Chapter 259: Get rid of the Hu people

When Zhao Tianyou walked into Quanzhou City again, the jurisdiction of this famous port city had nominally been under the rule of Hong Kong Island, but there were so many problems that he had to face at the moment, and he did not have time to solve them at the moment.

In history, Quanzhou's port status was also due to the endless struggle between the Han merchants and the Hu people, so that the merchants who came here to do business could not operate stably, and then became other port cities, and Quanzhou's status never turned over after the decline.

Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, attached great importance to the development of overseas trade, reused Pu Shou Geng, vigorously developed Quanzhou's overseas trade, and formed an overseas trade system centered on Quanzhou. At that time, Quanzhou was a distribution center and transit station for various Chinese and foreign commodities, and most Chinese and foreign businessmen traded here.

In the late Yuan Dynasty, the struggle between the Han merchants and the Hu people lasted for more than ten years, during which there were more than a dozen large-scale wars, tens of thousands of innocent people were killed and injured, and hundreds of village houses were burned.

In the early days, the Hu people had the upper hand, and the Hu people led by the Pu family looted property everywhere to seize Han women, slaughtered the Han people in Quanzhou, and caused heavy damage to Quanzhou society. The hatred of the Han people for the Hu people began to be vented after the Yisi Ba Xi rebellion was put down, and Chen Zonghai's troops began to retaliate after occupying Quanzhou, and carried out a three-day massacre against the Hu people, the grave of the Pu Shou Geng family was dug up, and the members of the family were tortured and died.

Due to the war and vendetta, foreign merchants almost did not dare to go to Quanzhou to trade, ships did not dare to enter the port, a large number of merchants fled with money, Quanzhou's overseas trade and commerce suffered a near-devastating blow, the economy plummeted, and the port of Quanzhou began to decline.

Zhao Tianyou did not want the city's splendor to stop shining, and he knew very well how important a port was to the country's prosperity and rise as an attractive port for merchants from all over the world. He not only wants to maintain his prosperity, but also is ready to let him go to the next level, in addition to the development of the original industry, there are more new industries can be landed, when the port and industry are tied together, Quanzhou's position in the world will be more solid.

Pu Shougeng was hacked to death in the Han Shang rebellion assembled by Wei in October, but his two sons, escorted by many of his men, rushed out of the east gate and hid in the Hu settlement. There is also a two-zhang high wall here in the settlement, the Hu people have the habit of sabers, and once they start fighting, they also have a lot of combat power, most of the Hu people here are members of the Pu clan, and they must swear to defend the Pu clan.

The strength of the South China Sea Fleet lies in the naval guns, once they go ashore to fight, they can only rely on a few ballistas set up on horse-drawn carriages to fire thunderbolts of ordinary power, as well as thunderbolts thrown by soldiers in close combat.

Pu Shougeng's original soldiers had fled, but the Hu people in the settlement picked up their knives, blocked the main road in the gathering area, and pulled up a team of 10,000 or 20,000 people to confront the firearms battalion.

At this time, Zhao Tianyou felt the strength of the Han merchant family in Quanzhou, and it only took three days to gather 50,000 or 60,000 people from nearby Xinghua, Fengzhou and other places to gather 50,000 or 60,000 people to surround the gathering area of the Hu people in the east of the city.

Wei October specially came to ask Zhao Tianyou, after all, he is the ruler here now, even no one can figure out whether Zhao Tianyou represents the emperor of the Song Dynasty who is still huddled in Xinhui County.

"If they obey the management and do business obediently, they will be given a day to leave the settlement and choose another place to live outside the city. As long as one of the remaining resists, all of them will be killed! ”

"Yes, General Zhao, I will definitely follow it!"

"Also, the Han businessmen who contributed this time must make a note in the credit book, so that people know that as long as they contribute blood, there is no reason to pay in vain, and there will definitely be corresponding gains."

"Yes, thank General Zhao for them first."

The soldiers of the Hanhai Fleet and the miscellaneous army of the Han nationality, although they do not have much advantage in quantity and quality, they are much stronger than these Hu people in terms of morale and psychology, after all, they are stepping on their own land.

More than 80,000 Hu people lined up from the gathering area with their families and mouths, and while they were inspected, swords and weapons larger than a foot in length were confiscated. Since then, the Hu people have added a rule in the land of China, which is used to treat them differently from ordinary Han people, as long as they carry more than one foot of sword and weapon, they will be judged as rebels and the government can be arrested and convicted.

More than 10,000 people from the remaining Pu family's direct family, led by Pu Shougeng's two sons, tried to break through the encirclement to the dock, in a vain attempt to seize the boat and escape to sea. But he didn't even rush out of the settlement, he was surrounded by the Han army and fought all night, and the next day a fire burned the corpse and the settlement clean, and since then there has been no Pu clan in the land of China.

The underground vault in Pufu can make Zhao Tianyou addicted to it, understand what it means to be piled up and what is brilliant, and I don't know why Pu Shougeng has such a strong preference for gold, and he actually used gold to build an underground palace.

Among them, on the chair and bedding made of gold, there are still traces of Pu Shougeng often resting here, whether it is more comfortable to sleep on the gold bed, Zhao Tianyou didn't want to experiment, and directly asked his subordinates to dismantle it as a whole and bring it back to Hong Kong Island as the capital for construction.

Wei October and the Han merchants secretly opened the city gate, and cooperated with the firearms battalion to attack and break the city, although his identity was only a master of the Jiang family, Zhao Tianyou did not forget this credit. Before leaving, Wei October was appointed as the head of the city's shipping department, uniting local Han merchants and nearby industrial workshops to establish a non-governmental association, and the first task was to stabilize the trade in Quanzhou Port, so as not to affect the market transactions because of the war.

Boyan's army was frustrated in Guangzhou, and gathered the strength of several surrounding state capitals to try to cast a giant cannon in Qingyuan, using it to fight against the Hongyi cannon in Guangzhou City. Although the progress of forging the cannon is slow, it can be improved as soon as problems are discovered, and Boyan believes that the value of the time consumed by the super cannon can be used as long as the super cannon can be used, and no amount of time can be waited.

When the change in Quanzhou reached Qingyuan, Boyan was secretly glad that these craftsmen and masters were all transferred to Qingyuan before Zhao Tianyou's action, but he didn't have much reaction to Quanzhou's change of hands, his biggest target was in Guangzhou, as long as Guangzhou was swept away, the world would be peaceful.

However, Boyan ignored a very important thing, that is, the Yuan army relied on its strong combat power to deter the entire Central Plains, and with its cruel and ruthless killing methods, it made thousands of soldiers surrender to their ears, and now these situations are slowly changing.

The first to draw their swords took place in Fuzhou, where several thousand yuan soldiers stationed there had their heads cut off overnight.

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