These people are indeed very precious...

Yang Xiangguo is now in urgent need of fresh blood to inject vitality into his system.

In fact, when he returned to Empress Ying Tian, ​​he was also carrying out internal purging and even executed many generals. The changes in the capital were also happening in Ying Tian.

However, Yingtian had been more cruel than the capital before, especially the noble group, which was truly cleaned up. Although the titles of Duke of Wei and other dukes were indeed retained, these families were all children and women, and lived in a closed door. Only the Chang Yinxu family was the least affected. However, the Prince of Kaiping, who was already desperate about the future of the court, had long left Nanjing.

He was also promoted.

The last time Wanli announced it together in Suzhou, Wanli cannot forget this only loyal minister.

But he took his family back to Huaiyuan and chose a wasteland to reclaim the wasteland.

It's doing well.

After all, the Chang family still has some industries in Yingtian. Even if they rent the house to merchants to collect rent, they can make a lot of profits even in the current prosperity of Nanjing.

These silvers are then used to purchase various materials to open up wasteland.

He now took his family to open more than 50,000 acres of land, and even built small reservoirs and drainage channels with cement. Several old noble families also went to rely on him. They probably planned to live their lives like this. However, his son Chang Yanling was the local magistrate as an old general.

In short, these old nobles who were in Yingtian's past are returning to their ancestral homes one after another and then reclaiming land on the land of their ancestors. They no longer have any influence in Yingtian and will not infiltrate the Red Turban Army like those in the capital through marriage with the Red Turban Army generals. But this cannot change the rapid corruption of the Red Turban Army's generals. Although there is no infiltration of the old nobles, the penetration of emerging capitalists is more serious, and the latter is stronger.

Yang Feng couldn't solve this.

In fact, at least for the time being, this penetration is not harmful.

Because when the army and capitalists merge, they will become extremely aggressive. After all, what capitalists want is a larger market.

More resources.

And there is only one thing that needs to be done.

expansion.

Continuous expansion.

It's like a monster that devours everything, constantly devouring the weak around it.

This is in line with Yang Feng’s future goals, and the Ming Dynasty eventually needs to embark on this path.

Of course, Yang Feng also needs to constantly restrain the monster to avoid it being too crazy and even devour it inside. It can devour it outward, but it must extend its greedy minions into the inside.

So he needs new people, and the simplest new people.

Although newcomers will change in the end, at least they can still do something useful before the change. As for these newcomers, it is no big deal. Just change a group of newcomers. If they continue to change like this, it will probably take decades to achieve their goals. In fact, as long as the generation of new education grows up, it will be easier to do. They will gradually establish a stable social system and a society with high literacy rates that popularizes compulsory education, and they will solve many problems themselves.

But before this, Yang Feng could only follow Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is a kind of helplessness.

All those who try to truly make decisions for the people will inevitably go on Zhu Yuanzhang's path in the end.

Some things can be solved only by killing.

He did not respond to Tian going to Wuchang again, but went straight to Guangzhou directly in Xuzhou. On the second day after he set off from Xuzhou, Xiong Tingbi's army had arrived at Taoist priests.

Of course, Xiong Tingbi didn’t need Fang Congzhe to remind him.

In fact, he got the news the next afternoon.

His base is in Hukou, which is four or five hundred miles away from Wuchang County, and there are many rivers along the way. When the news comes, it will take more than a day to go to the post station to relay.

Then he returned to Jiujiang immediately.

But it was the third day of the Wuchang Uprising when he arrived in Jiujiang. He did not hesitate at all and directly boarded the ship and took the three brigades that Mei Guozhen had prepared for backwards. However, it took a full four days for the fleet to arrive here. This was the favorable wind direction, and it was very slow to go up against the current. If the wind direction was wrong, you had to stop and wait.

And the situation has long been out of control in these seven days.

The rebel workers in Wuchang County crossed the Yangtze River that afternoon. Because the militia surrendered directly and the people in the city responded, Huangzhou Fucheng planted the Red Turban Army flag on the same day. Then the local cadastral workers who entered the city and the people in the city carried out a large-scale purge of the gentry. The two sides fought overnight in Huangzhou Fucheng, and the Yangtze River was already full of beautiful floating corpses the next morning.

On the same day, the rebel workers began to attack the iron ore, and then the iron ore workers rebelled.

Fortunately, the local iron ore owners were full of martial ethics. They and their mine-protecting teams, as well as some of the gentry armed forces who escaped from Wuchang County, and the gentry armed forces who reinforced from Daye, fought fiercely at the iron ore, but the gentry armed forces were eventually defeated, and then they left the dead body of a mine and fled to Daye County to defend. Then the workers of Wuchang used the roads built by transporting ore to push their 18 kilograms of cannons under Daye City and quickly bombarded the Daye City Wall.

