Chapter 35 Relocation and Prohibition of the Sea
Jiangnan Province, Yangzhou Prefecture, Haimen.
A team of Jiangning garrison Eight Banners broke into the county government and dragged out Dong Changyu, the county magistrate, like a dog, and the cries of several women came from the backyard.
This county magistrate privately gave the ship approval, violated the sea ban order, and was chopped off in the name of a thief, but he was not wronged.
His wife and concubine who remained in the county government became the playthings of the Eight Banners. After the Eight Banners were tired of playing, they took it to Nanjing and sold it to a prostitute.
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Outside the city of Hangzhou, the city of people.
Ragged crowds crowded the market.
"Okay, okay, my son sells 1 bucket of rice."
"Boss, my daughter only needs a hundred dollars."
"My daughter doesn't want money, so I've given it to you, I just want to give her a bite to eat."
The brothel bustard shuttles through the crowd, picking the girl he likes to take away.
Not far from the side, there is a home of the original gentry in Haining.
The whole family sat around the father.
In the end, 1 pound of grain was eaten. The clothes were also sold out, and only the ones left to wear were gone, and the money had already been spent.
The old father laughed miserably: "Relatives are like mud and sand, and there is no comprehensive friendship. If you don't want to fall into the human market, let's decide it ourselves. ”
The daughter-in-law cut her hair, and her tears dried up, but at this time she brought a little smile, "Dad, we are here as a family, and we will also go on the road together, and no one can be separated." ”
The old father took out 3 boxes, each containing a silver krait snake that was common in the Jiangnan area.
The silver ring is the first poison of the Celestial Empire, and it eats other snakes. The silver ring is a neurotoxin, the fangs are small, the person is bitten almost painlessly, just want to sleep, and die of respiratory paralysis caused by the neurotoxin in his sleep.
The old father trembled and reached into the snake's box.
The eldest daughter-in-law did so without hesitation.
In the turbulent years, women were the worst, and the head of the family did not sell his daughter-in-law to a brothel for food, and death was the only way out.
The family survived two Tatar expeditions to the south and the invasion of pirates, but they did not survive the relocation and sea ban.
A few hours later, a group of displaced people pushed their bodies into a ravine on the side of the road.
The ravine, full of dead people or white skeletons, stretched far into the sea.
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Fujian, eight counties.
The Tatars forced the coastal residents to demolish their ancestral homes and graves, transport building materials to designated places, dig trenches, and build boundary walls. Burn the crops, and if there is no stone left, you have to catch strong men and send troops to send food. If they did not move for ten days, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion immediately came over to suppress and slaughter the city.
Officials treated the people as ants, the old and weak filled the ravines, the women sold themselves, and hundreds of thousands died.
There are those who cannot endure poverty and dare to cross the border to cultivate and go to the sea, and they are immediately executed after being caught.
In places where the side walls have not yet been built, the people who do not know the rules and go out of the boundary by mistake will be immediately executed if they are caught, and there is no room for negotiation.
The worst thing is that some ordinary people who obeyed the rule and cultivated honestly were dragged out of the realm and killed on the charge of Tonghaikou because they offended the officers and soldiers, and the officials did not ask at all.
The officers and men seized some relatively wealthy businessmen in the interior who had nothing to do with the sea trade, and raided their homes on the previous charge of opening the sea, killing the men and making the women to become military prostitutes.
In the land of the eight counties, the county seats, health offices, inspection divisions, villages and towns, and salt farms outside the boundaries were all set on fire, leaving only a piece of rubble.
Thick bones loom in the grass, and a few wild dogs roam the wilderness trying to find their next human feast.
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Guangdong, the coast is in ruins.
Macao, through the two gates of Shang Kexi and the Society of Jesus, was allowed by Beijing not to move its borders.
Guangdong officials have a lot of brains, and there are two vassal kings, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, who are very bold. Under the pretext of facilitating the transportation of grain by the officers and soldiers, the magistrate checked the tickets, set up several openings in the side walls, assigned officers and soldiers to defend them, and checked the tickets and released them.
