"Ye Niangzi has invaded Yuhuan Island?"

After Liu Chang heard the news, he was really inexplicably happy.

Ge Wuye and Ye Niangzi's fleet is thriving now, it is said that there are hundreds of boats with four or five thousand people, of course, Liu Chang knows the inside story, and he also knows that the Xiaodaohui fleet has recently left the yellow position, but even so, Ge Wuye's fleet is also a sea army with thousands of people on dozens of big ships.

They occupied Yuhuan Island, and the coastal defense of the southeast line, which the Hong army was most worried about, suddenly became relaxed, and the sailors of Dinghai Town and Huangyan Town had to deal with Ge Wuye first, and then they would pick up Liu Chang's troops on land when they turned back.

He felt that Ge Wu's attack this time was too timely, at least relieving one-third of the military pressure on the Hong Army, and he had to send a few barrels of gunpowder to Ye Niangzi to repay the favor when he turned around - they made such a fuss on Yuhuan Island, and Liu Chang would be able to gain a firm foothold in Taiping County.

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April of the fifth year of Xianfeng is an extremely impressive month for the residents of Taiping County.

In their later memories, their lives are completely divided into two stages, one is before this month, and the other stage is "after Liu Jiehu entered Taiping County", of course, the literati are very elegant to modify it as "after the Hong army soldiers entered Taiping".

It was only at the end of March that the Hongjun took the county seat of Taiping, and at that time the whole Taiping County was like a pot of boiling hot soup, full of whole families hiding from the military disaster, and some squires also came forward to prepare to organize a militia group to fight against this red turban thief who had entered Taiping County.

Before, they had already heard of the prestige of the red scarf thief, and also knew that this was the team of Uncle Qu Zhen Han Qu of Yueqing County, although Wenzhou and Taizhou are two neighbors who do not have much contact, but the relationship between Yueqing and Taiping counties is very close, and there is only a Yandang Mountain in between. In some places, even the language is almost the same, and Qu Zhenhan also has a great reputation in Taiping County.

It's just that for this team under the banner of "Rainbow Army", the Taiping people feel very unfamiliar, only knowing that their leader is the famous Liu Jiehu, but some people say that the leader is not called Liu Jiehu, but is called Liu Jidian.

But anyway. Everyone wanted to avoid this military disaster, and besides, except for some poor people in the countryside who were really desperate, no one pinned their hopes on this Hongjun with a red turban on his head and a white armed belt on his belt.

Everyone admits that this rainbow army has some skills, otherwise how could it be possible to open Taiping County, but they don't think that their Wenzhou Yankees can play any fame, not to mention that this rainbow army has a total of only one or two thousand people, what waves can it make.

It's just that the Red Turban Army who entered the county seat can really calm down, they are very disciplined, and they quickly gathered the hearts of the people in the county. The next day, they sent a team out to encircle and suppress the militia and the officers and soldiers who dared to oppose them, and no matter what, up to now, the militia and the officers and soldiers who had fought with them had been defeated and retreated in less than half an hour, but some of the children of good families who participated in the militia became prisoners of the red turban thieves, and according to the decent people in the village, this was called "captivity".

Since the Red Turban Army has a charter, the official army and the militia are not their opponents. Many people's hearts are alive, but at this time, a few earth-shattering news suddenly came.

The first news is that this group of red turban thieves posted a list in the county town saying that they would rebuild the Jinqing Gate, and then the team they went to the countryside to chase and suppress also posted such a royal list everywhere, and at least hundreds of squires in the entire Taiping County couldn't sleep because of this Jinqing Gate.

True. This may be an empty promise, a blank check, the Zhuang family can not believe that a group of thieves can make anything to water conservancy, especially the Jinqing Gate, which can not be rebuilt overnight, maybe it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and it will take several years to build, how can this group of wandering red thieves have such patience.

But the farmers have to believe that the water is too important. Water is the harvest of the year.

In Zhejiang, there are many clan fights caused by water problems every year, ranging from hundreds to thousands, and tens of thousands of people are no exception, and Jinqing Gate is the most sensitive issue in Taiping County.

Jinqing Gate is a new gate built in Daoguang 21 years (1841), and it has only been ten years since Xianfeng has been working for five years. However, every year, several large-scale armed fights have been triggered, and hundreds of lives have died so far, especially in the summer, when there is a heavy rainstorm, the people inside and outside the gate have triggered thousands of armed fights, and even triggered artillery battles involving tens of thousands of people.

In this case. Who dares not to care about Jin Qingzha, who misses this opportunity. In case this group of red turban thieves really rebuilt the Jinqing Gate, then what should I do if the Zhuangzi where I am located will be waterlogged in the event of heavy rain, or if I don't need half a drop of water in the hot summer?

This is not a question of a year or two of harvests, but a matter of benefiting or suffering for decades, let alone drowning the entire Zhuangzi.

Almost two-thirds of the more than 100 Zhuangzi in Taiping County are now discussing this issue, and the final result is almost the same, even if the object of negotiation is the red scarf thief, it must be contested.

