Chapter 725: City of Misery
Song Xiang met him in Minister Fan's car.
They talked for a long time in the secret room.
After taking a detailed look at the process of his operation, Minister Paradigm was very satisfied with their performance.
However, Minister Paradigm proposed a new arrangement, hoping that he would go to London in Europe in three months to set up a branch of the umbrella company, and the long-term plan is to form a number of branches in Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Vie/Na, Rome and other regions.
If he plans for a longer time, he will receive an order from the Sky Umbrella Company in the future.
After listening to this, Song Xiang suddenly asked, "Then am I still from the Hantang Group?" ”
Minister Fan thought for a moment and said: "You have the ID card of the Hantang Group, and you are also a member of the Hantang Group when you go to the sky." ”
"I want to ask you to pardon two scumbags, don't worry, I won't let them commit crimes in places under Taiwan's rule."
Paradigm nodded and said, "Understood, you want a helper." As long as their crimes are not serious, they can get amnesty from the board of directors! ”
"And when can I come back here?"
Minister Fan glanced at him and said, "You are employed by the Sky Umbrella Company, and I don't know how your contract was signed. ”
Song Xiang understood, he signed an ordinary sign, and it was signed once every ten years.
Minister Fan said: "When you get there, someone will take the initiative to help you, and you know, we have released some white people in Taipei, and they have basically chosen to stay here, and some of them have participated in the recruitment of the Sky Umbrella Company, and they can do a lot of things in three months." ”
"Understood."
After a few days, dozens of white people came to the cloth bag base of the Sky Umbrella Company, and they all abided by discipline, and the Hantang Group was fluent in words.
Two of his friends from the Hualien City District Prison really got the amnesty order and came to Song Xiang as well.
After seeing him, the two of them fell to their knees, screaming one big brother after another, and tears came down.
Song Xiang said coldly: "Get up, the man only kneels to the parents of heaven and earth-wait to follow me, go to a place where there are no bullshit regulations of the Hantang Group-"——
"Open the door and welcome Han Tang, Han Tang will not pay for food when he comes, half a year!"
"Don't think about it, don't count it, the Tartar robbers are going to play, two years!"
I really don't know who made the three and a half sentences, and now they are widely spread in the areas south of the Yangtze River.
When the security team of the Hantang Group accumulated another batch of armaments, they accelerated their advance.
After the whole of Jiangxi had been successfully eaten, their Lu'an Brigade and the Yangtze River Fleet were advancing towards Hunan in both water and land directions.
In fact, Captain He Ma Xiang of the Yangtze River Fleet has always suggested that he directly take the three towns of Wuhan and then go back and clean up other cities on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
But it was rejected by Captain Sun Yu, the battle line was too long, artificially adding trouble to his logistics, step by step, not to say anything, not to lose points, half a month, a month, two months of recovery, what's the difference?
Captain Homer smiled and thought, we are water transport, what are we afraid of? But Captain Sun Yu also mentioned not losing points, and Captain He Ma Xiang understood that he cared a lot about the evaluation after each battle.
Well, that's right, the target can only be Yueyang.
Yueyang was still called Yuezhou Mansion at this time.
As early as the second year of Hongwu of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1369, Yuezhou Road was changed to Yuezhou Mansion.
It is a famous cultural city with a long history of more than 2,000 years.
It is located on the shore of Dongting Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on the Yangtze River, Nasanxiang and four waters, and the rivers and lakes meet; It is a place with abundant resources, superior location and beautiful scenery.
Take it down, and with a sailboat, you can lock the entire Dongting Lake!
Changde, Yiyang, and Changsha can theoretically be completely in the bag.
The legs of the Lu'an Brigade of the Hantang Group are indeed short, they still started to attack first, when they killed from Pingxiang, Jiangxi to Zhuzhou, the Yangtze River fleet has already recovered Yueyang Mansion, although they are all bloodless, but they have to fight to Xiangtan in the plan!
This team was led by Captain Wang Hongli, and he was still complaining that they were walking completely on their feet, and the original thing about increasing the rationing of aircraft and sailboats was not realized, and there were often logistical things such as personnel.
