Ten days later, Li Xiaojun's Taiwan colonization group was officially prepared. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Among them, the 3,000 soldiers and horses sent to Taiwan were named the Taiwan Advance Army by Li Xiao, consisting of 1,000 shield soldiers, 1,000 spearmen, 300 cavalry, and 700 auxiliaries.

In addition, Li Xiao provided them with 60 trebuchets, 500 long-range earth-shaking thunderbolts, and more than 3,000 infantry hand-thrown earth-shaking thunderbolts.

These soldiers, horses, officer corps and backbone force are composed of the old Red Phoenix Guards, and the rest of the soldiers, half of them are surrendered rogues, and half are newly accepted soldiers from the homeless people.

Li Xiao appointed the commander-in-chief of Taiwan's advance army, Li Dingguo, deputy commander of the Chifeng Battalion; The deputy commander-in-chief is Luo Zheng, the deputy chief of the Red Phoenix Guard.

After being appointed, Li Dingguo and Luo Zheng were very excited.

Li Dingguo is only 19 years old this year, and he was originally one of Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons; since he was persuaded by Li Xiao to surrender in March last year, Li Xiao has deliberately cultivated him, and has been promoted all the way from deputy commander to deputy battalion commander, and now he has been appointed commander-in-chief of Taiwan's advance army, which shows his ardent trust.

And Luo Zheng, who started as a homeless person, was just a small auxiliary soldier when he first did not return to the mound in Liaodong. With Li Xiao's southern expedition to the north, he has now been promoted to the deputy chief of the Chifeng Battalion, and is now appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Taiwan's advance army.

The immigrants of this group of Taiwanese colonization groups were 20,000 able-bodied homeless people from Henan, Nanzhili and Shandong, who were collected by Li Xiaojun during this period.

After listening to Li Xiaojun's suggestion that after going to Taiwan, they would have land to grow, food to eat, and clothing to wear, everyone was overjoyed and was willing to go by boat.

These immigrants are all in charge of Ding You, head of the Taiwan Colonization Group, who was formerly the director of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Chifengwei, and because of his loyalty and compassion for the people, he was specially appointed by Li Xiao as the head of the Taiwan Colonization Group, and Ma Huaxing, the former deputy director of the Chifengwei Money and Grain Division, was appointed as the deputy head of the regiment.

In addition, Li Xiao also transferred a group of officials from various government departments, and after arriving in Taiwan, he also set up the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, the Department of Money and Grain, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Supervision and Care, and the Department of Security, just like Chi Fengwei, so that the entire immigrant society can operate smoothly.

In addition to soldiers and immigrants, Li Xiaojun also asked Chen Mazi, the chief medical officer, to personally select 20 apprentices with good medical skills from the Chifeng Health Medical Center and send them to Taiwan to open a medical center, so as to ensure that the soldiers' illnesses can be treated in a timely manner.

In addition, Li Xiao also asked Chang Dali, the chief builder, to select about 100 builders who had little family burden and were willing to go to Taiwan, so that they could build simple houses and simple water conservancy measures for the displaced people at that time.

After the personnel arrangements were completed, Li Xiao provided the Taiwan Colonization Group with 500,000 stone of grain, 500,000 taels of silver, and a large number of daily necessities and farm tools, so as to ensure that the Colonization Group could smoothly produce and live in Taiwan, a remote place.

Before boarding the ship and setting off for the Colonization Group, Li Xiao gave the final solemn advice to Li Dingguo, commander-in-chief of Taiwan's advance army, Luo Zheng, deputy commander-in-chief, Ding You, head of the Colonization Group, and Ma Huaxing, deputy head of the Colonization Group.

Li Xiao arranged that Li Dingguo and Luo Zheng were both controlled by Ding You, the head of the colonization group, and Ma Huaxing, the deputy head of the colonization group, and Li Dingguo and Luo Zheng had no objection to this order.

"Lord Li, our army only has 3,000 soldiers and horses, if the enemy army is too strong, will it be difficult for our army to hold on?" Li Dingguo, who is cautious by nature, raised a little worry of his own.

"No, because the Spaniards in the north are only more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, the Dutch in the south only have 2,000 soldiers and horses, and the natives in Taitung are even more fragmented and not to be worried. Our army has 3,000 soldiers and horses, which is enough to hold on. Li Xiao replied.

In the stunned eyes of Li Dingguo and the others, Li Xiao just smiled faintly.

Of course, Li Xiao couldn't tell Li Dingguo and others directly about these things, he just vaguely told them that it was Zheng Zhilong who provided a little bit of information.

However, next, Li Xiao emphasized one point, that is, because the advance army is weak and difficult to replenish thousands of miles, Li Xiao asked them to never take the initiative to attack the Spaniards in the north, the Dutch in the south, and the Taiwanese natives in the east.

Later, Li Xiao arranged for Ding You and others to go to Taiwan, and after receiving the land of Zheng Zhilong's department, they could distribute it according to the specifications of 5 acres of land granted to each household.

Li Xiao's arrangement was carefully considered.

