Chongming County Ling Lu Guang was very happy when he heard that the food crisis had been solved, and he finally didn't have to hang himself. Lu Guang immediately returned to the county and organized people to come to the dock to unload the goods.

Li Zhi brought twenty large ships this time, except for the reinforcements and weapons and ammunition that were transported, the rest were loaded with grain and salt. At present, all the grain in Guangdong is imported from Vietnam, and the 50,000 stone of rice brought by Li Zhi this time was directly transported to Chongming by Vietnam.

As for table salt, it is also the first batch of output of the new salt farm in Yong'an Prefecture. After Zhu Hongsan arrived in Guangdong, he began to refine cement, and the principle of this thing is very simple, but he didn't know the formula.

Zhu Hongsan used to know the recipe when he was working in the township, but it has been more than 20 years since this era, and his original memory has been blurred, and he only knows that limestone and gypsum are used to add some slag for calcination. Zhu Hongsan was unsuccessful a few times, so he was not in the mood to tinker with it, so he handed it over to the craftsmen in the brick kiln to make it himself.

I didn't expect to finally get qualified cement in March this year, Zhu Hongsan came to the scene to take a look, you have to say that it is cement, but the strength after condensation is not as good as the cement of later generations. Zhu Hongsan gave a large reward to the craftsmen and ordered the mass production of this fake cement.

The direct consequence of cement production is the significant reduction in the price of table salt. After the salt drying plants were expanded with cement in each salt field, the output skyrocketed, and the cost fell significantly. Now the price of refined salt in Guangdong is less than ten taels of silver per stone, and you must know that in Fujian, it costs twenty taels of silver per stone of private salt, and if it is official salt, it is twice as expensive.

This time, Li Zhi brought a large amount of grain and also pulled a large amount of refined salt, which is basically equivalent to silver in Nanzhili, and can be directly used as silver in some places.

In the next few days, Li Zhi began to work with officials brought with him from Guangdong, all of whom had a lot of experience in dealing with displaced people. First, the refugees outside the city were divided into ten districts, each with 10,000 people. Every 10 to 15 people are organized into a armor guard, and the first leader is elected to be responsible. Each refugee area is separated by roads, and there is a public toilet and a bathroom for every 100 people, so as to prevent the epidemic of disease.

At the same time, 1,000 young and strong people were recruited from among the refugees to form a convoy to maintain law and order in the refugee area. Finally, the young and strong were organized to work for relief, and a large number of forts were built along the river. After all, Chongming is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, in the heart of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and must do a good job of defense facilities.

Li Zhi was not idle, and his arrival brought with him Zhu Hongsan's latest plan, which was to migrate a large number of people to Guangdong. At present, Guangdong has a developed industry and a serious labor shortage. And now that Nanzhili is in chaos, I am sorry for Zhu Yuanzhang if he does not let the Manchus bleed at this time.

Li Zhi ordered the army to change its previous policy of holding on to the city and turning it into guerrilla warfare. Taking advantage of the water war on his side, he looked for a place where the Manchu defense was weak and went ashore to coerce the population, so that he could retreat with one blow and not be entangled with the Manchu brigade. The navy was responsible for fighting for the complete elimination of the Manchu water forces along the Yangtze River.

On the fifth day after Li Zhi arrived, the first batch of refugees to Guangdong began to be transported, and the first batch of 10,000 people went south on 20 sea ships. The sea journey can reach Guangdong in about ten days, and then other ships will be transferred to Qiongzhou Prefecture, Yong'an Prefecture, Hongji Port and other places.

Li Zhi is really a capable official, and Zhu Hongsan didn't misunderstand him. In the coming year, Li Zhi plans to send more than one million refugees to Guangdong. At the same time, a large number of Qing troops were killed and wounded in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and in the end, the Qing government had no choice but to use Hong Chengchou.

