Chapter 837 Jiangnan Signal

"Don't keep us in suspense, tell us quickly." Zhao Xu urged.

Hehehe laughed twice, Xu Ke said: "During this period, our people from the Fourth Academy went deep into Jiangnan and came into contact with many Jiangnan people. These people lived a miserable life after being coerced. It can be said that they slept in the open and had no food to eat."

"Many people were forced to do corvée labor to transport food and grass for the Wu Kingdom, dig trenches, and work as boatmen to pull boats on both sides of the river. During this period, countless people died tragically, and the people's resentment gradually boiled. However, the people could only endure it because of the Wu army's military force."

Zhao Xu was not happy when he heard this, but his face was gloomy. "It is not good news that the people of Dasong are so miserable. These powerful families should be killed. They simply treat the people like livestock."

Xu Ke was stunned for a moment, and he said: "This is naturally not good news. The good news is that the people in Jiangnan have now come to their senses and are willing to move towards Jiangbei."

"Oh? The propaganda worked?" Zhao Xu became interested.

Xu Ke nodded heavily. Since the powerful tribe forced the people to go inland, the four courtyards cooperated with the Propaganda Department to sneak into the people of Jiangnan and become one with them.

After getting familiar with them, they promoted the policies and changes in Jiangbei to the people of Jiangnan.

Because the people of Jiangnan have lived in the land under the jurisdiction of the powerful tribe for a long time, they did not believe it at first and just thought they were bragging.

But when they were forced by the powerful tribe to wander around and live a miserable life, many people suddenly stopped questioning.

Obviously, even if Jiangbei was a dream at this time, they still yearned for it.

Who doesn't want to live a stable life.

And at this time, a large number of powerful tribe soldiers came back.

These soldiers were the soldiers who were captured and released in Jiangbei.

The most important thing is that these soldiers brought back the real situation in Jiangbei.

Some soldiers also took the initiative to publicize this matter to the people.

The powerful tribe generals noticed something wrong and punished some soldiers, but still couldn't stop the spread of this news.

Since then, the people have no doubts about their propaganda.

Taking this opportunity, the people from the four courtyards formed a secret society and attracted many poor people.

The number of people participating in the secret society is still increasing.

With just a call, these people can rise up under the leadership of the members of the four courtyards.

Thinking of this, he told Zhao Xu about the situation in Jiangnan, "This matter can ferment so quickly, thanks to your highness's capture plan."

"So that's it." Zhao Xu smiled.

For this war of unification, he has never been single-minded in fighting. If he can use cleverness, he will naturally use cleverness.

Now, the effect of cleverness has come out.

The people from the west persuaded the Wu Kingdom to fortify the walls and clear the fields, and forced the people to move west.

These people followed them because they were frightened by the authority of the powerful families.

But now, Liang Kai fled to Bacheng.

And Bacheng is a place that can't support many people.

Too many people went to Bacheng, which can only be a burden to the Wu Kingdom.

So most of the people who were forced to stay in Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou.

At this time, the powerful generals and officials who stayed in Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou would be lucky not to make money from the people, let alone consider what would happen to these people in the future?

It was normal to cause the wrath of heaven and the resentment of the people.

Of course, he did not say that the strategy of scorching the walls and clearing the fields was wrong.

But obviously, the people of the West overestimated the control of the powerful families over the people.

In the Western countries, due to the rise of nationalism, they could unite against the enemy and sacrifice their own interests in the war, which could indeed achieve the goal of scorching the walls and clearing the fields.

But the people here did not identify so strongly with the powerful families.

"Well done, the fall of a snowflake may be the beginning of an avalanche. I want you to organize the people in Jiangnan to make a riot as soon as possible." Zhao Xu said, "Tell them that when you return to your hometown, you will give them the land of the powerful families and the wealthy families."

"Yes, Your Highness." Xu Ke responded.

He was a little nervous. The four courtyards have always been good at spying, but they have never led the people to rise up.

However, this is indeed one of the contents of their four-institute training, which is specifically used to create chaos within the enemy country.

After returning to the Supervisory Council, he immediately asked someone to pass the order to Jiangnan.

At the same time, he contacted Chang Wei and cooperated with the royal army.

This time, they wanted to turn Jiangnan upside down, so that Wu would not only lose the land of Jiangnan, but also lose the people who were coerced by them.

At that time, as long as the people returned, they would be able to take root in Jiangnan.

At the same time, he left, and another person came to the palace, but it was Wang Chong.

Like him, this time he also sent good news to Zhao Xu.

"Your Highness, the three-expansion steam engine has been successfully developed, and the manufacturing problem of large steamships has been solved." Before reaching the study of the palace, Wang Chong said loudly.

At this time, Zhao Xu was facing the map, thinking about the next move after the uprising of the people in Jiangnan.

Hearing this, his hand holding the teacup trembled and spilled some tea.

"Really?" Zhao Xu was overjoyed, and this joy even exceeded the joy brought by the victory of the war.

Due to the limitation of steam engine power, the palace could only build steamships less than 30 meters long.

However, the successful development of the triple expansion steam engine solved the problem of steam engine power, which was of great significance to the construction of ironclad ships.