The Wuxi battlefield, the Puxi battlefield, the Yangtze River water battle, and the Nantong battlefield on the north bank, at the end of May, with the onslaught launched by the Fu Han army on Songjiang, the entire Jiangnan was once again ignited with fierce beacon fire.

The north and south banks of the Yangtze River are in a mess, and the situation is like a pot of porridge stewed.

On the Puxi battlefield, the Fu Han army had an absolute advantage. Even the Qing army on the opposite side was not at all less in number than them. The fierce artillery bombardment, coupled with the even more ferocious charge of the white blade, in three days Shanghai and Huating were lost in front and back, and the Qing army in Songjiang Prefecture fully retreated to the area east of the Huangpu River. Lu Yong, the green camp in Guangdong, who had just landed in the south of the Yangtze River, was also beaten by the Fu Han army after the battle of Shanghai, and he had no temper at all.

The veterans of the Fu Han Army who came all the way from Henan, the veterans of the Fu Han Army who were tempered by one war after another, and the veterans of the Fu Han Army who were instilled by victory after victory, the powerful combat effectiveness that broke out on the battlefield was completely beyond the imagination of the Guangdong Green Battalion. In hand-to-hand combat, the tank battalion that launched the assault was defeated by one battalion of Cantonese soldiers, who were six or seven times as strong as it.

However, on the battlefield of Wuxi, the Fu Han army could only hold Wuxi and Changzhou tightly, and the pressure on the defenders of Wuxi was increasing. The Qing army gave full play to the advantage of its large number of soldiers and launched a round of offensives against Wuxi, you don't care if they are real or fake, it is consuming the energy of the defenders of the Han army. Especially at night, the harassment war all night long, the Han army on the Wuxi battlefield has fallen into disadvantage.

Then on the Yangtze River, the naval division battalion of the Fu Han Army was unable to support one-armed, and it also fell into passivity.

The Qing army's naval division consisted of four parts, the Liangjiang Division, the Fujian Division, the Shandong Division, and the Guangdong Division. In these four parts, each of them is relatively independent, except for the relatively weak strength of the Liangjiang Water Division as the landlord, among which the Taihu Water Division has always remained in Taihu Lake, and because of the problem of war results, it is really impossible to raise its head, and the latter three will carry out limited cooperation operations at most.

But even so, the Fu Han Army, which had only one battalion of sailors, could not support it.

The water surface of the Yangtze River east of Jiangyin is much wider than that of the Yangtze River upstream, and the battlefield area has expanded many times. Sixty or seventy warships of the Fu Han Army were placed on the surface of the Yangtze River west of Jiangyin, and the speed and dexterity were very good, sharp and fast; But it's a little small here. The wide water surface gave the larger Manchu foreign naval warships room to maneuver and maneuver, and also gave them a platform to give full play to their own advantages. The warships of the naval division battalion of the Fu Han army were already inferior in numbers, and the two sides were higher again, and the situation became more and more inclined to the Qing army.

There was also the Battle of Nantong Prefecture, in which the Qing army had the advantage of strength and kept restoring the prefectures and counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Those prefectures and counties that had been swept by the Fu Han army once and fell into anarchy could be regarded as returning to the embrace of 'my Great Qing Dynasty'. However, without the government, it was quite difficult for the Qing army to ask for grain, rice, wine, meat, and even money from the local gentry.

It is uncertain when the new officials appointed by the Qing court will arrive, and when the war is not extinguished, the local squires will only guard their family property and grain like vicious dogs, and it is not easy to let them obediently take out money and food by themselves. With the current authority and dignity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is delusional to want to order a ban on the ground in Nantong as before.

During the gap period of one or two months, the local squires who have tasted the taste of not being pressed by the government on their heads are willing to go back to the old days with a halter head?

Of course, all this cannot be revealed when the Qing army is overwhelmed. Now, the kind of mind that cannot be tolerated by the Manchu court is just a small shoot that has just emerged from the ground.

Chen Ming now has a feeling of walking a tightrope, sitting in Jiading County, the previous comfort and ease have long been gone. Some are just one threat after another.