Seeing that there was war in the south, and Duoduo, the prince of Yu, who was busy fighting fires, he could not send Hong Chengchou to replace Duoduo in the sixth month of the leap month, and awarded him the title of "Governor of Jiangnan Province Military Affairs University", and gave him a cheap act.

After Hong Chengchou took office, he made two preparations: the first was to set up an iron chain across the Yangtze River in the narrow part of the Yangtze River to prevent the Ming army fleet from going up the river, and the second was to clear the wilderness along the Yangtze River and the sea, and not to live in it for 20 miles. In dealing with the people who rebelled in the past, we adopted the strategy of giving priority to appeasement and supplementing it with suppression, and a series of measures to reduce the burden of the people and stimulate economic development. Under Hong Chengchou's effective measures, the resistance movement in Nanzhili and Zhejiang was slowly suppressed. In addition, Chongming Island is really a small place, so Li Zhi asked Zhu Hongsan to move his headquarters to Dinghai County in the Zhoushan Islands of Zhejiang, where he continued to organize resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

A large number of working people from the north poured into Guangdong, bringing sufficient labor force to Zhu Hongsan. At this time, Zhu Hongsan's industry had developed to a bottleneck, and it was no longer possible to continue to develop by relying on manpower and water power. Guangdong Province has a population of less than 10 million, and this is because the north has been plagued by the exiles in recent years, and a large number of displaced people from Huguang and Jiangxi have poured into Guangdong.

Originally, Liangguang in the Ming Dynasty was not an economically developed area, and the great development of Guangdong was a matter of the late Qing Dynasty. This time, the 1 million population in the north solved Zhu Hongsan's big problem. Zhu Hongsan set up two industrial bases in Changhua County, Qiongzhou, and Hongji Port in Vietnam. Changhua is mainly responsible for the production of steelmaking and ductile iron, while Hongji Port is mainly engaged in the coal industry. Semi-finished products are produced in these two places and then transported to Dongguan for further processing.

At this time, Guangdong's economic belt along the Pearl River was finally completed, with Dongguan Development Zone, Guangzhou New Town, Shunde Shipyard and other areas as the mainstay, and the entire Pearl River Economic Belt concentrated two-thirds of Guangdong's population and ninety percent of Guangdong's industry. It can be said that Guangdong has surpassed the European powers in terms of overall strength.

While Zhu Hongsan was complacent about his development achievements, a tragedy occurred in Manila, thousands of miles away.

At present, the Philippines is still under Spanish rule, and in addition to political domination, economic exploitation and military occupation of the local area, the Spanish governor has carried out more important propaganda and indoctrination, with the aim of making Filipinos believe in Catholicism in religion and receive Spanish education in education. As a result, excluding the Mauro who believe in Islam, most Filipinos should have converted to Catholicism.

But there is a special place, it is difficult for Filipino Chinese to accept this kind of education, most of them believe in Buddhism, can not accept a sudden change of faith, Chinese culture has a long history, and is used to the Celestial Empire, it is not easy to accept foreign culture, let alone to give up their own culture, which is usually regarded as a "betrayal" of the ancestors, is to be punished by God. Moreover, these early Chinese came to the Philippines only to make a living, and did not intend to live for a long time, so they did not pay attention to this kind of indoctrination in Spain.

In order to smoothly carry out indoctrination, the Spaniards introduced a decree that did not allow Chinese to live together with Filipinos, and also attracted Chinese with preferential tax treatment and employment convenience. In order to obtain the right to live with the Filipinos and to make a living conveniently, some Chinese converted to Catholicism. But this was only a minority, and the indoctrination of the Chinese in Spain ended in failure. As a result, Spain regarded the Filipino Chinese as a thorn in its side, laying the lead for Spain's later anti-Chinese campaign in the Philippines. Cultural differences have made the indigenous Filipinos hostile to the Chinese. The Chinese looked down on the indigenous Filipinos, believing them to be uncivilized and uneducated, and the Filipinos also accepted Spain's hostile attitude towards the Chinese under the indoctrination of Spain