After the Molishan meeting, Zhao Ming had more things to do.

On the one hand, we must deal with Su Songchang's military and political affairs, and on the other hand, we must deal with party affairs.

This made him overwhelmed by various things while holding power. He urgently needed to expand his team to help handle matters.

At this time, the imperial court had not yet come down, and Su Songchang's military and political affairs could not be straightened out in a short period of time, so Zhao Ming first devoted himself to party affairs construction.

After returning to Suzhou, Zhao Ming first donated 300,000 taels of gold, and Qian Qianyi and other gentry and merchants in the south of the Yangtze River also donated money, earning a total of 600,000 taels of silver as funds for the National Socialist Party.

As the largest shareholder of Huaxing Company, Zhao Ming has long been his money in Donghai Town.

Recently, Zhao Ming decided to end this state and separate the public and private warehouses, and only then did he realize that he had a lot of money.

Therefore, he took out 300,000 taels at once as funding for the social party, and many gentry and merchants in Jiangnan were also actively contributing.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the gentry of Jiangnan was famous for being greedy and stingy. This time he was so generous, one was to thank Fu Shangrui for his conscience, and the other was Zhao Ming's strategy to revitalize Su Song.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the national policy of suppressing commerce since the Taizu period. During the Jiajing period, the people paid in-kind taxes. It was not until the One-whip method was implemented that the Jiangnan economy gradually activated, and the industry and commerce in Jiangnan developed rapidly in the late Ming Dynasty.

However, while the commerce development was developing, the court's attitude of banning seas, restricting commerce, and opposing agriculture and suppressing commerce did not change, or the court did not do anything for Jiangnan industry and commerce.

The court did not participate in the development of Jiangnan business, and gentry and merchants could only earn money through risky smuggling. Smuggling was an illegal act, so they could only collude with officials and businessmen.

This made the gentry and merchants in the southeast have little feelings for the court and do not place much hope on the court to protect their interests. They just hope that the court will not share their cake, and will move towards the path of collusion between officials and businessmen, relying on the southeast officials to safeguard their interests.

Zhao Ming implemented the strategy of revitalizing Susong, promoted the opening of a port in Shanghai, and encouraged the development of industry and commerce, which was directly involved in the government and spent money. The Southeast gentry naturally had to support Zhao Ming and his National Socialist Party.

Although Zhao Ming's slogan is "to form associations for the country and form cliques for the public", the real situation is obviously not the case.

It is impossible to be completely selfless. If it is too idealistic, it will inevitably be difficult for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to succeed.

Generally speaking, the slogan of justice is just to attract some young people and give them to the world. However, behind the scenes, it may not be the same. The Kuomintang must need to represent the interests of some people and obtain the support of a class in order to grow and grow and seize power.

Now that the Social Party accepts donations from the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan, it is necessary to speak out for them and appropriately safeguard their interests.

After the Social Party obtained a large sum of money, Zhao Ming did not rapidly expand the Guoshe Party, but did two things. One was to spend money to build a college on the bank of Taihu Lake to spread the thoughts of the Guoshe Party. Secondly, he purchased the Commercial Press from Huaxing Company at a lower price and appointed Chen Zilong as the propaganda director of the headquarters.

Zhao Ming meant that the Commercial Press was reorganized into a Guoshe Newspaper. On the one hand, the original translation of Western-Japanese books continued to do the same. On the other hand, the National Socialist Newspaper was mainly used to comment on current affairs, introduce the Great Navigation and Western-Japanese colonization, and promote the thoughts of the National Socialist Party.

Zhao Ming handed over the matter of running the Lakeside Academy to Qian Qianyi. The Donglin Party started out as a college association and had rich experience in this. After he put on the airs first, Zhao Ming then carried out reforms and turned the Lakeside Academy into a modern party school.

The matters of the State Council News were fully handed over to Chen Youlong. In recent years, he has written a lot of articles about Taiwan and navigation. The Southeast has a great influence and has gained experience in this area.

