The first round of siege lasted for three days.

Although the Hongguang Army knocked the city walls around Fengtai Gate into ruins in three days, it had no practical significance.

Their attack on the ruins would always be pushed out by the defenders in the city.

Then hundreds of thousands of militiamen in the city will build new walls in a short period of time to block the gap they blasted open.

The cavalry would rush out from the city to fight back every time the Hongguang army retreated. The end result was that corpses were everywhere outside Fengtai Gate for three days. However, Yang Dashen was very kind and allowed them to go to the battlefield to carry away the wounded and dead bodies. Then the wounded soldiers who were carried back wailed all night and even died soon because of their serious injuries. Their tragic ending quickly made the morale of the Hongguang army collapse.

Three days later they stopped attacking.

However, the battle situation on the outside is quite beneficial to them.

Because Qi Jin lost ammunition supplies, he finally evacuated Caishiji, which he had defended before, and then went to Lishui to meet with Mao Guoqi Department.

Jurong, which they and Chen Yan held, and Zhenjiang formed a barrier to the east of Nanjing.

However, the armies in the east, led by Liu Yuanlin did not attack. They were very self-aware and knew the quality of the temporary workers under their command.

Moreover, at this time, the wheat harvests were all over the place, and the gentry did not want to fight, because the Yangtze River was still blocked by war, and the food in the upper reaches still cannot reach the lower reaches. Therefore, this season's wheat harvest is also very important to them. The grain prices in the industrial zone with Suzhou as the core rise every day. After harvesting these wheat will bring huge income to the gentry in various places...

Making money is the most important thing.

Even the Zhejiang gentry behind Liu Yuanlin deliberately maintained this situation.

Because the Yangtze River shipping is blocked, the upstream food must be taken south.

That is, it transports water from Jiangxi to Yushan east of Shangrao, and then goes to Jiangshan through a very short land route and then continues to transport water from Quzhou and heads east to Hangzhou and then transfers to Suzhou. This was the main external grain source in Zhejiang in the past, and the main battlefield for the people of Jiangxi to block grain ships. But now the soaring grain prices in Suzhou Industrial Zone have made operating this route a huge profit. The gentry of Zhejiang who control this route hopes that Yang Feng will be blocked in Nanjing for the rest of his life.

Jiangbei is still in a confrontation.

Because the salt induction system has actually collapsed, private salt dealers are happily embracing freedom.

Although the war blocked the shipping of the Yangtze River, everyone could still go to the Huai River, so the gentry in Hefei was very happy.

They have the final say whether Huaiyan is connected or not!

From Huai'an water transport to Shouzhou, transfer to Dongfei River to Hefei, and then transfer to Fei River to Chaohu Lake in the south and enter the Yangtze River.

Who doesn’t like a good day to collect tolls?

So the most urgent thing in this war is Huguang and Jiangxi. Originally, they could have transported grain directly to Suzhou to sell, but now they have to find a middleman.

This is also the reason why they work so hard.

But there is no way to break Nanjing. Even if the Caojiang Navy downstream is less than ten miles away, the latter is currently stationed in Kuabu and often attacks the river near Xiaguan. Not only can they see each other with the upper reaches of the navy, but the generals of both sides have even met on the land on the north bank. However, the giant cannon and the warships of the Yangtze River Navy on Lion Mountain are stuck between their armies, making them unable to pass the last five kilometers.

This is the Yangtze River.

Let alone five kilometers.

Even fifty meters are not enough!

If it is blocked, it is blocked.

On the contrary, the gentry Su Song, as consumers, is not in a hurry. After all, they will not buy food for food. The bad luck is the small weaver owner, and the rising raw materials are also the bad luck. The final result is that the small weaver owner goes bankrupt and is merged by these big capitalists, just like the landlords taking the opportunity to merge land in the disaster year. Therefore, those big factory owners are also deliberately promoting this situation. After all, the war is just a special situation. At this time, less money can be made, but this can be used to force the small workshop owners to complete the bloody expansion of the capitalists.

Driven by this war, the budding of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty began to truly drill out of the ground and stretch their first leaves.

And the one who is anxious is Huguang and Jiangxi.

Therefore, Dong Yu was able to piece together more than 100,000 troops to head south in a short period of time.

And Yang Feng was not in a hurry in Nanjing.

He doesn't lack food here.

Nanjing has the largest grain reserve warehouse in Jiangnan in the past, while Zhenjiang has the largest grain transportation transit station in Jiangnan in the past.

How can there be food shortage in this kind of place?

On the contrary, he is still very satisfied with the current situation...

"It's so energetic!"

Yang Dashuai rode his horse and walked on the streets of Nanjing with satisfaction.

Next to him was a group of militia carrying spears, each of which was full of energy, and they were not as timid as the people in the past, and their heads were raised and their chests were raised. It seemed that their ancestors had spears on their shoulders and their waists were all kinds of weapons of their choice, such as short swords, triangular pyramids, and even small hammers and small axes. Their standard weapons were spears and muskets, but these short weapons were casual.

