Chapter 497: Jiaozhi Town (2) Serious Fire
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Originally, this was kept secret from the outside world, and various specific measures were not discussed. But the Vietnamese official side somehow leaked the rumors. As a result, many Vietnamese people south of the Zhu River flocked to the north of the Zhu River for various reasons and in various ways.
When it was dawn, I was still wary of the Ming army patrolling the river. When the sky darkened, the shore of the south of the Yangtze River was full of groups of Yue people. They rowed a small boat, silently, and quickly approached the north of the river.
During this period, ships capsize due to natural causes such as rapids and rapids. There are also man-made reasons such as ship collision and overloading, which cause shipwrecks. Also to avoid detection, all stowaways are strictly prohibited from fireworks. If someone disobeys, they will be unceremoniously thrown into the river by the Yue people who are traveling with them.
Therefore, the probability of an accident on the ship is very high.
Under normal circumstances, two or three out of ten ships will sink to the bottom of the river.
Passing ships will not heed the cries of these victims for their lives. And in order to avoid detection, it will only speed up and approach the opposite bank.
As a result, as soon as the sun comes, there will be many broken wooden planks and drowned and dead floating corpses on both sides of the Zhu River. The estuary of Thanh Hoa City, for several days, there are as many as 1,000 corpses. As a result, the navigation of the ships has been disturbed.
For this reason, the patrol boats of the Ming army had to salvage floating corpses near the mouth of the river.
Later, in order to reduce the burden on the patrol team, a corpse collection team was specially set up to clean up the floating corpses and debris in the estuary.
It is also people who go to high places, and water that flows to low places.
After a large number of Yue people who moved to Daming, they returned to their hometowns. Many Yue people who live at the bottom of the society yearn for the rich life of Daming.
It's just that under the strict restrictions of Vietnamese immigration in the Ming Dynasty, many Vietnamese people have no way out. Now, suddenly, there is a shortcut to move to Daming. These Vietnamese people, who are bent on getting rid of poverty and living a poor life, naturally have to go to great lengths to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
After discovering the phenomenon of smuggling, the Ming Dynasty also had to send more Ming troops to blockade the Zhujiang River. And in the evening, intensify inspections. But the Zhu River is not short, and the river surface is not narrow. The scope of smuggling is also very broad.
And the patrolling Ming army is even more unlikely to monitor the entire river surface all the time. As a result, the Vietnamese people who smuggled can always find loopholes.
So Daming had to inform the Vietnamese authorities and ask them to help crack down on smuggling.
In order to reduce the outflow of people, the Vietnamese government is also very cooperative. Not only did they block all the passages into the river, but they also sent a large number of officials to closely inspect the south bank of the Zhu River.
But those officials are very poorly disciplined. As long as you give a little benefit, you will let the Yue people smuggle in. And the terrain on both sides of the Zhu River is relatively flat. After a long period of war, the forest coverage rate is also high. People are hiding inside, and they are extremely hidden.
Even if the main thoroughfare is blocked, the smugglers will find various paths and come to the edge of the Zhu River. In addition, the fertile soil along the river is a traditional farming area. In recent years, the precipitation has been low, and the water volume of the Zhujiang River is stable. So the crops that were planted grew very well.
The Vietnamese who were smuggled only needed to hide in the crops, and they easily avoided the inspection of the Vietnamese authorities. If you are hungry, you can also eat corn, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and potatoes from the crops.
Under the influence of these factors, the Vietnamese government's crackdown has had little effect.
made the Ming Dynasty constantly exert pressure on the Vietnamese government. In the end, the Vietnamese government was also ruthless. All the villages within five miles south of the Zhujiang River were relocated. And arson, all the forests, crops, and villages in the area were burned.
The fire covered the sky and the sun for ten days.
And because of the lax control, the fire burned into the Huifen Plateau in Nanzhang. Many border residents have suffered unjustified disasters. Thanh Hoa City was also destroyed by raging fires. It took a while to evacuate the residents of the city.
The Vietnamese government also reaped the consequences. The fire spread all the way to the south, and it burned to the great river in the south. Nearly 10,000 Yue people and nearly 1,000 villages were reduced to ashes in the fire.
Later, more than 20,000 survivors were displaced. As a result, dissatisfaction with the Vietnamese government has skyrocketed. laid the fuse for the later chaos in Vietnam.
Affected by the mountain ash, there were days of white night in the southern part of Cochin Town, Vinh City, Vietnam, Ha Tinh, and Hoi Fen Plateau at the junction. visibility, less than ten meters. Many people have also died of acute respiratory diseases and diseases.
In the Ming Dynasty alone, more than 2,000 people died because of it. and cause widespread panic and unrest. And the death toll in Vietnam and Nanzhang is afraid that it has exceeded 10,000. After all, the officials of the two countries will not personally organize medical institutions and institutions to treat the infected people, just like the Ming Dynasty.
But that's all for later!
Regardless of the severity of the fires, Vietnam's original goal of cracking down on smuggling was achieved. And let the town of Cochin cut off land exchanges with Vietnam for sixty-three days.
During this period, the Ming Dynasty sent the Vietnamese smuggled by sea back to areas under the control of the Vietnamese government.
Compared with the punishment measures of the Ming Dynasty that only repatriated, the Vietnamese official is obviously much more severe.
After all, in their opinion, these Yue people who infiltrated the Ming Dynasty were all Diao people who did not obey the king. Therefore, those who are sent back, sent back, and caught will be punished with 30 boards and eaten in prison for half a year. Not only ten days and half a month, but I couldn't get out of bed. They also had to live in a prison cell and endure extremely poor living conditions.
Many of the Vietnamese who were beaten died in cells with very poor hygiene due to wound infections.
The vast area between the Zhu River and the Great River has been reduced to a deserted ghost. Large fields with fertile soil have also become ownerless wastelands. It wasn't until a few years later that the Ming Dynasty took over the place, and it had not yet returned to the level of production before the fire.
When the impact of the fire was completely eliminated, the administrative organs of the Ming Dynasty also entered the new territory of Tsushima and Zhujiang for the first time. Basic measurements, such as land measurement and population inventory, were also carried out simultaneously. A lot of people were found to have smuggled and crossed over.
In addition, there are many Nanzhang people from the upper reaches of the Majiang and Zhujiang rivers.
They were sent away along with a small number of scholars and landlords loyal to the Vietnamese government. There are more than 30,000 Yue people who remained. Among them, a small half are the residents of the original Thanh Hoa City.
For these people, Daming did not move them away. The first is that there are limited migrant ships now, and these people cannot be taken care of. Second, there are more than 30,000 people, which is not much. With the current scale of the displaced people in northern Vietnam, it is completely possible to assimilate them.
Therefore, according to the domestic land standards, these people were re-divided into fields. It's just that, like the rest of the Ming Dynasty, these people only have the right to cultivate, but not the ownership of land.
In addition, 50,000 displaced people moved from the border. They were scattered and resettled in the original Yue villages, where they mixed with the original inhabitants. In terms of numbers, the homeless people have an absolute advantage.
As long as they have been assimilated for one or two generations, these people will be no different from the Ming people who speak Chinese and practice Han Li.