After sending Wang Baoxian away, Yang Feng did not make any major moves until the end of the year, but just stayed in Nanjing City to train the army, cultivate talents, and preside over arms production.

Of course, he still pretended to force it once.

In a shocking way, he solved the problem of insufficient salt in Nanjing.

Although there is no shortage of food in the city, and the vegetables are enough, but the salt is seriously insufficient, after all, it is impossible to hoard too much salt in Nanjing before, although there is a small amount of contraband after the siege, but it is completely a drop in the bucket, so Xianzun had to take action, his solution is to let the people empty a larger pond, and then let Xiaoqian pour a whole pond of seawater into it. This kind of violent solution shocked the jaws, but it also made the people of Nanjing no longer think about the lack of materials, with this simply omnipotent Immortal Venerable, everyone should not think about anything else, just follow him wholeheartedly.

The Holy Cult Army outside of Nanjing also temporarily halted its initial offensive.

Wang Cong'er and Bi Yuan confronted each other across the river on the hundreds of miles from Hankou in the east to Yichang in the west.

Song Zhiqing and Yao Zhifu on the northern line guarded Yunyang, Wuguan and Yuzhou and other places, blocking the Qing army from the north to the south, at this time Qianlong mobilized from Shanxi and Zhili The green battalions have arrived at the battlefield, but these green battalions have not fought for many years, and the combat effectiveness is completely a tragedy, although Song and Yao are all volunteers, but relying on the cannons and new flintlock pistols continuously manufactured in Xiangyang, they also firmly held the cities on the northern line.

After moving the production base from Huanglongguan to Xiangyang and launching the national military industry, the production of flintlock pistols in Xiangyang has increased to 3,000 per month, and even the seamless steel pipes left by Yang Feng have been used up, and now they have to change to use wrought iron to roll the barrel, these flintlock pistols with wrought iron barrels not only armed Song and Yao Erbu, but also provided to Liu Zhixie of Huoshan, who failed to attack Lu'an Prefecture under the desperate resistance of the regimental training and had to retreat to Huoshan, but Ran Tianyuan and others in Sichuan still could not get it, Because the Qing army still controlled the cities in the Three Gorges, Gao Wensheng and others who raised troops in Xixiang joined forces with the Xu Tianshou brothers, but they also failed to capture Xing'an Mansion, so that the two water and land passages with Sichuan were not opened.

and the steel pipe flintlock pistol was all given to Wang Cong'er.

Her fairchild status is more effective than Zhang Cuncheng, the prime minister.

In fact, all the armies in Hubei listened to her.

After all, she is not only the person around Xianzun, her mother also holds the financial power of the Holy Sect, and there are more than 10,000 invincible elite cavalry under her command, and she has already disobeyed Xiangyang's orders, and as a result, she led her subordinates to go straight to the barracks and arrest them to shoot targets.

Wang Sanhuai and Leng Tianlu of Sichuan outside Hubei failed to attack Chongqing, Wang Sanhuai lacked vigilance against those gentry, because a magistrate had a reputation for being honest and lied about surrendering, deceived him into meeting and then ambushed and captured, and then sent to Chongqing Lingchi, becoming the first great patriarch of the Holy Sect martyrdom, Leng Tianlu led his subordinates to retreat to Dazhou. However, their defeat was largely due to the lack of unity among the various ministries in Sichuan, Luo Qiqing, Long Shaozhou, Ran Wenyu and others did not participate in the battle of Chongqing, and only cared about expanding in eastern Sichuan, which eventually led to the defeat of Chongqing by Wang Sanhuai's lone army.

And Ran Tianyuan didn't dare to continue to go deep alone.

He crossed the Fujiang River after the battle was killed, but the lack of logistics had to stop at Suining.

The Xu Tiande brothers retreated to Bazhou after the defeat in Xing'an Province.

In fact, at this time, all the armies in Sichuan were a little unhappy, mainly because the gentry organized more and more regimental training, Wang Sanhuai was arrested by the regimental training, at present, the Holy Religion control area is mainly Bazhou, Dazhou and then Suining, basically northeast Sichuan but failed to reach the Yangtze River, and there are also a large number of regimental training fortresses in the control area. If according to the normal development, at most there will be almost a year, the armies of Sichuan will have to be broken by each one, originally in history they failed in this way, originally in history Ran Tianyuan array slashed Zhu Shooting Dou to shock Sichuan, but in the steady stream of Qing troops and landlord armed attacks in Sichuan, still held out for five years after being wiped out by the Qing army.

Of course, this will not be the case for their future.

Because soon Yang Feng should be out of the nest.

