Win the Ding 1617

Inside and outside Jiaxing City, and around the city, there are densely packed Qing army tents, with various flags flying.In the city, the flags of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army are flying.Outside the city, there are even more colorful banners of the Qing army's battalions and towns.

Since sending troops to the south, the Qing troops from all walks of life have progressed smoothly.Lianke Lishui, Liyang, Yixing, Changxing, Guangde, Huzhou, Jiaxing and many other cities.Wherever the banner of the soldiers came, the cities and towns along the way looked for the wind to return, and the gentry and merchants from all over the place either killed the officials and offered the city to surrender, or secretly passed the songs to tell the truth.In the direction of the Qing army, the homes of countless people were destroyed, and their children and wealth were looted.However, Boluo and Turge are naturally well-versed in how to use traitors and give full play to the role of the leading party. For the officials and gentry who sacrificed their cities and surrendered along the way, they rewarded high-ranking officials with generous salaries and large sums of money.

"They are like hounds and vicious dogs. How can they be fed without a few pieces of meat and bones in their hands? How can they set an example for other vicious dogs?"

However, raising a dog requires bones, and feeding 10,000+ wolves, tigers and leopards requires a lot of gold and silver, food, rice, wine and meat.

Where does this mountain of silver and sea of ​​grain, rice, wine and meat come from?

In front of the Yanyu Building, two huge woven golden dragon banners and two huge handsome flags stood upright in the autumn wind and rain.Inside the Yanyu Tower, General Boluo and his deputy Turge were surrounded by dozens of Jia Lazhangjing, Niuluzhangjing, Meile Erzhen, the chief soldier and deputy generals, like stars holding the moon.The two took off the gold-plated helmets on their heads, revealing their shaved and shiny forehead scalps, and a slender pigtail pigtail with money rat tails on the back of their heads.

"Today is not a matter of discussion, everyone can be more casual!"

Following Boluo's words, everyone took off all kinds of helmets from their heads and placed them on the small table at hand. Some of the rude officers even hung the iron helmets and bronze helmets directly on the official hat chair on the head.

Speaking of the Yanyu Building, I am afraid that all the judges, like the unkind authors, learned about it from shooting sculptures. Of course, the South Lake in front of the Yanyu Building is another matter, especially the ones in the South Lake. red boat.Cough cough cough, today's weather is good!Why don't you come out for a walk to get some fresh air?

This building, as well as this lake, are all from the Five Dynasties period.In the late Jin Dynasty (around 940), Wu Jiedushi, the fourth son of King Wuyue of the Wuyue Kingdom, and Qian Yuanxie, the king of Guangling County, built a building on the bank of the South Lake as a "place to climb and overlook", and "a place to build Yuanhu Lake on the Taiwan Strait". By the side, to the guests of the pavilion".At that time, there was no name "Yanyu Building".According to "Zhiyuan Jiahe Zhi", the three characters of Yanyulou first appeared in the poem "Shui Tiaogetou? Title Yanyulou" written by Wu Qian in the Southern Song Dynasty.Although the Yanyu Tower by the lake has changed its owner several times, it has always been a good place to enjoy the lake.In the 28th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1549), Zhao Ying, the magistrate of Jiaxing, dredged the river and built the Yanyu Building on the island in the middle of the lake. From then on, the building was in the lake.The main building faces north and faces the city wall. (The current Yanyu Building was rebuilt to face the south and face the city wall to the north in order not to violate taboos during Qianlong's southern tour.)

However, at this time, the Yanyu Building, which has always been a gathering place for literati and singing poetry and wine, is condensed into a cloud of murderous aura.Downstairs, hundreds of knives and axes held sharp knives, dressed in red robes, and looked at the people kneeling in front of them with half-opened and half-closed eyes.

These hundreds of people who are about to be beheaded are all figures of some status and wealth in Jiaxing City.Well, they have head and face, houses and land, shops, and gold and silver.Naturally, there was today's catastrophe.Of course, the reason they were beheaded was that they were loyal to the traitor Li Shouhan and colluded with the traitor Nanman with evil intentions.This is a great injustice!These people who have more or less fame, they all despise those Nanmans from the bottom of their hearts!Of course, the money, food, materials and goods in the hands of the Southern Guangdong Army have always been "monks don't love money, the more the better."

