In the eyes of the Nanjing court, the white-clothed army was the most cunning. They generally do not attack head-on, but deliberately make the situation very chaotic by inciting the locals to rebel. They deliberately gave some obsolete equipment or equipment captured from the Ming army to the locals to boost their ability to launch rebellion.

The local government could no longer control the situation, so they had to turn to the white-clothed army for help. As a result, the white-clothed army can justifiably and swaggeringly intervene. Facts have proved that as long as the white-clothed army intervenes, the final result will inevitably be that this area will completely fall into the control of the white-clothed army, and it will no longer have the slightest relationship with the Nanjing court. This method has been tried and tested time and again.

Even, in many cases, in order to take refuge in the white-clothed army, the local government took the initiative to seek leniency, simply made some small scratches on its own, and then invited the white-clothed army to station. This is tantamount to surrendering to the enemy in disguise and betraying the court in disguise. However, the imperial court did not have the slightest recourse in the face of the white-clothed army. Even protesting is impossible. Because, even a small protest may anger the white-clothed army, thus causing great disasters in Nanjing.

The current Nanjing Imperial Court, with the help of Xu Xingxia and Zhu Yilan's wedding, is desperately trying to maintain a good relationship with the White Army, so as not to offend the White Army. Otherwise, the white-clothed army concentrated its forces and swept across the south of the Yangtze River, and the Southern Ming Dynasty estimated that it would not take three months to completely collapse. When the time comes, some people will really want to learn from Lu Xiufu and jump into the sea with the last emperor.

Due to the scruples of the Southern Ming court, the white-clothed army was even more unscrupulous, constantly encroaching on the surroundings. By July of the first year of Taichang, the White Army had controlled most of the country. In most of the southwest region, the white-clothed army used this method to take down. The white-clothed army, as the mastermind behind it, almost did not waste a single shot and a single bullet, and incorporated a large number of areas into Kangzhong.

There is no way, the policy of the white army is indeed too agitatory. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor was already very serious. More than ninety percent of the country's wealth is concentrated in the hands of less than one-tenth. It is a common phenomenon that Zhumen wine and meat smell and there are frozen bones on the road. The people living at the bottom have a very difficult life.

This can be seen from the situation of the Xu family in Weizhenbao at the beginning. The original Xu family was a common portrayal of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, Xu Xingxia's birth would not have attracted so many poor people. The original white-clothed army was almost all composed of poor people who were hungry and had no next meal.

The success of the White Army, advanced weapons and equipment, of course, is a very important reason. However, the success of stirring up the anger of an entire class is also a very important reason. You must know that the number of people in this class accounts for more than ninety percent of the country's population.

In some areas that have suffered from famine, the local government has not been able to provide disaster relief, and the victims have even sold their sons and daughters, and they have been cannibalistic. They are truly nothing but a rotten life. It is conceivable what kind of feeling the arrival of the white-clothed army will bring to the local poor people. They have no choice, if they don't take up arms, it will be strange to follow the white-clothed army.

In the past, under the coercion of the imperial court, those ordinary people did not dare to rise up to resist by force, for fear that they would be accused of rebellion and exterminate their families. Now, with the support of the white-clothed army, they can do whatever they want. The crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan gradually shifted to the main body and to the local government.

In fact, with the intervention of the white-clothed army, the local government did not dare to bully and suppress the people at the bottom. They were afraid that after the white-clothed army came, they would be counterattacked. In other words, on the side of the white-clothed army, the four words of the counteroffensive are indeed too profound. It's entirely possible. Before, there were some typical examples.

Some stubborn local governments have suppressed the people who made trouble, and they have really killed some people, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as people with rolling heads and rivers of blood. At that time, the government officials who killed people were indeed addicted to murder. However, they soon found out that the bloody butcher's knife suddenly changed direction and fell on their heads.

When the white-clothed army came, they arrested all these murderers. The White Clothes did not kill people directly, but simply handed them over to the newly formed Autonomous Council. And the members of the self-government committees are the people who make trouble. They all said that there were relatives who died at the hands of those government officials. One can imagine the consequences of doing so. After such a lesson, the local government said that it would not dare to act rashly at all.

Don't talk about the local government, even the Nanjing court, don't dare to say anything, let alone do anything. In the face of the white army's approach, they could only pretend that they had not heard anything and seen nothing. They can't turn their faces with the whites. If he turns his face with the white-clothed army, Xu Xingxia gives an order, and the white-clothed army will march directly to Nanjing.

