Inside and outside the city of Jiaxing, around the city, densely covered with Qing military camp tents, all kinds of flags fluttering. In the city, the flags of the eight flags of the Qing army are flying. Outside the city, there are all kinds of banners of various battalions and towns of the Qing army.

Since the division went south, the Qing armies from all walks of life have made smooth progress. Lianke Lishui, Liyang, Yixing, Changxing, Guangde, Huzhou, Jiaxing and other cities. Wherever the banner of the soldiers arrived, the city market towns along the way looked at the wind and returned to the wind, and the gentry and merchants everywhere either killed the officials and sacrificed the city to surrender, or secretly communicated the song, informing the truth and truth. As the Qing army turned to, countless people's homes were destroyed, and their children's wealth was plundered. However, Bolo and Turg, naturally, are also characters who know how to use traitors and give full play to the role of the party leading the way.

"When they are submissive, they are like hounds and vicious dogs, and if they do not have a few flesh and bones in their hands, how can they be fed? How can you set an example for other vicious dogs? ”

However, raising a dog requires bones, and feeding the hundreds of thousands of jackals, tigers and leopards under his command requires a lot of gold and silver wealth, grain, rice, wine and meat.

Where does this mountain-like amount of silver, and the sea-like grain, rice, wine, and meat come from?

In front of the Yanyu Building, two huge woven golden dragons, and two huge handsome flags stood in the autumn wind and rain. In the Yanyu Building, the general Bolo and his deputy Turg were dozens of Jiala Zhangjing, Niu Lu Zhangjing, Meler Ezhen, the general soldier and the deputy general were like stars holding the moon. The two of them removed the gilded helmets from their heads, revealing their iron-shaved foreheads and scalps, and a slender pigtail of money rattail on the back of their heads.

"Today is not a discussion, everyone can be free!"

With Bolo's words, everyone took off all kinds of helmets on their heads and placed them on the small table at hand, and the rude officer even hung the iron and bronze helmets directly on the head of the official hat chair.

Speaking of this Yanyu Building, I'm afraid that all the officials are the same as the unkind authors, all of whom learned from the Condor shooting, of course, the South Lake in front of the Yanyu Building is another matter, especially the red boat in the South Lake. Ahem, the weather is nice today! Why don't you come out and take a breather?

This building, as well as this lake, was originally built during the Five Dynasties. In the Later Jin Dynasty (around 940), the fourth son of King Wu Yue of Wu Yue Kingdom, Wu Jiedu Shi, King Qian Yuan of Guangling County, built a building on the shore of the South Lake as "the place to climb and overlook", and "the bank of the Mandarin Lake was built on the shore of the Tai Building, and the guests of the pavilion were located". At that time, there was no name of "Yanyu Building". According to "Zhiyuan Jiahe Zhi", the three characters of Yanyulou were first seen in Wu Qian's "Water Tune Song Head" in the Southern Song Dynasty? Title: Smoke and Rain Building" words. Although the smoke and rain building on the lakeside has changed its owner several times, it has always been a good place to enjoy the lake. In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1549), Zhao Ying, the prefect of Jiaxing, dredged the river and built the Yanyu Building on the island in the middle of the lake, and the building was in the lake from then on. The main building sits south and faces north, facing the city wall. (The current Yanyulou was rebuilt into a south-facing and north-facing city in order not to commit taboos during Qianlong's southern tour.) ）

However, at this time, this smoke and rain building, which has always been a gathering of literati and a gathering of poetry and wine, is a murderous condensation into a cloud. Downstairs, hundreds of swordsmen and axemen were wearing red robes with sharp blades in their hands, their eyes half-open and half-closed, looking at the people kneeling in front of them.

These hundreds of people who are about to be beheaded are all people in Jiaxing City who have some status and some wealth. Well, there are heads and faces, houses and land, shops to buy and sell, gold and silver. Naturally, there is today's fatal catastrophe. Of course, the reason why they were killed was that they were loyal to the rebel Li Shouhan, colluded with the rebel Nanban, and had bad intentions. What a great injustice! These characters who have some merit and fame on their bodies, for those Nanban, they all despise from the heart! Of course, the money, food, materials and goods in the hands of the Nanyue Army have always been "monks do not love money, and the more the merrier." ”

They have status in the city, they are worth a lot of money, and naturally they also have enemies. Those who were the first to surrender their cities to submission often had some disagreements and grudges with them. With the credit of Xiancheng, he took the lead in reporting that they had collusion and dealings with Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army. So, General Bolo, who planned to get money and raise money in the city, pushed the boat down the river and turned this smoke and rain building into a prison beheading platform for the supervisors.

