When the meeting to investigate and discuss the actual situation in Jiangxi province and how to govern the province was underway, in fact, the restoration of people's livelihood had already begun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Rushui, which runs through Jianchang Mansion and flows into Poyang Lake through Fuzhou Mansion and the southern part of Nanchang Mansion, is a waterway that can pass through thousand-ton ships, and the water transportation is convenient, which can be said to be the most important waterway in Jianchang Prefecture.

Rushui starts from Guangchang County, the southernmost part of Jianchang Prefecture, passes through Nanfeng and Nancheng counties, and then flows into the boundary of Fuzhou Prefecture, but in Jianchang Prefecture, it does not pass through the two counties of Luxi and Xincheng. In Xincheng County, there is still Li Water flowing into Rushui, but the water system flowing through Luxi County directly flows north into the Xinjiang River, not the Rushui water system.

Since ancient times, the scope of domination has been directly linked to the speed of information transmission. Luxi County is too far away from other prefectures and cities, and it is also a county of Jianchang Prefecture, so the waterway is not passable, so the official road has become necessary. In particular, the southeast of Luxi County is the glorious county of Shaowu Prefecture in Fujian, and then continue to march to the southeast is where the capital of Shaowu is located, and the Ming army also took advantage of the situation in the previous offensive to recover there, and the repair of the official road in the middle has become a top priority.

On the official road between Luxi County and Guangguang County, a large number of men wearing green battalion uniforms are sweating and repairing the official road. They are basically prisoners captured by the Ming army during the previous war, and they are the green battalion soldiers, among whom there are more proud sons of the army such as pro-soldiers and family members, but in the coolie battalion of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the green battalion uniforms are their work clothes, and they are a group of coolies who live and die in the hands of others.

Between the two counties, there are mostly mountain roads, and it is not easy to renovate. In fact, this repair work has begun after Chen Wen arrived in Nanchang, and at that time it was mainly the official road from Guangxin Mansion to Nanchang, and it was extended here during this period.

Escape, it's not that no one has thought about it, and it's not that no one has done it, but it seems that there are many evil spirits lurking in the left near, as long as someone runs out, the next day, that person's body will definitely hang on the pole dedicated to the camp, without exception.

Under the sun, the coolies worked hard, and the mountain renovation had the disadvantages of mountain repair, but there were also some advantages to speak of, one was that the stones were easy to obtain, and the other was that the Ming soldiers who had nothing to do to hunt in the mountains and forests would give them some game for the superior performers, which was counted as a reward.

This morning, the resting group of Ming troops went out, and it didn't take long to bring back a large wild boar. Most of them are undoubtedly used by the Ming army for their own use, but no matter which team of coolies they don't want to be rewarded for their outstanding performance today, it has nothing to do with the illusory commutation, only about the belonging of the half of the thick boar's hind legs.

Pure high pressure is not conducive to improving the efficiency of the coolies, and over the years, the coolie camps have already summed up too many experiences, and appropriate material rewards are one of them.

The wild boar had already been killed, and the men were breaking it down, and the teams were also working hard for the meat of the night. However, this good working atmosphere was interrupted by a team of hundreds of people.

A group of pedestrians from the direction of Guangguang County, including men, women, old and young, were mostly dressed in tatters, but the same tattered pots and cans on their hands, shoulders, and even some wheelbarrows were carefully watched, as if they might be broken.

This group of people looked more like a group of fleeing people than pedestrians. If it weren't for the fact that there were two Ming soldiers leading the team and driving a donkey cart, the word "escape" would probably be confirmed.

Someone passed on the road, and they had to stop for a while, and retreated to the side one by one, but the tattered green camp dog skins on their bodies still caused the group of refugees in the distance to exclaim.

Fortunately, the Ming army in charge of leading the team obviously knew who these green battalion soldiers were, but they didn't care, and after a little pacification, they continued to move forward with these refugees, so as to pass through this area as soon as possible and enter the temporary residence in Luxi County before the sun set.

The refugees moved again, but soon there was an exclamation from the coolies, followed by a whistle, and even the group of refugees became frightened.

In an instant, there was a "pop", and the coolie who whistled first curled up on the ground in pain. Immediately after, a loud shout suddenly sounded.

