PS: Continue to brazenly ask for a monthly pass.

In fact, for the civil and military officials in Guangdong headed by Zhang Jingxin, Jiang Yihong, and Ma Rujin, the so-called joint impeachment of Li Shouhan is just an official article.

After drafting this script, Governor Zhang even sent his copywriter to quietly send a copy of the manuscript to Zhenhai Tower in Yuexiu Mountain. He knew that even if he didn't send it over, in order to ask for merit and reward in front of Lord Li, who was in full swing, he would send this document to Lord Li's desk through various channels.

However, fortunately, the copywriter is back with a spring breeze.

The thunderous fury that I imagined before, the sword and axe did not happen. Instead, "Lord Li asked me to greet you, the governor. Here's the gift list. ”

The copywriter took out Li Shouhan's gift list from his cuffs, and in addition, there was a draft that Li Shouhan had personally revised, and the words and sentences were much stricter than Governor Zhang's original draft.

"Oh? This Lord Li is either an extremely intelligent person, or there is a master in the shogunate! Don't care to look at the long list of gifts, Zhang Jingxin carefully read the draft, and then looked up to the sky and sighed.

Today, the city of Guangzhou is under the control of the Nanzhong Army, and the families and personal soldiers of the adults have been disarmed and absorbed. The guarding and escorting tasks of each yamen were undertaken by the South Central Army. In front of the saddle and behind the horse, in front of the gate of the courtyard are the men and horses of the Nanzhong Army, and this impeachment can only be said to be the cry of the woman before she was forcibly entered the port, just like the girls in the courtyard said, "The slave family is a merchant, not a man." "But the people have already loaded their guns and mounted their horses, and you have no ability to resist. Except for a few shouts, the rest can only close your eyes and enjoy.

With this mentality, the civil and military forces of Guangdong, regardless of whether they came from the heart or not, also obeyed the military orders and government orders issued by the governor to suppress the matter one by one.

From the port of Guangzhou, the two garrison brigades newly transferred from Nanzhong were assembled with more than 10,000 troops, which once again surprised the people of Guangzhou.

"The general and so many horses?"

Along the Pearl River all the way to Haikou, Humen and other places, a large number of people gathered like ants, busy shuttling back and forth. Among the crowd were the local soldiers who had been laid off from Guangdong, as well as the local people of Humen. Ever since Yingyi was defeated. One of the things to do here is to restore the homeland. Rebuild a fort that had been blown up by the English.

In addition to the Humen Fort, Shouhan also planned to choose the terrain at the mouth of the Pearl River and build two more forts to confront the north and south. Form a group of batteries. In this way, the Pearl River Estuary can be completely controlled in their own hands. Other than that. Shouhan did not intend to station the South Chinese army that had entered Guangdong for a long time in the flowery city of Guangzhou. Let's choose some strategic points to station! As a result, large areas of military camps began to be built in Humen and other places.

In addition to building forts and barracks, more people concentrated at the Huangpu Port construction site. Shouhan plans to expand Guangzhou, a port city that has prospered for more than a thousand years. Dredging the waterways and expanding the wharves and berths will at least be able to berth the megaships with a displacement of thousands of tons to be built in the future, and the preferred target is Whampoa.

It is located at the confluence of the Pearl River and the Dongjiang River, bordering Dongguan, Zengcheng and other places, and can communicate with all parts of Guangdong Province and Guangxi along the eastern, western and Beijiang waterways to the hinterland of Guangzhou, and connect with more than 100 rivers. If you go to sea, you can go to the South China Sea, you can go to Nanzhong, and if you go north, you can go to Fujian, Zhejiang and other places. Shouhan had decided to establish an inland river division in the Pearl River valley in Guangdong. These river systems will firmly control the entire Liangguang!

"Your Excellency!"

Looking at the endless stream of migrant workers shuttling back and forth on the port construction site, Jiang Yihong, the political envoy of Guangdong, couldn't help but sigh.

"Such a magnificent scene can only be seen in the early years of the dynasty. Nowadays, it's hard! ”

Jiang Yihong had the heart to serve after the Humen Conference, and he was very close to Shouhan, and for such a high-level local official in Liangguang, Shouhan was also happy to make a gesture of buying bones. It is also good to appease the hearts of officials at all levels in Guangdong.

"It's nothing, it's also a cash-for-work!"

In addition to the money for the grain and grass for the war, military salaries, and relief for the people whose homes were devoured by the fire, most of the money that Shouhan had said at the meeting was used for the expansion of the Huangpu Port in Guangzhou.

