we will never have a chance.

Since the Semu people are the best at fighting, let's continue to use them. The Ming Dynasty allowed them to stay, which is already a great favor from the emperor. Now it's time for them to repay His Majesty the Emperor.If we recruit all the soldiers from fifteen to fifty, we can gather another fifty thousand soldiers with colored eyes. Although the old and the young are small, fortunately, fighting at this time does not require as much martial arts as in the past. It only takes a few days to learn to load and fire.Anyone who can ride a horse is issued a flintlock short musket. It is just cannon fodder anyway. It does not have to be of high quality. Now it can be used as cannon fodder for Emperor Jianwen. When Yang Feng comes back, they will not even be able to use it as cannon fodder.

but……

The elders cried.

If this continues, even if they win, Semuren will still kill at least half of his men.

After all, this is just the beginning of the attack on the outskirts of the capital.

If we really want to open the outer reaches of the capital, there will still be hundreds of thousands of military households waiting inside. It will be filled with human lives, not to mention that we may not be able to win...

No, you will definitely win.

If you don’t win, it’s really over.

"The decree has arrived!"

A shout rang out in front of the palace gate.

Well, this palace doesn’t even have a city wall. It was the courtyard wall of the Chief Envoy Si Yamen. Then the gate was renamed Chengtian Gate, the two inner gates were renamed Duanmen, and an additional Meridian Gate was built at the back. The original main hall was renamed Chengtian Hall. Expand it outwards, and expand it later to create a royal garden...

In fact, it was the original site of the Nanyue Palace. Si Yamen, the chief envoy of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty, was located at the former site of the Nanyue Palace.

All in all, very sloppy.

After all, it is a palace.

The Guangdong gentry did not want to spend money, and Jianwen and others did not want to live there permanently.

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

"According to the imperial edict of Emperor Chengyun, you are originally the remnants of the Hu Yuan Dynasty, and you are all enemies of the Ming Dynasty. You should have been expelled from the Ming Dynasty and allowed to return to your old hometowns. However, Emperor Taizu Gao was merciful and wanted you to live in the Ming Dynasty. For several generations, even if I wanted to go back and forth, I had no place to stay, so I gave you the gift of living in the Ming Dynasty. This is the grace of Emperor Taizu Gao to you, and you should repay your loyalty with all your loyalty. Now that the rebels have taken over the capital, Xiaoling Mausoleum is uneasy. When you serve the Ming Dynasty, even if it is your duty to sacrifice your life, how can you still behave like this?
You know exactly what kind of person that monster is.

If we can't regain the capital with this trip, will you still survive if Yang Feng calls us?
......"

The eunuch shouted at the top of his voice.

The elders continued to lie there crying.

They actually know this, but the problem is, they can't use our family as cannon fodder!
Not far from them, several people in a restaurant were watching with interest.

"How cruel, fifteen to fifty, Hua Rong's vicious plan is to kill all their men!"

Liu An, the manager of the Guangzhou branch of the bank, sighed with emotion.

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

Otherwise, you have to use treasure money.

Anyway, the north definitely doesn’t want the banknotes printed by the Jianwen Dynasty.

The maritime trade of the Guangdong gentry was to transport industrial products from the north to Southeast Asia.

They have to buy goods from the north.

What they can sell to the north is spices from Southeast Asia, but these are not valuable. After all, there are too many people engaged in this trade. The sea route is indeed not possible, but there are also land routes, from Myanmar to Yunnan, Guangxi to Huguang, and even from India. Ming Dynasty.The King of Liao actually opened up another route, which was to go south from Keelung along the east coast and then to northern Luzon, then go south from the ocean east of Luzon, and then trade with the natives on the islands in the eastern part of Nanyang.The He family's ability is only to control the coast of the South China Sea to Malacca and Java. However, the southern part of the Philippines and the Maluku Islands are still beyond the reach of their hands.The King of Liao is on this line, but his real purpose is to step by step towards Nauru and other guano islands. Having received advice from Yang Feng, 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 banknotes. Without treasure banknotes, gold and silver would have to be bought from the north. The real value of gold, silver and treasure banknotes is Of course the Guangdong gentry knew the difference.

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

waste paper.

Essentially, it's just useless paper that's hard to use in the toilet.

Its currency value is artificially manipulated.

But gold and silver are eternal.

You definitely can’t use gold and silver to buy goods from the north forever. It’s most cost-effective to use treasure banknotes to purchase goods. You can even use treasure banknotes to purchase spices in Nanyang and Annan...

This is Taizu's treasure note.There is no such thing as loyalty.

So in the end, I had to invite Liu An back, let him open a bank in Guangdong again, and then continue to provide various financial services such as lending as in the past, so that treasure banknotes would appear on the Guangdong market again. As for the gold and silver they robbed the bank, this Since no one recognized it, they had to convert it into a loan note.

Of course, it was borrowed by Jianwen from the Ministry of Household Affairs in Jianwen's personal name and had nothing to do with the Guangdong gentry.

"Not only Hua Rong, the Guangdong gentry also wants to kill them. These guys listened to King Guangze and took this opportunity to trap them all. Even if the attack on the capital fails in the future, if King Guangze continues to stay in a corner, they will completely fall into the control of the Guangdong gentry. . At that time, he would do whatever was asked of him. Huang Zicheng had already said that if the gentry refused to pay for food, even if they could not conquer the capital and came back without these hawks and dogs, the Guangdong gentry would still make them realize that the gentry would not pay for food.

The gentry did not pay the grain.

That means farmers pay taxes, and then all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes fall on farmers.

Farmers went bankrupt.

