Ancestral tombs, ancestral bones, how can they be trampled on? Helpless, Jiang Chun had no choice but to give away the 200,000 silver dollars extorted by Li Chengdong obediently. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info piggybacked, and was detained by Li Chengdong along with the mules and horses that carried the silver dollar.

The silver, carriages, horses, and grain were in hand, and Li Chengdong was satisfied with the soldiers and horses to find the next big head.

Knowing that Li Chengdong's soldiers and horses had withdrawn, Jiang Chun immediately took his nephews and family members to his ancestral grave.

Originally, the pine and cypress forests, and the tomb covered by the bamboo, became miserable.

Dozens of hugging pine and cypress trees were cut down and turned into smoke on the ground. The trail made of green bricks is full of horse manure and the hair and bones of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and the cemetery is full of yellow and white things.

The sacrificial hall composed of the three courtyards, as Li Chengdong's temporary station, is even more filthy, in addition to the pungent smell of alcohol, there is a smell of fat powder perfume in the quiet room, it is obvious that Li Chengdong has brought a lot of women in the army.

In the cemetery, the of the people in the wine altar is in tatters, and the shoes are palpable. The tombstones of several ancestors were pushed to the ground, and Weng Zhong on both sides of the tomb road became horse tie stakes, and there were still a few stalls of horse manure on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Chun couldn't help but kneel down in front of the tomb and cry loudly.

The sons and nephews who came with him had to weep and persuade Jiang Chun to take out the money and order someone to invite the villagers near Zuo to come and clean up and clean up the painting again. Jiang Chun even fasted in the cemetery for three days, burning countless paper horses, gold and silver to plead guilty to his ancestors.

Inside and outside Yangzhou, there are many wealthy gentlemen and businessmen who have been blackmailed by the generals of Gaojie's various ministries. It is several incense owners of the Cao Gang, and in Yangzhou they are also stomping their feet and the four cities are trembling, and the characters who respond to every call are also forcibly "borrowed" by Li Chengdong More than 20 Cao boats, saying that they are military, but in fact they are loaded with gold, silver, soft and other things that he extorted and looted.

The wealthy gentry in Yangzhou City had the comparison between Li Chengdong and Gao Jie and others, and suddenly remembered the benefits of the general personally leading the troops.

"Alas! Sure enough, there is no high mountain to show Pingchuan. Compared with Gao Jie and other thieves, the general's army is really the army of kings. ”

"I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods!"

After several secret discussions, the big businessmen in Yangzhou also knew that it was useless to cry and appeal to the Governor Shi Gebu, and the guns still worked in troubled times. He was planning to raise funds to invite people to go to Nanjing, Jinan, Xuzhou and other places, and asked the general, the Marquis of Linqing, and the young prince Li Huayu to send a group of men and horses to Yangzhou to station. Jiang Chun took out a letter written by Li Shouhan at a party and invited him to Nanjing for a while.

It's worth it! The gentry and wealthy merchants in Yangzhou immediately recommended Jiang Chun to go to Nanjing on behalf of the people of Yangzhou to report the situation to the general, and they must ask the general to have mercy on the people of Huaiyang and send a strong army to Yangzhou to station.

After talking about Yangzhou and Zuojinzhou County being ravaged and trampled by Gao Jie's subordinates, Jiang Chun's eyes couldn't help but fill with tears. "If they just extort money and food as military salaries, the people of Yangzhou are willing to bankrupt their families and try their best to supply the army. But why slaughter good people and loot states and counties? ”

Li Shouhan was dumbfounded. Before, it was only known that Duoduo single-handedly created the 10-day massacre in Yangzhou, slaughtering 800,000 people in Yangzhou City within a radius of less than ten miles. However, now I know that the so-called Yangzhou Ten Days, there are many doubts. First of all, the theory of Yangzhou Ten Days first came from a booklet called Yangzhou Ten Diaries around the First Wu Dynasty, and it is unknown whether this booklet is the same as the "Book of Heroes of the Eighteen Provinces" is a united front work of Ito Hirobumi. Moreover, a lot of the data in it is not subject to scrutiny.

