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What is the exact number of Taiwanese rebels?

"Your Highness, the number of rebels from all walks of life in Taiwan reported by Yan Yan is only a little over 20,000 in total." Liu Wu was holding a thick folder in his hand, which was handed to him along with Taiwan's Guishun excerpt.

It is very similar to record the size of the rebel armies, the origin, age, origin and merits of the leaders, and the accurate numbers of the rebels, and there are also age statistics.

"There are less than 22,000 people, and 13,400 people are over 35 years old." The corners of Liu Wu's mouth were full of disgust. Those stupid guys, do you think that the layout of the dark camp in Fujian really depends entirely on the Heaven and Earth Society, and there is no more manpower around? Although there is no exact number of the number of Taiwanese rebels, there are rough estimates.

I even know what these people have done in the more than a year that they have occupied Taiwan! Those leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society who took the lead in the rebellion at the beginning can now eat fat stomachs one by one, see which person does not have hundreds or thousands of acres of land under his name?

The big ones and the small ones, plus their respective relatives and their sergeants, the existing 12 million mu of 'five groups' of ripe fields on the entire west coast of Taiwan have been divided up and down by them. Everyone eats a stomach full of oil and water, who else wants to stand up and be a soldier again?

At the beginning, the people of Zhangzhou were the leading force in the uprising in Taiwan, and the people of Quanzhou first helped the Manchu government, but soon fought back; Chaozhou people sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, so the advantage this time is that Chaozhou people get the least, Zhangzhou eats the most, and Quanzhou people also stick to a lot of meat.

The only ones who cried were the local tyrants who stood on the side of the Manchus.

In the whole of Taiwan, the local clan forces have come to a major reshuffle. "But this is not a complete attack on the local clan forces in Taiwan, but a new group of people replacing the old group. It's like changing the dynasty! "It's just that these new families haven't gained a foothold yet.

In front of Liu Wu and Xiong Bingzhang, Chen Ming didn't have to cover it up too much, he just didn't like the clan forces.

The family can still bear it, what is the clan?

The clan goes one step further and is the gate valve! In other words, they themselves are innumerable and innumerable clans, and the influence of ninety percent of the clans is limited to the local area—a slightly more powerful clan within a 'county' to be precise—and a few meritorious and famous scholars come out, and they become scholarly clans.

From the scholarly family to the official family, in another sense, they are a variant of the gate valve.

After the Tang Dynasty, all dynasties were able to tolerate this kind of 'family', that is, because when they picked up the 'pen', they had already dropped the 'knife'.

Chen Ming can also tolerate this kind of 'family', but only for the clan, for the clan forces that have always bowed down under Huangquan, and for the clan that has not been transformed into a scholarly family or an official family, he can't tolerate it. Because this kind of clan most directly controls the people, this is the 'knife'!

When people pick up the 'pen', it is equivalent to entering the existing system, no matter how much you bully me and oppress, you dump me and roll, it is a kind of competition under the existing system. But it's different for those who hold the 'knife'. With the handle of the knife in your hand, you can break and overturn the rules.

Chen Ming's idea may be a little 'left'.

But in order to solve the clan power, he and his father are racking their brains. Didn't the Chen family also start with the power of the clan?

Chen Hui also has a meaning of 'vigilance' in his heart, if there is a Chen family in the world, there will be a second 'Zhang family' and a third 'Zhao family'. He is more attentive to this matter than Chen Ming. And it also really came up with an exact method, ladder taxation!

-- Based on the acreage of household assets, taxes are levied according to steps.

If it is less than 100 acres, only 5% [5%] will be levied on one acre of land; If it exceeds 100 acres, it will be levied 10%; If it exceeds 500 acres, it will be levied 10% and 5 cents ......, and so on. Of course, this is an analogy.

This method was Chen Ming's idea that he was going to use in commercial taxation before, but in the end it ran aground, no matter how small a sparrow is, it is also meat, and Chen Han has not yet reached the point of exempting small merchants from taxes. Chen Hui transferred this method to the fields, believing that if this method was implemented, it would definitely force the rural clans to be scattered.

There are countless people in the entire Chen Han who agree with this law. The old ones are the Seventh Prince, the Ninth Duke and the old uncle, and the younger ones are Gao Yanming and Chen Jiqing, all of whom agree very much. What they thought in their hearts was much the same as Chen Hui's taboo. It's just that if this method wants to be fully rolled out, the details must be fully prepared, and it is still being 'studied' at the moment.

