Win the Ding 1617

ps: Continue to have the audacity to ask for a monthly pass.

In fact, for Guangdong civil and military officials headed by Zhang Jingxin, Jiang Yihong, and Ma Rujin, the so-called joint impeachment of Li Shouhan is just a formality.

After drafting the title book, Governor Zhang even sent his copywriter to quietly send the copy of the manuscript to Zhenhai Tower in Yuexiu Mountain.He knew that even if he didn't send it over, the civil and military officials under him would send this document to Master Li's desk through various channels in order to ask for credit in front of the vigorous Master Li.

However, fortunately, the master copywriter returned with a happy face.

The thunder and fury imagined before, and the addition of swords and axes never happened.Instead, "Master Li asked me to pay my respects to you, the governor. This is the gift list."

The master copywriter took out Li Shouhan's gift list from his cuff. In addition, there was also a manuscript revised by Li Shouhan himself. The words and sentences were much stricter than Governor Zhang's original manuscript.

"Oh? Master Li is either extremely smart, or someone in the shogunate is an expert!" Regardless of looking at the long gift list, Zhang Jingxin looked up to the sky and sighed after carefully reading the presentation.

Today, the city of Guangzhou is under the control of the South China Army, and all the servants, personal soldiers and other armed forces of the adults have been disarmed and incorporated.The tasks of guarding and guarding each yamen are undertaken by the South China Army.In front of the saddle, behind the horses, and in front of the gate of the courtyard are all troops from the South China Army. This impeachment can only be said to be the shouting of the woman before she was forcibly entered Hong Kong, just like what the girls in the courtyard said, "The slave family is a performer, not a slave." But People have already raised their guns and mounted their horses, and you have no ability to resist.Except for a few yells in the mouth, the rest can only be enjoyed with closed eyes.

Guangdong civil and military with this mentality, whether it is from the heart or not, obeys the military orders and government orders issued by the Governor Xingyuan regarding the matter of appeasement.

From the port of Guangzhou, the two garrison brigades newly transferred from Nanzhong with tens of thousands of horses assembled, which once again surprised the people of Guangzhou.

"The general still has these many troops?"

Along the Pearl River to Haikou, Humen and other places, a large number of people gathered like ants, busily shuttling back and forth.Among the crowd were the disbanded soldiers from Guangdong, as well as the local people from Humen.Since Yingyi was defeated.One thing to do here is restore the home.Rebuild the fort that was blown up by the English.

In addition to the Humen Fort, Shou Han also planned to choose the terrain at the mouth of the Pearl River and build two more forts to confront each other from north to south.Form a fort group.In this way, the Pearl River Estuary can be completely controlled by oneself.in addition.Shou Han did not plan to station the Southern Central Army entering Guangdong in Guangzhou, a city full of flowers and flowers, for a long time.Or choose some strategic points to station!As a result, large military camps began to be built in Humen and other places.

In addition to building forts and barracks, more people concentrated on the Huangpu Port construction site.Shou Han intends to expand Guangzhou, a port city that has prospered for more than a thousand years.Dredge the waterway, expand the wharf and berths, at least be able to park the giant warships with a displacement of thousands of tons that will be built in the future, and the preferred target is Huangpu.

It is located at the confluence of the Pearl River and the Dongjiang River, and borders Dongguan and Zengcheng. It can connect to Guangdong Province and Guangxi along the East, West and Beijiang waterways to the hinterland of Guangdong and Guangxi, and connects with more than 100 rivers.Going out to sea is the South China Sea, going south to Nanzhong, and going north to Fujian and Zhejiang.Shou Han has decided to establish an inland navy in the Pearl River Basin in Guangdong.Through these rivers and water systems, the entire Guangdong and Guangxi will be firmly controlled!

"grown ups!"

Looking at the endless stream of migrant workers on the port construction site, Jiang Yihong, the governor of Guangdong, couldn't help sighing.

"Such a magnificent scene can only be seen in the early years of the Kingdom. Now, it is difficult!"

After the Humen meeting, Jiang Yihong had the heart to contribute, and he got very close to Shou Han. For such a high-level local official from Guangdong and Guangxi, Shou Han was also happy to make a gesture of buying bones with a lot of money.It is also good to appease the hearts of officials at all levels in Guangdong.

"It's nothing, it's work for relief!"

