29_297781 In April 29778, Ningbo Prefecture in early spring was gradually warming up. Outside Ninghai County, Taizhou Prefecture, Wei Boqiu was accompanied by Xie Qian, commander of the newly established 6th Division of the Army, supervised a collective execution. The targets of the execution were local Qing generals and some direct male relatives, and of course some local gentry and landlords were indispensable. The things these people committed were nothing more than "loyal officials and false Qing Dynasty" and "stubborn". Therefore, the Sixth Division of the Servant Army who conquered this place was also sentenced.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division circled a large open space on the school ground outside the city. These soldiers, wearing yellow military uniforms, black-brimmed caps, fur shoes, and white leggings on their calves, held spears and drove the people who were surrounding them to watch the fun outside. They were in a Shandong accent that the locals could not understand, and the swords and guns in their hands were shining coldly. In addition, they killed the soldiers when they broke through the city more than a month ago, so they were still very deterrent in the eyes of the local people.

The commander Xie Qian dusted the dust on his wool uniforms, stroked the handle of the commander's knife with his left hand, and subconsciously placed his right hand on the flintlock pistol holster at his waist. He looked at the execution ground with high spirits, who were either dejected, cursed, or cried, and cried. He felt very happy.

He himself turned out to be just a slave of a retired official in Qingzhou. Because he was angry with the Qing court's policy of shaving his hair and changing clothes and excessive exploitation of the people, he pulled up a pole with some friends in the world to rebel. His greatest "achievement" was to capture and kill the first man from Shandong, who wrote to Dorgon to ask for shaving his hair and changing clothes, and to recruit the ambassador of Henan to recruit Wang Aoyong. Xie Qian was filled with awls on Wang Aoyong's head at that time, saying, "Sow your hair for you", which greatly made people's hearts happy.

However, after being surrounded by the Qing army and almost died (thanks to the East Coast people rescued the siege), Xie Qian defected to the East Coast people who seemed to be the only "unknown force" who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty. After a few years of ups and downs within the East Coast Servant Army system, Xie Qian changed a lot. Now he no longer has much of his spirit as he used to, and gradually began to move closer to a warlord and politician. For example, he is more concerned about making money than killing the Tartars. For example, he is not only shaved his hair and changed his clothes (shaved his head and wore the East Coast military uniform, but this is much better than the money rat-tail or jacket promoted by the Tartars). He also does not reject many things from the East Coast (such as various daily necessities) and is almost a different person than a few years ago.

In his opinion, the Qing officials who were tied up and waiting for execution were all pitiful and stupid. Why? They don’t know the situation and don’t know the general! If you don’t talk about anything else, just talking about the current situation in Zhejiang Province is a great disadvantage to the Qing court! A few months ago, the commander of the Southern War Zone in Yin County, Navy Major Liu Haiyang, who was in charge of Yin County, mobilized the Fourth Division of the Servant Army and the Sixth Division to go south. It took two months to recover Xiangshan County, Changguowei, Ninghai County and other places in succession, and eliminated more than 2,000 landlords who were guarding these counties to train armed forces. When they returned to the army, they passed by Fenghua County and wiped out two gentry riots in the local area. It was extremely majestic.

When the army on the east coast consolidated its territory, the Lu King armed forces, who were originally active in the Jiantiao District area, began to gradually exert their strength. They took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army's main force retreating north to Hangzhou Prefecture and the coastal areas of Taizhou Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture, and successively captured many cities defended by the Qing army. Currently, they have occupied Jiantiao District, Taozhu District, Haimenwei, Huangyan County, Songmenwei, Panshiwei and other places. The main force is led by Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin and others. At this moment, they are besieging day and night outside Yongjia County, Wenzhou Prefecture.

The Qing army in eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang and even northern Fujian had few troops. When Chen Tai and others went north to rescue Hangzhou, they searched for another group of people. Now there are only a few crooked people, and they are too busy to protect themselves, let alone talk about rescuing other parties. This unfavorable situation of the Qing court was deliberately magnified by the deliberate propaganda and bitter persuasion of the people of the East Coast. - Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin and others who controlled the military power of King Lu, began to conquer cities and territory in Wenzhou and Taizhou, and their strength grew stronger. No longer the embarrassment of living in Zhoushan Island a few years ago.

The Zheng group, which was guarding Jinxia, ​​also began to make efforts. They besieged the coastal areas of Fujian under the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty, causing the Qing army to run and lose cities and land. Their efforts made the Qing army that had invaded Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong, besieged from both sides. Li Chengdong took advantage of the situation to lead the army to counterattack, defeated the Qing army, and recovered most of the Chaozhou Prefecture. The situation on the southeast coast was deliberately pelled by the people on the east coast, causing earth-shaking changes, which made the Qing army do nothing.

