74_74043 Chapter 90, The Great Migration of Ten Thousand Miles (I

Due to Nurhachi's brutal massacre policy of the Han people in Liaodong, since the fall of Liaodong, the remaining Liao people have continued to flee to the Western Liaoning Corridor and the islands of Dongjiang Town in order to get rid of the bloody rule of the Jurchens, making the barren islands of Dongjiang Town crowded with hundreds of thousands of people at the most. Obviously, the limited resources of Dongjiang Town could not support such a large population, so the Liao people had to continue to cross the sea and flee to Dengzhou on the Shandong Peninsula.

The problem is that in the late Ming Dynasty, all parts of the Central Plains were "overpopulated" and the people were struggling to make a living, and Dengzhou was not much better. After the sudden influx of such a large number of people, the local people were not only unable to make use of these laborers, but because of the competition for living space, a strict conflict between the Liao people and the Shandong people broke out. Although Chen Xin started in Wendeng, he relied on the establishment of cigarette factories and other industries to absorb part of the remaining population. However, compared with the many tenantless farmers in Dengzhou, as well as the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Liaodong, it still seems a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, most of the Liao people who fled across the sea also preferred to stay in the capital city of Dengzhou and take care of each other to live a life -- because Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, a famous Western-style faction in the late Ming Dynasty, in order to train a new Western-style army with combat effectiveness, mainly relied on recruiting Liaodong deserters to supplement his troops in Dengzhou.

However, this situation aroused great dissatisfaction among the local people in Dengzhou -- Dongjiang Town had been short of food and wages for a long time, and the Liao army had always done everything in order to fill its stomachs. After arriving in Shandong, those deserters who were mixed with the number of soldiers and ate the official family were not enough, and many deserters who were not selected actually disguised themselves to wash and plunder villages everywhere, killing many villages without leaving chickens and dogs. The Liao soldiers in Dengzhou supported them and played the game of the official and bandit family, so the contradiction between the Shandong people and the Liaodong people became more and more intense, and the people in the countryside reached the point where it was common for them to attack and kill each other.

Even after Dengzhou Town rebelled and conquered Fucheng, the contradictions between the locals in Shandong and the refugees from Liaodong were still not resolved. On the contrary, due to the fact that Dengzhou Town tried every means to seize land and set up military cantonments to house military dependents and vassal populations, and to make enemies of the gentry and large households, the "local and guest contradictions" on the side of Dengzhou and Laizhou suddenly turned into a more complicated three-way chaos, and dozens of heads had to be cut off every day to be able to suppress them. And how to resettle at least 100,000 fugitives and routs from Liaodong who have no food and clothing, Dengzhou Town has not yet come up with a proper countermeasure.

In addition to the refugees from Dongjiang Town, who fled from Liaodong, the local displaced people in Shandong are also a big headache. This year, the Central Plains is full of severe drought, thousands of miles of red land, and no crops have been harvested; although Henan is the hardest-hit area among the hardest-hit areas, several prefectures in the western part of Shandong are not much better, and there are hungry people fleeing the famine everywhere. Obviously, the decaying and brutal Ming government had no way to deal with such a famine, so it could only hold on to the city and wait for time to solve the problem: for most of the feudal dynasty, except for a few prosperous periods of financial abundance, according to the traditional Confucian official philosophy, when there was not enough relief food, the quickest strategy to solve the famine was to die out violently in a short period of time - as long as these lowly people were allowed to attack each other, plus more starvation to death, the "surplus" population would naturally be greatly reduced. When the spring of the following year begins, the peasants who did not starve to death will naturally go back to cultivate the fields, and the civil unrest will disappear, and the big men in the yamen can continue to be their peace officials. As for the period, there may be a number of wealthy gentry who will be victimized...... Then they can only be blamed for their bad luck, how can there be a few unsatisfactory things in life?

-- In terms of disaster relief and relief, the situation that came out of the government at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not only incompetent, but also completely ignored.

However, the homeless people will not starve to death, but will do everything in their power to get something to eat, or flee to a place where they can eat. Although the Shandong Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, it is not the best choice for the hungry to flee. But now there is a great drought in Henan and North Zhili, and I can't find food there. Although Nanzhili was rich, the Wenxiang Sect rebels blocked the way south, and all the displaced people who ran there were filled with cannon fodder and filled trenches in the siege battle...... In contrast, Jiaodong, which is said to be quite prosperous by the military households in Dengzhou, is a good place to go.

