Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

The capital city and Fujian Province were separated by more than 4,000 miles. It was more than ten days later when Emperor Yong'an first heard of the rebellion in Fujian Province.

At this time, he was still looking forward to the imperial guards pretending to be Japanese pirates bringing him back more wealth.

All the property looted last year was processed and turned into silver and fell into his hands.

Earlier this year, he used part of it to fill his private treasury and the other part to strengthen his armaments.

Faced with the crisis of being besieged on all sides and with limited money, he could not care less about sharing the profits with his subordinates. He appointed Xiao Guangyu, the former commander of the imperial guards who had always been upright, and asked him to take the money and part of the imperial guards and go directly to the battlefield to reward the soldiers.

The effect of distributing the huge amounts of silver to soldiers at the border or on the battlefield was very significant.

The soldiers of the Hu tribe, who were originally at a disadvantage on the battlefield, were greatly boosted in morale and stopped retreating, thus stabilizing the existing city.

The battlefield in Hubei Province where the King of Shu was fought also recovered the lost territory of two cities.

On the battlefield in Qin Province, the rebel army was successfully inflicted with heavy damage.

Emperor Yong'an really tasted the sweetness and had higher expectations for this year's looting.

Who could have thought that something big would happen in Fujian Province just as this year's Japanese invasion began?

He immediately decided to silence all the people in that county who knew about the incident.

However, it was still too late.

The message was passed back and forth, and by the time his imperial edict reached Fujian Province, the local garrison had already mutinied under the instigation of Zhang Liu and his men.

The garrison troops in Fujian Province were all military households, and they had long been pushed to the extreme by the evil military household system and their blood-sucking superiors.

It is learned that if you submit to the God of Du'e, you can get rid of your military household status, retire at the age of 35, receive retirement pay, and get land like ordinary people.

No military household would not be tempted.

They are all working hard for each other, so why don't they follow a master who treats them as human beings?

To cause a mutiny, all you need is a few people to organize secretly and then make a call.

The Fujian Provincial General who was loyal to Emperor Yong'an was sentenced to death on the spot by the evil demon Du'e because he had been corrupt and withheld military pay.

Without troops and with the power of Southern Capital between them, Emperor Yong'an completely lost control of Fujian Province.

After being frustrated and angry, Emperor Yong'an originally planned to take advantage of the fact that Nandu was about to shift its military forces to Fujian Province and send new Fengyang garrison troops to attack Nandu. However, he did not expect that before he could act, chaos broke out again in Qi and Lu.

Hui'an led a team of men and sneaked into Qi and Lu from the sea, and informed the local wealthy families along the coast of what happened in Fujian Province.

The wealthy families were already in a state of panic because the Japanese pirates had targeted them last year.

Knowing that this was actually a trick of the current emperor, he naturally was unwilling to be a fat sheep to be slaughtered.

While they followed the example of Fujian Province in establishing a joint defense army, they also sent people to the capital and Fujian Province to gather information.

After confirming the authenticity of the news from Fujian Province, they directly closed all the city gates and began a city-wide search. They caught a group of imperial guards who had infiltrated the city and were preparing to cause chaos. Not only did they kill all of them, they also openly declared resistance to taxation.

It looked like a civil uprising was about to happen in Qi and Lu.

Emperor Yong'an immediately panicked.

Nowadays, the whole world is in chaos and war. The most prosperous Jiangnan province is occupied by the damned evil demon Du'e, and the second-rate Hubei province has also been plunged into war because of the rebellion of the King of Shu.

If another rebel army comes to Qi and Lu, the tax revenue of Wei's treasury will certainly be greatly reduced.

This will make the already stretched finances even worse.

What's even more dangerous is that the war with the Hu people to the north of the capital has not yet ended, and there are Qin province's volunteer army to the west. If the rebels in Qi and Lu to the south become powerful again, then he, the emperor, will have nowhere to retreat.

