After Wanli Gan Gang made arbitrary decision, he agreed to the alliance without hesitation.

Of course, he has a condition.

"next year?"

Yang Feng looked at Li Feng.

Eunuch Li is an envoy sent by His Majesty the Emperor, or an envoy sent by Wang Xijue, the leader of the Guangzhou rebel party.

The mutual cognitive issue between the two sides should not be careless.

In Yingtian's side, there was no Guangzhou court. It was just a rebel party led by Wang Xijue, who held the emperor hostage to command the princes. No loyal minister or righteous man could admit it. In Guangzhou, there was no Yang Prime Minister's shogunate. Here it was just a mutiny in Yingtian Jingying, which held the imperial concubine, Fu Wang, and princess, and then pretended to be the regent to deceive the people.

As for Yang Xiangguo…

Fake.

Yang Feng, King Zhongwu of Liaodong, had already been killed in the capital. How could the dead be the prime minister?

So in the Guangzhou court, this alliance can be explained as His Majesty the Emperor's mercy. Thinking of the success of the Beijing camp, I gave them a chance.

Just have an explanation.

Everyone is a person who understands the truth and will not care about such details.

"Reported to the Prime Minister, Mr. Wang Ge said that this year is a bit hasty. After all, our troops are far away from the north, and it is about to fall. If the north wind is with us, we can't get the sea transportation. It's better to go north by next year, next August."

Li Feng said respectfully.

"That's how it works!"

Yang Feng pondered for a moment.

It is obvious that His Majesty the Emperor cannot train a reliable army in such a short time.

After all, he has just taken control of the regime. Even if he has a lot of new ideas, he needs time to take action. What's more, he still needs to fight if the alliance fails. Getting more time means more preparation time.

"Well, if that's the case, then change it to October next year, so as not to jeopardize your Majesty."

He said readily.

He was not worried about His Majesty the Emperor. No matter how the latter jumped around, it was useless. Even if the emperor began to imitate the tactics of the Beijing camp, it was useless. The key to this tactics was not a tactical problem. No tactics were useful if it was not solved by the soldiers' fighting will, even if it was replaced by His Majesty the Emperor with a flintlock rifle. Before the machine gun appeared, the courage and quality of the soldiers were the decisive factors on the battlefield. When the same number of soldiers fought, even if the equipment was slightly worse, the courage and quality of the soldiers were enough to make up for the gap.

During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army said that we had single shots and old villages, and we did not hinder the violent beating of those who were holding the nine-sounding Maoser in the Qing Dynasty...

Ah, our Qing Dynasty even has machine guns.

"Thank you, Prime Minister."

Li Feng said quickly.

"Go to the palace to have a look. You are also an old man in the palace. The imperial concubine still wants to see you!"

Yang Feng immediately sent him away.

Immediately afterwards, his demon concubine walked out from behind the screen like a conspirator and sat on his lap without hesitation...

"I think we should let His Majesty the Emperor stay in Guangzhou."

She said.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm a loyal minister."

Yang Xiangguo said.

"Loyal ministers? Will loyal ministers be filthy in the palace?"

"Well, don't be tainted from the thin air. I do go to the imperial concubine more often, but they are summoned by the imperial concubine to discuss major events. After all, the imperial concubine is the host of the alliance."

"Ah, I didn't say the Imperial Concubine, I thought you were targeting which palace maid you were targeting!"

"Naughty!"

Yang Xiangguo patted her on the back.

Of course, this kind of thing is not worth mentioning. I guess the Regent knows it, but in the royal family, things are not worth mentioning. Everyone knows that it must be the imperial concubine who seduced the prime minister first. Now the imperial concubine is in an awkward situation. On the one hand, the mother-in-law and the eldest wife want to bring her back to the capital and canned it. On the other hand, the biggest protector is far away in Guangzhou, and it is inevitable that she is eager to find new protection. She has nothing now, so this is the only way.

But this is just a dewy marriage in interests...

By the way, aren’t there any rumors about the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother and Zhang Juzheng?

"But it's not impossible to say that Your Majesty stays in Guangzhou. Since he has grown up, it's better to let him play in Guangzhou than to get unhappy in the palace. This is also my loyalty and filial piety as a loyal minister and son-in-law."

Yang Feng pondered.

This is actually not bad...

He is actually raising a gu now.

real.

His controlled area lacks the tradition of developing overseas and has no motivation to go out. After all, life is getting better and better, it is difficult to go out and overcome all obstacles.

However, Guangdong and Fujian provinces are different.

These two provinces have a tradition of immigrating overseas.

His Majesty's ambition also requires a lot of silver to support him. With these two major provinces of overseas trade and immigration, he must ensure internal stability on the one hand, especially the loyalty of the people, and on the other hand, he must continue to support hegemony with silver. The only option is to explore overseas. Encourage industry and commerce on a large scale, build commercial colonies on a large scale, and let the fleet sail towards the ocean farther and farther, and even like his ancestors, the emperor's power goes directly to East Africa.

