After the incident in northern Fujian, Chen Kai set off to return to the Zhongzuo Institute. Since Zheng Chenggong attacked the center and left, it quickly replaced the capital city of Chaozhou and Nanao Island, and became the military, political and economic center of the Ming army in Fujian. Correspondingly, due to the sea trade, the strategic focus of the Fujian Ming army was also shifted to southern Fujian, and brilliant results were achieved. However, the side of Chaozhou, which has taken a back seat, is no longer what it used to be.

In recent months, the division of land in Chaozhou has been in full swing, and the people of Guangzhou, who have survived the disaster, have reclaimed large tracts of wasteland under the guidance of the government, planted sesame seeds, and chased weeds. Even next year's harvest is predictable.

However, the decree to divide the land and Tuntian was opposed by the local people from the beginning of the issuance, Ye Yiyun withstood the pressure, while appeasing the local people of Chaozhou, while seizing all the time to divide the wasteland and organize the Tuntian, in the past few months, he has hardly slept a full night. Rao is like this, the opposition still exists, and it is inevitable that the locals will persecute the people of Guangzhou, and he has no choice but to let those people of Guangzhou live together.

In the southwest of the capital city of Chaozhou, on a newly reclaimed piece of land, the people of Guangzhou who were assigned to Tuntian were digging a canal according to the government's assignment.

The wasteland they were allocated was not very conducive to water irrigation, so in order to ensure the harvest, digging canals and building facilities for water diversion and irrigation became an inevitable choice. However, in order to alleviate the conflict between the Cantonese and the locals in the division of land, the government ordered to help the locals dig the canals, and what they were struggling to dig at the moment was not the canal that led to the wasteland they had reclaimed, but reluctantly acted according to the orders of the government.

Ye Yijun, the magistrate of Chaozhou Mansion, inspected here, looking at the scene of labor, Rao is now in the winter moon, but he is still sweating.

Earlier, in Chenghai County and Raoping County, there had been several small-scale fights between locals and Guangzhou people because of the same water canal diversion of water. Because of this, the government simply amended the decree to allow the Cantonese people in Tuntian to dig their own canals to divert water, and not to use the old local canals.

As a result, the two sides could not fight because of the fight for water and irrigation, but the old decree to ease the conflict continued to be implemented, and the workload of these people in Tuntian became double, even if it was a complaint.

If the old decree is abolished, then the contradictions cannot be expected to be eased; If it is not abolished, this first year will be the most difficult to get through. Long pain is better than short pain, at least Ye Yiyun felt so after discussing it with officials from several prefectures and counties, so he simply continued to do so. But in an unpleasant situation, he still directed the officials so that their feet did not touch the ground. Especially his younger brother, a magistrate, is not in charge of the punishment in the yamen, but has not returned to the city for more than a month, patrolling, comforting and suppressing everywhere, and has lost a lot of weight.

But even so, everywhere he saw, the Cantonese people were reluctant, and the locals were cold bystanders, sometimes sneering, and he tried his best to promote the "good governance" of the government, but neither side seemed to buy it. God knows when a spark falls, it will burn the land into a wildfire.

In this regard, Ye Yijun was very uneasy, just made an appointment with a few local gentry, and those people expressed their dissatisfaction with the laziness and compromise of the Guangzhou people when digging the canal, and he also tried his best to appease, and in the end, he moved out of the righteousness of forbearance for the country, and finally suppressed these dissatisfaction for the time being.

After a day when there was no trouble, Ye Yijun breathed a long sigh of relief, ready to rest for the night, and then go to the next Tuntian point to inspect the next day. At nightfall, when the moonlight is obscured by black clouds, things that are inconvenient to do during the day are now at their best.

Under the dark night, the Cantonese people who had been working here had already gone back to rest, but from time to time there was the sound of excavation and the scolding of "small dots" on the side of the canal. In the distance of it all, in a nondescript hut, a few voices were talking about things that seemed to have nothing to do with them.

"The county yamen has recruited another group of people, experience, care, governors, as well as officials in various houses in the county and even government officials, who are basically those Guangzhou guys!"

"Didn't Governor Ye say that it was added, and it didn't occupy the old establishment?"