At that time, if the Nanjing Imperial Court did not want to follow Lu Xiufu's example and jump into the sea with the little emperor in his arms, it would have to surrender. Once they surrendered, they didn't even have the last chance to make a fortune. Therefore, Ye Xianggao and [***] Xing strictly restrained their subordinates, and they must not anger the white-clothed army, so as not to bring disaster to themselves.

In fact, many local officials did not have the idea of resisting the arrival of the white-clothed army at all. Because, some businesses in the local area also welcome the arrival of the white army. They wish that the White Army would arrive soon and implement the policies of the White Army. With them fanning the flames for the white-clothed army behind their backs, the resistance of the white-clothed army is even smaller.

For the vast majority of merchants, interests are the most important. In other words, the people who can work for them are the most important. Everything else, in the face of interests, is vulnerable. The court can help them to seek benefits, and they support the court. If the White Clothes Army can let them get more benefits, they don't mind letting the White Clothes Army replace the Nanjing Imperial Court at all! What is the crime of rebellion? What does it matter?

In a word, it doesn't matter who is the Emperor Yanjing, and it doesn't matter who rules the world, as long as it can bring me benefits. The current situation is that the imperial court can no longer meet the interests of these merchants, and only the white-clothed army can meet it, so of course they have to take the initiative to take refuge in the white-clothed army. After this village, there is no such shop.

"How are the other people feeling?" Star asked meaningfully.

"It's not very good." Ye Xianggao's tone was a little bitter and a little lost.

The other people mentioned by Xing were other high-ranking members of the Guiming Imperial Court. Don't look at the Southern Ming Dynasty that the court is dying, lingering, and may perish at any time. In fact, although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs. It turns out that there are many various institutions set up by the imperial court. Officials of all positions, and also a lot. Some positions, and several officials, overlap. Just by distributing the money that officials need, it was enough for Emperor Taichang to have white hair.

None of the people who can mix in the top are stupid. Ye Xianggao and [***] Xing are very shrewd, they have been planning their own back roads, and they have no intention of political affairs at all. What about other high-level executives? They are basically holding the court's money, and they are pondering how to live the next day after the night. This point is even clear to Emperor Yanjing of Taichang. The current Southern Ming Dynasty is just a roadside tea shed, which will eventually be annihilated by wind and rain.

It is no wonder that other high-level officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty have such a mentality of riding a donkey to find a horse. It's really hopeless for the Southern Ming court. They can't help but change, they have to change. The current Southern Ming Dynasty has no people, no money, no money, no food, and no army, so it can be said that there is nothing if you want anything. If they didn't change themselves, they would have to wait for the butcher's knives of the white-clothed army to land.

On the one hand, now they simply do not have the ability to violently confront the white-clothed army.

The combat effectiveness of the white-clothed army is already obvious to all, and it is simply impossible to defeat the white-clothed army militarily. At the beginning, the Southern Ming court also wanted to recruit a large number of Ming soldiers to fight against the white-clothed army in military strength. When the Southern Ming Dynasty was just established, the court once issued an edict to King Qin, hoping that troops would be formed from all over the country and go to King Qin in Nanjing. At that time, the Southern Ming Dynasty did gather more than 50,000 troops.

At that time, the Nanjing Imperial Court felt that the original Ming army's combat effectiveness was not good, all because of human problems. Without the command of outstanding generals, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army would be so poor. They were determined to promote Yuan Chonghuan to commander of the army. They pondered that now that the human problem has been solved, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army should rise. However, they soon discovered that by doing so, they were only hastening their own demise. And Yuan Chonghuan is also seriously lacking confidence in himself.

Yuan Chonghuan really has no confidence. It's not that the combat effectiveness of the white-clothed army is too strong, but that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army itself is too weak. The advantage of King Qin's edict is that a large number of troops can be gathered in a short period of time. In terms of the number of total troops, there is a relatively good figure. However, the fatal drawback of King Qin's edict is also here. There are a lot of people, but they are a rabble, each with its own mountain, and no one is willing to obey Yuan Chonghuan's command.

Those Qinwang's armies came from all over Jiangnan, and their composition was very complicated. Among them, there are white pole soldiers with high loyalty. The commander of the white pole soldiers is the famous female general Qin Liangyu. Qin Liangyu has always been loyal to the imperial court. There is no need to doubt this. Just by seeing that she was willing to give up her family safety in Banzhou and take the initiative to lead the army to Jinling, you can know that she will never abandon the imperial court. It would have been impossible to do this if someone else had done so.

(To be continued)