The notice posted by Hongjun also made it very clear that it was necessary to speak widely and brainstorm, and the relevant stakeholders carried out a series of plans, proposing a number of plans to rebuild the Jinqing Gate, and the existing beneficiaries proposed to maintain the existing Jinqing Gate.

Some clans in Zhuangzi did not dare to negotiate directly with the Red Turban Army, but forcibly recommended a few honest people to come forward into the county seat to fight for it, and some Haoqiang combined the rebuilding plan of the Jinqing Gate with the support of food for the Hongjun Army, and some Zhuangzi organized a militia group against the Red Turban Army on the one hand, and sent people into the city to contact on the other.

And the second news also has the same shock, saying that the Red Turban Army posted a notice to ban Fujian salt from being transported to Taizhou in the north, and Taizhou only eats Taiwan salt.

The heyday of the Taiping stove household was roughly the time when Ruan Yuan, a scholar, supervised Zhejiang during the Qianlong period, but in the middle and late Daoguang period, a large amount of Fujian salt poured into the Taizhou market, and the Fujian salt provided better quality at the same time as the price was lower, and the market naturally made the most suitable choice, and the Taizhou stove household was devastated.

Originally, in the salt monopoly system of the Qing Dynasty, Fujian salt should only be supplied to Fujian and should not be sold across the border, but Fujian salt merchants were able to reach the sky, not only transported Fujian salt north to Taizhou, but also bribed the government to obtain a quasi-legal gray identity under the pretext that the output of Taiwan salt was too small and the demand was greater than the supply.

Therefore, after the notice of the Hongjun was posted to the coastal villages, the stove households rushed to tell each other, and also asked the literate gentleman to copy several copies of the original text of the notice, and remembered the big seal on the notice "Hongjun checks Liu Chang".

You must know that unemployed stove households can often only become salt lords like Huo Qiu, and even go directly to the sea to become bandits.

At that time, the salt people in Linhai Township were unemployed and thieves, and the number was thousands, and they were subordinate to eight banners. In March of that year, Fu Heng, the salt ambassador of Du Duchang, captured his white flag leader Xie County, and killed Fu Heng on the way, and rebelled in Du Qiaoshu's "Three Days God Seal Sweeping the General of the Great University", which was not dispersed for a long time with lack of food, but the flame of this incident has been lurking in the hearts of Taizhou stove households.

As soon as this notice came out, Liu Chang's decree could be regarded as unimpeded even if it could not be said to be a ban in Zhuangzi, where these stove households were located, and many Taizhou stove households came to join the army, including even some Huangyan and Linhai stove households that were not under Liu Chang's control.

As for the other orders issued by the Hong Army, they are also very much in line with the interests of the people of Taiping County, and the Hong Army has repeatedly attacked militia groups, bandits, and remnants of the Qing Army in Taiping County, so the county government that turned out to be full of people suddenly became busy.

Although Taiping County has the benefits of fishing, salt and rice, it is the essence of Taizhou, but the gap between the rich and the poor among the people is huge, so there are always latent anti-Qing forces, as early as Daoguang 20 years, there are Taiping battalion soldiers Wang Qinben and monk Yanwu, trying to gather people in Baoguo Temple to rebel, Xianfeng three years and Li Daliu, Li Xiaoliu rose up as the county, garrison level, and later there are the so-called "Eighteen Parties" to cooperate with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising.

Although these anti-Qing forces were not enough to succeed, the entry of the Hongjun into Taiping County also greatly stimulated these anti-Qing forces, and they either came to surrender or asked for a name, and some even set up teams in remote mountainous areas and sea areas on their own.

Although Liu Chang does not like this kind of rabble, he now demands that the armed groups in Taiping County that dare to openly confront the Hong Army be eliminated first, as long as they do not confront the Hong Army for the time being, do not compete with the Hong Army for resources, and do not pose a threat to the Hong Army, they can be temporarily used, but not given a name, and decide on a major policy: "Temporarily use and transform a part of it, and it must be eliminated for a long time." ”。

All in all, Taiping County in April of the fifth year of Xianfeng is undergoing great and profound changes due to the entry of the Red Turban Army, but the ordinary people of Taiping County do not yet know that they are in the tide of the times.

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The eastern coast of Taiping County is part of the Wenhuang Plain, although it is not fertile and wild, but it is also a land of fish and rice.

Shi Huiji looked at such a piece of land, and felt very comfortable in his heart.

Now he was riding on a variegated horse that he had spent a lot of money on, with a revolver hanging from the white armed belt on his belt, and a monocular in his hand, announcing to his officers and soldiers that he had turned a sparrow into a phoenix, and was a well-known infantry battalion commander.

He picked up the monocular and looked at the north for a while, then asked loudly, "Where has that Qing demon retreated now?" ”

Immediately, a sentinel told him loudly: "It should still be in the Zhuangzi in the north......"

However, the sentinel quickly pressed PS: the first update was sent, and Zichai asked everyone for a monthly pass (to be continued)