Chen Ming also felt that this method was good, but he was sure that this method would definitely make the squire landlords even more rejecting Chen Han's rule.

It depends on when his dad will come up with a complete set of ladder tax laws.

Chen Ming only thought that his father would be two years late, and it was best to wait until Chen Han's army entered Beijing City, established an absolute advantage, and then knew the world. Otherwise, the landlords and squires in the north would have had momentum.

This matter is just like the adjustment of high-tech industries, using high-tech industries to drive old intensive industries, one gain and one loss, in the long run, there will be great profits, and in the near future there will be great losses. But this is a political matter, and Chen Ming himself can't think of any way to do both, and the people under him can't think of any perfect solution, this is like 'land annexation', a big problem that has been a headache for all dynasties, and isn't it just as helpless for thousands of years?

Chen Ming looked at how his father would deal with it.

"Those who are willing to join the army will be transferred to Fujian for rectification; and those who did not want to continue to serve as soldiers were to be dismissed as citizens. ”

The Manchu garrison in Taiwan has always been a squad soldier. In order to prevent the Han soldiers and civilians from crossing the sea and separating the territory, ******** the founding of the country, and become the base of the anti-Qing forces. Therefore, the Qing court stationed heavy troops in Penghu, and on the island of Taiwan, there was a squad soldier system and volunteers, the latter being more of a kind of village bravery, and also prohibiting Taiwanese from serving in the military, and even more strictly prohibiting private weapons and organizing parties. The Qing court's troops stationed in Taiwan were all dispatched by the mainland, and they were transferred once every three years, which was the squad system.

Chen Ming is a Han Chinese, so of course he will not disband all the Taiwanese soldiers and forbid them to serve as soldiers. At the same time, if we continue to follow the inertia of the squad system, we will be able to stand up in public opinion and there will not be much resistance. Of course, there must still be some local soldiers from Taiwan in the contingent stationed in Taiwan. This transfer of troops is more of an opportunity for him to see what kind of attitude the people of Taiwan's Tiandi Association have towards military power!

On the eighth day of the first month of June, the naval divisions of the Fu Han army gathered on the sea of Lianjiang, and a large number of Han army Lu Yong took a sampan to the land, and it took only an hour to clear the Qing army outside Lianjiang City.

The Qing army's naval divisions also gathered in Langqiyu, but seeing a large number of troops of the Fu Han Army landing on Lianjiang, Wu Bida did not dispatch warships.

Ling Liang had already returned to Nanping, the city of Yanping Prefecture, and along the way he was either a fast horse or a fast boat, so he finally returned to Nanping on the eve of the Fu Han army's attack on Fuzhou. A letter from the Fu Han army in Nanping City was already waiting for Ling Liang. Nanping City is the capital city of Yanping, along the Min River upstream, after Fuzhou is Nanping.

Ling Liang also relied on his geographical advantages to be among the many rebels in Fujian, and he was most keen on fighting Fuzhou.

"General, Zhang Gou of Longyan and Li Shaomin of northern Tingzhou have stopped their troops." These two places can be regarded as southern Fujian, Longyan is next to the Yongchun Prefecture of Lingliang Xin, and Tingzhou is in the southwesternmost part of Fujian. Ling Liang was called a 'general' on his face, but the people around him called themselves 'generals'. This title directly reveals Ling Liang's ambition, how can his strength and momentum be compared with Chen Hui's original form?

Nowadays, the rebel army in Fujian does not call itself 'Metropolitan Governor', but the voice of 'General' is not only Ling Liang.

That letter, Ling Liang asked people to know what was written without reading it, "A piece of paper and Zhang Li flinched, Lu Gong is really majestic." "But that's how men should be. Ling Liang was both indignant and envious. Chen Ming told them to stop their troops and stop the infighting, under the pretext that it was just a 'great enemy has not been destroyed', and he also asked them not to advance to the territory of the Qing army without authorization, because those were all fat meat in the eyes of the Fu Han army.

As early as March, Chen Ming sent people to contact the rebels from all walks of life in Fujian, as well as the Wanyunlong Waner monk, which was put on the head of the Fujian Tiandihui. As a result, the effect was very unsatisfactory, except for Lu Mao, who had a deep friendship, who was willing to surrender immediately, the rest of the people were pushing three blocks and four. Even Taiwan's Yan Yan didn't give an accurate word at that time.

