Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 283 The Second Eastern Expedition ([-])

When Zhang Chengwu raised his army and prepared to march eastward, King Lu had already abandoned Ningbo Mansion and took the entire court and followers to Wenzhou Mansion.

Suddenly, the entire Ningbo Mansion was in turmoil.Every big family is like the end of the world. The whole family does not rest, and they pack their belongings overnight.The servants are even ordered to go around, and they will be beaten if they do something that the master doesn't like.The violent mood of the masters directly filled the whole family with despair.

The house cannot be taken away, nor can the big furniture. The only things that can be taken away are small furniture, and only the gold and silver that fit close to the body, as well as antique calligraphy and paintings.At this time, the housing prices in Ningbo fell to the point where they were almost free, while the ox carts and carriages were sold at sky-high prices.At this moment, one more car can save more family wealth.

The road south to Wenzhou is far away, and the strong man who looks after the house can keep his family safe, but the maids who can only serve others are not very useful, and taking them will only waste food in vain.Some maidservants even imitated the hostess' lady binding her feet, so that the journey would not be far away, and the vehicle would only be occupied in vain.

So for a while, there were crying sounds from many people in Ningbo City. It was the crying of maids and servants who were kicked out.They have stayed in the Lord's house for a long time, and some of them have been in the Lord's house for generations, giving birth to children.Although the masters returned the bond of sale after driving them out, they are all free men now.But people's habits are difficult to change. After adapting to one environment for a long time, it is difficult to adapt to another environment.For a moment, these servants held the deeds of sale in their hands and looked at a loss. After the tears on their faces were wiped off, they still stood outside the gate, hoping that the master would take them with them when they left.Freedom is not the most important thing for them at this moment, the most important thing is survival.

King Lu and his trusted ministers were the first to leave Ningbo, followed by the mighty troops of the big families.Driving horse-drawn carts and ox carts, pushing wheelbarrows, and carrying baskets and loads, a long stream of people flowed dozens of miles away.

Everyone who left looked at their homeland reluctantly.These ten years have been hellish. The Tatars came and the King of Lu left, and the Tartars left and the King of Lu came. Ningbo became a battlefield.Killing and killing is also killing, and the people suffer unspeakably.In fact, over the past ten years, the common people have gradually accepted hair shaving and changing clothes.People have to live, life is their own, and if you lose it, you will lose it. It is not worth dying for hair and clothes.A stable and war-free life is the most precious and most desirable.

It's just that King Lu didn't stay long, and the bandits came again.I heard that bandits are all short-haired, so some people call them short-haired bandits.In fact, the people in Ningbo don't care about long hair or short hair. They just hope that the gangsters will kill less when they enter the city.Rich people can run away because they have money and connections, and they can run away, but what about the low-level people?I'm afraid I don't know each other ten miles out of the city, and how far can I go if I'm hungry?This is their home, where their ancestors lived for generations, even if they die, they will die at home.Fortunately, the gangsters who came this time were also Han Chinese, which made many people feel relieved.After all, people of the same clan are always reassuring, aren't they?

Another thing that reassures the people in the city is that King Lu did not burn the whole city after he left the city.When the common people heard that the Tartars set fire to Hangzhou, they were frightened and stupid, and they were afraid that Ningbo would also be set on fire.The urban buildings in this era are mainly made of wood, so the whole city will be destroyed if it is burned.It is estimated that the king of Lu couldn't bear to burn the whole city, and secondly, many people are still counting on when they can counterattack Ningbo and take back their homes!Wouldn't it be reduced to ashes after being burned like this?So they would rather leave it to the bandits temporarily than completely destroy it.However, all the materials in the treasury in the city must be taken away.

From Ningbo Fucheng to Fenghua and then to Taizhou Prefecture, Wenzhou is still hundreds of miles away, and this journey is destined to cause many casualties.

Because the rest of the forces are trying to vilify the security group, and Shi Dao and others are dissatisfied with the security group's taxation of religion, so they demonize the security group.No matter whether it is the upper class or the lower class, people are always full of fear of the security group.

When not in touch with something, people always say what others say.But when people really understand something, people have their own opinions.The people who stayed in Ningbo and resigned themselves to their fate waited with trepidation for the security team to take over the city.Those who left Ningbo were full of frustration and left the place where they grew up, wondering whether they would be able to return to their hometown in their lifetime.

In a few days, all the prefectures and counties in Ningbo Prefecture were emptied of wealth, and the rolling stream of people going south brought a stream of wealth flowing with gold and silver.

Knowing that the wealthy people in Ningbo Mansion were going to flee, Zhang Chengwu was in a panic.The rules of the security team's seizure of commissions are still being enforced. It doesn't matter if these people run away, the important thing is that they took the money away.For his own sake and for the sake of his brothers, Zhang Chengwu couldn't let the gold and silver go.Therefore, Zhang Chengwu sent the only cavalry brigade in his hand to go south to pursue.Although there are 3000 cavalry brigades, most of them are auxiliary soldiers and grooms, and there are only about a thousand real knights.There are few horses in the south, and the horses of these thousand knights are only a little over a thousand, and most of them were captured during the battle against the Tartars.In order to chase down the wealth that originally belonged to the security regiment, Zhang Chengwu unexpectedly released this elite combat force.

As the king of Lu went south and gave up Ningbo and Taizhou, the army of the security regiment traversed the north of Zhejiang as if no one was there.Zhang Chengwu's cavalry went all the way south, and finally intercepted the tail of King Lu's southward migration south of Fenghua County.Seeing the cavalry of the security regiment coming, the rest of the southward brigade fled to Tianmu Mountain in the west.Fan Zhengjie, the cavalry captain who led the team, cherished the horsepower, and because of the good harvest, he gave up the pursuit.

Like Zhang Chengwu, Fan Zhengjie was born in the Ming Dynasty. Although Fan Zhengjie did not dare to disobey Zhang Chengwu's orders this time, he had compassion in his heart.Fan Zhengjie was not interested in the civil war between the same culture and the same species. The education he received in the security regiment was that the duty of a soldier is to defend the family and the country, but he only propagated one set of facts and another set of facts, which made Fan Zhengjie very helpless.

After intercepting this batch of wealth, Fan Zhengjie released the captives on the grounds that it was not easy for the cavalry to carry them, and returned with only the wealth.

When Fan Zhengjie returned to Daying, Zhang Chengwu had already occupied the entire Ningbo Mansion.After leaving a column in Ningbo Mansion to assist the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Political Propaganda to form the grassroots security corps, Zhang Chengwu led his army south to Taizhou Mansion.

At the same time, Zhang Liansheng's Second Front Army, which carried the main combat troops, also raised troops again and again, sweeping all the way to Yanzhou Mansion, Jinhua Mansion, and Quzhou Mansion.In the end, he was blocked to Chuzhou Prefecture because of the scattered forces, and Zhang Chengwu also stopped outside Wenzhou Prefecture.For a while, the security regiment took over [-]% of the land in Zhejiang Province and nearly doubled the area under the headquarters.

The rapidly expanding security team needed time to digest the fruits of victory, which gave Jin Li and King Lu a chance to breathe.Of course, the postponement of the offensive was also because Qiu Tianxing only wanted to seize the land of Zhejiang, and did not mean to kill King Lu and others.However, although Qiu Tianxing intends to stop, his action has greatly stimulated the southern heroes, and each force is slowly uniting.The southern sky is cloudy.

(End of this chapter)