West Lake, Geling Cidi.

In Jia Yidao's calligraphy, only the two of them looked at each other silently. Li Tingzhi, Liang Chongru, and Weng Yinglong all went to work on their own things. Only Liao Yingzhong did not leave, and was still accompanying Jia Da traitor in this study.

The room was quiet, and only the soft sighs of the two of them could be heard.

I don't know how long it took before I heard Liao Yingzhong take a sharp breath and ask, "Taishi, really don't descend?" ”

The battle of Jiangnan cannot be won! Jia Yidao and Liao Yingzhong are both long-term military veterans, and this common sense is still there. Since ancient times, guarding the south of the Yangtze River is guarding the Yangtze River, and if the Yangtze River is lost, the south of the Yangtze River will fall. Now, the Ming army came from the sea, and the Yangtze River moat was completely useless! All the Great Song Dynasty could rely on was a few fortified cities and mountainous areas in western Zhejiang, Hunan and Jiangxi. At most, a few more days of delay, victory is impossible.

As for the way to make Chen Dexing have no military salary to pay by running on Tiandaozhuang, at most he can only postpone the outbreak of war. Because Jiangnan itself is very rich, Chen Dexing can completely replace military salaries and rewards with the method of plundering troops. Lin'an, Qingyuan, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Pingjiang, Huzhou...... These two Zhejiang prefectures are so rich, just break a state city and grab it for three days, and they are all more than 10 million yuan! If you can rush to Lin'an, you can get it even by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Since ancient times, there has been no one who can't beat Jiangnan because of lack of money!

Therefore, in the battle of Jiangnan, the Great Song Dynasty was dead and alive, defeated and unvictorious, and seeking nothing more than a decent ending.

As a Song minister, because Song died in the Ming Dynasty was the death of the country rather than the world, it seems that there is no need to be martyred. It seems that it is not impossible to surrender as a retainer...... Or. You can also come to surrender and go home to retire.

Anyway, Jia Yidao and Liao Yingzhong are already old. And they have a good relationship with Chen Dexing's father Chen Huaiqing, and they are protected by Chen's father. There is no problem with being rich.

Jia Rudao took a deep breath and said slowly: "If it weren't for the fact that the Taishang knew about the kindness, he pulled out a certain person in the market, granted heavy power, and made a certain young man gain his ambition, crisscrossing the two Huaijing Lake, and then became a handsome, and then a Taishi Pingzhang...... Such a blessing. Throughout history, how many people do you get? If I can't do my best and die, wouldn't I be as good as a beast, and I can still be regarded as a scholar? ”

Bow to the end, and then die...... These words came from the mouth of the traitor Jia Nidao, and they were a little incongruous.

However, Liao Yingzhong knew that Jia Rudao was not a fraud. There is no doubt that Jia Yidao is a traitor, and Liao Yingzhong himself is also a corrupt official...... Jia seems to be a party, which can be said to be both treacherous and greedy. If there are promising lords in power, they must be beaten as big tigers.

But traitors and corrupt officials may not love the Great Song Dynasty.

First, the Great Song Dynasty was more faint, and the discipline was relatively lax, and few corrupt officials and traitors were destroyed as tigers. Even if someone is unlucky. Most of the time it is also a political disadvantage. This faint monarch and traitorous minister and corrupt official are a perfect match, if there is no Great Song Dynasty, where can officials like Jia Yidao and Liao Yingzhong be greedy?

Second, it is still the 13th century. Outside the Central Plains is wilderness, and outside the south of the Yangtze River is barren land. Jia Rudao and Liao Yingzhong's net worth. No matter how many billions there are, they can only be placed in the Great Song Dynasty. If you put it in Jiangnan, there is no way to transfer it overseas.

As soon as the Great Song Dynasty is over, their net worth will be over...... Even if Chen Dexing makes them kings and marquises, he will not let them continue to occupy hundreds of millions of family fortunes!

Since ancient times, the ministers of the dead country are just saving their lives, where can they take care of their family property? To descend or not to descend, it is a bankruptcy.

Third, even if they resist to the end and fail to be captured in the end, Chen Dexing will probably not kill them. To resist in the end is to fight the old book! The two old men in their last years, without their strength, they have no threat to Chen Dexing, and they are Chen Dexing's elders and relatives of Chen Dexing. The relationship with Chen Huaiqing and Zhao Lin'er is so good. Chen Dexing has such a large amount, how can he not tolerate the lives of two people? It is nothing more than to capture the northern trap - in contrast, if they have heavy troops and are supported by Jiangnan scholars, they are the thorn in the side of Chen Dexing to eradicate!

Jia Yidao and Liao Yingzhong looked at each other, and in silence, they already understood each other's intentions - isn't it a little ambiguous? Fortunately, both of them are old men in their fifties, so they just occasionally hold hands and cry with their heads, so there shouldn't be anything, right?

