After letting Yang Cai lead 500 rattan armor soldiers to stay in the cottage of Pantuo Town, Zheng Chenggong led other soldiers and horses to continue to eat in Zhangpu and Yunxiao County.

When he conquered Wang Fugui's cottage, he found 170,000 stone of grain in the cellar and granary, and collected a large amount of wealth in his mansion, so that Zheng Chenggong understood that he should go south with his troops to eat, and what kind of cottage should he go to recruit soldiers.

Among the squires and wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty, there are many people and scholars.

Juren and jinshi can be exempted from labor taxes, so many ordinary people drag their families to rely on them.

In the event of floods, these squires and wealthy families have sufficient manpower and material resources to build ditches and other water conservancy measures to protect the farms and farmers.

In times of drought, when water is abundant in the south, small streams may dry up, but large rivers do not stop flowing when their water levels drop at most. At this time, they can rely on the strength of the crowd to forcibly occupy water sources to irrigate the farmland.

Therefore, natural disasters have little impact on these cottages and villages. Even in times of disaster, some black-hearted people will hoard supplies, drive up prices, and make huge profits.

In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, coupled with the inaction of the government, and even the inaction of corrupt officials, they will also have to bear heavy taxes and forced labor, which can defeat them at once, and they will become refugees and displaced people, which is unbearable.

Therefore, if you want to find it, you have to find those cottages formed by squires and wealthy families.

This kind of cottage is the most oil and water that can be fished. And those cottages formed by ordinary people for self-protection are all bitter haha, even if they are broken, there is not much oil and water. At the same time, it will also bring a stain to your reputation, and the gains outweigh the losses!

If it weren't for the wrong time now, Zheng Chenggong would have wanted to shout the slogan of "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land" to attract those refugees and displaced people to strengthen their own power, and then lead the mighty people's army to attack the city and build a harmonious society.

Hey, it's just that the national contradiction is the main contradiction at this stage, and the class contradiction is a secondary contradiction, and we can only talk about it after the Manchu Qing Dynasty is defeated first.

It's just that at that time he may become an enemy of the peasant class, and it is impossible to fight himself.

As Zheng Chenggong rode his horse and looked for his next goal, he suddenly thought of Marxism. From primary school to university, 20 years of Marxist-Leninist education will never be forgotten.

With the large amount of money and food accumulated by Wang Fugui to survive, when attacking the cottages in the back, Zheng Chenggong was not so radical in doing things, and put all the cottages and villages in one nest, but sent people to communicate with them first.

Zheng Chenggong gave the conditions for peaceful coexistence: 30,000 or 40,000 stone of grain and 20,000 or 30,000 silver for the big cottage.

The small and medium-sized ones depend on the reputation of the other party among the people, if it is good, just give one or two thousand stones of grain and three or five thousand silver.

If it's not good, all the families will be exterminated!

There must be one or two to increase their prestige, and at the same time, they can make an example to those squires and wealthy families to see what the fate of the confrontation against themselves is!

If you can negotiate the price, you will naturally be safe.

But if you can't talk about it, hehe, don't blame the general for putting you on the charge of "colluding with the Tartars and harming the people", and then judge you on behalf of the broad masses of the people.

In this era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how many squires and wealthy families were clean, just look at whether they look ugly or not!

When Zheng Chenggong led the army to find suitable cottages to fight local tyrants in Zhangpu and Yunxiao counties.

In the barracks of the Qing army stationed in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, Shi Fu sent someone to invite his nephew Shi Lang to his camp.

"My nephew visited my uncle, and I don't know why my uncle came to me late at night." Shi Lang arched his hand and said. Although his father is the eldest son of the Shi family, his uncle Shi Fu is the patriarch of Shijia Village, Yakou, Longhu Town. Shi Lang was very afraid of blessings, and when he saw his uncle, he had to attend the ceremony.

Shi Fu did not speak, but waved his subordinates Liang Li and Cheng Sheng to guard outside, not allowing anyone to get close to the camp tent to eavesdrop on their conversation.

After seeing that the generals had all gone out to guard it, Shi Fu said sternly: "How many times have you said it, don't be so impulsive." Why didn't you listen, and now you went to confront Admiral Li again. ”

Hearing his uncle teach him a lesson, Shi Fu said indignantly: "If it weren't for that Li Hezi's partiality, he actually allocated refined grain to the northern soldiers, but it was for me to wait for the southern soldiers to eat bran meal." How can we be convinced by such a harsh treatment of our southern soldiers? The little nephew only asked him a few words today, but I didn't expect him to directly use military law to scold me. Uncle, tell me, is there still justice in this? ”

Hearing that Shi Lang was still quibbling and refusing to admit his mistake, Shi Fu shouted angrily: "Fair fart, what is said in the army is strength, it is fists." Now our power is not as good as others, even the dragon has to be coiled, and the tiger has to lie down. If you offend Admiral Li like this, you will be killed. ”

"Li Chengdong, he dare?"