But most of them are triangular pyramids.

It is lightweight and easy to make, and you can even make it by finding an iron stick at home.

And there were some children running beside them, holding knives made of bamboo, and chopping each other like adults.

The second generation of the troublemakers was born like this.

A team of cars carrying food passed by. The big buckets on the car emitted the aroma of rice, and there were thermal quilts around it. The car behind them was obviously fish. Although there was indeed relatively few meat in the city, there were as many fish as possible. Yang Feng had already let go of Xuanwu Lake and went in to fish casually. No one had been fishing there for more than two hundred years. Because the entire Xuanwu Lake is the storage place of Huangcai, even ordinary people, even officials must approve it.

It was filled with fish.

These food delivery players will always deliver the food to the forefront.

There is also a storyteller at the intersection of the street in the distance who is talking about the legend of heroes.

At this time, the legend of heroes had already become popular. The earliest modern edition was preserved in the 18th year of Wanli. As for whom the author was, I don’t know. The novel industry in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous, but it is enough to ignore the copyright issue. Book merchants from all over the country pirated each other, and often a popular novel was released in a short time. As for who was the original author, it was difficult to find out. It might be that a publishing group hired gunmen...

Really.

Yu Xiangdou, a publisher in Jianyang, Fujian, hired a large number of unsuccessful scholars at home, and then gathered together to create best-selling books under his name, such as Travels in the South and Travels in the North.

It has the style of Dumas.

But it is hard to say who wrote it, it can only be counted on him.

Moreover, his approach can be regarded as a standard way of playing among booksellers at this time. Anyone who has hope for the imperial examination will definitely not do it, but scholars who have completely given up on their future.

There is also copyright awareness.

If you retweet something, you will be written on the cover, and if you are cruel, you will also curse the whole family to death.

But in fact, it's just incompetent fury.

The storyteller was quite popular, and there were many idle people gathered around him, and cheers came from time to time. What surprised Yang Feng was that there was a green insect standing there silently...

"Call him over!"

Yang Feng said.

Yang Hu immediately dismounted and took two soldiers over. In the astonished gaze of the green insect, he directly led him to the shade of the tree where Yang Feng stopped.

The green worm looked at him silently.

"Where are you from, and whose name is?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Xu Guangqi, a student of Songjiang Prefecture, met Kaiyuan Bo!"

The latter finally saluted and said.

"Since I'm a student in Songjiang, why are you a spy for the rebel party in Nanjing?"

Yang Feng shouted.

Lao Xu is not young, and looks older than Wanli, but it is not uncommon for him to be a student at his age. It is not rare for him to be a child in his fifty years. In this era, the imperial examinations were also very serious. After all, the students and juren in the Ming Dynasty had fixed quotas, and as long as he passed the exam, he could keep taking the exam. As long as he did not want to be an official directly, he could keep taking the exam.

So in the current examination, there are usually as many as 5,000 Juren who take the examination, most of whom are actually accumulated over the years.

All white-headed ones.

The same is true for scholars to take the imperial examination.

"Kaiyuan Bo, the student originally came to Nanjing to wait for the provincial examination, but because the court started a war, he was unable to return home and had to stay in Nanjing."

Xu Guangqi said.

"So that's it. Since it's not a conspirator of the rebel party, you can go to the commune to get a pass and then return to your hometown with the pass. As for the provincial examination, the provincial examination has not yet been decided, but you can rest assured that the imperial examination is a system of talent selection by the court, and it will definitely be done in the future. The imperial examinations in the past were too outdated and needed to be carried out after reform."

"Kaiyuan Bo said that the imperial examination would not be abolished?"

"Of course not. How to select talents for the imperial examination will not only not be abolished, but will also be expanded. In the future, all officials will be admitted to the imperial examination."

Yang Feng said.

There is no problem with the imperial examination system itself.

There are problems with the exam, so what is needed in the future is just transformation, but the transformation process will be very long. In short, his soldiers and militia night school education will definitely not start the imperial examination again before it truly cultivates enough talents, otherwise it will be cheaper for Confucian scholars. After three or five years, the night school education in various places will be able to re-open the imperial examination. At that time, what needs to be taken is definitely not the Four Books and Five Classics. After the Confucian scholars only have two items left to learn literacy and be able to write articles, it is actually no different from the militia trained by a night school.

They all stand at the same starting point.

"It seems that you have a lot of misunderstanding about me. I am not a demon king in the world. Everything I do is for the Ming Dynasty to restore peace and prosperity. It's just that the means are unusual. But I am now terminally ill and can only save it with extraordinary means. You are also a wise man. I am in a good mood today, so I will just have a good chat with you and bring this Xu Sheng to him, so that he can know what is for the country and the people, and what is a true loyal minister."

Yang Feng said.

The negotiations are temporarily on hold.

Nanjing is indeed not short of food, but the capital is definitely short of food!

He did block the Yangtze River, but the downstream also blocked his grain transport to the capital!

Make an exchange!
Chapter completed!