Chapter 228 When will the thief be quelled
Qin Dongyang, Liu Yi and the others rode their horses and chased them far away, making sure that the pirate ships were already full of wind and were unlikely to cross the river to attack before they turned their horses and returned.
At this time, the sky was bright, and Qin Dongyang rode his horse in front of the warrior team and saw the performance of many warriors.
He was slightly dissatisfied, but also slightly relieved.
In any case, the spirit of the warriors' thirst for battle is comforting and proud.
Looking at the world, not to mention Fujian Road, even if the entire Great Wei Dynasty's forbidden army and box army, more than one million troops, can have such a strong desire to fight as the Nan'an soldiers, I am afraid that there are not a few.
Qin Dongyang made an obvious hand gesture, and the flag bearer beside him began to wave the flag.
All the warriors immediately took their weapons in their hands, turned their bodies backwards, and then stomped their feet suddenly, and the whole ground trembled.
The nearby water workers, the people on the wharf, the large group of merchants in the town, and the shacks of the displaced people in Zhangzhou on the side of the official road all felt the tremor.
"Did you see it?" Qin Dongyang pointed to the displaced people, merchants, pedestrians, people, and workers around him, and said to the soldiers: "Last night, the Xinghua Army suffered a catastrophe, how many people died under the sword, the family was broken, and the wives were separated. Our side in Nan'an is safe and sound, not only is there nothing to do, but there are not even a few people who run out to avoid fleeing...... Why is that? ”
"It's because of our Nan'an soldiers!" Zhang Huchen led the array of new soldiers in the distance, the team was a little commotion, Zhang Huchen said loudly: "It is we who protect the safety of this side, if it is not for us, what happened on the other side of the river bank will also happen in Nan'an, everyone listen to me, eat food as a soldier, protect the safety of one party, don't want my relatives to suffer from last night's incident, just honestly give me good life and obedient training!" ”
Liu Yichang pointed at the river and said in a deep voice: "Sooner or later, I will train into a water camp, go to Pingqi Mountain Bandit's lair, and kill him without leaving a chicken or dog!" ”
In front of the Ge family brothers, it was Lin Ding and other businessmen, and it was inconvenient for everyone to disturb the martial arts' training, but they drove a large herd of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, and picked up all kinds of cooked food and refined grains. ”
Many people drove a large number of live chickens, live sheep and live pigs into the camp, and the quartermaster brought people to receive them.
The Ge family brothers were stunned at first, and finally Ge Cunzhong said to Ge Cunyi: "I only know today that we used to think we were chivalrous, after all, it is still not as good as what we do today." ”
Ge Cunyi said in a deep voice: "It's just that his mother is really holding his breath!" ”
Ge Cunzhong said: "Wait for the letter from the prince, and we will lead our sons to Qizhou." ”
Ge Cunyi said: "I'm afraid that Li Xingwu and Dong Ruixiang will not accept these two goods." ”
Ge Cunzhong sneered: "These two goods came out of His Royal Highness King Qi after we left, in terms of martial arts and bravery, on leading soldiers, what are they?" If it weren't for the fact that they still have integrity and loyalty, Lao Tzu would have gone to Qizhou tonight and slaughtered them. ”
The disrespect of the two commanders of the Xiang army to Xu Zixian had already spread to Nan'an after the banquet in Qizhou, and of course the Ge brothers were not angry, Xu and Dong were even worse than them, and now they were under the command of Nan'an Hou, but these two goods relied on their identity and qualifications, and put on a posture of not buying Xu Zixian, which was really infuriating.
"There's no hurry." Ge Cunyi laughed instead, squinting at Qin Dongyang in the distance and returning with the soldiers, everyone stayed awake all night, but the spirit was excellent, and the officers took the lead in ordering the soldiers to sing, and soon there was a majestic and neat military song on the side of the river. Ge Cunzhong looked at it for a while, then turned his head and said to Ge Cunzhong: "The prince has a way to clean them up, let's wait and see." ”
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The military songs gradually faded away, the fluttering red flag also returned to the camp of the soldiers, the merchants and people of Nan'an Town also returned to their homes, the order on the wharf was restored, and the workers who carried the goods carried the goods down a ship.
The tax card here, after the hour to return to normal, a large number of businessmen from afar are talking about the events of last night and this morning, and at this time, there are very few people who resist the Nan'an regimental practice and the collection of group donations.
The matter is obvious, the Qishan bandits plundered the territory of the Xinghua Army last night, and two or three counties such as Xianyou were all affected.
The pirates did not go deeper, nor were they attacked by the box army or the forbidden army, and almost fought all night with open fire.
