Yangzhou, Shen family mansion.

When the Huai Army attacked Yangzhou in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the former Ming Dynasty, the owner of the house Shen Yutai and his family Xiaonan fled to the south of the Yangtze River. Since then, the Shen family's house was the temporary residence of Lu Wenzong, the commander-in-chief of the Huai Army.

When Lu Si led the Huai Army in Yangzhou to the north, he ordered Zheng Yuanxun, the prefect of Yangzhou, to send someone to cross the river to find the "flee" Shen Yutai. First, he allowed him to take his family back to Yangzhou and still settle down. Second, Yangzhou bought the old house of the Shen family at a price.

Chen Yutai chose the latter without thinking much, because the one who occupied his old house was a thief, so how dare he send his little family to the tiger's mouth.

According to market value, although the old house of Shen’s family is not the best garden in Yangzhou, it is located in the prosperous place of Dongguan. The area belongs to Yangzhou’s land worth every inch, so if it is sold, it will cost tens of thousands of taels. A few years ago, there was a garden for sale in the suburbs of Yangzhou, and the transaction price was as high as more than 40,000 taels.

A house can catch up with the taxes of a county, and it is hard to imagine other places, but it is normal to put it in Yangzhou.

Because there are many salt merchants, silk merchants, and grain merchants in this place.

Especially the salt merchants, they dare not say that they are rich enough to compete with a country, but wealth enough to compete with a county is the basic requirement for being called salt merchants.

In the end, under Zheng Yuanxun's struggle, Chen Yutai sold his family's old house for more than 100 years to the Huai Jun for 6,000 taels.

At that time, the person in charge of signing a contract with the Shen family was Lu Si's cousin Lu Wenliang.

After the transaction was successful, the Shen family mansion completely became the Lu family mansion.

After Lu Si learned that the mansion was completely owned by the Lu family for only 6,000 taels, he shook his head on the spot, knowing that it was the original owner of the house who was afraid that he would sell it at a low price, but he did not pretend to be arrogant and asked his elder brother Lu Wenliang to make up for the Shen family's money, and only passed the message over. In the future, the army would take a little care of the Shen family after crossing the river, so as to make up for the cheap selling of the people.

With a large mansion belonging to the Lu family, the Lu family close relatives who moved from Yancheng to Yangzhou all lived here. They included Lu Si's uncle Lu Youcai's family, his second uncle Lu Youfu's family, and Lu Si's father Lu Youwen.

The so-called wealth and honor are not returned to their hometown, like walking in the night with a brocade.

Lu Si has been working hard for so many years to get a mansion for the Lu family, so he must have a happy old age.

Yangzhou is really good. At least at present, Yangzhou's economic level is one of the few in the country, not to mention that there is a municipality in the north.

As an "old base", Huaiyang, after three years of operation, now only has one-third of the population on the books. Compared with the ruins and uninhabited northern areas, it is simply a paradise.

Lu Si also attached great importance to Huaiyang. In Huaiyang, there was only the third town in Tongtai and the fourth town in Yangzhou, but in fact there were as many as four towns.

In addition to the third town, Tongtai Chengchen Group has a new town and a unit of Navy, with a total force of nearly 30,000 people, and is responsible for the Yangtze River defense mission from Tongzhou to Yangzhou.

In addition to the fourth town of Lu Wenliang and Jiang Kui, Yangzhou, there are two independent brigades, one is located in Baoying and the other is located in Yizhen, with a total force of nearly 20,000.

Due to political factors, Nanjing cannot cross the river and "explode the north", so the "semi-independent" Ming army Huaixi group could directly pose a threat to the Huaiyang area. However, the Ming army in Huaixi had only more than 30,000 troops, and the north side was threatened by the Huai army in Xuzhou, Shandong and Henan. It was impossible to have the courage to attack the "old nest" of the Huai army.

In addition, Gao Qifeng, the eunuch of the current palace department who was "Liu Bowen", instigated the eunuch of the Fengyang Army Supervisor Lu Jiude. Therefore, even if the Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying was furious and wanted to give the Huai Army a "thunder sweep hole", it would be difficult for him to command the Huang Degong and Zhu Ji department who were recommended by Lu Jiude.