A large amount of money and grain was invested in it, which naturally attracted many people who came to work here to earn money and eat. Although Guangdong is known as wealthy, it is not so easy to find a job where you can make money and eat in a down-to-earth manner when there are thieves everywhere and one side is fighting each other.

Not to mention the retrenched soldiers, the masons and carpenters in the construction factories everywhere, and the peasant households in the villages near the left, all rushed to take advantage of the slack season after the autumn harvest with luggage rolls on their backs.

However, what surprised Master Jiang even more was that at the meeting convened by the Governor and Lord Li on the matter of the suppression of the two Guangzhous, Shouhan threw out an even more surprising plan.

Knocking on the map of Liangguang, the mountains, rivers, roads, rivers and cities above trembled under the knock of the Shouhan.

"Since this official is in charge of one side, he must consider the long-term peace and stability of these two provinces. The official decided to use the winter leisure season to organize manpower to build roads! With the provincial capital as the center, the seaside from the provincial capital to Bao'an County was built first, and then from the provincial capital to Chaozhou, the provincial capital to Guangxi, the provincial capital to Zhaoqing, and the provincial capital to Leizhou! ”

Looking at the several roads crisscrossing the map, officials at all levels in Guangdong were quite excited.

Historically, the construction of bridges and paving roads has been the main achievement of officials, and they can be passed on by a monument, and their own pockets can also be bulging a little more.

However, after a short period of excitement, several quite realistic questions were raised by Jiang Yihong.

"Your Excellency. This road construction is certainly a thousand years of merit and a blessing for all the people, but in the opinion of his subordinates, it seems that it is not appropriate to carry out this matter at this time. As soon as bandits were rampant in various parts of the two provinces, taking this province as an example, there were thieves, joint villages, routs, and bandits everywhere. Not counting those regimental exercises for self-protection, Guangxi is even more rampant, with local divisions and local officials everywhere making chaos and disturbing soldiers. It is not appropriate to build roads at this time. ”

"Well, the thieves are not at peace, and it is not appropriate to build roads. Master Jiang continued. ”

"In the past two years, Guangdong and Guangxi have been trapped by arms, and it is not easy to pay taxes on money and grain. Guangdong is better in this Pearl River Basin, to northern Guangdong and other places. It's miserable. The treasury is empty. How to build roads when money and food are scarce? This is inappropriate. ”

"If the land is increased for the purpose of building roads, I am afraid that the changes in the people everywhere will add fuel to the fire, and once the trend of burning the prairie will be formed. I'm afraid I won't be able to wait to explain to the Son of Heaven! ”

"Master Jiang is really a man who has become a country! This is why this official should first build the road from the provincial capital to the seaside of Bao'an County!

Shouhan first praised Jiang Yihong with a good life. Then stand up. He pointed his finger at the road from Bao'an County to the provincial capital of Guangzhou.

"Rank colleagues, please see. Our South Chinese Army has a wharf and a warehouse on Hong Kong Island. A large amount of money and grain can be transported from Nanzhong to Hong Kong Island. Boats are then connected to Tai Po Market, which can then be transported overland to various towns. If the road is built, a large amount of money and grain can be continuously transported to the provincial capital and transported to the place where it is needed! What else do you have to worry about?

And so it was! It turns out that everyone only needs to take out the money and grain in the treasury to advance it, and after the construction of this road is completed, the silver and grain that can be piled up and reclaimed from the sea will be transported from the sea in a steady stream, and everyone's pockets and merits will rise with the wind.

"Instead of raising the soup to stop the boiling, it is better to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle!" Shouhan slowly instilled his own views to the Guangdong officials present.

Now bankrupt peasants everywhere have become vagrants, hungry people, and outcasts, and if they don't have a stable source of income, they will become mobs in the next step. And for a low-tech thing such as road construction and high requirements for the number of laborers, hundreds of thousands of people will be relieved, and behind these people, hundreds of thousands of families will get a stable income, and with food and clothing, the ghosts will rebel.

After listening to the lofty argument of Shouhan, Governor Zhang Jingxin couldn't help but nod slowly, such a move not only stabilized the people who might rebel, but also built the thoroughfare, which became his own meritorious deed, which can be passed on from generation to generation.

This Master Li really has a hand! It also costs money and grain, and people spend a sum of money and grain, and they can receive several effects!

Vice Admiral Ma Rujin speculated with some jealousy.

But this is what they see, what they don't see, and there are quite a few.

