In the second year of Yongli, the twenty-seventh day of the first month, February 20, 1648, Nanchang.

The official fleet from Nanzhili was mighty and crowded the Ganjiang wharf.

Originally supposed to be a gathering place for business travelers, the bustling water dock is now silent.

The two teams of soldiers wore helmets and armor, held the hilts of their swords, and faced each other from a distance of more than ten steps.

The style of the soldier's armor uniform is similar, with the only noticeable difference being on the top of the head. The soldier with his back to Ganjiang was in a red cherry blossom and white hat, with a braid dragging behind his head. The soldiers facing the Ganjiang River wore red turbans and wrapped them tightly from the top of their heads to their necks.

Although the two teams of soldiers faintly confronted each other, no one held the sword in their hands, and the atmosphere was not too tense.

General Liang Desheng paced back and forth in front of his own soldiers' queue, and the nail leaves collided, making a small cracking sound.

There was a noisy voice at the city gate, Liang Desheng raised his head, and looked over the Jiangxi soldiers in front of him.

A string of men in Tatar uniforms walked out of the city gates with their hands tied behind their backs. The official hat was gone, and there were marks of beating on his face and hands. One of the officials walked a little slower, got a heavy kick on the back, and was kicked to the ground. Several escorted Jiangxi soldiers surrounded him, punching and kicking. Someone then drew a long knife and cut off his head on the spot. The knife was probably not very sharp, and it was sawed back and forth for a long time.

Liang Desheng's teeth were sore, and his ears seemed to hear the click of a blunt knife cutting the cervical vertebrae.

Liang Desheng took a sip, "Damn, Jiangxi Bing's work is too rough." ”

There was a piercing scream from the fleet behind him, and Liang Desheng was helpless, so he had to call a personal soldier: "Go to the fleet, please don't be afraid, ladies and wives, with me here, it will be fine." ”

"Yes, Sanrong."

There was more movement at the city gate, and Liang Desheng looked over again, this time it became an old man, a woman and a child. The queue was even more chaotic, the cries were shocking, and many soldiers took the opportunity to rub oil on the woman.

Liang Desheng asked loudly: "Brothers opposite, who are those?" ”

"Liang Shenrong, behind are Nanchang prisoners and family members. My family Jin Shuai has an order, Jiangxi Patrol Dong Xuecheng, political envoy Chi Bianlong, Hudong Daocheng into a great cause, Jiangxi palm print Si Liu Tongchun is obsessed, willing to take prisoners, and immediately copy and behead. ”

The person who answered was wearing iron cotton armor, a six-petal iron-tipped helmet, and a touch of red cherry blossoms on it. Looking at the outfit, the grade is about the same as Liang Desheng. The sound of the reply was so loud that everyone around heard it, and some of the people who were escorted behind immediately fainted, and some tried to escape, and were killed on the spot by the musketeers.

Liang Desheng pursed his lips, he used to do things that were full of officials and gentry, and he was not surprised at all. I just feel that Jiangxi Bing's technology is not very good, and what is a mess is messy.

Hundreds of officials and their families were taken to the Gan River. The Jiangxi soldiers forced them to kneel, cut them down with a knife, and after cutting one, the Jiangxi soldiers kicked the corpses into the Ganjiang River.

Blood was splattered everywhere, and the nearby river took on a faint shade of red. More than 200 people were quickly slaughtered, and the corpses floated downstream, becoming a delicious meal for fish and turtles.

During this period, some people shouted for help and asked for help from this group of soldiers who were obviously from the Guangdong Green Battalion.

Liang Desheng watched coldly and remained silent.

After the Jiangxi soldiers finished working, Liang Desheng asked the officer opposite, "Please ask my brother Gao's name?" ”

The general laughed, "Liang Shenrong invited, a certain Sichuan Guo Tiancai, Jiangxi promoted the left battalion general." ”

"Guo Shenrong, the families of our Guangdong army are all on the boat behind, and the women and children can't be frightened. Please report to your ministry, let us leave Nanchang as soon as possible. ”

"Liang Shenrong, Jin Shuai sent me here because he was afraid that the officers and soldiers would not know the flag of your army and collide with the ladies and wives. Please don't be impatient, and you can start the boat after a while. ”

Liang Desheng snorted coldly and stopped talking.

The Jiangxi soldiers on the opposite side relaxed, and Guo Tiancai even lit his pipe. In this kind of atmosphere, Liang Desheng is not worried about fighting, after all, Li Chengdong is standing behind him. No matter how Nanchang tosses, Jin Shenghuan has no reason to move his family in Guangdong.

Liang Desheng felt that he was quite unlucky, and set off from Songjiang to escort his family to Guangdong, and the sea route obviously could not be taken, which was the world of the Ming army and pirates. Fujian is full of rebels, and the roads are broken. Huguang is the battlefield, and the corpses are all over the field.