Nandu is a tough nut to crack. Attacking Nandu may cause great damage without any results. It is better to stabilize Qi and Lu first.

It was also because of this that Chen Qingzhu was able to smoothly and steadily complete the annexation of Fujian Province.

The Fengyang defenders fought with the wealthy families in Qi and Lu for four months, and finally wiped out the forces of these wealthy families in October.

Without these troublemakers, the land of Qi and Lu once again returned to the control of the Wei court.

Seeing that Nando had completed the distribution of land in Fujian Province, Emperor Yong'an hurriedly transferred the Fengyang garrison back to Fengyang.

The two sides once again faced off.

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In mid-November, the southern land also entered the cold winter.

The tax collection and statistics of the Ministry of Revenue in Nandu were completely completed, and the memorial was first submitted to the cabinet.

Yuan Songbo, who had always been dignified and serious, laughed so hard after reading the question book that his teeth were not visible.

The tax in Fujian Province will be collected starting next year.

However, even if only 20% tax was levied on the twelve prefectures under the jurisdiction of Nandu, the tax revenue would be as much as that of most of the Wei Dynasty, which is more than 18 million taels.

No, those are all old calendars.

Judging from the current situation in Wei, the taxes collected by the twelve prefectures of Nandu would actually be more than the entire annual taxes collected by Wei.

That is to say, today, the tax revenue in the Jiangnan region barely matches its wealth.

But even though the national treasury collected so much taxes, the people were able to have enough food and clothing.

Every household had warehouses filled with grain, and because they had land to grow cotton, each person had a cotton-padded jacket.

The high yield of sweet potatoes not only ensured that they could feed themselves, but also that every household could raise poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and sheep using the sweet potato vines and surplus sweet potatoes.

Nowadays, almost every household can eat meat once every ten days or half a month.

This is the huge difference between land being concentrated in the hands of large households and land being dispersed among the people.

This is the long-cherished wish he had ever dreamed of!

Now, with the strong support of the master, it has finally been realized!

He happily took the question book and went to tell Chen Qingzhu the good news.

This year, Chen Qingzhu spent most of his time practicing.

At the end of last year, she obtained a great deal of merit by completing the distribution of land in the twelve prefectures under her rule, and her cultivation speed was improved again.

Based on her initial qualifications, it would take her about twenty-three and a half years to break through from the eighth level of Qi Refining to the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Now, it only took her one year to break through the ninth level of Qi Refining.

However, it will take another three years to break through the foundation-building stage even at the current speed.

She could feel that the power of merit had become very limited in improving the speed of cultivation.

But those spots of merit did not disappear, but continued to exist in her body and sea of ​​consciousness, clearly reminding her that these merit powers had other greater uses.

It’s a pity that when she was in the world of cultivation, she didn’t get any method to cultivate merit, so she could only figure everything out slowly.

After reading the test paper handed over by Yuan Songbo, Chen Qingzhu was also very satisfied.

After nearly two years of recuperation, the twelve prefectures that were initially recovered finally became stable.

With the support of the twelve wealthy prefectures, she will be able to receive taxes from Fujian Province next summer and recruit soldiers from Fujian Province. She can finally expand outward with full freedom.

Chen Qingzhu's lips curled up into a smile full of sharpness and ambition:

"I heard that the 100,000 defenders in Fengyang are also having a hard time. I can't bear it."

"Why not let them spend the New Year under our rule this year?"

Yuan Songbo immediately understood what she meant, and he naturally had no objection to the temple master's steady and cautious expansion.

Now, everyone in the court, whether civil or military, is hoping that the master will annex Wei as soon as possible and ascend the throne to be the emperor.

Hearing this, Yuan Songbo said with a smile on his face:

"They must be hoping that the master will come and rescue them!"

Chen Qingzhu gathered several trusted subordinates to brainstorm, and finally decided to present a big gift to the Fengyang defenders on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

She wanted to swallow up the entire Zhongdu Liaison Office with the least casualties.