This is because the wasteland in the western plains of Taiwan has accumulated humus for a long time, the soil is fertile, and it is located in the tropics, so two crops of rice can be planted in a year. In addition to certain difficulties in early development, its output is considerable.

You must know that during the Yongli period, when Zheng Chenggong was cultivating in Taiwan, each mu of rice field could produce 2 to 3 stones of rice each time, and the high yield of 4 to 6 stones a year was 4 to 6 stones.

Therefore, it is precisely because the yield of rice fields is so high that it is very different from those dry lands in the north with a yield of five or six buckets per mu, and a family of immigrants allocates five acres of land, which is enough to pay taxes and feed a family.

In fact, the number of acres of rice fields arranged by Li Xiao for the immigrants is quite favorable. You must know that in contemporary China, such as Hunan, the main agricultural belt, many farmers only have more than one mu of land per household, which is enough to supply the whole family with food and pay grain tax.

Later, Li Xiao stipulated that because in the first year of this year, the early rice had already passed the agricultural time, and only two buckets of tax per mu of rice field could be paid this year, so that each family would only pay one stone of grain tax.

After normal cultivation next year, 5 buckets per mu of paddy field will be handed over at a time, and twice a year, totaling one stone. In this way, each family pays a total of 5 stone of grain tax a year, and another 15 to 20 stone of grain can be used for their own consumption or resold to grain merchants.

"Lord Li, these displaced people are all northerners who don't know how to grow rice, our army has passed, but we have to go to Fujian to invite some old farmers to guide?" Ding You asked.

Li Xiao smiled: "No need. From the hands of Zheng Zhilong's troops, our army has taken over nearly 5,000 Fujian immigrants, who have been planting rice in Taiwan for many years, and this is a ready-made teacher. ”

Ding You nodded, and asked again: "Then these 5,000 Fujian immigrants collect taxes like our army immigrants?" ‘

Li Xiao sighed: "These Fujian immigrants, because Zheng Zhilong's ministry does not pay much attention to it, the expansion land is limited, and the water conservancy measures have not kept up, so the output is limited. Now that they have been incorporated into our army, they will be treated equally with the immigrants of our army, and each household will be assigned 5 mu of land, and this year they will only receive 2 buckets of rice per mu, and next year they will be levied at the grain tax of 5 buckets per mu. ”

Ding You smiled: "Master Li is really benevolent, I have written it down." ”

May 15, 9th year of Chongzhen.

After everything was ready for the Colonization Group, Li Xiao arranged for them to set off by boat.

In the early morning of this day, the sun was shining and the sea was calm, which was a good day to go on the expedition.

There were 20,000 displaced people, with an average of 2,000 people per boat, and a total of eight boats. The 3,000 Taiwan advance troops and their dispatched officials were divided into three large ships to escort food, silver taels, armor, weapons, and all kinds of household utensils.

The rest of Zheng Zhilong's ships purchased a large number of Li Xiaojun's woolen wool, ironware, raw silk and other items, and almost wiped out Chi Fengwei's existing commodity stock, with a total purchase amount of more than 2 million taels.

Li Xiaoqin led Chi Fengwei and other officials to Longkou Port to see him off.

Li Xiao saw that many homeless people, before getting on the boat, looked into the distance with great nostalgia, and many of them shed sad tears. There are even some homeless people, before boarding the boat, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing in the direction of their hometown, tearful and kowtowing goodbye. Others, presumably local refugees in Shandong, quietly dug up a piece of soil from their hometown from the open space of the port, and took it into their arms.

They know that this time, thousands of miles away, separated from the north and the south, maybe in this life and this life, it will be difficult to return to their hometown in the north.

Li Xiao was also emotional.

In troubled times, human life is like grass, and there is a place to support a family and live a stable life, which is heaven on earth. In the face of realistic survival problems, any nostalgia and children's affection are not worth mentioning.

Unlike the displaced people, Li Xiaojun's 3,000 soldiers and horses who went to Taiwan were all high-spirited.

These days, the officials of the Supervision and Pacification Department are strengthening the brainwashing of the soldiers who are going to go to Taiwan every day, and the supervisors tell the soldiers that it is a rare opportunity to be admitted to Taiwan this time, and as long as they grasp it well, they will definitely be promoted to the rank of knight faster.

This point especially makes those soldiers who have changed from rogues to Li Xiaojun yearn for it, and the recruits who have just joined Li Xiaojun from the homeless people are also full of eagerness.

The man's fame was taken immediately, and he was looking for a marquis three thousand miles away.

These young and energetic young men, under the command of the two young conductors of Li Dingguo and Luo Zheng, who were also full of enthusiasm, all of them were eager to go to the strange land of Taiwan to make meritorious contributions and make a name for themselves.

On the dock, Li Xiao and Zheng Zhilong said goodbye.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhifeng, who purchased a large number of commercial goods, were full of joy on their faces. The two and Li Xiaoyan smiled at Yan Yan, and warmly invited Li Xiao to have the opportunity to go to Fujian to have a look, and the two of them will accompany him enthusiastically.