Since the beginning of the summer, the scourge of war on the ground in Shandong has continued, and more war refugees have been created -- in the modern world, where humanitarian thinking has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people? People in war-torn areas were forced to leave their homes, not to mention the late Ming Dynasty, when it was common for the army to openly burn and kill civilians.

As a result, since the beginning of autumn, the refugees who have fled from all directions have made the civil affairs officials in charge of Dengzhou Town almost gray their hair -- this flag-pulling rebellion was originally done in a hurry, and the armament and food reserves in Dengzhou Town were not sufficient. Now that there are suddenly so many mouths to eat, it is difficult to import a large amount of grain from the south for a while because of the flag rebellion, and I suddenly feel overwhelmed.

However, just as Chen Xinshuai was about to be ruthless and expel these homeless people who really couldn't support them to other places to fend for themselves, the steel battleship of the Global Chinese Traveler Alliance fell from the sky...... As a result, Dengzhou Town's attitude toward the displaced people immediately changed -- all the subordinate units of Dengzhou Town, which were stationed on the edge of the occupied area, received military orders to provide relief and shelter to the displaced people on the spot and to transfer them to the rear port......

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Laizhou, Shahe (There seem to be a lot of places called Shahe in China, there are five Shahe that I know of.) ）

Next to a military camp that had just been completed, Brother Guan, a soldier from Dengzhou Town wearing a red battle robe, was like his colleagues, holding a spear in his hand, watching a large group of ragged, gray-faced and dirty homeless people in the distance, being driven by more than a dozen Dengzhou Town cavalry with whips. And in the open space surrounded by the army, there were more unkempt homeless people, sitting on the ground crowded next to each other.

Seeing the temporary refugee camp where these homeless people listened all the time, Brother Guan and the others breathed a sigh of relief -- don't look at these half-dead homeless people so pitiful, they think that as long as they are willing to give them something to eat, they can make the homeless people obedient. In fact, people who go crazy with hunger are often the most terrible, and in the past when they were helping the homeless, there were people who tried to storm the army and snatch food: no way, for the bitter people who have tasted hunger, food is definitely something that can make them crazy and sacrifice their lives for it.

Fortunately, the swords and guns of the Dengzhou soldiers and the whistling leather whips of the Dengzhou army finally restored the sanity of many people and deterred the ambition of those bad ruffians - in the face of the heavily armed and murderous soldiers, the vast majority of the refugees still chose to obey, and those who did not obey were killed.

To make matters worse, because this place is not far from the front line, there are often bandits and bandits or Shandong officials and soldiers who send spies disguised as displaced people in an attempt to infiltrate the refugee camp and create riots, so as to coax the Dengzhou army to relieve the disaster relief grain...... Fortunately, a considerable number of people in Dengzhou Town have also been homeless people in the past, and they know how to dig out these spies -- among a group of skinny, half-starved homeless people, anyone who is still strong, full of red light, and has the strength to jump, must be either spies or bad people, and when they encounter such suspicious guys, they will all take spears and smash them to death!

“…… Two hundred and eighty ...... Two hundred and ninety...... Three hundred...... Three hundred and ten...... Three hundred and twenty ...... Alas, there are so many people here today, and Dengzhou really can support so many people in the black and pressed in the dark, Brother Guan muttered with some concern.

As a military household in Dengzhou Town, Brother Guan's family was also allocated fields, so he knew that although compared with the Central Plains in the thousands of miles of red land, Dengzhou benefited from the water conservancy channels that Chen Dashuai worked hard to build, and the harvest of crops was barely okay, but it was also a little lower than the previous two years. Now Chen Dashuai is fighting with the imperial court again, and he is sheltering the homeless, and people eat horses and chew horses, so I really don't know how long the stored grain can last.

Although the standard of food in the army has not decreased in the slightest, Guan is still afraid that he will experience starvation again in the near future.

