Chapter 137: Famine
Rubbing his somewhat stuffy chest, the lead bullet that was clinging to the steel plate, a little awkward, remembering the moment he had just been shot, Yang Meng's face instantly became extremely cold.
"Ziqi, you bring people up, and you are still alive! After they are killed, nail them to the boat and let them float on the river! Let Yang Fuliang take someone to stay, inform Master Pan in Guangzhou City, don't let the government deal with this matter, see who collects the corpse for them, and the fate will be the same as them.
Remind him not to forget to copy these people's homes! ”
! Yang Meng's body was already soaked with white sweat, if he didn't care about his own safety, after hearing that Guangzhou Youqiji Iron Factory, he deliberately asked people to order two steel plates, and he would have died on the ship just now.
The bastards who robbed these ships alive don't get rid of their hatred! After getting rid of these eight sea ships, the elders on the road ahead will not be afraid, a group of people who play with knives, can they still do guns and play with guns?
Qin Ziqi's sweeping work was extremely cruel, and the mutilated corpses were nailed all over the hull, this scene not only shocked the people on the Yang family's cargo ship, but even the members of the Elders' Association who were dotted with the Yang family's fleet in the shadows were also frightened.
If the Zhujiang River cracks down on bandits, the Yang family is just ruthless, and the elders are not afraid, but it is not something that ordinary people can do if they unload a living person and nail it to the boat.
Thirty-two twenty-four-pounder mortar cannons, tens of thousands of eagles, 100 boxes of opium, more than 1,000 long and short guns, and countless swords, this is the harvest of a fierce battle.
The eight sea ships were too big to drive from the Pearl River to Yunnan, so Yang Meng simply gave up, and it was not bad to hold these eight sea ships to stand up. At least in the future, the Yang family will be much cleaner on the Pearl River waterway.
Two sunken sand ships. Salvaged. All the mortars were fished up, but a tiger squat cannon was still lost, and more than 30 people on the ship died, and the casualties of the attacking ship were not small, more than 100 people died on the ship, and more than 200 people were injured, but most of them were slightly injured. After using Baibaodan, most people will recover in ten days and a half months.
The imperial doctor invited by Pan Shicheng also pinched his nose and made a military doctor, if you don't do it, you can't do it! His family is on the boat, and he heard the screams just now, this Yang family can't afford to mess with it!
After packing up the fleet, leaving Yang Fuliang to return to Guangzhou with 300 people, Yang Meng led everyone to continue to trace the river, and after making the eight sea ships, the road was also a lot cleaner. It seems that the elders will also get the news there. I didn't dare to attack the Yang family.
Before the fleet left Guangdong, it encountered Wei camels coming down the river, but he only brought less than 1,000 horses, which was inconsistent with his orders!
"Wei Huozi, what's going on in Yunnan?"
I haven't been in Yunnan for two months, I'm afraid something big has happened there. Otherwise, Wei Huozi would not discount his orders, eighty percent of them were old men, and they transferred the people of the epidemic prevention camp.
"Master! There is a great drought in Yunnan, the grain harvest in various places is poor, and the harvest in Yiliang is only less than seventy percent of previous years, and the old man asked me to bring you a letter to transport grain from the Yangtze River waterway. ”
"But something happened to Yunxi again? Is it Ma Xiaoqing or Zhang Fu? ”
A bad premonition covered Yang Meng's heart, and he was in chaos! In the year of the catastrophe, I am afraid that western Yunnan will be chaotic again!
"It's not going back, it's the mountain people who have been collected by our family, the major leaders saw that this year's grain harvest was poor, and they were afraid that the Yang family would not be able to support them, so they clashed with Sun Boqing, Sun Boqing killed more than 300 people in one day, and the Zhuangzi in western Yunnan was going to be chaotic."
I didn't expect it to happen to the Yang family! It seems that in the future, when leading the mountain people down the mountain, they can't be mixed up anymore, otherwise their leader will be their potential opponent.
Let Qin Ziqi read the letter sent by the old man, and Yang Meng also understood the general situation in Yunnan. Due to the constraints of land and food, most of the mountain people still keep to themselves, but there are a few leaders who want to take their own relatives and take advantage of the situation to turn against the water, but they are strongly suppressed by Sun Boqing.
