"In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing guarded Baling County......," a middle-aged man in his early thirties in a thick shirt shook his head and groaned. At this time, he was standing in front of the Yueyang Tower, which was rebuilt a few years ago, looking at the vast Dongting Lake outside the building, and was full of emotion for a while. It's a pity that the circle of people around him are not rough people who don't understand elegance, some of them are soldiers of the East Coast Army, some are officers of the Standing Team, some are lieutenant generals of the Dashun Army, and the only master who looks like a down-and-out scholar is also counting the supplies in the distance, and he has no time to run here to shoot the ass of the East Coast Haikou Huang Da Shopkeeper.

Huang Da's shopkeeper is named Huang Yi, an authentic traverser, a junior high school student before the crossing, only 16 years old. In the local yamen, they have been mixed up, and the high ones are not good or low, and they are very unsatisfactory. Coupled with his grandfather's temper, he is very unpopular with everyone. This time, he didn't know which tendon was wrong, he taught music and singing well in the Corps Fort, and he had to come to the Far East in search of life and death, and the dean of academic affairs, who had long seen him unpleasant, was naturally overjoyed, quickly completed the formalities for him, and kicked him to the Far East.

When he arrived in the Far East, this guy finally stopped honestly, and he has always been low-brow and pleasing to the eye in front of characters like Mo Dashuai, and there has been no dispute of will. After he took the initiative to ask Ying to serve as a liaison with the Dashun regime, Mo Ming also allocated some people to him with dignity and set up a trading company to specialize in commercial trade with Dashun. And this so-called commercial trade is actually very simple, that is, the people on the east coast "sell" weapons and equipment to Dashun (it can be said that they are half sold and half given), and Dashun collects some things needed on the east coast in his own control area and the Qing army's control area, such as medicinal materials, grain, gold and silver, tea, silk, porcelain, and even antiques, calligraphy and paintings. As for the population, it is far away from the East Coast Control District. Transshipment is not easy. So I had no choice but to give up.

Of course. Just because there is no large-scale population trade does not mean that there is no population trade. For example, on the wharf of Baling County at this time, there was a group of people with dishes on their faces. Most of these people are women and children, only a small number are half-grown teenagers, and as for adult men, they are even more in the minority. They are basically the orphans of martyrs who have been in the army for many years in Li Chuang's army, and their sources are also relatively mixed, but most of them are people from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and Henan. As the Qing army mobilized heavy troops from the north and stationed in Wuchang. The next major military attack on Dashun is about to begin, and keeping these old and weak women and children by his side is simply pushing them into the fire pit.

In the past year since entering Hunan, many people have died due to malnutrition, lack of medical treatment, and lack of adaptation to water and soil. In the process of switching from peacetime to war, due to the priority of materials to ensure combat troops, these people will die in large numbers, for example, when Shaanxi retreated in history, tens of thousands of women and children were frozen to death in a heavy snowstorm. Therefore, handing these people over to the East Coasters may have left them a way to live. In this way, the Shun army was able to concentrate all its energy on fighting the Qing army, and these old and weak women and children who were often captured and killed by the Qing army because of the defeat and hasty retreat of the Shun army during the war could also be spared death, which was beneficial to everyone. Of course. When sending these people to the East Coast Control District, the principle of voluntariness must be upheld. You can't pack it up and send it to the people on the east coast like selling piglets, otherwise it is likely to affect the morale of the troops.

Therefore, in such a context, with Li Zicheng's acquiescence, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang and others began to count the women and children of the army who were willing to go to the East Coast Control District. They boasted about the East Coast Control District like a fairyland, which made the old and young women and children who usually did not have enough food and clothing, and sometimes threatened their lives. Soon, after several months of mobilization, the first batch of more than 1,000 old and weak women and children were counted, and they will board the ship to the east coast today and bid farewell to Dashun.

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless. On the occasion of parting, many people are naturally reluctant, after all, no matter how bad Dashun is, it is also the last reliance of their gang. After so many years of coming together, there is the panic and anxiety when the Ming army fought in Henan, the cheers and joys that entered the city of Xi'an, and the ecstasy after entering Beijing. Especially those teenage and half-grown children, it can be said that their childhood and youth were spent in such an environment, and now they are extremely reluctant to part with their friends, uncles and aunts who have been with each other for many years.

But the world is so cruel, if you want to live, you have to go. With the current situation of Dashun, it is difficult to take care of these tens of thousands of women and children, and leaving is a relief for everyone. In fact, they are quite lucky, compared to the large number of innocent women and children who died because of Dashun's sweep across the north, and the women and children who were forced by Dashun to die in front of the Ming army in vain, they are really very lucky, because they at least survived.

Huang Yi shook his head and finished chanting Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower", and then drank a pot of tea in a pretended manner, and then walked to the dock, looking at the few East Coast Army soldiers who came with the boat on the dock and directing the Shun army generals to unload their weapons, and then looked at the old and weak women and children of the Shun army who were quietly squatting on the grass, unkempt, and after thinking about it, he took out a handful of candy made of cocoa powder from his arms and distributed it to some of the children closest to him.

The child was bare-bottomed, with two lines of snot running from under his nose, and his face and hands were dirty, probably very hungry, so he grabbed candy and stuffed it into his mouth. Perhaps he had never eaten such a good thing, the child's eyes narrowed happily, and after eating, he looked at Huang Yi with a blank eye.

Huang Yi suddenly felt a little sour in her nose, thinking about her previous dissatisfaction with this and that all day long, she also had opinions on this, and she was not used to that, as if she was a second force all day long. I think I've done a lot of great things, but in the end it's all shit, so it makes more sense to save some poor kids like right now. Why do you want so much money? Isn't it enough to enjoy the splurge yourself! Is it fun to camp the flies all day? In the end, it's not all in vain!