It is said that if the officers and soldiers connive at the smuggling of businessmen through the mouth, they will be beheaded with complicity. This order is not worth a big fart, Shang Kexi Geng Jimao used the troops of the domain to do smuggling, not to mention Guangdong, Beijing did not dare to care.
The courage is not only Ping, Jing Erfan, the governor of Guangdong, the Han army with a white flag Lu Xingzu took office with 100 households, 100 horses, and did not want a penny from the court. Of course, he didn't bring these soldiers to fight, nor did he use them to look good.
Governor Lu had a keen eye on Macao, and he promoted Yao Qisheng to the magistrate of Xiangshan. Xiangshan is basically an empty city, and this Pozhi County has no civil affairs to manage, and it is specially designed for Governor Lu to run maritime trade.
The Portuguese asked Lu Xingzu for sea trade, and Governor Lu said that regardless of whether the result was successful or not, he would pay 50,000 taels first. If it succeeds, the Portuguese will pay another 200,000 taels. In addition, Lu Xingzu proposed that the Portuguese and Lu Xingzu should divide the account between the Portuguese and Lu Xingzu, with Guangdong taking 4% and the Portuguese taking 6%.
In the first business, Yao Qisheng made 6 boats of porcelain, silk, tea, wire and silver, and on the return trip, sandalwood, pepper, and velvet, Yao Qisheng, the bastard, also accepted 13,000 taels of silver and other foreign gifts on behalf of Lu Xingzu. Guangdong millions of white bones fattened this old dog.
The two feudal clans of Ping and Jing said that there were tens of thousands of soldiers on the front line under the domains, and Beijing did not dare to do anything with them. Lu Xingzu and Yao Qisheng, the two minions, are so bold, because there are bigwigs in Beijing, and most of the income from maritime trade flows into Beijing. High-ranking officials are nothing more than first-class servants of the powerful family.
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Huizhou Mansion, Jieshi Acropolis, Jieshi Town, the largest town of Guangdong Green Camp Water Division, with more than 10,000 families of officers and soldiers.
Su Li had ties to both Hainan and Li Dingguo, and the ayashu he had with Li Dingguo was also seized by the Guangdong Governor.
This matter was reported to Beijing, and the military department under Shunzhi discussed it, and the military department judged that Su Li's incident was true anyway. But Jieshi Town is the strongest sailor under the Tatars, and the Jieshi Acropolis is responsible for controlling the mountains and the sea.
The Ministry of War suggested that the real thing should be treated as a fake thing, and the ayashu should be regarded as Li Dingguo's counter-plan. The Council of Ministers of the Eight Banners had long lost its ambition when entering the customs, and agreed to the proposal of the Ministry of War, and Shunzhi issued an edict to send Qin to Guangdong to appease Su Li.
Sully waited and watched, and remained unchanged.
However, this will be reported to his subordinates, "Boss, Colkun has forced us to move the border again." ”
The highest rank of the Tatar Naval Division, the Left Governor of the Naval Army, and the Jieshi General Soldier Su Li smashed the wine bowl.
"This Tartar dog doesn't want to live anymore, send someone to Qiongzhou, Lao Tzu anyway."
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Keelung City.
Open a briefing on China affairs in an orderly manner.
After the ban on the sea, the Tatars issued a relocation order.
The Tatar minister and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Sunahai sat in Jiangnan and sent four Manchu ministers to Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces to force the coastal areas to move to the border.
The first relocation order was for the relocation of residents within 20 miles of the coast, followed by 30 miles, and the third time by 50 miles.
The full army used their feet to burn dwellings in every place, razing the land and emptying its people.
The most wretched thing is that the Tatars only cares about moving, regardless of resettlement. Of course, there is basically no land to resettle in the interior. The Tatars did not think about the life or death of the coastal people. People who were forced to relocate left their belongings behind on the road, slept in the wilderness, and their deaths could not be counted.