Lin Douyao will be quite embarrassed in this matter, among the local military and political officials, the Xinghua Army Xuanfu Envoy will resign himself, and it is estimated that the imperial court will not be more serious, Qishan bandits have been rampant in Fujian for more than ten years, and he has served as three pacification envoys, and the Xinghua Army is estimated to have changed five Xuanfu envoys, and it is not too fair to blame the current head.
Under the smoke and firelight, there were gradually people salvaging items, and people had no money to spare, and a broken chair might be worth risking their lives.
Li Guozhu watched by the river for a long time, and found that about seventy percent of the buildings in the town where he once lived had been burned down, and a large number of people were wailing to rescue things, and many more were crying, they had lost their relatives last night.
The officials who came down to rescue and appease the government have come down separately, and the gongs keep ringing, usually this kind of tall card, sedan chair, honor guard, these things are made Li Guozhu awe, but now he is disdainful, after looking at it for a while, Li Guozhu spat into the river water, turned around and walked back.
Not far away, there is a team of soldiers standing guard, the situation is not stable today, Nan'an soldiers have sent a lot of fixed posts and mobile posts, when seeing these guards passing by, Li Guozhu felt a lot more relieved.
There are a lot of merchants coming and going today, and there are a lot of goods, usually Li Guozhu has been carrying goods back and forth between the wharf and the warehouse area, but today he has no intention of going to the reservoir area to receive the fund, he touched his waist, the cloth bag contains more than 3,700 money, this is all the savings of his family, not much money, but there are two stone grains issued by the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and some smoked fish and bacon, if you save some food, it is enough for a family to eat for a month, plus the copper money in reserve, at least enough to support three or four months.
The people of Nan'an Hou Mansion promised that the cotton would be planted before April and harvested before August, and that everyone would be able to make a lot of money when the Hou Mansion would buy cotton at the market price.
Li Guozhu has been registered, he is from Zhangzhou Mansion, when the city was broken, the residents of the city were slaughtered to ten rooms and nine empty, Li Guozhu was very lucky, not only ran out by himself, but also escaped with his family and family members successfully.
Since then, he has been living in the Xinghua Army, Fuzhou and Jianzhou for more than ten years, making money by doing casual labor, and his home is a shack on the edge of the river or market town, and even a broken temple, a dilapidated house, and even an open-air residence.
Zhangzhou's vitality has gradually recovered, and hundreds of thousands of people have fled out of the year, and many of them have returned one after another, but there are still a large number of extremely poor people who are difficult to return to their hometowns.
In fact, even if you beg, you can go back to Zhangzhou, but the ground in Zhangzhou is broken, and it has not fully recovered after many years, and the displaced people have no confidence to toss at all.
This kind of hard life did not begin to change until last year, first the Hou Mansion selected some teenagers among the displaced people to be the tooth generals, and Li Guozhu's nephew was also selected, and many homeless families were kindled with hope.
Then there is the Nan'an regimental training, the construction of wharf workers, vegetable fields, duck herding, fishing, chickens, pigs, sheep and other industries have appeared.
Displaced people find it easy to recruit workers, and most of them are not short-term workers, many of whom have been working in the dock area for several months and have a fairly stable source of income.
Many people planned to stay in Nan'an, and many more were summoned by the Hou Mansion to go to the Eastern Domain to open up wasteland and farm.
The fields of the Eastern Domain are all wasteland, and everyone can be regarded as the official government of the Hou Mansion, and they do not pay the imperial grain and national taxes, let alone those miscellaneous taxes, which is attractive enough.
The acres of land, as long as they are planted, are regarded as their own fields, and the Hou Mansion can help write the land deed and demarcate the land boundary, which is another extremely attractive one.
In addition, it is necessary to cultivate cotton fields, and cotton fields are more valuable than crops, which is something that everyone knows.
Seeds, technical help, all kinds of farm tools and equipment, and ploughing cattle were all provided by the Hou Mansion and the Changwen Hou Mansion, and they could be discounted when selling cotton.
This kind of help, as well as the lucrative conditions, the temptation of not having to pay taxes after becoming an official household of the Hou Mansion, almost all the displaced people were attracted to it.
The troubles of the displaced people in Zhangzhou, who had been trapped in Fuzhou and Xinghua Army for many years, were completely solved.
Li Guozhu passed by a small restaurant, bought a few meat dumplings and a few meat steamed buns, and the store also boiled water for him, and he carried them back with a clay pot wrapped in grass.
The new shack area for the displaced people is on the side of the official road to Fuzhou, on the outskirts of the village and the town of Nan'an.