They have a status in the city and a lot of money, so they naturally have enemies.Those who were the first to surrender the city to submit to them often had some rifts and hatred with them.With the credit of Xiancheng, they were the first to report that they had colluded with Li Shouhan and the Southern Guangdong Army.Therefore, General Bo Luo, who planned to collect money and pay in the city, went along with the flow and turned the Yanyu building into a beheading platform for the beheading officers.

"You are wronged! It is said that we have colluded with that Li Shouhan and have contacts with the Southern Guangdong Army. But your lord does not know that we are just doing business with them! If you say that, I am afraid that in Jiaxing City, in the entire Jiangnan, there are eighty old men Three-year-old children will have collusion with them! It should be noted that over the years, food is Nanmi, clothing is Nanbu, and Nanmo is used. In order to buy the hearts of Jiangnan scholars, Lee thief wantonly distributed tuition money. This Jiangnan , who has nothing to do with Nanban?!"

However, no matter how much these people defended, Boluo had already sentenced them to death.A desperate move with a huge checkmark made with cinnabar was thrown from upstairs.

"This generation is all thieves, all beheaded! Family and property are confiscated into officials, and all wives, daughters and family members are slaves!"

This is the fate of these people.

Two soldiers fought a death row prisoner, no matter how he struggled and begged, they just grabbed his hands and feet tightly, like a soap eagle chasing a purple swallow, like a tiger catching a lamb.Throwing him in front of the axeman, before the man struggled to stick his head out of the muddy ground, the ghost-headed sword in the hand of the axeman drew an arc in the air with the sound of wind and rain fell down.

"Pfft!" There was a muffled sound, and a blood arrow burst out.The two soldiers rushed up, one lifted the head, the other pulled the legs and feet of the dead body, just like pulling a slaughtered sheep, dragged the dead body aside, and quickly stripped off the clothes.

In a blink of an eye, hundreds of knives and axes raised their knives and fell, hundreds of heads were raised high on the tip of the guns by the soldiers, and the stripped clothes were piled up by the lake to form a hill.Instead, those headless corpses were thrown into the lake by the soldiers, and disappeared after a few ups and downs in the waves.With more and more corpses, the blood in the lake gradually condensed into balls, which could not disperse for a long time.The corpses in the water also accumulated more and more, and a small reef was faintly formed in the lake.It's just that other reefs are made of sand and gravel, piled up with corpses of coral polyps, and this small reef is piled up with human corpses.

Downstairs in Misty Rain, it was a different scene.Dozens of barbers were lined up, big ones sitting behind the barbers, and long queues had already formed in front of the barbers.Those who contributed to the surrender of the city loosened their buns, removed their square scarves and net scarves, pulled out their hairpins, and discarded all kinds of hats representing their identities as students, raisers, etc., and waited happily. shaving.Downstairs, broken hair was intertwined with blood, and laughter coexisted with crying.

"Our soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty went south to hunt for thieves. It can be said that they are invincible! Our South Route Army went south for less than a month, crossing a big river and a big lake. Although there were dozens of Mingguozhou and county towns along the way, they all returned in anticipation. The victory and defeat are already divided, and the hearts of the people are in my Qing Dynasty! The troops of the Great General of the East Road are advancing rapidly. At this moment, the General has already stationed in the city of Songjiang Prefecture, and his troops are pointing directly at the rebels' lair in Shanghai! Sweeping out the rebels from Nanman , the days are already numbered! What's more, all the places along the way are densely populated and rich in food and money. Our Qing Dynasty has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the daily consumption of food, grass and military salaries is huge. Taking such a prosperous and rich place shows that My fate is in my Qing Dynasty!"

Upstairs, Boluo was listening to the muffled sound of "puff puff" coming from the lake downstairs. It was the sound of sharp knives and axes chopping on people's bodies. Those newly surrendered people were intertwined with laughter, politeness, congratulations and other words, which seemed so pleasant to his ears.While listening, he talked about some words above.

If Governor Hong was here, what he said would have to be another way of saying it.Well, for example, "My Qing soldiers and horses went south to avenge your father. However, half of the south of the Yangtze River has no owner, and I can't bear to see Splendid Paradise reduced to the disaster of powerful officials and towns. The use of troops this time is to follow the heavens to fight against rebels and powerful ministers."

But Boluo couldn't achieve such a state of sophistication, smoothness, brazenness and brazenness.It may also be because his subordinates and slaves are all in front of him, so he still speaks very unscrupulously.This is probably the difference between a cultured hooligan and a young bandit.