Li Xiao agreed to their request with a smile, and the guests and hosts became more warm and harmonious.

Subsequently, Li Xiao agreed with him that before November this year, he asked Zheng Zhilong to bring more fleets to Chifengwei, and he wanted to transport more displaced people and soldiers to the past, so as to better develop the territory of Taiwan.

Zheng Zhilong, who was full of sweetness, was busy agreeing that the money-making business sent to the door in this way would not be done in vain.

After all the displaced people, soldiers, and belongings were loaded onto the ship, Zheng Zhilong's fleet dropped anchor.

Li Xiao and a group of officials, on the dock, waved goodbye to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhifeng and others.

It wasn't until he looked at Zheng Zhilong's 50 boats, disappearing between the sea and the sky, that Li Xiao turned around and returned.

Li Xiao actually wanted to personally lead the team to Taiwan, but now there is a more important thing waiting for Li Xiao to deal with solemnly.

That is, the third entry of the Qing army into the customs is about to begin.

In history, more than a month later, the newly established Qing Dynasty, in order to plunder the population and livestock of the Ming Dynasty, as well as show off the military force of the new dynasty, entered the customs for the third time on the 27th day of the sixth lunar month.

In this invasion of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Doro Wuying County, Azig, was the commander, and Doro Rao Yu Belle Abatai was the deputy general, commanding more than 100,000 troops, and entered the Ming Dynasty in three ways.

Historically, the Qing Dynasty army rushed to northern Hebei, entered Dushikou, and eight days later, it would defeat the Ming army seven times in Yanqing County, Beijing, and capture 13,230 people and animals. On July 3, the whole city of Beijing was under martial law, the Qing army entered Juyong Pass through Yanqing, took Changping, the general soldier of the city surrendered, the Mingde Mausoleum was burned, and the army approached Beijing Xizhimen. Emperor Chongzhen was shocked, and ordered the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to guard the capital gate, and ordered Zhang Fengyi, the governor of the Ministry of War, to reinforce the towns, and let the eunuch Gao Qiqian be the supervisor of the army, but the towns basically did not move, even if there was a chance to attack, they did not dare to fight.

Chongzhen was frightened to death by the surging Qing army, but unexpectedly, the Qing army had no intention of attacking the Beijing division, according to the policy previously set by Huang Taiji, the Qing army continued to loot around the capital to consume the strength of the Ming army.

A large number of Qing troops entered Dingxing, went down to Fangshan, fought Zhuozhou, attacked Gu'an, Kewen'an, and broke Baodi, all the way like a bamboo. Subsequently, he killed Zhao Guoding of Zhixian County and trapped Shunyi. Again Ke Huairou, the county magistrate Shangguanxin committed suicide. The Qing army occupied Hexi again, stationed troops in Miyun and Pinggu, and within a month, "ravaged all over the country", and the land of the capital division was ruined.

The commander Azig, who won a great victory, proudly reported to Huang Taiji that this time he had conquered 12 cities, won 56 battles, and won 179,800 men and animals. On August 20, the Qing army retreated, and after Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ming Army, learned about it, in order to invite merit, he led the Beijing battalion out of the Beijing Division, rushed from behind, and followed the Qing army, but he only dared to make a show, and did not dare to attack the Qing army at all.

On September 1, the Qing army calmly returned with 180,000 people and a large number of supplies and a large number of looted animals. They also cut down the wood, wrote the words "all officials are exempt from sending" and threw them on the side of the road, abusing the generals of the Ming Dynasty, and it took four days to get out of the customs.

After the Qing army left the customs, Zhang Fengyi pretended to report to Chongzhen: "Kill the enemy at the third level", and was later found to be a good killing, which made Chongzhen almost faint.

What's even more despicable is that Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Liang Tingdong, the governor of Xuanda, were impeached by the officials because of their own cowardice and fear, and their respective armies were all defeated. Under the raging feelings, these two people also knew that after the Qing army withdrew, Chongzhen would be strict with himself, so in order to die, the two swallowed rhubarb for days, and then finally got lucky, and successfully committed suicide before Chongzhen's edict reached the barracks.

Li Xiao recalled the real history, and his heart was infinitely emotional.

Why did my Ming officers and soldiers, in addition to being passively beaten, have almost no power to fight back against these Qing army Tartars who entered the customs, thinking of this, Li Xiao's heart was extremely painful.

And what made Li Xiao most uneasy was the safety of Jintang City in Xuanfu Town.

Because the main force of the Qing army led by Azig will enter the pass from the Dushikou of Xuanfu North Road just like the second invasion of Ming Yi by Houjin, this 100,000 Tartar army is very likely to have a plot against the Xiongcheng Jintang City that has been built on Xuanfu North Road.

If Li Xiao's important stronghold and foothold in Xuanfu Town were lost, then this important town for woolen woolen production and this base for trade with the Mongol tribes would completely cease to exist.

Of course, Li Xiao couldn't allow such a thing to happen.

Plan ahead to be prepared.

Li Xiao knew that now he had to hurry up and immediately start the defense of Jintang City. (To be continued.) )