For example, the claim of slaughtering 800,000 people in Yangzhou City is very doubtful. Note that it is Yangzhou City, not Yangzhou Mansion, the population of Yangzhou Mansion is more than one million, but Yangzhou City does not have such a population. The area of the entire Yangzhou city is only 3.9759853 square kilometers, according to the calculation of the most densely populated Mong Kok (130,000 people per square kilometer), such a place can only accommodate 516878 people, I don't know how the so-called Yangzhou 10-day massacre of 800,000 came from? Therefore, it is right to say that Yangzhou has a population of one million, after all, Yangzhou is a prosperous and prosperous place under the jurisdiction of six prefectures and counties, but Yangzhou Mansion and Yangzhou City are two completely different concepts. Judging from the number of households, the first 100,000 people in Yangzhou City in the second year of Shunzhi were all up to the sky, and even if all the people were slaughtered, they would not exceed 100,000, but in fact, they were not killed.

Even the ten diaries of Yangzhou are written, on the twenty-second day of April in the second year of Shunzhi, Duoduo arrived at the city of Yangzhou, and after the failure of the first siege of the city, he ordered Shi Kefa to surrender, but Shi Kefa ignored it. On April 24, Kong Youde arrived with Hongyi cannons, and Yangzhou fell on April 25. On the first day of the fifth month, Duoduo ordered the release of the alms, and thousands of stones were empty in a moment.

(Writing this text does not mean to wash the ground for the Liao thieves, but only to put forward some of your own doubts and opinions.) When reviewing historical records, we should carefully scrutinize them. ）

However, before Duoduo attacked Yangzhou, Gao Jie had already looted and slaughtered the nearby prefectures and counties of Yangzhou, and even the capital city of Yangzhou was almost lost.

However, after all, Gao Jie was a Han Chinese, and he was plotted by the rebels, although his subordinates all joined the Qing army and slaughtered almost all of South China. However, the people who wrote the "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" still have to be ashamed of the deceased, and they have to do it in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Hearing Jiang Chun crying about the situation in Jiangbei, and seeing him on his head begging Li Shouhan to transfer Gao Jie's subordinates, or send a large army to Yangzhou to protect the people of Yangzhou, Li Shouhan smiled bitterly.

Yangzhou is a rich place in the north of the Yangtze River, and it is also the confluence of the canal and the Yangtze River, and Li Shouhan naturally knows the strategic significance of this place. Originally, it was planned to let Gao Jie and others take a temporary rest in this area, and use Li Huayu's soldiers and horses in Shandong and Henan to stop Li Zicheng's army from moving south, and after the money and grain system in Jiangnan was implemented for one season, the government treasury would be a little more generous before going on the Northern Expedition. But I didn't expect such a big mess.

"Chungong, wait a while. A certain family ordered a division to check which way people can be transferred to the north. ”

"General, there must be a suitable sailor on this canal."

Seeing that Li Shouhan's mouth was slowing down, Jiang Chun immediately hit the snake with the stick again, and raised the urgency of controlling the canal.

"Canal Sailor?" Hearing Jiang Chun mention the water division, Li Shouhan couldn't help but smile bitterly, the canal is shallow, and there has been no dredging project for many years, and the river has long been silted up. How could the dual-purpose ships of the Nanyue Army Navy enter the canal?

Isn't this what Zeng Guoquan said about "athletes holding spears and being in narrow alleys"?

"The ship's sailors do not bother the admiral, as long as the admiral is willing to give the name, send a competent general, and send gunners to carry the artillery. All ships, sailors, salaries, salaries and other matters are reported by the people of Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. ”

Hearing this, Li Shouhan's eyebrows couldn't help but raise up twice. The gentry and merchants in Yangzhou had to pay out of their own pockets to organize the sailors, what was this not the victorious army of the foreign gun team in the Ming Dynasty?

"Oh, I don't know how you plan to build this sailor?"

"General, in the next moment, he was excited, and his words were not clear. Now that Li Chuang has conquered the Beijing Division, the north-south transportation is naturally cut off. Thousands of ships and hundreds of thousands of sailors have lost their livelihoods. Yangzhou is better to the left, relying on some of the business brought by the general back then. The rest of the Cao Gang Tangkou in various places are very sad. A few leading merchants came and wanted to ask the general to reward him with a name, so that the brothers of the Cao Gang could have a hard meal. ”

I see! The Cao Gang has boats, there are people, and the gentry and merchants in the Zhenjiang area of Yangzhou contribute money and grain, and want to apply for a legal name here from Li Shouhan to organize the boats of the Cao Gang, so as not to become a fat sheep in the eyes of Gao Jie and others, and they can be plundered and burned at will.

In this way, the canal sailor is composed of three forces. The official gentry, the Cao Gang, and the Southern Guangdong Army Sailor.