Then, together with the people in the city, the liberation of Daye was completed.

The battle in Wuchang Prefecture City was completely over the next day. On the same day, the Hankou civilians rebelled, and the gentry fled into Hanyang City in horror.

There is still a confrontation there.

The main reason was that the rebels in Wuchang Prefecture City lacked siege cannons such as 18 kilograms of heavy artillery. Moreover, the gentry armed forces in Hanchuan, Huangpi, Xiaogan and other places were also arrived, and even the gentry armed forces in Jiayu, Xianning and other places were also arrived. Although the Hongguang Dynasty's army was slowly mobilized, the local gentry responded quickly.

After the uprising, the gentry of the surrounding counties took action quickly. They occasionally fought against each other and suddenly became a common enemy.

So far, the uprising military and civilians controlled Wuchang Prefecture, Wuchang County, Daye County, and Hankou.

"How many times in the world have I hurt the past, but the mountain still has a cold wave."

On the warship, he looked at the approaching Xisai Mountain and recited Liu Yuxi's ancient poem melancholy.

However, at this time, a dazzling flag was flying on Xisai Mountain, and the Taoist priests on the shore were raising thick smoke. Countless flags were erected in this prosperous town. He could even see the mine owners covered in silk and satin, crying and crying towards the cold iron-like cold current ahead.

And in the cold river water, you can already see a floating corpse wearing silk.

Taoist priest fell.

This is the main coal mine...

Taoist priest coal mines were already mined in the Ming Dynasty. Taoist priest priest priest priest and Zhangshan were both coal mines. With the prosperity of the steel industry, coal has become an urgent need. Although the smelting of high-end pig iron is charcoal, the low-end pig iron used for civilian use has been coke. China's coke was used very early, and coke was found at the Foshan iron smelting site in the Song Dynasty. In history, the main coal mines that Zhang Zhidong held a steel plant were Taoist priest priests and Wang Sanshi. Now the gentry of the Ming Dynasty has also set their sights here.

The Taoist priest who was already very prosperous was quickly dark because coal mining was quickly damaged.

Not only the thick smoke of coking makes the sky gray, but more importantly, the dark hearts of the gentry also make the town dark.

miner……

Miners are similar to slaves.

In fact, the most popular thing about mining these days is to kidnap men and then send them directly to the mine to sell them to the mine owners, and then fill them into the scrap well when they are exhausted.

There was a story in the Qing Dynasty that I didn't know the truth or falsehood. An official was kidnapped during a trip and stuffed it into a mine as a slave. He secretly carved words on the dug coal blocks, digging them day after day, and stayed in them for three years. A piece of coal block he had carved was sold to the local county government. The magistrate happened to be the same year as him, and he rescued him after discovering it.

It is hard to say whether the story is true or false, but this is the routine operation of ancient mining.

Yang He handled prisoners in this way before.

Now with the arrival of the Wuchang Uprising, the people here have been truly liberated. The slaves who have been struggling in the dark mine for many years have of course to liquidate these mine owners. With their drive away, the mine owners wearing silks exchanged for their blood and tears are being forced into the Yangtze River one after another. Some of them just refuse to go in and are still kneeling there begging for mercy, but begging for mercy at this time is useless. The mine slaves in ragged clothes and very style of World War II concentration camps roared and raised them up and threw them directly into the Yangtze River.

Some people are still struggling to swim after entering the Yangtze River, but there are still a large number of workers holding muskets shooting targets on the shore.

Blood gurus from the mine owners who were constantly hit by bullets, forming red patches in the river.

It was early winter at this time. Even if you can swim in this season, you will be shot anywhere in the river, and you will only become a floating corpse.

"Let's go!"

Xiong Tingbi said sadly.

"Master, won't you save them?"

Zanhua beside him said in surprise.

"Save? Why should I save them? I warn them again and again on weekdays to make them better for workers, don't knock bones and marrow, and don't force workers to death. Even if you give them a few full meals, you will make money and silver. Some of them leak out of your fingers. It's enough for workers to eat and make them grateful. What do they want? You'll just have a full meal, or you can have a cotton coat in winter, so that your wife and children will not starve to death?

Is this too much?

This is not much.

These workers earned them tens of millions of dollars a year, but what could they do if they missed tens of thousands of taels for the workers?

Even if the Huang family loses a little this year, the net profit will be more than 100,000 taels.

They just deducted the 20,000 wages from the workers? They could not survive if they gave them to the workers. Now they deserve it. There are ones here that deserve it. What is the point of saving them? Let them die, so that Yang Feng will have to silence them."

Xiong Tingbi roared like an outburst.

Then he walked into the cabin angrily, and Na Zanhua stood there awkwardly...

He really just asked casually!
Chapter completed!