The construction of the road from Hong Kong to Guangzhou will consume a large amount of ashes, grain, iron tools, and other materials, which is a good thing for the agricultural products, smelting industry, and manufacturing industry in Nanzhong.

With the completion of this road, a large number of goods from Nanzhong can spread along this road to the surrounding market towns, not just along the Pearl River to the interior as in the past. Do the real products go to the countryside.

This is only from the perspective of commodity economy, from another point of view, a large number of surplus population in the Pearl River Delta region can also be consciously transferred outward, alleviate the labor shortage in Nanzhong, and further achieve the effect of changing the population structure of Nanzhong.

The purpose of the other roads is the same, but it is not as urgent as the one from Guangzhou to Bao'an.

Don't say that these roads have been built and connected into a network, that is, once the construction is officially started, where the construction will begin, the hands of the South Chinese Army will go deeper. As the road extends, all kinds of goods produced in Nanzhong will flood into the poor and remote places like a tide. In the same way, when the products of their labor could not resist the swarming Nanzhong goods, the residents here had no choice but to merge with the Nanzhong army and become an integral part of the aircraft.

During the construction of roads, it is also the best opportunity for a large number of laborers to be organized and indoctrinated, so to speak, the construction sites of these roads are the largest training ground for the reserve of the South Chinese Army.

At present, the strength of the four brigades near Canton is enough to extinguish any contingent that rises up to rebel and rebel in any direction. As for the local officials and Tusi in Guangxi, Shouhan had already ordered that there should be no military equipment and materials that could be used as military equipment, and at the same time, three brigades of troops were dispatched to the north along the Xijiang River and the Red River, sweeping away these rebellious separatist forces along the way.

In the future, once these roads are completed, the advance of the army and the transportation of grain, grass, and supplies will no longer be a major problem. An important reason for the emergence of separatist forces and the emergence of local tyrants is the inconvenience of transportation. The construction of these roads is to stifle the emergence of powerful and separatist forces in hardware.

In a sense, the day these roads are built will be the time when the South China Army will completely control the two Guangzhous!

Unfortunately, the Guangdong officials present here do not see this. However, it is not easy for people who can be governors and political envoys of a province, and after pondering for a while, Zhang Jingxin and Jiang Yihong showed a trace of anxiety in their eyes.

"Your Excellency!"

Zhang Jingxin now also acquiesced to the fact that Shouhan seemed to be his boss, and hid the surname that could have been called Lord Li, confirming the relationship between the two of them from a certain Cheng dù.

"This area in eastern Guangdong, although it is not as full of smoke as in northern and western Guangdong. But there are also many hidden dangers. Adults do this. Of course, it is for the benefit of the country and the people, but if those strong men come out to disturb adults, what should they do? ”

Guangdong at the end of the Ming Dynasty was different from modern Guangdong. Large tracts of land and forests have not yet been developed. In addition, the river is vertical and horizontal. Poor transportation. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. Nature is a breeding ground for banditry. They occupy each of the mountains, and rob houses and houses, and are extremely vicious. Yan zhòng has affected the production and life of the local people. And these people often have complex backgrounds, some are in the business of smuggling by sea, and some are clans behind them.

Taking Chaozhou Prefecture as an example at this time, its administrative area includes most of the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, including Haiyang, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Chengxiang, Pingyuan, Raoping, Huilai, Dapu, Chenghai, Puning, and Zhenping County. Among the notes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chaozhou is the most difficult to govern. "The county is on the coast, and its people are many peddlers, who don't know poetry and books, and there are millions of people who can't read a word. In order to prevent pirates, the hometown □ built a fort, and the families gathered in tens of thousands. Put troops and store grain, and the walls are enough to defend themselves. The villages are next to each other, and they are fighting and killing, injuring or hundreds of people. Its heroes are desperate, wanton plundering, probing pills □ nets, and they cannot be caught suddenly. The endowment is free, and the officials who urge the department do not dare to enter the gate. There are also the benefits of the □, the traitors are resold by land and water, and the soldiers and firearms are with them, and the officials are familiar with them, and they dare not do anything. ”

In addition to the characteristics of strong people's feelings, brave fighting and hateful, and profit-seeking and reliever. The countryside gathers clans and lives, the smoke households are dense, and the pirates at the end of the Ming Dynasty are vertical and horizontal, everywhere in order to protect themselves, build more forts to defend themselves, and the township is all in the village, with high walls and thick fences, everywhere. The disadvantages are also that the people of the country have the courage to resist arrest and resist food. Half of this is due to the difficulty of arresting and curing officials.