"The land is our Chaozhou land, even if the government wants to expand the establishment, it should be recruited from our Chaozhou people. There are still a lot of idle local students and children, why let these Cantonese guys take care of our Chaozhou people! ”

"This is a great good, in the long run, in the future, this Chaozhou may not be our locals!"

“……”

There was nothing to say all night, early the next morning, Ye Yijun, who had a good night's sleep, was about to set off, but who knew that at this time, there was a water canal, and the people of Tuntian and the locals had already quarreled, and the two sides were gathering more people, looking at the posture as if they were going to fight.

"What the hell is going on?!"

Ye Yijun was very anxious, so he stopped his journey and hurriedly rushed to the canal. As I walked, I asked, but the answer I got was that after a night's work, there was an extra shallow ditch between the two canals. Although this shallow ditch is far from deep enough to connect two canals and achieve the function of diverting water, suddenly there is such a thing, and people on both sides are accusing each other of doing it, intending to divert water from each other's canals to irrigate their own land, which is really despicable and shameless.

This kind of thing is difficult to explain clearly for a while, Ye Yijun rushed over, and at the same time sent people to find the gentry and village elders led by the people on both sides. By the time he arrived, the gentry and village elders on both sides had arrived, but the people had gathered boundlessly, and the sound of quarrels overrode any persuasion, and the clubs and hoes of both sides continued to approach, until the first touch of the guns and the fighting broke out.

"Don't fight, don't fight, this official is here, there is anything to be decided by the yamen!"

Chen Kai's taunting Ma Degong with an iron horn in the city of Zhongzuo has long been spread, Ye Yijun simply ordered one in order to deal with these civil fights, the expanded volume of this thing in Pingsuli is really useful, but this time there are too many people, Rao is he shouted at the iron horn, but to no avail. Later, he had no choice but to throw down the tin horn and take a group of officials and servants to persuade him to fight.

The contradictions between the two sides have existed for a long time, and they are only intensifying at the moment. Once the weapon fights, my third uncle was injured, and his second cousin was killed, and immediately the whole family went out, men, women, and children went forward one after another, and then tried to persuade them, which was so easy.

Ye Yijun and his party were quickly coerced in the middle, like a leaf boat in a storm, not to mention dissuading the two sides to stop for the time being, and even they themselves soon became difficult to protect themselves. After a while, a stone thrown from nowhere smashed straight on Ye Yijun's forehead, the pusher covered his head, his body shook twice, and his eyes were dark, and he fell to the ground.

"Don't fight, don't fight, Ye Tuiguan is injured, be careful that you guys go to play the board!"

Ye Yijun's servants shouted at him, but unexpectedly, the scene of this weapon fight was not only not half stopped, but became more intense.

"Ye Tuiguan was beaten to death by those Cantonese guys, avenge Ye Tuiguan!"

"The Chaozhou guy killed Ye Tuiguan, he is going to rebel, kill all these traitors!"

“……”

The incident happened in the southwest of Fucheng, which was not too far away, and Ye Yiyun soon received the news, and even asked Hong Zheng's city guard association to suppress it. Hong Zheng knew that the stakes were very high, so he hurriedly sent troops, and after arriving, he didn't say a word, and no matter which side of the people was, he first rushed to kill for a while, and scared the people on both sides away.

The younger brother was injured and unconscious, but Ye Yiyun strictly forbade the county yamen and the garrison to retaliate, but personally arrived at the scene to calm the emotions of both parties.

This is the biggest conflict between Cantonese and locals in recent months, and Ye Yiyun knows very well what the situation is now in Haiyang, Chenghai and Raoping, the three counties that have divided their land and tuntian. At the same time as pacifying, Hong Xishan of Chenghai and Guo Tai of Raoping asked them to send troops to station in the places where armed fights were likely to break out between the residential areas and farming areas of the two sides, and at the same time reported to Zheng Chenggong and asked for an increase in the strength of Chaozhou to deter the gentry and people on both sides.

is not such a mediocre official, the matter has reached the current situation, Ye Yiyun did not think to cover it up, even if Zheng Chenggong mobilized troops to come and punish him at the same time, it didn't matter, he just hoped that it would not shake the foundation of the Ming army in Chaozhou, so that it ruined the good situation that Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai had worked hard for many years.

It's a pity that the sky does not follow people's wishes, and the garrison's step-by-step stationing and deterrence have just been completed, and the news of the fall of Chengxiang County came from the Sanheba.