"Ziqi, write a letter! Inform Master Pan in Guangzhou, let him use the strength of fifteen business alliances to raise grain for Yunnan, there is no limit to what kind of food, as long as it can be eaten, the more the better, and the money will come out of Guangzhou!
Inform Sun Boqing of Western Yunnan, praise him first, and do a good job in the past. Let him strictly monitor the various leaders of the mountain people, and those who dare to take advantage of the situation against the water will not be merciful! Let him open the granaries of various martial villages in western Yunnan, and first send three months' rations to stabilize the mountain people, and everything will be said when I go back!
Inform the old man in Kunming that near the Yanjin ferry, build a large granary and set up armaments. Let the steward of the Yang family select a farmer tenant with a large number of families and a large number of men in Yiliang, grant them double the land, give them cattle, and prepare them to move to western Yunnan.
Yiliang belonged to the fertile land of Zhuangzi, and allocated the number of 5,000 households to build brick houses, prepare cattle and farm tools, and prepare to accept the mountain people from the western part of Yunnan.
Inform my eldest brother that he will send people to all parts of Yunnan now to exchange grain for land, and those who can't survive will now begin to gather in the Yang family, select Han village farmers and tenants, and move to Wuzhuang in western Yunnan.
Inform Cen Yuying and ask him to get a set of regulations for the construction of water conservancy, mainly for western Yunnan, and I must finish it before I go back. Then let him choose a group of honest scholars to come out, go to western Yunnan to build a private school, and first get the children of the mountain people to study in the private school.
After getting the letters, free up a fast boat and let them return to Yunnan in five days! ”
At the beginning of this year, everything went well, and I also dug the big mine of pure gold in Yunnan Tongguan, but I didn't expect that since the civil unrest in western Yunnan, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and there is nothing good, it is all bad.
It seems that his steps are really fast, the things in western Yunnan, which were done in a hurry, led the mountain people down the mountain, he did it too quickly, and did not break up these villages, so that the leaders of the villages have an opportunity to take advantage of.
"Wei Huozi, you find a few people who are familiar with the rivers and lakes to come out, let them post to the elders of Liangguang, and if there is a gap with the Yang family, let them go to Yunnan to reason, now at this time, who dares to attack the Yang family, Lao Tzu will destroy him!"
The elders' association is also a trouble, the western part of Yunnan is not appropriate, and he has not been able to spare manpower recently, and the rivers and lakes are in trouble, and the grudge with the elders' association should be dealt with as soon as possible.
"Go and get Mr. Wei here!"
It would be a mistake to take Wei Wu with him this time, if you left him in Yunnan. Maybe the old man can be more relaxed there. This is a battle for exclusive rights. He didn't help, but let him know about his relationship with the Pan family of Lixiangyuan. This old traitor has a backbone!
The area of Huojiaotou is too unsafe, and there are all waterways around it, and before Wei Wu got on the boat, Yang Meng also gave the order to set off immediately. As long as you enter the narrow river, you will not be afraid of pirates, otherwise in another battle, this large number of goods will change hands.
The East India Company, too, is not a thing. They actually gave twenty-four pounder mortars to the pirates, did they really intend to take their own lives? If you want to kill yourself, why don't you send a few river gunboats? Then you will surely die.
This matter is also a head-scratching question, if you want to investigate that you don't have the ability now, and if you don't pursue it, you can't swallow this breath, it's difficult to do! Just when Yang Meng was worried about the East India Company, Wei Wu, an old traitor, trembled and boarded the warship.
Looking at the artillery around him, Wei Wu's face was a little unnatural, this Yang Laosan is very capable! Just two months. He got another batch of artillery, and he had seen the artillery battle just now. Thinking that the sailors of the Great Qing Dynasty have arrived here, they will definitely not be able to beat the level of the Yang family.
This Yang Laosan is a little worse mentally, but the scheming city is comparable to an old ghost, he lives in Lixiangyuan this time, and there are a lot of his meticulous works around him!
"Third master, what do you call me?"
