On April 12, 1650, several shallow river gunboats of the "Amur" class slowly docked at the Cixi River. More than 400 officers and soldiers of Shun who had "exchanged" from the Huguang area were quickly taken away by Zhang Guangcui, who came to pick them up, and after he left, Cai Huaze, who had returned from Tianluobao to buy ordnance, glanced at these soldiers with Xiangyang accents with complicated expressions, as if thinking of himself many years ago. He was also the king of Chuang's establishment of the five-battalion military system in Xiangyang, and set up officials to govern the local army, and now seven or eight years have passed, and he can still hear the long-lost rural voice again in Yinxian, a place thousands of miles away, and he can't help but feel emotional.

Cai Huaze's position in the Dashun army is now quite delicate, to put it bluntly, he is quite excluded under Liu Guochang. Although his subordinates were the first to receive military training from the East Coasters, the earliest to change their clothes, and the highest range of firearms, he was still suspicious of Liu Guochang, Liu Shijun and others because he was too close to the East Coasters. Even the younger generals such as Yuan Bao, Zhang Guangcui, and Zhang Jingchun had a faint estrangement from him, which made him depressed.

"I heard that Guo Shuai has been promoted to the general of Zhongying Right Guoyi, and Lao Tzu is not here to go back to Guo Shuai. If this is not easy to achieve, then Lao Tzu simply voted for the East Coast people to count the ball! Save yourself from the idleness of Liu Guochang, the grandson of the turtle in the left camp, Zuo is just a deputy general, and he is angry! Lao Tzu and Mo Dashuai, Commander-in-Chief Mao, and Shao Dashuai have all had a banquet together, what are you! Hum! Cai Huaze was jealous of Zhang Guangcui's cold attitude towards him just now, so after secretly being annoyed, he didn't bother to go with them, and went straight to the foothold he set up outside the city. More than a hundred muskets sent to the East Coast for repair were already stored there. In addition, there are gunpowder, lead, bows and arrows, leather armor and other utensils. They were all packed and brought back to the soldiers for distribution. Commander Liu's meaning just now was already very clear. After a few days of arrival, another army from the southeast of the mountain arrived here, and the whole division could march westward to Shaoxing Mansion to find the main force of the Qing army for a decisive battle.

And just as Cai Huaze was muttering and rushing back, in the government office in Yinxian County, Liu Haiyang was quickly dealing with official business: how to arrange military affairs. Since the people on the east coast are outsiders, and a large number of local puppet officials have been swept away some time ago, they hardly have any supporters in this land, which can be seen from the fact that the officials in the county and government offices fled as soon as they fled. These years of Xu officials. They are local clans, and when the people on the east coast want to share their land, they are naturally unwilling to serve them. And not only will they not serve the people on the east coast, if they have the opportunity, they will also report to the Qing court, and even organize a group to practice biting the people on the east coast.

Therefore, if you want to gain a firm foothold in Ningbo Prefecture, you still have to rely on the troops you brought. For example, this time the 1,500 Rugao soldiers of Sun Shouzheng's department and the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of Ding Weiyue's department from Dezhou were divided into land, which was a move to stabilize people's hearts. And in the case that the local land has basically been annexed by the wealthy family. If you want to have enough land to distribute to the servant soldiers, you still have to take the knife with vested interests. Besides. The only way to stir up the relationship between the poor peasant tenants and the lord's family, to create class contradictions between them, and to distribute the lord's good land to the proletarian tenants who followed the easterners closely, became the only way for the easterners to gain limited support in the region.

As for pleasing the big families, don't even think about it, it's impossible at all. On the surface, people are acting with you in vain, but secretly they tell the Qing court, and then co-opt, divide and corrupt your troops, and there are a hundred ways to kill you. Therefore, Liu Haiyang thinks that it is better to follow the method formulated by Shao Shude, not to play with you, not to fight with you, we are to use our strengths and avoid weaknesses, to suppress others, to eliminate the old vested interest class, and then create a new more obedient vested interest class, so that the rule will be much more stable.

However, the consequence of this is also very serious, that is, the East Coast people have a bad reputation among the gentry (it seems that the reputation is already stinky), and they can no longer get the support of the gentry class (in fact, there is no support), so they can only rely on their own strength to break the situation, and then spend time cultivating their own descendants. Shao Shude's land reclamation in Dengzhou (more than 5,500 wounded and retired servant soldiers have been allocated land) is like this, and Liu Haiyang's actions in Ningbo are actually very similar, all in order to better control and manage the territory under his feet. Otherwise, if you still rely on the gentry to rule indirectly, then once there are three longs and two shorts on the battlefield, this group of scum will dare to raise troops behind the scenes, which is really dangerous.

After Liu Haiyang led a force of 2,000 German volunteers as the main force to quickly eliminate some of the big gentry around the county seat of Yinxian, he immediately distributed the seized land, farm tools, grain seeds, and cultivated cattle, and organized the soldiers to carry out military cantonments. Liu Haiyang made it clear to everyone that at present this piece of land belongs to military land, that is, the common property of all people, and that when a soldier retires from the army in accordance with the regulations, he can receive a different amount of private land by virtue of his length of service, up to 30 mu -- and at present, the first batch of more than 250 older soldiers have been "honorably discharged" and have started to live an idyllic life.

