Rumors about land cutting became more and more evil. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the beginning, the squires who knew the truth understood that the British were now only offering to rent the Kowloon Division, and the squires and clans of Kowloon were afraid and jointly came to the government and asked the government to guarantee that they would not rent or let an inch of Kowloon land be given to the Yiren. The government was warned that if Kowloon is cut today, Xin'an will be cut tomorrow.

Originally, the gentry class who had read the book were worried about the Warring States period, "cut five cities today, cut ten cities tomorrow, and then have to sleep peacefully." Looking at the four realms, and the Qin soldiers are coming".

The influence of the gentry and clans was huge, so it immediately spread throughout Xin'an, and then to Linxian.

The eloquent essay "On the Passage of Qin" provided a strong theoretical basis for the squire class, and everyone protested one after another, "Thinking of the ancestors of the ancestors, the frost and dew, and the thorns, in order to have a size of the land." The children and grandchildren do not pity it, and give it to others, like abandoning the grass. ”

The anti-land cession with the squires and clans as the core suddenly spread in the Pearl River Delta area, with a big momentum and a wide influence, and it became a cutting of Xin'an today and a cut of Guangfu tomorrow.

In the end, the local squire class jointly petitioned to the Guangfu, saying, "Raze the land with the land, still hold on to the salary to save the grass, and the fire will not be extinguished if the salary is not exhausted." ”

The common feeling for the land aroused the grief and indignation of the entire squire class, and for a time, the squires of Xin'an, Dongguan, Xiangshan, Panyu in Shunde, and Nanhai counties near the mouth of the river were willing to gather hundreds of local squires in Guangzhou, and jointly asked to see Baigui.

At this time, Zhu Jinglun's ship had just arrived at Heshan, and along the way it came last time, it docked at Gulaodu.

Go to Heshan first, this is Zhu Jinglun's suggestion, this is for the sake of safety, the fifty soldiers he brought are all Hakka, and the area around Gulaodu is the sphere of influence of his family, in addition to the conflict is easy to ease, if you go directly to Xinhui and get involved in the disputes of the locals, let alone fifty people, it is not easy for five hundred people to get out of the whole body.

Fang Shan was already waiting for Zhu Jinglun in Gulaodu, and there was a local merchant with him, who was a Hakka tea merchant and also served as a guide for them.

The guide was originally a local tea merchant, and there were some tea gardens at home, he was a tea farmer turned a tea merchant, before they only produced tea, and then sold it to the tea sellers of the Cantonese people, after the fight, the Cantonese people did not dare to come, and many Hakka people found their own sales outlets, and forced them to become tea merchants.

When the tea merchant Huang San saw the huge steamship slowly leaning on the dock, he was still very happy, the Hakka people are distributed among the Cantonese people like an isolated island, so the business is actually integrated into the business network of the Cantonese people, they are only responsible for production, whether it is tea or grain, or the trees on the mountain, they are directly sold to the Cantonese people under the mountain, after the fight, this business network began to exclude them, resulting in the livelihood of the Hakka people not only did not improve, but regressed.

Huang San has a high status in the local area, and he is a Hakka leader, and others have to call Huang Sanye or Huang Sangong when they see him.

Seeing such a big ship and still happy that the tea was not worried about selling, but finally found that a group of foreigners walked down, and his face immediately changed, and he couldn't help but think of the proverb, everyone is preaching, saying that foreigners are here to seize land, like Hong Kong to cut the land.

Huang Sangong, who is self-assured and well-informed, will not believe this kind of rumor, he thinks it is completely nonsense, the court has cut off all the land, what does the emperor eat?

The most important thing is that Heshan is far away from the sea, and for most Hakka people who do not go out of the mountain in their lives, it is another world entirely.

Therefore, the matter of ceding Hong Kong did not cause much repercussions here.

Completely nonsense rumors are not terrible, what is terrible is half-truths and half-false rumors, if there are no rumors before as a foundation, these foreigners Huang Sangong will see it, the most I am afraid is the novelty, the last time Thomas and his party came, they didn't react together, but there were rumors that foreigners were going to come to seize the land that kept circulating during this time, and suddenly foreigners appeared, and they appeared in front of Huang Sangong's eyes, even if they didn't believe it, they had to beat the drum in their hearts.

Sangong immediately grabbed Fang Shan: "Didn't you say that it was a tea merchant from Xin'an?" ”

When Fang Shan came here, he used the banner of buying tea, and paid a lot of money to Huang Sangong, the largest local tea merchant, and won the friendship of Sangong.

Just after asking, Huang Sangong's face changed again, and he saw soldiers with loaded guns walking off the deck.

Foreigners, and brought soldiers?

"Are they really here to grab land?"

Huang Sangong subconsciously called out.

"What a fool, what a land!"

Fang Shan asked him.

"Why can't foreigners be tea merchants, don't you know that foreigners are big tea merchants?"

Fang Shan said disdainfully.

Huang Sangong is submissive.

"Let's go, they want to go to your shop."

Huang Sangong didn't dare to speak, and took them around his shop with a thoughtful face, and the foreigner tasted tea, nodded or shook his head, he saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.

"Let's go, they want to go to your tea plantation."

Go to the tea garden, Huang Sangong is not afraid, where is his village, is his territory, greet him, some are people.