"The general sent a military order, asking us to march towards Hangzhou quickly. We must restrain the troops of the Southern Barbarian Army from the West Road under the city of Hangzhou, and not let them go to the direction of Songjiang Mansion. At the same time, Order us to immediately raise food, rice and military pay on the spot for military use."

Boluo's words immediately set off a wave of voices in the building.There is the joy of being able to let go of the big grab, and there is also the uneasy anger: Everyone is a slave, why do you, Le Ke Dehun, give orders to our soldiers and horses with two white flags in Manchuria?Wouldn't we honor our master if we robbed him?

But no matter what, with this order, everyone can legally and legally make their own fortunes in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.When everyone was in the north of the Yellow River, they heard countless people say how rich and prosperous Jiangnan is, there are gold and silver everywhere, silk and silk everywhere, and there are beauties everywhere.What's more, the Li family has been operating here for many years, and the treasures of gold, silver, goods, food, and rice are as rare as mountains and seas.

"Pass down the order! In the name of the regent king, General Zhengnan and this general will send an order to conquer the cities and counties of various states and counties, and the hair must be shaved within five days to show the attitude of obedience and disobedience. Those who dare to disobey the order and not shave their hair will be with the rebels." The thieves and the southern barbarians colluded, and I personally beheaded on the spot to order! The family wealth was confiscated into the government, and the wife and family were sold as slaves!"

In fact, the reason why Bo Luo arranged his central army to go to Huzhou in Jiaxing was because he declared to the outside world that "in order to ensure the safety of the flanks of the Eastern Route Army under General Luck Dehun, contain the southern barbarians. In addition to "soldiers, horses, gunboats", it is because he and Turge have been salivating at the wealth of the Hangjiahu Plain since early on.After the two left Nanjing, they communicated with each other for a while, and they immediately hit it off.Head south along the direction of Jiaxing, Huzhou.Along the way, it is inevitable to have a soul-deep discussion of life and death with wealthy households everywhere, but this kind of discussion is just like what Mr. Ma said, the weapon of criticism and the criticism of weapons. Boluo Belle just used swords and guns to continue the discussion of life and death with rich people from all over the world.Let them submit their own answers to the higher philosophical questions of life and death, wealth and life.

Therefore, it doesn't matter to Boluo whether there is such a military order from Luck Dehun. A beautiful woman from the south of the Yangtze River selected from the rich family, and forty steeds from the heavens, ordered his confidant house slaves to go north overnight and send them to the Prince Regent's mansion.The almost identical gift was given to Prince Yu Duoduo by another group of people.Everyone knows that the Prince Regent loves and relies on this younger brother the most.Put this Prince Heshuoyu's beard on the line, no matter how much we do in Jiangnan, even if we burn Jiangnan to nothing, nothing will happen!

After learning that he could let go of his hands and feet and order his wolves, tigers and leopards to rob and kill wantonly, all the generals, lieutenants, Jia Lazhangjing and Meilezhangjing all showed bloodthirsty and greedy smiles on their faces.

"Master, the gold and silver goods are easy to handle. We just need to set up a Frang machine in front of any big family and line up the guns, and there will be a mountain of silver. But where should we raise this food?" The regent issued orders several times, ordering us to quickly transport grain northward. But where can we find this grain?" Boluo's deputy, forehead Turg, hesitated.

Turg also lived in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for a period of time, and he discovered a phenomenon from his daily life, that is, there are very few large families in Jiangnan and Jiangbei that store a large amount of food in their homes.Those rich and wealthy merchants often keep large sums of silver dollars and gold bills in their homes, the silk silks and satins that make up the warehouses, the fine fine cloth, and even the ham, shochu, and cured meat in the cellar. Lots of food.

During the torture, some Qing soldiers also asked these people why they didn’t keep more grain and rice at home, so that the old people could not find the grain and rice for cooking!However, although these people were armed with knives and axes, they still replied plausibly: "Why do you have to store so much grain and rice at home? It only needs to be enough for half a month. Anyway, there are plenty of rice in the town. Grain! If you don’t have anything to eat, take out dozens of silver dollars, and immediately dozens of high-quality round-grained rice grown in heather will be delivered to your home! It’s better to keep some valuable things in the house! Those grains and rice are wolf Kang is worthless!"

