Haizhou City was first built in 512 A.D. (the eleventh year of Emperor Wu of Liang), Haizhou City is surrounded by mountains in the south and seas in the north.

Ming Yongle 16 years, add the city wall, the total length of nine miles one hundred and thirty steps, two zhang five feet high, the city has four gates, respectively: east "Zhenhai Gate", west "Tonghuai Gate", south "Shuyang Gate" and north "Linhong Gate".

The jurisdiction of Haizhou Wei is "30 miles north to Liaoyang Ganquan Pujie (now Haicheng Ganquan Town), northwest to a wall of the Liaohe River (a wall village in Sifangtai Town, Haicheng East), 175 miles to Guangning Gaoling Pujie (Gaosheng Town, Panshan County) to the west, 90 miles to Liangfang Haikou (Yingkou) in the southwest, 15 miles to Gaizhou Weishicheng Pujie (near Shicheng Mountain in Gaixian County) in the south, 110 miles to Da Bianling (Xiuyan Biling Town) to the east, 300 miles to the sea in the east, and 340 miles to Tianshui Station (Tianshui Manchu Township, Liaoyang County) in the northeast. "After orthodoxy, Haizhouwei's jurisdiction is basically in this range.

At this time, Haizhou Wei can be regarded as a relatively large guard.

Haizhou Weizhi is located in the northwest corner of Haizhou City. However, the procuratorate office, the general's office, and the imperial office are in the northeast corner of Haizhou City. The important yamen of Weizhi and Zhouzhi are just on the east and west sides of Haizhou City.

There is also an armament bureau in the northeast of Haizhou City, which is the most heavily guarded place in the city.

There is another place in the city that is heavily guarded, which is a hill in the east gate of the city. This hill is called Okura Mountain, and there is a military storage warehouse on the mountain, and there are reserve warehouses and money warehouses in the military storage warehouse. There are also two granaries next to it, namely "Liyi Warehouse" and "Changping Warehouse".

Although these two huge warehouses are called "Liyi" and "Changping", there has never been "Liyi" and "Changping".

In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang laid the foundation of Jiangnan, and wanted to take the whole country after sweeping away the heroes. In the winter of that year, he sent the general Xu Da and the deputy general Chang Yuchun to lead a heavy army of 250,000 troops to the north to determine the Central Plains. Xu Dachi sent an edict to the lands of Qi, Lu, He, Luo, Yan, Su, Qin, and Jin to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. For those who are still obedient to the Yuan Empire, "cut the grass and eradicate the roots" wherever they go. And Haizhou Wei suffered a catastrophe in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Huang Chen, the commander of the horses, killed innocents indiscriminately on the grounds of "Haizhou civil turmoil", and the old and the young were not spared. After that, there were "natural disasters", floods and droughts occurred in the Jianghuai region, and the people ate tree bark, grass roots, weeds, and even "sold their wives and mustaches in order to make a living". The wanderers are multitude, and the land is deserted.

Haizhou is also located by the sea. After Zhang Shicheng's death, the rest of his troops fled to the island, on the one hand, they continued to be enemies of Zhu Yuanzhang and refused to surrender to Ming, and on the other hand, they colluded with the Japanese to plunder the coast and disrupt the border. In order to cut off the exchange of information between the mainland's insiders and Zhang Shicheng's remnants and receive food and wages, an unprecedented maritime ban policy was implemented during the Hongwu period. What is more, the forcible relocation of coastal island residents to other places is said to be to prevent Japanese invasion, but in fact it is to cut off the maritime ties between the inland people and the remnants of Zhang Shicheng. This is the "relocation to the sea", and then in order to maintain long-term peace and stability, and in order to prevent the resurgence of Zhang Shicheng's old department, the "sail is not allowed to enter the sea" was implemented.

At this time, Haizhou was actually sparsely populated and the fields were barren.

