Ma He did not disappoint Yang Feng in the end, and he was still loyal to Zhu Di after all.
Of course, he didn't openly defect.
On the same day that Han Sheng's raid on Suzhou failed, Ma He's fleet suddenly left Taicang.
Without receiving any orders or explaining the reason for leaving, this fleet, currently the strongest in the Yangtze River and even along the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, quietly left Taicang, then sailed out of the Yangtze River and into the sea. Of course, no one knew where it was going, but this move made
Taicang, Jinshan and other guards were all in panic.
After all, if they really change sides, they may land on any coast at any time...
Ma He was a close confidant of King Yan.
And this fleet was built under the leadership of King Yan himself.
It has been confirmed that those in Suzhou City are Ma He and his 1,000 sailors.
Although they are sailors, their actual combat effectiveness is no weaker than that of the Shenji Battalion. In order to ensure that they could use force to solve the resistance of the natives in the event of an accident after arriving in America, this sailor not only has the latest equipment, but is also almost the same as the Shenji Battalion.
Ma He's fleet currently has more than 8,000 sailors, and his warships also have powerful artillery on the opposite coast. Once he really attacks the coastal guard station, it is really difficult to guarantee it with the current strength of the coastal guard station.
Not to be captured. So not to mention Taicang, Jinshan and other guards did not dare to move, even a few guards along the coast of Zhejiang also did not dare to move. They are schooners, not only fast but also hardly care about the wind direction. It only takes a few days to get from the mouth of the Yangtze River.
You can raid Hangzhou.
Ma He's move gave Suzhou's Yao Shan maximum time to set up team training.
The gentry from Changzhou, Wuxian and even secretly joined Kunshan, Wujiang, Changshu and even Changzhou, Songjiang and other places took the opportunity to quickly transport batches of Japanese slaves to Suzhou. They also transported a large number of weapons, including firearms and ammunition, obtained in various ways to Suzhou.
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At this time they are extremely efficient.
After all, this time the gentry really fought for their ideals.
Apart from anything else, the tax package system made them feel like they had returned to the happiest days of the Yuan Dynasty.
In that prosperous age, after serving the foreign conquerors, they could enslave the people at will. It is said that there were many of them, but they could even exercise certain privileges. This was not only exercised by the gentry in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu in the Qing Dynasty, but also the gentry in Zhejiang in the Yuan Dynasty.
Qian. It is inevitable for foreign conquerors. After all, they do not need to care about face. What they want is stable support, so they can give the gentry maximum privileges to the poor at the bottom.
This is an exchange.
In exchange for the latter to collect wealth for them and ensure their enjoyment.
The latter are protected by force and can plunder the people as much as they want without worrying that they are unable to suppress the people when they rebel, because their masters will take action.
In fact, they are like the Indian kings.
The nostalgia of the Ming gentry for the prosperous days of the Yuan Dynasty is no different from the attachment of the Indian kings to the British.
While the gentry in Suzhou were organizing their troops and preparing to fight the imperial attack, the gentry in various places, including Zhejiang, were using various methods to hold back the officers and soldiers heading towards Suzhou, trying to buy them as much time as possible.
Block the canal.
Destroy bridges.
They even colluded with bandits to burn down grain depots.
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From Zhejiang to Zhili, almost all gentry and local civil servants tacitly created obstacles for the army to march into Suzhou.
The same goes for civil servants.
They don't necessarily support Zhu Yunwen.
After all, these civil servants are from other places. For example, Yao Shan is actually from Yingcheng, Huguang. Their real purpose is this local model of fighting against the imperial court. If the Suzhou gentry can succeed, then of course the gentry in their hometown can also follow suit. In the final analysis, the so-called Zhu Yunwen promise
Those that gentry everywhere are eager for. Don’t the Fujian gentry like opening up to overseas trade?
Don’t the Guangdong gentry like open banking?
Don’t the Sichuan gentry like to cancel tea tasting?
Don’t the Zhili gentry like opening up the salt industry?
Everyone likes those things, but they don't dare to jump out for the time being, but they dare to cooperate secretly and cause trouble for the emperor, so it is not only done in the local area, but also some officials in the imperial court will cooperate secretly.
For example, when transporting military supplies, a small mistake can have a major impact.
There were even local officials and gentry who directly bribed the officers and soldiers in the name of rewarding the troops.
Reward the army!
Very reasonable.
But why should the generals and soldiers be delayed for half a day with so much wine and meat?
