Chapter 21 Resettlement of Immigrants Liu Zongmin was furious

Li Zicheng's Dashun army went to war again, and it was also busy with Li Mao and them. Because soon, a large number of fugitive officials and wealthy people fled to Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places, and they all felt that it was safe to go to Shanxi Yaogang. Those who fled with gold and silver were coveted by the officials and robbers wherever they went. They all heard that only the Shanxi kiln gang side could guarantee safety. For a while, the passenger ferry tickets to Yaogang were snatched up all of a sudden. Every day, Li Mao was found through various relationships, and the people who asked for tickets to Yaogang couldn't open the door. Li Mao didn't dare to answer the phone at all.

Now Yangzhou is the first place to use electricity in addition to Yaogang and Datong. The two-megawatt generator has turned on the lights in the homes of large households in Yangzhou. After Li Mao's efforts, he soon set up a phone in Yangzhou. Moreover, in a place like Yangzhou, if one installs lights and telephones, there will soon be hundreds of them. Li Mao has already installed two more two-megawatt generators in Yangzhou, and the telephone has been repeatedly expanded. Fortunately, Yangzhou people are not afraid to spend money in this regard. Li Mao: Needless to say, their income is not a lot.

Seeing that the passenger ship after more than ten days could not transport away the guests who were going to Yaogang now. Li Mao thought of a way. A shed was erected on top of the barges towed by tugboats, surrounded by canvas to form a six-foot-high fence to shelter from the wind and rain. Then on the barge, some more seats are placed. In a string of barges, there is a galley arranged on one barge. Can cook for everyone. Because it takes a lot of time to get to the kiln. Each barge is also to be made a toilet.

In this way, a string of barges can pull a lot of people without pulling goods, and the speed can be very fast because it is a light load. Li Mao's move has brought good news to these fleeing people. At this time, they didn't care about their status, and they were already very happy to get a seat on a barge. Because I waited in Yangzhou to live in an inn, I don't know when it will be.

However, the busiest thing is the ticket number of the branch from Yangzhou to Kaifeng. These officials and wealthy people all carried a lot of gold and silver, and they were afraid that it would be inconvenient on the road, so they all remitted to the kiln through the ticket number, or directly exchanged for kiln gang coins.

No matter how many escaped, Li Mao transformed the barge into different grades according to the situation. The high-end is divided into independent single rooms, and then there are upper and lower bunks that can lie down and sleep, of course, the bunks are also divided into soft sleepers in single rooms, as well as open hard sleepers, and the most difficult seats.

In the end, the influx of refugees made Li Mao embarrassed. The prefect of Yangzhou no longer cares about the refugees. What he was worried about was when Li Zicheng's Dashun army would come over. There are more wealthy households in Yangzhou, and they all came to ask Li Mao, can Yangzhou hold on?

Li Mao had already received a secret telegram from Ouyang He and told him about the agreement with Li Zicheng, but Li Mao couldn't say this, he said to these people: "Everyone rest assured! The Dashun army fought the official army very well, but our general manager Zhang had instructed us to assist the official army to hold Yangzhou. You don't see that our two flat-bottomed steamships are already docked in Yangzhou. I can also tell you that the ships are covered with cannons. We used artillery to support General Ningde in Tongguan, and Li Zicheng lost his troops and lost his generals, but he couldn't enter Tongguan. ”

Someone said uneasily: "Yangzhou is different from Tongguan, there is no danger to defend!" Something really happened, you have a castle-like mall. We have nowhere to hide! Shopkeeper Li, if we really fight, we have to send the family members who can't escape to you to hide. ”

"I can also tell you that our artillery is not comparable to that time. We Yaogang people talk about counting, saying that if we want to defend Yangzhou, we will keep Yangzhou. Li Mao said, "I dare to say, as long as we don't retreat." The Dashun army did not dare to come to Yangzhou, and everyone did not need to escape. ”

Li Mao's confidence gave everyone courage, because they really couldn't see the slightest meaning that the kiln people were ready to leave. Due to the tension of the war, a lot of things are being grabbed, but the kiln gang people are still open to supply. They believe that the kiln people have invested a lot in Yangzhou, and the kiln people will not give up easily. If the kiln gang people don't want to give up, the thieves really won't be able to beat them.