Due to the large area zoning, the drainage canals and garbage dumps were divided during the planning, and the whole area was simple, but it was better to be clean and hygienic, Li Guozhu estimated that when he first arrived in the Eastern Domain, the living conditions may not be much better than now, so when he entered this temporary village built by large shacks, he was still quite nostalgic.
Along the way, many people greeted Li Guozhu, a group of men gathered together to drink, and someone said to Li Guozhu: "Brother Guozhu, it's safe and sound, everyone's hearts are down, let's have a few drinks." ”
Li Guozhu said with a smile: "There are regimental training soldiers in Nan'an, of course they are safe and sound, what is there to worry about?" I think you are just coaxing your own women and cheating on wine. ”
"Don't break it." Someone was anxious and scolded with a smile: "Guozhu, you don't like to drink yourself, don't expose us." ”
Li Guozhu laughed and said no more.
Along the way, there were really a lot of people gathered together to eat, and last night there was a lot of commotion, and the soldiers were stationed by the river, and the homeless people were also quite nervous.
More than ten years ago, they escaped death, and if the pirates came again, it is estimated that many people would have a direct mental breakdown.
The whole camp was full of carnival-like atmosphere, compared to the townspeople of Nan'an, the homeless people had nothing to send to the barracks, when Li Guozhu traveled all the way, he only heard the sound of countless prayers, and the men touched the wine bowls, and they all said: "Birthday for the prince of Nan'an." ”
"Nan'an Hou lived a long life."
"Marquis Wandai."
In all kinds of blessings and prayers, Li Guozhu's eyes were slightly red, especially when he walked outside his shack, and saw his wife with messy hair and holding his little daughter in front of the door, he saw his wife with a worried face, a yellow face, and a body that seemed to be thinner than before, Li Guozhu's heart was sour, but he quickly comforted himself that the life of exile would soon come to an end, and the life of not covering his body and not having enough food would actually end long ago, and the body of the Hun family seemed to be much stronger than last year.
The two sons were in their teens, and when they saw Li Guozhu carrying food home, they all jumped up with cheers, Li Guozhu peeled a meat dumpling for his daughter, and handed a meat steamed bun to his wife, and then the two sons divided the food.
"What ...... spend money on" The wife had a smile on her face, but she complained: "It's all spending money blindly." ”
"This morning, I watched from the riverside." Li Guozhu watched his daughter eat meat dumplings, looked at it for a while, turned his head to look at his wife, and said quite seriously: "I thought, if the Qishan thieves came over yesterday, I don't know if our family can escape with their lives?" In the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep in fright, thinking about what if one of the family couldn't get out. If it were me, you wouldn't be able to leave, and I'd rather die than leave, so let's die together. But thinking about you again, thinking about the three girls, I can't be ruthless...... Later, when I watched the formation of soldiers by the river, I remembered the rocks on the seaside, no matter how big the waves were, no matter how fierce they pounced, the rocks did not move. Later, I gradually felt relieved, Nan'an Wushu really lived up to his reputation, and Chen Yutai and they didn't dare to come over. Later, I thought again, after going to the Eastern Domain, if I make up the nursing home, recruit Zhuang Ding or something, although I am in my early forties, I still have one arm left in my two arms, and when the time comes, I will also go to apply for a recruitment, it is nothing more than sweating more and enduring more hardships, but I am not afraid of Zhuang people's background......"
"You just have to go then, I don't want to live that worrying and scared day anymore, the pirates have made us miserable, if only Nan Anhou could really kill Chen Yutai."
"Those scholars said that Nan Anhou didn't want to suppress him, and he didn't want to go to Chen Yutai to have a hard time."
"Really?"
"." Li Guozhu said angrily: "There is no water camp, fly over to suppress it?" How long has the new martial arts been practicing, and they can't be of great use, these people are just Chengxin. ”
"I don't want to worry about these things." Mrs. Li said: "Did you say when you left?" ”
"I guess it's going to be soon." Li Guozhu pondered and said: "Last night, someone led dozens of cattle to Nan'an, I went to see, they are all big buffaloes weighing almost 2,000 catties, one is stronger than the other, this cow is equipped with a good plow, dozens of acres can be opened in a day." ”
Li's wife has a happy light in her eyes, she has been out of exile for a long time, even if she is not short of food and clothing, she is uneasy in the end, and she doesn't know when and where she will really settle down.
The two boys have reached the age of half the size of the child, eating the poor old man, and they have been reading for a few months in the Mingtang in the town, and they refuse to read it again when they recognize some words.
Doing work is too small, for fear of hurting the vitality and bones.
Now, if you have acres of land, ask your own children to go to the fields to help lay their hands, learn to sow seeds, hoe weeds, the work is not too heavy, and there are serious things to do, if the children have nothing to do in a rich place like Nan'an for a long time, it is easy to learn badly.
