Guangdong Chengxuan political envoy is located in the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when the capital of the Ming Dynasty was still in the south of Zhili, here is exactly about three thousand miles away from the south of Zhili, it is the best place to exile three thousand miles.

During the Yongle period of Chengzu, the capital of the Ming Dynasty moved north to the north of Zhili Shuntianfu, Guangdong reached more than 5,000 miles from the capital, and there were five mountains separated by it, and it became a real mountain high emperor far away.

What will happen to Emperor Shan Gao?

Will it be a wild place, will it be poor?

In fact, from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Guangdong became quite wealthy, and at that time Guangdong formed many characteristic industries.

For example, Hepu's Yufu beads, such as Dongguan's Guanxiang, such as Luofu's elixir, such as Guangzhou's frangipani.

In addition, the unique topography of the Pearl River Delta has created the largest sericulture base in Daming and the silk textile industry that has continued to develop.

There is also a unique climatic environment that makes rice grow vigorously, and it is rumored that at that time, a laborer in Guangdong could get fifty or sixty stone of grain a year!

The largest tax supervisor corruption case in the Wanli Dynasty can prove that Guangdong was rich at that time, according to the revelations, the corruption of Guangdong tax supervisor Li Feng was serious, he took the secret solicitation, ten puzzled, gold and jade jewelry piled up, exquisite foreign objects filled his door.

In the end, it was found out that from the twenty-seventh year to the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, the silver he embezzled reached 50 million taels, not counting other treasures, and the tax silver he paid to the inner treasury in these eight years was only 360,000 taels, and the embezzled silver taels were 139 times the amount of tax silver in eight years, which was simply jaw-dropping.

A tax supervisor can be greedy for 50 million taels of silver in eight years, and during the Wanli period, Guangdong's wealth can be seen.

Finally got Guangdong from Chongzhen's hands, Zhang Bin naturally would not leave it alone, after holding the big wedding and sending all the guests away, he began to work on the affairs of Guangdong.

Guangdong is very rich, he knows this quite well, so, what will happen to Emperor Shangao?

Qu Dajun, a famous poet in Guangdong at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, one of the three masters of Lingnan, who is known as "Xu Xiake of Guangdong", summed up four words: "There are many thieves in Guangdong"!

Guangdong is Guangdong, what does this multi-thief mean?

Dongshengtang Huang family, Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Cheng is the big shopkeeper in the Guangdong branch of Dongshengtang, in order to understand the situation in Guangdong, Zhang Bin specially recruited this cousin back.

Huang Cheng introduced the situation in Guangdong at this time, which really startled Zhang Bin.

There are so many bandits in Guangdong, it's simply appalling!

There are many bandits in Guangdong, not only in size, but also in many types, of which there are four most common.

The first type, bandits, that is, opening mountains and villages in the mountains and forests, their main business is to rob business travelers, and from time to time they go down the mountains to harass the surrounding residents.

Bandits, Yongan County, Huizhou Prefecture has the most in the territory.

The second type is the water bandits, that is, the bandits hiding in the islands, who rob official salt, kill smugglers, monopolize the docks, and smuggle spices, which are more ruthless than pirates.

Water bandits, the most around Shunde County, Guangzhou Prefecture.

The third kind is very strange, its members are all ladies, and all of them are ladies from Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili.

I don't know what year and month, these ladies came from their hometown in Fengyang to beg, and formed their own gang in the Xinhui area, they used their beggar identities as a cover, traveled to the state and county, abducted and sold children, kidnapped the old and weak, women and children, it was simply terrifying.

The fourth, and even more bizarre, calls themselves the Crazy Gang, but its members are not psychopaths, but all infectious disease patients.

The exact contagion they have is still to be verified, anyway, they don't steal or rob, and they don't threaten you with knives.

They just said: "Hurry up and get money for the master, otherwise I will stay at your house and not leave, and your whole family will get sick!" ”

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, these bandits in Guangdong still had many characteristics.

For example, they have a fixed organizational structure, large-scale, usually every ten people form a "money", every ten dollars form a "tael", every ten taels form a "catty", every ten catties form a "capital", money, two, jin, all, are all the currency units of silver, just like the squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment in later generations, I have to say, they are quite creative.

For another example, they still have a lot of jargon, they call robbery "driving horses", kidnapping tickets "collecting firewood", stealing "pulling white threads", officials and officers and soldiers "water", and bribing officials and soldiers "buying water".

If you are walking on the mountain road in Guangdong at the end of the Ming Dynasty and see two strong men with axes and ropes discussing how to collect firewood, you must not think that they really want to collect firewood, they are going to tie up your ticket, run away quickly.

They also have a bad habit of tying up dead people's tickets!

That is to say, they not only kidnap the living, but also kidnap the dead, and when they find out that the owner of such and such a shop is dead and buried in such and such a cemetery, they will go and dig up the body, hide it, and then let him tell his son to take as much as he can to ransom it.

You know, at this time, people pay attention to loyalty and filial piety, and the father's body was stolen, and no matter what, he had to spend money to buy it back, so the deceased's family went bankrupt, and the gang that kidnapped the deceased made money every day.

Also, when gangs or bandits grow to more than 10,000 people, they dare to conquer the city!

In order to defend against bandits, residents in some places merged small villages into large villages and towns, and built high walls outside the villages and towns, which were called "wais".

However, this does not guarantee the safety of family property and life, it is rumored that during the Longqing period alone, nearly 80 "sieges" in the Yongan area were broken by bandits, and the grain, livestock, money, and cloth in the "siege" were transported away by bandits, and more than 100,000 civilians were killed!

