Chapter 625: A Quiet Place

Overnight, the provinces south of the Yangtze River suddenly found that their defense was so empty that the mobile forces of each province were transferred to Fujian to encircle and suppress the so-called defeated troops of Huazhou. But now the news is that this Huazhou defeated army of nearly 40,000 people, and it has already defeated all the Ming troops going to Fujian.

The Huazhou army has a powerful fleet, which has long been spread in the south of the Yangtze River, and at present, there are no troops in various places, and the defense is empty, and the opponent's fleet is either willing to attack from where it can go ashore, or it can attack from anywhere, and its own side cannot even react.

Officials in various provinces in Zhejiang, especially Songjiang, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Hangzhou, began to wonder whether it was the right choice to transport the treasures they had caught over the years to other places and escape as soon as possible. The Dafu counties in Nanzhili are also similar.

There are also officials who want to make a fortune in the end, when people are panicking, officials can use the power of the government and the guard to protect themselves, but the merchants and landlords do not have this ability, according to the practice of bribing officials in order to obtain the protection of officials, in the chaos can be safe, and when they escape, they can also escape together.

However, the merchants did not move, as if there was no chaos outside the city, and they still went about their business as usual, and the shops and other things did not seem to have any effect.

The proportion of peasants in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces is very low, most of them are working in the city to make money to support their families, and the shops and workshops of the merchants are running non-stop, and these civilians will not lose their livelihood because of the chaos, so they will not be chaotic.

There are also local officials who want to blackmail, but organizations like the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce are usually not too afraid of the government, and at this time, I don't know why, they are even more courageous.

The officials sent people to the door to find fault and provoke, but the other party ignored it at all, and wanted to take people with their hands, and the homes raised by each family were not furnishings, and when they started, the people who suffered were the people in the government, and after the fight, these businessmen also threatened with words:

"Our family's business is doing business with Liuheng Island and Shuangyu, so we must leave a way back in everything, don't do it!"

Liuheng Island Shuangyu now who knows what Xu Fang and Deng Qi, that is the territory of Huazhou, the businessmen know very well in their hearts, and the officials have heard the rumors, hearing this, the hairs on their bodies are standing up, and they dare to continue to arrest and ask questions.

In a prefecture and county, there are only one or two hundred servants, including the helpers around him, but the strength of the merchants' families and the Thirteen Chambers of Commerce is not less than a thousand, plus those who work and workers, they are also young and strong, and the power comparison is already very different.

In addition, most of the soldiers and horses were scattered in Fujian, in the past, to deal with these merchants, they could only be threatened by transferring troops from outside the city into the city to arrest them, but now there are almost no soldiers outside the city, and those military households are not good, and they have long been controlled by the merchants of various families in the form of employment, if they are transferred into the city, they do not know who will send troops to threaten whom.

Moreover, the businessmen threatened Liuhengdao Shuangyu, which could not be clearer, and now the people of all the provinces in Nanzhili, Zhejiang have almost been infiltrated by Huazhou.

At the beginning, the desire to take advantage of the chaos to make the last fortune gradually disappeared, and officials in various parts of the Jiangnan began to consider their own retreat in fear, and the result was a strange thing, there were officials and people sent by various yamen to take refuge in the homes of big merchants, willing to become attached slaves or villagers. Some officials, with their families and the money they had looted for many years, fled overnight, and when they woke up in the morning, the yamen had become an empty house.

There are also officials who wrote a document to surrender to Cheng, and sent it to Shuangyu on Liuheng Island through various means, without the officials' precautions, the entire social security is not managed, all dynasties, at this time, the civilians are the most unlucky, because the bandits and the traitors in the city are going to start making trouble and harm the villagers.

This phenomenon did appear, those officials fled to the prefecture and county, after a few days, seeing that there was no one to manage the market, immediately there were scoundrels wandering the streets, traitors outside the city, began to get together, ready to do a vote in the city, but these people did not expect that the world has indeed changed now.

Set fire to the house at night and cause chaos, and then choose those medium-sized people, who have average protection but some possessions at home, go in and loot the gold and silver women, and indulge them for a good time.

Anyway, at this time, there are no soldiers in the city to maintain law and order, it is a good time to start looting, the first to do it is Yuhang County, in the middle of the night, in the west of the city lit a few piles of firewood and grass, gathered together the scoundrels loudly clamoring, while shouting: "The Huazhou army has entered the city", ready to start robbing

Unexpectedly, before they started to bang on the door and over the wall, the family who was robbed had already begun to knock on the bangzi, and the rogue bandits outside were all stunned, thinking about what was the use of knocking on the bangzi, now that the government is completely empty, who else will take care of things.

As a result, it didn't take long to see the likes of Zhuang Ding Nursing Courtyard, shouting and rushing over from all directions, these scoundrels were holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks in their hands, but those Zhuang Ding Nursing Courtyard who came over were holding big knives and axes in their hands, and some of them were holding bows and arrows and fire guns in their hands.

rushed over violently, and immediately scared these bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob, but after so many years of robbing while the fire was taking advantage of the fire, they had already passed down a wealth of historical experience, and these bandits hurriedly dropped the murder weapon in their hands and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

They know that such non-governmental security organizations generally do not dare to kill people easily, for fear of getting into a lawsuit, and the final result is either sent to the yamen, or beaten and let go.

These people planned very well, but they didn't expect those Zhuang Ding Guards and the like to surround them, and someone directly stood up and said:

"What is the use of this scourge, cut off their heads and hang them on poles, and let them knock on them if there are any more such things that take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble."

The Huazhou army in Fujian is about to go north, but all parts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have shown a better social order than before, the so-called "Huazhou Wang Shi swept the south of the Yangtze River, and the people everywhere contacted each other to seize the government of the county to serve the king's division." ”