Earlier, Liu Liangzuo's troops invaded Xuzhou, but were defeated by Lu Guangyuan, the then governor of Xu Jie of Huaiyang. After this battle, Liu Liangzuo, who was nicknamed "Huama Liu", did not dare to attack the Huai army.

Military forces ensure regional security, and regional security will definitely ensure regional people's livelihood and commerce.

Although Lu Si has always led the army, the Huaiyang area is as prosperous as the day of the rise in the Huaiyang area under the rule of Liu Bao, Yangzhou Prefect Zheng Yuanxun, Huai'an Prefect Zheng Biao and others.

It is precisely because of the stability and prosperity of the Huaiyang area that after the Huai Army captured Beijing, the generals who were formerly from Hegong, such as Xia Dajun, Zuo Pan'an looked down on the dilapidated northern region, believing that except for the somewhat grand city of Beijing and the Forbidden City, the north is now useless, so the second general suggested that Dashun could move the capital to Huai'an.

The idea of ​​moving the capital to Huai'an was supported by many Huai Army generals. In addition to the wealth of Huaiyang area, it was more of a local friendship.

It’s like when Zhu Yuanzhang intended to move the capital from Nanjing to Fengyang, and Li Zicheng chose Xi’an as the capital of Dashun.

The simple truth is that if my hometown becomes a capital, the people in my hometown must benefit from it. Not to mention the preferential treatment of tax exemption and tax reduction, the value of land and property will be greatly improved, and there are countless other hidden benefits.

Lu Si must understand the thoughts of his subordinates. In the imperial capital, a household registration alone is worth a thousand taels of silver.

But Lu Wenzong was the savior of China, not the savior of Huaiyang.

He should focus on the overall situation rather than being limited to the countryside.

Monk Xu from Tianjin firmly supports Beijing as the capital of Dashun. Monk Xu gave the reason that Beijing's dragon energy remains unabated.

After comprehensive consideration, Lu Si moved the capital to Huaiyang without any brain fever, and still settled in Beijing.

After all, Beijing is the only legal place for the regime to inherit.

After deciding the capital, Lu Si would definitely send someone to invite his father and uncle who were far away in Yangzhou to Beijing, especially the former, which involved the great etiquette of the throne of the Dashun Emperor.

As early as Baoding heard that Dorgon was killed, Lu Si had already written to Huai'an Prefecture and asked Huai'an Prefecture Zheng Biao to send someone to Yangzhou to welcome Lu Si's father north.

Zheng Biao did not dare to neglect and quickly asked Lu Youde and Lu Wencai, who were working in Huai'an Yamen, to pick them up.

Lu Youde and Lu Wencai are both from the Lu family. The former is the uncle of King Lu Chuang, and the latter is the brother of the clan. The two were together with Lu Yiliang and Lu Yougui, together as the young master of the Lu family's Youjie, were sent to Lu Si by the clan leader Lu Youxue.

Lu Youde and Lu Wen were good at reading, so Lu Si asked the two to work as a job under Zheng Biao at that time to train. Lu Yougui, who was illiterate, followed Yang Xiang from the Second Brigade, to learn skills in the military middle school, and Lu Yiliang, who was the fourth grandfather, was brought by his side to cultivate.

Lu Youde and Lu Wencai had already learned from Zheng Fuyin that the Huai Army had already captured Beijing. He heard Zheng Fuyin's tone and the Lu family finally had an emperor. He was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. Before dawn, his uncle and nephew took a boat to Yangzhou to pick up people along the canal, and then he sent the good news that Wenzong's eldest nephew (brother) was about to ascend the throne to the throne in Beijing to become the emperor back to his hometown in Yancheng.

When I arrived at Dongguan Wharf in Yangzhou and showed my official identification, officials from Dongguan Wharf came to say hello to them. The attitude was really polite. He called "Lu Qin" on the left and "Lu Qin" on the right, which made the uncle and nephew of the Lu family feel like they were in the clouds.

The two Lu Qins were still floating, and two luxurious carriages came. The dock officials respectfully invited the two Lu Qins to get on the car. They also arranged special vehicles for the two Lu Qins' entourages. They even sent a team of soldiers to lead the way with their licenses, "avoiding" while being quiet.
Chapter completed!