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Chapter 171 Literati and Scholar

From the beginning of the battle between Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army, in the following days, the People's Army and the Ming army fought four large-scale battles and dozens of small-scale battles in the Guangdong border area.

The large-scale battle was four battles between the People's Army and the Song Yingchang Army, the Guangxi Ming Army, the Huguang Ming Army, and the Fujian Ming Army. The small-scale battle was the Xiaobu Ming Army launching an attack on the people's army.

Without exception, these battles were blocked by the People's Army.

Among the Ming army's divisions, the most serious casualties were the Guangxi Ming army led by Liao Yangzhou. The other three Ming army performed better than the Guangxi Ming army, at least not to the point of being chased by the People's Army.

In four large-scale battles, the combat situation between the People's Army and the Ming Army was unexpectedly similar. The Ming Army had to fight with the People's Army under the cover of chariots, and in the end they were repelled by the People's Army with the cooperation of the First Arrival and Grenadiers. The minimum ratio of casualties between the People's Army and the Ming Army was one to three, and the maximum was more than one to four.

In small-scale battles, the number of people in the People's Army increased, with the highest proportion of casualties reaching one to two. You should know that each People's Army has a grenade squad, and so many casualties.

In any case, in the face of the Ming court's third encirclement and suppression of the People's Army, the People's Army won the first game, and both sides would have a certain amount of rest. The Ming army was waiting for more reinforcements to arrive, and the People's Army was waiting for tiger-headed guns and grenades to replenish them. It won't take long for a new battle to break out.

As the People's Army won one battle after another, in order to make the people under their rule live a peaceful life, and to let the rich and merchants under their rule die and return to the Ming court, the People's Army promoted the victory and even introduced the detailed strength of the Ming army one by one.

Guangzhou City, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin sat together again. Earlier, the People's Army attacked Guangzhou City faster due to the betrayal of the three. After the three of them made up for the mistakes they made in the past, they were already under the rule of the People's Army and protected by the People's Army.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were the few people who were most worried about the Ming army defeating the People's Army. Once the People's Army is over, the three and their families do not want to be killed by the Ming army and can only escape overseas.

If the People's Army wins, even if the three companies cannot become officials in the People's Military Government, they can continue to become rich people. The three companies are the first to conduct trade activities in Guangzhou. Other gentry and merchants are hesitating, and the three companies have already become related to the People's Army and start to act without hesitation.

It is also because many large-scale households were confiscated, and many markets had large gaps. Now these three companies have easily occupied the large-scale market. As long as the People's Army can reach the Ming army, as the territory of the People's Army expands, the business of these three companies will become bigger and bigger.

Of course, because Fang Nan has poor senses about Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin, the People's Army is keeping a close eye on the three families. If these three families dare to do illegal things, they will definitely be severely punished by the People's Army.

"Hundreds of thousands of Ming troops surrounded Guangdong, but I didn't expect the People's Army to win and kill tens of thousands of Ming troops. As long as there is no problem within the People's Army, it will be very difficult for the Ming army to wipe out the People's Army." Xia Jingshan said with a smile.

Hearing Xia Jingshan's words, Liang Xin agreed, "Yes, yes, fortunately we chose to surrender to the People's Army. If we follow them to defend Guangzhou City, we are afraid that we will meet our ancestors."

"We have no choice now. We just hope that the People's Army can hold on and it is best to overthrow the Ming court. Even if we are just doing business, our three families will be rich." Jiang Ci also said.

Not only Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin, and the gentry and merchants left over from Guangzhou City are all discussing the victory of the People's Army.

"The thief wins again, wait a minute, if the thief continues to win the battle, we will take action, alas, those three lucky guys."

"I feel that the Ming army cannot wipe out the thieves. I still have a family that needs to be supported, so I can't continue to work hard and cannot make money. There are too many places to make money under the thief's rule."

"I don't wait anymore. This People's Army is extraordinary. I will win every battle. Maybe the Ming Dynasty will be overthrown by the People's Army. Whoever follows the People's Army first will make a profit."

Merchants who prefer speculation are the first groups to change their ideas. They are not loyal to the Ming court. They want to earn money to develop their own family. They don’t care whether they are ruled by the Ming court or by the People’s Army. As long as they and their families can continue to live.

If they could make a lot of money, they could make their lives for the People's Army, not to mention that the People's Army had been victorious in the Ming Army, and it also made some merchants feel confident in the People's Army.

Some merchants first changed their minds, but in Guangzhou, there was another group who was "loyal" to the Ming court. This group was literati and scholars. One of the important Confucian ideas was to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country.

After hearing the news that the People's Army defeated the Ming army again, many literati and scholars in Guangzhou City looked sad.

"Why is the Ming army defeated again? Could it be that the thieves really want to take away the Ming Dynasty?"

"Oh my God, punish these damn thieves quickly and let the Ming army wipe out these thieves."

"Impossible. My Ming Dynasty is so powerful. How could it be that even this small thief cannot be wiped out? It must be that the Ming army underestimated the enemy. As long as the Ming army takes it seriously, they will definitely be able to defeat the thief!"

However, those merchants who were said to be a stinking stinking by literati and scholars laughed at this situation. They knew that shortly after the city of Guangzhou was broken, some literati and scholars who were really loyal to the Ming court committed suicide at home or rushed towards the People's Army with swords to express their loyalty to the Ming court in death.

But there are too few such people. And the literati and scholars who are still alive dare not express their loyalty to the Ming court by death. They can only curse the People's Army in a corner that the People's Army cannot see.

They didn't even dare to sit with their friends and curse the People's Army because they didn't know if any of their friends would betray them. If they were betrayed by their friends, they would be whipped at the least, and the house would be searched at the worst. There are already several examples in front of them.

Among the literati and scholars, there are also people like Qiao family, Qiao Rong and Qiao Feng are loyal to the Ming court, but they are not so loyal that they are willing to die for the Ming court. They prefer to recite poems and write articles, and through articles, they spread their names in the literary world, rather than being involved in political affairs.

The Qiao family does not need to do business, and Qiao Rong and Qiao Shu can sell any characters and paintings at high prices.

Of course, as literati, they disdained to sell money with calligraphy and paintings directly, but others used various treasures to exchange calligraphy and paintings. Then the Qiao family then found channels to sell the treasures and exchanged them for silver.

By selling calligraphy and paintings, the Qiao family is a wealthy family in Guangzhou.
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