Violent northerly winds originate from the distant Siberian Plateau, pass through the Mongolian steppes, cross the Gobi, climb over the Great Wall, sweep across the North China Plain, and enter the Shandong Peninsula.

With the north wind came, in addition to the endless chill and the fluttering snowflakes.

The mountains, the flat plains, the rivers and the villages are all a white world.

In recent years, the weather has been exceptionally cold, and the snow has fallen heavily. However, this year, the first heavy snow fell in the month of Wax, which was a little later than in previous years.

However, the belated heavy snowfall brought the fighting to a halt.

Heavy snow covered the land, making it difficult to march, and even more difficult to march and attack the city. No matter how eager the Manchu governor Hong Chengchou was to suppress the rebellion in Shandong, he had to stop the pace of his march and chose to retreat back to Jinan to recuperate.

As a result, the rebels in Qingzhou finally got a respite.

In the Battle of Zichuan, 30,000 righteous troops were defeated by the Qing army, and Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong Province of the Ming Dynasty, was frightened and chose to leave Qingzhou and flee to Dengzhou. In Qingzhou City, only Marshal Zhao Ying, the chief soldier, guarded by 70,000 or 80,000 righteous troops, and the lack of food was panicked, if the heavy snow was late for half a month, once the Qing soldiers came to Qingzhou City, the righteous army was afraid that it would collapse without a fight.

Qingzhou was under the control of Zhao Yingyuan, who chose to defect to Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong, appointed by the Ming court.

And Dengzhou Laizhou, east of Qingzhou, was under the control of Wu Ping, the chief soldier of the Duke of Qi.

Although after Wang Yongji came to Shandong, he continued to issue orders to Dengzhou and Laizhou, ordering the rebel troops in Erzhou to obey the dispatch of the imperial court, Wu Ping ignored Wang Yongji's order to transfer troops and grain except for sending some troops with two hearts to reinforce Qingzhou.

However, Wang Yongji was the governor of Shandong on behalf of the imperial court, and he immediately gained the support of most of the gentry after arriving in Shandong, and also controlled some prefectures and counties below the two prefectures by appointing local officials on behalf of the imperial court.

Wu Ping had no intention of defending Shandong, he just obeyed Chen Yue's order and moved the people of Shandong to Zhoushan, so he ignored all of Wang Yongji's moves, and only occupied several important places in Dengzhou and Jiaozhou. At the same time, the army was ordered to collect all the ships along the coast and prepare for a retreat to Zhoushan.

Many gentry chose to obey the dispatch of the governor Wang Yongji, some of the gentry were ready to surrender to the Manchus, and some of the gentry were unwilling to defect to the Manchus and could not see any hope of winning, so they chose to follow Wu Ping to the south and start their lives again.

In another time and space, there are not many such people. When King Lu was in charge of Zhoushan, many of Zhang Huangyan's subordinates were soldiers and civilians who fled from Shandong to the south.

However, the choice of leaving the country is too difficult, even if the rebel army directly controlled by Wu Ping, there are not too many who are willing to resolutely move to the south. So the first batch of Shandong people who were willing to go to the south only had more than 30,000 people, and at the beginning of the heavy snowfall, they left Shandong by boat from Jiaozhou Bay and headed south.

There is no need to bypass the Shandong Peninsula from Jiaozhou Bay, the journey is undoubtedly much closer, as long as you go south for a few days, you can reach Haizhou, which is still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Yan took refuge in Wu Ping, he was deeply used by Wu Ping, and after some ideological struggle, he made the move of leaving Shandong for Zhoushan with his family, and was appointed by Wu Ping as the commander of the fleet, responsible for taking the more than 30,000 people to Zhoushan. Of course, there are old sailors from Zhoushan as guides in the fleet, who are responsible for the actual guidance of the fleet's routes.

As for Wu Ping himself, he was unwilling to take these 30,000 people and chose to stay in Dengzhou. Because he knew that when the spring flowers bloomed in the next year, the Manchus would definitely attack the Qingzhou Rebels again, and with the defeat of the Rebels and the massacre of the Manchus, more and more Shandong people would definitely choose to flee with him. It is only when they are in a desperate situation that many people will make the move of leaving their homeland.

Wu Ping didn't want to return to Zhoushan as soon as possible, because he knew how important Shandong immigrants were to Zhoushan and Qi Guogong.

As a close person by Chen Yue's side, Wu Ping naturally knew Chen Yue's next strategy. Dongfan is a barren land, and only with a large population can it develop rapidly, and the strength of the Qi State Mansion will increase rapidly.

And the people of Shandong are the best source of immigrants!