The situation in Nantong Prefecture will not threaten Yangzhou in the short term, but will this situation continue? There are also Manchu sailors, which will only accumulate more and more at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and with them, in the area east of Jiangyin, even if the Fu Han army takes it, it will not be tenable.

In that case, the Fu Han army could only start from Yixing on the west side of Taihu Lake, cross Taihu Lake, and attack Huzhou, Zhejiang.

The whole strategy is about to change.

"Why don't you ...... and let the south move?" Liu Wu knew what Chen Ming was worried about, and the Qing army was gathering more and more in southern Jiangsu, and a rainy season eliminated the best opportunity for the Han army, and also gave the Manchu Qing who were moving slowly a certain amount of time.

"Governor Dadu, didn't the eighth master send news that there is still a person named Huangjiao in Taiwan who wants to revolt? Why don't you let the Yellow Sect move first? Not to mention how big a storm it is, as long as it can shake Fujian, it will also be beneficial. It can also give the Heaven and Earth Society a dozen covers. ”

"There are only 100 people under the Huang Sect...... Chen Ming had never heard of the Huang Sect uprising in Taiwan in his previous life, so you can imagine the scale and impact of the Huang Sect uprising. According to Chen Liang's report, Huang Jiao is a poor peasant in Gangshan, Taiwan, and although he has endured enough hardships because of his love of fighting, he has also won some prestige in Gangshan. With such an uprising, I am afraid that even Fengshan County will not be able to break out.

"Give the greatest support to the Yellow Sect, and then contact the foreign bandits in the sea of Fujian, and let the foreign bandits cooperate in harassing the coastal areas of Fujian." The pressure that Chen Ming is under now is really not small, otherwise he would not have let Chen Liang contact the foreign bandits. For the foreign bandits in Fujian and Guangdong, his attitude has always been very clear and can be used, but just like the three tycoons in Shanghai back then to Chang Kaishen, like a urinal, he holds it in his hand when he wants to use it, and throws it as far as he can when he is useless.

Because the reputation of foreign bandits is very stinky, even more stinky than the Heaven and Earth Society and the White Lotus Sect.

The Fu Han army can openly contact and cooperate with the Heaven and Earth Society, but it has to keep a certain distance from the foreign bandits [the reputation of the Mixed Yuan Sect is almost ruined, who let them pull out the Yellow River], the latter is only a thug in Chen Ming's plan, a thug in the outermost outer. The Fu Han army spent money, and the foreign bandits worked hard. For example, the Fu Han army spat on the foreign bandits on the southeast coast to rob and kill the sea ships transporting grain from Fujian and Zhejiang to Tianjin, and the Fu Han army spent 120,000 taels of silver just for the fixed money.

Since the first successful transportation of sea vessels, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and Guangdong Province have all begun to summon sea ships to transfer grain, materials and silver money to Beijing, foreign bandits are frequently active on the transportation lines, I have not heard of them have successful examples of robbery, but even so they have restrained a large number of foreign sailors in Guangdong, Fujian and even Shandong. Otherwise, how could Wu Bida be the dignified Admiral of Fujian, and only bring 2,000 people to the Yangtze River? And Fujian's naval warships have not yet followed. There's a reason for that.

In Chen Ming's eyes, this is a transaction, foreign bandits are like mercenaries, it doesn't matter about loyalty, only cooperation. Unless the foreign bandits are willing to completely change their appearance, accept the military regulations and military discipline of the Han Army, and are willing to completely serve Chen Ming.

If the Yellow Sect uprising in Taiwan can make a bigger scene, it will not only contain the Qing soldiers in Fujian, but also test the quality of Wang Wei, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town. In the past six months, the Qing court has not stopped fighting the southeastern provinces and drawing troops, and in addition to some of the water and land green battalions in Guangdong landing in Jiangnan by sea, some of them have entered Jiangxi and Hunan, the former directly targeting Jiujiang and Hukou, and the latter will also enter Hubei through Hunan, and merge with the green camps of Huguang and Sichuan, and attack the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to force Jiujiang.