Settle down, and everyone began to study the refugees again.

Someone said: "Shopkeeper Li, don't just send the rich away and leave it alone!" Now a large number of refugee government offices have come to the rescue. We can't watch these refugees starve to death, but when are we going to do it? ”

Another person said: "Shopkeeper Li, you tell your boss that you have two places in Shanxi and Shanxi, and you can arrange more refugees." ”

"Huh!" Li Mao smiled bitterly and said, "Is there a place where refugees can be arranged?" Refugees are not stones, just find a place to put them. They want to eat, they want a house to live in. Usually you all say that we are here in the land of fish and rice, a land of treasures. You can't arrange people in such a place, but when you go to those bitter cold places in the north, is it okay to arrange it? It's nerve-wracking that we arrange for the refugees who flee to us every year. Our Mr. Zhang said that one is not allowed to freeze to death or starve to death. Fortunately, every year refugees flow like water. ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Over the years, we have fewer people begging for food here. It is said that many people have fled to your Shanxi. "Someone said.

"Hey, so be it!" Li Mao said, "I contacted my family to see if there were any more refugees on the Hexi side and in the Hetao area." But you have to arrange things here in Yangzhou, and you can't starve to death. In fact, Li Mao knew that the Hetao area needed people, and the Hexi side also needed people. But the matter here in Yangzhou should let the rich here make some efforts.

As soon as Li Mao contacted his family, Lu Chengxiang was of course happy. immediately contacted Ningde, Li Kui and Zhou Yuji in Hexi. They all promised to have as many people as they wanted. It is better to have culture and craftsmanship.

Lu Chengxiang asked them, if you have a whole family going together, you have to solve the housing problem, and the treatment of literate people is not only our immigration policy, but also preferential treatment, can it be done?

The answer, of course, is yes. At least literate people can be arranged to be teachers, no need to farm, and the salary is high.

When Li Mao got such an answer, of course he knew it in his heart. Immediately, he convened a meeting of these wealthy people in Yangzhou who were willing to give.

"We Mr. Zhang sent a telegram back and said that we must unite everyone and do our best to prevent a single refugee from starving to death. We have ordered the Hexi region, the Ordos region, and the Hetao region to immediately seize the time to build houses, and at the same time pour out some houses and make arrangements for resettlement as much as possible. In order to allow the refugees to quickly regain their ability to live and produce, we are prepared to give every man five taels of silver, regardless of age or age. Take special care of the women, ten taels of silver each. The whole family also arranged a house. There are cultured and skilled people who take extra care of it. The least literate person is assigned to do teaching work without farming. We've made it all down. You can announce it to the refugees tomorrow. If you are willing to go to us, you can get on the boat after registration, take everyone to the Lingshui Wharf in Shanxi by boat, and then take the train to the wasteland. We are responsible for the cost of travel and food on the road. ”

As soon as Li Mao's words were finished, the audience was stunned.

After a while, one asked: "I've heard before that you kiln people spent a lot of money arranging to immigrate to the Hetao area, but I still don't believe it, is it true this time?" It takes a lot of silver! ”

"It's true, there are already more than 200,000 people in the Loop. We are investing more than just a little money on refugees. We've invested a lot in infrastructure. But there are more men and fewer women there. So we pay women a little bit more. There are also women who are not as adaptable as men, and they have ten taels of silver in their hands, and they can cope with it for a while wherever they go. Li Mao said.

"Now there are more than 100,000 refugees in this area, I'm afraid there will be more, can you all arrange it?" Someone kindly reminded Li Mao.