"Wronged! said that we had collusion with Li Shouhan and had dealings with the Nanyue army. But adults don't know, we're just doing business with them! If you say so, I'm afraid that in this Jiaxing city, in the entire Jiangnan, the eighty-year-old three-year-old child will have collusion and dealings with them! It must be known that over the years, food is southern rice, clothing is southern cloth, and use is southern money. In order to buy the hearts of Jiangnan scholars, Li Thief wantonly distributed anointing silver. In this Jiangnan, who has nothing to do with Nanban?! ”

However, no matter how these people defended, Bolo had already sentenced them to death. A huge counter-hook trick with cinnabar was thrown down from the upper floor.

"All of them are thieves in this life, and they have all been beheaded! The furniture property was confiscated into the official, and the wives and daughters and their families were all slaves! ”

This is the fate of these people.

Two soldiers fought a death row prisoner, no matter how he struggled and pleaded, he just grabbed his hands and feet to death, like a soap carving chasing Ziyan, just like a tiger grabbing a lamb. Throwing him in front of the axeman, the man had no time to struggle to poke his head out of the muddy ground, and the ghost-headed broadsword in the hand of the axeman drew an arc in the air with the sound of wind and rain.

"Poof!" With a muffled sound, a bloody arrow burst out. The two soldiers rushed forward, one lifted the head, and the other dragged the dead corpse's legs and feet, like pulling a slaughtered dead sheep, dragging the dead body aside, and stripped off his clothes with his hands and feet.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of swordsmen and axemen were falling with their swords, hundreds of heads were raised by the soldiers with spears to the tips of their spears, and the stripped clothes were piled up like a hill by the lake. Instead, the headless corpses were discarded by the soldiers into the lake, and after a few ups and downs in the waves, they disappeared. As more and more corpses grew, the blood in the lake gradually condensed into a mass that could not be dispersed for a long time. The corpses in the water also accumulated more and more, and a small reef was faintly formed in the lake. It's just that other reefs are made of sand and gravel, and the corpses of polyps are piled up, and this small reef is made of human corpses.

And downstairs in the smoke and rain, it is a different scene. Dozens of shavers lined up, sitting behind the shaving pick, and in front of the shaving pick, there was already a long queue. Those who contributed to the surrender of the city broke up their buns, removed the square scarves and nets, pulled out the hairpins, and discarded all kinds of hats that represented their identities as members of the life and the people, and waited for the shaving with a smile. Downstairs, broken hair and blood are intertwined, laughter and crying coexist.

"My Qing soldiers and horses are invincible when they go south to beg for thieves this time! My South Route Army went south for more than a month, crossed the big river, crossed the big lake, and although there were dozens of counties and towns in Mingguozhou along the way, they all looked forward to the wind and surrendered, which shows that the victory and defeat have been divided, and the people's hearts are in my Daqing! At this time, the general was already stationed in the city of Songjiang Mansion, and the soldiers were directed at the lair of the rebels in Shanghai! It is only a handful of days to sweep away the rebels of the Southern Barbarians! What's more, all parts of the country along the way are densely populated and rich in money and food. I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Qing Dynasty, and the daily consumption of grain, grass and military salaries is huge, and I have won such a prosperous and rich place, which shows that the destiny of heaven is in my Qing Dynasty! ”

Upstairs, Bolo listened to the muffled sound of "poof" coming from the lake downstairs, which was the sound of a big knife and axe slashing on a person's body, and this sound was intertwined with the polite and happy words of laughter and laughter among the newly submissive people downstairs, which seemed so pleasant to his ears. As he listened, he spoke the above words.

If Inspector Hong was here, these words would have been a different way of saying it. Well, for example, "I went south in the Qing Dynasty to avenge your father's revenge." However, half of the south of the Yangtze River has no owner, and I can't bear to see the splendid paradise become a disaster for the power of the feudal town. This use of troops is to rebel against the heavens and crusade against the powerful ministers and thieves. ”

But Bolo can't be so sophisticated, sleek, and brazen. It may also be because he is surrounded by his subordinates and minions in front of him, so he is still very unscrupulous when he speaks. This is probably the difference between a literate scoundrel and a young and vigorous bandit.

