A slightly solemn atmosphere permeates the main hall.

Li San's words made Xiao Ming frown gently. This organization, which is very mysterious in contemporary history, seems to be more active in this era.

If you don’t experience history personally, you cannot experience the taste of history. In the past, Xiao Ming just scanned it briefly in the book, but now he has to pay attention to it.

After all, he is now in the whirlpool of history, and the current situation is much worse than that of the present.

"They think their success in France can be replicated here? I'm delusional." Xiao Ming sneered and practiced, saying: "Continue to keep staring at them and have the chance to catch a living for me."

"Yes, the emperor." Li San responded.

After pausing, he continued, "Emperor, the officials thought that the Qinglong King is more troublesome than Cao Kun. Now, under his instigation, many people believed him and followed him to join the Merchant Council. There is still a nursery rhyme circulating."

"Oh? Let's hear it." Xiao Ming became interested.

Li Sannian said: "The dynasty prospered and the dynasty was destroyed. Since ancient times, poor and humble living were hard to survive. Open the door to welcome the Qinglong King. Discipline the young and old, lead the white horse and send wine. When the city gate is opened, it is the Dragon King. When the Dragon King comes, he will not pay food, he will not ask for his father or mother, and there will not be enough food for the Dragon King."

"Not paying food? How long can this beautiful lie last?" Xiao Ming sighed softly.

Li San said: "As Pang Shoufu said, the people are easily bewitched."

"Yes, the Qinglong King has succeeded once in Jizhou, and now he is more familiar with it." Xiao Ming clenched his fists.

Although he still has the title of an emperor, the system of the Great Yu Kingdom has become more and more modern and more suitable for the lives of the people.

In Xiao Ming's opinion, it doesn't matter whether he has the title of emperor. After all, even in a country with a monarchy in contemporary times, do their people live in dire straits?

What's more, what's the difference between the president and the emperor when commanding the head of the army? The only difference is that they made an illusion through the media.

For him, he can play this set, but what is the point? Who else in this era can be more forward-looking than him?

If the merchant parliament was changed to rule this country, it would be just a wealthy family who turned into a parliamentarian, just like the county magistrate transformed into a revolutionary in the late Qing Dynasty, everything would be changed without any medicine.

With these people's urinary nature, it is estimated that the Great Chongqing Kingdom will soon be divided and warlords will fight in a melee. After all, such things are learned from later generations.

"You don't have to worry about this matter. The Green Dragon King is just taking this banner now. He cannot fulfill his promise. What he needs most in war is food and grass. If he doesn't pay grain, he can only rob the grain. Whose grain? It's not the food of the people and the rich people who don't follow him. In the long run, they will be angry and resentful, and once the people understand, they will turn to me." Xiao Ming said confidently.

Now both the Merchant Parliament and the Green Dragon King are all grass-roots teams for him. This play can't be long, but there is no other reason, because he is confident that the national system after the reform is stronger.

The people's eyes are sharp. As long as they see the facts with their own eyes, they make the most correct choice, so now he only needs to manage the Chu State well.

In order to achieve this goal, he will mobilize students from the School of Government Affairs of Qingzhou University to work in Chu State. After years of training, his reserves are gradually abundant.

The most important thing is that he is preparing to completely transform the Chu State because the development potential from Suzhou to Lin'an is huge, and it is also a famous economic zone in later generations, especially Songjiang. This area is Shanghai in later generations, with unique geographical conditions.

"The emperor is far-sighted, but I am thinking too much." Li San breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Ming smiled and said, "But even so, in order to make the people surrender, your secret guards must also step up. The Qinglong King can bewitch the people, and you can do it too. As long as the people see a prosperous future, they will definitely turn back."

Li Sanchong nodded in a key position, "Don't worry, I will definitely live up to my expectations."

After saying that, Li San bowed and left.

When Li Sanyi left, Niu Ben and Luo Quan walked in, looked at the map, Niu Ben said: "Emperor, the materials and people in Suzhou City have been counted. The food and supplies in the city have been taken away by the parliamentary army. All those who were not taken away were burned. Many people were robbed of food and died. Moreover, there are only 800,000 people left in the city, and about 200,000 people are used as civilians who transport food and grass for the parliamentary army."

"Hahaha..." After hearing this news, Xiao Ming suddenly burst into laughter.

Niu Ben and Luo Quan asked in confusion, "Why is the emperor laughing?"

Xiao Ming explained: "What I laugh at is that the parliamentary army is just a group of bandits after all, and cannot be on the table."

Luo Quan and Niu Ben suddenly came to their senses, and Niu Ben said, "That's right, our soldiers never harass the people wherever they go, nor take anything from the people, nor kill the people. Now the parliamentary army not only burns food and grass, but also robs and kills them in order to collect food and grass, which will inevitably make the people hate them."

"That's what I'm talking about, so you must restrain the people and let the people see what it is like to enter the city. In addition, some military rations are distributed to the people so that the people can survive the cold winter." Xiao Ming said loudly.

The two nodded after hearing this.

Then Luo Quan asked: "Emperor, this is an attack plan formulated by me and others, and we will strive to recover the entire territory of Chu within two months."

Xiao Ming took it over and looked at it. The following was the order of the attack, the dispatch of the army and food. According to Luo Quan's plan, they would use Songjiang, Jiaxing and Suzhou as strongholds to advance steadily southward.

"Well, let's do it like this." Xiao Ming agreed. Two months are already very short. After all, the State of Chu is also relatively large. It takes a long time to walk from south to north and east to west.

...

Qingzhou is in full swing in the south, a major event is happening here.

After the hazy atmosphere of the students' escape, the power research room led by Su Liangcai successfully used the small thermal power generation facility to produce electricity.

After learning the news, Pang Yukun personally arrived at the scene. While the war was going on, various developments in the Great Chongqing Kingdom were also underway.

It was undoubtedly an encouraging event that Su Liang successfully made the power generation equipment run at this time.

"Shoufu Pang, please see." Su Liangcai all pointed at the equipment in front of him proudly.
Chapter completed!