"In the south of the Yangtze River, it is easier to find 100 million silver, but it is too difficult to find 20 stone grains and rice!" This is the unanimous opinion of the generals of the Qing army.

However, they just saw the phenomenon or one of the results, but they didn't know the root cause.

This is the so-called emergence of capitalism that caused a large number of economic crops to occupy the space of food crops, which is also the phenomenon of "mulberry occupying rice fields" and "cotton occupying wheat fields" recorded in history books.At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a large amount of land in the Jiangnan area that was originally planted with food crops was converted to plant cash crops.For example, the cultivated land in Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Prefecture, which were once known as "Su Songshu is full of the world", has formed a pattern of rice fields and cotton fields accounting for half, and the area of ​​cotton fields in some counties exceeds the area of ​​rice fields.

Zhang Lvxiang’s "Buying Book" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties mentioned that "the fields in Tongxiang are comparable, and the benefits of sericulture are abundant... The benefits of the land are broad, and it is better to cultivate more land than to cultivate multiple fields." At the same time, the price comparison of cotton production and grain production Changes have also taken place. The cotton produced in Shandong and other places has been "transferred by Jia people to the south of the Yangtze River, where they live in the market, and the benefits of five grains are less than half." Growing food is not as profitable as growing cotton and mulberry trees, so mulberry competition for rice fields appeared The situation of competing with cotton for grain fields.Anyway, as long as you have money, you can always buy food.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, after mulberry and cotton competed for grain fields in Chinese agriculture, the change of farming system was further developed in the direction of multi-crop system. Since mulberry and cotton occupied a large amount of grain fields, the development of multi-crop system was based on The starting point is to increase grain production. One aspect is to produce as much grain as possible in grain fields, such as rice-wheat, rice-spring flowers (broad beans, rapeseed, etc.), rice-beans, rice-buckwheat, etc., among which the most eye-catching It is the development of double-cropping rice; double-cropping rice appeared before the Tang and Song Dynasties, but it was mainly regenerated double-cropping rice. Until the early Ming Dynasty, the double-cropping rice in Fujian and Guangzhou was still intercropping double-cropping rice. , Continuous cropping of double-cropping rice was developed. "Tiangong Kaiwu? Nai Li" said: "In the southern plains, there are many fields that are planted twice and harvested twice. They are replanted. The common name is late glutinous rice, which is not a japonica type. In June, the newborns are mowed, and the old draft fields are plowed and transplanted. Regenerated seedlings." On the basis of double-cropping rice, various wheats are added to develop a wheat-rice-rice three-cropping system.The development of the multi-cropping system in grain fields has promoted the increase in yield per unit area. In order to alleviate the decline in grain planting area caused by the competition for rice fields and cotton fields, the reduction in grain production has played a positive role; Squeeze grain as much as possible in mulberry fields to reduce grain production reduction caused by mulberry competition for rice fields and cotton competition for grain fields. Turn over the rice for one year." The cotton-rice rotation is implemented, and a cotton field intercropping is also proposed in the "Nongzheng Quanshu". , That is to plant cotton, but also to mow wheat." This is what Chu Hua said in "Kapok Spectrum>> "Wheat Miscellaneous Flowers", "Cotton growers may plant barley together. Summer harvests wheat, autumn harvests Cotton is called wheat and mixed flowers." In addition to wheat, the crops interplanted in cotton fields include soybeans, sesame, corn, and green manure. If cotton is about to fail, you can still get beans to pay for the rent.” It should be pointed out that the multi-cropping and intercropping of cotton and wheat have also been adopted in the north. It is said in "Qun Fang Pu": "Every field is planned to be planted with rice in the coming year. If you want to plant cotton in the coming year, don’t plant it.... If the land is densely populated and narrow, you can plant barley and rye as a last resort, and you can still use manure to supplement it, and you must not plant wheat.” It has appeared, and the mulberry planting has been further developed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, it is mentioned in "Qunfangpu" that "broad beans...under the mulberry trees in Zhejiang and Zhejiang, plant them all over the ring." In addition, the development of mulberry rice fields also led to mulberry-based fish ponds The emergence of the rice field is to dig deep into a pond, and the soil is surrounded to form a foundation. The pond is used to raise fish, and the foundation is used to plant mulberry.While increasing the output of mulberry leaves, fish farming is used to make up for the food shortage caused by mulberry competition for rice fields.