Guizhuang is one of Qian Qianyi's "downline", such a character has been mentioned a lot in the articles Chen Kai has read before. As for those hidden in history, it is even more ignorant.

Speaking of which, this time I came to visit Zhuang is still related to the attack of the Qing army in Zhejiang on Zhoushan. He is from Suzhou, and he should get the news more quickly and practically. According to him, the Qing army has begun to assemble in Ningbo, and even the Su Songshui Division seems to be within the scope of the participating troops in this battle, and not long ago, the Qing army in Zhejiang carried out the second round of mountain washing operations in the Siming Mountain area after last year - the so-called mountain washing, that is, the slaughter of the mountain, the Qing army used the large-scale massacre of the Siming Mountain area, killing the population base, and basically put an end to the possibility of large-scale anti-Qing rebel army activities there.

The situation in Zhejiang is becoming more and more tense, Qian Qianyi has already sent someone to see Huang Zongxi, whether Huang Zongxi can be delivered before the outbreak of the First World War in Zhoushan, and whether it can play a role after delivery, Chen Kai has no idea about this. What he knows, Qian Qianyi's attitude now, and then there is that he still needs to go to Zhejiang, whether it is a place that must be passed by on the way, or there are some things that he needs to toss again.

"The scarf is self-righted, and the brothers are not suspicious.

Don't blame her daughter for being too abrupt, how many eyebrows does the Jimen courtier have? ”

The boat had to travel on the canal for a long time, and he couldn't delay it. The day after Guizhuang arrived, Chen Kai took his leave and left. Before leaving, he wrote this poem in front of everyone, which was supposed to be a gift to Liu Ruye. However, the words were explained in advance, he himself did not have any research on composing poetry, and even this poem was heard on the road, which can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha.

"Actually, the one you wrote on the Anping Bridge is actually very interesting."

The text used to mock Shi Lang is no secret here. Kuang Lu said that even when the hall burst into laughter, Chen Kai just replied, "A certain gun is a traitor, just to clean up the door", and then revealed it.

The following road, Guizhuang will accompany a section, to Suzhou Fucheng, Chen Kai into the canal, Guizhuang by boat to Loujiang back to his hometown. Before leaving, although Qian Qianyi did not completely determine the fine-tuning of the three bureaus, he privately gave Chen Kai a dozen tickets, which were divided into several ticket numbers. If you do the math, there are also 50,000 taels of silver. These are the limits that Qian Qianyi can get out in this short period of time.

"Look, it's only been a few days, and 50,000 taels of silver will be in hand, which is much easier than calculating Du Yonghe's money in Guangzhou."

The boat, continuing along the established course, is now no longer going north and east, but turning south, and in terms of direction it is already the beginning of the return journey. It's just that the target of the next stop is not the nearest Suzhou, at least, the Tiger Hill weather, Chen Kai has no time to appreciate it for the time being.

Suzhou, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the most important commercial center, in the far south coast, the former Guangzhou, in the two regions also have such a status, but now it is no longer what it used to be.

Tracing the Pearl River upstream, the Tianzi Wharf in the south of the city is empty, a few small boats are loading and unloading the fish and shrimp that are caught, it seems very busy at first glance, but the fisherman's sorrow makes it difficult to have a hot feeling here, but in the heat of this midsummer, a clammy and cold breath penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

Fishing boats are already the mainstream here. The original merchant ships and cargo ships are now gone. Some were taken to Chaozhou by Chen Kai, and some had already left earlier, but as a central city of regional trade and maritime trade, the war has passed for more than half a year, but there are still very few sea ships coming, which is really unimaginable.

This is true outside the city, and it is also true inside the city. More than half a year ago, Chen Kai rescued a large number of people in the city, some returned to Chaozhou with him, some followed Chen Qice to Shangxiachuan Island, and a larger number chose to flee on their own at that time. Those who went to the area occupied by the Ming army will not appear here, but those who fled on their own, after the Qing army sealed the knife, some still chose to return to their hometowns, but the vast majority of them could not return to the ancestral houses where they once lived, even if there was only a wall apart, even if they still held the house deed and land deed in their hands.

The massacre of the city was not canceled because of Chen Kai's rescue, and the Qing army almost killed the people of Guangzhou who could not escape, ending the massacre.

Subsequently, according to the custom, the monks who stayed behind were ordered to clean up the corpses in the city, and when the cleanup was basically completed, the feudal soldiers and their families moved in directly - the dove occupied the magpie's nest, and at this moment it was not as simple as expelling, but the dove wanted to kill the magpie completely, and then occupy its residence in a grand manner!

The old city of Guangzhou has been completely occupied by the soldiers of the Pingnan and Jingnan domains. The generals entered the mansions, the soldiers covered the big houses, the streets and alleys, the horse manure everywhere, once accommodated hundreds of thousands of people for generations, now the soldiers and their families are only tens of thousands, Rao is they are the war horses, pack horses are herded in the city, the noise of people and horses is noisy, and it is far from being comparable with the hustle and bustle of the past.

Most of the people of Canton were dead, and the limited survivors, along with the yamen of the Qing court at all levels, were bombarded by these two feudal clans into the new city south of the city. The government was dense, which seemed to be more suitable for the government to assist the two feudal lords in exploiting the people. In the old city north of the new city, the two feudatories in the city are just like a giant worm coiled on the heads of the people of Guangdong, sucking the people's fat and people's ointment, and they are insatiable.

At the head of the city, where the four guards of Guangzhou once fought to the death, as far as the eye can see, the flower beds carefully cultivated and cultivated outside the city have long returned to nature and become a place where weeds are overgrown. If Shang Geng's greatest contribution to the landscape architecture of the city of Guangzhou will only be the white-flowered hill outside the east gate - it is a common mound made of the ashes left over from the burning of hundreds of thousands of people's corpses.

The Qing army captured Guangzhou in early November last year, and after a short rest, they invaded Zhaoqing Prefecture and then Luoding Prefecture in the following months. These two places are located in the western part of Guangzhou Prefecture, together with Huizhou Mansion to the east, Nanxiong Mansion and Shaozhou Mansion to the north, extending the land depth of Guangzhou.

This series of offensives was completed before February of the fifth year of Yongli. Counting the leap November of last year, it was only three or four months' work. However, when Zhaoqing Prefecture and Luoding Prefecture were owned by the Qing army, and Guangzhou became the hinterland, it became an inevitable question whether to continue to the west or turn east.