Ling Liang could only sigh Fortunately, fortunately, Chen Ming didn't plan to be hard with Heaven and Earth at this time, and there was still time for maneuver in this pressing situation. And judging from the information he received these days, except for Lu Mao, a stupid goose who received the great favor of the Fu Han army, no one on the ground in Fujian really wanted to take refuge in Chen Han, which made Ling Liang breathe a sigh of relief. But Ling Liang remembered Lu Mao's territory again in a blink of an eye, it was not big, only half of Zhangzhou. But what is that half of Zhangzhou? Thinking of this Ling Liang, Lu Mao's support from the most secret camp at the beginning, when he first started the army, he was smooth and smooth, and at that time, he didn't bask Wanyunlong, and he dominated Zhangpu, Zhangzhou, and Xiamen, which are all ports near the sea. And now he is trying to seek an outlet to the sea, but he is completely unsatisfactory.

Ling Liang is not a fool, he has been raising troops for so long, and he is very aware of the huge gap between his soldiers and Chen Ming. That's why he attaches importance to the port. In terms of firearms, the Fu Han Army's 'weapon-making magic' is known to the whole world, and only foreigners can compete with the guns of the Fu Han Army, only those foreigners with red hair and green eyes.

If there was an outlet to the sea, he would have sent people to Guangzhou to contact the foreigners.

Those barbarians, don't they just want tea and raw silk, he gives it. As long as there are guns and cannons, Lingliang is willing to give as much tea as he wants. "It's a pity, it's a pity!"

Ling Liang was spinning one brain after another on the top, and several henchmen and civil and military officers below glanced at each other, and they could see each other's worries in their eyes. If you want to say that you are definitely capable of being a leader, you have too much heart. What's even less wonderful is that 'born at the wrong time'!

was born with Chen Han and Chen Dadu for a while, so how can there be a future.

If the generals keep holding their breath, then if the 'great ambition' can't be calmed down, they won't be wonderful in the future.

Everyone can't help but think of the rumors that came from Taiwan, that Taiwan is certainly not richer than Fujian, and when they were 'conquering the world,' they were able to grab a house full of gold and silver, a treasure full of boxes, and each of them had thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land. But they can't shake their hands like those counterparts in Taiwan and enjoy wealth and prosperity in peace. As soon as the gang of people in Taiwan handed over the soldiers at hand, they all became masters as soon as they turned around, so why don't His Royal Highness Duke Lu reward them again?

……

Langqi Island, the largest island at the mouth of the Minjiang River, is like Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Qing army's naval division occupied this place, and the Fu Han army could not enter the Min River at all.

Hundreds of ships, a large number of military grain and grass, and more than 10,000 soldiers will fill Langqi Island.

Wu Bida transferred the material reserves and cannons of Haitan to Langqiyu as much as possible, and all the warships were also hoarded to Langqiyu.

Ye Xiangde's heart is in his throat. The Fu Han army has already arrived in Lianjiang, and there is only one step away from Langqiyu, why hasn't Wu Si'er sent a definite word yet?

Ye Xiangde didn't dare to go out of the camp of the sailor, he was afraid that Wu Si'er would be caught by Wu Bida, and if he went, he would be caught in the net. And staying in the army, no matter how powerful Wu Laojunmen is, he can't help himself.

The Qing army was already in danger and could no longer withstand the slightest wind and waves.

It's just that what Ye Xiangde didn't expect was that he didn't dare to see Wu Si'er, but Wu Xiqun came to visit him in person.

"Haha, Brother Ye, don't worry. You can't miss a big deal. Wu Xiqun won Ye Xiangde's trust with a piece of paper and a small piece of iron, and if this piece of paper and this piece of iron that was less than the size of a palm were seen by his father, Wu Bida would definitely cut him with a knife.

It was Chen Han's letter of appointment and the identity plate of the secret camp.

Therefore, people's hearts are absolutely unpredictable. Wu Bida never dreamed that the four sons who were inseparable from his side would hook up with the Fu Han Army early, and the two Manchu Army Banner Officers in Fuzhou City, Ming Fu and Ering, definitely didn't know. Even Ye Xiangde, thinking of this matter, felt very strange that he was not tasteless. At the same time, he remembered the power of the secret camp of the Fu Han Army even more. (To be continued.) )