Riding into Guangzhou City in a lightning fast horse military off-road vehicle, Xue Yue was in a heavy mood, and beside him sat Hu Fakui, the governor of Borneo Overseas Consulate, and asked, "Commander Xue, are you uncomfortable with such a tragic scene?" ”

Xue Yue retracted a trace of worry, looked forward, no longer looked out the window, and said: "That's not it, long before the crossing, he led the Guofu army to fight against the Japanese invaders in the north and south of the river, and the Japanese invaders at that time were much more ferocious than these heaven and earth, I don't know how many tragic scenes I have seen with broken families and ten rooms and nine emptiness, maybe I have long been used to it." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Hu Fakui smiled slightly and said, "At least in our world, I'm afraid there will be no foreign invaders who can hit our China hard." ”

Xue Yue said slightly seriously: "We still can't underestimate the enemy, it is our good tradition to be prepared for danger in times of peace and be cautious." ”

Xue Yue was somewhat shocked by the dilapidated appearance of Guangzhou City, not because of the brutality of the Heaven and Earth Society. In fact, Xue Yue could have launched an offensive against the Tiandihui forces a long time ago, but Xue Yue waited at sea until he received information that the Tiandihui army was likely to conquer Guangzhou, and then he sent troops to attack Hong Kong.

His plan is also very simple and clear, if the Heaven and Earth Society does not conquer Guangzhou, then with the current relationship between the Tang army and the Manchu Qing court, then it is inconvenient for their Tang army to enter Guangzhou. Xue Yue didn't have a good impression of the Eight Banners in Guangzhou, so he naturally wished that Heaven and Earth would be his own knife and kill all these people together. In addition, wealthy businessmen such as the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou have accumulated a lot of wealth, and Xue Yue is greedy for Bai Nan to win hundreds of millions of taels of extra money in the capital, Xue Yue has no intention of embezzlement, but it is good to get a little more money.

Thereupon. On the one hand, Xue Yue wanted to protect the business network of the Pan family, the Lu family, the Wu family and other dental merchants. The intelligence officers were ordered to take the principal of their family out of Guangzhou in advance. On the other hand, Xue Yue had the idea of their family wealth. The armed forces of the Indulgence Heaven and Earth Society invaded Guangzhou, and now Xue Yue has killed them again, and he has easily taken over the assets they plundered, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Even on a tactical level, Xue Yue's strategy of slowing down the attack was very valuable. The Tiandihui forces, which had been attacking Guangzhou for several months, finally succeeded, and the flood found a breakthrough and vented out. And the killing and robbery in the city also completely dispersed the already poorly disciplined armed organization, making it easier for Xue Yue to succeed militarily.

Of course. In Xue Yue's wishful thinking, there is a lot of collateral damage. More than ninety percent of the tens of thousands of people in the city of Eight Banners disappeared, half of the city of Guangzhou fell into flames, and it took more than a day to extinguish it, and thousands of innocent residents of Guangzhou were killed and robbed by the rebels of the Heaven and Earth Society.

If it were other generals, such as Bai Nan or Liu Fangwu, they might not have adopted such clever methods, and the victory would have been easy to achieve, but the collateral damage caused was too great. In Xue Yue's opinion. These collateral injuries are worth it and have to be endured.

He has an excellent sense of smell on the battlefield. He mastered the time to attack, wiped out the main force of the Heaven and Earth Hui Army led by Yang Zhen in one fell swoop, and occupied the city of Guangzhou almost effortlessly. Guilin and Yongwei were both dead, and the officials up and down Guangzhou were almost non-existent, and Xue Yue naturally took over control of Guangzhou.

During the inspection in Guangzhou, Xue Yue received news from the general commander of the Tang Dynasty in the capital that the Daqing Imperial Court, which had no available troops, appointed Xue Yue, the commander of the Tang Theater, as the "Plenipotentiary Counselor for the Rebellion", to exterminate the Tiandihui in Guangdong and Fujian on behalf of the Qing Imperial Court.

This is also a decision that Jiaqing gritted his teeth and hated and had to make, the Qing army has been smashed by the Heaven and Earth Society in Guangdong, Guilin and others have also died, and the Guangdong court has completely lost its ability to control it, even if a general is sent at this time, there are no soldiers available, and sending the governor will not play much role. Therefore, the imperial court had to use the Tang army to completely eliminate the Tiandihui, stabilize the situation in Guangdong, and then send someone to take over.

As for how much benefit the Tang people will get from Guangdong in this process, Jiaqing has no choice. At least the Tang people promised that after the destruction of the Heaven and Earth Society, when the time was ripe, Guangdong would be handed over to the imperial court. In addition, Jiaqing has other plans, the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society are also in Fujian, and the three treasures of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governors belong to a member of the Yin Fengyang Defiant Party. Completely exterminate the Heaven and Earth Society, obviously it is also necessary to enter Fujian, Jiaqing can't control this now, the best way is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, the Tang people tossed the three treasures, and the three treasures will definitely be put into the side of the imperial court in the end, then in this way, the three most important provinces in the southeast of Jiaqing will all be controlled in their hands.