In addition to spending [-]% of the funds mentioned at the meeting about food and grass for combat, military pay, and relief to the people whose homes were devoured by the fire, Shou Han spent most of it in Guangzhou. On the expansion of Huangpu Port.

A large amount of money and food was invested, which naturally attracted many people who came to work here to earn money for food.Although Guangdong is known as affluent, it is not so easy to find a job that can make money for food when there are thieves and thieves everywhere fighting each other.

Therefore, because of the work, there is plenty of food to eat, and when the work is over every day, there are wages according to the workload. Not to mention the dismissed soldiers, the masons and carpenters in the construction factories everywhere are the farmers in the nearby villages. , all carrying their luggage rolls and rushing to take advantage of the slack season after the autumn harvest.

However, what surprised Mr. Jiang even more was that at the meeting convened by Mr. Li on the matter of suppressing appeasement from Guangdong and Guangxi, Shou Han threw out an even more surprising plan.

Beating the map of Guangdong and Guangxi, the mountains, rivers, roads, rivers and cities on it trembled under the beating of the guard.

"Since I am in charge of one side, I have to consider the long-term stability of these two provinces. I have decided to use the winter slack season to organize manpower to build roads! With the provincial capital as the center, first build the seaside from the provincial capital to Bao'an County, and then from the provincial capital. All roads to Chaozhou, the provincial capital to Guangxi, the provincial capital to Zhaoqing, and the provincial capital to Leizhou!"

Seeing the several criss-crossing roads on the map, officials at all levels in Guangdong were very excited.

The building of bridges and paving roads has always been the main achievements of officials, and they can be passed down without mentioning monuments. Moreover, their own pockets can also be bulged.

However, after a short period of excitement, Jiang Yihong raised several realistic questions.

"My lord, this road construction is certainly a meritorious deed and a blessing for all people, but my subordinates think that it seems inappropriate to carry out this matter at this time. First, banditry is rampant everywhere in Guangdong and Guangxi. Let's take this province as an example. Rebels, Lianzhuang, routs, and bandits are everywhere. Not counting those regiments who formed strongholds to protect themselves, Guangxi is even more rampant, and chieftains and officials everywhere are rioting and fighting. At this time, roads are being built. This is wrong."

"Well, the thieves are still in trouble, so it's not suitable to build roads. Master Jiang continues."

"In the past two years, Guangdong and Guangxi have been besieged by war and fire, and it is not easy to pay money, food and taxes. Guangdong is better in the Pearl River Basin, but it is miserable in northern Guangdong and other places. The treasury is empty. Money and food are not enough. How to build roads? These two inappropriate."

"If the land tax is increased for the purpose of building roads, I'm afraid that the changes of the people everywhere will be like adding fuel to the fire, and once it becomes a prairie fire. I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it to the emperor!"

"Master Jiang is indeed a seasoned seeker! That's why I first built the road from the provincial capital to the seaside of Bao'an County!

Shou Han first praised Jiang Yihong kindly.Then stand up.Pointing the road from Bao'an County to the provincial capital Guangzhou with your finger.

"My colleagues, please take a look. Our South China Army has a wharf and a warehouse on Hong Kong Island. A large amount of money and food can be transported from the South China Sea to Hong Kong Island. Then there are small boats connected to Tai Po Market, and then they can be transported by land Cities and towns everywhere. If the roads are repaired, a large amount of money and food can be transported to the provincial capitals and transported to the places where they are needed! What else do you have to worry about?

But it turned out to be so!It turns out that everyone only needs to take out the money and food in the treasury to advance. After the construction of this road is completed, the money and food that can be piled up to fill the sea will be continuously transported from the sea, and everyone's pockets and achievements will increase with the wind. , this deal is worth it!

"Instead of raising the pot to stop the boiling, it's better to draw the bottom of the pot!" Shou Han slowly instilled his views into the Guangdong officials present.

Today bankrupt peasants here and there are homeless, starving, homeless, and without a steady source of income the next step is mob.As for road construction, which has low technical content and requires a high number of laborers, hundreds of thousands of civilians will be rescued, and behind these civilians, hundreds of thousands of families have obtained a stable income and have food and clothing. source, ghosts will rebel.

After listening to Shou Han's high-level remarks, Governor Zhang Jingxin couldn't help but nodded slowly. Such a move not only stabilized those who might rebel, but also built a thoroughfare, which became his own meritorious deeds for generations to come. of praise.

