Ming Zuo

Chapter 1737
Unfortunately for Annan, now is the strategic blank period of the empire.

Japan has already won, and only the follow-up is left.

Although the dispute between the north and Russia has already begun, the long winter is coming, and the National Defense Forces can only go dormant for the time being, and everything will have to wait for the severe cold to pass.

On the Central Asian side, the National Defense Forces have just won the Western Regions, and the progress is too fast, and they need enough time to digest, otherwise they dare not rush into it.

Although the European side is highly valued by the empire, it is beyond its reach. Even if it sends an ocean-going fleet, the empire can only stir up the situation and cannot be the leader.

The war against Spain in the New World was still in preparation.

This place is too far away from the mainland, and the transfer of relevant personnel and materials cannot be completed overnight.

Even in the most ideal state, it will take next year to start.

Therefore, Annan has become the only focus of the current empire.

In addition, Annan is right at the gate of the empire, so don't be too convenient.

In order to get it done once and for all, the Empire's attack was thunderous. The No.15 Division and the [-]st Marine Division attacked from the south to the north, followed by two security divisions to pacify the place.

Don't look at the fact that more than 20 troops were mobilized, but in fact the empire made a lot of money in this battle, and the treasury didn't even spend a penny.

The reason is that the enthusiasm of the people for sending troops to Annan is very high.

Annan is close at hand, so the merchants of the empire are well aware of Annan's situation.

Fertile land, dense population, and natural location, everything contained massive wealth.

When the empire launched the war to recover Annan, the merchants became active.

Unlike the previous feudal dynasties, the empire does not like to eat alone, and is willing to let the people participate.

Whenever the Wehrmacht captured a place, the dispatched officials would, with the cooperation of the army, brutally clean up the local landlords and gentry.

There is no room for negotiation on this point.

The gentry and landlords in Annan wanted to repeat what they did during the Yongle period.On the surface, welcome the arrival of the empire and profit from it.Behind the scenes, they also encouraged the people to resist and engage in two-sided eating.

Today's empire is already familiar with the way when dealing with this new occupied area.

What do ordinary people know?

They are also objects of oppression, exploitation, and suffering.

Whether the empire comes or not, their lives are the same, and there is still no hope in sight.

On the contrary, they would be bewitched by local gentry and landlords because of their relationship with the same clan and language, and would pass their dissatisfaction with life on to the empire.

At the beginning, Daming was so devastated in Annan that he had to withdraw his troops in the end.

The imperial court of the Ming Dynasty was also a landlord class, so it could not see the essence of it clearly, but the empire was different.

The emerging bourgeoisie is already full of hostility to the landlord class that occupies the means of production, and can be eliminated quickly, so what are you waiting for?
Compared with ordinary people, eradicating the local landlord class is tantamount to depriving the local area of ​​the soil for resistance.

Although the landlord class was powerful and the turmoil caused by the unwillingness to perish was even more serious, it was only temporary.

Backed by the powerful force of the National Defense Forces, the empire was not afraid of turmoil at all. On the contrary, it was able to completely eliminate landlords and gentry through fighting.

Another one, the landlords and gentry in Annan didn't know much about the empire, so they didn't have any precautions at first.

The officials of the empire made full use of this information gap, and they came up with a thunderbolt method that swept away the clouds, and did not give the landlords and gentry time to react and respond.

A large number of landlords and gentry were wiped out, lowly businessmen were supported, oppressed peasants benefited, and Annan quickly began to change.

Everyone is the same everywhere.

The buttocks will change quickly when you get benefits.

The huge wealth seized from the Annan ruling class was carefully and properly handled by imperial officials.

Large-scale assets were either resold to imperial merchants, or partnered with imperial merchants, so as to obtain the benefits paid by imperial merchants and convert them into military expenditures for the National Defense Forces.

Imperial merchants have long coveted Annan's wealth, how could they let this opportunity pass?

Those with strength fight alone, and those with insufficient strength unite to form a group company.

For example, Chaoshan merchants united to buy 40.00% of Wuda shares in Da Nang Wharf from the government, which also allowed the government to earn 180 million yuan.

This deal alone completely offset the military expenditure of the First Marine Division.

In addition, local governments in Guangxi and Yunnan even organized the purchase of about 200 million mu of arable land in the Honghe Plain.

These arable lands have effectively solved the plight of shortage of arable land in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces.

It is foreseeable that for a long period of time in the future, relying on these cultivated land alone, the two provinces will not have to worry about food, thus solving the country's major troubles.

Only the imperial merchants could afford large assets, while the land was presided over by officials and allocated to the people of Annan.

As soon as this big killer was used, the Annan people's hostile attitude towards the empire quickly disappeared.

After all, for the common people, the land is the lifeblood.

Owning land is equivalent to owning a way of life.

In particular, the empire is exempted from agricultural taxes, and only needs to hand over one-tenth of the output each year, and the rest is its own.

Such a good thing, I never dared to think about it before.

It cannot be said that the people in Annan have neglected righteousness for profit and have no country in their hearts. In fact, people in most areas except China in this era have no concept of family and country.

Coupled with frequent regime changes and oppression, ordinary people live in a daze, only focusing on the current way of life.

Whoever can give them a way out is the father!

The empire established by commerce does not have a high desire for land, so it can allocate a certain amount of resources to give these people, and immediately become a rare kind person in this era.

The people in Annan looked at their own land, and of course they were unwilling to return to their former poor life, and immediately became the most loyal supporters of the empire.

And with such strong civil support, how could the progress of the empire not be smooth?
On May [-]th, the travel-stained Ruan Jun finally came back after traveling thousands of miles.

They did not stop in Da Nang (at this time Da Nang was still in the hands of the Ruan family, but had been sold by the empire), but rushed southward, hoping to regain the lost land as soon as possible.

Seeing the tired enemy army approaching, Hao Huaqing almost fainted from laughter.

"Immediately send a letter to Deputy Division Commander Murong Fu, asking him to go straight to Da Nang with the cooperation of the Nanyang Fleet. The rest of the troops should go forward immediately. I will fight the Nguyen Army in Guangyi."

Tang Wenhuan, the former commander of the First Marine Division, has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Navy, and Hao Huaqing feels that he can go a step further.

Eliminating Ruan Jun is his famous battle.

(End of this chapter)