Chapter VII: Spillovers (2)
The recovery of Guangzhou and the ability to return to their hometown are the common wishes of the people of Guangzhou who live here. When the news of the reconquest of Guangzhou came, it sparked a wave of celebration. But after the celebration, the people still have to have some worries about when they can return to their hometown - although they can all trust Chen Kai, but after all, this time it is said that it is a joint operation of the Ming army, and the status of Guangzhou City is there, and there will always be people fighting for it.
The anxiety did not last for a few days, and the governor yamen of the four prefectures of Zhangquan and Chaohui in Chaozhou City issued a notice to all the Guangzhou people's settlements in Chaozhou, stating that Chen Kai had discussed with Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and that the governor yamen would send ships in batches to escort the people of Guangzhou back to their hometowns. When the decree was issued, it was a sea of jubilation.
In the south of the capital city of Chaozhou, on the land that once broke out due to land, official shortage and other reasons, the aqueduct from the Hanjiang River divides the settlement area of the people of Guangzhou and the village of the people of Chaozhou into two, and the river flows quietly, at the fork in the road, as if the aorta divides into the capillaries, and merges into the fields on both sides.
A wooden bridge was built over the canal, and people were always coming and going on the bridge. The people of Guangzhou are basically reluctant to do spring ploughing, and most of them do odd jobs for the surrounding Chaozhou landlords and homesteaders. Some go to trim the ridges, some go to clean up the weeds, and the most common is to help build and maintain the acres of fields used for rice fields and fish farming, compared to the large-scale appearance of Chaozhou just one or two years ago, which is not too rare in Guangzhou, many people are experts, and some old farmers give advice even more effective than the quality testing school to train those technicians.
The victory did not affect the local production and life, although it is still in the first month, but for the spring ploughing, the preliminary preparations have also started early, and there is a busy scene everywhere.
As the sun set, the people of Guangzhou who were doing odd jobs went home one after another from the bridge. Exhaustion is the most inevitable, farm work is never easy, but walking on the bridge, one by one is full of joyful smiles.
"I agreed with the owner that the salary will be settled every day, not every five days when I was last year."
"You told him yesterday that he's leaving, but he can't set a date?"
"Of course, the governor's yamen has ordered, if he doesn't follow, I won't do it for him, anyway, it's all odd jobs, where can I do it."
“……”
On the bridge, two men chatted about wages in a local Guangzhou accent. There were also a few men who had just gotten off the bridge, but they had already thought much earlier.
"Hey, after four years, I really don't know what happened to the Zhuangyuan Fang, whether it was ruined by those dog soldiers."
"It's really hard to say, haven't you heard it before, that those bastards are raising horses in the city. Oh, that's the city of Guangzhou, where merchants gather, they have always been extremely rich, and they actually use it to raise horses! ”
"It's good to raise horses, four years ago, when the city was broken, it was a slaughter, how many people were killed, this time it was a broken city, I heard that the king who entered the city also killed those dog soldiers and their dog cubs out of the sea of corpses, and even that Shang Shun was chopped off. Relieving Qi is really relieving Qi, but after the death of so many people, I am afraid that it will affect the feng shui in the city, and I still have to find the master in the temple to do things to ensure the safety of the house. ”
"Actually, it's okay to go to the temple to find a Taoist leader, forget about the Taoist priest of Youfang, such a heavy evil spirit, you always have to find a fairy wind dao bone, and only those with great magical powers can be calmed."
“……”
The people walked by in twos and threes, and on the other side, several Chaozhou people gathered together, looking at the people of Guangzhou who were far away, and they couldn't help but whisper.
"I heard that when they go back, they will be compensated twice as much."
"At the beginning, so many people died in the city of Guangzhou, and these people survived to die, and it was useless to envy. Besides, when I go back, my original belongings are long gone, so don't you want to start a new business? ”
"That's right, if you have a kung fu sigh, it's better to think about coming back and buying a piece of land."
"You still want this, the government really sells it, and the good land has fallen into the hands of those old men."
"Picking a cheap piece is also a family item, don't you want me to think about it?"
