Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 330 Don't Worry
The sound of gunshots, bayonets, galloping arrow feathers, exploding shotguns, and screams of blood all filled the entire Kokubun Plain.In the sky, a few birds that strayed into the battlefield flapped their wings in panic, and quickly moved away from this killing place...

It took more than half a month to prepare for a battle.When it really came time to fight, it was over in two days.

The first day "cuts the wheat" and the next two days "picks the wheat".

The defeated soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Four Feudal Clans ran all over the mountains and plains. The Third Regiment of the Beihai Navy pursued the defeated army of the Satsuma Clan, while the Fourth Regiment and the Sendai Army pursued the other three.

In the process of chasing and killing those fleeing feudal lords, the soldiers of the coalition army discovered that many of the vassals' waist knives were actually bamboo knives, and some of the tips of the two guns were already rusted.

"Liar! It's all bamboo pieces!" Monk Zhou threw the bamboo knife on the ground and cursed angrily.

Why is it so hard to find a good knife?
Among the thirty samurai swords seized by Sanlian along the way, more than 20 were actually bamboo swords.Those who are conscientious also know to wrap a layer of tin foil to make it shiny; those who are not conscientious are directly bare bamboo knives, which have been slightly polished to fit the scabbard tightly.

The truly well-armed and capable troops are the commandos and cavalry that launched the attack on the first day, and the others are purely make-up; these people have made up their minds before going out, and everyone is happy if they win. .

It's a pity that there are really few troops in this era that can outperform the Beihai Navy.

By October 8000th, almost all those who could escape from the Allied Forces escaped, leaving more than 1 corpses and more than [-] prisoners in the end.

The four feudal clans of Kyushu are over. Even if the shogunate really wants to send troops in the future, the three families of Kumamoto, Fukuoka and Saga can only follow suit.

As for the generals of the Four Heroes?
Needless to say, Shigeho Shimadzu brought the head back to the headquarters as soon as the battle ended; the first old Tadatora Hosokawa of the Kumamoto Domain was injured and died in the first round of shelling; The dead body of Kuroda Haruyuki was not found, and his strangely shaped large helmet handed down from Kuroda Rusui was blown to pieces; The military doctor sawed off the calf, but his fate was saved.

For more than a month, Date Village seems to be a little addicted to dealing with those feudal soldiers and prisoners of war.

In his and Tamura's opinion, the [-] vassals of the Satsuma domain are too many and must be reduced.Otherwise, if the Date family rules here in the future, it will be a big financial burden just to support these vassals.

If you keep it, you will have to pay for the land; if you don't pay for the land, these people will become wanderers, which is a great factor of instability for the Date family to rule the land of the three states.

The two closed the door and discussed in secret for a long time, and finally settled on a desperate plan: for the entire Southern Kyushu and Three Kingdoms, only [-] vassals will be enough in the future.

It's already quite a lot, and the Sendai clan is so big that there are less than [-] clansmen; the Shimadzu family has [-] clansmen, so it's useless in front of the Beihai Navy!
The key is to hold the right thigh.

Zhao Xin heard the plan of the two, and said in his heart that he was so cruel and ruthless, that he would never be able to do this.

But then again, why do you feel so comfortable while being contemptuous?

Probably because of Jiawu in another time and space.
"You guys go ahead and do it. The Beihai Navy won't participate." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he wanted to find out who the previous generation of Dongxiang, Xixiang, Okubo, Dashan, etc. were, and all of them would join Date Village. list.

Date Cunchang and Tamura Cunzi understand each other.

The reason why the two dared to make this desperate plan was because the Date family's banner of "five men and five people" had been spread throughout Kyushu for more than a month; look.

But in fact, the contributions of businessmen and village chiefs from all over the country made the two reap a lot of money.

As the news of Ridang Mountain's victory over the Allied Forces of the Four Families spread throughout Kuangyuan County, the low-level farmers who were still on the sidelines were already crazy about it.In each village, men, women and children, regardless of age, are singing and dancing on the streets with joy, day and night.

"Don't worry! Five people and five people! Don't worry! Five people and five people!"

The world is about to change, everyone thinks so, and hundreds of years of extortion and extortion seem to be gone forever.

But will the world really change?
In another time and space at the end of the Tokugawa period, the Meiji government, which conquered the Tokugawa period in the east, also issued a "Order to Halve the Annual Tribute".However, as those big businessmen turned to the Meiji regime and sought backing to ensure their exploitation interests, the Meiji government quickly reneged on its promise and revoked the "Halve Annual Tribute Order".

The new ruler felt that the efficiency of collecting annual tribute in the past was too low, so he changed it to currency land rent. As a result, the burden on the peasants was even more serious than when the shogunate was in power.

In 1873, angry farmers finally broke into Hakata City of the Fukuoka Domain, destroyed shops and burned government buildings, forming a massive riot of nearly 30 people.

The change of dynasty is nothing more than a change of badge.

