I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 614: Vicious Expansion
This resulted in the Grand Canal's transportation capacity being unable to meet the material needs of a million-strong army.

Faced with this situation, the Nanjing government could only invest its efforts in maintaining and dredging the canal, while starting to use other means of transportation to transport materials. There was no need to think about sea transportation, as maritime power was firmly in the hands of the Beijing government.

In order to prevent the naval warships of the Beijing government from rushing into the Yangtze River, the Nanjing government built several iron chains on the Yangtze River and built artillery batteries in strategic locations.
Therefore, the Nanjing government could only use land transportation as the main means of transporting materials, and the transportation cost was very high.

There are not many railways in Southern Zhili, and even if there are enough railways, they cannot make good use of them. After all, they cannot find enough locomotives; second, they cannot find people who can drive trains; third, they cannot find enough repair and maintenance personnel. After all, the failure rate of trains these days is not low.

Fortunately, the overall improvement of Ming Dynasty technology still brought convenience to the southern government. Because of the promotion of cement and the reduction of steel prices, the bridges in Nanzhili were well built. The main road bridges were all made of steel and concrete.
In order to improve the land transportation capacity, the Nanjing government conscripted a large number of civilians, who not only had to endure hard labor, but were also likely to be abused and exploited by the army. Their families also fell into trouble because they lost their main labor force and could not maintain normal production and life.

All this caused the South Zhili army and civilians to begin to confront each other in just one or two months.
However, even though the Nanjing government made so many efforts, the logistics work for the front-line troops was still unsatisfactory, because the organization and dispatch were very poor, resulting in many troops not receiving their own supplies on time.

The army was a violent organization, and they were not willing to accept this. They surrounded the nearby counties and prefectures with their men. The county officials could only close the city gates. They would not let these foreign soldiers into the city. Since ancient times, there has been no rule to allow the army to enter the city. However, the local officials could not provide enough supplies for these troops.
Faced with this situation, the military's discipline has deteriorated further, which has intensified conflicts among the people.
Nanzhili was in chaos, and some troops even started to attack local gentry.
Stealing things from gentry and stealing things from ordinary people are two different things. Ordinary people can only endure it, but gentry will not tolerate your bad habits. They have never suffered such humiliation. Especially since the Nanjing government was established with the strong support of the gentry, this gave the gentry an even greater psychological advantage and they simply ignored these troops.
He led his servants directly into the military camp, found the offending soldiers, and paraded them through the camp with arrows.
The soldiers in that battalion did not tolerate the gentry and killed their entire families. After the killing, they wanted to go north to surrender to the Beijing government, but they were stopped by other southern troops.
This incident greatly shocked the Nanjing government. On one side were the gentry who supported the Nanjing government, which was the foundation of the Nanjing government; on the other side were the soldiers who were fighting in the north. The most important thing for the Nanjing government now was military affairs. If they dealt with these soldiers rashly, it would undermine the morale of all the soldiers.
In the end, the Nanjing government sent Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei in Nanjing, to the front line, hoping to use his reputation to ease the conflict between the army and the people. Guo Xun, who was training soldiers on the second line, was also sent to the front line.
At this time, the Nanjing government had recruited about 1.5 million people, but not all of the troops were capable of fighting in the field. Those who could go to the field were well-equipped and well-trained elite troops. This part was trained by Guo Xun, and the initial preparation was to train 500,000 people. As for the remaining 1 million people, they were teams with relatively weak combat effectiveness. This part was a filling-in force, used to defend a certain location, and basically had no field combat missions.

In fact, even the Beijing government, which has a much better economic situation, is unable to train too many field troops. In the Beijing government's military sequence, Type A divisions are troops that can conduct field combat, and Type B divisions are filling-in divisions. Now the number of Type A divisions of the Beijing government is about 600,000, and the rest are Type B divisions.

Duke of Wei Xu Pengju and Marquis of Wuding Guo Xun relied on their prestige to ease many conflicts.
However, their solution still failed to reduce the burden on the people of Nanzhili. Not only in Nanzhili, but also in the six provinces controlled by the Nanjing government, the burden on the people was heavy.
In this way, the Nanjing government stumbled to the second year of the Republic. During this year, many southern people did not live well. The Nanjing government forced gold and silver to be exchanged for gold yuan coupons. However, due to excessive issuance, hyperinflation occurred, causing a large number of urban middle-class people to go bankrupt, causing the government to lose the support of the people.
Not only that, many people are hoarding and creating shortages of various materials in order to gain short-term benefits.
All this caused great headaches for the Nanjing government. Hyperinflation and artificial shortages of supplies made people's lives even more difficult.
At the beginning of the new year, there was a rice rush in Nanjing, Songjiang and other places. By the tenth day of the first lunar month, 2505 dan of rice and 22 rice stores were robbed in Nanjing alone. The Nanjing government had no choice but to declare a "martial law order".

Many people have already realized that the Gold Yuan Note is doomed to fail. Zhu Houcong and Yan Song had long realized this. After the release of the Gold Yuan Note with a face value of "one million yuan", its issuance and printing were like a flood that broke through a dam and could not be stopped. The total amount issued was almost presented to the world in the form of an astronomical figure.

They have already given up and are ready to squeeze out the last value of the gold yuan.

The gold yuan was depreciating at an incredibly fast rate, markets everywhere were in chaos, prices were rising like a kite with a broken string, changing several times a day. One store in Nanjing once changed the price of its products as many as 16 times in one day.

The rapid depreciation rate also shocked the Royal Bank, and directly caused the Royal Bank's counterfeit currency plan to fail.
They had to go bankrupt. As soon as the gold yuan notes with a face value of "10,000 yuan" printed in the north were transported to the south, they found that the mainstream denomination of gold yuan notes in the south had become "1 million yuan", and a gold yuan note with a face value of "10,000 yuan" could only buy more than 70 grains of rice.
By the end of the second year of the Republic, the gold yuan coupons could hardly buy anything. The price of rice in Nanjing was 4.4 million gold yuan coupons per dan. If we calculate that there were 320 million grains of rice per dan, it would cost more than 1 yuan to buy one grain.

Along with the depreciation of the gold yuan, the various titles sold by the Nanjing government also depreciated. In order to raise enough supplies for the 1.5 million troops on the front line, the Nanjing government began to sell the titles of earl and marquis, and now it has even started selling the title of duke.
(End of this chapter)