Now these are the nests of thieves everywhere. For a time, the various armed forces divided one side from each other, levied grain and distributed money, attacked each other, and annexed each other. The result of the guide is that the people are not able to make a living. There is such a song in Chaozhou folk: It is difficult for people to be people, it is difficult to be a person, and they are not subject to the government but also to soldiers. It's easy to be a soldier, it's good to be a soldier, and you don't go out on a campaign with more money and food. The song mocks the inaction of the officials and soldiers.

Another ballad nakedly debunked the relationship between the officers and the bandits: the gold and silver obtained from the robbery, and some of them were divided with the general soldiers. Whoever dares to fight, the crown belt will be sent to welcome. It's a pity that the demented man doesn't come from us.

For these weapons, Shouhan already knew something about them in Chen Tianhua's post. Among them, there are children of good families like Liao Dongzhi who rose up because they were oppressed, but there are also many ambitious people like Wu Liuqi who took advantage of the chaos. More often than not, there are many lumpenproletarians in the township who are in danger on weekdays, waving a high-sounding banner, either resisting grain and taxes, or protecting the territory and the people. In fact, it is the party that expropriates and extorts the scourge.

It is obviously murder and arson, robbery, rape and plunder, which makes the people hate it. But they just want to play the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, upholding justice, and protecting the territory and the people, which is just the silence of the people against them in desperation.

However, no matter how openly the banner is flowned, it is essentially the idea of lumpenproletarians who get something for nothing.

For these armed forces that are not engaged in production and are specialized in sabotage, the Shouhan has no other attitude, just one word, "Suppress!" ”

By virtue of the justifiable reason of suppressing bandits, it is reasonable and legal to wipe out the clan forces and separatist forces entrenched in the countryside of Liangguang one by one, and finally complete the control of Liangguang.

However, given the complexity of these armed forces, the Shouhan decided to salute first and then soldier.

"Lord Zhang, I have made up my mind, and I must inform them in advance of the bandits, thieves, lianzhuang, militia groups and other armed forces entrenched everywhere and show them the way out. Just like Han Yuxiang's announcement of the crocodile in the past, three days cannot be five days, and five days cannot be seven days, otherwise when the date arrives, it will be the result of the arrival of the soldiers and the burning of jade. ”

"This is very good, and it is also a way out for people to rehabilitate themselves, so that they can contribute to the country. The people outside the country become the people of the household. ”

"In this way, there is Lord Lao Zhang, and it is not a secret that this official and his subordinate officials are unambiguous when it comes to leading troops to fight and governing the place. is the only thing that can be done on the ink, but it is also a non-mention! ”

"You're finally admitting that there's something you can't wait for!"

Zhang Jingxin felt a burst of joy in his heart, but he humbly said: "Among the civil and military officials in Guangdong Province, if the words are sharp, no one will be on the right side of Lord Jiang!" ”

As a result, this article was sent to various places in Liangguang, and the announcement jointly issued in the name of the governor's Liangguang suppression and pacification, the governor's military and horse food and salary affairs in various parts of Nanzhong, and the governor's Liangguang military affairs and the governor of Guangdong, was waved under the large-scale pen of the political envoy Jiang Yihong.

"Guangdong used to be known as the land of abundance, but it has been full of thieves for many years, the division and brigade are prosperous, the people are withered, and the wolves have been very much. For the sake of this, it is all caused by the bad company. And there are four bad things. Employers regard Guangdong as the hometown of the miasma sea and despise it. There are 12 out of 10 people who are in the department, and 89 out of 10 people who are miscellaneous people; Those who are eliminated are four or five out of ten, and those who move are five or six out of ten. He is unbearable, and he knows the shortness of his future, and he is willing to give up on himself. ”……

"Today, the general was ordered to go to Guangdong Province to deal with the matter of suppression, and those who formed villages everywhere to protect themselves and support their own troops, or those who took Liangshan as their home and took thieves as their ancestors, if they were willing to sell knives and buy cattle to wash their hearts and change their hearts and face to become good citizens, the general adhered to the virtue of heaven and gave a new life. When this article arrives, it is necessary to stop attacking each other, and not to disturb the villagers to send grain and collect taxes without authorization. The restraint troops packed up their weapons, horses, and other belongings, and waited for the general to send personnel to inspect them. If there are stubborn and unrelenting evil, and coerce the public to say that they are trying to resist dangerously, the army will be killed in the day! This cloth! Don't be unpredictable! ”

This murderous text was soon posted in the autumn breeze in various prefectures and counties in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and was exposed one by one by those who had a heart. (To be continued......)