Chapter 461: The Exile Goes to Sea
The Liao people in Liaodong were allocated land, and they also began to get busy, making various preparations before spring ploughing. Now the land is their own, and the rest of the grain is at their own disposal except for the rent paid to the owner and the repayment of the loan, so everyone is more concerned than before.
The company was busy for more than a month before the policy of package production to households was implemented. But this does not mean that everything is all right, and the Far East will continue to follow suit. The change in land policy has also brought about changes in the management of the Liaomin people, and the functions of leading cadres at the grassroots level have also changed. The original concentration camp-style management method has now been changed to focus on coordination, supplemented by management.
But after the implementation of this policy, the feelings of the Liao people have indeed become more stable than before, and they really regard themselves as people from the Far East Company. Giving the Liao people a sense of belonging is only the first step, the next step is to let them live a good life, and then marry a daughter-in-law and have a lot of children.
Of course, now hundreds of thousands of Liao people, except for a few who have wives, the rest of the Liao people can only live by masturbation in the past two years. The issue of women has always been a major issue in the Far East, and in the future, the company will try its best to get some women from Daming, and if it doesn't work, it will get some Japanese, Korean or Mongolian women for emergency.
Letting Liaomin live a good life with their wives and children is one of the most important tasks of the company in the near future.
This is a major event related to the stability of the Liaodong region. Only by thoroughly stabilizing Liaodong can the company free up its hands to do more things. Mongolia to the north, Southeast Asian islands to the south, Japan and North Korea are all issues that the company has had to solve in recent years.
As the temperature gradually warmed up, Zhou Weifan, the person in charge of the company's intelligence station in Henan, also began to organize forces to send the Shanxi refugees who were placed in Zhuangzi on both sides of the Yellow River to be sent to the boat in batches and along the Yellow River waterway to the mouth of Yuntiguan.
Started last fall. Zhou Weifan began to prepare for this year's immigration. Because the company's instruction to him was to do his best to collect the displaced people from all over Shanxi at any cost. For this reason, the company asked the Ministry of Planning and Finance to approve a sum of silver, which was specially transported to Henan as a special fund for this immigration work.
Zhou Weifan hired a large number of people at a high price, and also borrowed a lot of account offices and shopkeepers from Song Shiping, and wantonly collected displaced people in Henan, Hubei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places. In order to house a huge number of immigrants. With the help of the prestige of the Fuwang Mansion, he bought a large number of Zhuangzi on both sides of the Yellow River.
He also took out a large amount of silver and sprinkled it, bribed, bribed, intimidated, and even used all kinds of shady means to befriend and prosecute a large number of local gentry, officials, and officials, and provide convenient conditions for their emigration operations. These things seem to be difficult, but after the operation of these local snakes in the Ming Dynasty, they became reasonable and legal in an instant.
From last winter to this spring, the banks of the Yellow River stretched for hundreds of miles, and there were many Zhuangzi where displaced people gathered. In order for these displaced people to survive. Zhou Weifan bought a large amount of grain and cotton clothes at a high price in the local area. Because there are too many Liao people and the management can't keep up, they can't let these homeless people eat enough, just two meals of gruel a day hang their lives, and let them have a place in the Zhuangzi to withstand the wind and cold until spring.
Since the weather warmed up this spring, Zhou Weifan began to organize forces to transport displaced people to sea. Through the relationship between Guò and Song Shiping, he contacted all the heroes who ran boats on the Yellow River, and hired them to carry the displaced people all the way to Yunti Pass and go to sea at a high price. But there are too many displaced people. It took a lot of time and effort just to coordinate their embarkation.
The main reason is that people have no experience in this area, and there is an extreme shortage of manpower. And the homeless people did not want to get on the boat, for they were afraid that if they left the place, they would not be able to eat again, as before. Therefore, no matter how Zhou Weifan persuaded them, the displaced people just did not get on the boat, and there was even a phenomenon of the displaced people holding together to resist.
