That night, Wang Kefan was frightened and coaxed and drove Bu Zuowen back to Tongcheng.

Although Bu Zuowen is greedy for life and afraid of death, and his character is at a loss, he is a county parent official after all, in addition to helping Wang Sheng deal with government affairs, he can also be used as a pretext to stabilize the hearts of the army and the people.

Before leaving, Wang Kefan specially instructed him that he must hurry up to repair the city defense, in case the Da Shun army attacked. Bu Zuowen's answer was very simple, just two words: no money.

The Tian Fu of the Ming Dynasty had to be handed over, although the Hongguang Imperial Court was about to end, He Tengjiao's governor Yamen was operating normally, and the Tian Fu confiscated by Tongcheng was sent to Changsha Mansion.

According to the general rules, the funds of the county government mainly come from the commercial tax of the merchants, but most of the local commercial houses in Tongcheng have closed down, and only the two major commercial banks, "Jin Bu Chang" and Tongjiang Commercial Bank, monopolize more than 80 percent of the commercial activities, but never pay tribute to Bu Zuowen. Bu Zuowen has the intention to handle a few cases and make some gray income, but the judicial power is controlled by the trial bureau, and he is forced to clean his sleeves and become a clean official who can no longer be cleared.

Speaking of these, Bu Xianjun couldn't help but complain, he has been drilling camps everywhere these days and wants to be transferred to Hunan, and he has pulled down a lot of deficits, how can he have the money to repair the city defense of Chongyang.

"No money? It's easy to do, let's open a banknote. Wang Kefan gave him an idea.

The banknote customs is the checkpoint of taxation in the Ming Dynasty, which is generally located at the throat of water and land transportation, similar to the toll station in later generations.

Tongcheng is located in the upper reaches of the Junshui River, connecting Chongyang, Puqi, Linxiang and Yuezhou by waterway, and can also directly enter the Yangtze River, it is the distribution center of various goods in nearby states and counties, although Wuchang Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion have fallen into the hands of the Qing army, but there are still ships coming and going on the Junshui River, and a banknote customs is set up there, and the ships that pass through the customs are charged, and there is no business that makes money without loss.

But like the toll booths in later generations, not everyone can open the banknote customs, and opening the banknotes customs privately will bring a lot of trouble, so Wang Kefan pushed Bu Zuowen to the front.

Bu Zuowen is a timid and corrupt master, thinking that the banknote customs is profitable, how can he care about other things, and he immediately agreed with Wang Kefan to open the Junshui River banknote customs in the name of the Tongcheng County Ya, which will be managed by Wang Sheng's Gongyi battalion, and the tariffs collected will be increased by two and five, and one person and a half.

He left as if he had found a treasure, Wang Kefan sent him outside the gate, but he met Xu Bingzhong and hurriedly came over, his expression was extremely serious, as if something big had happened......

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At the beginning of the summer of the first year of Hongguang (1645), Duoduo led the Qing army to approach Nanjing, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong and Shoufu Ma Shiying fled in a hurry, and Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, surrendered the city. Soon, Zhu Youxiang was sacrificed to the Qing army by the rebel general Tian Xiong, and the Hongguang court was officially destroyed.

For most people in the Ming Dynasty, the country is a very vague concept, there are many peasants who have never entered the city in their lives, whether it is the Zhu family sitting on the Jinluan Palace, or the Manchu Tartar as the emperor, they all pay the same grain and rent, when the Qing army came, most of them did not have the mind to resist desperately, but chose to surrender and submit.

Dolgon and other Manchu magnates were overjoyed by this, thinking that the world would be determined from now on, and that their arrogance would be unstoppable, so they brazenly tore off the mask of hypocrisy and began to implement a series of cruel national oppression policies, such as shaving orders, fugitive laws, enclosing land, and confiscating ......

South Zhili Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangyin County.

Jiangyin was adjacent to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the Qing army had already surrendered to submission when it crossed the border, and the county magistrate appointed by the Manchu Qing had just arrived, and the county clerk was called to transcribe the notice of the shaving order.

Keep your head without hair, and leave your hair without your head. The scribe wrote this sentence in the proclamation and threw his pen to the ground in anger.

"Just die!"

The people of Jiangyin rose up, raised the banner to resist the Qing Dynasty, and defended the county seat for more than 80 days under the siege of tens of thousands of Qing troops, and then was slaughtered by the Qing army, and the people of the whole city were left with only "53 people of all sizes", which opened the prelude to the national resistance to the Qing Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

When the Qing army broke through Nanjing, it only had to deal with the Southern Ming regime that was rotten to the roots, but with the collapse of the Hongguang court and the implementation of the shaving order, the contradictions of foreign invasion quickly intensified...... The tragic and heroic struggle of the whole people against the Qing Dynasty has really begun!

Emperor Hongguang was captured, the resistance of the Southern Ming Dynasty Liliang and the promotion of King Lu Zhu Changshu to supervise the country, soon King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Hangzhou, and supported the Tang King Zhu Yujian to be the emperor in Fujian, and always maintained the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to extinguish this anti-Qing upsurge, and also to eliminate the remaining resistance of the Southern Ming Dynasty Liliang, and completely occupy the rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, the main forces of the Manchu Qing were concentrated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and they could not take care of Huguang for a while.