They had to sell their land to the gentry and then become tenants of the gentry, or become refugees and work as coolies in these factories in Guangzhou. From then on, they became destitute and had nothing until they were drained of their blood and sweat in the factory.

In this way, the land gentry in the countryside annexed the land and fields, the industrial and commercial gentry in the city got the cheapest coolies, and only the farmers lost everything. This is what Ambassador Yang said about sheep eating people. "

said the new accountant beside him.

This person graduated from Mount Wutai, but he just didn't take the imperial examination.

In fact, among the graduates of Mount Wutai, the ones with the best grades did not take the imperial examinations, but were signed up early by banks and other industries for little princesses. Accountants can be said to be the backbone of banks, and their salary is five times that of a county magistrate.Of course, the magistrate has a bright future, but as long as the princess is still in power, the backbones of these industries have a greater future than the magistrate. After all, the magistrate is a court official, and they are employees of the princess's family. They are all real confidants.

"Sheep eat people, but here they eat people with sugar, cotton eat people, or even hemp eat people."

Liu An looked at the coolies outside who were in ragged clothes and had sallow complexions.

These are all landless farmers.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang's system was basically destroyed by the gentry in Guangdong, large-scale land annexation had already begun. It can be said that as soon as Jianwen came, the Guangdong gentry kicked Zhu Yuanzhang's system aside.Moreover, the boom in exports made the industrial and commercial gentry around Guangzhou in urgent need of labor and raw materials. Cotton, hemp, and sugar cane all needed land to grow.Annex farmers' lands, introduce slaves to grow cash crops, and then drive landless farmers to factories in cities.

This way the labor force is available.

The raw materials are available.

As for food...

Purchase from places like Annan, the north, and Java!

The standard of Java is three crops a year, and there are paddy fields all over Siam. What’s more, the grain production in the north increases every year, and it is very cheap. Of course, Guangzhou workers will not buy rice cheaply. They are paid here, and the rice is used there. After the shop was taken back, the gentry knew what to do. Anyway, as long as they didn't starve to death, they could still go to the factory to spin yarn and weave cloth.

Ultimately the city is now filled with what could be described as slums.

One hundred thousand landless farmers were crowded into small rented houses or even haphazardly built shacks, living a life without work or food.

Just as Yang Feng guessed, the completely indulged gentry will quickly enter new roles and enter free capitalism. Even bonded jobs are no longer uncommon. It has only been three years, and they have completed 300 years of evolution in three years.They evolved directly from local tyrants and evil gentry to capitalists, and they are still capitalists dripping with blood and filth. After all, there is no need to learn many things. As long as they are greedy and shameless enough, bold enough or have no restraint, it does not take three or three days at all. They can learn by themselves without a teacher.

"Shopkeeper, Boss Lin is here."

A clerk came up behind them and said.

Liu An turned his head and looked outside the door. A dark and thin middle-aged man was looking at him.

"Old Lin, how was this business?"

Liu An said with a smile.

"It went well!"

The latter said, walking in.

The clerk immediately exited, and then Lao Lin walked to the window, pulled out the folding fan from his waist, pulled out the top end of a large bone, took out the secret letter hidden inside and handed it to Liu An, and then he and the accountant looked at it together The elders outside had already left the venue crying.

The coolies in ragged clothes were all watching and laughing, while the elders walked sadly, like zombies.

They finally accept reality.

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

I'm afraid even if these people win, it's good to be able to come back a quarter alive.

At present, more than [-]% of the soldiers in the imperial camp have died. Those who have been trained for a long time are all real soldiers. Those who will go north next are purely cannon fodder. Even training, they have to go north. Take place on board.Time is already very tight, and there is no time for them to train. They must assemble a batch of weapons and load them onto a ship. They will distribute weapons on the ship, learn how to use them on the ship, and then transport them to the capital and assign them directly to the imperial camp.As for the trivial matter of explosive shells, Foshan now has what can be said to be the largest steel base in the Ming Dynasty. It can even make flintlock guns, not to mention casting some large explosive shells, each weighing thirty kilograms, and then wearing an iron chain to the chest. Once you hang up, the rest is to rush.

This tactic is actually very effective.

After all, the key now is the incendiary bomb.

When the incendiary bomb ignites them, it will also detonate the explosive bombs on them.

Thirty pounds of flower bombs.

When the power exploded, several feet in the surrounding area were blown away.

Even if it is black powder, the current black powder is not only scientifically proportioned and purified, but also added with white sugar, so it is not weak in power. The power of a thirty-pound shell is almost as powerful as an [-] mortar shell.

Then five thousand warriors!
"Look at these coolies and this increasingly prosperous city. What do you think?"

The accountant looked at Lao Lin.

"The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. In the past, the poor still had a few thatched houses and acres of thin fields. Even if they didn't have enough to eat, they could dig some wild vegetables, pick some wild fruits, and catch some fish. Today's poor They are truly extremely poor, with no roof over their heads, no earth under their feet, and no place to bury them if they die!

But this rich man is really starting to be as rich as anyone in the country. "

Lao Lin sighed with emotion.

Then he looked at a garden just built by a local gentry in the distance. Among the rockeries and ponds, he could see colorful orioles and swallows.

"When we were chasing Taizu, we had to ransack the house like this. All the rules were exceeded, and we couldn't find anything that didn't go beyond the rules."

He said.

"It's all over!"

Liu An from behind said suddenly.

Lao Lin and the other two turned their heads in shock...

Lao Lin was only responsible for delivering letters, and he did not know the content of the letters.

"Go to Humen to find Hua Ying. Whether their family can be saved depends on him. Let him make all preparations. Ambassador Yang will escort the princess to Guangzhou."

Liu An said to Lao Lin.