Hearing Wang Yuyou's resolute opposition, Wang Xinyu was very puzzled and asked: "Why is this?" We exterminated the gentry and local tyrants who surrendered to the Tartars, and even the Jiangnan scholars did not object to us doing so. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But when we give the land of these forgotten ancestors to the landless people, why don't they be grateful to us, but hate us? ”

Wang Yuyou explained: "The local people don't have the concept of Huayi at all, and it doesn't matter if they even shave their hair and change clothes, what do you say to them that they have forgotten their ancestors, they won't think so at all!" If you tell them so much truth, will they be able to listen to them? ”

"But if we kill the gentry and give them the land, why do they hate us? You must know that those ordinary people have no land of their own! We did this when we were in Jiangnan, killing the gentry who had defected to the Qing court, raiding the house, whether it was the common people or the backbone of the scholars, they all welcomed us. Why doesn't the same thing work here? Wang Xinyu asked very puzzled.

Wang Yuyou stroked his beard and shook his head: "It's completely different here and Jiangnan, there are still most of the gentry in Jiangnan who are dissatisfied with the shaving of the Tartars, we killed the gentry family who took refuge in the Tartars, and naturally there are the gentry families who support us to help us speak, we share the land of the big families who take refuge in the Tartars, and the other big families still applaud!" But here, these gentry did not oppose the concept of shaving their hair and making it easy to wear, only the dispute between the local and the guest! ”

"The Turk dispute?" Wang Xinyu was stunned.

Wang Yuyou shook his head and smiled: "Yes! The battle of the Turks! There are Tu people and Hakka people here. The so-called natives are the original southern locals, and the Hakka people are the northern people who originally lived in the Central Plains, because the Hu people invaded the Central Plains many times and migrated to the south in order to escape the war. Although the Hakka people have lived here for hundreds of years, the conflicts between them and the local natives have not stopped for a day. ”

Wang Yuyou took a sip of water, and then continued: "Because of the contradiction between the Tu and the Hakka people, both sides rely on the big families and form a village to fight. If it weren't for the big family, I'm afraid that my land would have been taken away by the other party! There are also many bandits in the hills and mountains near Chaozhou, and they also need large families to fight against each other. Therefore, if we defeat the gentry and the big families, then the local people will hate us even more! ”

It seems that Wang Xinyu imagined that wherever the Ming Dynasty went, the working people all over the world stretched their necks and prepared pots, plates, baskets and so on, just waiting for the Ming army to liberate them, this kind of thing is impossible to happen at least in the Chaozhou area.

In most cases, the Ming army was unpopular, not to mention in Annam, Nanyang and other places, even in Guangdong, where the land of the original Ming Empire and now the land of the Qing Empire became unpopular.

You can imagine that if the Ming army is in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains in the future, how many people can support the Ming army.

The Central Plains and Shandong and other places have also broken out large-scale uprisings because of shaving their hair and changing clothes, such as the Yuyuan Army and other rebel armies, but those who have backbone and refuse to shave their hair and change clothes have been killed, and those who survive are all Shunmin.

When the Ming army made a northern expedition to the Central Plains, these ordinary people who were afraid of the Qing army would only stand on the side of the Qing army.

How to fundamentally solve these problems, this is really a headache for Wang Xinyu. But that's all in the future, the big households that should be defeated at present still have to be defeated, but Wang Xinyu will not follow Zheng Chenggong's example, after defeating the big households, he will slaughter the village, and indiscriminately kill all the women, children, the old and the weak, Wang Xinyu will not do such a thing.

However, if these people who hate the Ming army continue to stay in the Chaozhou area, it is also a hidden danger, and sooner or later there will be problems.

Therefore, Wang Xinyu thought of a way: "I have a way!" We will definitely destroy a few big families, and only by defeating these big families can we make other people obey us. ”

"How to fight? Do you want to learn from Yanping Wang Tuzhai? Kill a few stockades? Wang Yuyou asked.

Wang Xinyu replied confidently: "Immigration! Defeat a few stubborn guys and send all the people in the stockade to the South Seas, to Tamna, and even to the Americas! ”

Wang Yuyou laughed knowingly: "This is a good way!" All the people in those big villages are missing, and the other villages don't understand the situation, and they think that we have slaughtered a few stubborn villages, and they don't dare to resist! In this way, the Chaozhou area can also be stabilized! ”

In addition to the Outing Village, which was destroyed by Zheng Chenggong eight years ago, there are three major villages in Hanjiang: Longhu, Mandarin Duck and Gengge.

