Chapter 509: After the Occupation

The battle of Yuegang has long been over, and the first few people were either killed in battle, or they were beheaded directly in the port, and most of the remaining people were taken prisoner, and after being detained here in Yuegang for three days, they were all sent here after getting the news that Zhangzhou City was taken.

In the city of Zhangzhou, the military discipline of the "Spanish occupation army" is strict, and it is really not guilty of the so-called autumn, but it will not be soft at all for maritime merchants and people with maritime backgrounds, in fact, strictly speaking, almost all the people in this city rely on maritime merchants to eat, and the vitality of Zhangzhou City lies in the fact that he relies on Yuegang, the richest and most prosperous port in South China, and the maritime merchants are rampant and domineering in the city, and the power of the government is hollowed out.

Those of their subordinates and the like, bullying men and women, for the sake of the township is really not less, the honest people hate them to the bone, but when the maritime power is huge, it is just the heart of the hatred, according to common sense, these ghosts invade the territory of my Ming Dynasty, the people who lead them must also be people at sea, and it is not the conspiracy of the maritime merchants in Yuegang.

Seduce foreigners to occupy the territory, aren't these people in Zhangzhou City even more powerful, the common people still have a good life, I didn't expect things to be as they thought, in the city everyone has a subordinate relationship with the maritime merchants, most of these people are ruffians or good pirates and bandits, they have been caught, I really don't know how to know in advance so detailed.

Of course, for the "Spanish occupation army", this is not difficult, after those leaders of the gang are arrested, tortured, let them see the heads hanging on the bamboo poles, everyone is honest and obedient, confess everything they know, and then arrest people according to the list.

Although it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, but after the people who are doing evil in the market are swept away, this Zhangzhou city actually seems to be a lot more peaceful, and many people can't understand it, the Mongols ruled in Zhangzhou back then, although no one saw it with their own eyes, but the records are a lot, those Tartars make the ladies of Zhangzhou City even dare not go to the street, and the shops are often robbed for no reason, why does this not look like a person, but a Western ghost who looks like a demon and has some "teacher of benevolence and righteousness"?

Yuegang and the surrounding large and small ports, under the sweep of the Yizhou regiment under Yang Shishi, as well as the offensive of the Yizhou fleet on the water, disappeared one after another, and the captives of various identities captured nearly 6,000 people, and sent them to Zhangzhou City six days after occupying Zhangzhou City, that is, after the Ming army that came to attack was defeated.

Although the people who had suffered from these sins were happy, they were still a little scared in their hearts, thinking that they would kill again, put the heads of these people on bamboo poles and hang them, and there were not so many bamboo poles to be found in this city.

But seeing these people escorting the captives, the people in Zhangzhou City thought they understood who colluded with the invasion of the ghosts, and these Han warriors Ding Zhuang who entered the city were all dressed as Cantonese Yankees, and it was indeed the bad consequences caused by the conflict between Fujian and Guangdong maritime merchants.

There were nearly 8,000 prisoners outside the city, and those who were the leaders of these people who were preparing to sedition had their heads cut off, and the rest of them, those who were in the middle of the shouting, made it clear that as long as they completed a certain amount of civil engineering according to the requirements of the "foreign lords", they could spare their lives and return to their hometowns.

Looking at the bamboo poles with human heads erected in the city, these captives thought that they must be beheaded, who would have thought that there would be such a lenient way, and they immediately agreed.

However, the words of this "foreign lord", the captives and even the people of Zhangzhou City secretly despised them, thinking that my dignified Ming Dynasty was actually condescending to such a barbarian, which was really a shame on the face of the ancestors.

These prisoners who promised to work to atone for their sins regretted it the next day, this civil engineering project is not ordinarily large, including building small fortresses outside the city, digging deep trenches, and building forts on the original city wall, and simple outer walls outside, this is a very hard project, not to mention that Zhangzhou is now very hot, doing such hard work outdoors in broad daylight, not to mention that these prisoners are dancing knives and guns or operating ships in the port, and life is also comfortable, I can't bear such hardship at all. But regret is no regret, the sword and fire in the other party's hand are not vegetarian.

This kind of fortification defense actually not only cut off the way for the Ming army to attack in, but also blocked the way for people in the city to go out of the city, and the farmland around Zhangzhou City was barely self-sufficient.