On October 7000th, in order to save unnecessary food, Date Village often ordered the release of Shimadzu's ashigaru, other captured San Francisco samurai and ashigaru. This move surprised and delighted more than [-] captives .Carrying two walnut-sized brown rice balls distributed by the Sendai Army, they embarked on the journey home.

After all the released prisoners were gone, the Sendai Army began to attack the remaining Shimadzu family vassals.

This matter was done very secretly by Date Village Chang and Tamura Village Capital. Except for the two thousand Sendai troops who were in charge of the operation, no one knew where the Shimadzu family vassals were taken.

A few days later, the two-meter-deep trenches on the Kokubun Plain were completely filled.In the following years, the rice harvest here was surprisingly good, much to the delight of the farmers who cultivated the land; they had no idea what nourished the land.

On October 26, after discussions between the Northern Navy and the Sendai Domain’s high-level officials, it was decided that the entire army would first attack Tsurunomaru Castle to the southwest in order to block the Shimadzu family’s retreat southward, and then advance to Satsuma County to defeat the Shimadzu family in one fell swoop.

Since Satsuma County is next to Goseong County to the west, and Goseong County is also facing the sea to the west, Zhao Xin and Wang Yuanfang decided to send another regiment to go south after discussing with Chushui County. route.

Five days later, large groups of coalition troops arrived outside Kagoshima City.At this time, the news of the great battle at the foot of the mountain had been sent back, and no one in the Kagoshima castle town dared to organize resistance any more. A group of merchants and townspeople watched helplessly as the coalition forces passed through the streets in the town and took the entire Tsurumomaru to the ground. The city was surrounded.

Shimadzu Qixuan has already retreated to Mizuhiro in Satsuma County, and Tsurumomaru is guarded only by the local Kansada Mahoshi, dozens of elderly retired feudal vassals and a group of servants.

Facing the resistance of a hundred people, the North Navy dispatched a company to take charge of the cover, and the Sendai Army took half a day to attack the city. It was decided to commit suicide, and all the other defenders died in battle.

Zhao Xin didn't let Bei Haijun enter Tsurumaru Castle, so the city should be left to Date's family.

It is said that the entire Kagoshima Castle Town is composed of three towns: Umachi, Shitamachi, and Nishida Town.As Tsurumomaru Castle fell under the watchful eyes of everyone, each of the three towns elected a businessman as a representative, and surrendered to the coalition forces together with the land of the three towns.In order to preserve their property and lives, each merchant collected a thousand shi of military rations and 5000 taels of gold as repayment.

Date Village was very satisfied with this, and sent half of it to the North Navy that night.

Two days later, the coalition forces left Tsurunomaru Castle and headed north.The Sendai Army left 2000 people guarding here, and Tamura Murakami appointed several retainers to manage it on his behalf.

At this time, news of Shigeho Shimadzu's death had spread to all parts of Kyushu. After the coalition forces entered Hioki County, which is adjacent to Kagoshima County, all the counties and cities along the way fell upon hearing the news. The banner of "Five Lords and Five People" was held high in the ranks of the Sendai Army, and there were scenes of singing and dancing everywhere.

In Mizuhiroku in the northwest of Satsuma County, 13-year-old Shimadzu Sainobu and a group of retainers are preparing to flee to Shisuhiroku in the north, but a piece of news from the direction of Akune makes the Shimadzu family despair again.

"What! Another team has landed in Akune!"

"Yes. It is estimated that the Silu of Chushui County will be captured within a few days."

Hisashi Shimadzu, the head of Hioki Shimadzu's family, said: "For the current plan, the only way is to go to sea by boat."

"Are you going to withdraw to Ryukyu?"

Shimadzu Jiuchang said: "The north wind is blowing now, if we go to Okinawa, we will arrive in three to five days."

"But Edo?" Shimazu Qixuan still wanted to count on the reinforcements sent by Edo.

The elder Shimadzu Hisao, who was the first seat of the Yuyimen, said in a deep voice: "My lord, the shogunate can no longer be counted on. Right now, the Allied Forces of the Four Domains have been defeated, and the chief garrison is dead in battle. No one will come to help us! Please immediately Make a decision, otherwise the Shimadzu family will perish!"

"That's all it takes!"

Three days later, the Shimadzu family fled hastily with thousands of men on sixty large ships.
In the early morning of November, the outer northeast land had entered the icy winter season, but at this time a lucky boat suddenly appeared on the sea [-] kilometers southwest of Beihai Town.

In the cabin of the Fuchuan, the charcoal was burning vigorously, and two men were sitting around the brazier to enjoy the fire.

A man in his thirties was snotted from the cold even though he was wrapped in a blanket.

"Ahh~"

The man wiped his nose with a blanket, exhaled whitely, and said to the person beside him, "Brother Yan, this place is too cold! Why did King Zhao come here to hide?"