“……”
When he came four years ago, the local controversy was boiling, and there was even a dispute between the local people, and it was Chen Kai who suppressed it with his personal prestige. Now, Chen Kai has fulfilled his promise, and these people in Guangzhou, who live here and are familiar with the surrounding environment and people, are about to embark on the journey back to their hometown. It's fine for those who have less concern, but for those who marry a local daughter-in-law or a local man, they or their wives will inevitably have to bear a family affection.
The people, the people are happy or worried, happy and worried. Soon, Chen Kai issued an order appointing several officials of the governor's yamen and Zanhua as magistrates of Guangzhou and Huizhou, and their first task was to organize the return of the people of Guangzhou in Chaozhou.
When he first left Guangzhou, Chen Kai organized the people in Fangxiang. This time, according to the Fang Lane, it was still organized by the governor's yamen to draw lots, and those who were drawn to the front would go first, and those who were drawn to the back would go later. A few days later, it was already February, and the local defenders sent by the governor Yamen to escort them, the first to draw the people of Zhuangyuanfang came to the wharf in the south of the city of Chaozhou Prefecture, boarded the ship step by step, and went down the river with the Baili Marquis who went to Guangzhou and Huizhou to take up their posts.
The scenery on both sides of the Han River, when they came, they had already seen it. But this time away, most of them may not return in this life, and they can already take a look at this shelter in the days of wandering.
"Goodbye, Chaozhou, we're going home!"
The boat went down the river, and then transferred to a sea boat that could withstand the waves in the offshore sea in Haicheng and Nanao, and slowly sailed westward.
Chaozhou, over the years, has sheltered a large number of people in Guangzhou, in addition to here, there are more than 10,000 people living here. Chen Kai had already written a letter to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong also ordered the organization of sea ship transportation. It's just that Fujian's ships have been too busy recently, whether they are going near the sea or going to the far sea, whether they are warships or civilian ships, they have been so busy that they don't even have the necessary maintenance and time for the crew to rest, and the capacity that can be squeezed out is naturally very small.
Chen Kai departed in September, especially in early October, when he officially departed from Nanao Island for Guangzhou, and little is known about the situation in Fujian.
From the beginning of October to the present, in the past three or four months, Fujian has undergone tremendous changes, and there are very few places that can change. In Tingzhou Mansion, the Ming army, in accordance with Chen Kai's arrangement before leaving, exerted pressure from the north and south directions, and gradually encroached on all the county towns and health posts except for Tingzhou Mansion, and had compressed the Tingzhou Green Camp and the Southern Jiangxi Green Battalion in Tingzhou Mansion.
In Jianning Mansion, Zheng Chenggong fought with the Qing army that came to help in Layue, and the small setback division expelled it from the territory of Jianning Mansion by virtue of the advantage of troops, and took control of Xianxia Pass. However, the checkpoints connecting Jiangxi in Jianning Mansion and Shaowu Mansion were still under the control of the Qing army, and the Ming army launched several attacks, but it seems that the Qing court issued a strict order, so that they would never dare to give up these last control areas in Fujian.
Recently, the war area has been calm, but Fujian Province has been torn apart by the economic war in the past two years. Earlier, before the Ming army turned its face and did not recognize people, these problems were all taken care of by the Fujian officialdom of the Qing court, and they did not pay much attention to this.
But now, the Ming army has recovered almost the entire territory of Fujian, and while the control area is rapidly expanding, this burden will inevitably be carried on their backs, and local production, especially agricultural production, will be restored, at least they will have to hold out until this summer's harvest. Moreover, with the old situation of Fujian, which was already a grain-importing province, it was only slightly alleviated.
In Fuzhou City, Zheng Chenggong has begun to move the base camp of the military and government to this place, because the center and left are too remote in today's Fujian battlefield, and Fuzhou is the best choice if you want to better control the overall situation of Fujian.
The Recruiting General's line was built in the west of the city, not too far from the docks, allowing for faster sending and receiving messages. At this moment, looking at the relevant reports sent one after another from various prefectures and counties in Fujian, Zheng Chenggong's head is already a few inches bigger, and the officials sent out are asking for money and grain everywhere, and now the stocks of the Zhongzuo Office, Quanzhou Mansion, and Zhangzhou Mansion are plummeting, and the ships sent to Fuzhou Prefecture, Jianning Prefecture, Shaowu Mansion, Yanping Mansion and other places through the Minjiang River are endless, and the busy waterways are not much better than before the Qing army entered the customs.