In the end, thanks to their concerted efforts, Zhu Yunxi sent an army from the Shenji Battalion from the capital, which was also the only army he left behind in the capital. It actually took him fifteen days to reach Suzhou, and the heavy artillery he carried was sunk due to the Xicheng Canal.
It was blocked and could not be transported in a short time. The leader of this army was Wu Shouan, the younger brother of Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin. He did not wait for the heavy artillery and directly ordered the attack on Suzhou.
As for the outcome of the battle...
"Wu Shouan failed.
His Shenji Battalion actually performed well and was very brave. They once rushed to the city wall, but were eventually driven off the city wall. It is said that the Suzhou gentry collected hundreds of grenades and relied on these grenades to defeat the Shenji Battalion at the most critical moment.
After bombing it back, I have to say that the grenades you used to throw around are still causing trouble to this place.
Moreover, Wu Shouan's logistics team was attacked by Taihu water bandits and a batch of ammunition was blown up. The main reason was that the magistrate led people to reward the transportation team. As a result, everyone from the officers to the soldiers drank too much.
It could also be that he was drugged.
In short, dozens of water bandits completed the attack on the convoy of several hundred people, and then set off dozens of ships of ammunition with fireworks.
Ah, the water bandit still calls himself Zhang Mazi.
And he also wears a nine-tube mask.
As you said, now it really feels like the Dutch are rebelling against the King of Spain.
The emperor is still too young and too impatient. He thinks that his grandfather can do whatever he wants. Since he is the emperor, of course he should do whatever he wants. But his grandfather was killed and trampled on the heads of countless gentry for more than 20 years.
Naturally, you can do whatever you want, but he does not have this kind of deterrence, and because of your appearance, the gentry has brought about advancements in weapons technology, allowing the people to build a force to fight against the imperial power in the shortest possible time.
In the past, the gentry could only tremble when faced with a powerful general like Lan Yu, but now all they need is to pick up a matchlock gun.
Not to mention Lan Yu, even Chang Yuchun just pulled the trigger.
Firearms blasted away the imperial power."
Sister Liu said with a smile.
So the culprit is still Yang Feng.
The various new things he brought, whether technology or ideas, brought about a real change, but this change must have been started by the gentry first.
This is true of any change.
Those ordinary people who diligently farmed and paid taxes in the villages could not be at the forefront of the reform. They could only be the educated and well-informed gentry. And Yang Feng's series of twists and turns also made the imperial power
The deterrent power continued to decline. After all, he dared to point a gun at Lao Zhu in public. From that moment on, the gentry's fear of Lao Zhu was actually gone. But Lao Zhu's prestige could still be sustained after all. In addition, in recent years,
The rapid expansion has indeed brought benefits to the gentry, and the promotion of various new technologies has also made the people rich, and they do not want to cause trouble.
In particular, Lao Zhu has always insisted not to change the imperial examination.
this point is very important.
This old guy is very cunning. He knows that as long as he is still taking the imperial examination, the gentry will not rebel.
Aren’t I the Qing Dynasty?
Facing the rotten imperial examinations in the late Qing Dynasty, Lafayette persisted until she almost died. Lafayette was wise. She knew that as long as she continued to take the imperial examinations, the gentry would not abandon the Qing Dynasty. Although she still couldn't hold on in the end, at that time
She is already too old to be comatose.
It cannot be considered her responsibility.
As a result, the Qing Dynasty fell within a few years of abolishing the imperial examination.
Lao Zhu was also very clear-headed on this issue, and was not bewitched by Yang Feng from beginning to end. Even if the North-South Ranking incident made him furious, the Jinshi in the south were not affected.
But Zhu Yunxi made reforms as soon as he came to the throne.
This really made the gentry intolerable.
"He still doesn't know how to play. He has now directly issued an order to divide all the fields in Suzhou. In the future, wherever the gentry rebels, the fields will be divided. I promise that without him having to do anything, the people of Suzhou will open the city gates themselves."
Yang Feng said.
"In that case, he has rebelled. Aren't you afraid that Lan Yu will return to Beijing urgently and ask him why His Majesty rebelled?
He is the emperor.
There is honor behind him.
If he dares to do this, he will truly seclude himself from the world. Wu Shouan might raise his arms in Suzhou and return directly to the Qing Dynasty. The Wu family, a marquis family, can have tens of thousands of acres of land, right? The emperor can divide the gentry
Can't they divide their fields? The Tang Dynasty's land equalization system knew that the land of those wealthy families could not be touched. At most, it would just equalize the unclaimed wasteland.