"Why don't you dare, he dared to have a three massacres in Jiading back then, killing seventy or eighty thousand people. What else he didn't dare. What's more, you're a little biased. ”

Shi Lang said stubbornly, "But I just don't accept it." Why should we southern soldiers eat dregs of chaff? ”

This nephew's ability is good, but he is too stubborn.

Shi Fu sighed and said, "If Zheng Fei and Huang were willing to resist at the beginning, then Li Chengdong would not be able to conquer Fujian easily, and now he will not despise us and other southern soldiers like this." It's just that it's useless to say these things now, you can't stay here anymore, otherwise sooner or later Li Chengdong will find a reason to kill you. ”

"Uncle ......"

"Needless to say, for the sake of your safety, for the sake of our Shi family, and for the sake of my uncle, I want you to go to Zheng Chenggong."

"Zheng Chenggong! Why, uncle, didn't you say before that he was just a scholar who could argue with his tongue? That's why you didn't choose him at the time, why do you want me to take refuge in that useless scholar now? ”

Shi Lang was very puzzled, even if he wanted to leave Li Chengdong's guy by himself, but among so many people, why did he want to go to Zheng Chenggong's guy.

"Hey, Uncle Wei also looked away. I didn't expect him to become so famous in just two years. that the people could sing about his deeds. ”

Shi Lang said disdainfully, "Fame? That's just a fool's opinion, what is the life of Prince Yue, Guo Ziyi of the Ming Dynasty, bullshit, it's just made up. Otherwise, he would still be committed to Kinmen. ”

Hearing Shi Lang's disdainful tone, Shi Fu shook his head. I thought he was just young and frivolous, so he was a little stubborn.

Now I look not only stubborn, but also arrogant, looking down on others.

Shi Fu had a headache, he had persuaded him many times before, but he still hadn't changed it, and it was useless to say more now.

Hey, I'm afraid that he will only improve after he will suffer a major setback in the future.

Knowing that it was useless to say more, Shi Fu did not dwell on Shi Lang's personality anymore, but said, "If you don't have extraordinary ability, how can so many people be willing to take refuge in him." ”

"But, uncle, now that the Qing Dynasty is about to dominate the country, you still let me go to a guy who still has a lot of power. Isn't it too ......."

"If it weren't for your stubborn temper, my uncle wouldn't have let you go to someone else. It's just that now that you have offended Li Chengdong, even if your life is saved, I am afraid that there will be no future. Moreover, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty promulgated mob policies such as shaving hair and making it easy to wear, enclosing land, etc., all parts of Kyushu and China have raised troops to resist the Qing. Although the Qing army was powerful, the number of people was too small, and the troops from all over the country could make them anxious and run around. Now it seems that it is still unknown whether the Manchu Qing can gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains. For the sake of our Shi family, that's why Uncle asked you to go to Zheng Chenggong. ”

"But you don't have to go to Zheng Chenggong!"

Seeing that Shi Lang was always unable to understand what he meant, the angry Shi Fu wanted to wake him up with a slap, and shouted, "If you don't go to him, who else can you take refuge." Yongli, timid and afraid of things, scheming and indecisive, doing big things and sparing his life, is just a dry bone in the grave, and sooner or later he will be destroyed. Lu Jianguo is in name only, Zheng Cai is tyrannical, and he is a villain, what is the use of you going to take refuge in them. Zheng Chenggong is very weak now, but his prestige is very high, and he has a sailor, as long as the time comes, he can enter the sea like a trapped dragon, and the dragon soars all over the world. At that time, I am afraid that even the Manchu Qing will not be able to help him. ”

After losing his temper, Shi Fu regained his usual composure again and said, "Lang'er, you should understand. The icing on the cake is better than sending charcoal in the snow. When you take refuge in him when he is in danger, someone will be willing to tolerate your stinky temper, and your talent can be displayed. ”

"This! But uncle, when Zheng Chenggong raised the army before, he wrote to persuade you, but you didn't give him face at that time. Now we go to him again, I'm afraid that he won't easily let go of what he had done. If so, we will go to Him, and the situation will not be worse than it is now.

"It's not us, it's you, uncle, I won't go."

"What, uncle, you're not going!"

"Just like you said, I didn't give him face before, do you think he really doesn't mind at all? Now that he is weak, he may accommodate me, but it is inevitable that he will settle accounts in the future. Therefore, it is better for my uncle not to go, so as not to obstruct his eyes and be bad for your future. But don't worry, my uncle will let a few of his subordinates bring soldiers and horses to join you to join Zheng Chenggong, so as to increase your status in Zheng Chenggong's mind. And at that time, my uncle will have a big gift for you to bring over, and when I see that gift, I believe that the eldest prince will definitely accept you. ”

Shi Fu said this, but in his heart he still considered the other side. Although Zheng Chenggong's reputation is so loud, the sea of people who exaggerate it has gone. In addition, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is powerful after all, no one can say what will happen in the end, and our Shi family can't put all the bets on Zheng Chenggong's side.

Knowing that his uncle Shi Fu had made up his mind to let himself go to Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang knew that it was useless to talk about it. had to obey Shi Fu's arrangement, but Shi Lang was still very unconvinced in his heart and didn't wait to see Zheng Chenggong.