A few days later, the governor of Hunan and the governor of Huguang, Yamen, jointly issued a proclamation: one bucket of loans for planting, two buckets after maturity, and two buckets of rent per mu, according to the number of acres of land, the number of loans is not limited, and those who have no cattle will be given cattle and mules, and each horse will be given three buckets per year. In case of war, they should be recruited in time and raised in people's homes on weekdays.

In addition, those who pay the rent on time shall make a household a land and allow it to continue planting, and if it is allowed to continue planting for three consecutive years, the land shall be regarded as the permanent land of the household, and the number of 50 mu per household shall be used as the limit. As soon as the proclamation came out, the four towns rejoiced.

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At a time when the rejuvenation situation in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places is very good, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian have fallen into a serious state of crisis.

As early as the end of the second year of Longwu (1646 AD), at the beginning of Zhu Youlang's soul, after Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu was killed by the Qing army, some civil and military officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing court changed to Zhu Yihai, the state of Lu Supervisor, as orthodoxy, which made the legitimacy of the Lu Wang regime change greatly.

On the matter of Yongli being proclaimed emperor in the southwest, the Lu regime did not adopt a-for-tat policy, the purpose was to let the Yongli regime try to hold back the Qing army in the south as much as possible and share some military pressure on them.

In this way, the south could form a three-way world (the Qing court, the Yongli regime, and the Lu Jian regime).

Later, under the advice of the famous minister Zhang Mingzhen, King Lu sent troops to attack and kill Huang Binqing, the chief soldier of the feudal town, and took over Huang Binqing's 20,000 sailors.

At the end of the second year of Longwu, the Ming Dynasty Pingguo Gong, Fujian Governor Zheng Zhilong rushed to Fuzhou to surrender to the Manchurian Prince Boluo, the general Zheng Cai was unwilling to surrender to the Tartars, and decided to serve Zhu Yihai as the mainstay, Zhu Yihai's strength grew rapidly, most of the officials and people in Zhejiang and Fujian took Lu Jianguo as the banner of Zhongxing Daming, and furthermore, the main force of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners had been brought back to Beijing by Bolo, the prince of Duanzhong, to recuperate, and the Qing army in Fujian was empty.

At the beginning of the first year of Yongli (1647), when Zhu Youlang Junchen was in Wuzhou, Guangxi, and Li Chengdong's Qing army was stumbling, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, swore in Changyuan, and the army began to recover the lost territory after the initial rectification.

In just half a year, many prefectures and counties in Fujian have been recovered. In July, Zhu Yihai, the state of Lu Jianguo, personally marched, and he issued a wide range of documents, calling on the gentry from all over the country to rise up and create a great cause together.

Jianning Prefecture and 27 counties in the three provinces and one prefecture in northeastern Fujian, including Jianyang, Chong'an, Songxi, Zhenghe, Shouning, Lianjiang, Changle, Yongfu, Minqing, Luoyuan, and Ningde, were recovered in a very short time. In October of the same year, Funing Prefecture was also conquered by the Ming army, and the provincial capital Fuzhou became almost an isolated city, and the Qing rule in Fujian was on the verge of collapse.

In order to capture Fuzhou as soon as possible and recover the whole of Fujian, Zhu Yihai of Lu Jianguo personally went to Min'an Town outside Fuzhou to command the siege.

During the siege, Zheng Cai, a powerful minister, wanted to overthrow Zhu Yihai and then gain military and political power. In the second year of Yongli (1648), Zheng Cai killed Xiong Rulin, a university scholar, for no reason, Zheng Zunqian, the Marquis of Yixing, was very dissatisfied, and Zheng Cai ordered someone to force Zheng Zunqian to throw himself into the sea and die.

Zhu Yihai was furious when he learned about it, and forced him to die, and the left and right courtiers and Zheng Cai hurriedly dissuaded him, and finally killed more than ten of Zheng Cai's subordinates.

Then, Zhu Yihai, who was unwilling to become a puppet, appointed Qian Sule, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to take over as a university scholar and be responsible for the drafting of the government's votes, but unexpectedly, Zheng Cai bullied Qian Sule many times, causing Qian Sule to vomit blood and die.

At the critical moment, the Lu regime had internal strife, and the power was seriously staked, giving the Qing army in Fuzhou a precious respite.

At the beginning of the second year of Yongli (1648), the army of King Sanshun led by Kong Youde, the general of Pingnan, went south, and after crossing the Yangtze River, Kong Youde divided his troops into two routes, and the headquarters entered Huguang, and at the same time ordered Gushan Ezhen Jin Li to lead 30,000 Han Eight Banners and Green Battalion from Nanzhi into Fujian, planning to destroy the Lu Wang regime and the rest of the Zheng clan in Fujian, from Fujian to Guangdong and Li Chengdong to join forces, and finally with the main force of Huguang left and right to attack the Yongli regime of Liangguang.

When Jin Li's 30,000 troops arrived in Fujian, the Lu Jianguo regime happened to be in the midst of internal strife, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian located in the city of Fuzhou, and Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian, seized the opportunity to cooperate with the 30,000 reinforcements outside the city to launch a major counteroffensive against the Ming army.

Because Zheng Cai's rejection of dissidents caused the morale of the people in the Lu Jianguo to fluctuate, the morale of the army was low, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, Zheng Chenggong, who was active in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, also refused to accept the order of the Lu Jianguo to rescue the army in the name of respecting the dead Emperor Longwu.

In this case, the Ming army was defeated in several battles, retreated in a hurry, and fled all the way to the island, only to escape the pursuit of the Qing army, and the 27 counties of Fujian's three prefectures and one prefecture that had been captured before were immediately taken by the Qing army.

Seeing that the 30,000-strong army of the Qing army's Jinli Department was about to enter Guangdong from Chaozhou, the water-dividing pass in Chaozhou was only guarded by more than 4,000 foot soldiers of Chen Hu, a staff general of Li Chengdong's department, and the situation was not optimistic. During this period, he received Li Chengdong's request for help in Ganzhou.

At this time, the main force of the Dongjiang soldiers of the Sanshun Wangbu in Yuezhou Mansion was seriously damaged, and they were licking their wounds, and they would not have the strength to counterattack for a while.

The two compartments were combined, Zhu Youlang planned to return to Zhaoqing, Guangdong, personally sat in the capital, and responded to all parties in the center, and at the same time sent the imperial camp pro-army Wu Jihei of Huben Town to ride eight or nine thousand feet to support Li Chengdong in Ganzhou City, and Jiao Lian, the chief soldier of Yulin Town, took eight or nine thousand steps to ride non-stop to Chaozhou Water Pass to preside over military affairs, and resist the 30,000 Han Eight Banners and Green Camp Army in Fujian.

The water-dividing pass is the first barrier between Fujian and Guangdong, close at hand with Zhao'an, here the pass began in the Ming Zhengde period, the early years of the apocalypse began to build the city, the city wall is more than 1,250 zhang long, the wall is eight zhang high, there is one door in the east, west and north, the original fort in the pass, and now one is added, and each other responds.

The city defense can be said to be very complete, and the situation is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as Jiao Lian's 10,000 elite of the imperial camp arrives there before Jin Li breaks through, there will basically be no problem.

And in the city of Ganzhou, there are the rest of Li Chengdong plus Wu Jihei's 10,000 elite men and horses guarding, even if the Manmeng Eight Banners break through Luling and Ningdu Prefecture, and when they arrive at the city of Ganzhou, I am afraid they can only look at the city and sigh, for the strength of the two towns that he brought out single-handedly, Zhu Youlang is still more assured.