Chenghai County, under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou, there are almost no Qing troops stationed, and the Qing court county commander did not dare to surrender because his family was still in his hometown, so he fled into the Mandarin Duck Village with the official servants, relying on the protection of the local villagers.

The Ming army attacked Chenghai County, it can be said that it is effortless, Chenghai County is almost an empty city, as soon as the Ming army arrives under the city, it is found that the city gate is wide open, the city is empty, not to mention that there are no Qing soldiers, even the common people can not see a few.

It is easy to take Chenghai, including the surrounding counties of Jieyang, Puning, Chaoyang and so on, which are all taken without much effort. The capital city of Chaozhou has been conquered by the Ming army, and the Qing army stationed in Chaozhou has been wiped out except for more than 1,000 people from the Shashan Fort who ran back to Guangzhou.

Originally, Shang Zhixin didn't have much will to resist, and he was already planning to surrender, how could he still leave troops to garrison these small counties?

The Ming army swept away the leaves like the autumn wind, and took all the counties around Chaozhou.

In addition to the Chenghai County Order's escape into the Mandarin Duck Village, the Jieyang County Commander committed suicide, the Puning County Commander was killed, and the Chaoyang County Commander was in the city because his family "just happened" to visit him, so he took the initiative to surrender to the Ming army.

In fact, there are still a lot of local people and villagers who fought against the Ming army, but the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army have abandoned the county seat, the circumference of the city wall of these counties is much longer than the small village of the locals, and more troops are needed to hold it. Therefore, instead of garrisoning the county seat, the local local armed forces should retreat into their own stockades to defend.

After seizing the surrounding county seats, the Ming army had to attack several stockades if they wanted to suppress the local armed forces.

According to the report from the spies, it was said that the Chenghai County Commander fled into the Mandarin Duck Village with the officials and a group of people.

"Good! In that case, then we will attack Mandarin Duck Village! Wang Xinyu nodded and said.

After all, it is a Han village, Wang Xinyu didn't want to go too far, he said to Luo Xiang, who was in charge of attacking the Mandarin Duck Village: "When you arrive at the Mandarin Duck Village, don't rush to attack first, shout to the people in the village, if they are willing to hand over the Tartar County Order, then we won't fight them, and we can let them keep their arms!" ”

"No!" Luo Xiang arched his hand.

Wang Xinyu turned to Wang Yuyou again and said, "Mr. Wang, there are still some things to go to the east of this domain, so I will leave it to you for the time being, Mr. Wang." ”

"Please rest assured! These things will definitely be done! If the people of the Mandarin Duck Village are stubborn, then they will be sent to the boat and sent to Sakhalin Island as herdsmen! Wang Yuyou said with a smile.

Wang Xinyu said goodbye to everyone for the time being, just now someone from Dongfan came and asked him to go to Dongfan to do a big thing. Song Yingxing is old, and it is impossible to serve as the president of the Academy of Sciences, and to build a new large-scale industrial base in Dongfan, Wang Xinyu must come forward in person, and he will find a new candidate to serve as the president of the Academy of Sciences.

In fact, Fang Yizhi, who is proficient in Western science, is very suitable for the position of president of the Academy of Sciences, but Fang Yizhi can't let go of his position as a magistrate, which makes Wang Xinyu a little headache.

The Ming army of 5,000 men and horses, including 500 cavalry and 1,000 auxiliaries, carrying cannons and other heavy weapons, set off to Yuanyang Village. After a whole day's march, we arrived outside the Mandarin Duck Village in the evening.

Outside the Mandarin Duck Village, the people who were cultivating in the farmland saw the Ming army with the red flag appearing on the official road from a distance, so they abandoned their work and fled into the village quickly. Then the gate of the village was closed, and the tenants and village warriors who had taken up weapons in their hands stood at the head of the city, looking at the Ming army outside the village.

"What a lot of pirates!" A young man spoke.

A middle-aged man gasped: "Good guy! They were all wearing iron armor and cannons! ”

"Their armor is so good!" Said a tenant with a spear in his hand.

The first young man to speak said, "So much armor and cannons, how much silver does it cost?" ”

"Yes, without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it's not enough at all!" An old man said.

"Where did they get the money?" Someone asked.

The old man said angrily, "Then you still need to say? It must have been grabbed! Didn't Outing Village refuse to accept grain from Haikou back then? They slaughtered them all! That's miserable! Thousands of people have been killed! ”

"Didn't you say that the Zheng family army killed tens of thousands of people?" A young man asked.