The two righteous armies of Nanlong and Qianbei also had to continue to be trapped in the mountains and forests under the attack of Zhu Shudou, and their turning point had to wait for Wang Nangxian to return, the latter took this trip is not easy, especially the return journey is a lot more burden, Yang Feng arranged a return route for them is to take a sea ship specially used by Wu Bingjian to trade with him, go south to Guangdong from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and with the help of the Wu family, take the land route back to Guizhou, although it takes a long time, but it can ensure safety, after all, the Wu family is still very energetic in Liangguang.

However, Liu Zhaokui of Shandong has intensified during this time.

With the foundation of the Bagua Sect, coupled with the famine that began to spread throughout Shandong......

This is the result of Qianlong's increased looting.

After losing the granary of the Jianghan Plain and cutting off Sichuan's grain export channel, in order to maintain the operation of hundreds of thousands of troops in the south, Qianlong could only intensify the looting of the northern provinces, but the northern provinces did not have much grain in the first place, and Beijing used to rely entirely on the southern transportation to maintain it, but now it has suddenly increased the pressure of looting to the northern provinces, and if nothing happens, it will be abnormal. Originally, this year Shandong was only a few prefectures and counties of local famine, but now it is spreading to the whole province famine, in this case, Liu Zhaokui can be said to be like a fish in water, by the end of the year his men and horses have exceeded 30,000, and even conquered Yicheng, although then withdrew to the Weishan Lake area, but let the Qing army in Shandong have to be tired of tossing with him.

However, at this time, Dengzhou and Qingzhou, where the famine was most serious, there were large-scale grain grabbing incidents, and the people in the famine poured into various yamen to loot the grain that was originally going to be transported to the southern front.

But......

"Counting on a peasant uprising is not enough after all!"

Yang Feng said with emotion.

In fact, by now, after the initial chaos, with the armed forces of the landlords joining the battlefield, the rebel armies of all stripes have shown signs of weakness.

This is also normal.

The reason why he created such a large formation with his troops was mainly due to preliminary preparations, and the most powerful ones were Xiangyang, Yunyang, and Nanyang, but these three mansions were because the Worship God Sect had already infiltrated the past in the previous year, not only had a large number of believers, but also completed the layout of the command system through the clerical system. In the end, Wang Cong'er killed Santua in a battle, reversing the situation in northern Hubei, and then all that was left was to destroy the withering and decaying, and Sichuan, Anhui, and Henan were worse, because the Holy Religion in these places only had preliminary infiltration, and the situation in Hunan and Guizhou was even worse, because there was only sporadic infiltration.

It can be said that sufficient preparation has made the Holy Religion a brilliant year.

But not outside the scope of the spread of the Holy Religion.

Even outside the scope of the spread of the Holy Religion, the demonization of him and the worship of God are constantly circulating through the mouths of the gentry who have the right to speak, and are even becoming the mainstream of the people.

For example, although he occupied Nanjing, there has been no response from Jiangsu and Zhejiang until now.

This kind of thing is also normal, after all, the gentry have the right to speak among the people, and it is difficult for the common people at this time to distinguish too much, even if the demonization of Taizu in the early days is also very serious, Yang Feng, who has just started for two years, cannot do better.

It is precisely because of this that he not only did not wait for the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to raise troops to respond, but the regimental training of the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was formed at a very fast speed, and in addition to the fortress of Fu'ankang around Nanjing, a large number of gentry's dock forts were also built, and even Yangzhou and Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places have set up foreign gun teams, and they use real foreign guns and foreign cannons, and they can buy what they need from the Portuguese in Macao or from the Dutch on the island. Qianlong's officials certainly did not have this kind of efficiency, but it was easy for these Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry who were familiar with maritime trade to buy this, and even Wu Bingjian told Yang Feng that the Pan family, the boss of the Thirteen Lines, was contacting the British for the Manchu government to buy new guns from the latter.

In the final analysis, Yang Feng was just a surprise to the gentry at first, and when this suddenness passed, and those gentry reacted, their strength began to show.

Obviously, it is not enough to simply fight local tyrants and divide the land.

After all, the peasant uprising still had its limits.

And relying on clan relations, relying on the grasp of the right to speak, relying on the coercion of generations, those gentry still have the upper hand after reacting, just look at those regiments on the battlefield who can fight better than the Qing army, Yang Feng is also helpless, after all, even Taizu will have to take decades to really solve this problem, he has only been two years in total, and he can do this step now......

To be able to do this step is to rely on him to pretend to be a god and make use of the people's natural fear of immortals.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to get out of Xiangyang Mansion.

But then it was different.

At this time, Yang Feng was standing on the tower of the rebuilt Chengtianmen City.

During this time, in order to ensure the retention of Xianzun, the people of Nanjing can be said to have done everything, in addition to building a new fairy palace for him, the walls of the imperial city and the palace city were all rebuilt, although it was impossible to reach the level of the Ming Dynasty, but all the city gates were rebuilt, even the noon gate was renovated, of course, including the main gate of the imperial city, and also included the huge square outside the gate.

At this time, a large army was marching forward in this square. [.]