Chapter 750: Establishing Himself as a King
The content of the essay is that it was originally a soldier, a farmer, or a trader.
What kind of days did you live before you didn't join the collective of the "Red Banner Army", and what kind of days are you living now?
Too many hungry people who were rescued by the "Red Banner Army" were grateful, and too many scholars who were favored by the "Red Banner Army" wanted to put their gratitude to the captured generals on paper in their hearts, and thousands of people submitted their articles at one time.
There are two heavens of ice and fire, on one side is the dark Ming Dynasty is full of hungry people, robbers are rampant, and the government is rampant.
On the other hand, under the protection of the "Red Banner Army", the common people have shaken off their hunger and are sweating for their own blue brick houses......
The "Red Banner Army" system is depicted as a paradise, and Daming Mountain, Shaanxi, Henan, and even Zhongdu and Huguang are depicted as the people's livelihood is poor.
The territory actually controlled by the general made too many hungry and cold Shengdou small people yearn for it.
Originally, the territory of the general was not large, and too many areas were still directly facing Jiannu, but now it is known that the original Korean kingdom will be completely taken down and run into the Ming "Hanjiang Province", and too many ordinary people have decided to leave their homeland and join the "Red Banner Army".
Huang Han, who has a large territory, abundant capital, and surplus grain, is full of confidence and does not refuse to come, resulting in quite busy sea transportation.
Originally, Huang Han thought that Zheng Zhilong would choose to resist and disobey the order, but he was already thinking about simply forcing Zheng Zhilong to oppose it, and after taking North Korea, he would go to the South China Sea next spring to completely kill the Zheng pirate group and incorporate the Liu Xiang group.
Who knew that the Qiwei operating in Fujian sent back information indicating that Zheng Zhilong actually led the fleet to the Liaohai.
People choose to be soft, it seems that the Zheng family's fat sheep can't be slaughtered.
Fortunately, Huang Han copied the wealth of Jin Shang and Shanxi, Xuanda civil officials and military generals, and obtained more than 30 million taels of silver, and now he is relatively rich.
This year, Huang Han's mentality is very good, not extremely vicious, Zheng Zhilong can let the Zheng family go if he behaves well.
Huang Han can even assist Zheng Zhilong's group to seize the islands of the Wa Kingdom and establish himself as the king, and he can also consider helping Zheng Zhilong go to the Indochina Peninsula to seize a piece of territory and stand on his own.
Huang Han would not believe in his heart that Zheng Zhilong's pirate group, which had used tens of thousands of soldiers and had an annual income of millions of taels of silver, would sincerely surrender to him.
It is obvious that Zheng Zhilong took expedient measures as a last resort, and then their interests were violated, even if Zheng Zhilong did not rebel, the old generals of Eighteen Zhizhi would continue to rebel.
It was also Huang Han's expedient measure to simply send them away from the Ming Dynasty to establish a kingdom, and it was best to persuade Zheng Zhilong to take the island where Singapore was located in the future.
After the death of Jiannu, the destruction of the Liukou, and the complete capture of the Ming Dynasty, he will free up his hands to slowly colonize the Indochina Peninsula.
At that time, he couldn't give Zheng Zhilong too much preferential treatment, chose to return to the motherland to warmly welcome, and chose to be the enemy of the motherland and let him perish!
Qiwei reported that Zheng Zhilong's fleet had left Fujian and headed north, with as many as 50 warships and only about 3,000 crews, so Huang Han sent a clipper ship to Zheng Zhilong to send an order.
He was not asked to complete the combat mission, but ordered him to go to Nantong Prefecture to transport 30,000 immigrants to the "Hanjiang Province" when passing through the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The lack of capacity is a real situation, and the long-distance transportation of sea ships is like a rush ship carrying six or seven hundred men, women and children is already the limit, so it is still difficult for passengers to travel in this way.
Fortunately, the hungry people, who are accustomed to wandering on a hungry stomach, do not mind suffering at all on the premise of being able to get eighty percent full, and squeezing on the boat is nothing.
It has been several years since the transportation of hungry people, and the "Red Flag Army" system has formed a routine, carrying out collective labor while waiting for transshipment in Nantong Prefecture.
To make it quite easy to have jobs in Nantong Prefecture, the key is to need money and food.
Nowadays, Huang Han is rich and rich, and he is not short of money and has a lot of food, so he built Haiti and river embankments, and organized people to build stacked fields in the area of Lixia River.
In fact, the field is the property of the Han people's diligence and wisdom.
The area around the Lixia River is a wetland, low-lying and densely swamped, and the Han people rowed small boats in the swamp to dig silt in the swamp to fill in the other swamp nearby, and the original two swamps were completely changed after paying labor.
The high marshland has become a few acres or even a few cents of fertile land, and the deep-dug marshland has become rivers and lakes.
It is relatively easy to irrigate the fields, and the farmers can directly stand on the boat with a long-handled water scoop to water the fields to meet the irrigation needs.
Because of heavy rainfall, the fields can be quickly drained into the river surrounding the fields, and when there is a drought, they can be directly scooped up for irrigation.
Because the soil of the battled fields is taken from silt, the land is fertile, and the rice yield is nearly 10% higher than the average yield per mu of the fertile fields in the south of the Yangtze River.
The Lixiahe area is a wetland, and there has never been a major drought year in history when the earth was dry and cracked, and the main prevention is waterlogging.
The "Red Banner Army" with capital, commanding power, and organizational ability has brought a lot of labor to Nantong Prefecture waiting for transshipment.
During this period, these people were organized to take inland river flat-bottomed boats through the Tongyang Canal, which was built in the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty, to work in the Lixiahe area, which was not far from Taizhou.
Under the leadership of the staff who graduated from the water conservancy construction class, they built sluices to regulate the water levels of the upper and lower rivers, and built reservoirs to store and discharge floodwater, so that the Duotian area could cope with the catastrophic flood that occurred once in 30 years.
The hungry people were paid two silver dollars for one stone of grain for three meals in the Lixiahe area, and the medical workers were able to check the population for infectious diseases.
Of course, it is impossible for patients with infectious diseases to be allowed to travel on ships that come to pick up migrants, and isolation and treatment are essential.
In the past two or three years, no effort has been spared in the Lixiahe area to build water conservancy, digging silt and building stacked fields, and now more than 100,000 acres of high-yield fertile land capable of double cropping have been born from a piece of Ze country.
There are already nearly 10,000 households in the "Red Banner Army" system to stay here to reclaim the land, and the grain produced can not only make these families worry about food and clothing, but also the half of the "Red Flag Army" has more than 100,000 stones.
Due to the fact that there are many water thieves active in the reeds in the Yancheng area, the Yangtze River detachment organized several large-scale encirclement and suppression during the agricultural slack, and now the area around the river is relatively safe.
Of course, this is only limited to the people of the "Red Banner Army" system, because Yu Quanzuo did not exterminate all the water thieves in the Yancheng area, and incorporated a group of water thieves, the leader of which is called Gu Haozi.
The "Red Banner Army" worked hard and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build up the battlements, and no one was allowed to touch them.
There is a Yangtze River detachment to deal with water thieves and robbers, and when dealing with the government, landlords, and squires, of course, it is Gu Hezi's water thieves who take action.