"No matter how much you can arrange!" Li Mao said, "Mr. Zhang has spoken, and all localities will take action." I think we kiln gang people have the ability to arrange it well. ”

"Oops! The courage of the kiln gang people is great. One said, "The refugees seem to be saved." ”

For those refugees who have no food or clothing, it is a good thing that fell from the sky to have such a place. Refugees are scrambling every day to get on the boat and get on the boat.

When these refugees arrive at Lingshui Wharf by boat, they will re-register, then take a shower and get new clothes, board a train and go straight to Baotou or Dongsheng, and some will change boats to Hequ and then to Lanzhou, and then take a horse-drawn carriage to Hexi.

However, as the Dashun army got closer and closer, the people of Yangzhou were still very nervous. Suddenly, on this day, Li Mao received an urgent telegram from the shipbuilding base, saying, "The Dashun army is attacking the shipbuilding base and firing artillery at the shipbuilding base." The defenders opened heavy fire and had already pushed the Dashun army back. ”

After receiving the telegram, Li Mao was shocked, how could such a thing happen. Not attacking the shipbuilding base was the first thing to say, isn't Li Zicheng afraid that our Yaogang people will retaliate against them. Li Mao immediately ordered the flat-bottomed boats parked in Yangzhou to set off to the shipbuilding base to support them. However, when Li Mao did not understand the situation, he ordered them to stop their boats at the mouth of the canal and not to enter the Yangtze River. Because when you enter the Yangtze River, you have to fight against the Dashun army. At the same time, Li Mao also immediately sent the situation to the Yaogang command center.

After sending the telegram, Li Mao got up and rushed to the shipbuilding base. This Yangzhou is very close to the shipbuilding base.

After the Yaogang command center received Li Mao's telegram, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also felt a little strange. It stands to reason that Li Zicheng should not attack our shipbuilding base, and besides, it seems that the attack of the Dashun army is not very well prepared. However, Chen Yufeng immediately asked Li Zhi to go to Lingshui Wharf and ask Guan Furen what was going on.

After a large number of troops withdrew from the shipbuilding base in Yaogang, a battalion of infantry and a battalion of artillery were left. Militarily, there is an infantry battalion commander who is also a veteran of Yaogang before. It is said that the veteran is in his twenties, and he is a soldier from Wild Boar Ridge. When I joined the army, I was only a teenager. Don't look at his young age, he has fought a lot of battles, and he is very unambiguous in commanding battles. In particular, he was the first to follow Zhang Zhimu to the south and north, because he was young to become the battalion commander, and the soldiers they were at least the regiment commanders. So he's usually very good.

Now the shipbuilding base is fully responsible for Lin Zongwei's son Lin Qing. This is also a son from a large family, who has worked in the Lingshui Wharf Shipyard for a few years, and is also a very arrogant person. But he also has the ability to arrange the work of the shipyard in an orderly manner. Lin Qing also transferred more than 500 skilled workers from Lingshui Wharf this time. Because other workers can be found locally, a lot of machinery and equipment are installed here, and they cannot be operated without skilled workers.

Regarding the safety of the shipbuilding base, the infantry battalion commander said to Lin Qing: "Factory director, you can rest assured!" We have enough ammunition, food and drink, and we are not afraid of Li Zicheng's 18,000 arrivals. ”

Lin Qing believed that they could hold this place, because the factory was surrounded by walls, and enemy towers and forts were built around the walls. Light and heavy machine guns and mortars were set up on enemy towers and batteries, and there were more than 20 heavy mortars in the factory. However, Lin Qing felt that although they were well-armed, they were all capable of fighting. However, the total number of their infantry and artillery is more than 600 people after all, and in such a large place, the strength is still a little thin. So when the army withdrew, Lin Qing asked Li Mao to leave some weapons. Because the workers from the kiln were all trained in the military, as long as they were given weapons, they could fight. Li Mao agreed to Lin Qing's request.

