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Chapter 478 Chasing the Central Plains
"Our army uses the art of war in the Central Plains, and we will be able to conquer Henan in a short time!"

The entire page of the Jiangnan News published this sensational news not long after Yang Chao left.

In an instant, the entire Jiangnan was a sensation, and then the whole world was a sensation.

Although Henan has been the battlefield between the Ming army and the peasant army from the beginning, if it is said that after the season, Sichuan is the worst, then the second worst must be Henan. eighth.

But this province is of great significance, and as a southern soldier, it seems that the Northern Expedition will not be justified if it does not hit the Central Plains.

Back then, the Northern Expedition mentioned by Lu You, Xin Qiji, and Yue Fei all referred to the Central Plains of Henan.

Jiaxing Hou's family gathered a large group of scholars, old and young, all attracted by this news.

"Seniors and brothers, I am determined to go to the Central Plains to observe the soldiers!"

After the eager discussion, Gu Yanwu immediately expressed excitedly that he had already commented in the newspaper that Jiangnan soldiers had the ability to take back Beijing, and criticized Yang Chao's conservative use of troops several times. The hope of unification suddenly stirred up in my heart.

"Brother Gu, wait a moment, I wish to go."

"I wish to go."

"I wish to go."

Soon a large group of young scholars expressed their willingness to go to Henan to observe soldiers together.

Guangdong, Zhaoqing, small imperial court.

Li Ruyue was furious with the first base newspaper in her hand.

"This is the Jiangnantang newspaper collected by the minister. The thief Yang searched the south of the Yangtze River relentlessly. In the south of the Yangtze River, half of the world, he was destitute of 2000 million taels of silver and 1000 million dans of grain. The people were in poverty, and the people were in dire straits."

"This thief not only extorts taxes, but also distributes paper copies indiscriminately. The people in the south of the Yangtze River have no money to use, so they have no choice but to use paper copies. They also use the bond law to force people to borrow money, reaching 3000 million taels a year."

"I implore Your Majesty to send troops quickly to conquer the south of the Yangtze River. If you are late, the people will be hurt, and if you are late, the people will be embarrassed."

"If this thief is not punished, the law of heaven will not tolerate it!"

After Li Ruyue finished speaking, she rushed to the ground, crying bitterly.

The newspapers in his hand were all sent by Yang Chao to inform the people in the south of the Yangtze River how much tax they collected, how much tax they used, and how they used it. Taxes are used where they should be used, and when they are used, the resistance to paying taxes will be reduced.

At the same time, it is also cultivating the social contract awareness of the people.Let them slowly feel that the government is not an institution to rule them, but an organization to protect them, a public welfare organization with a natural contractual relationship with them, not a gang imposed on them.

However, it has not been able to achieve the effect at present. Not only the people do not have the awareness of the social contract, but even the officials do not have this awareness. This is not surprising. Rousseau's "The Social Contract" will not appear until 100 years later. At this time, the West is still in the literature and art stage. The transition period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and Rousseau was a figure born only when the Enlightenment developed into a mature period.

However, Yang Chao believes that as long as he persists in doing so, after three to five years, there will always be intelligent literati in the world who will realize the social contract relationship. In this way, the government is formed, and the society has truly entered the modern society.

It's just that people like Li Ruyue obviously don't realize it. He even turned a blind eye to the use of the tax money announced above, so he grabbed Yang Chao for collecting too much tax. To be honest, heavy taxes are not a good thing, but they cannot be collected. The government of China is a completely unqualified government, a government whose management is out of control.

Compared with the tax bank of 2000 million taels, it is not a big deal for a huge country like Ming Dynasty. Even for a place in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not a big deal. You must know that the British in this era received 2000 taels of tax. Ten thousand taels of silver, while Britain only has a population of 600 million, its area is not as large as Suzhou, and its economy is far less developed than Suzhou. However, its economy not only did not collapse, but instead developed rapidly, until it became an empire on which the sun never sets.

It can be seen that the tax potential of the Ming Dynasty is far from being tapped. Yang Chao estimates that if the Ming Dynasty collects taxes in the Western way, it will probably be able to receive [-] million to [-] million tax silver. Less than one-tenth of the number of times.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Before the little emperor could reply to Li Ruyue, suddenly a eunuch ran in staggeringly. This person was called Pang Tianshou. He traveled from Beijing to Guangdong. At first, he was just a small eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, but after following Guangdong, his status Naturally, he became taller. After all, he was the only one who could follow the emperor all the time. The other eunuchs were only eunuchs from the local palace, and none of them were as senior as he was. The position of the eunuch.

"Pang Aiqing, why are you panicking?"

The little emperor was in trouble for Li Ruyue, how could he have the strength to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River, but this Li Ruyue was now very famous after targeting Yang Chao again and again, and all the people gathered around him, as if he was the leader of speech officials, If you don't deal with it properly, you will provoke a lot of criticism from the officials.

At this moment when Pang Tianshou came, he was relieved, although Pang Tianshou's expression didn't look like good news.

"But the Catholic Church refuses to send reinforcements?"