The person called Brother Yan was a thin middle-aged man in his 40s sitting beside him.This person was also shivering wrapped in a quilt.

The man said again: "Brother Yan, do you think King Zhao will send troops?"

The middle-aged man surnamed Yan then slowly said: "Ah Dong, back then these guys turned Guangzhou City upside down, do you know how many people they used?"

A Dong said: "There are less than 50 people, how many times have you said this."

The middle-aged man said: "If there are less than fifty people, thousands of people can run away with their heads in their hands. We borrowed a thousand soldiers from that King Zhao this time. Isn't the Taiwan government just around the corner?"

A Dong said: "Then can they agree to borrow troops?"

There was a hint of determination in the middle-aged man's tone: "Don't worry, since he is a descendant of Zhu Ming, I will treat him with respect."

This person is the leader of the Tiandihui in Fujian and Taiwan, Yan Yan, who was originally a cotton cloth merchant, and now serves as the county magistrate of Changhua under the Lin regime in Taiwan.And that A Dong, whose full name is Liao Dong, was originally a dismissal from the Changhua County Yamen, and was named a general escort.

Marshal Lin Shuangwen, the leader of the alliance who is fighting Fukang'an to the death, was absorbed into the association in the 49th year of Qianlong's reign.

In the history of another time and space, it was because of Yan Yan's arrest that the Tiandihui fully revealed its true face in the eyes of the Qing court.Prior to this, Qianlong and the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty still believed that Lin Shuangwen was just a country rebel.

Different from the interpretation of novels in later generations, the secret code in the early Tiandihui was not tattooing on the soles of the feet at all, nor did it have the secret code of "anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty";

21:[-] is the word "Hong".This is also the basis of all the rituals of Tiandihui and even Hongmen later.

Yan Yan was recruited into the association by Chen Biao, a Cantonese, in the 47th year of Qianlong. Basically, from that year onwards, Tiandihui added incense tables and sword arrays when joining the association. Incoming session slogans and sign language.

As the Tiandihui became more and more congregations in Taiwan and Guangdong, in the 51st year of Qianlong, it changed to press the middle three fingers on the heart, holding the thumb as the sky and the little finger as the ground, and added a dictated verse:
"Flood drifts and floods the world, and three thousand worship Li Taohong; the world knows the world, and the flood is the same."

It is said that during this period, if people who were away from home in the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian encountered road robbers, as long as they showed that they could sign language, the other party would not rob them.

So the real situation is that the early Tiandihui was a big alliance of road bandits and bullies, and Lin Shuangwen was the biggest road bandit in Changhua County, Taiwan.

Just such a thing, can you expect it to gather enough social, military, and economic forces to overthrow the most prosperous Qianlong regime in the Qing Dynasty?
In fact, after Lin Shuangwen conquered Changhua County last year, Yan Yan proposed to unite Beihai Town and respond together from the north and the south.But his proposal was opposed by Xiao Wutian, Jin Niang and others.

This man and woman are both Lin Shuangwen's military advisers, one is a monk, and the other is a charlatan who draws amulets to see a doctor, and the right to speak is much heavier than Yan Yan.

Lin Shuangwen, on the other hand, planned to be the emperor himself, otherwise he would not have just established the Lin regime as soon as he conquered a county seat, entrusting hundreds of civil and military officials; either a general or a general or a governor.

If he joins forces with Beihai Town, what can he, a country rascal, do?
But a year has passed, tens of thousands of people can't even attack the capital city of Taiwan for a long time, which makes Yan Yan feel that Lin Shuangwen's group is really hard to become a big weapon.The news that Fukang'an led the army to Xiamen in August made him feel that something was wrong.

Although the Qing army gathered in Xiamen and Fuzhou, news can still be exchanged between Taiwan and Fujian.With the news that Zhao Xin led people to do Sun Shiyi in Guangzhou City, Lin Shuangwen finally couldn't sit still.

After the fifteenth day of the eighth month, Yan Yan was entrusted by Lin Shuangwen with a heavy responsibility, and went to the sea and north to seek alliance with Beihai Town.

It is said that since Zhao Xin and the others came to Beihai Town in the past few years, except for the cargo ship of the Beihai Company and Li Chaolai, no outsiders have come by boat; and the ship of the Beihai Company was only allowed to sail directly from Ezo last year.

At this time, Deng Fei, who was leading a group of students to visit in the cab of Jinglei moored in the port, saw the signal on the navigation radar, and couldn't believe his eyes. He immediately sent someone to notify the port guard.

"Send a tugboat, take a platoon, and bring that boat back!"

In this way, Yan Yan finally set foot on the land of Beihai Town; the news of a Tiandihui came, which caused a sensation among the people who traveled through.

　In fact, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, only the capital city of Taiwan had a city wall, and the walls of other counties were all made of thorny bamboo.This is also the reason why Lin Shuangwen captured all other places except Taiwan Fucheng.

　　
　
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