"If the situation in the southeast is reversed, these local tyrants and evil gentry are willing to do things for the Tartars. They are so stupid as if they are pigs and dogs!" Xie Qian, the commander of the Sixth Division, thought disdainfully. After seeing Wei Boqiu on the platform waved his hand indifferently, he tightened the belt around his waist, pulled out the sharp command knife, slashed down hard, and said, "Execution!"

With his order, the large group of Green Camp soldiers wearing Qing soldiers' clothes were kicked by the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division, and with the short swords he sent, they trembled and stabbed the former bosses. The officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division were wearing armor and holding blades, supervising their execution.

"After the letter of surrender is submitted, these people will be incorporated into the military and husband team. After a few trips, they will almost digest it." Wei Boqiu stood up and left the execution ground, and said to his student Li Kado: "Ninghai County is located in a plain in the mountains, valleys and plains, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Qing army brigade comes, it must have crossed mountains and ridges, exhausted and unable to penetrate Lu silk. On the contrary, our army has the advantage of boats. Naval warships can transport large numbers of troops and military funds at any time, and have the advantage of the inside that the Qing army cannot match. Therefore, it can be digested here well into our rear, of course, this may take many years."

Li Kaduo nodded. He now really understood what the teacher said, "It takes many years" means, because the realistic examples are there: in the counties of Ningbo Prefecture that the East Coast people have already captured, the current policies implemented are quite strong in the countryside. Landlords and gentry, ordinary scholars, remaining Qing army forces, local clan forces, etc., for various reasons, almost all became enemies of the East Coast people.

They spread public opinion that was not conducive to the East Coast among the people, connected various anti-East Coast forces, informed the Qing court, and killed the grain collection teams and working teams sent by the East Coast. Some people even kept inciting foolish men and women or clan relatives and friends to fight against the rule of the East Coast people. They almost dragged the 6,700 troops and 7,000 troops of the Fourth Division and the Sixth Division firmly on the local area, and were never able to be transferred to the front line to fight against the Qing army.

However, the people of the East Coast are not rude, especially the leaders of the East Coast have grown up with the blood and fire of the Spaniards since the beginning of their journey. They have two policies for local resistance: suppression and exile, that is, those with mild circumstances (usually foolish men and women who are swept up) are exiled to Sakhalin, Hokkien, Tahiti, and those with severe circumstances (usually planners and organizers) on the spot. The vacant homestead was just nationalized, and then they were assigned to disabled, retired soldiers, or rewarded to those who actively approached the East Coast to invite people to buy their hearts.

As far as Li Kadu knows, Yin County, which is the most powerful ruler of the East Coast, has given more than 2,700 soldiers free of charge; at the same time, they also organized tens of thousands of people captured from Shaoxing Prefecture to resume production around the county town. Since last year, they have dredged the long-silted canal, rebuilt the disrepaired Potang River embankment, and planted wintering wheat. After a while, they can harvest it. Dashun, there is no shortage of food and fodder needed for tens of thousands of troops on both sides of the East Coast.

After this crop of wheat is harvested, the Shaoxing people from the west will plant a crop of rice. There are also a variety of taro, black beans and other grains around the rice fields to supplement food. Don’t underestimate the enthusiasm of these Shaoxing people, because the East Coast people once promised them that as long as the East Coast government can farm the fields for five years for free (during the period, adult men earned a monthly salary of 3 yuan, including food and accommodation, and women, children and elderly wages decreased), they can redeem the land they had cultivated for a few years at a low price of 5 yuan per acre of land, with a maximum limit of 30 acres.

Thirty acres of fertile land were a property that could be passed on to their descendants, and these people could not be moved. Therefore, their short-term enthusiasm was mobilized, and they also completely formed an indelible feud with the local landlords and gentry - because the land they bought in the future was obviously confiscated by the East Coast people from these gentry, and these gentry often had many tribesmen's children in the Qing court, and the Qing court clearly protected the interests of the landlords and gentry, so they had irreconcilable conflicts with the Qing court. In this way, they became the most effective helpers of the East Coast people to rule the local area - is there any more reliable relationship than the consistency of interests?

In addition to dividing land for these Shaoxing immigrants and veterans, the East Coast people were also trying to differentiate and disintegrate the original clan social system in the local area. They found various reasons to confiscate the landlords' land and then distribute it to the landless poor. This was the suggestion given by Li Kado at the beginning. During his long-term investigation, he found that the so-called clan forces in local villages are not monolithic. The rich are rich and the rich are smelly, while the poor are not in a place to stand.

Therefore, he suggested that the clan forces be divided and disintegrated, that is, to distribute land to thalassin-free households (according to the previous policies, they should be hired to cultivate land and can be redeemed at a low price in five years). The source of this land is naturally the landlords who own a large amount of land in the clan - he did not believe that with the support and maintenance of the East Coast soldiers, those poor households who are not full of food and are in a malnutrition all year round will not be moved! The Chinese people's persistence in land cannot stop anything! As long as I can have a share of land that can be passed on to future generations, I care who you are? Whoever you want to stop me will fight with you! (To be continued).

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