In early June, Zuo Mengeng led hundreds of thousands of troops to surrender to Azig, and Huguang Inspector surrendered together with Huang Shu, Jin Shenghuan, Li Guoying, Xu Yong and other generals. At the same time, Azig received the news of Li Zicheng's death, solved the two henchmen's problems at once, and thought that he was done.

Azig fought abroad for more than half a year, the troops were in urgent need of rest, and the Eight Banners were not adapted to the hot summer in the south, and many people fell ill when they were infected with the epidemic, so he sent Boerhui and other troops to support Duoduo in Nanjing, and led the army back to Beijing to escape the summer.

Before leaving, he appointed Tong Yanghe as the governor of Huguang, stationed in Wuchang Mansion.

The Tong family is the surname of the Manchu Han military banner, the most beautiful in the Kang Yong period, in the history of the Qing Dynasty, there is "Tong Banchao" said, the more famous figures in the family are Tong Tulai, Tong Guogang, Oro Dai, Long Keduo and so on. The Tong family not only produced big officials, but also produced several queen concubines and concubines, the most famous is Tong Tulai's daughter, Kangxi's biological mother Tong Jiashi.

Tong Yanghe is Tong Tulai's sixth uncle, and he is Kangxi's uncle and grandfather, and in some historical materials, he is also called Tong Dai, Tong Dai and Tundai, but they are actually all one person.

In the real history, Tong Yanghe served as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, and was defeated by Zheng Chenggong, killing his family cleanly.

When Tong Yanghe took office in Huguang, he took thousands of Qing troops to garrison the provincial capital Wuchang Mansion, and other places were guarded by the surrendered puppet army, the battle line was too long, and the troops were weak, so the whole line took a defensive position, and sent envoys to recruit the remnants of the Dashun army and the traitors of the Ming army, and strive to stabilize and expand their territory.

The only thing that worked against him was the shaving order imposed by the Qing court, which repeated many times during the surrender and caused fierce resistance from the Han Chinese......

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That night, a group of volunteers from Puqi entered Chongyang.

Puqi is located between Chongyang and Wuchang Mansion, Ma Jinzhong became a vacuum area after Ma Jinzhong left, and returned to the Qing court under the recruitment of Tong Yanghe, but with the shaving order, the local people resisted and were brutally killed by the Qing army, and the volunteers composed of the people were defeated and forced to retreat to Chongyang.

This group of about 300 volunteers, all from the mountainous areas east of Puqi, whose villages were far from the main roads and roads, survived several wars, but were finally caught up in the war as the Manchus established power there.

There are no big families in the poor countryside, and the leader is an old boy named Su Boming, although he is nearly half a hundred years old and has not been a showman, but he has been an enlightened teacher for decades, and he has a lot of prestige in the local village.

Su Boming's cheeks are thin, his beard is gray, his figure is thin and tall, slightly rickety, his accent is extremely strong, and his speech speed is fast, which is difficult for people to understand. After seeing him, Wang Kefan immediately remembered his primary school principal, who was also this old-fashioned and stern appearance.

"General Wang, the students don't want pay, they don't want food, they only ask you for 300 pairs of knives and guns, and they will lead their children to kill back to Puqi, and fight to the death with those fake Tartars!"

After Xu Yong surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, he was appointed by Azig as the commander-in-chief of Huangzhou, with the largest number of troops and the strongest combat effectiveness in the Huguang Green Battalion.

"Swords and guns can be given to you, but you can't die in vain." Wang Kefan persuaded: "If Old Master Su can trust the general, stay in Chongyang first and train your men and horses, and when the time is ripe, I will help you defeat the Tartars and recapture the village......

Under the reassurance of the kind words, the emotional Su Boming gradually calmed down and took the volunteers to rest. Wang Kefan found Meng Bao, handed over this volunteer army to him to manage, and practiced with the young men, while he fell into contemplation.

The current situation in Huguang is very complicated, just came a tiger (Li Guo), and a sheep (Tong Yanghe), although the Qing army temporarily took a defensive position, but it was only a period of recuperation after the war, and when the situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was stabilized, it would inevitably re-launch the offensive and launch a real attack on Huguang.

This kind of large-scale battle requires full mobilization and preparation, and the buffer time of these months in the middle is very critical for the Ming army and the Gongyi battalion, in comparison, the gains and losses of Puqi city and place are not important.

The Manchu Tartars must fight, but now is not the time, the threat of the Great Shun Army must be solved first, and how to deal with the relationship with them must be cautious and cautious......

Jingliang suddenly came in from outside and reported to Wang Kefan: "Qi Wang is guarded, and Hu Daguan of Long Maochang asks to see him." ”

What is he here for? Wang Kefan nodded: "Call him in." ”

After a short time, Hu Daguan followed Jingliang in, and as soon as he entered the door, he knelt down and bowed, and his speech and demeanor were all in order, and he no longer had the arrogance of the past.

"On the orders of the master of the family, the grass people will visit General Wang, and ask the general to come to the house tomorrow!"

Wang Kefan was slightly stunned: "Who is the master of your family?" ”

Hu Daguan didn't answer, kowtowed again, and presented a red gold greeting post, and Jingliang stepped forward to take it.

This prayer post is very exquisite, open it and look at it, there is a good word in it, complimenting Wang Kefan's literary skills and martial arts, the words and sentences are brilliant in Chinese, but the bottom payment is unexpected.

"The old knife is stunned".