"Whistle, it looks like you're idle. Which bastard whistled just now, and after doing what he should have done today, he will smash the stone for half an hour! ”

After three years in the army, the sow will become a sable, which is inevitable. Although it has only been a few months since these green battalion soldiers were captured, the allure of women is not a joke at all, especially those ordinary people who are like refugees, they are all weak people who are bullied by them as much as they want, compared to the fierce Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, when they notice that there are women in the refugee team, they will naturally inevitably reveal their true form.

However, the sound of the whip aroused their fear, and one by one they immediately became cringe, and for a moment they looked even more pitiful than the refugees.

The momentum ebbed and fell, and the refugees began to pass slowly under the leadership of the Ming army. The overseers kept an eye on the coolies, lest there be any trouble, and even the stubborn Ming troops in the distance were divided into a section to keep an eye on them.

As soon as the Ming army arrived, the possibility of chaos suddenly disappeared into invisibility. The overseers breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them turned his attention to the refugees.

In fact, just refugees are not very attractive, but only one of the two Ming soldiers drove a donkey cart, and the other advanced on foot behind the group, and if they were guarded, they gave up the remaining space of the donkey cart to a few old people who obviously couldn't move.

"Such a royal teacher, probably even the Yue family army and the Qi family army can't compare."

A smile of relief appeared on the overseer's face. But at this moment, a coolie came to his side, nodded and said to the overseer: "Supervisor Wang, what are these people doing, why are there still military masters leading the team?" ”

The Wang supervisor in the coolie's mouth is Wang Qinian, a local soldier in the standard camp of Jinhua Town, who participated in the construction of the fortress in Anhua Town.

Cao Conglong took the initiative to surrender in the rebellion, although the Ming army added a year in prison after the rebellion, but with the advantage of his hometown, and a new officer from the coolie battalion, he quickly mixed into the work of the low-level supervisor, and relied on hardships and hard work, excellent performance and obtained the treatment of commutation.

When he was released at the end of his sentence, after a while, he soon returned to the coolie camp to serve as a mid-level supervisor for the Ming army, and he drew the whip just now.

"What? Do you still want to find a little girl's skin to warm you up? ”

"Yo, look at what you said, how dare I do it. It's just that you can't do work for the time being, and it's not to pass the time. ”

Wang Qinian glanced at him, but he also knew that this was a flamboyant person, but he had a thief's heart but no guts, otherwise he would have lost his head a long time ago.

"Those people are the Fujian people who Wang Shi called to come to Jiangxi, if nothing else, these people are either craftsmen or their family members. However, it is difficult to say, this is still the first batch, and there may be some ordinary farmers in it. ”

Wang Qinian did not guess wrong, these people are really not just craftsmen that the Ming army attaches more importance to, half of them must be ordinary farmers, who responded to the call in Shaowu to come to Jiangxi to seek a new life.

A few days ago, the Ming army had just executed Wang Zhigang, the marshal of the Qing army who had been a disaster for many years in Shao Wu Lingchi, even in the eyes of the gentry, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was also the king of the people who saved the people from fire and water, and the words he said were naturally very credible. In addition, Fujian is mountainous and the land is far less fertile than Jiangxi, and many people know about these things, and some of the refugees in this group were forced to move to Fujian due to the continuous military disasters in Jiangxi, and for them, this is just a return to their hometown.

"Oh, I see."

More than 100 people, the team passed quickly, and the work on the repair of the road continued. But Wang Qinian and them, in fact, only know one and don't know the other. With the invasion of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang into the prefectures and counties of Guangdong and Fujian, the work of calling for the people of these two provinces to go to Jiangxi has begun.

In addition to calling on the people who were hiding in the mountains to return to their hometowns, attracting people from other provinces to Jiangxi is also an effective strategy to increase the actual population of the occupied areas as soon as possible.

Historically, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty arrived in the world, they also had a policy of filling Sichuan with Huguang. Even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was an example of a large locust tree. Chen Wen only took advantage of the opportunity of the main Qing forces in these two provinces to call on the people to enter Jiangxi in the surrounding areas close to the Ming army's occupied areas, which is not at all the same as the first two.

