Chapter 2543 Guizi Scroll is challenging, wait

Both Jizhen and Xuanfu's armies were full of resentment towards Yuan Yingtai's command, thinking that Yuan Yingtai was unable to deal with the chaotic army facing the blazing flames. It was difficult to reverse, and even led to the gradual confluence of the rebellious troops from the north, the north and the south.

In particular, the rebellious army of Shunde Mansion moved northward and joined the Bailian Rebellious Army of Zhending Mansion, which made the Bailian Rebellious Army's momentum soar. The most powerful base of the army.

  Ten months have passed, and Yuan Yingtai has more than 50,000 Xuanfu and Jizhen frontier troops in his hands, but he has been unable to wipe out these Bailian rebellious troops rampaging in Northern Zhili.

  In the past ten months, Sun Chengzong has commanded Shanxi Town and Datong Town to completely extinguish the chaos in southern Shanxi, and also completely expelled Fengzhou Bailian from the border wall, restoring Shanxi Town's control over the border land.

  In the same ten months, Xiong Tingbi also basically wiped out the Bailian rebel army in the southern Shandong area, and the rest of the Shandong Bailian rebellion army was basically driven out and fled to the Beizhi area in the west.

From this point of view, it is not without reason that Yuan Yingtai failed to solve the Bailian Rebellion in Beizhi. The chaos in several prefectures in Shunde added a bit of flames.

  But although the situation in Shandong and Shanxi has been reversed, it does not mean that the entire Shanxi and Shandong are peaceful.

  The military disaster and the huge trauma caused by the drought caused small-scale civil unrest in Shandong and Shanxi provinces one after another. The remnants of the White Lotus Sect are still rampant in many remote mountainous areas.

  So neither Sun Chengzong nor Xiong Tingbi dared to take it lightly, and they were still tremblingly suppressing the two provinces, trying to survive the critical year of Wantong's three years.

   But all of this has nothing to do with Feng Ziying. What he has to do is to transport taxes and grain to Shandong and the capital as scheduled according to the requirements of the court.

During this year, Feng Ziying has not been idle. Since the imperial court has placed herself in the position of governor of Jiangnan, and there have been no wars and wars in Jiangnan this year, and the weather is not bad, then when the weather is good, Feng Ziying will naturally follow her own intentions. to move things forward.

For example, in the name of the governor's office, encourage industry and commerce and maritime trade, and support immigration to Dongfan, Luzon, and Jiugang. In particular, Jiangnan newspapers are required to introduce the geographical climate and product routes of Dongfan, Nanyang, and Ezo in a targeted manner, and Merchants are called upon to form an Exploration and Reclamation Association and Fund to support and support businessmen who are interested in overseas development.

   Like further promoting port construction, dredging rivers, building embankments and other transportation and water conservancy infrastructure, using some powers of the governor's office to deduct as much as possible the taxes turned over to the imperial court for local use, there is actually a lot of room for manipulation here.

In addition, in terms of education, Feng Ziying knew that it would be too risky to touch the interests of scholars, but in the name of setting up relief schools, he successively set up four businessmen in Xuzhou, Fengyang, Ningguo, and Songjiang to help those refugees or orphans. The main school mainly focuses on learning calligraphy and learning arithmetic, architecture, surveying and mapping, agriculture, shipping, machinery, woodworking, prospecting and smelting and other practical miscellaneous subjects. It has admitted more than 2,000 children and teenagers. After a few years of study, you can have a skill, and you can quickly find a bowl of food to eat without starving to death.

Even such a move caused a great commotion, because the establishment of a school was not to study classics, poetry, but to learn miscellaneous studies that scholars dismissed, and even to make a living. This is too demeaning up.

  However, Feng Ziying also specially recruited Xuezheng and some famous scholars and Confucians from the south of the Yangtze River, held a symposium at the original Nanjing Imperial College, and introduced her original intention.

The implication is that after all, not everyone can persevere from a child to a scholar, from a scholar to a scholar. After more than ten or twenty years of hard study, learning these miscellaneous studies and livelihood skills can also help those who have no land and no land. The children of poor families are looking for an opportunity to earn a living in the shortest time. This is also considered from the perspective of saving people with benevolence and righteousness, which barely quells these criticisms.

  Feng Ziying feels that she has done quite a lot this year, especially in the field of "miscellaneous studies education", which she thinks is perfect, especially in places like Jiangnan, where it is not easy to make a breakthrough.

Of course, there are scholars here who don’t pay attention to this. In their minds, poetry, scriptures, classics, and current affairs are the core of the imperial examination. This is the eternal truth. , It is possible to make a living, but it is impossible to be an official.

  In general, Feng Ziying believes that she has consolidated her original business allies in a year, further promoted the transformation of some enlightened gentry into industrial and commercial owners, and at the same time started to make a start in training talents for the industrial and commercial industries.

  Of course, some infrastructure construction that benefits the local area is also essential. This is a necessary means to win the hearts and minds of the people. Of course, he will not be stingy.

