Xiong Tingbi was righteous, but his body was still very honest.

Then their navy retreated.

Moreover, the armies at Dasheng Pass also retreated to Jiangning Town.

If they had not continued to attack, there was no need for them to be at Dasheng Pass. Before that, it was because Qi Jin's troops were stuck in Caishiji, but now Qi Jin has retreated to Lishui, and the land passage to Taiping Prefecture is unobstructed. Of course, Dong Yu would not wait for Yang Feng's cavalry to attack from time to time at Dasheng Pass...

How comfortable it is in Taiping Mansion.

As for Chen Jian, the commander of the Hongguang Army in Jiangbei, also supported the temporary truce.

He is from Huguang.

The main threat he faced was not Yang Feng, but the wolves led by Xing Jie or Du Song on the north side of the Yellow River. The 20,000 hungry wolves originally required the canal to be transported smoothly and grain transported to the north. Behind them was the border town, and the grain of the border town had to be transferred from the capital. The shortage of grain in the capital means that the border town was even short of food, so Du Song and others were absolutely ally with Yang Feng in this regard.

The only one who is dissatisfied with Zhejiang Group.

But Liu Yuanlin's Zhejiang Army cannot even defeat the fifth town of Zhenjiang, let alone Yang Feng.

They can only accept reality.

The gentry of Su Songchang was also satisfied.

After all, there is already a trend of robbing grain in their place, and the wheat harvest is not suppressed. If it continues, hungry people will rebel. At this time, the most important thing is to transport the food quickly.

In this way, after several months of war, Jiangnan entered a state of truce.

Of course, Nanjing is still surrounded.

A truce is a truce, not peace. After all, it is a temporary slack. In this kind of money-making season, it is mainly about making money.

In addition, the previous war has also made the officials of the Hongguang Dynasty understand that at least they are not able to solve Yang Feng at the moment, so they temporarily quit and then train troops is the best choice. Taking advantage of these few months, they will continue to build cannons, continue to build more turtledove guns, and hire more reliable soldiers from outside. Especially the instructors, and the past Volunteer Team and the Corps Training Model were obviously insufficient. They need to form a new army like the Beijing Camp. As for generals, they cannot use old generals. Old generals will sooner or later go on the road to playing bandits.

These bastards don’t want to really deal with Yang Feng, they just think about everyone’s money.

So you must use scholars.

Those truly scholars who are both civil and military.

So the new militaryization of the Hongguang Dynasty also began rapidly.

"I understand the truth, but I just don't understand what it means to build an opera-written leader in Jiangxi Provincial Army?"

Yang Feng said.

Of course, the new military transformation of the Hongguang Dynasty would not be to add force to the emperor.

So the plan they came up with was the Sixth Army of the Emperor...

That is, to reorganize the original official army and finally turn it into six armies, equivalent to Yangfeng's town, and then use old generals to rule, which is to reorganize the originally messy old army and eliminate those temporary workers, which are no longer suitable for the battlefield, and at least reach the level of the Qi family's military.

However, each province has trained provincial troops, but it is actually the jurisdiction of each governor.

It's just a team training promotion.

Directly join the Chu army, Hunan army, Huai army, etc.

Local gentry is responsible for finance, and the source of troops is no longer used by poor people who are easily bewitched. This is particularly important. Instead, major families have formed lower-class clans and then handed over to those local officials or scholars who have merged Chinese and civil and military affairs.

In order to distinguish it from the official army, he was directly renamed the commander.

The commander of the Chu army, Xiong Tingbi, is now a banner of the scholars of Huguang. The Hunan Army does not know yet, but there should be no shortage of war under the governor of Pian Yuan. After all, it is also the forefront of suppressing the chieftains. Nanzhili is divided into three families. The upstream is mainly composed of modern Anhui parts, called the Huai Army, the Huai Army commander He Ruchong, and the downstream is mainly composed of Governor Yingtian, which is Su Songchang, and the commander of Sun Shenxing.

There is also a single Huaiyang branch.

However, everyone knows that Yangzhou is a colony of Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants, so the commander was Bi Maokang, a scholar in She County. Because the governor of Nangan was poor, Jiangxi, together with the governor of Jiangxi, finally put together the provincial military commander, was the famous playwright Tang Xianzu...

"Xiong Tingbi is a talented person, and Sun Shenxing is also a master of the family. As for He Rutong, he doesn't know how to comment. Bi Maokang is said to be a master of the family, but what happened to Tang Xianzu? Although I admit that he writes opera well, can he fight even if he writes opera well?"

Yang Feng said.

"He is Zou Nangao's confidant. Zou Nangao has now become the Grand Secretary of the Hongguang Dynasty. It is inevitable to recommend him to command the Gan army."

Li Zhi said calmly.

Tang Xianzu was indeed Zou Yuanbiao's confidant.

In fact, at this time, the Hongguang Dynasty had quickly gained recognition from the gentry of the south.

The Jiangxi system was headed by Zou Yuanbiao, the Jiangxi imperial examination was the first in Ji'an Prefecture, and Nanchang could only rank second. The Ji'an Prefecture scholars were respected by Zou Yuanbiao, and he was also a genuine Qingliu famous minister. Of course, Hongguang had to use it. He was indeed a bit hesitant at first, but Yang Feng's atrocities in Nanjing's ministers finally made him make a decision...