Then a Ming Dynasty, which was built on overseas development and similar to the Western colonial empire, was established.

And Hongguang is actually changing...

If you don’t change, you will be dead.

Under Yang Feng's threat, if you want to survive, you can only become stronger.

There is no other choice.

The gentry in Huguang and Jiangxi provinces in the core of the Hongguang Dynasty have now begun to shift from agriculture and focus on industry. They are becoming industrial parties. Only industry can ensure their safety. With sufficient resources, they only need development. Develop iron ore, copper ore, and even tin ore. The area they control now includes some Guangxi, namely Guilin and Pingle prefectures, while Hexian, Fuchuan in Pingle, and Jianghua extending to Huguang, and Linwu are all tin ore veins.

There was mining in the past, and the Linwu Xianghualing Tin Mine was mined in the Ming Dynasty.

Now it is just that the scale of mining is gradually expanding.

Heavy industrialization is giving gentry a new source of wealth. In order to ensure the stability of the unruly people, some gentry who made money through industry and commerce have also begun to partially reduce rents...

They are not afraid of fighting with Yang Feng.

After all, as the new fortress system began to become popular, the advantages of the defense side soared. Even if they were dragged by defensive wars, they were confident that they could drag Yang Feng to death.

But the problem is that there is no need to wait for them to drag Yang Feng to death, the troublemakers behind them will kill them first.

If you want to resist Yang Feng, you must first ensure that the unruly people do not rebel. In this way, you can give the unruly people some benefits, establish the image of a kind person, and promote the unity of the people in the province, which can also coax the unruly people. After all, the prosperity of industry and commerce makes the gentry less concerned about the rent. One acre of land is just one cent, but making this money in industry and commerce can almost be said to be just a little talk.

On the other hand, as industry and commerce attract a large amount of labor, the contradiction between population and land has also weakened. Tenants really cannot survive by renting a little land, but what if they can go to nearby mines to work during the slack season?

Then I can barely survive.

Moreover, with the promotion of new crops in the Red Turban Army-controlled area, the entire Ming Dynasty was also promoting these new crops.

In the end, the lives of the people were quietly improving. Although they were incomparable to the Red Turban Military Militia Area, the situation of hunger and cold gradually decreased.

Then in the Hongguang Dynasty controlled area, a Ming Dynasty based on the traditional gentry system and similar to reformism was also quietly formed. Although the Ming Dynasty certainly did not work in its external development, they did not even have a real sea outlet. At present, there is only one port that truly honored the Hongguang era, and it obviously has no meaning to Huguang and Jiangxi. However, the Ming Dynasty is building an increasingly powerful heavy industry system with its resource advantages.

They also pursue new technologies.

After all, that was also where Song Yingxing was born.

Of course, whether it is the Ming Dynasty of the Wanli Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty of the Hongguang Dynasty, all changes are based on one principle...

Resist Yang Feng.

Ensure to protect yourself during Yang Feng's invasion.

As for the alliances in the five northern provinces, they are actually changing. The most important gain is to completely eliminate the many speechless vassal kings, and they do not need to pay taxes to the court. After these burdens, the advantage of being vast and sparsely populated in the north appears. In fact, it is becoming increasingly sparsely populated, especially Henan's population continues to decrease, because they all went to the Red Turban Army to open up land and become militias. The people would vote with their feet. On the one hand, they were in the militia area around them, and on the other hand, they paid rent to the landlords. It goes without saying which side they chose.

Henan and Shandong provinces have borders with militia areas, and even the control areas are intertwined, and some places cannot be explained who controls it.

It is too easy for ordinary people to escape.

The result of increasing population is that a large number of original farmlands are vacant, and the best farmlands left behind can be chosen to cultivate.

The rest began to grow cash crops.

cotton.

The cotton producing areas in the south are shrinking, including mulberry silkworms, but the textile industry is eager for more cotton and silk. So the mulberry cotton areas in Shandong and Henan are gradually increasing, especially along the western Shandong canal, cotton is now everywhere. However, because a large number of people fled to Huaibei, the per capita arable land area, especially the area of ​​high-quality farmland, has continued to increase...

It is a bit like the reduction of the dynasty in the prosperous Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty killed it, and this area was because the people fled south in large numbers.

But the effect is the same.

All the population continues to decrease, causing the contradiction between people and land gradually to eliminate.

Of course, the alliance of the five northern provinces was also forced by Yang Feng because Hongguang could not provide them with real support. They have even started to play oligarchy now. The five provincial councils elected representatives, which are actually the most important families in the five provinces, and set up the Senate in the relatively safe Lu'an Prefecture...

OK, that's the name.

Then the five provinces alliance senate actually became the real center of the five provinces.

In this way, there is a senate in the north. The Ming Dynasty is quite similar to Yingtian's nature to the Wanli Dynasty, but it is a bit stronger than Yingtian.

At least Hongguang Chao can appoint the governor.
Chapter completed!