Yuan Shoutong and other palace scholars all gave him advice, and the Qing court was now very sure that the Tang people did it, but the two, commerce and immigration, they were not interested in embezzling the Qing Dynasty's country. Therefore, this makes the Tang people a good target for the imperial court. Jiaqing thought so, so he felt that he was the one who won the plan and the ultimate winner. He must also feel this way, otherwise he may be tortured to death by negative emotions.

Looking at the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion, which had been completely destroyed, Xue Yue sighed and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult to find a place in the city that can be our theater headquarters now." ”

Although Hong Kong is the future base camp of the Tang Army, it is now mainly aimed at the Tiandihui for military operations, and it is obvious that Guangzhou is more suitable to be the headquarters station.

"In addition, the matter of the headquarters can be put aside, and the rescue operation of the residents of Guangzhou will be launched immediately. Many people have lost their families and lost so much that if we ignore them, we will probably starve to death on the streets. Didn't the Heaven and Earth Society store a lot of food in Hong Kong, so we opened a relief porridge shop in Guangzhou, and let our military hospital start to receive the local wounded and residents who had lost their homes, and we coordinated in the city to provide them with housing. Xue Yue opened his mouth and said, he has been a Tang man for many years, and he has unconsciously been stained with a lot of words that were originally his own tone.

Hu Fakui praised: "Commander Xue is thoughtful, our Borneo garrison is basically a native of Guangdong, as well as from Guangzhou itself, and the local people have the same language and similar customs, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with an elite division like the Snow Leopard Regiment, but there is no problem for us to be responsible for some chores, and the maintenance of law and order in Guangzhou will be left to us." ”

Xue Yue nodded and said, "This is naturally excellent." ”

Hu Fakui said again: "Commander Xue, you see, this world will be full of devastation in Guangdong, many people have fled with their families, and there are so many refugees in Guangzhou now, they are all our potential immigrants." Now that the task of domestic migration has been reduced and the burden is very heavy, can we now carry out the recruitment of immigrants and transfer refugees who are in difficulty to the country? ”

"I didn't expect such a point, yes, Governor Hu is right, now is indeed the best time for us to recruit immigrants, and this matter will be left to you, you were in charge of the transfer of immigrants from Borneo before, and you must be very familiar with these affairs."

Hu Fakui was still quite keen, he planned the immigration action in advance, and due to the collapse of the ruling order of the Qing court in Guangdong, all the subsequent local security and governance were carried out by the temporary office of the Tang Dynasty. Hu Fakui served as the governor of Borneo for many years, and although he was very young, he was very experienced.

In the three chapters of the local law, he first strictly rectified local law and order, and severely punished any act of committing a traitor or taking advantage of the fire to rob, which made the people of Guangdong who had just experienced war and chaos gradually settle down. Subsequently, Hu Fakui also used the reserves of the Qing court and the Tiandihui to help the displaced and bankrupt people, especially relying on the more developed medical system of the Tang people, and treated a large number of injured and sick residents. These actions have enabled the Tang Army to gain an excellent reputation in the local area and improve the recognition of the Tang Army in the local area.

Subsequently, Hu Fakui recruited a large number of laborers with cash and food as remuneration to resume production and reconstruction, especially the city of Guangzhou, which had been destroyed in half, and with the cooperation of laborers and Tang military and local governments, it was slowly recovering the weather.

Throughout the autumn, the Tang army in Guangdong basically did not encounter any obstacles militarily, after all, the Tiandihui was a group of ruffians and hooligans, engulfing a part of the people's troops, after the defeat of Guangzhou, Yang Zhen escaped into the mountains, and the command of the Tiandihui army in various places was not unified, and it did not merge again, and was quickly broken by the Tang army. It only took more than a week for the Tang army to conquer Huizhou, Jiaying, Chaozhou, Nanxiong, Shaozhou and other places, and the Tiandihui army could basically only operate in remote mountainous areas, and there was no great threat.

Xue Yue and Hu Fakui took advantage of the situation to strengthen their control and infiltration of the Guangdong region, and of course the most gratifying thing was the recruitment of immigrants from the locality; although the intensity of the Tiandihui uprising was not large, the scope was very wide, and there was still a certain amount of destructive and intimidating power to the grassroots of society. Some people lost their homes, their farmland was destroyed, and their livelihoods could not be guaranteed, so they could only choose to accept a considerable settling-in fee from Datang immigration officials and bring their families to Datang proper.

Especially in Huizhou and Jiaying, where the Hakka people are the mainstay, these two places were attacked by the Tiandihui army at the beginning of the Tiandihui uprising, and the damage to the local area was also the most serious, and many people fled to other places. After the Tang army pacified the Tiandi Hui army, some people returned to their hometowns, but they found that they had nothing, and the Hakka people originally had a relatively strong migration characteristic, and there were more people in the Borneo garrison, and they were easy to be trusted by the locals, so there were large-scale immigration waves in these areas.

In the last two quarters of 1779, the Tang Dynasty had to send more than 300 civil servants from the mainland to Guangdong, and the immigrant population in Guangdong alone had exceeded 400,000. (To be continued.) )