Captain Wang Hongli said: "Yes, as far as the Guangzhou area is concerned, they are all worthy of them, we are raised by our stepfather!" ”
Captain Wang Hongli said: "The rainy season is coming soon, and we will suffer by then!" ”
Captain Wang Hongli said: "Didn't we decide that the policy is to attack the northeast next summer and the south in winter? How did it advance by a year? ”
He has been busy recovering and pacifying the interior of Jiangxi.
Fortunately, the Hantang Group doesn't want any taxes, that is to say, no officials want it, just go to the side, just manage the security.
After a while ago, a group of bandits and robbers under the banner of the Hantang Group branch were ruthlessly cleaned up, and now the law and order in Jiangxi is very good.
His deputy was a general of the Zheng family's army, who was quite honest and said: "There must be a reason for this!" ”
Captain Wang Hongli laughed, this is nonsense!
It is said that Zheng Jiajun's participation did help the Han and Tang Dynasty Jiguo security teams.
In terms of warfare, as long as Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian does not command in disorder, he is definitely a good little brother, in fact, they have no problem dealing with the Tartar army alone now.
But Zheng Cai, the king of Yongsheng, and Zheng Lian, the marquis of Dingyuan, don't have that ambition, really, people who are forty or fifty years old have already achieved more brilliant deeds than their brothers when they were at their most brilliant, don't talk about those useless.
I want to be the emperor, but is my son the material to be the prince?
Of course, the most important thing is whether Hantang Group can make it? They don't even have the etiquette of letting others kowtow to them, so no matter how you look at it, you can't see that any of them wants to be the emperor.
"Han Tang Times" dared to draw cartoons to satirize the five directors, and often, as a result, nothing happened.
"Fujian Times" also followed suit, and also painted Yongsheng Wang Zheng Cai, but the painting was more powerful than the photo of a real person, which didn't seem to be the same thing.
That Zheng Jiawu general is honest, but he is by no means a fool, he also wants to see what will happen after beating the Tartars.
I read that the newspaper said that they had a heavenly umbrella company that rescued Emperor Yongli to Li Dingguo, could it be-
He really tested Captain Wang Hongli.
Captain Wang Hongli said: "In the future, there will be no emperor and savior on the Ming Continent, because the Han and Tang groups are the emperor and savior, they are the biggest emperor and savior, and there will be no emperor and savior from now on!" ”
“——”
Captain Wang Hongli asked leisurely: "What if there is no Yongsheng Wang Zhengcai in Fujian?" ”
The general's eyes immediately turned red, and he said: "Then the Fujian region will still be in dire straits, and we will still be persecuted by the Tartars, and we will have the money rattail pigtail that makes the ancestors laugh!" ”
Captain Wang Hongli saw that his expression was serious, and then said, "Haha, your son may not think so when the time comes." ”
The general immediately shook his head and said firmly: "I have a pair of children, and they really think so!" ”
Captain Wang Hongli understood that the decision of the Hantang Group was justified.
"Well, put your hope in the third and fourth generations, sooner or later, our descendants may laugh at our poor ability."
“——”
Laughing at the people of the Hantang Group? My god, what an unfilial descendant that must be.
It wasn't until Captain Wang Hongli received the latest information from the Ministry of Security that he understood everything.
He said to the general of the Zheng family: "Oh no, there may be a great famine in the north, no wonder we have to speed up!" ”
After speaking, he looked at the north with some concern.
The Hantang Group is not a god, and it is impossible for them to control the linear reaction that occurs accordingly!
Their actions in the land south of the Yangtze River triggered a high-pressure policy of grain control by the Tatar bandit group.
High-quality and high-yield crops also need a combination of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, even if they are all organic.
But it is useless to give them high-quality and high-yield grain for the Tartar bandits, their system dictates that they must either rob or take possession of them all!
Most of the fertile land was changed into a grange system by them, and the original peasants and tenant farmers were all changed to serfdom, with no property rights and no right of free movement.
In their fugitive law, there is no way for the master, and they can't even go out of the county-level area.
The most terrifying thing is that they preach that all this is caused by the Han and Tang pirates, damn it, they have been like this since 1645!
But will anyone believe it?
Yes, the unbelievers may all die.