From now on, it is important to do more meaningful things, save more children, teach them to read and write, they have the right to receive education, and what awaits them should be a good and prosperous life, not a journey of death in the ravine. Now the big countries of the European continent have begun to pay more attention to knowledge and education, and the living standards of the citizens of some regions such as France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands have far exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty, and their children can also learn knowledge or crafts. In order to lay a solid foundation for your future life. On the other hand, Daming. Almost everywhere in the country, there are fires. With the population plummeting and the standard of living plummeting, children are either eaten by hungry adults, slaughtered by armies of murderers for fun, or struggling to survive in hunger and cold, in short, unable to live in peace. Thinking of this, Huang Yi suddenly felt a little sad, not only the group of children in front of him in this world need him to save, there are thousands of children who need him to save. But can he save it?

Forget it, what can I do to change this? I just need to be good in front of me and live up to my conscience, and when the sky falls, there is a tall man on top of it. Mo Dashuai is such a strong character, he can't save the world, well, he seems to have accepted dozens of children as righteous sons and daughters, and he can learn from him. Huang Yi made up her mind, then shook her head and threw all these negative feelings out of her mind, and restored the appearance of the "second force" Huang Da shopkeeper just now.

I saw him shaking a folding fan in the middle of winter and walking to Guo Sheng, who was receiving ordnance by the dock. said with a smile: "Guo Shuai is still satisfied? This is the third batch of ordnance, but it has cleared our army's inventory. Look at the bow and the arrow. It is necessary to have high-quality horns and tendons, and the savings of the Korean Lee family for many years on Jeju Island have been exhausted. Look at this firearm and this saber, which are also extraordinary. There is also this armor, which can block the lead of the Tartar bird at a distance of sixty paces, and the heavy arrows from a distance of thirty paces, which is extraordinarily powerful. ”

"What Shopkeeper Huang said is true, my love for East Coast ordnance is well known." Guo Sheng smiled, a heavy flintlock pistol looked extremely flexible under the manipulation of his fan-like big hands, I saw him take out a 41-year-old steel bayonet from his waist, skillfully hang a card in the sleeve under the barrel, and then stabbed twice in the void, and said with satisfaction: "A few days ago, Cihou (Liu Fangliang) led 60,000 troops to besiege Jingzhou, so he relied more on the ordnance sent by your army. The yellow-clothed cannon broke through the city, and the Iron Man Army wearing cuirasses, armours, and helmets broke the formation and killed Zheng Siwei's old turtle in a battle, which was really happy! ”

A few months ago, tens of thousands of people under the command of Li Guo and Gao Yigong, who had just arrived in Hubei from Shaanxi and Gansu, besieged Jingzhou City, but unfortunately failed because of the lack of heavy weapons, which made Zheng Siwei, the deputy chief soldier of the Qing court, proud for a long time. Now that the yellow-clothed cannon has broken through the turtle-like Jingzhou city wall, Zheng Siwei's gang has also been beheaded, and he has finally vented his bad breath! Moreover, since the possession of this extremely light but superprotective armor sent by the Yellow Army, the casualty rate of experienced veteran officers has also plummeted, effectively guaranteeing the combat effectiveness of all units of the Shun Army.

"Hehe, as long as the general likes it." Huang Yi also laughed a few times, and then said: "I heard that King Chuang has broken Changsha City, and He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi of Nanming have rushed to Hengyang, which is really gratifying!" However, the general may wish to persuade the king more if he has time, and now that the Qing court is powerful, Dashun and Daming are weak, why not join forces to fight against the Tartars? Don't do what your relatives do to your enemies! ”

"Shopkeeper Huang doesn't know." Guo Sheng waved his hand, and then whispered: "Your Majesty has recurred from his injuries since he recovered from Changsha, and he is currently recuperating in the city. Now the army is in charge of the generals Li, Gao, and Liu, and everyone has made a truce with the Ming court, and now the heavy troops are gathered in Jingzhou, Yuezhou, and Lizhou, and they want to fight with that Kong Youde, and they will never have trouble with the Ming court again. ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Huang Yi touched a piece of green stubble's chin, and then said with a smile: "This time I brought twelve engineering technicians, all of whom are experienced people. Cihou and Bohou want to renovate the city walls of Baling, Linxiang, Pingjiang, Lizhou, Yiyang, Liuyang and other counties. ”

In fact, Liu Fangliang, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others are still more interested in the fortress technology vigorously promoted by the East Coast people. Therefore, the preparation of a number of medium-sized bastions of mixed masonry, earth, and engineering structures at some important sites, and then equipped with artillery funded by the people on the east coast, should be able to greatly delay the Qing offensive. And this is also the reason why the people on the east coast sent these twelve engineers here, to put it bluntly, to guide the Shun army to build fortresses and place artillery positions.

The human resources in the Dashunkong district still far exceed those of the people on the east coast, and it is not difficult to obtain bricks, stones, and timber, and if we hurry up, it will not be a problem to build a medium-sized fortress capable of stationing thousands of soldiers and horses in the periphery of the two important cities of Yuezhou and Lizhou. At that time, if the Qing army came to besiege the cities of Yuezhou and Lizhou, then the fortress outside the city would definitely make them feel like a thorn in their back, and they would not be able to attack the city with all their might.

After handing over the weapons, Huang Yi didn't talk to Guo Sheng much next, and the two sides agreed on the time of the next meeting, and then said goodbye to each other. Huang Yi took more than 1,000 Shunjun elders and children and slowly left the dock of Baling County in four gunboats and went downstream along the river. (To be continued......)