A fast boat was sent to Zhoushan to report the size of the first batch of immigrants and ask Zhoushan to be ready to accept the immigrants, and then Li Yanzhi set off with 30,000 people on more than 300 ships, and more than 300 sea ships formed a mighty fleet.

Fortunately, the sea is boundless, and the southward journey is smooth, and there are not many hurricanes and waves in winter, so I drove south by the coast all the way, and the journey was quite smooth.

Li Yanzhi's big ship was in the middle of the fleet, based on the crew of a hundred boats and landscapes assigned to him by Wu Ping.

Each ship appointed a prominent person as its leader, who was responsible for pacifying the people on board, distributing food, and so on.

Several clippers were also set up as herald boats, piloted by skilled sailors, who were responsible for the transmission of messages and commands.

During the day, the flags hoisted on the mast were used as a sign to coordinate the movement of the entire fleet, and at night, lanterns of different colors and numbers were hung on the mast to convey their orders.

Although the entire fleet was huge and had many ships, it was orderly under the coordination of Li Yanzhi and marched all the way to the south.

Day and night, three days later, the fleet arrived at the sea near Haizhou, in view of the fact that there was still a lot of food supplies on board, Li Yanzhi did not order to dock in Haizhou, but continued to sail south, and arrived near Huai'an Mansion more than ten days later.

For many people, the long-term life on the ship is very unsuitable, fortunately, it is winter, there is no soil for the spread of epidemics, but there are still many people who are very unwell, in order to prevent illness, Li Yanzhi can only order to rest on the shore.

Moreover, the huge team of 30,000 people needs a lot of food, and they also need to replenish one or two.

The fleet docked at Miaowan, which is not far from the south of the mouth of the Yellow River, is a small harbor, when Chongzhen was unable to escape by boat, it was from Miaowan to Huai'an.

When Chen Yue was the governor of Jiangbei, in view of the fact that Miaowan was the gateway to Huai'an by sea, he set up a thousand households in Miaowan, leaving hundreds of soldiers to guard the town, and the thousand households leading the troops were still the old men of the Pingnan Army and were Lu Tai's subordinates.

There were veterans of Wu Ping's subordinates in the fleet, and as soon as they came ashore, they made contact with the Miaowan Thousand Households. Hearing that the fleet was ordered by the Duke of Qi to move the people of Shandong to Zhoushan, the thousand households ordered their subordinates to assist the people to go ashore, and provided dry firewood and salt, etc., and even a large number of built shacks for the people to temporarily shelter from the cold. There were even several doctors who specialized in treating the people on board.

Looking at the diligent hundred households and the rows of shacks behind the rocks on the coast of Miaowan, Li Yanzhi secretly sighed at the huge and far-reaching layout of the Duke of Qi's power. Judging from this shack, it is clear that it has been prepared for a long time.

Sure enough, before Li Yan could speak, Miaowan Qianhu earnestly asked if the fleet needed food and vegetables, of course it was, so in less than two days, thousands of quintals of rice and a large number of pickles were sent over, among which there were many strange styles of canned fish that had never been seen before.

Of course, all of this food needs to be bought with money, but the price is not expensive. As for the silver taels for buying grain, when Li Yanzhi got on the ship, he discussed with the wealthy gentry who accompanied the migration, and each took out a sum of silver for some expenses along the way.

After resting for two or three days in Miaowan, and after the people had recovered from their recovery, they set sail again and continued to the south.

This time, the fleet did not stop along the way, but kept heading south, and after ten days, the fleet finally arrived at Zhoushan Island.

On Zhoushan Island, Qian Fenglin was the busiest person, just before the arrival of the migrant fleet, he had just accepted a batch of timber from Liaodong, and the wood purchased by Fu Chun from the Manchurian tribe in Liaodong was finally transported back to Zhoushan by the northwest monsoon. A large amount of wood was tied into wooden rafts and dragged behind the sailboat, which seriously affected the speed of the ship, and it took a full month to return from Liaodong to Zhoushan.

However, this batch of wood was as much as four or five thousand materials, enough to build five four-masted Galen ships. And this is only the first batch, Fu Chun left manpower in Liaodong, and there will be a second or even a third batch of wood to be transported back to Zhoushan this winter, and there will be every year in the future.

And with the continuous supply of wood from Liaodong, there will be more and more ships in Zhoushan in the future, and the strength of the sailors will become bigger and bigger!

The timber will be delivered to private shipyards along the coast of Ningbo, and then ships will be built one after another. In the future, they will build their own boat yards on Zhoushan Island or Dongfan Island.

For the immigrants from Shandong, Chen Yue had early instructions that they would rest in Zhoushan and then head to Dongfan Island, where their final destination would be.

All the way to the south, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, in Shandong, all the people wear thick winter clothes, but when they arrive at Zhoushan Island, they feel a little hot in cotton clothes.

