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Tomorrow to fill the grave of the dead father-in-law, Qingming is coming, we Han people attach importance to the deceased ancestors.

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The government did not deceive, and many refugees who came out of the mountains were given land and houses that no longer had owners.

It is said that after the chaos is the great governance, it turns out that this is a good thing.

Although eighty percent of the former Qing Dynasty surrendered officials retained by the provinces of Fujian, they were highly motivated and efficient in the implementation of policies.

The psychology of atonement prompted the surrendering officials to meticulously complete the explanation of His Royal Highness King Qi.

Many "dog officials" who used to be in the eyes of the people have turned into "blue sky", which can be regarded as washing their hair and changing their faces.

Compared with money, life is more important. What's more, many demoted officials are still pointing to making some "political achievements" to rise to the top in the new dynasty.

After the seventh town of southern Fujian was brought in from Chaozhou, some localities had already begun to implement the "establishment of villages and townships," and Guangdong, especially the Chaoshan region, was using various means to attract the people of Fujian to defect.

In the early years, when Zheng Sen in order to solve the problem of the lack of grain and grass in Jinxia, he set the capture of Chaoshan as the solution, and did not hesitate to attack Hao Shangjiu's Ming army Hao Shangjiu, which eventually led to Hao Shangjiu's surrender to the Qing Dynasty and the later "Chaozhou Massacre". After the Taiping Army's Eastern Crusade, due to historical reasons, the local regimental training and Zhaiding active in Chaoshan were purged, or directly or indirectly caused a lot of tragedies, and finally after defeating the Jidu army, the land of Chaoshan basically became a white land.

Among the prefectures in Guangdong Province, the land of Chaoshan is obviously very suitable for living and reclamation, so after the recovery of Guangdong, Liao Ruixiang, the governor of Guangdong, has always wanted to restore production in Chaoshan, but due to the lack of manpower, the restoration of Chaoshan has never been effective. The seventh town was stationed in Chaozhou, and was ordered to invade southern Fujian three times to carry out the strategic intention of weakening the Qing army in Fujian. In this process, Hu Qili, the general of the seventh town, was instructed by Liao Ruixiang and Song Xianggong, the governor of Liangguang, to move many people from southern Fujian to Chaozhou Tuntian for reclamation, with a total of more than 40,000.

On the surface, the Guangdong government must have used the word "voluntary" to characterize the relocation of the people of southern Fujian to Chaozhou, but in fact it was in the nature of "captivity". In that year, Zhou Shixiang proposed that cutting down the Qing Dynasty was like cutting down trees in Xiangshan, pointing out that population was the most important strategic resource, so the first military action against the Qing was to weaken the branches and leaves of the Qing army, and then cut down its main trunk. The "relocation" of a large number of people from the Qing occupation area to the Ming occupation area is one of the specific implementation guidelines of this strategy.

The relocation of the people of southern Fujian to Chaozhou in the seventh town was tacitly accepted by Zhou Shixiang at that time, because the southern Fujian region was a Qing occupation area. The smaller the population in the Qing war zone, the more dilapidated the production, which would definitely be beneficial to the Taiping army. As for how many interests and families in the Qing occupied areas have been sacrificed by this method, Zhou Shixiang doesn't want to think about it, and he doesn't dare to think about it. Because once he thinks about it, he will have nightmares and feel guilty, but reality will force him to do it.

This incident is the same as the death of tens of thousands of people in Xiangxi for the construction of fortifications to block the Qing army and the suppression of the reactionary Zhaiding in Chaozhou. The combination of spear and shield, the torment of conscience and reality, it is true that Zhou Shixiang, who is as hard-hearted as a stone, does not dare to think that all he can do is to minimize unnecessary casualties. But how much it has decreased, no one can know, and no one has counted it. Perhaps, these things will be permanently sealed in the archives of historical materials.

The Manchus killed countless Han Chinese in me, so I wanted to stand up and resist, but because of my resistance, many people who should have survived in this troubled world lost their lives, so what I did was right or wrong.

In the past, Zhou Shixiang has been thinking about this problem, he can use righteousness, the future of the nation, and the history he knew in his previous life to make himself believe that what he did was not wrong. But when he really faced these things and witnessed those tragedies with his own eyes, no kind of righteousness was enough to make him calm. Those people may be able to use the word "sacrifice" to pass by, and they can be explained by the fact that the war is destined to have casualties, but Zhou Shixiang has always been unwilling to face it.

Now that the provinces of southern Fujian have been recovered, the former means of dealing with the Qing occupation areas can no longer be used. If we want to concentrate manpower to restore production, Fujian's ongoing policy of dividing land will naturally extend to Guangdong. Fujian certainly did not want to lose its population, so for nearly a decade, the governments of Fujian and Guangdong provinces were on opposite sides from top to bottom, with one side desperately trying to attract the people in the other side to join them, while the other side desperately wanted to keep the people. As a result, a rare scene in Chinese history appeared -- the officials of the two provinces patrolled the provincial border day and night with their security guards, and many times the old men fought for the sake of a few people, without any regard for face.

The government is no longer an official government, but has truly become a parent.