So, we can't let such a great famine happen!
The general of the Zheng family army figured out the psychology of Captain Wang Hongli, and said: "We absolutely obey the orders of the Han and Tang groups, if we want to cross the Yangtze River now, we can follow them forever, my family Yongsheng King said——"
Captain Wang Hongli sighed and said: "The physical Tartars are easy to destroy, but the spiritual Tartars are difficult to think - damn it, let them die!" ”
“——”
Subsequently, they accelerated their march to Xiangtan City!
Due to its geographical location, Xiangtan has become a miserable city.
Not a single large-scale city on the Ming Continent would have suffered two massacres in a row in a few years.
Xiangtan suffered.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the peasant uprising and the Qing soldiers entered Xiangtan and were massacred twice in a row.
At that time, Xiangtan, which was full of fireworks and was praised in the United States, suddenly fell into a depression.
In 1643, the bandit rebel army Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong entered Hunan successively, and in August, Zhang Xian's central general Sun Kewang defeated the Ming Dynasty Li Shenjiang in the county seat, and took advantage of the victory to leave the pond.
Later, in the name of tracking down those who "surrendered to sincerity", Li killed many innocent gentry in Xiangtan and Xiangxiang counties.
In 1644, Xiangtan was hungry, the Ming army and the righteous army were at war, and they exchanged long and Shaoyang with each other, Xiangtan was a traffic channel, and it was ravaged almost every day, until "there was no Jia in the city, no farmers in the fields, and no officials in the ya".
In 1644, the Tartars entered the customs, and in order to resist the Qing soldiers going south, the righteous army and the Southern Ming forces took He Tengjiao as the leader, opened the town of Hunan, and jointly resisted the Qing.
In March 1647, the coalition army was defeated, and the Tatars captured Xiangtan and Xiangxiang.
In the second year, the town generals Ma Jinzhong and Niu Wancai gathered hundreds of thousands, and the troops returned to Xiangtan for three months, killing hundreds of thousands of men and women, and Xiangtan was slaughtered on a large scale for the first time.
Only five years later, the end of the respite, in the first month of 1649, the Tatars broke through Xiangtan, with the reason of "more people in Yi than the Holy Dynasty", ordered a bloody massacre of the city, from the 26th to the 29th, countless people were killed, the corpses filled the ravines, the blood stained the Xiangjiang River, the county survived less than 100 people, it was the second large-scale massacre.
The streets are full of artemisia, the white bones are all over the city, the wind comes in the middle of the night, there are often phosphorus fires flickering, and the sound of sorrow is like thousands of ghosts crying.
In 1650, Hui merchants Huang Kenian (word Xiqian), Cheng Zheng (word Qinglai) excited by loyalty, funded the purchase of more than 10 acres of land, led the monks to collect and bury the bones of the victims in the county, packed with bamboo baskets, three baskets and a mound, buried in a mound, it took three months, a total of 603 baskets, 201 mounds, tens of thousands of lonely souls and bones, before they had to be buried in the ground.
At that time, the economy and society were withered and dilapidated, and there were many people who fled from the pond, and no one bought the fields, which was unspeakably cheap.
In the winter month, Huai salt is eight dollars a pack, rising to three or two a pack, end five years, Wu Chu is not through, the price of rice is cheap to five or six hundred dollars of stone, there is no buyer, rotten and inedible, when the call is called 'the chicken retreats'.
In 1650, the plague in Xiangtan was rampant, the four townships were infected, and even a plague was extinct, and the remains of the slaughter were not buried, and the corpses of the plague were all over the river.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were still 4,653 households in Xiangtan, 20,053 men and women, after large-scale immigration to the county and more than 300 years of life and reproduction, although there were no household statistics at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but Xiangtan as an important commercial port in the south of the Yangtze River, Hunan business and trade center, the population should not be less than the average number of counties under the jurisdiction of Changsha Prefecture, should be more than 200,000.
Up to now, there are only more than 6,000 servants in the county.
Some of the people who were degraded died in the war, and some migrated to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Xiangxi, which are deep in the mountains and vast and sparsely populated
Up to now, there are at least 400,000 acres of fertile land abandoned in Xiangtan area!
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