At the same time, the Southern Theater Command set up in Yinxian County will also organize people to take soil and burn bricks locally, build brick houses of a unified standard for everyone, and even marry daughters-in-law for soldiers in the local area. The issuance of this policy can be regarded as completely stabilizing the hearts of these servant soldiers. In the future, even if it is to protect their own interests, they will have to fight the Qing army to the end, otherwise when the Qing army kills them, the descendants of these landlords and gentry who have been broken by them will definitely come to a bloody reckoning, which they cannot afford.

"Now the territory we can control is only the surrounding area of Yinxian County; Because Dinghai County has naval ships stationed, it can barely be regarded as a sphere of influence. In other areas, the shape is complicated, and it is basically laissez-faire. For example, in Fenghua County, Cixi County, and Guanhaiwei, don't be surprised if the local gentry collude with the Qing army to make us enemies one day, because this seems to me to be a very normal thing. Huang Yi, who was in charge of trade affairs in the Far East on the east coast, sat down at Liu Haiyang's head and said to him: "So if we want to grow grain and develop sericulture, it is best to be around Yinxian County, Dinghai County is barely okay, and other places are too dangerous." Our people were sent there during the day, and they were killed at night, and I am by no means alarmist, because the president of the Stability Maintenance Association we set up in Cixi County (a businessman who took the lead in taking refuge with the people on the east coast) was hacked to death in a brothel three days ago, and the murderer has not been found so far, which is very telling. ”

On the day when the president of the stability maintenance association set up by the people on the east bank in Cixi County was killed, Huang Yi also happened to be buying raw silk locally, and after learning the news, he couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself on his high sense of crisis -- when he Huang went out, he was always accompanied by a dozen or so Shandan armor soldiers brought from the Amur River valley - otherwise he might have died.

"It's normal for the law and order to deteriorate now, after all, we have just intensified the contradictions here." After Liu Haiyang heard this, he continued to read the official document and said disapprovingly: "Cixi and Guanhaiwei are closely related to Shaoxing Mansion, and the rampant anti-East Coast forces in the local area are also deserved. However, Fenghua County does not have to be too nervous, this county is located in the south, Yin County in the north, the sea in the east, and other places are surrounded by lofty mountains such as Tiantai Mountain and Siming Mountain. Moreover, I heard that this place is not bad, not only the production of silk and hemp, but also the nearby mountains and hills are planted with tea trees, and the annual harvest is not too small or small, which is also a source of wealth for us. ”

Hearing Liu Haiyang say this, Huang Yi was also silent. Raw silk and tea are all commodities that are urgently needed in the local area, and if they can be managed well and their scale and output are expanding day by day, they will also be a lot of income for export to the local area in the future. What's more, the production of highly commercialized agricultural products (i.e., rice, raw silk, tea, etc.) through guò can firmly tie the various strata of society in Yinxian and Dinghai, which are currently under actual control, and Fenghua, which may be deeply controlled in the future, to the chariot of the east coast, so that they can gradually shed the elements of traditional agricultural society and have more elements of capitalist and industrial society, and then gradually distance themselves from the traditional gentry society represented by the Qing court, and finally be completely controlled by the people on the east coast.

Moreover, in the past, at present, and for a long time in the future, the counties of Ningbo Prefecture that have been "trapped" will inevitably be vigorously blockaded by the Qing court, and all kinds of commodities needed in the daily needs of the place can only be produced by themselves, and if it is really not possible, they can only trade with the Denglai Erfu and Heishui areas, which are still controlled by the people on the east coast. Of course, trade with Korea, Japan, the Dutch, and the Portuguese was not impossible, and this required the "guidance" of the Blackwater Pioneer Government.

Of course, Huang Yi was thinking much more than that, he was thinking even further: in the future, when the older generation of people passed away, it was unknown whether the new generation of bureaucrats in power in power in the East would be willing to continue to spend huge manpower and material resources to emigrate to the Far East. Therefore, if there are some commercial interests involved, this possibility must be much greater. And this can be regarded as the last thing their generation has done to expand the living space of the Chinese nation.

On April 14, 1650, the last southbound force, 3,500 troops from Xie Qian's army, arrived in Yinxian via Dinghai. After dealing with the backlog of official duties, Liu Haiyang immediately decided to send troops to the west, attack Shaoxing Mansion, contain the Qing army's strength, and disturb the situation in the south to resist the Qing Dynasty. The accompanying troops included Ao Guanhai's black infantry battalion, the German Volunteers, and the three servant armies, with a total of 13,000 soldiers, and Sun Shouzheng's 2,000 men (the 500 soldiers left behind on Daishan Island have been withdrawn) who stayed behind in Yinxian Laochao and were responsible for helping to collect grain and grass in the rear; The Shun army Liu Liu Shijun led less than 3,000 men to stay behind in the two fortresses that were still under construction, and the remaining nearly 4,000 men and horses were led by Liu Guochang and set out with the East Coast Army—the Shun army also recruited 10,000 or 20,000 masters nearby as logistical auxiliaries for them and the East Coast Army.

In addition, Liu Haiyang also sent people to contact the Lu Wang's troops who were still attacking the city in the Taizhou Mansion to go on the expedition together, and Zhang Mingzhen, on behalf of the King of Lu, personally led more than 20,000 people by land and water into Hangzhou Bay, preparing to respond to the offensive of the people on the east coast. For this reason, some ships of the navy on the east coast stationed in Dinghai County also pulled anchor and set sail to escort the troops of King Lu.

For a time, the entire Hangzhou Bay left melee cloud was dense, and it was so overwhelming that people were breathless. (To be continued......)