It was time to end February 1647.

Last year, the Liang army did not engage in a major war except for collecting Jiangxi.

The Liang army was quite relaxed to collect the Battle of Jiangxi. Just like Zhang Xianzhong collected Hunan, he took it away without paying any casualties.

Last year, except for a few soldiers and horses, the Liang army participated in a war for a period of time, most of the soldiers were repaired for a year.

In addition, the shortest new army of Liang's army has been trained for three months and has already achieved a certain combat power.

Nowadays, Gao Huan has many soldiers and strong soldiers, which is enough to fight.

At this time, the state-owned salt and iron reform that began last year has been basically completed.

The Liang State realized the state-owned operation of salt and iron and mines. At the same time, it established a grain station system in all counties and built reserve warehouses. In the year of bumper harvest, stockpiled grain in the year of famine, opened warehouses and released grain in the year of famine, and set a minimum purchase price of grain to crack down on grain merchants' hoarding and protect the interests of the people.

This allowed Liang Guofan's government not only to control the lifeline of the country's economy, but also to protect the people from exploitation by grain merchants and salt merchants, and to gain support from the people.

Gao Huan also provided a way for those merchants and gentry who were driven out of the salt and iron business and reselling grain, which was to encourage them to engage in handicrafts and tea trading, and support Liang's merchants to organize caravans to sell Liang's tea, cloth, porcelain and other goods, and buy cattle, sheep, fur, ginseng and other materials outside.

In this way, the Liang State can exchange a small amount of goods for a large amount of materials, and external sources of material resources continue to enter the Liang State. If the Liang State's daily supplies do not flow out, the people will be abundant.

The enemy's materials flowed into Liang State, turning the food, fish and shrimp from the South Ocean into the food of Liang State, and turning the Mongols' cattle, sheep and horses into the livestock of Liang State, which can weaken the enemy State and make the Liang State rich.

Of course, to realize such an idea, Gao Huan also needs to open up the business path, and the results will not be achieved in a short period of time.

However, with the gradual implementation of state-owned enterprise reform and the smooth progress of commercial tax reform, Liang State's taxes did increase significantly.

According to the Leung Council's estimate, the tax revenue of Leung this year can be increased to 10 million taels based on the original six million taels.

In this way, Gao Huan has the confidence to start a war.

At this time, in the Liang Palace, many generals from the Liang Kingdom gathered.

Gao Huan was wearing golden painted fish scale armor, six god helmets, and beast headbands around her waist. He stood majestic in front of the sand table.

In the lobby, many Liang army generals were all dressed neatly and stood with murderous intent.

"Before, I have warned Zhang Xianzhong not to attack Hunan, but Zhang Xianzhong thinks that my words are in my ears and despise me." Gao Huan glanced at everyone and shouted angrily: "Xian Thief despise me means despising Daliang. If I cannot fight in the west and defeated Xian Thief, how will the people in the world view me? Who else will take my words seriously? How can I establish my trust in the world?"

Gao Huan made a statement and put Hunan in the sphere of influence of Liang State, and Zhang Xianzhong did not take it seriously.

If Gao Huan cannot teach Zhang Xianzhong a lesson, then Zheng Zhilong will definitely plot against Guangdong, and Gao Huan cannot protect the power that dependent on him, how can he become the big brother in the future?

"King! Just give the order!" In the lobby, many generals clasped their fists and shouted indignation.

Gao Huan raised his hand to suppress the pressure, calming everyone, and then he said loudly: "Okay! Morale is available! This Western Expedition, I only have one requirement, which is to defeat Zhang Xianzhong!"

"Persist Zhang Xianzhong!" Many generals suddenly raised their arms and shouted.

...

Just after the New Year, Gao Huan began to prepare for the Western Expedition. Now more than two months have passed, the Liang army has basically completed its pre-war preparations.

By early March, all the food, forage, weapons, and money needed by Liang Jun had been transported to Nanjing, Anqing, Nanchang and other places for storage.

This time, in order to support the Liang army's western expedition, the gentry and merchants in the Jiangnan region were unprecedentedly active.

This is not how much they support Gao Huan, but how Gao Huan uses newspapers to publicize Zhang Xianzhong's evil deeds in massacre of the gentry and wealthy families, which makes the wealthy families in Jiangnan feel scared.

Although the Liang Kingdom suppressed the powerful, it did not kill people for no reason, nor would it wantonly rob the wealth of the big family.

In contrast, Zhang Xianzhong's methods are much crueler.

When Gao Huan publicized the threat theory of the Western Army and claimed that Zhang Xianzhong was about to seize Jiangnan, the gentry and merchants supported the Liang army's western expedition as unprecedented.

On the bank of the Yangtze River, men with bare shirtless men went to life from morning to night, and cargo ships carrying food and grass and military supplies on the rivers of Anqing and Nanchang, covering the rivers, and endlessly.

After the state-owned enterprise reform, Gao Huan also hoped to give merchants some benefits, hoping that they could provide more job opportunities for the people, so he handed over the transportation of military funds to the merchants.

By the end of March, the money, grain and materials for the Liang army to go to war were basically ready. At this time, in addition to Gao Jie who monitored Li Zicheng, Wang Jingde, Gao Mingheng, Sun Chuanting, Yuan Shizhong who were guarding against the Qing Dynasty and the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Fugui who monitored Zheng's army, the Liang army's troops successively gathered in Nanchang, Hukou, Anqing and other places.

The Liang State was so elite this time, with a total of 200,000 infantry and cavalry and navy troops. If the civilians who guarantee logistics were included, the number would be endless, and at least more than 500,000 people participated in the Western Expedition.

Gao Huan's big move made Zhang Xianzhong, who had just relaxed, tense his nerves again.

As the Western Army did a detailed work, they sent a series of information to Wuchang, and found out that the Liang army had made large-scale allocation of supplies and the army gathered westward. Zhang Xianzhong knew that Gao Huan was going to play the game.

...

Wuchang City, temporary palace.

Zhang Xianzhong was hiding back and forth in the lobby, listening to Sun Kewang's report.

"Report to the father! According to scouts, Gao Huan increased his troops westward, Nanchang, Hukou and Anqing, and the number of troops gathered as many as 200,000, and the food, grass and military resources were piled up like a mountain!"

Many Western generals in the lobby looked serious.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly stopped and gritted his teeth and said, "Child Gao Huan, since he has arrived, I am still afraid that he will not succeed. Since he is coming to die, I will fulfill him!"

After saying that, Zhang Xianzhong raised his arms and shouted: "Send the order!"

The generals of the Western Army in the hall bowed together, "Please give orders to your Majesty!"

Zhang Xianzhong roared loudly: "The command to command Sun Kewang, King Pingdong, King Funan Liu Wenxiu, King Anxi Li Dingguo, General Wang Shangli, Wang Dingguo, Feng Shuangli, Ma Yuanli, Zhang Hualong, Bai Wenxuan and others to lead their troops and gather 200,000 troops to obey! I will fight to the death with Gao Huan's son!"

"As for order!" Many Western generals clasped their fists together.

...

In 1647, in early April of the fourth year of Hongguang, Gao Huan personally issued the "Anti-Examination Proclamation" to go on a swearing battle in Chang'an.

The Liang army had 200,000 naval and land troops, 300,000 local tyrants, a total of 500,000 people, and was pretending to be a million troops, and the mighty Western Expedition.

For a moment, Huguang changed color and the world was shocked.

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