"There are also those plows, hoes, pickaxes, forks, and rakes, all of which were ordered and purchased from Tingzhou, and I heard that it took more than 10,000 yuan just to buy these farm tools."
Mrs. Li kept nodding, she and a group of women had gone to see these farm tools.
"It should be soon." Li Guozhu calculated: "If you don't leave, you will miss the agricultural time, the cotton field is best planted in March, and the harvest will be from July to August, if it can only be planted in April, the agricultural time will be biased, and I am afraid that the yield will be delayed." ”
"Well, it's better to leave early." Li's wife said: "Today, someone from the Hou Mansion knocked on the gong and said, those who have not yet signed the pledge should hurry up and sign the pledge, after signing and drawing the pledge, they will all be the official villages of the Hou Mansion, and they must be filed in the Hou Mansion and the official Zhuang." ”
"My family has already signed and detained."
Li Guozhu and his wife sat in front of their shack, surrounded by the sound of calling friends, people's voices were full of cheerful, happy, happy and other emotions, the shack area was full of the smell of wine, and soon they were leaving, and together with their families and clansmen, even if there was no clan, they were all displaced people from Zhangzhou, everyone wanted to go to the Eastern Domain together to start a new life, and under the shadow of the Hou Mansion, they did not accept the imperial grain, and the Eastern Domain did not have the forced labor tax levied by the official village, nor did they need to pay those messy taxes. Everything is up to the Hou Mansion, and Xu Zixian has passed the trust test of everyone, and everyone feels that the Hou Mansion of Nan'an can be trusted and trustworthy.
In addition, the pirates did not dare to cross the river last night, and people generally still have the feeling of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and this emotion is released, coupled with the various emotions of leaving, although the chaos has just stopped, and the displaced people have no lack of sympathy for the Xinghua army and people on the other side of the Min River, but in any case, the long-suppressed emotions of the displaced people have also been released.
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The news of Qishan's raid on the Xinghua Army reached Fuzhou on the same day, and Qizhou of course received the news as soon as possible, after all, it was related to Lu Wenxian, the governor of Qizhou, and Xu Zixian, the governor and defense envoy.
"There are police officers outside Xianyou County, which should be used to bluff people." Lu Wenxian is not a straw bag, looking at the urgent report, he frowned and said: "If it is possible, Chen Yutai would like to break Qizhou, but he also knows that he can't do it." The main place of last night's attack was still opposite Nan'an, in my estimation, Chen Yutai was originally going to try to attack Nan'an, but fortunately, Nan'an was heavily guarded, so he could only give up, only sighing that the people of the Xinghua Army had suffered enough of this catastrophe, and the magistrate was incompetent, so he should die. ”
Of course, Lu Wenxian didn't really say that the officials of the Xinghua Army were incompetent and damned, in fact, if he was replaced, I am afraid that the result would be similar.
The forbidden army of the five armies was stationed in Fuzhou, three armies, one army in Zhangzhou, one army in Quanzhou, Xinghua Army, Shaowu Army, Jianzhou, Tingzhou, all of which were not garrisoned by forbidden troops.
There was no forbidden army, the Xiang army had no advantage over the pirates, and the incident happened suddenly, and when the battalions of the Xiang army and the city defense were assembled, it would take time to rush to the battlefield under the leadership of the military state officials, and it would depend on the enemy's situation, and the army would prepare to meet the enemy.
After all these things are done, they can only see off the pirates.
"There are more than 1,000 houses that have been burned down, more than 1,000 people have been killed on the spot, thousands of people have been injured, more than 10,000 people have been left homeless, the place is eroded, and hundreds of women have been plundered...... Xu Zixian read the Tang newspaper in a deep voice, and his mood was also terrible.
Nan'an was protected, and the towns of Shuikou and Gukou were often raided by pirates a few years ago.
After all, it was too laborious to attack the state capital, it was not easy to succeed, it was not cost-effective to loot the villages, it was too scattered, and the peasants were quite poor, and it was difficult to find much useful to rob.
Only by plundering rich towns, with poor defense, a large number of people gathered, and many rich people, they can grab a lot of gold, silver, copper coins and all kinds of valuable utensils.
It was also much easier to rob the Dingkou, the prime of men and young women than in the villages.
"I don't know when the prince will be able to put down this thief?" Lu Wenxian said worriedly: "I'm not worried about anything else, I'm worried that after this incident, the voice of Chen Yutai in the court will become louder, if this person is recruited, it will really be unwilling to die." ”
"Lord Lu, don't worry." Xu Zixian said in a deep voice: "Chen Yutai will never have that day. ”
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