This Mr. Li really has a hand!It also costs money and food, and if people spend a lot of money and food, they can get several effects!

Vice General Ma Rujin secretly speculated a little jealously.

But here's what they saw, what they didn't see, and a lot more.

The construction of the road from Hong Kong to Guangzhou will consume a lot of ashes, grain, iron tools, etc., which is a good thing for Nanzhong's agricultural products, smelting, and manufacturing industries.

With this road completed, a large amount of Nanzhong goods can spread along this road to the surrounding market towns, instead of just slowly spreading to the inland along the Pearl River as in the past.Make real products go to the countryside.

This is only from the perspective of the commodity economy. From another perspective, a large number of surplus population in the Pearl River Delta region can also be consciously transferred outwards to ease the labor tension in Nanzhong and further achieve the effect of changing the population structure of Nanzhong.

The purpose of the other roads is also the same, but it is not as urgent as the one from Guangzhou to Bao'an.

Not to mention that the construction of these roads is completed and connected into a network, but once the construction is officially started, wherever the construction starts, the hands of the South China Army will go deep.With the extension of the road, all kinds of commodities produced in Nanzhong will flood to the remote villages like a tide.In the same way, when the products of their own labor cannot withstand the swarming Nanzhong commodities, the residents here can only choose to integrate with the Nanzhong Army and become an integral part of this machine, except to wait for death.

During the road construction period, it was also the best opportunity for a large number of laborers to be organized and disciplined. It can be said that the construction site of these roads is the largest training ground for the South Central Army Reserve.

At present, the strength of the four brigades near Guangzhou is sufficient to destroy any rebellious team in any direction.As for the local officials and chieftains in Guangxi, Shou Han has ordered that no military equipment or materials that can be used as military equipment be imported. The rebellious separatist forces.

In the future, once these roads are built, it will no longer be a big problem for the army to move in and the transportation of food, grass and supplies.An important reason for the emergence of separatist forces and the emergence of local tyrants was the inconvenience of transportation.The construction of these roads is to strangle the emergence of powerful and separatist forces in terms of hardware.

In a sense, the day when these roads are completed will be the time when the South China Army will completely control Guangdong and Guangxi!

It is a pity that the Guangdong officials present here cannot see this.However, it is not easy for people who can be the governor and the chief envoy of a province. After thinking for a while, Zhang Jingxin and Jiang Yihong showed a trace of anxiety in their eyes.

"grown ups!"

Now Zhang Jingxin also acquiesced in the fact that Shou Han seemed to be his superior, and withdrew the surname that could have been called Mr. Li, which confirmed the relationship between the two to a certain extent.

"Even though this area of ​​eastern Guangdong is not as smoldering as northern and western Guangdong, it is full of hidden dangers. Your Excellency's move is certainly beneficial to the country and the people, but what should we do if those powerful people come out to harass your lord?"

Guangdong in the late Ming Dynasty was different from modern Guangdong.Large tracts of land and forests have not been developed.In addition, the river course is vertical and horizontal.inconvenient traffic.High mountains and dense forests.Nature is a breeding ground for bandits.They each occupied the top of the mountain, robbed houses and houses, and were extremely vicious.Seriously affected the production and life of the local people.And these people often have complicated backgrounds, some are engaged in maritime smuggling business, and some have clans behind them.

Taking Chaozhou Prefecture at this time as an example, its administrative area included most of the middle and lower reaches of the Han River, including Haiyang, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Chengxiang, Pingyuan, Raoping, Huilai, Dapu, Chenghai, Puning, Zhen Equality County.In the notes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chaozhou is the most difficult to govern. "The county is near the sea, and there are many merchants and merchants. They don't know poetry and books, and there are millions of people who can't read a word. To prevent pirates, build villages in villages, organize households and gather clans. There are tens of thousands. Soldiers and grain storage are set up. The villages are connected with each other, and they fight and kill with one word, and hundreds of people are injured. Qi Hao gathers his life, plunders wantonly, explores the pill net, and is caught off guard. Officials dare not enter the gate of the stronghold. There is also the advantage of brine, treacherous people sell land and water, and they have weapons and firearms.

In addition to the characteristics of the people's toughness, bravery and hatred, and the characteristics of profiteering and suicide.The villages live together with families, and there are many smokers. In addition, pirates were rampant in the late Ming Dynasty. In order to protect themselves, many forts were built for self-defense.Its disadvantages are also that the scoundrels take advantage of their burdens and dare to resist capture and food.Officials find it difficult to catch and rule, partly because of this.