Bandits are so rampant, why doesn't the government care?

According to Huang Cheng, this was mainly due to the collusion between local officials and bandits, who paid tribute to local officials every year, and corrupt officials "paid thousands of dollars every year and did not care."

There are also some officials who confiscate and accept bribes, but they do not bother to ask about it, because the more you crack down on bandits, the more you prove that you are in a mess here, and most officials tend to deceive their superiors and subordinates and whitewash the peace.

Of course, there are those who want to suppress it, but the bandits have been integrated into the whole place, "if they want to send officers and soldiers to suppress, the officers and soldiers may be their party; If you want to recruit native soldiers, the native soldiers may be their own people. In other words, many bandits have quietly integrated into the officers and soldiers, and there is no way to suppress them!

This Governor of Fuguang doesn't seem to be easy to be, he originally just wanted to destroy the pirate Liu Xiang again, open a mutual market in Macao, invigorate the economy, and create more income, but he didn't expect to face more local bandits than pirates.

What's going on, local officials don't care, the imperial court can't ignore it, is it possible that the successive governors of Guangdong are all wine bags and rice bags, or corpses and vegetarian people?

In fact, it is not, because the emperor is far away, there is no governor in Guangdong, and it is generally the governor of Guangxi who also serves as the governor of Guangdong, so the governor of Guangxi also has a very good name, called the governor of Liangguang.

The governor of Guangxi generally does not go to Guangdong, and if he goes, it is not called an inspection, but an envoy to Guangdong!

Maybe it's because Wuling is too difficult to cross in this era, there is still a way to enter Guangxi, and you must cross the mountains and mountains when you enter Guangdong, maybe it is because of the inconvenience of transportation that the imperial court is lazy to send governors.

However, at this time, Zhang Bin naturally doesn't have to care about the traffic problem, because he doesn't have to take the land route at all, just go directly by sea.

Now his biggest headache is the problem of bandits, and the bandits must be exterminated, otherwise how can the people live with peace of mind, and how will the economy develop.

Bandits, water bandits, women's gangs, crazy gangs, to be honest, the first three Zhang Bin is not very afraid, he is most afraid of the fourth, Nima, who knows what infectious diseases they have!

Of course, whether it is a bandit, a water bandit, a women's gang or a madman's gang, they must be exterminated.

This "mission" to Guangdong will require more preparations.

To exterminate the bandits, the Women's Gang and the Crazy Gang, the 10,000 Qi family army must be prepared.

To exterminate the water bandits and pirate Liu Xiang, at least 300 warships must be prepared.

In order to prevent local officials from tipping off the news, they could not bring the Qi family army and warships over, in this case, personal safety issues had to be considered.

In the end, Zhang Bin decided to take more than 1,000 soldiers of the special operations battalion over first, and then notify the army to go over after finding out the situation over there, and wipe out the bandits, water bandits, women's gangs, and crazy gangs!

Early in the morning, at the end of the morning, in Dayuan Port, more than 40 wheels and steamers were neatly parked on both sides of the wharf, Lu Xiangsheng, Bi Maokang, Zheng Zhilong, Yu Chenglong, Qi Yuangong and other civil and military officials gathered at the wharf to see them off, and Zhang Bin said goodbye to everyone one by one.

He first walked up to Lu Xiangsheng and Bi Maokang and said, "Jiandou, Menghou, it may take a few months for me to go, and Fujian will be handed over to you." ”

Lu Xiangsheng and Bi Maokang arched their hands again and again: "My subordinates understand, my lord can rest assured." ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin walked up to Zheng Zhilong and explained: "Zhilong, Dongfan will be handed over to you, you must pay close attention to the movements of the Batavia side, and notify me immediately if there is any change." ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded heavily and said, "The last general understands." ”

Subsequently, Zhang Bin walked up to Yu Chenglong and Qi Yuangong and instructed: "Jackie Chan, Yuangong, you must always be ready, on call at any time, and once you receive the news, you will immediately rush to Guangdong." ”

Yu Chenglong and Qi Yuangong hurriedly arched their hands and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, waved his hand at everyone, and then turned around and walked towards his special wheel, Qi Fanghua and Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew hurriedly followed.

Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew will not talk about it, he is both leading generals, and Zhang Bin has nothing to blame for taking them.

Qi Fanghua, Zhang Bin, has no choice, she followed her personal protection before she got married, but now that she is married, Zhang Bin can't take care of her.

A group of more than 40 wheels set off in this way, and the crew went to Guangzhou by sea for about 800 miles, and after about four hours, the fleet finally arrived at the port of Guangzhou at about one hour in the afternoon.

Governor Fuguang sent an envoy to Guangdong, and the Guangdong officials naturally did not dare to play any game, and at this time, the wharf was overcrowded.

Guangdong Cheng announced that the political envoy of the left and the political envoy Wen Gaomo, and the right political envoy Di Cunxing brought all the officials above the third rank of the political envoy and the yamen.

Guangdong's Sentencing Department was sentenced according to the Procuratorial Envoy Department, and Zhang Jiuxian brought the Sentencing Envoy according to the Procuratorial Division, and a kind of principal official also brought it.

Meng Zouwei, the commander of the capital of Guangdong, also brought all the high-ranking officials of the capital department and the yamen.

They received the notice yesterday, and they were waiting here in a neat line at noon today, and their attitude can be described as surprisingly deferential.