The Ming Dynasty Cabinet Government launched a paper currency economic plan, while Richard took the system troops to embark on the road to the southern expedition.

Since the system cabinet headed by Zhuge Liang, Richard has been freed from complicated secular affairs.

You can lead the army to fight against the outside world and complete the map splicing of the comprehensive war system!

Now it is not far from Richard's first goal - unifying all regions of the East Asian continent and allowing the tax amount of the total war system to complete a qualitative change.

Soon, the main force of Richard's army arrived in the Yunnan-Guizhou area.

This is also the dividing line between the Ming Dynasty and the Southeast Asian Peninsula. Going southwest further to the southwest is what the locals commonly call the "100,000 Mountains".

Richard didn’t know if there were 100,000 mountains, but he knew that the road ahead was all mountain roads!

Although it cannot reach the level of natural danger, it is definitely a test for the large army!

More importantly, the mountain roads are filled with poisonous snakes and insect pests and various miasma. If it were not for locals, foreign soldiers would easily fall ill on the march.

This is also one of the reasons why the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to conquer the Southeast Asian Peninsula during its peak period.

Another reason is that the development level of the Southeast Asian Peninsula was too backward. Although the Tang army did not conquer the southwest before, a small number of adventurers and business travelers tried to explore the southwest Peninsula.

The term Southeast Asian Peninsula is relative to the entire Eurasian continent. For the East Asian continent, the Southeast Asian Peninsula is actually located in the southwest direction.

With the East Asian continent as the center, the more backward the southwest, the more the number of toasts. In the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, the toasts are a tribe of barbarians, relying on the cover of mountains to live a primitive and backward life.

Very wild, there is no good or bad after conquering...

The things produced by a group of backward and barbaric human tribes will not be taken seriously by the Tang people at the time. Instead, those barbaric human tribes need iron tools and various living supplies produced by the Tang Dynasty very much.

People are profit-seeking. In this era, poor and backward land was not worth much, so the Tang Dynasty naturally had no desire to conquer the poor and miserable southwest peninsula with complex terrain.

After all, everyone knows that conquering the Southwest Peninsula is not only a better-looking map and enhancing the prestige of some countries, but also a loss-making business.

The soldiers who died of illness during the conquest were definitely far more than the war loss. Even if they were defeated, just opening up wasteland and building roads would be enough to make the court lose money. Even if these were completed, the court would not get much profit...

At least, in the messages sent back by business travelers and adventurers, the Southeast Asian Peninsula is a poor and wilderness.

The reason for this conclusion was naturally because the business travelers and adventurers of the former Tang Dynasty did not really go to the surplus and flat areas of the Southeast Asian Peninsula, and they could not go there either...

The unreasonable savage toast along the way was enough to stop them, and even half of the ten people entering the Southwest Peninsula could not come back.

Therefore, Richard's military operation to insist on the southward expedition to the southwest peninsula was once again regarded by the Ming bureaucrats and civilians as a meaningless war launched by the tyrant in order to satisfy the pleasure of conquest, which was a meaningless war in which the people were exhausted and money was lost.

Moreover, the response this time is even more intense than that of the Northern Expedition Green Skin!

The Green-skinned Court of the Northern Expedition could also fool the people with the slogan of revenge, but the Southwest Peninsula, which had no relationship with the East Asian mainland, had no political slogans to promote.

Everyone knows that the southwest direction is poor and the cost of expanding territory is far beyond the profits. The southern expedition is purely an act of not being worth the loss.

In addition, the white grain collection caused complaints from the public, and an undercurrent in the Ming Dynasty gradually raised its head.

Of course, thanks to Richard's reputation, although most people were very dissatisfied, they did not dare to actually join the rebel organization. The revival association's franchise action did not achieve the desired results.

However, gangs and anti-Ming organizations in various places have sent people to pay close attention to the outcome of the Ming Dynasty's southern expedition. Once Richard's army suffered heavy losses during the southern expedition, the anti-Ming movement will be in full swing!

The impression left by the southwest direction on the natives of East Asia is too terrible. It is not a force of various natural disasters that human forces can withstand. Therefore, many people do not think that Richard's main force of the Ming army can win the victory of the Southern Expedition safely.

The rule of the Ming Dynasty was based on the invincible system of the Ming army of Richard. Once this system of the Ming army suffered heavy losses, the outside world felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Some people wanted to take the tyrant Richard off the throne of the emperor!

In simple terms, Richard's rule is unpopular!

The reason why people are unpopular is very simple. One is that the implementation of the equal-field debt exemption order has offended all the original vested interests. Although most of them have been dealt with, there are still remnants.

The vested interests are all social elites, and they will at least not be like everyone else when they really lurk.

The second reason is that the Ming army killed too many people in the process of unifying the East Asian continent.

If you kill more people, you will accumulate more hatred. Who doesn’t have relatives and friends like aunts?

Whether they are killed on the battlefield or killed by soldiers due to war, they will be counted on Richard.

Richard's victory was built on the bones, and the seeds of hatred had long been spread all over the world!

However, Richard's southern expedition has not yet shown any decline, so the undercurrent of the Ming Dynasty only dared to contact him quietly, and did not dare to emerge at all. He even did not dare to accumulate a large amount of weapons and equipment. Otherwise, the Jinyiwei would invite them to the imperial prison for tea...

Compared with this era, the secret service agency is definitely a very advanced political concept.

Why did Richard have his own spy agency in his previous life?

It’s not because this kind of institution is so easy to use!

Even if Richard is unpopular, as long as the invincible core Ming army is still there, the Jinyiwei can firmly suppress the formation of anti-Ming forces among the people.

It is precisely because of this that Richard felt at ease with the Southern Expedition.

Compared to the refreshing Northern Expedition, the Southern Expedition is a long-term life.

Richard first summoned tens of thousands of reserve soldiers and formed the Southern Expedition Advance Army to clear out the chieftains who did not cooperate in the mountains.

These advance troops were all brought with the Ming Dynasty edict. As long as they were willing to surrender, they could become members of the Ming family.

Of course, surrender is not a verbal statement. It requires the bureaucracy sent by the Ming Dynasty, and the need to move ordinary civilians to relatively flat places to reclaim wasteland.

The core purpose is to fool those living in the mountains into a flat area to live, which is convenient for management and tax collection.

If we cooperate well, the Ming Dynasty could allow the local chieftain to become the first generation of parent officials.

Of course, the Ming court will definitely send supervisory officials at all levels and deprive the chieftain of the military power!
Chapter completed!