The reason why he dared to look down upon the gentry was because he had the base of nobles.
The latter is loyal to him.
But if he dares to divide the land, even the nobles will abandon him."
Sister Liu said.
This is a fact.
Zhu Yunxi dared not offend the gentry and changed the imperial examination if he wanted to. He was basically willing to do so because the noble group behind him was always loyal to him, and until now, this group is still the strongest political force in the Ming Dynasty.
"So, only someone like me who is not afraid of death would dare to do this kind of thing. Tell the little princess to pay attention to her safety. I always feel that something will definitely happen in the capital under this situation."
Yang Feng said.
The problem now is that if the rebellion in Suzhou continues, other places will definitely respond, and among the civil servants of the imperial court, there may be the next Qi Tai. Qi Tai was not exposed himself, but because Yang Feng knew that he was in the original history
He was a character on the show, so she always kept an eye on him. The little princess also told Zhu Yunxi without catching him.
If not, he might still be serving as Minister of War.
Since he is like this, are there any other civil servants in the imperial court who are hiding deeper? Will they simply solve the problem fundamentally and kill the emperor directly? This is the simplest and most effective. As long as Zhu Yunxi dies, no matter Zhu Di or Zhu Yunwen
No one will carry out any more reforms, not even Zhu Di. Zhu Di is a replica of Lao Zhu, and he will only continue Lao Zhu's line.
In short, Zhu Yunxi is really in danger now.
but……
"Get to work quickly!"
Yang Feng shouted.
The men around him, who looked at him like they were worshiping gods, quickly started their work.
And their job is...
"Are you really using glass to build greenhouses and raise rice seedlings?"
Sister Liu said curiously.
"What else? The only thing that can be used in this era is glass greenhouses. Anyway, the cost is higher, but no matter how high the cost is, it will not be higher than transporting it by sea and land from thousands of miles away. Besides, burning glass is not expensive.
"
Yang Feng said.
Well, he's doing rice-ification.
This reclamation area is called Wuchang. If we don't produce rice, I'm really sorry for the name.
Because it is impossible to have a plastic greenhouse, he can only build a glass greenhouse. Now he is building it. The cost of this thing is not important. After all, he is burning the glass here. The sand is not valuable and the coal is mined by himself. And he uses cast glass.
In fact, there is no high-end technology to make a glass plate. It is just to make a thick polished steel plate, then pour the molten glass on it, and then use the screw above to press another polished steel plate to press it out.
Then use wood to make a frame and put the glass on it piece by piece.
The only danger is hail.
But this problem can be solved by adding a layer of movable wooden boards on top. Once it starts to rain, pull this layer of wooden boards up.
It can also be used to grow vegetables in winter, after all, the temperature inside cannot be too low.
It will be frozen and fried.
After all, it’s just raising seedlings.
Each production team has one to solve the supply of rice. After all, they can't keep losing money to feed the armies in Huining. If they want the Han people here to live in peace, they have to let them grow rice here. Although spring wheat and the like can also be used
However, due to seed restrictions in this era, the yield is simply not comparable to that of rice. A normal one is only about one and a half stone, but in a place like this, it may cost four or five stone to start. In the face of this yield gap, the cost is also
It is acceptable. The key is that the cost of transportation from the south to Huining is already extremely high.
No matter how high the cost of local production is, can it still exceed the cost of shipping from the south to Maokouwei, then transporting it by land to the Songhua River, and then transporting it over by water?
If calculated in terms of cost, one stone of rice purchased in the south only requires a pound of rice. The real price of transporting it here should be six to seven dollars. However, Yang Feng is not a businessman at all, and the rice he transports here is supplied under a rationing system.
No money is charged.
In fact, the land reclamation team members would exchange this rice with herdsmen and fishing and hunting tribes.
Eating meat is better than eating rice.
All in all, it is a good deal regardless of the cost.
Glass greenhouses are not disposable and can be used for decades if maintained.
This will be lower.
However, this model can only be operated by collective farms like him. Not even individuals, not even the military households in Huining, can operate this model. After all, military households are only based on families, and such a greenhouse is not something that families can do.
Can afford it...
"You have such energy and investment, where can you not be better than here, and you have to struggle with a place like this that is 30 degrees below zero?"
Sister Liu said.
"Nonsense, I belong to the Technological Demon Suppression. As long as I can turn this place into a farming area, there will no longer be those chaotic forces rising up and entering the border!"