Ganzhou's city is solid, but for the Huai Army, which has heavy siege cannons, there is no big problem in breaking a city like this. Even those sturdy European bastions are targets in front of the giant cannons, let alone traditional Chinese cities. In addition to the 64-pound mortar cannons equipped with inland gunboats, there is also a powerful siege cannon that was transported over by ship.

The super-heavy siege cannon is also a kind of mortar cannon. It is an extra-heavy mortar cannon with a weight of more than 15,000 kilograms and can fire giant stone bullets weighing more than 500 kilograms two miles away. In front of this kind of mortar cannon, any solid castle is vulnerable. However, this kind of mortar cannon is too heavy to transport on land, so it can only be transported by ship. When loading the shells, a winch needs to lift the giant stone bullets and stuff them into the barrel.

There is another type of siege cannon, which can fire 64 pounds of solid iron bullets. The weight of this giant cannon also reaches more than 12,000 kilograms, and can only be transported by ship, and the loading speed is very slow. However, such giant cannons are the nemesis of traditional Chinese city walls.

The mortar cannon is better for dealing with Western castles than cannons; but against traditional Chinese cities, the effect of cannons is higher than that of traditional Chinese cities. That is because the Western castle is hollow, and although the outer wall is very strong, the top is fragile and easily destroyed by the cannons; while the traditional Chinese city is solid, the mortar cannons with slow shell speeds cannot damage the city walls as well as cannons.

With these two giant cannons working together to blast away the city of Ganzhou, which is known as the impregnable, it can be said that there is no problem at all.

In addition to the 20,000 Huai Army (10,000 of which were auxiliary soldiers), the mainland army attacked Ganzhou also had more than 1,000 prisoners of the Eight Banners. In addition, Li Guodong also dispatched 10,000 Zhongzhen Camp from Huguang.

Zhongzhen Camp is the original rebel army. The peasant uprising troops naturally had no good feelings for the gentry, especially the traditional land gentry representing the landlord class. The northwest disaster was a disaster, and the peasants really couldn't survive and then they rebel. However, during the northwest disaster, a large number of peasants starved to death. Have you heard of the gentry in the northwest starved to death? That's impossible. Even if it was a disaster year, there was no harvest, they still had to pay the land rent and get benefits through collusion with the government.

How many peasants starved to death is not a problem for those gentry. In their eyes, the common people are just a group of sheep. When the sheep starves to death, the land is deserted. What is this? A group of people die, and the land will be more. After the troubled times, when the troubled times are pacified, it will soon be another prosperous era.

No matter how the dynasty changes, as long as the family of these landlords can continue, if the emperor changes, they are still the landlords. Even if that emperor is an emperor of a different race, that's all their business? Haven't you seen that during the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the life of the landlords was more comfortable than in the Song Dynasty? On the other hand, there was a treacherous charity, Sidao, who tried to do some public land law.

The public land law that Jia Sidao had implemented back then was that the Song Dynasty court paid for the landlord's land and then distributed it to farmers to plant it.

The problem is that the Song Dynasty court purchased landlords' lands by neither silver nor copper coins, but instead purchased them with Jiaozi (Song Dynasty paper money). After the court bought the land, the paper money depreciated. Do you think this method looks familiar?

Before his retreat, the bald man Chang used this method to exploit the national bourgeoisie, issue gold coupons, buy the goods produced by the national bourgeoisie and the gold and silver in the hands of the common people, and then the gold coupons depreciated and eventually turned into waste paper that was worse than straw paper. In this way, he exploited a lot of wealth and fled to the isolated island.

Jia Sidao's method of purchasing landlords was actually equivalent to taking another means to deprive landlords of landlords, which naturally offended the landlord class. Therefore, he became a treacherous minister in the literati's works. In the end, Jia Sidao lost his official position because of the public land law and even lost his life.

Therefore, in China, the traditional land gentry forces are deeply rooted, and it is extremely difficult to overthrow this system.

But what Li Guodong had to do was to treat the landlord class as a backward class, sweep into the garbage dump of history, and replace it with the bourgeoisie representing the advanced system.

Li Guodong must attack the land gentry; although many of the gentry in Guangdong are also industrial and commercial gentry, they set up their own small circles in Lingnan and refused to let the court out of the hands of the court. In this way, the industrial and commercial gentry must also be eliminated or transformed.

Guangdong was the land of the Ming Dynasty, not an independent kingdom, nor a semi-independent kingdom. Guangdong's industrial and commercial gentry must accept the conditions of the court, pay commercial taxes, open up the market, and allow the gentry of Jiangnan to compete with Guangdong gentry.

The landlord class will definitely not be willing to fail, they will give Li Guodong resistance. No matter how big the resistance is, no matter what resistance, as long as you dare to block it in front of you, Li Guodong will destroy them all without hesitation.

In fact, Li Guodong did not advocate the entire nationalization of land, but allowed private ownership of land. Li Guodong himself owned the most land in the Ming Dynasty except the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. The farmland of military households and military households in Shandong and the farmland of Huguang were all owned by Li Guodong.

In Songjiang and Shanghai, Li Guodong also bought a large amount of land at a high price that made people excited. However, after buying the land, Li Guodong did not farm, but placed it there, and then built factories and houses on it.

At that time, the land price in Jiangnan was three to four taels per mu, and it was a good rice field. However, when Li Guodong bought the land in Shanghai, he offered a high price of ten taels per mu! He basically bought all the fields of Songjiang gentry, and many of the fields were not good farmland. Some lands were not even farmland. They were some low-lying swamps, and even mudflats that could be flooded by sea water!

Five years ago, when Li Guodong bought the land, his partners Qian Qianyi, Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, Sun Heding and others thought Li Guodong was crazy and even paid a sky-high price of ten taels of silver per acre and bought a lot of rotten land.

But five years have passed, with the large-scale development of Shanghai Port, the land price of the land purchased by Li Guodong has soared to a high price of fifty taels of silver per acre!

Even after the price increased five times, Li Guodong still refused to sell the land he controlled because he knew that the land in Shanghai must be more than this price.

A mu of land is only fifty taels of silver. According to the purchasing power, one mu of land is equivalent to the later RMB 50,000. This price is too cheap. A mu of nearly 700 square meters is only fifty taels of silver. Li Guodong believes that in a few years, the fifty taels of silver can’t even afford a toilet in a Shanghai apartment building.

Due to the soaring land prices in Shanghai, many local people in Shanghai have made money by selling land. Many visionary people came to Shanghai to buy land and kept it in their hands to wait for the land prices to soar. As a result, the land in Shanghai is getting higher and higher, and it is estimated that it will not take long to make every inch of land.

The locals in Shanghai shouted the slogan: Shanghai's land is for frying, not for farming.

Due to the development of Shanghai, Guangdong's industrial and commercial gentry centered on Guangzhou felt the biggest threat in hundreds of years from the Song Dynasty to the present.

In fact, Shanghai is far better than Guangzhou. Shanghai is a water crossing. It can cross the ocean to the east; it can go north to Japan to the north; it can go west to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and directly to Sichuan; it can go south to the South Ocean. Moreover, Shanghai is located in the prosperous Jiangnan. Silk, tea and cotton cloth produced in Jiangnan, and ceramics produced in Jiangxi are much more convenient to ship to Shanghai than to ship to Guangzhou. Therefore, after Li Guodong began to develop the Shanghai Port a few years ago, this port attracted more and more foreign merchant ships.
Chapter completed!