In the early days of forced migration, the immigrants thought that they would be over after a few months, and they couldn't bear to be separated, and after wandering for a long time, they had no plan to maintain their health, father and son abandoned each other, and husband and wife separated.
The people have no way to make a living, beggars have no way to eat, and they have nothing to sell.
The forbidden sea is normal.
It is not enough to go out and be struck by lightning, give birth to a son, and trample on the past with 100,000 grass and mud horses.
The immediate trigger was a mistake Zheng Chenggong made two years ago.
In 1654, Liu Guoxuan, the general manager of Zhangzhou City, contacted Zheng Jun and opened the defensive gate. Zheng Fan entered the Zhangzhou Mansion, and the Tatar Zhangzhou General Zhang Shiyao, the prefect Fang Xingye and his brother Fang Xinghua surrendered to the city.
The Fang brothers were originally the sons of the owner of the Beijing wine shop, and during the Chongzhen period, Fang Xinghua was captured by the Tatars and assigned to the Sony family as a slave.
Fang Xinghua may be lucky, or he may indeed have some ability, and his status among Sony's domestic slaves is relatively high.
After the Tatars entered the customs, the two brothers of the Fang family recognized each other, and Fang Xingye became an official through his brother's relationship.
Generally, a jinshi can't be promoted to the position of prefect after 10 years as an official. A restaurant son through a coated servant got the key position of the Zhangzhou prefect. The person who went to Beijing to take the exam was not as good as the third-class slave of the Qiren uncle's family, which was not bragging.
During their captivity, the Fang brothers stayed on Xiamen Island for a period of time, and noticed that the nails, iron, hemp, and oil used by Zheng Chenggong's sea ships, the flame and nitrate used in artifacts (artillery), and supplies such as rice and cloth were scarce on the island. All coastal residents are engaged in (smuggling) trade, and transportation is helped.
Zheng Chenggong quickly released the Fang brothers, and after the two returned to Beijing, they reported to their master sonny:
"If they move their people into the interior, denounce them as empty soil, and draw the land as boundaries, they will still be forbidden, and the offenders will sit and die; The poor on the other island have no domestic aid, and they have nothing to plunder, such as a baby who is weaned, and can starve to death. ”
Sony deeply thinks that this old dog is a yellow flag, a slave under the personal management of Shunzhi, and he is on the sparse and accurate.
As a result, the Tatars mobilized all the state apparatus and created a no-man's land of nearly 200,000 square kilometers in the richest and most densely populated area along the coast of China.
From Zhili in the north to the mouth of the Pearl River in the south, a 10,000-mile-long coastal wall was built on the controlled coastline. The moat is 2 zhang wide and 2 zhang deep, and the wall is 1 zhang high and 4 feet thick. At the same time, I really don't know how many people will die when moving the border to such a big project.
This is the true face of the legend, "I would rather die under the knife of Lord Belle than separate the flesh and blood on both sides of the strait".
The green battalion soldiers in many coastal areas could not stand the relocation of the border, and raised the flag anyway, and the large shares included Su Li, Tanmin Zhou Yu, and Li Changrong, and the small shares were scattered and innumerable.
The Ming Dynasty was very fucked, but the Ming Dynasty would never be able to move the border. Only a colonial regime could be so indifferent to the lives of its people.
Shou Xuan sneered a few times.
Historically, Zheng Chenggong was forced to fight his biggest trading partner, the Dutch, the maritime overlord, and embarked on the road of suicide.
The Dutch sent a fleet to attack Xiamen, but there were no plywood gunboats to suppress the sea, and it was a dream for the Tatars to occupy Xiamen. The relocation of the border to the sea was a military success.
But now it's different.
"Kamikawa." Shou ordered to call out to his lieutenant.
"Yes, Teacher."
"Bring me the map of the national army garrison of the Tatars, and I'll study it."
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Note: Historically, Zheng Chenggong did not go to Shandong to fight. Shunzhi was so frightened by a hundred real pirates and three or five broken ships that he moved to the border in Shandong, which was really a bit brainless.