He can only go to Jiangxi.

The family spent the Spring Festival on the boat and arrived in Nanchang three days ago. It was too hard to run long distances with women and children, and there was a mountain road behind Da Yuling, so Liang Desheng decided to rest in Nanchang for a few days.

Originally, there was nothing to do, but on the first day, Jin Shenghuan, the deputy chief soldier and the commander of Jiangxi Military Affairs, even came to the dock in person to send dozens of pigs and sheep to comfort the guests who came from afar.

Jin Shenghuan is a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, which is the military guard with the most generals in the Ming Dynasty. Li Chengdong is a native of Ningxia, everyone is a fellow villager in Shaanxi.

In the troubled times, Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong are also considered to be influential figures. When he was also a Ming general, Liang Desheng followed Li Chengdong to meet Jin Shenghuan several times. Liang Desheng felt that everything was fine at that time.

The bad thing was last night, when there was a sudden upheaval in the city.

After 20 years on the battlefield, Liang Desheng immediately noticed that there was a mutiny in the city. If you have the intention to drive the boat away, there are many small boats in the fleet, and it is dangerous to sail at night. Liang Desheng immediately decided to fortify the wharf.

Calm soon returned to the city, and a group of Jiangxi soldiers surrounded the dock. Jin Shenghuan's envoy told the Cantonese army that they had no hostile intentions and had only come to protect the families of friendly soldiers. After dawn, Liang Desheng found that the Jiangxi soldiers in front of him had thrown their red tassels and white hats on the ground and rewrapped them in turbans, and immediately understood that Jin Shenghuan had reversed.

Jiangxi's affairs are no secret.

At the beginning, Jin Shenghuan absorbed a lot of Zuo Liangyu's dismissed soldiers, and his strength was very strong. Most of the counties in Jiangxi Province were won by Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren. Later, he joined forces with Ke Yongsheng, the general of Shandong, and Gao Jinku, the deputy general of Jiangning, to conquer Ganzhou, which can be described as outstanding achievements.

Relying on his great achievements, Jin Shenghuan asked Beijing for the title of governor, but was severely reprimanded by Dolgon, and finally only gave a deputy commander-in-chief to act as the commander of military affairs.

There has always been a legend in the circle of the Green Camp generals, and Jin Shenghuan has been resentful ever since.

Later, Beijing intensified, and as an authoritative imperial court, Beijing sent civil officials at all levels to the whole country to deprive the green camp generals of their civil rights to the local government. Many green battalion generals were forced back in the country, especially in the north.

Jin Shenghuan in the south was the first to be rectified, and Jiangxi Fu and Ji collected a lot of black materials and reported to Beijing, saying that there were many people in Jin's shogunate who came and went in the Ming Dynasty, and his heart was unpredictable.

Liang Desheng sighed a little, the rumors have existed for a long time, and today they have finally been confirmed.

Jiangxi didn't care about Liang Desheng, he only cared about whether he could leave safely. No one of the family members on the ship can be missing, and he has no face to return to Guangzhou without people.

After waiting for a while, Jin Shenghuan's envoy came to the dock again, shaved his head and changed into a monk's robe compared to last night.

"Mr. Lei, how are you dressed?"

Lei Defu is Jin Shenghuan's guest, and he has contributed a lot to Jin Shenghuan anyway.

"General Liang, I'm going to Guangxi to find Inspector He and contact the imperial court. It's more convenient to change into this outfit. ”

Liang Desheng's heart moved, "Mr. Lei wants to go with me?" ”

"The Tatars occupy Huguang, and it is safer for me to go to Guangdong. I wonder if General Liang can make it convenient and leave me a place on the ship? ”

Liang Desheng did not hesitate at all, "No problem, Mr. Lei can take my boat." ”

"Then thank you," Lei Defu laughed and took out a letter from his arms, "This is a letter from Jin Shuai of my family to Admiral Li, please pass it on to General Liang." ”

On other people's territory, everything is easy to discuss, and Liang Desheng happily accepted the secret letter.

"Fan Chengen!"

"The end will be." Li Chengdong's strength is all out of the ranks.

"You stay in Nanchang, and when the brothers in Jiangxi think it's okay, you can leave."

"Yes, Sanrong."

Liang Desheng turned his head to look at Guo Tiancai behind him.

The general of the left battalion of Jiangxi raised the standard with a smile and waved his hand, and withdrew the siege and let him go.

The boatmen hoisted their sails, propped up the Nanchang wharf, and continued to trace along the Gan River.

Ganzhou in front of the fleet is the defense area of Gao Jinku, and Gao Jinku is Gao Jie's adopted son, and Li Chengdong's troops have a friendship with each other, so there will be no problem.