The old man lowered his voice: "It's really not true that tens of thousands of people have been killed, that's what the imperial court deliberately said." ”

The county order appeared at the head of the mandarin duck village, and when the county order appeared, the villagers in the village and the people who fled from Chenghai cheered.

"My lord! The pirates are coming! I hope that the adults will be in command! Don't let the pirates break through our stockade! A gentleman-like man bowed to the county order.

Before the county commander could speak, he heard the shouts of the Ming army from under the village: "Fathers and villagers in the village, we are all Han people, not Tartars!" We Han people don't kill Han people! As long as you hand over the Tartar county order and promise not to be an enemy of us, we will not attack the village! And we allow you to have your own weapons! ”

Hearing the shouts of the Ming army, the county commander turned pale with fright, and his whole body trembled like a sieve.

The owner of the village comforted the county order: "Please rest assured! More than 7,000 people in our Mandarin Duck Village, as well as 10,000 people from Chenghai, have the same hatred and hatred, and will never surrender to Haikou! As long as they attack, they will definitely bleed! ”

The county ordered: "Since this is the case, the official will be relieved!" When the royal court comes to drive away the pirates, this official will definitely give credit to you people who are loyal to the court! ”

"There's no need to ask for credit, it's good to be able to reduce a little food." The main road of the village.

The county magistrate's face was embarrassed: "The grain endowment in Guangdong is not collected by this official, it is all collected by the Pingnan Palace." The prince said how much to receive, and the court couldn't say anything. ”

"That's it, I just hope that the prince can lead troops to expel the pirates! If we can drive away the pirates, we will also admit this grain endowment. The owner of the village arched his hand.

Outside the stockade, Luo Xiang waited for a long time, but he didn't see anyone in the stockade come out.

"General, it looks like they won't open the door and hand over the Tartar County Order! Let's get ready to attack! A pro-soldier said.

Luo Xiang said: "Don't worry, let's dig a trench outside, set up a camp, and then open the pot to cook, let the brothers have a good meal, and then go to sleep, and attack the village early tomorrow morning!" ”

The soldiers' eyes widened: "General, this earthen city and wooden village, still have to dig a trench and set up camp?" As long as we fire the cannon and ensure that the gate of the village will be shattered, the brothers will break the village! When the village is broken, the brothers will have time to go in and eat! ”

Luo Xiang said with a smile: "Although it is a small village, it should not be taken lightly!" Why did the Tartar County Order give up the county seat and come here? It's that he knows that this little village is safer than his county seat! ”

In accordance with the steps of the formal siege of the city, the Ming army dug a trench at the place two arrows outside the Mandarin Duck Village, set up a wooden fence, arranged a camp, and the auxiliary soldiers went to build siege weapons. When you're done, turn on the heat and cook.

The food level of the Qiongzhou army was the best among all the armies that year, and there were fragrant braised pork stewed potato wedges for dinner, because the salt was cheap, and the price of soy sauce was also cheap, you could use condiments at will, and the fragrance of dinner wafted out of a mile and floated into the village, making the people in the village drool.

"Haikou's food is so good! That's the smell of stew! A young man said.

A middle-aged man said: "When you are a thief, you are like this, eating meat and drinking wine, all of which are ill-gotten gains!" How can we compare with them? ”

Early the next morning, the Ming army attacked the village.

After all, it was the local gentry who built the village themselves, and there was no artillery in the village, so the Ming army could swagger and set up artillery under the noses of the villagers and bombard the Tucheng and the walled gate.

"Fire!" With a loud roar, twelve six-pounder cannons and four twelve-pounder cannons spit out tongues of fire, and the cannonballs smashed into the walled gate, only to hear the sound of wood breaking, and the walled gate was shattered.

Four 32-pounder mortars were also erected, and flowering shells rose into the air and exploded in the stockade, raising huge fireballs and white smoke, and the wooden fence on the earth city fell in the explosion, and cracks appeared on the earth city.

Solid shells kept smashing in, and the cracks in the earth city gradually expanded. Immediately after that, a row of mortar shells fell on the head of the city, and with the sound of violent explosions, a large section of the earth city was blown down. Behind the collapsed earthen castle there is another section of the city wall, which does not look like an earthen castle, but rather looks like a real city wall.

"There's actually a stone wall behind this earthen city!" Luo Xiang picked up the binoculars, only to find out that there was actually a stone city wall built behind the earthen city.

"It seems that a more powerful cannon has to be turned up!" Li Rui pointed to the city wall. (To be continued.) )