There have been some changes in the shape of the Guangzhou area, and the change is so great that the Hantang Group did not expect. Hantang Group thinks it's a little less fun, and history is actually very difficult to fully control.

Previously, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, heard about the changes in Quanzhou, and they had been staying in Nanxiongguan to watch the changes.

When it was determined that there was no movement in Xianxia Pass, Fujian, the two immediately drove the army south.

This period has been wasted for about a month.

However, these two goods were not idle, and they arranged internal traitors to Shaoguan City, and after the Manchu army went south, it was another combination of inside and outside, and attacked Shaoguan - later the Han and Tang groups could not figure it out, and the Tartars used this trick repeatedly, and it was easy to use!

This is when changes that are different from history begin to take place.

When he learned that Zhangzhou had also fallen, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, immediately sent a lightly armed army to rush to Guangzhou City.

The reason for this is also very simple, the two decided that they must take the city of Guangzhou, otherwise they may gain nothing by going south, and they may also be threatened from the side.

The speed of their lightly armed troops was beyond the expectations of the people of Canton, and they arrived almost at the same time as the messenger...... The Ming infrastructure in the Guangdong region facilitated the Tartar attack.

It was also during the Ming Dynasty that large-scale construction of farmland water conservancy was carried out in Guangdong.

According to historical records, the entire Ming Dynasty province was built with farmland water conservancy projects at the same time, but also carried out sartan reclamation, wasteland reclamation and development of hilly areas.

From the 20th year of Hongwu to the 28th year of Wanli, that is, more than 210 years from 1387~1600, the cultivated land area of Guangdong increased from 23.734 million mu to 33.417 million mu, an increase of more than 41%.

During this period, the farming technology of agriculture has also been greatly improved and improved, and it has changed from extensive cultivation to attaching importance to seed selection, fertilization, irrigation, and seasonal intensive cultivation, and at the same time developing the double-cropping rice continuous cropping system and intercropping system, and in some areas such as Qiongzhou, rice cultivation is still three crops a year.

Both the total grain output and the yield per unit have increased by a large margin, cash crops have developed to a great extent, and the "mulberry fishpond" farming system has developed rapidly in some areas.

The rapid development of agricultural production has provided conditions for the commercial production of agriculture. At this time, the agricultural and sideline products in Guangdong not only have a large variety and quantity, but also gradually form specialized areas and specialized households of different sizes for commodity production.

In this way, the traffic development in Guangdong has been greatly promoted, and the road conditions in Guangdong are far better than those in other southern provinces. It also greatly facilitated the southward movement of the Manchu army. As in history, they soon surrounded the city of Guangzhou.

It's just that since the artillery behind has not yet caught up, they are only strategically surrounded.

In fact, the Hantang Group once specifically discussed the Guangzhou Massacre.

Although there are many contradictory accounts in history, it is important that they do not dispute the number of deaths? Whether it is 700,000 dead or 400,000, or 100,000, this is a massacre, and a revenge massacre against civilians!

Let's not mention the issue of garrison military capabilities, in advance, why didn't the civilians in Guangzhou City escape, this point really made the people of the Hantang Group puzzled...... Is it so hard to have no feet? If you can't think of the ferocity of the Tartars, then was the Yangzhou massacre a few years ago child's play? Even the Nanxiong City Massacre a few months ago should have been seen...... If there was no place to escape before, then Hantang Group so blatantly built Guangfa Logistics Company, and disdainfully asked Manager He Bin to organize people and spread rumors everywhere...... But they just don't run.

The people of the Hantang Group discussed and discussed, and they found three reasons to explain why they would rather die than run.

The first is that it is difficult to leave the homeland. If you look at it from the point of view of the Akito, this is not a derogatory term.

During the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou was already the most important foreign trade city in the Ming Dynasty, and its economic and cultural exchanges with the mainland and abroad were extremely frequent, making it the most economically developed area in Guangdong.

As a central city for international trade, Guangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty was one of the five mega cities with a thriving population that could be compared with other cultural, political, and entertainment centers such as Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Beijing.

The chickens and ducks consumed in a day are tens of thousands, and the rice grain is even more numerous.

Who wants to leave the city of Guangzhou during this period? No matter how Hantang Group promotes Taiwan, who believes it?

The second is that Guangzhou's city is tall, the protection is first-class, and the new purchase of many artillery pieces, the self-confidence is very high...... And there's also the Musket.

There is also a third is that the traffic in Guangdong is really good, no one expected that the Manchu Pingnan King Shang Kexi and Jingnan King Geng Jimao would dare to send light cavalry to attack first, which harassed the evacuation of the residents...... But they still don't have the ability to block traffic on the Pearl River, which is quite expected.

Actually, there is another one, but that's for later...... Everyone later concluded that after Zheng Chenggong invaded Chaozhou City, the Tartars who went south did not divide their troops to Chaozhou as in history, but concentrated their forces to besiege it with all their might, which made the army besieging Guangzhou stronger.