"The general sent a military order, asking us to march to Hangzhou as soon as possible, and we must contain the soldiers and horses of the Southern Barbarian Army on the west road under the city of Hangzhou, and not order them to go to the direction of Songjiang Mansion with one soldier, one soldier, one ship and one artillery. At the same time, he ordered us to immediately raise food, rice, and military salaries on the spot for military use. ”

Bolo's words immediately set off a wave in the building. There is the joy of being able to let go of the big robbery, and there is also the anger of not being angry: everyone is a slave, why do you Luck Dehun give orders to the soldiers and horses of Manchuria with two white flags? Won't we honor our master if we rob it?

But in any case, with this order, everyone can make a fortune by themselves in various parts of Jiangnan reasonably and legally. When everyone was in the north of the Yellow River, they had heard countless people say how rich the south of the Yangtze River was, with gold and silver everywhere, and silk everywhere, and beautiful women everywhere. In addition, the Li family has been operating here for many years, and gold, silver, goods, grain, and rice are treasured overseas like mountains and seas.

"Pass the order! In the name of the regent, in the name of General Zhengnan and General Ben, he issued an order to restore all prefectures and counties, and to shave his hair within five days to show his disobedience and disobedience. Those who dare to disobey the order and not shave their hair are colluding with the traitor Nanban, and they will be beheaded on the spot! The family wealth was confiscated into the official, and the wife's family was sold into slavery! ”

In fact, the reason why Bolo arranged his Chinese army in Huzhou, Jiaxing, was not only the high-sounding "In order to ensure the safety of the flank of the Eastern Route Army of the Great General Luck Dehun's department, and contain the Southern Barbarian soldiers, horses, artillery ships", it was also because he and Turg coveted the wealth of the Hangjiahu Plain early on. After the two left Nanjing, they communicated with each other for a while, and they immediately hit it off. Along the direction of Jiaxing, Huzhou, to the south to kill. Along the way, it is indispensable to have a deep discussion of life and death with the rich people everywhere, but this kind of discussion, just like the old man Ma said, the weapon of criticism and the criticism of weapons, Bolobel just used knives and guns to continue the discussion of life and death with the rich people everywhere. Let them give their own answers to the philosophical question of which is more valuable, life or death, wealth or life.

Therefore, it doesn't matter to Bolo whether there is this military order of Luck Dehun or not, he has already selected a large number of exquisite gold and silver treasure vessels looted along the way, together with twenty Jiangnan women selected from the Jiangnan family, forty heavenly horses, and ordered his henchmen to go north overnight and send them to the regent's palace. The almost identical gift was given to Prince Yu Duoduo by another group of people. Everyone knows that the regent loves and relies on this younger brother the most. If this Prince Heshuo Yu is good, we will go too far in Jiangnan, even if Jiangnan is burned into a blank field, there is nothing to do!

After learning that he could let go of his hands and feet, the jackals, tigers and leopards under his command wantonly robbed and killed, the commanders, deputy generals, Jia Lazhangjing and Meler Zhangjing all showed bloodthirsty and greedy smiles on their faces.

"Master, this gold and silver goods are easy to handle, as long as we set up a franc machine in front of any big family, and set up a firecracker, then there will be a mountain of silver. But where is this food to be raised? The regent has issued a decree several times, ordering us to quickly transport grain north. But where is this food to be found? Bolo's deputy, Turg the Forehead, hesitated.

Turg also lived in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for a period of time, and he found a phenomenon from daily life, that is, there are very few large families in Jiangnan and Jiangbei that store a large amount of grain at home. Those wealthy and wealthy businessmen often have large sums of silver dollars, a lot of gold tickets, delicate muslin on the silk and satin in the treasury, and even ham and shochu cured meat in the cellar, but there is not much grain.

During the torture, some Qing soldiers asked these people why they didn't save more grain and rice at home, so that Lao Tzu could not find the grain and rice to cook! However, although these people had swords and axes on them, they still replied eloquently: "Why do you have to keep so much grain and rice at home?" As long as you have enough to eat for half a month, you can do it. There is grain in the rice number in Hengzhu Town! I didn't have to eat and took out dozens of silver dollars, and immediately dozens of fine japonica rice produced in Shi Nanzhong were delivered to my home! It's better to have some valuable things stored in the house! The grain and rice are wolfish and worthless! ”

"In Jiangnan, it's easy to find a million silver, but it's too difficult to find 200,000 stone grains and rice!" This was the unanimous opinion of the generals of the Qing army.

However, they only see the phenomenon or one of the results, but they do not know the root cause.