Pang Tianshou accepted the baptism of the Portuguese in Macau and became a Catholic, so he came up with an idea, which is to borrow troops from the powerful Catholic Pope in the Portuguese population. During this time, Pang Tianshou was busy with this matter.

Panting heavily, Pang Tianshou walked to the emperor's side: "Your Majesty, the new Tang newspaper from the south of the Yangtze River, Uncle Loyalty, has started the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains."

After panting for breath, Chaotang suddenly became cold, and even Li Ruyue raised his head, a little dumbfounded.

But Li Ruyue reacted immediately, jumped up, and went straight to the emperor, startling the little emperor.

"Your Majesty, if you hesitate any longer, the situation is over!"

Li Ruyue looked like a mad tiger, and ran to the front of the gate, shouting loudly: "Tie Yang wants to imitate the constant temperature and Liu Yuye of the Eastern Jin Dynasty! Sima Zhao's heart is well known!"

After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty moved to the south of the Yangtze River. Like the later Song Dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also had a complex for the Northern Expedition, so the powerful ministers proposed the Northern Expedition again and again. Once the Northern Expedition was successful, they would gain super prestige. The outstanding one is Liu Yu , Liu Yu's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains not only took down Luoyang, but also took down Chang'an. In order to regain the great prestige of the two capitals, he returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and took the throne of emperor.

Heng Wen was a powerful minister before Liu Yu. He also held a heavy army and defeated the nomadic regime in the north many times. Unfortunately, he failed in the Northern Expedition and died before he could usurp the throne.

Li Ruyue compared Yang Chao to Heng Wen and Liu Yu, which really terrified the little emperor, and his face immediately turned pale.

"Your Majesty, should you send troops?"

In fact, the little emperor also hated Yang Chao deeply, not because Yang Chao felt sorry for him, but because Yang Chao could collect tens of millions of taels of tax, but didn't hand over any of it to him, it was enough for him to hate him.

"Li Aiqing, I also want to send troops, but where do the soldiers come from?"

Zhu Cihuan sighed, he only had a [-]-strong Imperial Forest Army in his hands, and they were all recruited, so how could they fight.

Wang Deren and Jin Shenghuan, who nominally surrendered to him, are more warlords than Yang Chao. One occupies Guangdong and the other occupies Fujian. ran away.

Li Ruyue couldn't help being overjoyed when she heard that the emperor finally let go and showed his intention to send troops.

"The humble minister has a rite, Chang Guogong Jin Shenghuan, Guangchang Marquis is loyal, as long as His Majesty orders the two to go northward, I am willing to be the supervisor. It must be empty, and the minister guarantees that Jiangnan can be regained in one go."

Li Ruyue encouraged.

The little emperor couldn't help but get excited, Li Ruyue's analysis was very good, wouldn't it be a great opportunity for Yang Chao to send troops to fight against the Manchus.

But the little emperor didn't know that a literati like Li Ruyue wouldn't do a preliminary investigation. Everything was based on guesswork. It might be useful to guess correctly, but it was really too unreliable for a military operation like using troops to fight.

"Okay, I will approve Li Qing's performance. Make Li Qing Uncle Wen Zhong, supervise the Fujian army, and immediately go to the north!"

Li Ruyue was overjoyed, and kowtowed to the ground again, but refused: "I am loyal to the country. I don't want to be a high-ranking official, but I want to serve the court. I don't dare to think about it. I ask your majesty to take back Wen Zhongbo's reward!"

Zhu Cihuan immediately stood up excitedly, pointed at the court minister and said: "This, this is the important minister, the loyal minister of my Daming. But God bless my Ming, such a loyal minister can't make good use of it."

At this time, the other ministers quickly followed the emperor's words and said: "My emperor's life is assisted by virtuous ministers, and I congratulate His Majesty!"

Li Ruyue set off on the second question, took the emperor's imperial decree, and 1000 taels of gold and silver looted in Zhaoqing and rushed to Nanxiong, where was Wang Deren's military camp.

Guide Mansion.

The strength of the Qing army stationed in Guide Mansion has been maintained at around [-], which is only smaller than that of the Qing army in Beizhili, because it is also facing the threat of Yang Chao, so it has to send troops to defend.

It's just that the Qing army in Guide Mansion is obviously inferior to Beizhili. There are only one thousand and eight banner cavalry here, and the rest are all local green battalion soldiers, but they are also elite. Those who were selected from the rest of the Shun Army, and those who led the army were all Eight Banners generals.

"Free battle card?"

In Yang Chao's line of sight, was the Qing army's city wall ten miles away, on which was hung a large sign with the word "Free War".

Of course, Yang Chao's eyesight is not so good. The reason why he can see is because he has a telescope. The Dutch sent a thousand telescopes last year, and Yang Chao paid several 10 taels of silver for this.

"This is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!"

Putting away the binoculars, Yang Chao sighed.

"Give Li Wuliu a semaphore. Since the opponent dare not fight in the field, let's attack by force. It's a pity, the governor still wants to see Li Wuliu's new formation."

(End of this chapter)