More and more green battalions are being transferred from Fujian and Guangdong, so the time for the Fujian Tiandihui to revolt is becoming more and more ripe. Chen Liang has already gone back and forth on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the preparations for the Tiandihui on both sides are not only going smoothly but also fruitful, so the time for the Fujian Tiandihui uprising is getting closer and closer.

If Chen Liang was completely a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, he would definitely not let the Heaven and Earth Society revolt against the Qing Dynasty at this time, because this was making a wedding dress for the Fu Han Army, and the uprising of the Fujian Heaven and Earth Society would not only hit the Qing court hard, but also make a large number of Qing troops turn around and kill like hungry wolves, and cheapen the Fu Han Army in Jiangnan for nothing.

If the Heaven and Earth Society really has people with big vision, they should wait until the Fu Han army and the Jiangnan Qing army are both defeated or exhausted, and then raise troops against the Qing. At that time, they will have more time to expand their territory and power.

But Chen Liang is not a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, he went to Fujian to look for the Heaven and Earth Society, and he brought tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to support the Heaven and Earth Society of the land, in order to let the Heaven and Earth Society be the cannon fodder of the Fu Han Army to relieve the pressure on the Fu Han Army. Now, Chen Liang will not only not prevent the Heaven and Earth Society from brewing an uprising, but will also add fuel to the fire.

"If the Huangjiao uprising can go smoothly, it can give the Heaven and Earth Society in Fujian greater confidence......

The people of the Tiandihui had no denying that the time of the uprising was approaching, and the leaders of the Tiandihui on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in various places did not look at anything about the general situation at all, and were not at all afraid of the Manchu Qing, on the contrary, they were extremely enthusiastic about the uprising. Especially when the news of the successful uprising of the Mixed Yuan Sect reached Fujian, Chen Liang could clearly feel the excited nerves of the leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society in the process of dealing with him.

He thought of when he talked to Chen Ming about the Tiandihui before he came to Fujian, Chen Ming's evaluation of it: Most of the leaders of the Tiandihui were from poor families, and when they first joined the Tiandihui, many people were not to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but to hold a group and hug the circle for warmth.

Their origins determine their vision, and even many Tiandihui in Fujian and Guangdong are not Tiandihui at all. When a person unites a group of people, when an organization or group is established, they use the Heaven and Earth Society as a cover. It's like Li Tang wants to find Lao Tzu to be his ancestor, for a reputation. In the final analysis, this situation is due to the anti-Qing consciousness and anti-Qing ideology that are spreading among the people in the southeast coastal areas.

Especially in Taiwan, Kangxi, Taiwan is newly attached, but in the past 40 years, there have been three riots. In the autumn and July of the 35th year, Wu Qiu, a citizen of Taiwan County, plotted rebellion. The crowd has not gathered, Taiwan's high arch trunk, and the general army Wang Guoxing designed to capture it; Not January, Naiping. In the winter and December of the 40th year, Liu, a citizen of Zhuluo [Chiayi] County, resumed chaos. And in the summer and May of the 60th year, Zhu Yigui, a citizen of Fengshan County, made a mess and shook the world. Zhu Yigui pretended to be a descendant of Zhu Ming, attacked Gangshan Xun, and called Yonghe. Ouyang Kai, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, and Xu Yun, the deputy general, were killed in battle, and the officials below the provincial government fled to Penghu. Taiwan's Fucheng and Feng and Jia Eryi fell on the same day. The Qing court mobilized 20,000 elite soldiers to cross eastward, and it took more than a month to flatten it. During this period, there were many Taiwanese indigenous riots, and it can be said that Taiwan under the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties was not stable at all.

Entering the Qianlong Dynasty, Taiwan ushered in a period of peace for twenty or thirty years, but it was only relatively peaceful. There is still chaos in Taiwan every year, but Taiwan's big families are very powerful, although they have not yet developed to the same big Mac as the five major families like the Wufeng Lin clan later, but the big families of the Taiwan ethnic group who are gathered together with clan blood ties want money, food, people, and soldiers. As long as the civil unrest is not large, the big clans in various places can be cut off by themselves.

And these big households were very firmly on the side of the Manchus in terms of interests. Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty gave preferential treatment to Taiwan's taxation.