The recovery of productive forces naturally begins with agriculture. But first of all, it is not how many agricultural tools are made or how many water conservancy facilities are built, but only when someone has land can there be good land.

land, Chen Wen is still tossing, but there are a lot of abandoned fields in Jiangxi's prefectures and counties, and there is no too urgent pressure. Even if the people's livelihood has recovered in recent years, but the earliest recovered Jinhua Mansion is only three years, and the recovery of the labor force can not be pinned on the birth of newborns, but can only come out of the mountains and forests or the occupied areas of the Qing army as much as possible, such as now.

At the end of the day's work, the team with the best performance was rewarded with half a boar leg. Although there were quite a few people in this group, and each person could mix a piece or two of meat and a large bowl of broth, it was already a rare and full meal. Some of them are "more able to live", and came up with the idea of eating a piece and keeping a piece, and then eat it when they are hungry or hungry.

Compared with those coolies who can have a meal of meat, which is already a great thing, the Ming army itself has a meat ratio, although they are not many troops equivalent to the local garrison, but those who rest can go out to hunt, and they can always get some game back.

Wang Qinian had eaten, and took the opportunity of patrolling the camp to hand a large piece of meat that he had stolen to a coolie, and the coolie saw that there was no one around, so he stuffed it into his mouth.

"Brother, is there anything else?" Before the piece in his mouth could be swallowed, the coolie hurriedly asked Wang Qinian.

In fact, many people in the coolie camp know that this coolie was originally an officer in the standard camp of Jinhua Town, and his concubine was Wang Qinian's sister. At the beginning, because of this relationship, he brought Wang Qinian into the standard camp of Jinhua Town to avoid bullying by other green battalion soldiers, and now it is still this relationship, but in turn it is Wang Qinian who takes care of him.

"No, our team knows it, but it's easy to make others unhappy if you take too much."

Chew it carefully, close your eyes and swallow the fat in your mouth, the aroma of the meat seems to still linger between your lips and teeth. It wasn't until a moment later that the coolie opened his eyes, licked the lingering fragrance between his lips, and said to Wang Qinian: "What my brother said is very true, it will not be good if it makes a big fuss. ”

After patrolling the camp, he had to go back to rest, but Wang Qinian waited for his brother-in-law to reminisce for a long time, until he found out before he said: "You do more on weekdays, and fighting for a commutation is the right way, otherwise I will be transferred, and those people will not bully you as they are dead." ”

Who knew that when he heard this, the coolie was stunned for a moment, and then sighed before he said to him: "Brother, it will take more than ten years to reduce the sentence." ”

The coolie told the truth, not a pretext, he was born as an officer in the standard battalion of Jinhua Town, and he was also a fellow villager of Ma Jinbao, and his rank was not high, but once he was directly related to Ma Jinbao, the punishment would inevitably be heavier, and he was an example.

The sentence of more than 20 years, this is still the case that Wang Qinian's family begged a few neighbors to help him say good things, and when the sentence ends, even if he is not tired to death in the coolie camp, he will be a little old man when he goes out.

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Wang Qinian grabbed the coolie's collar, and even the "stab" of tearing the clothes could not suppress his anger.

"For all the good things you've done, it's not an exaggeration to cut off your head. Pity my sister still guarding you at home, if it weren't for her, do you think Lao Tzu would be willing to stay here with you bastard. There are already two officers in the village, both of whom are brothers who died back then, where can they go? ”

Speaking of this, Wang Qinian gasped a few breaths before lowering his voice and saying to the coolie: "Even if you don't care about yourself, you have to take care of my sister and nephew!" ”

As soon as the words came out, the two looked at each other speechlessly. It's just that compared to the coolies who recalled his wife and children at home, Wang Qinian suddenly remembered a person who he didn't want to think about for many years - the Cao Conglong Rebellion back then, and finally he and another coolie escaped from the encirclement of the Ming army, but then he went back and turned himself in, and went back with the head of the green battalion soldier who had a fateful friendship with him in the standard camp in Jinhua Town, and handed in his name......

"What my brother said is that I still have a daughter-in-law and a son. I have to work hard, go out early to reunite with my daughter-in-law, and maybe I can catch up with my son to get married. ”

Hearing this, Wang Qinian didn't say anything more, then turned around and left, walking towards the overseer's camp. Only the coolie was left still savoring something.