I have to interject a sentence here. In real history, Zheng Chenggong attacked Chaozhou for the second time, and when he was about to capture it, Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in anger, and the Tartar army that went south came to Chaozhou in one group to help Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, to hold Chaozhou.

Then he also appointed Hao Shangjiu as the chief soldier of Chaozhou...... Later, in September 1653, Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, rejoined the Ming Dynasty, and was later besieged by the Tartars, and the whole family committed suicide after the city was broken...... Then came the Teochew Massacre.

The real history is really messy.

However, the prior arrangement of Hantang Group is not too chaotic.

As soon as the manager of Guangfa Logistics Company saw the appearance of the Tartar cavalry, he immediately packed up all kinds of things that could be taken, led his subordinates to get on the boat, and ran along the west trench to Shibafu first.

In the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1406, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times, the Ming government set up Huaiyuanyi in the Eighteen Fu of Guangzhou.

The Huaiyuan Post is rightly a government-run post that is managed by the Municipal Envoy, an official agency specializing in overseas trade. It was here that Ming officials inspected the goods brought in by foreign ships, and taxes were collected and purchased by the imperial court.

Foreign merchants can also sell the goods left over after the Ming government to buy back the goods of the Ming Dynasty through merchants engaged in intermediary trade.

Later, more foreign ships came, the number of foreign envoys and merchants increased day by day, Huaiyuanyi further developed, and since then the southern part of Xiguan has become a place for Chinese and foreign merchants to engage in trade activities and settlement, and the economic status of Guangzhou Eighteen Fu has really come to the fore at this time.

Manager He Bin has already built a small transfer station here, to take in some people who fled to Guangzhou and could not afford to go to Taiwan, and when they stayed here, it was almost enough to send a batch, and then he transferred it to the storage base of Guangfa Logistics Company located at the mouth of the Pearl River.

After Manager He Bin arrived at the transfer station, he immediately ordered: "All the staff leave immediately, carry important accounts, and don't want heavy items, Hantang Group will recover the losses for us!" Hurry up, take out the banner of the Hantang Group - hang it at the top! ”

Guangfa Logistics Company's house, before leaving, he is also now hanging.

At the beginning, he didn't understand, even if he really wanted to leave, would it be useful to hang this flag?

At that time, Chairman Wu Dapeng said in a low voice: "The property of the Hantang Group cannot be infringed upon by anyone - even a straw stick - you can rest assured that the evil will definitely be liquidated by us, I promise you." ”

The shops of Eighteen Fu, seeing He Bin, the manager of Guangfa Logistics Company, and his subordinates were now in a panic, and they couldn't help but be afraid.

Suddenly someone in the street shouted: "The Tartar cavalry is coming, the Tartar cavalry is coming!" ”

The once bustling streets suddenly became chaotic.

Fortunately, at this time, the lightly armed Tartar troops who went south were only coming for the city of Guangzhou, and they did not care about disturbing the surrounding merchants, giving these merchants time to be chaotic.

The people in the streets were in a mess like a pot of porridge, and countless objects were spilled on the ground, but no one picked them up.

People are running around like headless flies, and some people are running in the direction of Guangzhou City.

Manager He Bin took out his monoculars and looked in the direction of Guangzhou City, and he saw several cavalry, appearing like outposts.

You can see their hideous appearance in the binoculars - a few cavalry are not terrible, he and several of his capable subordinates are all armed with firearms - but when he thinks of the large group of men and horses behind them, Manager He Bin feels creepy, how can he not know the power of the cavalry?!

Now there is no wind in the eighteenth century, and the flag of the Han and Tang groups that has just been hung is weakly placed on a high pole, like a useless red cloth.

Manager He Bin looked at the banner and made up his mind, after all, the Tartars were still far from here.

He shouted everywhere: "Don't ask for money, get on the boat quickly!" If you can't get on the boat, go down the Pearl River, there is a containment base there, and my Hantang Group will definitely keep you safe! Don't ask for anything—"

The foreign merchants of Eighteen Lifu ran as fast as they could, and they ran to their merchant ships, hoisted their sails, and kept taking in other foreigners at high prices.

Manager He Bin saw that the several sea boats he brought over were not yet full, so he sent people to shout around.

Among these boats, one of them was the Pan family's sea boat, and the captain said tremblingly: "Manager He, I'll run quickly, I saw a few Tartars coming up again-"

Manager He Bin raised the monocular again to observe, and sure enough, another batch arrived, about seven or eight. He counted the distance and his resistance, and said, "Don't be afraid, they are still sentinels, and they won't rush here - see if another group of people can come up." Don't be afraid, I'm here with you—your son-in-law has said that this ship will obey me completely. ”

The captain returned to the ship in a trembling voice, and he kept looking in the direction of the Tartar cavalry, thinking that if they rushed over, he would be able to depart from him, and that no one who could not be provoked was more terrible than the man who could take his own life—the Yangzhou Massacre, he knew.

Fortunately, the Tartar cavalry did not mean to rush here, they did look around a few times casually, but Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, had an order in advance to let them seal the various city gates first-they were assigned to this city gate, but they did not dare to run away, and the king of Pingnan would directly cut off their heads.