Although the people are scarce, it also refers to the entire Haizhou territory. There were more than 12,700 households in the original amount, and only more than 4,000 households have fled since the holidays. However, the population of Haizhou has increased a lot, except for a few wealthy people living outside, most of them are refugees with children and daughters. Many people find it difficult to make ends meet, so they have to sell their sons and daughters and become beggars. At this time, in front of the City God Temple in the city, there were many beggars lying horizontally.

The government has no choice, and the imperial court has no explicit prohibition on these refugees. As long as they don't make trouble, they can only fend for themselves.

Recently, the government has also been in turmoil. Although the Liyi warehouse and Changping warehouse have not been full, there is still some grain in them after all. Strangely, these two granaries have been stolen from time to time. Two stones today, three stones tomorrow, although it is not much, but it can't stand being stolen every day. At this time, it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, even if the government soup porridge is thin, it can't be diluted to a few grains of rice to boil a pot of water.

They all command the sword of the rich and expensive lord, but they don't recognize people. Xie Yuan, a thousand households in Kokurayama, was under a lot of pressure.

Dong Anlin, one hundred households in the city's Chinese Temple Street, because he and Xie Yuan were sons and daughters, had to draw some elite soldiers to assist. His own territory, Confucian Temple Street, can only let those beggars wander around there, if anyone dares to cause trouble, he is not a vegetarian.

The 100 households of Confucian Temple Street are on the west side of Confucian Temple Street. Adjacent to the hundred households is the Temple of Literature, in fact, there is not a single beggar here, these ant people who are struggling on the line of life and death, the most feared is still Jinyiwei, hunger does not necessarily mean death, offending Jinyiwei will die immediately.

Across the street from the Temple of Literature is the City God Temple. At this time, there were three or four beggars wandering among the feeble beggars.

"Brother Hai, sit down and go later." The smaller beggar sat on the ground and beckoned to the hunched beggar in front of him.

If the second son of the Li family is alive, he will be shocked, this little beggar is suddenly the Niu Ba he hates.

Yes, this is Tong Hang. At this moment, Tong Hang was doing a big thing, and he decided to pull up a team by himself. A great man once said, "The barrel of a gun comes out of power", which is a wise saying. In this troubled era, he increasingly found that this sentence was important to him.

The "big brother of the sea" in his mouth is Ma Chenghai. And Hanzi is the stupid and dumb black charcoal beggar next to him.

It has been half a month since they came to Haizhou, and they settled on the Quyang Mountain in the south of the city. In the past half a month, they have been doing one thing, that is, to inquire about the situation of Liyi Cang and Chang Ping, and then go to steal grain every day. There is no way, in this world, there is nothing that can attract people, only this food is the magic weapon of the real people. They have already stockpiled thirty or forty stone of grain, and it is time to collect them.

Last night, they argued for a long time about what kind of people to accept. In the end, Ma Chenghai still admired and bowed to the wind. Childe's whimsical idea drew him an extra-large cake. For the sake of this cake, he decided to let his son send him for the rest of his life and never return to Lord Cao Nai.

Today, they are here, in front of this City God Temple, to carry out the first step of Gongzi's painting of cakes. They wandered for a long time and found that the beggars were not as destitute and hungry as they had thought. They couldn't help but wonder a little, was it just because of those gruels that were so rare that they could see people that they could live?

Ma Chenghai had just sat down next to his son, and a few strong ones suddenly stood up among the beggars. These are exactly the few that Ma Chenghai is going to go over to talk to in a while.

A beggar pointed to them and said, "Come, men, come with me." ”

Ma Chenghai couldn't help but look at Tong Hang.

Tong Hang nodded and said to Ma Chenghai and Hanzi, "Go and see." ”

The little beggar in the back, Xiaomi, grabbed Tong Hang and said fearfully: "Brother Hang, don't go, they are ......" Seeing the fierce light swept over by the beggar, Xiaomi couldn't help but tremble and hurriedly stopped.

Tong Hang frowned and said, "Xiaomi, you stay, we will come when we go." Whether it's a blessing or a curse, you have to break through. ”

Ma Chenghai nodded, didn't say anything, and walked over with his legs raised. Hanzi hurriedly followed behind Tong Hang.

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