This is the so-called embryonic capitalism caused by a large number of cash crops crowding out the space of food crops, that is, the phenomenon of "mulberry occupies rice fields" and "cotton occupies wheat fields" recorded in history books. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a large amount of land in the Jiangnan area that was originally planted with food crops was converted to cash crops. For example, the cultivated land in Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Prefecture, which used to be known for being "ripe for Su Song, has formed a pattern in which rice fields and cotton fields account for half of the total, and the area of cotton fields in some counties exceeds the area of rice fields.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Luxiang's "Book of Supplementing Agriculture" mentioned that "the fields in Tongxiang are compatible, and the sericulture is profitable...... The benefits of the land are Bo, and it is better to govern more land than to have a variety of fields. At the same time, the price of cotton production and grain production has also changed, and the cotton produced in Shandong and other places has been transferred to the south of the Yangtze River by "the Jia people, and the market is wantonly lived, and the profit of the five grains is less than half of it." "It is better to grow grain than to grow cotton and mulberry trees to make money, so there is a situation where mulberry competes for rice fields and cotton fights for grain fields. As long as you have money, you can always buy food.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, after China's agriculture competed for rice fields and cotton for grain fields, the change of the farming system was further developed in the direction of multi-cropping system, because mulberry cotton occupied a large number of grain fields, so the development of multi-cropping system was to improve grain output as the starting point, one aspect was to produce as much grain as possible in the grain field, such as rice-wheat, rice-spring flowers (broad beans, rape, etc.), rice-beans, rice-buckwheat, etc., the most striking of which is the development of double cropping rice; Double cropping rice has appeared before the Tang and Song dynasties, but it is mainly based on regenerative double cropping rice, until the early Ming Dynasty, the double cropping rice in Fujian and Guangzhou is still intercropping double cropping rice, and after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, continuous cropping double cropping rice has been developed. "Heavenly Creation? "Nai Li" said: "In the southern plains, there are many fields with two plantings and two harvests, and their replanting seedlings are commonly known as late glutinous, and non-japonica is also." In June, the newborn was plowed, and the old draft fields were cultivated and regenerated seedlings were planted. "On the basis of double cropping rice, various wheat varieties were added to develop a wheat-rice-rice triple cropping system. The development of the multi-cropping system of grain fields has promoted the increase of yield per unit area, and has played a positive role in alleviating the decline in grain planting area caused by the struggle for rice fields and cotton fields for grain, and the reduction of grain production. Another aspect is to squeeze and grow as much grain as possible in the cotton and mulberry fields, so as to reduce the grain output caused by the mulberry and cotton fields competing for rice and the cotton fields, as stated in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration>>": "Those who can plant cotton and rice in the fields of high and high will plant cotton for two years and turn over rice for one year." The implementation of cotton and rice rotation, "Agricultural Administration Book" also proposed a kind of cotton field intercropping, "in the autumn and winter ploughing the burrow to plant wheat, in the spring in the wheat Longzhong burrow to plant cotton." But it can plant wheat in the hole, that is, it can grow cotton, and it can also cut wheat. This is what Chu Hua said in "Kapok Spectrum>> "wheat mixed flowers", "those who plant cotton, or plant barley together." Wheat is obtained in summer, and cotton is obtained in autumn, which is called wheat mixed flowers. In addition to wheat, cotton intercropping crops include soybeans, sesame, corn, green manure, etc., according to the record of Kangxi's "Jiading County Chronicles", "the tenants now grow beans in the cotton two ditches. If the cotton is defeated, the beans will be used to offset the rent. It should be pointed out that the rotation of cotton and wheat and other cropping and intercropping have also been adopted in the north, and the "Qunfang Spectrum" says: "Where the field, those who plan to plant rice in the coming year can plant wheat; Those who plan to plant cotton in the coming year should not plant. …… If the land is dense and narrow, as a last resort, you may plant barley and rye, and still make up for it with dung, and never grow wheat. "Mulberry planting has appeared very early, and mulberry planting has been further developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as "broad beans" mentioned in the "Qunfang Spectrum...... Under the mulberry trees in two Zhejiang, they are planted all over the ring. In addition, the development of Sangzheng rice fields also led to the emergence of mulberry fish ponds, that is, the rice fields were dug deep into ponds, and the soil was compounded around them to form a base, and the ponds were used to raise fish, and the base was used to plant mulberry. While increasing the yield of mulberry leaves, the method of fish farming is used to make up for the shortage of food caused by mulberry competition for rice fields.