In the first year of Qianlong, Qin Feng issued an edict that Taiwan's grain should be divided into two taels of silver per Ding according to the rules of the mainland, and more than 3,560 taels of silver were levied annually in order to comfort the people's strength. and twelve years, it was agreed to be levied in the countryside, and the fields cultivated by the people were exempted from the payment, and the grain was paid as before.

In the 33rd year of Qianlong so far, Taiwan's cultivated farmlands have been several times more than before, and according to the statistics of the amount of tax and grain in Taiwan, Chen Liang beat the data obtained by the Taiwan government yamen to show that the whole Taiwan only levied 4,746 taels of silver and 108,057 stones, and there was no report for 20 years. And now there are nearly one million Han people in the whole of Taiwan alone, and only such a small amount of silver has been collected, you can't help but say that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's light and meager endowment to Taiwan is unprecedented.

And under such favorable conditions, the people of Taiwan can still repeatedly set off anti-Qing and high-altitude dynasties, and this is by no means something that can be explained by the four words 'anti-Qing ideology'. You can fully imagine how heavy the exploitation of the low-level civilian tenants by the big dogs is, which is also intoxicating.

If Taiwan is not peaceful, how can Fujian be peaceful?

Chen Liang's work in Fujian has achieved remarkable results, which is due to a combination of many reasons. However, no matter how many reasons gathered, when the smoke of Fujian was ignited and shone on the entire southeast, the pressure on the Fu Han army would inevitably be greatly reduced.

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Chenzhou capital city.

The midsummer sun was shining across the sky, and the ground seemed to be on fire, and a rolling heat wave swept through everything. The willow trees on the side of the street seemed to be sick, and their leaves hung on the branches and curled, and the branches did not bother to move.

On Chen Youhe's house, the watchdogs all crawled on the ground and spit out their red tongues, panting incessantly. Since the end of a torrential rain after the summer harvest, the temperature in Henan is getting higher and higher day by day, and people are walking under the sun, almost like they are about to melt.

Chen Youhe jumped off the carriage, God, it's too hot. The carriage was like a steamer, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.

And what hit Chen Youhe more than the hot weather was Chen Huizu's shameless old face.

Although the Chen family closed Chen Yihe Commercial Bank, they claimed to the outside world that they had lost money in business, and they couldn't afford to lose money. was also 'donated' by Chen Huizu with 500 taels of silver and 300 stones of wheat. Chen Youhe couldn't wait to pick up the teacup and cover Chen Huizu's skinless old face at that time, he was 'extorting donations' and 'forcible extortions'!

"Five hundred taels of silver, three hundred stone of wheat?" Chen Youhe's eldest son's eyes turned red when he heard this. "Chen Huizu, this dog official, he is going to scrape down the land of Chenzhou Mansion for three feet." Three hundred stone of wheat can at least top five hundred taels of silver, and now the grain price in Henan is still much higher, and the summer harvest has alleviated the current situation of grain shortage among the people, but it has not fundamentally solved the problem.

"This Chen Huizu deceived people too much. One donation, two donations, how many times has this been? If you lack money and food, you should go to the emperor to ask for it, why do you keep drinking blood on our family? No matter how big my Chen family's business is, I can't withstand donations again and again......" Mrs. Chen patted the table, venting her anger and dissatisfaction.

"What kind of donation, mother, this is a donation, a donation. We should tell him to the court......" The eldest prince of the Chen family jumped up excitedly.

Since last year, Chen Jiaguang has been 'donated' by Chen Zhou Mansion [later Chen Huizu] five times, and when Chen Huizu settled down in Zhoujiakou, the squire rich Jia of Chen Zhou Mansion was all guilty and had bad luck. To be donated at least once a month is pure and can no longer be purely extorted.

Before and after, the Chen family had already donated three thousand taels of silver and seven or eight hundred stone of grain. And this time Chen Huizu was particularly ruthless, obviously the Chenzhou Mansion Treasury was burned, and the money and food in his hands were in short supply, so he reached out again without face and skin.

"Dad, what should I do? If it goes on like this...... "The Chen family is really going to do it." (To be continued.) )