"Mr. Wei is here, it's not a good thing, there is a big drought and famine in Yunnan, Yiliang has a bad harvest, and our Zhuangzi only received less than seventy percent of the previous year. Yiliang has a canal for irrigation, and only 70% of the harvest is collected, and the rest of Yunnan is afraid that the harvest will be extinct.
What do you think about this? ”
"Can you be sure that the entire Yunnan harvest is poor?"
As soon as he heard the famine, Wei Wu's face changed again, and the passing year was not good! The rebellion in western Yunnan and the Yang family in Kunming, if this matter is not done well, it is not a problem in Yunnan.
"Sure! The mountain people in western Yunnan have made a fuss recently, and they were killed by Sun Boqing, this is just the beginning, and the rest of the things are still troublesome! ”
The old man's letter also did not mention that He Changling had fallen, in case He Changling fell at this time, Yunnan had no backbone, Hui Hui and Shen Jucheng in western Yunnan, these two families still have blood feuds, plus this famine, I am afraid that the mountain people from all over the country will also come out to join in the fun.
"Does the third master have a countermeasure?"
"I have already asked people to go to Huguang and other places to raise food, and what the specific result is, it will take a month or two to know the Tao. On the western side of Yunnan, I asked Sun Boqing to put three months' rations to stabilize the mountain people first. As for the other hungry people, I have asked my eldest brother to go to various places in Yunnan to collect them. ”
I don't know if these things can have some effect, but I am afraid that I will take the opportunity to cause chaos when I return, and if this fire burns, it will be difficult to extinguish.
"Yes, in this matter, the third master has a great favor to the people of Yunnan!"
"Sensei, tell me what you think."
"What does the third master think?"
"Old thief Wei, are you going to rebel against the Lord?"
"The third master doesn't trust me, and Lao Wei has no way! It's just self-preservation! ”
"Those little tricks of yours, I advise you to accept them all, seeing that you are afraid of your bad things, you old thief is too scheming, I am afraid that you will be sold if I don't make a move."
Wei Wu is looking for a back account! In the two months in Guangzhou, I circled him in disguise, and this thing was angry.
"He Changling is about to fall!"
"Not bad!"
"The third master is planning to take the opportunity to control Yunnan!"
"That's right!"
"But the timing was not right! As soon as He Changling leaves, during the period before the new governor comes to the future, I suggest that the third master should not act rashly, appease the people of Yunnan, and take the opportunity to expand the territory is what you should do. ”
"How?"
"The matter of Yunnan copper, the Yang family not only eviled the Sichuan Governor Baoxing, but also hated the military aircraft, as soon as the new governor comes, he will inevitably take control of the Yang family, during the period of He Changling's absence, the Yang family must be more restrained, otherwise it will ......"
"Hmmm! I'll think about it again when I get back. That's what I think about this famine.
Taking advantage of the famine, I used grain to buy the land in the hands of the common people, and then hired them to farm for my Yang family. The mountain people are rebellious, and they just get a group of Han people to go to western Yunnan to disturb the villages of the mountain people, otherwise they are afraid that it will be difficult for them to sincerely return.
Then there is the practice of the Han people, because most of the Han people in Yunnan are not in good health, soft and glutinous, and they recruited knife hands in the early stage, so I gave up the Han people, and now is also the time, choose some young and strong people and then form a group to practice, and balance the mountain people in various places.
Back there, I want to do it too, but it's just ......"
"The previous countermeasures are excellent, but you have to be cautious about this time, He Changling fell on this matter, and the new governor came, one is to take care of the Yang family, and the other is to deal with the chaos.
This new governor wants to calm down the chaos, but there are only two ways to go, soft and tough! Huairou's strategy has been very slow to bear fruit, but I am afraid that this new governor will use strong means.
Actually, it doesn't matter to you, Xindu Huairou, you can help. If the new governor is tough, you can also pull them back. ”
"Pinch my Yang family, what if this new governor is too inferior?"
"What's next? Don't you have another killer move? ”
"Killer moves? What killer moves? ”
When did he make any killing moves, Yang Meng's face was confused, but Wei Wu, the old traitor, was silent. (To be continued......)