Above the festival, Zheng Chenggong stood on top of it, such as Zheng Tai, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yanqi, Ye Yiyun, Pan Gengzhong and a large number of officials and staff members were listed below.
"Today's discussion of food and wages is not discussed for the time being, and the public opinion of the country is that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. During this time, the country's public affairs were clarified, and with the help of the monarchs, they benefited a lot, but according to intelligence, the Imperial Court had sent the Prince of Heshuo Zheng, Prince Jidu, to lead the Eight Banners Army south. The captives were still on the way, but the national government had to start preparing as soon as possible, so from the five days onwards these civil affairs were no longer to be dealt with. ”
"The national government has decided to appoint the former governor of Wen, Zhu, Ning, and Taiwan in eastern Zhejiang, and Lu Gong Ruoteng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to act as the governor of Fujian, responsible for the overall situation of civil affairs; appointed Ye Yiyun, the former political envoy of Fujian, to be appointed as the Zhangquan branch guard; appointed Pan Gengzhong, the general who recruited the general to join the army, as the acting envoy of Fujian; appointed Chen Ding, a teacher of Chaozhou Fuxue in Guangdong, as a teacher in Fujian; The former deputy capital of the Imperial Court and the Fujian Inspector Shen Yanqi was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Fujian Inspectorate, and he was transferred to the Huimin Pharmacy of the province. These appointments were immediately sent to An Long Xing by the National Guild for the approval of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court. ”
The reply, for the current decline of the center of the Ming Court, basically it can be said that there is no possibility of inaccuracy. What's more, now that the Zheng group has joined forces with Li Dingguo in advance, these two have constituted the two largest stakes of the royalist faction within the Ming court, and they are the existence that the imperial court continues to rely on.
This is already equivalent to the appointment of the appointment, and the appointment of some other lower-level officials will be announced in the form of an official document. Five days later, including today, they have completed the construction of various yamen, and they can officially take charge of the civil affairs of Fujian Province.
"The appointment has been issued, and you still need to hurry up. Next, we will continue to discuss the relief matters in Sha County, Yanping Prefecture......"
Since conquering Xianxia Pass, Zheng Chenggong handed over all military affairs to the front-line generals, and he rushed back to Fuzhou to sit in town. Sure enough, with the sound of hunger coming from the earlier devastation, the internal pacification work quickly replaced the military offensive and became the most urgent problem to be solved in Fujian.
Focusing on the recruitment of the generals, Zheng Chenggong appointed prefecture and county officials, and through these magistrates of the Ming court, he achieved control over various places. It was not until Chen Kai's letter was delivered that Zheng Chenggong saw clearly between the lines the attitude of the current civil official clique in western Guangdong and even the bureaucracy in the imperial court, and issued the relevant appointment without hesitation.
Of course, the governor's yamen is still responsible to him, not to the court of Anlong. It's a matter of distance, but it's also a matter of rational use of resources and rights. It's just that Zheng Chenggong doesn't have the official position of Wu Jinglu that Ma Gui, Man Gui, and Ma Shilong once sat on, but his title of recruiting generals actually has the right to control the military and political affairs of one party.
The meeting lasted for a long time, and the relevant disposition was sent out as quickly as possible. The strength of the Ming army in Fujian is not weak, but if the people are not appeased, it will be a beacon everywhere, and there will be strong enemies outside, and they are afraid that they may not be better than Liu Qingtai and Tong Guoqi.
Fujian's administrative system was rebuilt, and these officials were all quite closely related to Zheng Chenggong. In addition to these people, other officials were also busy with the expansion of the military and political work that had suddenly arisen for the whole of Fujian. Among them, such as Feng Chengshi, he bears great responsibility, and the Ordnance Bureau he is in charge of has to supply tens of thousands of weapons and armor for the army, and the daily consumption alone is an extremely huge number.
After last year's blind overtime, the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau has gradually recovered with the restoration of the system and the continuous recovery of craftsmen.
In the official room of the Ordnance Bureau, Feng Chengshi worked hard to write. After the campaign in the second half of last year, the Ming army seems to have begun to focus on the counteroffensive, and for this reason, Feng Chengshi plans to restart Chen Kai's plan - to continue to copy the spirit gun, so as to improve the Ming army's siege ability.
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