But he was always worried.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, this place should not be for people to live, but there is no way, everyone wants to live on flat land, but there is not so much flat land, then you can only ask for land from the mountains, open up terraces on the mountains, open up tea gardens, orchards, in the process of developing the mountains, created the Hakka ethnic group, so the mountains in front of the Chinese, no longer daunting, can also be used as a home.

All the way to the mountain, when I arrived at Huang Sangong Village, it was already afternoon.

I don't know if it's because the Hakka people in Heshan were moved by the government organization, so there is a certain guarantee in safety, their characteristic walled houses and tulou in Meizhou and Gannan and other places have not been brought here, and the buildings are similar to the ordinary locals, blue bricks and blue tiles, to say that there is a difference, that is, their houses seem to be more brick houses, which is somewhat inconsistent with the local people who are generally poorer.

Seeing that the houses are all closely connected and all thin and small, Zhu Jinglun can probably understand that perhaps this is built with the strength of the whole clan, one after another, and the common use of masonry and stone, more for safety considerations, so although there is no bunker-style tulou developed under the life between wild beasts and foreigners, the mentality of the Hakka people has been retained, the safety of the outside world has been guaranteed, and the safety of the heart has spurred them to unite closely.

After a little inquiry, I found that there are passages between each room, which is really very military.

The whole village is located between a field that spreads at the bottom of a valley in the mountains, and the slopes of the mountains stretch all the way to the top of the hills, and there are green tea plantations.

The people in the village were also very curious about the group of foreigners and soldiers coming, and some people came to watch, Huang Sangong quietly pulled the people aside, muttered a few words, and then blew them all away.

The foreigners insisted on going to see the tea plantations.

On the terraces halfway up the hillside, the foreigners set up their various surveying and mapping equipment, and some people visited the tea plantations, picking leaves as specimens, or directly putting them in their mouths to taste.

Huang Sangong didn't leave a step, his eyes kept staring at the foreigners, he was very cautious about the foreigners looking around, and constantly writing something on paper.

When I returned to the village, it was already sunset, and the village was exceptionally quiet at this time, which was a little unreasonable.

Everyone was eating at Huang Sangong's house, but they didn't see a female dependent, Hou Jin was very sensitive, and quietly told Zhu Jinglun that something was wrong.

After eating, Sangong arranged for everyone to live in his house, but the house was not enough, and the houses of the two neighbors were also lent to Huang Sangong.

But Zhu Jinglun insisted that Huang Sangong live with them, and promised no room and board expenses, but Huang Sangong reluctantly agreed.

I chatted with Sangong for a long time in the evening.

The Hakka people are too poor, except for the fact that the house is built relatively solidly for safety purposes, all the Hakka people that Zhu Jinglun saw today, whether male or female, have never seen anyone wearing shoes, nor have they seen anyone wearing new clothes, even a local tyrant like Huang Sangong who is also wearing straw sandals.

A group that competes with the mountains and manages the barren mountains and mountains to survive, how rich can you expect them to be, just a transportation problem can make them eight times poorer.

It is not so easy to ask for fields with mountains, and the natural ecology of the south, if you look at it casually in Guangdong, even if it is a stone mountain, it is often overgrown with plants in the crevices.

Therefore, once you don't need to water it with sweat, it won't be long before the fertile land becomes a barren beach.

The level of agriculture in this era was extremely low, and it was impossible to use machinery, so the area that a person could cultivate was extremely limited, so although the Hakka people were very industrious, they still could not reclaim all the surrounding mountains, and what they cultivated was also the easier part of the mountains to cultivate.

After three days in Huang Sangong's place, the Americans were serious and patient, and with the help of the villagers who collected medicine, they climbed several barren mountains and recorded thick notes.

The Americans said that they had noticed that many of the nearby mountains were still large forests, and that they had been like this all along the way, and that if they could all be developed into tea plantations, the tea production in this area would be several times greater.

When he left on the fourth day, Zhu Jinglun found that all the women in Huang Village were hiding at home, and he also noticed that the men who were hiding in their own hands were holding wooden sticks or bamboo guns in their hands, and it turned out that they had been guarding against them for the past few days.

Sending off this group of uninvited guests safely, Huang Sangong breathed a sigh of relief and beckoned the villagers to his house to eat meat, but he himself had to give these people a ride.

The next step is to go to Xinhui. This time, it is necessary to communicate directly with the Xinhui government, and let the Xinhui government help arrest the criminals, at least invite the parties to hear about it.

But when their boat made a big circle from the Modaomen and entered Xinhui from the Yamen waterway, they found that the locals were not good.

As soon as they got off the dock, a group of people had already come to watch the steamship, and then when they saw the foreigners, everyone made a loud noise.

The wharf was still several miles away from the Yamen of Xinhui County, and when they arrived at the county seat, they found that the city gate was closed, and the city was full of soldiers and people, and the Xinhui officials did not come forward.

And outside the city, there was also a group of villagers wandering, knowing that the situation was not good, Zhu Jinglun immediately ordered, and everyone immediately retreated.

Although they were lucky not to encounter an attack along the way, there were still cases where they were stoned, and some villagers followed them all the way, and until they boarded the boat and left, these villagers stood on the dock and cheered loudly.

Zhu Jinglun didn't know at this time that the resistance to land cession that had broken out since Xin'an had been connected to Xinhui, and he was taken away by Bai Gui in an emergency.