Such a delay was nearly a month, and in the end, Zhou Weifan was ruthless. can only hire a large number of idle people and underworld forces from all over the country to help them maintain order, and even the local Ming army and ruffians have spent a lot of money to hire a lot.
Under the deterrence of steel knives and leather whips, the homeless people had no choice but to get on the boat, but even so. Inevitably, there will be all kinds of bloodshed, and many people will be killed and injured. The scolding and crying on both sides of the Yellow River shook the sky. Anyway, it's just one word, messy!
When they heard that there were people on the banks of the Yellow River who had taken in the displaced people, they also sent the displaced people who had gathered under their rule. This frightened Zhou Weifan, he had to alarm the court if he continued like this, but what he didn't expect was that the court would have time to care about him now.
Now the displaced people in Shanxi are really happy. In March of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), there was a great drought in Shaanxi, and Zhang Douyao, the magistrate of Chengcheng County, still forced the payment of taxes and squeezed the peasants regardless of the lives of the hungry people. Wang Er, a peasant in Baishui County, led the hungry people into the county seat and killed Zhang Douyao, opening the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Ershouyi ignited the spark of the peasant war, and all localities responded one after another. In the eighth year of the Apocalypse (1628), Shaanxi Fugu Wang Jiayin, Hannan Wang Daliang, Ansai Gao Yingxiang and others led the hungry people to revolt, and Zhang Xianzhong also responded in Yan'an Mizhi.
On February 11 of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), the peasant army entered Hebei, and the general Yang Yuchun led his troops to chase after him, and died in ambush. The rebel army captured Zhaozhou, Xishan, Shunde, Zhending, etc. and went west to the skyline in Xingtai, to Wu'an, and defeated the Zuo Liangyu army; The garrison Cao Ming and the chief bookkeeper Wu Yingke were all killed in battle. The power of the peasant army in Hebei was greatly shaken.
On the fifth day of the second month of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), the peasant army captured Xingshan and killed Liu Dingguo of Zhixian County. On the 15th, Qutang was lowered. On February 21, he captured Kuizhou Prefecture (present-day Wanyuan, Xuanhan, Daxian, the area east of Liangping and Jianshi County, Hubei) and Daning, and besieged Taiping. Because Tusi Qin Liangyu led the army to block the path of the peasant army's advance, in March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the old Hui Hui and other battalions of volunteers entered Qinzhou from Yangpingguan (now northwest of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province) and returned to Shaanxi.
Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and other units of more than 200,000 people, known as the 36th battalion, once broke Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, Shouyang and other cities. In the winter of the sixth year, more than 100,000 people from the 24th battalion including Gao Yingxiang broke through the encirclement of the officers and troops and moved to northern Chubei in western Henan.
The Ming Dynasty was surrounded by displaced people, and the rebel army's troops entered western Henan several times, making the officials in Henan trembling. The local government did not make it difficult for Zhou Weifan and them to transport the displaced people out of the country, but still vigorously supported them, and asked the garrison to desperately drive the displaced people from all over the country to the banks of the Yellow River.
These displaced people who fled from Shanxi to Henan are like a time bomb and have always been a major problem in various places. Once someone is bewitched, it is bound to become a prairie fire, and the possibility of causing a civil uprising is extremely great.
As for the Ming Dynasty, it was even more overwhelmed by the bandits in the northwest, how could he think about the bad things he had here. Therefore, although he was in chaos here, and the time was delayed for nearly two months, the boat carrying the displaced people still went on the way.
Boats filled with displaced people, along the waterway of the Yellow River, slowly sailed towards the mouth of Yunti Pass. The official government and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty along the way have long been bought through the relationship between Guò Henan Fuwangfu and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Song Shiping, anyway, a lot of silver was sprinkled, and the road went to sea unimpeded.
When the first batch of displaced boats left, Zhou Weifan breathed a sigh of relief. Finally started, he has been busy since last autumn for the affairs of the homeless people, and his hair is almost gray, and he finally got this thing done. The hard work in this is indescribable, not to mention the hard work, and you have to be frightened every day, it is really not a human life. (To be continued......)
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