These are now dens of thieves everywhere.For a time, the various armed forces separated each other, collected food and distributed funds, attacked each other, and annexed each other.The result is that the people are in dire straits.There is such a folk song in Chaozhou: it is difficult to be a human being, and it is difficult to be a human being.Soldiers are easy to do, easy to be soldiers, and more money and food will not be sent out.The inaction of the officers and soldiers was mocked in the ballad.

The other ballad nakedly exposes the relationship between the officers and bandits and bandits: if you get gold and silver from the robbery, share some with the general army.Whoever dares to fight will be greeted with a crown and belt.It's a pity that the demented man doesn't come from us.

Regarding these armed forces, Shou Han already knew something about them in Chen Tianhua's report.Among them, there are certainly some children from good families like Liao Dongzhi who rose up because of being bullied, but there are also many ambitious people like Wu Liuqi who took advantage of the chaos to rise up.What's more, many rogue proletarians who endanger the countryside on weekdays, under a high-sounding banner, either resist food and taxes, or protect the environment and the people.In fact, it is the scourge of excessive expropriation.

It is obvious that it is murder and arson, house robbery, rape and looting, which makes the people hate it.However, they want to use the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, upholding justice, and protecting the environment and the people. This is just the admonition of the people to them in desperation.

However, no matter how openly the banner is played, it is essentially the rogue proletarian thinking of getting something for nothing.

Shou Han has no other attitude towards these armed forces that do not engage in production but only focus on destruction, just one word, "Suppress!"

With the well-known and justifiable reason of suppressing bandits, the clan forces and separatist forces entrenched in the countryside of Guangdong and Guangxi were rationally and legally wiped out one by one, and finally the control of Guangdong and Guangxi was completed.

However, in view of the complexity of these armed forces, Shou Han still decided to give courtesy first and soldiers later.

"Master Zhang, I have made up my mind. For the bandits, thieves, Lianzhuang, militias and other armed forces that are entrenched everywhere, we must first inform them and point out the way out. Just like Han Yu's announcement of Crocodile Wen in the past, three days cannot be five Days, five days cannot be seven days, otherwise when the date arrives, it will be the result of the arrival of soldiers and the destruction of jade and stone."

"It's so good. It also gives people a new way out, so that they can contribute to the country. The people who have been transformed will become the same people."

"In this way, there will be Lord Lao Zhang. To be honest, this official and the officials under him are unambiguous when it comes to leading troops to fight wars and governing the local area. Only this ability in ink and ink is not to be mentioned!"

"You finally admit that there is a place that is not as good as me!"

Zhang Jingxin was secretly happy, but he said humbly: "Among the civil and military officials in Guangdong Province, if you talk about the sharpness of writing, there is no one who can surpass Mr. Jiang!"

Therefore, this article was sent to various places in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the announcement was jointly issued in the name of Governor-General Jiang Yihong's big pen It's done in one swoop.

"Guangdong used to be called a fertile land, but it was infested with thieves for many years, the divisions were prosperous, the people were withered, and the people were in a state of distress. The reason for this is all caused by the failure of the department. There are four theories about the failure of the department. Those who employ people regard Guangdong as the hometown of miasma, and they look down on the land. There are [-] out of [-] of those who are in charge of the department, and [-] out of [-] of miscellaneous workers; He is unbearable, but also knows that the road ahead is short, so he is more than willing to give up on himself."

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"Today, the general is ordered by the Holy Spirit to go to Guangdong Province to deal with the suppression of pacification. Anyone who builds up a stronghold to protect himself and support his troops, or who takes Liangshan as his home and regards the bandits as his ancestors, if he is willing to sell knives and buy cattle to change his mind For those who are good people, the general upholds the virtue of heaven's good life, and gives a new life. When this article comes, you must stop attacking each other, and don't disturb the villagers to distribute grain and tax without authorization. The restraints pack up the army, horses and other things, and wait for the generals The general sent personnel to check. If there is any stubborn person who is stubborn and incompetent, and who tries to rely on danger and stubbornness by coercing the crowd to call him an enemy, the army will kill him without mercy! This announcement! Don't say it was unpredictable!"

This murderous text was quickly posted in cities, prefectures and counties in Guangdong and Guangxi in the autumn wind, and was removed one by one by those who cared. (To be continued..)