Fortunately, the distance from Zhangzhou City to Haicheng County, because it is on the seaside, is completely controlled by the "Spanish occupation forces", after all, the Ming army does not have such powerful gunboats, and it can be said that they are firmly controlled by the Spanish occupation forces within the range of sea and naval guns.

Since the sea route is controlled, the next thing is also very easy, don't forget, because the coastal industry and commerce are booming, many fields are not cultivated, everyone eats the grain of the South Seas. As long as the sea route is still in control for a day, cheap Nanyang grain and rice will continue to be transported in.

Of course, this grain will not be eaten in vain for the people in the city, and the occupation army also has all kinds of projects and jobs in the city, and if everyone wants to eat, they will come to work and make money.

The strong laborers in the city went to work on the construction site to make money, and the old and weak women and children were in charge of logistics, or cleaning and cooking, or tinkering in the makeshift weapons workshop, these jobs were calculated according to the price in the market, and even a little higher, and no one complained, and the work done by the people for the occupation army was much better than those outside the city, after all, one side was a slave, and the other side was a free man.

No one did anything wrong, and the family had a source of livelihood to rely on, and the market quickly calmed down, and the shops that used to do business in the city suddenly found that their own business had no impact, and they also had such and such a relationship with the maritime merchants, but the main ones who stayed were purely business-doers, and the reason for these people was that Yuegang and Zhangzhou City were occupied, so there was no business.

Even some bosses have already given their guys a holiday, saying that if you want to support yourself, you should work and eat food for Fan Ghost and Guang Lao, my business here can't be maintained, I'm afraid there is no salary to pay down. Who would have thought that after defeating the thousands of guards, merchants from all over the city would come into the city to discuss turnover and trading with the shops in the city. It turned out that Yuegang had resumed the operation of the commercial port after the fourth day of occupation, but the manpower to operate was different, and the location here was good, and it was one of the transit points for merchants north of Zhejiang to go to Nanyang for trafficking, and these people had a very close relationship with Huazhou.

After laying down the moon port, it will naturally give them a convenience, of course, on the surface, Huazhou and Spain have an agreement, no matter what, the harbor must be open to the merchant ships under the protection of Huazhou, and many merchants don't know why the Spaniards are so good at talking.

There are also some smart people who guessed it, but they are also smart and don't say anything, since there are merchants and traders in Yuegang, then the business in Zhangzhou City will naturally not be very bad, and after obtaining the permission of the occupying army, they can also go to other places in Fujian to buy goods, and return to the city to sell.

Merchants do not have a motherland, just as in another parallel history, the late Ming Dynasty Jin merchants for the Manchu Qing Dynasty's material support, they did not realize what the difference between the Han Tartars, as long as they earned the silver, then everything is fine, the same is true for the merchants in Fujian, as long as the shops in Zhangzhou City took out the silver, there is nothing that cannot be bought, and many people also know that many ships from the north are not docked in Yizhou, and directly come to the Moon Port, indicating that the current business may be better.

They all took the initiative to find ways to trade, and some went to sea in the small port near Quanzhou, and then came to the moon port to buy and sell trade.

After the prefect and officials at all levels were driven out of the city, they were a group of people in the city who spoke effectively, and the respect for scholars in the world was deep-rooted for hundreds of years. These scholars were resolutely not prepared to bow to the occupying army, but they were also puzzled to find that after the occupation of Zhangzhou City, the market was prosperous, the law and order were good, and everyone had work to do and food, and it was a scene of peace and prosperity, which was really incredible.

The original Zhangzhou prefect's yamen and the surrounding mansions of the high-ranking families have been renovated, and the outer wall is taking shape, and here is a fortress to be built in the city, and the area around the prefect's yamen has been turned into a forbidden area, and the people are not allowed to enter except for the soldiers of the occupying army.

"Foreign-sama, foreign-sama!"

A soldier who seemed to be a Cantonese man ran in all the way, and all the Han people who worked around were secretly scolding the 'traitor' in their hearts.

On the original prefect's yamen, the leader of the Spanish occupation army took off the helmet that covered his head, and shouted angrily at the subordinate who shouted "Lord Yang":

"In broad daylight, what the hell is your name!"