"Giving the name of a river defense battalion is also not a big deal. However, whose family is this sailor? Who commands moderation? ”

"Naturally, it belongs to the general. As long as the sailor can hold a section of the canal from Yangzhou to Zhenjiang, the gentry and businessmen in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou are all grateful for the grace of the general. As for the matter of command, the Cao gang can barely manipulate the ships, know how to use artillery, and engage on the surface? Naturally, everything depends on the generals and officers sent by the general. ”

At the time of the Nanjing incident, although he also commended the two gangs of Yancao for their courage, Li Shouhan was still quite jealous of the power of the masses at the bottom in the hands of these two groups. In his heart, in the future, the grain in the north should be mainly transported by sea, and the canal transportation belongs to the supplement and valuables of bulk materials. If the power of the Cao Gang is not weakened, how to deal with it?

Just take this opportunity to learn the methods of the Taiping Army and the Huai Army, so that the ships and sailors of the Cao Gang can be consumed in the flames of war! Whether it is to move Shandong's refugees and valuable materials south along the canal, or to move the grain army north, it is a good opportunity to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the Cao Gang.

"In that case, you can go back and gather the relevant gentry, as well as a few leaders of the Cao Gang, and plan a charter. Don't let the merchants pay for it, you just need to raise a start-up fee. Military salary, a certain family has a system here, and it is paid according to the rules. ”

Several things were done very satisfactorily, Jiang Chun and Zha Jizuo did not wait for Li Shouhan to serve tea to the guests, and when they saw Li Shouhan yawning, they got up and said goodbye very interestingly, and came out of the signing room.

Under the leadership of his own soldiers, Jiang Chunzha and Jizuo walked outside the gate along the path they came, but saw a group of people coming from the avenue. was able to go straight to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion where the general was located so single-handedly in Nanjing City at this time, and the commander of this team of men and horses was also a bold figure.

Jiang Chun couldn't help but be curious, and quietly asked the guards battalion soldiers who were standing outside the Yuanmen, who was coming, so bold?

"Don't you see the words on the banner? That was our second young marshal Li Huabao, who was transferred from Guangxi to Nanjing and worked in front of the general's army. ”

The arrival of Li Huabao not only made Li Shouhan feel like a father and son soldier, but also made Jiangnan Shilin side-oriented, along with Li Huabao, who rushed to Nanjing Shuiximen Wharf one after another, there were also 8,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers.

The so-called Guangxi wolf soldiers, in fact, originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and were tribal armed forces formed by the Miao Zhuang and Yao Tuguan Tusi at that time. It is also called "soldiers". However, it is usually called wolf soldiers together with the native soldiers of the Tujia family in Xiangxi. (Wolf soldiers, from Huguang and Guangxi provinces.) In Huguang are the red seedlings of Yongshun and Baojing in Xiangxi; In Guangxi, it was Yaozhuang, who was levied from Nandan, Donglan, Nadi, and Tianzhou in the Jiangshui and Youjiang areas, as well as Guishun and Enshi. In addition, there is a native soldier of Guangdongguan, who is good at using long-card machetes, and is also recruited by Feiqi. This is a relevant record in Mr. Gao Yang's anti-Japanese novel "Reckless Heroes". )

"Wolf soldiers" are mainly distributed in the northwest of Guangxi and some areas in the south of Guizhou, and are called "wolf soldiers" because of their bravery. The Ming Dynasty court sent "wolf soldiers" to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese and suppress the Yao uprising in Guangxi. In the first battle against the Japanese, the "wolf soldiers" fought bravely and skillfully under the leadership of their leader, Mrs. Washi, and were able to defeat the crowd with a small number of people, and won nine out of ten, which made the Japanese frightened. After the end of the war, the "wolf soldiers" were sent by the imperial court to settle down on some transportation arteries in the remote mountainous areas of Guiping. In the Qing Dynasty, the "wolf soldiers" were mainly used to help the imperial army escort prisoners. The native soldiers were composed of the Tusi armed forces of Huguang and Xiangxi Yongshun and Baojing. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), the native soldiers of Yongshun and Baojing, together with the wolf soldiers of Guangxi and other armies, encircled and suppressed the invading Japanese in Wangjiangjing, beheaded more than 1980 ranks, and achieved the great victory of Wang Jiangjing, which is known as the "first merit of the Southeast Imperial War" (that is, the first battle of Mrs. Wa's resistance against the Japanese).

After Li Huabao arrived in Guangxi, he built roads, paved bridges, dredged rivers to carry out trade, and encouraged the planting of paulownia trees. These things are simple to say, but in Guangxi, where the Han and Yi live together, almost everything has to be pushed forward with iron and fire. In the past few years, Li Huabao himself has lost count of how many toasts he has destroyed and how many stockades he has leveled and defended against danger.