In the center of the fleet, Zhao Yue, a concubine, lifted the curtains. At the head of Nanchang City, a big flag fell and fell into the quagmire under the city wall. The Mingzi military flag was raised on the flagpole and fluttered in the wind.

Zhao Yuezi microwave, is the adopted daughter of the Yang princess who was captured by Chengdong in Yangzhou, and after following Chengdong, she changed back to her original surname. Although she was reduced to a military general's concubine, she was able to survive the troubled times and was favored by Chengdong. Compared to many women, she is quite lucky in life.

Nanchang Chengtou, a brand new military flag. Jin Shenghuan watched Li Chengdong's fleet leave, and said to Wang Deren beside him:

"General Wang, I have always had the intention of being right, but in fact, the plan is still ahead of you. The reason why I didn't do anything was that my wife and children were all in Beijing before, and the second was to hoard grain and grass, make boats and boats, enter the warehouse in the south, and ask He Tengjiao in the west. Now that everything is not ready, the general suddenly attacked. Although there is no food in the city, I cannot live up to my dreams. ”

……

Shou Zhi walked around Yilan. Whether it is a state or county official or a security chief, he is more professional than him in arranging specific work such as reclamation. Most of the time, the observance is just to look at it and not to make any suggestions.

There is a serious shortage of iron tools throughout Taipei, and Sanya sends hundreds of tons of iron products to Taipei every year, and those iron are usually prioritized for military-related industries, with agricultural tools and civilian goods being prioritized very low.

In some extreme cases, Yilan saw five families sharing an iron pot, and many residents had to rely on clay pots for cooked food.

This situation is difficult to alleviate for the time being.

The current situation of the Federation is very embarrassing, there is no iron in the territory with coal, and there is no coal in the territory with iron. Seaborne ore is too tonnage and costly. Therefore, the four territories of China, Taipei, Borneo and Houjiang all rely on the finished iron supplied by Sanya. Fortunately, Sanya is located in the center of the Federal South China Sea shipping line, and there is a suitable sailing direction in both the south and north seasons.

The quality of the iron tools produced by Tiandu Iron Mine is excellent, but the output has not been able to rise.

This is also a common problem faced by federal mines. Mining production is bottlenecked, mainly because the federal territory is located in areas with abundant rainfall. The pit cannot be dug deep to face serious drainage problems, and now it relies on manpower and animal power to drain the water, which is inefficient and costly.

In industrial production, the depreciation of material man-hours and the cost of processing power are ultimately reflected in the product price, and the price is the most balanced index, and it is very incomplete to only pay attention to the working hours.

For the Federation, if it wants to make a breakthrough in industry, the first thing that needs to be reduced is the cost of coal mines. Coal provides cheap fuel and, crucially, water supply and drainage.

The thermal efficiency of atmospheric steam engines was very low, and they were originally only used for coal mine drainage. However, the atmospheric steam engine will reduce the mining cost of coal mines by a step, and as long as the CIF price of coal mines in Sanya Port is added to the atmospheric steam engine, the cost is lower than that of animal drainage, and a positive economic cycle can be established. This positive cycle will stimulate the continued development of the steam engine industry, the price of finished iron will further decline, the cost of coal mining will also fall, and the wheels of industrialization will be able to rotate autonomously.

I don't know how long the whole process will take, but it is a necessary path to industrialization.

The Tatars are establishing a new order on the mainland, barbaric, ignorant, but with great stability. This order will lead China into the abyss of history in the future. But at this stage, stability is what China needs most in the wake of the chaos.

The system of the Tatars corresponded to the technological level and relations of production of this era. In the old order, it was impossible to do better than the Tatars.

Whether it is the strong army of the Federation or the rolling silver brought by the sea, it is impossible to conquer a large country that has stabilized, has a population of tens of millions, and has a fiscal income of more than 30 million taels of silver.

The emergence of a new order requires a new level of technology, and the observance of order will open the window of industrialization, bringing new ways of obtaining energy to the dormant East Asia, parasitic social logic and metaphysical political system.

The fleet of the Northern Expedition to Korea returned home, bringing with it food, supplies, population, and horses.

Food, supplies and horses were left in Taiwan, and people were loaded on ships.

The southbound fleet was divided into three waves, one going to Sanya, Houjiang, and the local direction.

One sailed to Borneo via Sanya. Kuching has the largest hardwood reserves within the Federation. Kuching City is also surrounded by the Selong Mun (Bau Gold Mine) and the Punda Gold and Copper Mine, and the mine and wood yard are in urgent need of manpower.

The Guardian led a small fleet of frigates to the Philippines to cover the returning fleet.

This time, there were more than a hundred newly arrived Kyushu samurai on board. Cai Yuanding concluded a secret treaty with the Satsuma clan in the Ryukyus, and this group of immigrant samurai was a byproduct of the treaty.