Three people meeting in their heads.

Xiaohuan is still making telephone lines.

His head was lying on Zhao Han's side, and his feet were dangling on Jia Rong's side.

As scary as you want.

Zhao Han quickly told the other two people about the capital's information.

In fact, the court affairs at this time did not have a good sense of confidentiality at all.

Only in the military and in the harem, there is a sense of confidentiality.

Jia Rong sneered: "Even if they knew they were attacking in the east and attacking in the west, they still had to mobilize troops from the south."

Jia Lian nodded and said: "Yes, whoever refuses to mobilize troops is disloyal to the emperor. This is a big problem."

"Hey, the feudal dynasty killed people." Zhao Han shook his head.

Sure enough, this is the army of Qinwang from all over the world gathering in the capital.

However, the First Fleet hit and ran.

This time the army was dumbfounded.

At this moment, the Second Fleet finally dispatched troops, stabbing the vital point with a knife.

Send troops directly into the mouth of the Longjiang River to block water transportation, and the food in the south of the Yangtze River will not be shipped immediately.

King Qin’s army has no food to eat.

There has long been insufficient commercial grain in the north.

There is no such thing in the south of the Yangtze River. It is cooked in Huguang and is sufficient all over the world.

Huguang's grain relies on the Longjiang River and is transported to the Longjiang Estuary, where it is transported to the north through the Grand Canal.

This is the channel of life.

Without Jiangnan water transportation, it would be impossible to survive.

Two months later, King Qin's army was ordered to return, and was only given food for two days. As a result, they all collapsed on the way.

Become a bandit.

Sweeping near the capital.

Exaggeration?

Historically, it was even more exaggerated in the late Ming Dynasty.

The civil servants could not find food, so in order not to bear the burden of food and fodder for King Qin's army, they took advantage of loopholes in the text about troop deployment.

The loophole is that the army has just arrived in a place, and as a rule, it eats its own food and grass that day, and will not be supplied by the local county the next day.

[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]

So they moved the soldiers back and forth, so that the team would only stay in one place for half a day. They would arrive in the morning and leave in the afternoon.

The tricks you play are called shrewdness.

However, King Qin's team did not have so much food. The food was quickly exhausted and some soldiers starved to death. Under such circumstances, there were actually a large number of soldiers who did not rebel but simply collapsed.

After this kind of torment, in the end they died at the hands of the peasant uprising, instead of being captured by the soldiers and causing soldier riots like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

The imperial power and system's control over the army can be said to have reached its peak.

It has to be said that the soldiers of the feudal dynasty were really resistant to pressure and their internal friction index was very high.

However, just after King Qin's army left, the company's fleet headed north again and came ashore to attack again.

This time, the people above learned wisely. They did not let so many people come to serve the king, and only used 30,000 people to station on the main road to prevent the capital from being raided.

However, when water transportation was cut off, not only soldiers needed to eat, but ministers and people also needed to eat.

Soon the price of rice in Beijing rose to 3 taels of silver per stone!

And it's still rising.

At the same time, the company fleet was recruiting refugees just outside the gate of the capital.

Directly push the imperial court's face to the ground and beat him!

Starve to death or go overseas?

This is not a multiple choice question.

No matter how terrifying the sea is, it is no more terrifying than changing one's son to eat.

In the past, people did not go to the sea. Most people had no channels and died before they could reach the sea. Moreover, most people in the inland did not know that there was a way to make a living by going to the sea.

Now Rong Pharmaceutical Company has sent people to lay out this road in front of them.

They sent a cavalry team with some food and cooked gruel to lead the refugees to the seaside.

For a time, a large number of refugees, lured by the food, came to the beach, washed themselves and boarded the boat.

A ship can carry one hundred tons of grain, and a person can live for one month with ten kilograms of grain.

One month is enough time to reach the southern island.

This time, Rongyao Company came up with its own secret weapon: steamship.

This has begun to be built in the West, but it is still not widespread enough because of the high cost and imperfect equipment. At this time, a large number of sailboats still dominated maritime transportation.

But steamships can move forward when there is no wind, which is the biggest advantage.

This would allow 40,000 people to live.

Under such circumstances, refugees boarded boats one after another and went to sea.

Someone wanted to go home after eating, but when he got home, he was killed by bandits and made into human meat.

Once this kind of thing is publicized, many refugees will become afraid.

In the end, there was simply no food to eat if we didn’t get on the ship.

Anyway, when doing big things, you can't be merciful.

Just like being chased by the enemy, you must send people to stay behind. The team responsible for staying behind means being abandoned, but if you don't do this, the entire army will be destroyed.

In war, there is no way to practice ordinary morality.

At the same time, the Second Fleet sent troops to land.

Two major fortresses were built, Jiangnan Fortress and Jiangbei Fortress.

Use the bastion system.

The imperial court hurriedly issued an order prohibiting major county governments from distributing goods to Rong Pharmaceutical Company.

There was a huge loss for a while.

However, at this time, they had another option, which was to seize the county government and rule it themselves.

At the same time, the county government was threatened with force to promote trade.

Moreover, they can be self-sufficient through food from overseas, and they can persist for at least two years.

But it would be good if the court can persist for one year.

Rongyao Company has long stored enough gunpowder, cannons, iron ore, saltpeter... and other war materials.

After the construction of these two fortresses, construction continued.

With only 1,500 people, this kind of fortress can resist more than 10,000 people.

It is suitable for elites like them, but there are few people.

And they built fortresses in areas where goods were produced.

Ensure the production of commercial and trade supplies.

They mainly occupy vast rural areas.

At this time, cities were rarely producers.

Only a few cities have a large number of craft workshops.

For example, the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Rong Yao and others have already established many steam factories overseas.

All they need is the origin of the raw materials.

For example, the origin of tea, raw silk, and porcelain.

They don't care about heavily fortified cities, they just need to occupy the countryside.

In rural areas, the court had no soldiers, and it was impossible to send troops to guard them.

They relied on the many fortresses to occupy the most important raw material producing areas in the southeast.

In this way, if there is food overseas and trade goods on land, there will be no need to worry about conflict with the imperial court.
To be continued...