  But if this continues, it seems that better results can be achieved, but Feng Ziying feels a little boring, and he is more eager for some transformative things to challenge himself.

   Liu Dongyang played very well in Shanxi.

  Of course, this was due to Qiu Zixiong's sudden rebellion and surrender, which immediately caught the rebel army by surprise.

  Especially Liu Dongyang and Qiu Zixiong chose the best time for a decisive battle before making a move, which can be said to have directly led to a sudden reversal of the entire Jinnan battle.

  After this battle, Liu Dongyang led the Northwest Army to take advantage of the situation and attack all the way from Jiezhou to Pingyang Fucheng. The rebel army could no longer organize a decent resistance.

   Then Liu Dongyang took advantage of the opportunity to insert into Lu'an Mansion from the north of Wuling Mountain, split the Jinnan rebellious army into two pieces, and wiped them out one by one, and the battle in southern Shanxi came to an end.

After the situation in southern Shanxi opened up, Sun Chengzong commanded the Datong Army to launch a fierce attack on Fengzhou Bailian, who lived on the front line from Piantouguan to Laoyingbao. Finally, in March of the third year of Wantong, Fengzhou Bailian was expelled from the side wall and re-stabilized. The border defense line of Shanxi Town.

  The whole situation in Shanxi has stabilized, and Sun Chengzong has once again proved his status as a civil servant and military commander.

  Now the civil servants and the military are known as the Three Heroes, Feng Keng, Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi, Feng Ziying is the first, Sun Chengzong is the second, and Xiong Tingbi is the last.

But even so, many people think that Xiong Tingbi is not as good as these two if he wants to be side by side. He didn't fight well in the Battle of Bozhou and the later She'an Rebellion, and he relied on his strength and logistics. The death of Yang Yinglong and She'an's family also cost the court several times more money than originally expected.

  Thinking about on the bed, Tanchun next to him also put his face on Feng Ziying's shoulder, "Does my husband still want to fight this battle?"

Feng Ziying laughed dumbfounded, and shook her head: "It doesn't make much sense to take over now, unless the situation is really out of control, but Jiangnan seems to be too step-by-step, and some things you want to do can't be done in Jiangnan, and you can't go back to the capital." There is no way to do it, so I have a heart to serve the country, but I can only sigh."

Tanchun can feel the emotions in her husband's heart, but her husband is too young and has only a few years of experience in officialdom. It is not easy to get to this point. If you go one step further to become a second-rank Shangshu or Du Yushi, Even going further into the cabinet is not something that can be done in a short period of time.

"Sir, I thought it would be better for you to stay in Jiangnan and do some things you think you can still do. Besides, the many things you did in Jiangnan this year have been greatly welcomed by the gentry and the people? Yes It seems that people from the Shanshan Chamber of Commerce will come to visit you these two days, right?"

   Tanchun reminded.

   Of course Feng Ziying will not forget.

  Yangzhou salt merchants finally took the first step in transformation. They cooperated with merchants from Shanshan and Shanxi to follow the example of the Gyeonggi coal and steel complex, and began to establish the first large-scale steel and coal complex in Nanzhili in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou has the Liguo Iron Mine that has been mined since the Han Dynasty. It has the most abundant coal resources in the South Zhili area. In addition, it is located in the north-south hub with a canal running through it. It is not far from the largest consumer market in the south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that the development The coal and steel industry is uniquely endowed.

  Shanxi merchants have long coveted it, but this is the territory of Nanzhili. Without the cooperation of Jiangnan merchants, they would not be able to set foot here.

Similarly, Jiangnan merchants are also extremely envious of the booming industries such as coal, iron, and cement building materials that have emerged in the Northland merchants in the Northland. However, due to the lack of necessary new iron smelting technology and cement manufacturing technology, they can only watch helplessly. Iron materials, ironware, coal, and cement traveled southward by sea and canal to occupy the Jiangnan market.

With the development of industries such as shipbuilding and car manufacturing in the south of the Yangtze River, the demand for iron materials and ironware is also increasing. Whether it is local or from Guangdong, iron materials are far from meeting local needs, and Guangdong iron materials and ironware are now rising with the sea. , More began to be exported to Southeast Asia and Japan, so the gap was even bigger, and we could only rely more and more on iron materials and ironware from the North.

  So merchants in the south of the Yangtze River urgently need to develop their own local iron smelting industry.

   Now that Governor Xiao Feng has come to Jiangnan, he immediately promoted the cooperation between Shanshan merchants and Jiangnan merchants, and established a new large-scale coal and iron complex in Xuzhou. Jiangnan salt merchants took the lead, and Dongting merchants also participated in capital.

  According to the plan, the scale of such a coal-iron complex enterprise will not be lower than that of the current Gyeonggi coal-iron complex. It will largely meet the demand for iron materials and ironware in the south of the Yangtze River, and will supply the Huguang area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

"Hey, I say I'm free, but I'm not. I just don't think these things are challenging. Forget it, just get up." Feng Ziying stretched her waist, "Servant Shu Cuimo, listening to the bed is enough. Now, let's wait for the master to get dressed."

  (end of this chapter)