Compared with the fear of lack of food and starvation, the reality that Dengzhou Town is now fighting with the imperial court did not make Emperor Guan feel much worry:

First of all, since the flag was pulled and the army was raised, the Dengzhou army has been invincible all the way, and the officials and troops have been repeatedly broken in Liankefu County, and the whole army is full of contempt for the combat effectiveness of the imperial court officers and soldiers. Since he is not afraid of the officers and soldiers, he naturally does not have to worry about the future.

Secondly, the reason for this army is that those filthy civil officials in the city set up a bureau to assassinate Chen Dashuai first, and the hostility of the local gentry and big families in Dengzhou to the military households in this town, if these soldiers do not rise up to fight back, will they still sit back and wait for others to slaughter?

Third, in the late Ming Dynasty, it had become common for the army to mutiny, and there was a precedent before the governor of Liaodong being killed, and afterwards it was still the law that did not hold the people accountable...... In the eyes of the soldiers, now that this matter is in the end, at most it is just murder and arson, so why worry too much?

On the contrary, if you swallow your anger and accept it, you don't know how to be bullied by those civil officials and gentry in the future!

More importantly, according to the general social concept at the end of the Ming Dynasty, these soldiers felt that since they had eaten Chen Dashuai's grain, received Chen Dashuai's salary, wore Chen Dashuai's clothes, and lived in Chen Dashuai's room. Chen Dashuai also gave them the land, so that their whole family was fed and clothed, so his rotten life already belonged to Chen Dashuai. Chen Dashuai said that if he wanted to fight the Tartars, they would fight the Tartars, and Chen Dashuai said that if he wanted to rebel, they would rebel. Anyway, only Chen Dashuai is so good to them in the world, and he will unswervingly give Chen Dashuai his life. If anyone wants to kill Chen Dashuai, take away the houses and fields that Chen Dashuai gave them, and destroy their family's current good life, they will fight these bad people!

In the same way, although everyone felt a little strange about Chen Dashuai's defection to the "Huameng", since the treatment of the whole army did not decline because of this, the Huangshi marshal who became the new boss instead gave everyone some food and clothing as a reward, and did not arbitrarily insert outsiders to come in to give orders and extort money, so the Dengzhou army also accepted the reality, at least there was no very resistance.

After all, as a legendary general who swept through Liaodong during the Apocalypse, Huangshi's reputation in northern China is still quite loud, and even low-level people like Brother Guan have heard the story of Huangshi's invincible battle and defeat, and the story of the leaping horse Liaoyang bravely slashing the enemy chieftain......

Next, news came from the family in the rear, saying that the Huangshi Marshal had rewarded them with some magical crop seeds, and the wheat planted would actually grow wildly! It only takes seven days to rip and harvest! After learning of this, the soldiers in the Dengzhou army on the front line were in an uproar - at first, most people did not believe it, thinking that they were playing some kind of trick. But when someone really brought some seeds from the rear and sowed them near the barracks, the soldiers looked at the miraculous wheat that was harvested every seven days, and for a time they didn't know how many pairs of eyes popped up!

Such an unbelievable agricultural miracle may not be very touching in the modern world of the 21st century - who cares how many days your crops will be harvested? Anyway, I haven't seen anyone look at the game that is going to be launched recently!

But for these ordinary low-level farmers in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, such fast-growing crops are simply their hope for survival and reproduction! It means that their children and grandchildren will be able to eat enough! Such a blessing is simply greater than the sky! More precious than sending a mountain of gold - after all, gold cannot be eaten. According to Emperor Guan's thoughts, even if it is just for these seeds, it is worth it for Chen Dashuai to take everyone to join Huang Dashuai!

-- The idea of the common people is quite simple, if you let me have enough food and warm clothes, and there are additional benefits, I will fully support you and be loyal to you.

It's a pity that there are still fewer such magical seeds, and I don't know if I can fill so many mouths that have poured in recently...... Squinting at the hundreds of refugees from other places who flock to this side every day to beg for food, Brother Guan scratched his hair and thought worriedly.

Then, he was knocked on the helmet by the captain, and two other Dengzhou Army colleagues were also knocked out-"...... You, you, and you! Come with me, and get the chopped firewood to the camp over there, and now we're going to cook for those hungry ghosts from the west!" ”

So, Brother Guan and his two colleagues temporarily put down their weapons, each carrying two bundles of firewood, and walked slowly towards the refugee camp