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

Chapter 623 Turning Point of the War

Zhu Houxuan was ready to quickly resolve the rebellion, and all conditions were ripe.

In fact, in Zhu Houxuan's view, both governments in the south were inherently flawed.

If the two governments in the South are regarded as one country, then these two governments are out of control of domestic interest groups.

Because these two governments were entirely established relying on the gentry interest groups, both Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao and Zhu Houcong had limited ability to restrain the gentry interest groups.

Among the countless regimes throughout history, except for those destroyed by foreign enemies, the vast majority of regimes were destroyed for only one reason - the state’s lack of control over interest groups led to interest groups hijacking state policies.

There are two manifestations of the kidnapping policy. One is that what should be done cannot be done, and the other is to do things that should not be done.

Now the South has a total of 2.4 million soldiers. This is actually the limit of what ordinary people in the South can support, but it is definitely not the limit of what the gentry in the South can support. The gentry also bleed, but not that much.
You should know that during the American Civil War, the Northern government of the United States controlled a total of more than 2000 million people, and finally mobilized more than 200 million troops. The Southern government had more than 900 million supporters, and finally mobilized more than 100 million people. Moreover, the American Southern society at that time was not an industrial society, and its main economic model was still the plantation economic model.

Therefore, the number of soldiers that have exploded now is far from the limit.

This was because the gentry did not have enough understanding of this war and thought that these soldiers were enough, and also because of internal strife and out of consideration for their own interests.

Even though the top leaders of the Nanjing government were more sober and continued to lobby and persuade the gentry, it was still to no avail. This was because what should have been done could not be done.

Regardless of this, the gentry took advantage of this opportunity to increase their exploitation of the lower classes in order to make up for the blood they had paid for the southern government. This is something they shouldn't have done.

All of this resulted in the South having such a large population and economic scale, but in the end it ended up like this.
Does this look familiar?
In fact, the southern government is now fast approaching the state of the late Ming Dynasty, because the late Ming Dynasty was a typical example of a country losing control of interest groups. Moreover, this kind of situation cannot be solved from the inside, because the bad things in the world are that you are in me and I am in you.

The so-called dynasty cycle law, any dynasty must go through the growth process of an interest group from small to large, it is like a cancer cell, from budding, to tumor, and then to spread. In the spreading stage, the entire country's system has become a tool for interest groups to gain profits. Unless this system is crushed, there is no possibility of breaking through.

When this cancer cell spreads, all decisions of the country will become powerless, and any attempt to break the deadlock at the highest level will be like a punch on cotton. No matter how hard Emperor Chongzhen tried, he could not investigate the land of the Ming Dynasty and make officials and gentry pay taxes together, because the people who implemented it were the beneficiaries of the old rules. How can you expect them to reform themselves?
This is exactly why Zhu Houxuan started building his own team early on.

"How is the navy's preparation going?" Zhu Houxuan asked.

"The navy has been preparing in Taiwan for several months, and all intelligence and material preparations have been completed," Jiang Jiangong said quickly.

"The southeast monsoon is about to arrive. In that case, let's mobilize the navy! Also notify the Xuzhou front and ask them to be prepared. I'd better go to the Xuzhou front in person to see this unprecedented battle with my own eyes," said Zhu Houxuan.

"Good! Good! Good!" Chen Lang said excitedly as he looked at the edict in his hand.

Then he looked up at a flag outside the house and said with a smile: "Even Mazu is blessing us, the south wind is coming!"

The naval officers around were all smiling, as the battle that had been prepared for half a year was finally about to begin.
"Pass on my military order! All ships are ready to set sail, and the soldiers participating in the battle must board the ships in turn according to the plan!" Chen Lang shouted.

The officers immediately followed the order and left. Behind them, in the Taipei Harbor, there were many ships anchored.
Similar scenes are also happening in Keelung Port, Taichung Port and Kaohsiung Port.
After the Civil War began, a large number of merchant ships that originally traded between the north and the south lost their business, so Zhu Houxuan asked them to gather here. At this time, these ships finally started to move.
At dawn, Hai Lao San drove his small fishing boat out of the mouth of Qiantang River. He planned to go further into the sea today to get more fish. Although his fishing boat was too small to sail in the deep sea, he could only take a little risk to fill his family's stomach.
Thinking of this, he could not help but sigh deeply, and a trace of sadness appeared on his rough, dark face. The world was not doing well now. Because of the war in the north, the officials were like wolves and tigers and collected a lot of taxes, so he could only fish desperately to reduce the burden on his family.
He also didn't know why the world had deteriorated so quickly, becoming like this in just over half a year.
He shook his head and quickly regained his focus. He still wanted to have a good catch today and couldn't be distracted any longer.
He looked into the distance and suddenly saw a lot of seabirds flying around the sea and sky. He was very confused.
So many seabirds would not appear on the sea for no reason. Could it be that a large fleet was passing by?
However, since the war began, most of the ships have withdrawn from the south, and large fleets are rarely seen on the sea.
Just as he was wondering, he suddenly saw those familiar black smoke columns, and he couldn't help but tremble.
Soon, countless masts and sails jumped out of the sea level along with the rising sun. The flags on the tops of the masts and the sails were all large and familiar red-bottomed black dragon logos.
Hai Lao San has been a fisherman for half his life. In the past decade or so, after the rise of maritime trade, he has seen many large fleets, but none of them can compare to the fleet he saw today.
The fleet was like a winding dragon lying on the sea. Everywhere you looked on the sea was filled with ships, with sails standing in rows, majestic and magnificent, covering the sky and the sun. Its scale was so grand that it was breathtaking.
Hai Lao San instantly understood the purpose of the fleet and became excited. However, he was still a little sober and hurriedly rowed his boat to the shallow water.
The huge fleet passed by him very quickly, and his fishing boat looked as small as an ant in front of the huge fleet.
The ships had no interest in him and headed straight for the mouth of the Qiantang River.
"Welcome King Jing, look forward to King Jing, King Jing is here to distribute land and grain!" Hai Lao San suddenly shouted loudly to the fleet.