Liu Zongmin led the army to fight a bloody battle with the official army in Fengyang, the capital of Zhongdu stayed behind and led the army and people to resist to the death, and the Dashun army paid a heavy price to capture Fengyang.

In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Fengyang was captured by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the imperial tomb of Fengyang was burned down.

That time, Zhu Guoxiang led the command of Yuan Ruizheng and Chen Hongzu of Qianhu to lead troops to resist. The Ming army met the peasant army at Shangyao Mountain (Huainan East), and the officers and soldiers were crushed at the first touch, and Zhu Guoxiang committed suicide. When Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong led their troops to attack the city of Fengyang, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were celebrating the Lantern Festival, and suddenly the flames broke out, and the order in the city was chaotic.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's troops were stationed in Fengyang for three days, and then returned to Henan, while Zhang Xianzhong attacked Luzhou in the south and entered Hubei. Later, Emperor Chongzhen dismissed the dynasty in plain clothes, sacrificed to the Taimiao, beheaded Yang Yipeng, the governor of Jiangbei, and inspected Wu Zhenying, the imperial history, to fill the army, and issued an edict to punish himself.

Zhongdu was the place where Zhu Yuanzhang first wanted to build the capital, and the design and construction of the capital was in accordance with the highest water quality requirements at that time. But later, Zhu Yuanzhang was optimistic about Yingtianfu (Nanjing) again, and finally settled on Nanjing. After Zhu Di seized the throne, he moved the capital to Beijing. In this way, the Ming Dynasty has Beijing Shuntianfu, Nanjing Yingtianfu, and the central capital Fengyang. Moreover, Fengyang is also the location of the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family. can never be lost again.

Therefore, this time the Zhongdu stayed behind to lead the army and civilians to fight to the end, and they knew that holding Fengyang was their only way to live.

However, Liu Zongmin was not happy to capture Fengyang, and saw that his officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and ordered the slaughter of the city for three days, and for a time Fengyang was full of blood.

As soon as the Ming army saw that it was lost, the entire army's heart was completely shaken. Liu Zongmin commanded the army to sweep all the way south, and the cities he encountered were either quickly broken or surrendered. The army marched by land and water and soon reached the edge of the Yangtze River, and this time they wanted to enter the canal from the Yangtze River. But a mighty city on the east bank of the estuary caught their attention, and if they didn't take it, their access to the canal would be threatened.

They knew that this was the city of the kiln people, but they didn't know that it was a shipyard. They saw that it was a city, because the walls were enclosed like a city, and there were obviously forts on it.

Facing the city of the kiln people, they were very complicated in their hearts. They hated and feared the kiln people. From Shanxi to Shaanxi, as well as the two water battles on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, they all suffered great losses. This time they are facing a lonely city of Yaogang people, and this time they are hundreds of thousands of horses. It's time for revenge.

Liu Zongmin, who rushed over, knew that King Chuang agreed to the request of the Yaogang people not to move their place. He ordered to stay away from the city of the kiln people. The places where the Dashun army camped were also in accordance with Liu Zongmin's orders, far away from the Yaogangren shipbuilding base. It should be said that Liu Zongmin is still very rational at this time.

However, that night, a group of cavalry of the Dashun Army approached the big wall of the shipbuilding base in Yaogang for unknown reasons. The soldiers on guard at the kiln on the wall shone their searchlights at them and shouted at them with loudspeakers to keep them away from the wall. The cavalry of the Dashun army held that the camp of their brigade was not far behind, and they did not pay attention to the warnings of the Yaogang soldiers, according to the Yaogang soldiers who were present at the time, the Dashun army not only did not leave, but also made gestures to humiliate them. As a result, the kiln soldiers unceremoniously swept a shuttle with a heavy machine gun. Killed four of the cavalry of the Dashun army on the spot.

The merits may never be clear, but it is a fact that the cavalry of the Dashun Army approached the Yaogang shipbuilding base.