How can loyal ministers and righteous men tolerate this traitor?

When he joined the Hongguang court, his nature was the same as the four elders of Shangshan who chose Liu Ying.

Of course, these are inevitable.

Not to mention Zou Yuanbiao, the former chief minister Wang Xijue abandoned Wanli. Although he was still pretending to play seclusion, his son was a confidant under Hongguang. Another former Grand Secretary Shen Shixing also played a hermit in Suzhou, but his second son Shen Yongjia also followed Hongguang. To put it bluntly, everyone has abandoned Wanli, but these old ministers no longer consider being officials. They can also be considered as stepping on two boats by the way. However, the backbone of the family has all followed Hongguang to compete for generations of soldiers.

So what can they do?

They are also helpless!

Yang Feng's approach gave them no room for a while.

Whenever Yang Feng could give them some hope, they would pinch their noses and accept it, but this traitor would not give them any hope at all!

"A group of thieves!"

The thief said.

In fact, these commanders are not the highest level among the local gentry...

Who would be so stupid at the highest level? If you fail, you will be destroyed. Just by simply raising money to support Hongguang, you will be an accomplice. These people who have made the lead are all the main culprits, so they are all relatively small families.

"Isn't Kaiyuan Bo afraid that they will really train a strong army?"

Li Zhi said.

"Do you know what I like the most?"

"Speaking."

"I like to look at my opponents, try my best and think I can handle me enough, but I end up slapping myself to death by me on the battlefield. What's the fun of stomping on a few ants? I have to stomp some locusts, cockroaches, dung beetles, etc. I have been worried that my enemies are not strong enough. Really, the process of crushing them makes me feel very unfulfilled. If they can make my life happier, then why don't I like it?"

Yang Feng said with an evil smile.

"Well?"

Li Zhi had no words to say.

"Master, the messenger from the capital has arrived!"

Yang Hu said from behind.

"Finally come!"

Yang Feng said.

This was the first messenger to arrive in Nanjing since he was surrounded.

The news they bring is neither good nor bad.

The capital is indeed short of food.

But it was not too scarce, mainly due to the large-scale land reclamation in Shuntian Prefecture last year, especially the cultivation of coarse crops, such as sorghum, soybeans, and corn grown in mountainous areas. In this era, the corn yield was indeed pitifully low. In fact, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the yield of corn on thin land was only a few dozen kilograms per mu. This number is true, both twenty or thirty kilograms, but the problem is that these farmlands had no development value before this.

The benefits it can bring to people are basically zero.

This is why, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most prominent sign of mountain people in various places was growing corn. The growing corn by the mountainous people in Huizhou even caused soil erosion, and even fought with local gentry.

It does not increase yield per mu. If good land does not grow corn, its value is to give wastelands that originally had no value for reclamation, especially mountainous areas.

The yield per mu is indeed very small.

But if the tax is not paid, the yield per mu of 30 kilograms is also a good thing for farmers.

Shuntian Prefecture has been reclaiming land for two consecutive years, turning the wastelands originally occupied by the imperial village, flooded sandy land, and mountainous areas without any water sources into farmland. This year, high-quality rice fields in Tianjin after the river digging are added, which makes the capital still maintain the supply of grain without the Jiangnan canal transportation...

Of course, there is another important point to supplement the fishery.

In short, the grain prices in the capital remained at a normal year level.

As for Jiubian, it relies on the Kaizhong system of Changlu Salt District. In order to exchange salt tracts from the generals of the border town, the salt merchants had to try their best to transport grain to the border town. Although the salt merchants were miserable, they did keep the grain prices in Xuanda and other places at a normal level. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang designed this system back then, which was to use cheating merchants to fatten the border town. Even if the salt merchants cried, they had to cry and find ways to solve the grain in the border town. Whether it was transporting grain from the mainland or organizing people to open up land by themselves, they had to make the border town full of food.

As for the hardships of salt merchants doing business...

The salt merchants did not have any bitterness when they had hundreds of sheep in a meal.

But the country's border defense system collapsed.

In short, the problem that Yang Feng was most worried about was not serious. The capital was indeed short of food, but it was only similar to the normal past years.

And the north still maintains peace.

But the actual situation is similar to that in the south. All parts of northern Zhili are also engaged in group training. The imperial court controlled by the cabinet masters and officials from all over the country support it. They are even introducing turtledove guns and red barbarian cannons, especially the original restrictions on maritime trade are useless. The red-haired merchant ships have even gone from Japan to Dengzhou, and the Minnan Maritime Merchant Group has also openly sailed to Jinzhou and Gaizhou for trade.

Anyway, the court doesn't care.

Local gentry is not stupid. In the past, they were smuggling. Now the court doesn’t care about it anymore, and the coastal areas do not collect taxes. Smuggling will directly turn into free trade!

Therefore, the current Ming Dynasty has perfectly achieved opening up the door.

Even Jiaozhou has red-haired merchant ships. This direct transaction without intermediaries is arousing the anger of intermediaries. Japanese pirates have already attacked Jiaozhou and Dengzhou. Because Japan resumed its attack in North Korea, it is reasonable for Japanese pirates to attack Dengzhou.
To be continued...