Chapter 154: Take the initiative
Qiao Fu, Qiao Rong, the father of the Qiao family's sisters, looked a little sad, he was worried about the current situation of the Qiao family, and he was also worried about his baby daughter.
The Qiao family can be regarded as a scholarly family, Qiao Rong's father Qiao Hui has a great reputation in this part of the south, Qiao Rong is much worse than his father, but his reputation is also spread throughout Guangdong.
There is no doubt that the Qiao family is loyal to the Ming court, and the People's Army is a "thief and anti-thief" in Qiao Rong's mouth, and Qiao Rong can't wait for the Ming Army to exterminate the People's Army soon.
However, Qiao's family lives in Guangzhou City, which is occupied by the People's Army, and even most of Guangdong is occupied by the People's Army, and it is not known how much time it will take for the Ming Army to wipe out the People's Army.
Yes, in Qiao Rong's heart, the Ming Dynasty has been a country for hundreds of years, the national strength is strong, and a rebel who has just emerged, even if he occupies most of Guangdong, is definitely not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court can exterminate the People's Army by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops to Guangdong.
But there are too many hidden dangers in this.
Qiao Rong has been observing the People's Army, knowing how the People's Army buys the hearts of the people, and under a set of actions of the People's Army, he quickly won the support of the people, so now these ordinary people are the people of the People's Army or the people of the Ming Dynasty?
Probably already the people of the People's Army, these ordinary people will also be the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and when the Ming Army comes to exterminate the People's Army, when the war is over, there will be more than one million people left in Guangdong.
As a literati, Qiao Rong naturally has a sense of disgust for military martial arts, many Ming army military discipline is corrupt, killing good and risky merits, it is not surprising to be disgusted, Qiao Rong is worried that when the Ming army hits Guangzhou City, even Qiao's family will be slaughtered.
Not only the Ming Army, Qiao Rong was also worried about the People's Army.
Don't look at the people's army is very good to the people now, the Qiao family has not bullied the people, after the people's army occupied Guangzhou City, so many big families were copied, but the Qiao family was let go, but Qiao Rong was worried that this situation would not continue forever, and he couldn't tell when the People's Army would do something to the remaining big families.
Especially when the People's Army was defeated by the Ming Army and was about to be destroyed, the possibility of the People's Army, which was already crazy, to take action against the remaining big families greatly increased.
In any case, the city of Guangzhou and most of Guangdong are dangerous areas, and the people in them are in danger of dying and do not know how to live.
How to save the lives of the Qiao family made Qiao Rong very worried, and Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu's precious daughters also made Qiao Rong worried.
The two daughters are older, the elder sister Qiao Muxue is seventeen years old, and the younger sister Qiao Muyu is sixteen years old, under normal circumstances, the age of marriage is fourteen or five years old, and the two daughters are already so old, as a father, can Qiao Rong not be worried?
Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu sisters are not to mention the beauty of the country, they are also in the forefront of the entire Guangzhou city, and they were born in the Qiao family, and there is an endless stream of people who come to Qiao's mansion to ask for relatives.
The eldest daughter Qiao Muxue is kind-hearted, gentle and submissive, and listens to Qiao Rong's words very much, but the second daughter Qiao Muyu is really uncomfortable, and she investigates the situation of all the sons and brothers in Guangzhou City clearly through a group of little sisters.
Young man, who doesn't have a romantic past, Qiao Rong also has it, otherwise how could Qiao Rong have several wives and concubines.
Qiao Rong thinks that it doesn't matter if he is young and romantic, and when he gets older, he will calm down, just like himself.
It's just that the younger generation in Guangzhou City seems to be too romantic, and they are disgusted by Qiao Muyu, who comes up to say goodbye, even if it is Qiao Muxue who wants to marry instead of Qiao Muyu, Qiao Muyu will use various methods to make things worse, and under the influence of her sister, Qiao Muxue is also very dislike those sons.
Although there is still an endless stream of people who come to ask for relatives, Qiao Muxue Qiao Muyu's marriage has not been decided, one is already seventeen in a blink of an eye, and the other is sixteen, and now as soon as the People's Army comes out, things have to continue to drag on, Qiao Rong is really worried that the two daughters will be dragged into old girls and will not be able to get married.
At the same time, Qiao Rong was also a little happy in his heart, if the two daughters were married, and the People's Army made such a fuss, so many families would be raided, I am afraid that the two married daughters would be implicated.
"Ugh." Qiao Rong sighed, and the sorrow in his heart didn't know how to solve it.
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Wuzhou Fucheng in eastern Guangxi can be said to be the closest capital city in Guangxi to Guangdong, and it is only dozens of miles away from Fengchuan County in the northwest of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong.
Since the People's Army occupied most of Guangdong, in order to prevent the People's Army from advancing into Guangxi, a part of the Guangxi Ming Army moved to the areas bordering Guangdong.
Of course, the Ming army in Guangxi did not dare to move away, the Ming army in Guangxi had more troops, tens of thousands more than the previous Ming army in Guangdong, you must know that (Ming Dynasty) Guangxi has no coastline, but Guangxi borders the North of Vietnam, and Guangxi is not very stable, so there are more Ming troops stationed in Guangxi.
If something happens in Guangdong, Guangxi can mobilize 40,000 or 50,000 troops to Guangdong at most, and it is necessary to mobilize a few troops from everywhere, and it is not possible to transfer all the Ming troops away, so problems will easily arise.
The Ming army in Guangxi, which was close to the distance, soon came to the border area, and was generally stationed in the county seat and Fucheng area, and would not be stationed near the border, and the news of the defeat of the Ming army in Guangdong could have reached Guangxi, and the Ming army in Guangxi was not so stupid and dared to directly enter Guangdong to attack the people's army.
And there are not many Ming troops in Guangxi who have gathered, their task is mainly to hold the cities close to Guangdong, as the capital city, the Ming army gathered in Wuzhou is the most, and the defenders of the target Wuzhou capital city have exceeded 5,000 troops.
However, the Ming army in Wuzhou was not very happy at this time, and the Ming army in Guangxi did not go to Guangdong to fight the people's army, but the people's army crossed the border to attack the Ming army.
The People's Army that attacked the Ming Army in Wuzhou was the Third Army under the command of He Yan.
At present, the People's Army occupies most of Guangdong's areas, and its main task is to quickly digest the newly occupied areas, and as long as these areas are completely digested, the strength of the People's Army will be able to grow rapidly, and there is no need to occupy more territory in a short period of time, and the People's Army will not be able to manage more territory.
Not occupying more territory does not mean that the People's Army will stay honest and watch the Ming army continue to gather.
Compared with the Ming Army and the People's Army, the strength of the Ming Army is still far more than that of the People's Army, and the People's Army is not counted as a new soldier, and the strength of the Ming Army in Guangxi alone is twice that of the People's Army.
Fortunately, the Ming army in various places could not be fully mobilized, and once all of them were transferred, those bandits and bandits who had not been exterminated would become active, and the other people's armies had not been exterminated, and the localities would become chaotic, which was the same as Guangxi's practice, only a part of the Ming army was transferred, and a part of the Ming army was left to continue to garrison various places.