Liu Zongmin was furious after receiving the report, and the generals around him also fanned the wind, saying that they must not swallow this breath. Liu Zongmin also considered Li Zicheng's commitment to the kiln people. However, Liu Zongmin felt that if he endured this breath, it would not be conducive to the morale of the army, and now the morale of the Dashun army was high, and he must seek justice for the brothers. The second is that Liu Zongmin suffered a big loss in Shanxi, and now it is also a good opportunity to take revenge. Liu Zongmin thought to himself, this place is not big, and he will fight to talk about it. Even if King Chuang knows, I can't blame me, because we didn't do it first. Our hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers can't be bullied like this, so let's not fight back.

At the same time, Liu Zongmin mobilized the navy and the infantry army to force over to the Yaogangren shipbuilding base.

Lin Qing and the battalion commander of Yaogang knew from the gunfire that they were causing trouble this time. They didn't dare to sleep again after they got up in the middle of the night, all the men and horses were at the battle positions, and the workers in the kiln were all fully ammunition and ready to stand by at any time.

At this time, Lin Qing and the battalion commander both fantasized that they would be fine after dawn. They didn't dare to report this matter to Li Mao.

However, after the day, the brigade of the Dashun army surrounded him. The naval warships also drove to the mouth of the Yaogang shipbuilding base, and the cannons were aimed at the shipbuilding base.

Lin Qing knew that there was going to be a war today, and he and the battalion commander assigned the workers to various battle positions. Organize other recruited workers to take care of the logistics.

After the Dashun army set up the formation, Liu Zongmin ordered the artillery to open fire. "Dong Dong" Dashun Army not only came over with army artillery, but also from the artillery on the naval warships. For a time, it was also the shipbuilding base of Jiangyaogang, and the fire was soaring.

The commander of the artillery battalion in Yaogang originally wanted to strike first, but Lin Qing didn't allow it, and he kept fighting if he didn't want to. In this way, the Dashun army fired the cannon first, and the Yaogang people suffered a loss. However, after the Dashun army opened fire, the Yaogang artillery, which had long been aimed, began to return fire. The shells fired by the artillery of Yaogang were different from those of the Dashun army. Even the smallest 60 cannon is ***, and now it is *** charge or ammonia ladder charge, which is very powerful. In particular, the shells of heavy mortars are *** charges. Li Wei informed them that after these shells with *** charge were fired, they would have to replace them with shells with ladder aluminum charge. The artillerymen continued to correct the landing point of the shells, and soon suppressed the artillery of the Dashun Army. After the artillery of the Dashun Army basically finished one round of shells, they did not have the opportunity to charge the second shell.

The most unfortunate were the warships of the Dashun Army, they thought that this time there were no warships from Yaogang, and there was no threat of heavy artillery, so they could take advantage of it. However, after they finished firing a round of shells, they exchanged for more and more accurate shells from the kiln workers. After several ships were wounded, they retreated with interest.

At this time, Liu Zongmin immediately had an ominous feeling again, he was too afraid that the scene in Yaogang would be repeated. But at this point, Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and ordered an attack. The soldiers set up ladders and shouted and attacked. Looking at the soldiers of the Dashun Army who came over like a tide, Lin Qing was still very nervous. When the battalion commander of the kiln gang saw it, he was happy. He said, "Don't be afraid! Factory director, I don't think Dashun Jun has made any progress at all. If we fight like this, we don't need to be killed by our opponents, and Mr. Ouyang can kill us when we go back. They have fought so many defeats, why haven't they grown at all? It's really boring, you can kill people for a while. ”

Liu Zongmin wanted to take advantage of the large number of people, and suddenly submerged the place of Yaogang. It's not that he doesn't know the firepower of the kiln, and in a hurry, he has no other way. However, Yaogang left a deeper impression on him this time. The last time he met the kiln men were still muskets, and there were only a few heavy machine guns. The last time the Yaogang people attacked Shaanxi, he left without encountering a fight. This time, he will learn how to change the automatic rifle and the power of light and heavy machine guns.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".