Jia Rudao got up and said to Liao Yingzhong: "Qunyu, let it go!" I want Chen Dexing to know that my Confucian students in Jiangnan are all iron-clad! Hugh told him to underestimate those of us who read the books of the sages. ”

Liao Yingzhong stood up and bowed: "Student understands!" The students then set off with Sun Meichen to Qingyuan Mansion to preside over the run on Tiandaozhuang. ”

After finishing speaking, Liao Yingzhong turned around and was about to leave, but when he arrived at the door, he was stopped by Jia Yidao, "Qunyu, let Liang Yifu go to Qingyuan Mansion with you, and then send a boat to send him to Zhoushan." ”

Liao Yingzhong was stunned for a moment, then turned around and said, "Taishi, why don't we fight Chen Dexing to the end?" ”

Jia Rudao snorted: "Of course you have to fight!" He gritted his teeth, "But the way of negotiation cannot be broken, but there is a glimmer of hope for peace, we must also go all out!" ”

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The Zhoushan Islands, located off the coast of western Zhejiang, are now the territory of Zhejiang Province of the Ming Empire. At the same time that Chen Dexing was proclaimed emperor, the administrative region of the Ming Dynasty was also adjusted. In the south, two provincial-level administrative regions, Zhejiang Province and Fujian Province, and the Strait Governorate were established.

Among them, the governor of Fujian Province was appointed by Chen Huaiqing; The Governor of the Straits was Tran Tak-fong; The governor of Zhejiang Province was taken over by Deng Mingchao, the former prefect of the Ming Dynasty - the Ming Dynasty did not have the practice of locals not being local officials.

However, Deng Mingchao, the governor of Zhejiang Province, does not have much government affairs to manage now, and the current Zhejiang Province is just Changguo County and Shenjiamen City. Changguo County and Shenjiamen City have their own official offices and councils, and the provincial government yamen really doesn't have much to meddle in.

The political framework of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the Great Song Dynasty, and the basis was actually local autonomy, and the greatest function of the provincial government appointed by the central government was not to govern a province, but to supervise the autonomy of a provincial government. The local autonomy of the Ming Dynasty is, of course, autonomy under the norms of the Chen Li and other laws of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, in the autonomous prefectures, counties, and cities, there are also yamen directly under the central government of the Ming Dynasty, which are currently the local State Taxation Bureau, the Monopoly Bureau, and the Town Guard Embassy, and there will be additional local courts in the future. The local State Taxation Bureau and the Monopoly Bureau are in charge of the provincial government dispatched by the central government, and there is also a transportation bureau in charge of the province's roads under the provincial government, which is also in charge.

As for the town guard envoy, it is under the jurisdiction of the provincial governor's office. In the future, the local courts will be under the jurisdiction of the provincial courts and the grand courts of the imperial court.

However, Deng Mingchao is not an idle official who has nothing to do. In fact, he was very busy these days, busy receiving and relocating waves of Ming troops who arrived on Zhoushan Island from the sea. At the same time, he was also responsible for recruiting rebels, winning over the frustrated soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and then using them to organize "reserve officials" one after another, preparing to take over the political power as soon as the Ming army invaded Liangzhejiang, so as to avoid a power vacuum in the local area.

Dinghai Port.

Since July, there has been a steady increase in the arrival of the Northern Army. The place where the soldiers landed was not Shenjiamen, but Dinghai Port. Dinghai Port is a newly built port located on the southern shore of Zhoushan Island, surrounded by dozens of small islands, forming a natural sheltered anchorage. The Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy built forts and strongholds on these small islands, thus firmly guarding the anchorage and turning it into a huge military port.

Next to Dinghai Harbor is a large area of barracks and warehouses that are under construction or have been completed. By next spring, at least 100,000 Lu Shi and 50,000 people will move into it. There will also be countless grains, military supplies, weapons, ammunition, and all kinds of miscellaneous things from Beidi, Nanban, Goryeo, Japan, and even Gangnam locally, and stored in this warehouse.

The battle to conquer Jiangnan was not only fought with military strength, but also with national strength and financial strength.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has stronger national and financial resources, it is still far inferior to the Ming Dynasty in terms of mobilization capacity. After all, the latter already has a little bit of the rudiments of a modern state, and it is still a vigorous and up-and-coming country. But Da Song is old and unbearable, and he is about to die.

In the current Jiangnan, everyone who is on the table knows this. It's just that some people have too close a relationship with the Great Song Dynasty and have to advance and retreat with it. And some people can freely choose their camp and choose to stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ming is not Meng Yuan after all, and the death of Song in this time and space is just a change of surname in the world.

And the Ming Dynasty, which rose on behalf of the Song Dynasty, in a sense, was not the regime of the Han people in the north, but a combination of Jianghuai warriors and Jiangnan maritime merchants. Most of the officers in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty were Huaishang warriors, while most of the civilian officials came from the Jiangnan maritime merchant family.

The war that is about to take place is not so much a war between nations as a revolution – a revolution in which the feudal samurai and the emerging bourgeoisie join forces to overthrow the rotten bureaucratic regime!

So these days, there are many Jiangnan scholars who cross the sea from Qingyuan Mansion to seek a future.

Because Dinghai Port is only a strait away from Qingyuan Mansion, these scholars who cross the sea to vote often hire a fishing boat in Qingyuan Mansion and sail directly into the heavily guarded Dinghai Port.

In this regard, the Song army and navy defending the sea route of Qingyuan Mansion did not pay attention to it as long as they accepted bribes - they were not regimental soldiers, they were the imperial navy who had been stationed here to fight piracy and smuggling, and the maritime merchants of Shenjiamen had long been in ......

As for the Ming navy guarding Dinghai Port, it was naturally allowed all the way.

Liang Chongru also planned to return to Zhoushan to meet Chen Dexing via the Qingyuan-Dinghai route. Because it was a secret mission, he did not reveal his identity, but pretended to be a frustrated soldier, and a group of scholars who also did not look very proud, at this moment on a busy wharf in Haiyan Township, Dinghai County, on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, quietly waiting for the ship to send them across the sea. (To be continued......)