When the effective growth of the population became the most important means of evaluating the promotion of officials, although some absurd things happened, it is undeniable that the most benefited are the "grass people" in the eyes of the original officials.

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Jinjiang County is also dividing the fields and houses.

Because of the inconvenience of the road, when the village woman Li learned the news, it had been more than a month since the official list was announced. She scolded her own nest of men at that time.

"The government has such a good thing, why are you still stupidly staying at home, why don't you hurry up and sign up!"

Wu Dayou, a man who has always been "strict with his wife", had a bitter face, hesitated for a while, and said stubbornly: "Let's not join in the fun of this matter." ”

"Why not!" Li was anxious: It's a good thing that pie in the sky is a good thing, and his own man doesn't go?

"The government said that the registration is a one-door newspaper, and after the report, it must be arranged in a unified manner and the land will be allocated. If the four brothers in my family are separated, and when they go to other places, they will be easy to be bullied. Wu Dayou said something psychological, he was worried that if the brothers separated, they would be called "bullying".

Li frowned, poked her husband's forehead with her finger, and scolded him: "You stupid, everyone is going to sign up, assigned to the place, they are all raw households, which one has an acquaintance there?" Who can bully whom? ... Besides, even if you brothers are together and don't have land, others don't bully as much as they want. Last time, the third child of your family was injured by the Wang family at the head of the village, do you remember this, the three of you brothers are in the village, did you release a fart? Why? It's not because a few of your brothers are planting the land of the Wang family and pointing to his field to eat! If your Wu family has its own land, can you hold your breath? ”

When these words came out, Wu Dayou was speechless, thought about it, and felt that what the child's mother said was indeed very right, with his own land, he had the confidence to do anything. Under the strong urging of the Li family, Wu Dayou set off for the county seat on the same day, and walked for three days before asking the registration office. When I arrived at the place, I saw a crowd of people, and the people who came to sign up had already lined up in a long line, and if it weren't for the soldiers holding big knives and spears next to them to maintain order, I don't know what would have happened here. All the people who signed up were anxious on their faces, lest they would not be able to share themselves because of the large number of people who came to sign up. Seeing this situation, Wu Dayou also regretted it, if he knew this, he should have come earlier, if he was gone, he didn't know how the Li family would clean him up after he went back.

Fortunately, no matter how long the queue for registration is, the people in the government are all registered there, and there is no intention of packing up and saying that they are scattered.

In the afternoon, it was finally Wu Dayou's turn, he came to the front of a bookstore with a worried face, and said cautiously: "Official, I'll sign up." ”

The bookstore is a talent in the county, and he was temporarily brought in by the government to help make the book. While filling it out, he casually asked, "What's your name?" ”

Wu Dayou reported his name, and the secretary asked a few people in the family, and then filled out a form for Wu Dayou, asking him to take the form to the other side to listen to the specific matters of the land division. The efficiency of the government was really very, very fast, and when Wu Dayou took Li and his two children to the county seat again that day, the carriages and horses had already been prepared outside the county seat, and then the county magistrate personally came out to meet them, and also brought someone to personally escort them to their new place of residence. This treatment can make Wu Dayou and Li, who have never even entered the county government in their lives, excited for a long time.

The reason why the magistrate of Jinjiang personally led the troops to escort it was because some bandits and stragglers in the territory were brave and chaotic, although it was not a climate, but this matter was personally assigned by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and it was related to his future, but he never dared to be careless. Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, if a new official like him wants to keep the black yarn hat, he must be careful.

A group of hundreds of people, escorted by dozens of soldiers in red military uniforms from the county magistrate, went to their new place of residence, which was a hundred and ten miles away. On the way, the people of the county government set up a temporary rest point, which had already prepared hot water and food. During the break, the county magistrate also greeted the people back and forth, and there was no official arrogance at all. Some people who knew about it privately said that the county lord did not do this in the past, but just three years ago, the county lord ordered the heads of dozens of rebels to be cut off and placed on the city gate for public display, and I heard that he personally cut down two leaders of the rebels.

When Wu Dayou and the Li family heard this, they couldn't help but tremble with fright, and they didn't feel like it, the county lord looked close, and he didn't look like he would kill people with a knife. Just when he was puzzled, he heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the distance of the official road, and then he saw a large group of cavalry galloping towards this place surrounded by a general.

After the cavalry came from afar, the Jinjiang magistrate saw the flag, his heart trembled, and he was about to greet him, but he saw that the cavalry had galloped south, and he had not stopped his horse.

The person who immediately led the way was Zhou Shixiang, he saw the people on the side of the road, but he did not stop, but hurried to Jinxia.

The reason why Zhou Shixiang was anxious to go south was not that Zheng Jing defeated Zheng Zheng by counterattacking, but that Zheng Zheng's subordinate Liu Guoxuan urgently reported that a merchant ship from Manila to the Japanese Kingdom brought news that the Spaniards in Luzon were massacring the Chinese. At the same time, Zheng Mingjun of Zhoushan also urgently intercepted the news that the Qing court in Beijing was signing a contract with the red-haired ghost of Dongfan.