The heavy snow in Shandong has turned into a drizzle here, and it doesn't snow in winter here!

When the ship docked at Zhoushan Port, all the people thought that they had arrived at their destination, but they were told that their destination was still in the south, according to which there were nearly thousands of miles, many people were not calm, from Dengzhou to now have walked more than 20 days of sea, and still need to walk for more than ten days, which means that it is thousands of miles away from home, which is really thousands of miles away from home!

However, the military and civilians of Zhoushan were very friendly to the relocated people, which made them feel a little less depressed away from home. Qian Fenglin purchased thousands of stones of grain from Hangzhou some time ago, coupled with the abundant fish on Zhoushan Island, the people ate rice and meat, which made many people far away from their hometowns quickly disappear. As long as you can eat well and eat well, where is your hometown in life?

After Li Yanzhi once again lamented the full preparations made by the Zhoushan side for the relocation of the people, he took the initiative to find Qian Fenglin, the person in charge of Zhoushan, and asked about the resettlement of the people in the future.

In view of the important work done by Li Yanzhi in the relocation, the resettlement of the people of Shandong in the future still needs his help, and Li Yanzhi himself has a reputation for raising people, and he will definitely be reused by Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, and will become his colleague, Qian Fenglin did not hide it, and carefully explained to Li Yanzhi how to resettle the people in the future.

"Dongfan Island has been taken by Qi Guogong with his troops, and the Dutch have been defeated. The Duke of Qi prepared to set up Dongning Mansion on Dongfan Island, and the prefecture was divided into counties. The first batch of Shandong people will be placed in Beigang County, where Gu Junen, the governor of Dongning Prefecture, is now in charge.

Now there are more than 10,000 Ming people in Beigang Town, all of whom are Ming people from the coastal areas of Fujian, and there are many Dongfan aborigines around, most of whom are aborigines who do not understand the language.

We will ignore these natives for the time being, but all the people who have migrated to Dongfan Island must be organized into households, and then the land will be distributed according to the capitation. Regardless of whether they are young or old, everyone has 20 acres of land, which is reclaimed by themselves and issued by the government after being measured by the government.

All fields were subject to field contributions, all in the proportion of eleven, even the officials and gentry! In addition, all the land is owned by the Qi State Government, and the Qi State Guild rewards land according to the law according to the merits of the official position, and of course these lands also need to pay taxes to the government.

In other words, no one on Dongfan Island has the privilege of not paying taxes, not even Qi Guogong himself or his relatives! ”

Speaking of this, Qian Fenglin watched Li Yanzhi's expression react, because Li Yanzhi had the status of a lifter, and he originally belonged to the privileged class that did not pay taxes.

"Those who have meritorious service are exempt from taxes and enjoy privileges, which is originally a stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty, so that a large amount of land is owned by the gentry and official movements, and the tax revenue of the imperial court falls on the heads of the powerless commoners, which makes the treasury revenue drop sharply year by year, making the imperial court household impoverished. The gentry pay taxes as one, Qi Guogong's move has solved the biggest stubborn problem of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty can do so, it will not fall into the current situation! ”

Li Yan said lightly, as an enlightened gentry, he had long seen all kinds of unreasonable systems in the Ming Dynasty, and he had no resistance to Qi Guogong's measures on Dongfan Island.

In fact, the high positions of the gentry in the temples had all kinds of advantages over the common people, and there was no need to be exempt from the privilege of taxation.

"Brother Yan is really enlightened, Guogong will inevitably see you after he sees you, and he will hate to become a confidant!" After Qian Fenglin praised it, he continued to introduce the system of Dongfan Island, some of which were from his hands, but everything was proposed by Gu Junen to Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi.

"Although Dongfan Island is thousands of miles in circumference, the area is as large as the Ming Dynasty, but the land is vast and sparsely populated, in order to facilitate management, it will adopt a system that is not quite the same as that of the Ming Dynasty. For example, one hundred households and one village, set up a post of village head, the official rank is from the ninth grade, and one mile from a thousand households, set up the post of the chief, and the official rank is from the eighth grade. The chiefs of the village are all officials in the stream, and they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Dongning Mansion, and they are appointed and dismissed by the Qi State Mansion.

In order to effectively control the whole island, in order to protect the safety of all the people, the Duke of Qi ordered the implementation of the national soldier system, all adult men, have the obligation to serve, every winter slack season, each man must serve for a month, military training. Once there is an invasion by foreign enemies, you must obey the call of the Duke of Qi to join the army to protect Dongfan Island and protect your homeland! ”

One system after another came out of Qian Fenglin's mouth, which made Li Yanzhi more and more shocked, and his mouth grew bigger and bigger.