For every toast swept away, there are at least thousands of elites who belong to the Guangxi Yamen. Under the selection, training and training of subordinate officers and Liu Guidan, a direct force of more than 20,000 people, all composed of men of various ethnic groups, was gradually formed.

After receiving the official document in front of his father's tent in Nanjing, Li Huabao handed over Guangxi's administrative and military affairs to Huang Xigon, and happily marched east along the Liujiang River, and then changed to a river and sea ship in Guangzhou to Nanjing.

After arriving in Nanjing, Li Shouhan also let out a long breath. The arrival of these 8,000 Guangxi soldiers made his available soldiers in Nanjing a lot more relaxed.

"The 15th Brigade of the garrison was transferred north and stationed in Huaiyin. The 14th Brigade was dispatched to cross the river and stationed in Zhenjiang. Liao Dongzhi, the general office of the Shandong Camp Office, was ordered to lead no less than one brigade of troops to be stationed in Xuzhou to defend the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum. Barrier Henan and South Zhili border area. ”

As for Li Huabao himself and the ten battalions of Guangxi wolf soldiers he brought, they were arranged by Li Shouhan to be stationed in several barracks vacated in Nanjing.

These Chinese speakers are not good for the unfortunate men, and they only have their governors at all levels, Grandpa Guo, and Master Li in their eyes. As for others, I'm sorry, if Master Li wants us to fight that, we will fight that, and if you want us to take care of that, we will take care of that.

Li Huabao was made known by Li Shouhan as Emperor Zhu Yousong of Hongguang, and he was ordered to serve as the deputy of Grandpa Xu of the Nanjing Garrison Yamen, responsible for the defense of Nanjing City and the investigation of all kinds of spies.

The troops of the two brigades crossed the river to the north and stationed in Zhenjiang and Huaiyin, which suddenly made the four uncles in Jiangbei feel a chill in their hearts. Huang Degong and Huang Chuangzi are also forgotten, after all, he has strict requirements for his subordinates on weekdays. The other three uncles were a little nervous. The two Uncle Liu remembered that their team in Shandong was beaten by Liao thieves, and the Li family's team beat the Liao thieves again. Now that the troops of the two brigades are by his side, this is undoubtedly the general's warning to himself to be honest in the future.

As for Gao Jie, the harrier who turned over the mountain, Huaiyin and Xuzhou behind him were stationed in Huaiyin and Xuzhou, and Zhenjiang in front of him also had them. This troop arrangement is even more self-evident.

That night, Gao Jie took his subordinate generals and his only son to the yamen of Shi Kefa in Yangzhou to submit a handbook to ask for a meeting.

"Lord Cabinet, marked under Mu En's small Congrong for many years only this dog, this son has been frail and sick since childhood, several great monks of Yangzhou Zenzhi Temple have seen it, said that if you want to make this son live a safe life, you have to find a big nobleman, and send it to the noble person to be a righteous son. With the help of the blessing and protection of the nobles, this son can eliminate disasters and solve disasters. ”

If someone else, such as Ma Shiying, saw that his subordinate commanders said so, they would have to agree immediately. On the surface, the two families formed a relationship, but in fact, the generals of the army paid money to their superiors to express their loyalty.

It's a pity that our Scott Department is far less flexible than his younger brother's brain.

In the face of Xingping Bo Gaojie, who had tens of thousands of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals under him, he was so grovelling, but he was indifferent, and sent Gao Jie away without saying a word.

was so angry that Gao Jie, Li Chengdong and the others glared angrily as soon as they came out of the gate, if they weren't worried about the consequences, Gao Jie would have been able to burn the cabinet department on fire.

However, there is a strong army in front and behind them, and the Cabinet Department is also uncharacteristically tough today, who knows if they have a plan in private? Otherwise, why is Master Shi so confident in speaking? The hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and Gao Jie can only secretly hold his breath along the way.

The three uncles were honest, and the situation in Jiangbei suddenly settled down a lot.

Nanjing was guarded like an iron bucket, and Jiangbei was gradually calming, Ma Shoufu was naturally in a good mood, so he ordered the household department to move out the money and grain booklet of the year, and began to prepare for the promulgation of summer grain and autumn grain collection amounts in various provinces in accordance with the new money and grain system.

Walking out of the Wuying Hall where Emperor Hongguang convened the meeting, Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi, Jiang Yueguang and others instantly put away the loyal and upright expressions on their faces and changed to another face.

"We must not let the traitor's methods cause trouble to Jiangnan!" (To be continued.) )