At this time, there were less than a hundred members of the National Socialist Party. After completing these two things, there was nothing to do.

Zhao Ming then transferred his energy to military and political affairs.

At this time, after the first half of the year of fighting, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties were exhausted, and the world was generally peaceful.

However, the peace talks between the Qing Dynasty and Longwu failed, indicating that there will inevitably be a great war between the Ming and Qing dynasties in the near future, so both sides began to expand their armies and prepare for war.

In the Battle of Changzhou, Donghai Town repelled the Qing army, but the losses were not small.

After the autumn harvest, Ma Shiao began to select troops and join the Shence Army, restoring the war soldiers to 80,000.

However, this time, the Shandong Guard and Liaodong Guard lost more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of troops to station troops. The Taiwan Guards had previously selected a group of troops to join the Shence Army, and this time they selected more than 15,000 people, and more than half of the troops to station troops in Taiwan were reduced, which had affected Taiwan's production.

In addition, the reduction in troops stationed on Taiwan Island also made Donghai Town feel a little angry when facing the Dutch and the Spanish in Luzon.

In early December, in the camp outside Suzhou City, newly recruited Ming soldiers, carrying muskets, lined up in a row amid the whistles of officers, changing various queues. Ming soldiers were conducting a lively training.

Surrounded by a group of subordinates, Zhao Ming shuttled through the camp and inspected the new army.

At this time, Zhao Ming casually said: "How are the soldiers training? I heard that the Qing Dynasty recruited a lot of green camp soldiers in Henan, Shanxi and Gansu, with more than 100,000 people, and is training in the Yangzhou camp!"

"Report to the commander, the soldiers are all trained according to the teachings. Moreover, the martial artists in the third session of the martial arts lecture hall graduated early to join the army to make up for the shortcomings of officers, so the commander does not have to worry about training!" Ruan Mei said with a smile.

Chen Yujie, on the side, also said: "Although the Qing army recruited the Green Camp and expanded its army to prepare for war, His Highness the Crown Prince and the court are also expanding its army. Recently, His Highness and the court have added thousands of flintlock muskets and tens of thousands of sets of mandarin duck war jackets. I guess there are quite a few people who have expanded!"

When Zhao Ming heard Chen Yujie's words, he couldn't help but smile and said, "So, Huaxing Company's dividends should be very generous at the end of the year!"

When everyone heard the words, their faces also showed a happy expression. At this time, Zhao Ming suddenly thought that the Ming and Qing armies expanded their troops to prepare for war. In addition to the Huaxing Company being able to obtain a large number of orders, the Red Maowen and the Spanish were making a fortune in silence.

Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "How did the Navy Fleet intercept at sea, and the Red Mao Yi and the Spanish trade with the Qing Dynasty?"

Chen Yujie's face sank when he heard this, "Reporting to the Grand Marshal is not ideal. The Western Barbarians are all fast ships, faster than our blessed ships, and the navy currently has only seven gunships, which makes it difficult to block the entire East China Sea. Now it is not only the Dutch and the Spanish who sell firearms to Manqing, but the Portuguese in Macau are also a little ready to move. In order to obtain firearms, the Qing Dynasty bids very high, and these Western Barbarians do not do serious business, and they are almost changing to sell firearms."

Zhao Ming pondered when he heard the words and continued to trade with the Western Yi in this way. It would be difficult to defeat the Qing Dynasty and drive it out of the Han area.

What made Zhao Ming even more worried was that if the Qing Dynasty had increased its strength and the difficulty of regaining the north increased, if the Longwu court chose to negotiate peace and ruled with the Qing Dynasty, then Donghai Town might not be able to continue attacking the Qing Dynasty.

Just as Zhao Ming was thinking, Ding Weiyue rushed over and saluted: "Master, the envoy of the court has arrived, let the Master return to the city to receive the order!"
Chapter completed!