The New Year is here, but the People's Army has no time to celebrate the New Year. As long as the People's Army north of the Yangtze River does not block the road, it will move forward again. They want to rescue the remaining people who are still suffering earlier.

Spring is a season of hope. The People's Army must share the land with all the people before spring plowing, so that the lives of the people will change from this year, and at least completely solve the problem of eating!

The news of the death of the emperor had spread throughout the land of China and the Ming Dynasty had already been destroyed, but some people had not given up, especially the princes of the Ming Dynasty.

The princes of the Ming Dynasty were kept in fiefdoms and did not have much power. However, since the People's Army occupied the five provinces, the Ming court allowed gentry and merchants from all over the country to establish guards. As the forces of all parties emerged, the Ming court's control over most areas greatly decreased, which also led several princes to find ways to gain some power and indirectly control some troops.

Now that the emperor is dead, under the control of the People's Army, a prince in Beiping City did not want the Ming Dynasty to perish like this, so he stood up and called on those loyal to the Ming court to continue fighting. With them, the Ming Dynasty had not yet perished.

It's just that there are very few responders.

The People's Army is not an alien race. When the alien race comes, it is a robbery of money, food and women. After the alien race leaves, it is blood flowing. In order not to let its women, food and wealth be snatched away by aliens, many people will stand up and resist.

When the People's Army came, it was to share land for poor people. As long as the army had the power, it would be safe from death. When the People's Army was about to be reigned, not many people stood up to support these princes. The few people who stood up to support the princes at most had some money and food, but not many troops.

The People's Army came, and the princes either died in battle or were captured or fled with people, and they could not stop the People's Army at all.

The People's Army stepped on the thick ice surface of the Yellow River and came to the northernmost part of China. They took over the Northern Division and allowed the Northern Division to gather at the border. The Northern Division was originally established with the goal of fighting in the cold north.

The only lancer division of the People's Army is also preparing. When the New Year ends, the lancers will immediately go to the north. Only in actual combat can a strong army be honed.

Since Wang Shengrong's vanguard army occupied Beiping City, they have screened the powerful, gentry and merchants in Beiping City and searched their homes.

In order to investigate these powerful gentry and merchants, the Military Intelligence Department also spent a lot of effort. These powerful gentry and merchants came from all over the land of China, some from Guangdong. They fled from Guangdong before the People's Army occupied Guangdong and fled all the way to Beiping City, probably because they believed that Beiping City was the safest.

A large number of powerful, gentry and merchants flocked to Beiping City, which also caused the housing prices in Beiping City to soar. The mansions and mansions were not enough to live in, so they bought houses for ordinary people. The people sold their houses at high prices and left Beiping City to live in other places.

So many powerful, gentry and merchants gathered in Beiping City, and so much wealth gathered in Beiping City. When the People's Army confiscated their homes, they only counted metal currency, and the value of gold obtained even exceeded the value of silver.

Gold is more valuable than silver. The powerful, gentry and merchants fled in a hurry and could not take away all their wealth. Gold and silver in troubled times and antiques in prosperous times are definitely not valuable now. There are too much and heavy silver, and the goal is still big. Maybe it is robbed by "thieves". It is better to bring more gold or gold. Silver, antiques and so on are buried in the ground.

People's military governments in various places have posted notices to seek clues of wealth buried in the land of gentry and merchants. Once wealth is dug, those who give clues will receive large rewards. This method really allows the People's Army to find large amounts of wealth and strongly support the development of the People's Army.

Wealth is very important to the People's Army. For example, the craftsmen in the arsenal are the army of ordinary people. They cannot force craftsmen to work. Once they are spread, they will have a very bad impact on the reputation of the People's Army. If the People's Army wants to make craftsmen work, they must pay wages to the craftsmen. With the encouragement of wages, the craftsmen work hard to build various firearms for the People's Army.

Even soldiers and officials and the People's Army must provide military pay and salary. The soldiers' military pay is mainly military field. Lower-level officers will receive more military field, middle-level officers will also have military field, and equal coins will be distributed. Moreover, if soldiers make meritorious service, there will be military field rewards and equal coins rewards.

The salaries of government officials are only equal coins. If anything, they will work in the government until they retire. However, soldiers are old and physically ineffective and must retire. If they are illiterate, they can only go back to their hometown to farm. Giving fields is the best choice.

It can be said that the People's Army has come to this day because it is supported by a large amount of wealth. These wealth mainly comes from the gentry and merchants who were confiscated. Even if they were farming in the deep mountains, they would be difficult to support without wealth.

The People's Army will continue to develop after the land of China. There must be sufficient wealth support in the early stage and then self-sufficient. The wealth of the powerful, gentry and merchants in the newly occupied areas is the first goal of the People's Army. On the contrary, the wealth of the Ming court was ignored by the People's Army.

In the first ten years of Wanli, under the leadership of Zhang Juzheng, the Ming court was full of treasury, but in one war after another with the People's Army, the Ming court's wealth was quickly consumed. It can be said that the Ming court is very poor now, and the valuables are probably only royal goods and antiques in the imperial city. These things cannot be sold and will be used as exhibits in museums for tourists to see in the future.

When the People's Army's house confiscation ended in Beiping City, Fang Nan received an unimaginable number. With this large amount of wealth, even if the People's Army has no fiscal revenue in the next two years, it can support the People's Army's continued development. Including the wealth obtained by the People's Army's house confiscation outside Beiping City, it can last for at least five years without any fiscal revenue.

You should know that the People's Army has been building cement roads, railway tracks, water conservancy facilities, and the establishment of schools, which all require large amounts of capital investment.

It is worthy of hiding wealth among the people. The Ming court did not have much money, and the money was in the hands of the "people". The people did not belong to this "people". Only the powerful, gentry and merchants belong to this "people". Most of the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty was in the hands of the powerful, gentry and merchants. The daily pursuit of the lower-class people was only to have enough food. They constantly squeezed the lower-class people, causing the wealth of the powerful, gentry and merchants to continue to increase.

A small landlord can exploit hundreds of people, and a large landlord can exploit tens of thousands of people. On the surface, it seems that the Ming Dynasty is rich, but its roots are rotten.

The people at the bottom are the people at the bottom, and the people at the bottom can still make savings on the basis of having enough food. When hundreds of millions of people spend money to buy goods together, you can imagine how big a fortune it is.
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