The reason for the peace prodigal faction is very simple, but it seems very sufficient in Emperor Jianxing's opinion.

According to their statement, Bao Longtu believed that the Jurchens were unable to move south, which was just a guess.

But there is a possibility of guessing wrong!

If the Jurchens are ignored and the achievements made in the previous few peace talks are abandoned, once the Jurchens are angry and go south, Bao Zheng is wrong, which is to put the emperor and the Great Zhou people in a fatal danger!

As for the proposal of the war-first faction to the Northern Expedition... this is even more worth refuting.

The peacemakers firmly grasped Emperor Jianxing's heart that his own security was more important than anything else, and finally won the debate.

The result of the court discussion was that the officials of the pro-war camp hung seals regardless of the emperor's retention.

This may be the Great Zhou... No, the first time in the history of this plane that a certain political faction collectively resigned.

By the way, I would like to give you a gift from Bao Zheng who is deeply loved by the people.

Before Emperor Jianxing accepted the resignation of the pro-war leader, the people were completely furious by the quarrels in the court.

With the secretly fueled by the officials of the war, various facts and rumors complemented each other, causing the civilians in the area controlled by the Great Zhou to fall into complete chaos.

First of all, there is a fact: as part of the marriage, the Jurchens asked the Dazhou to give birth to dowry three thousand craftsmen.

As soon as this news came out, the craftsmen of the Great Zhou, mainly Lin'an Prefecture and its surrounding areas, began to flee on a large scale.

This is a wonder. Without being threatened by real war, civilians in a country actually generated a large number of technical refugees because of fear of hostile countries!

At first, only a few blacksmiths prepared for the future, but later, after the news was confirmed, the situation began to become serious.

Some clerks immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to make money. They took the pretext of the court recruiting craftsmen and wanted to seize civilians (regardless of whether they were craftsmen or not, everyone had some skills, and the Jurchens were not sure what kind of craftsman they were). They were allowed to go home only after paying high amounts of money.

If the payment amount is larger, the clerks even promised that the marriage would not involve such personnel (will actually affect them, the clerks would not care).

The matter of the craftsman has not yet settled, and a rumor emerges: In order to calm the anger of the Jurchens, the emperor planned to choose 10,000 young and beautiful unmarried women from the people and hand them over to the Tartars!

If the craftsmen went north just lost their personal freedom, there was still a way out. What would happen if a beautiful woman fell into the hands of the Tartars? The people didn't even dare to think about it!

Although this is indeed a rumor, there are things that craftsmen in front of him to make up for the basics. People who are not well-informed should believe it even if they don't believe it. What's more, the emperor is resigning for Bao Longtu and the officials of the war faction, which has caused a headache for the government leader and faction to be completely dominant, and he did not order the rumor to be clarified.

So, the disaster began.

Families with young unmarried daughters at home began to join the ranks of fleeing or bribing clerks. Some people realized that bribery was not safe, so they still ran away after bribery.

The people of Lin'an Prefecture are in a state of turmoil, and all surrounding areas are not much better. Many civilians even fled directly into the mountains and became fugitives!

The clerks in the Great Zhou Dynasty were like celebrating a festival, and they were full of energy. The heads and sects who presided over the court could naturally share a lot of money (they would not take action themselves, but their families and relatives would, and in the end they would still flow into their pockets).

This is a carnival in which officials and clerks combine. Everyone who can get benefits from it can't help but reach out, and create bigger rumors to become the promoter of it.

So, bigger rumors really came.

Some people claimed that the court would pay the Tartars ten million yuan of annual monies and "doll"!

The clerks immediately pushed forward the rumors, saying that the court did not have that much cash (Is it true that the people don’t know if it is really not), so they demanded that from now on, the summer grain and autumn taxes will be changed to paying money instead of paying food!

In this society with extremely underdeveloped market economy, the hard currency among ordinary people can only be food. Even in a good harvest, they cannot reserve a large amount of money at home.

This means that if you want to pay the tax, the civilians in Jiangnan must sell their food first, and there will undoubtedly be a layer of skin by the family members of officials and clerks during this period!

This is nothing. Experienced clerks and local officials are very clear that if this kind of rumor continues and even becomes a real policy, in just two or three years, self-cultivated farmers and even small and medium-sized landlords who lack the ability to negotiate with the government will fall into the bankruptcy trap.

The prices of grain and land will have a plunge, when officials, clerks, and landlords and gentry all have the opportunity to swallow large tracts of land and tenants at extremely low prices and gain greater wealth.

Countless gentry and wealthy families saw this opportunity. They were ready to wait for the feast that was about to begin...

...

Xu Shiyang didn't know the chaos in Jiangnan now, and his Dengyingzhou had just arrived at Rizhao Port.

On the way back, Xu Shiyang did not engage in pirate activities. It was not that he didn't want to, but that he could not find a suitable target. Now most of the pirate ships traveling from the Li Pirate Group to the Nagasaki Frontier are pirate ships.

The Xu family is currently ally with the Li family, so of course it is impossible to rob them.

The Japanese pirate ship seemed to have undergone a strategic contraction due to the activeness of the Li group, and it was not seen at all along the way.

Rizhao Port is now unprecedentedly prosperous, and it can even be said to be a bit too prosperous.

The port facilities of this small private port cannot accommodate the fleet that transports supplies to the Xu family at the same time. The transport ship is not done when it reaches the place. The minimum condition is to ensure that the supplies can be unloaded in time and enter the reserve or transportation state.

The Zhang family in Rizhao could not do this at all, so at least 20 ships parked outside the port every day, waiting to line up to enter the port.

As one of the core leaders of the Qingzhou Army, Xu Shiyang himself did not have to queue outside the port, but before landing, he did see the ships waiting to unload.

After landing, the people who followed Xu Shiyang south breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time - although Jiangnan is good, it is not his hometown after all, and now they are finally back home.

Afterwards, Xu Shiyang entered Rizhao without stopping and negotiated with the main leaders of the Zhang family.

It was not until this time that Xu Shiyang roughly understood the current situation in Qi Province:

After Xu Muhe killed people and established his authority, the Qingzhou army made obvious progress.

The newly attached fortress has been stalemate between the two Qingzhou Prefecture and Changle County yesterday, and the direction of Weixian is still in a stalemate, but I think the opposite side can't hold on for long.

But there is bad news.

Some newly joined docks have obvious tendencies to be unstable. They are afraid that they will become the next chicken to be killed to warn monkeys, and seem to have the idea of ​​uniting against the Xu family.
Chapter completed!