Since the development of Lingnan in the Qin and Han Dynasties, Guangzhou has been the military and political center in the south and the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. It became the largest port in the East during the Tang Dynasty. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou was the main port for overseas trade in the Ming Dynasty. The prosperity of business was once close to Susong, so that the eunuch of the Guangzhou Maritime Mansion Department became a popular choice for the inner court during the Wanli period. The father-in-laws of all ages fought for this.

However, since the early years of Chongzhen, there have been natural disasters in the north and famines have spread everywhere. In addition to the rise of war in Liaodong, the north was in dire straits. In order to survive, the desperate people not only participated in the bandit rebellion, but also moved their families to the south. After all, compared with the famine thousands of miles away, the war-torn north has a suitable climate, and the peaceful south can give them more hope of survival.

A large number of people who migrated to the south to avoid disaster caused the population of the southern population to continue to rise in the late Chongzhen period. After the Qing army entered the pass, the migration process instantly accelerated. At first, the people in the north chose to escape mostly in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, but with the collapse of the Hongguang regime, Fujian and Guangdong further south became the targets of these people. Moreover, the people who fled were no longer those who could not survive in the north, but more people who could still survive in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. These people moved to the south not to survive, but to be slaves of foreign races.

After Hongguang, the Southern Ming regimes brought many officials, gentry and their families to the south at the same time. A large number of scholars who refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty flocked to the south and immediately made Guangdong rich and cultural heritage. Especially in the fifth year of Shunzhi, the Nanchang Jinsheng was in full swing. After Li Chengdong, Guangdong became the first choice for those who were eager to the Ming Dynasty. Countless literati and talented scholars would come to the top of their careers in the revival of the Ming Dynasty, and the world was surprised to hear it.

When the Yongli regime was first established, the population of local people in Guangzhou had reached more than 400,000. By the fourth year of Yongli (the seventh year of Shunzhi), the population in Guangzhou was nearly one million. Such a large population gathered, making Guangzhou the largest city in the world. Beijing, which had become the capital of the Qing Dynasty, was less prosperous than it, and its prosperity was even less than that of Susong, located in the south of the Yangtze River! However, with Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao's arrival immediately disappeared. Countless souls left crying in the city of Guangzhou in the dark.

Five years have passed, and no one knows how many people died in Guangzhou City that year. The Yongli court determined that the Qing army massacred 700,000 people in Guangzhou. This number comes from the data of monks collecting corpses after the massacre. However, some people think that this number is even greater, as it is a million, because the Guangzhou City was already overcrowded at that time, and the local population and the foreign population would never be less than one million. You should know that at that time, there were over ten miles outside the city of Guangzhou City. After the massacre, there was no one else except the monk who collected the corpses!

The Qing court never admitted the massacre that occurred in Guangzhou five years ago, and only said that "Ping and Jing of the two vassals to Guangzhou, angered the people to defend and annihilate all their men and soldiers." However, they never mentioned how many people they killed in the "All vassals" and there was no specific number in the official documents between Beijing and Guangzhou. Two years ago, when Shang Kexi invited the imperial envoy from Beijing in his mansion, he underestimated that when Guangzhou broke the city, he killed more than 10,000 people.

How many people died in this chaotic era of the Ming and Qing dynasties has become less important. What is important is that the current Guangzhou city is much more suitable for it as a provincial capital. The existing residents in the entire Guangzhou city were moved from neighboring prefectures and counties after the Qing army occupied Guangzhou. The total number was only more than 50,000. In addition, the two feudals of Ping and Jing brought the garrisons and garrisons from Liaodong. The population of such a large provincial capital is only less than 100,000, and even one-tenth of the previous massacre was not reached.

The once lively Guangzhou Port was so quiet that it was different from the dead Port. It was no longer the grand occasion of the whole boat, and the ships on the river were endless. This was the case outside the city and the city was also the case. The war burned down most of the Guangzhou City, and the butcher knife cut hundreds of thousands of corpses, which also killed the hearts of those who were afraid of living.

Last year, when Li Dingguo's army attacked Guangzhou in the second attack. In order to prevent Li Dingguo's army from breaking through Xinhui and heading straight to Guangzhou, Shang Kexi personally ordered the demolition of all buildings near the four cities, which made Guangzhou city even more decayed. After Li Dingguo's army cleared the siege at the beginning of the year, although the newly appointed governor of Guangdong Li Lutai introduced some measures to try to make Guangzhou prosperous again, the Qing army was also a human being. If they wanted to take root in Guangzhou for a long time, they also needed local supply. One could not be given to Qing.

The provincial capital that brought any money, grain and tax revenue and a provincial capital that continuously provided money, grain and tax revenue to the Qing army were of great significance to the Qing army. Unfortunately, the Governor had just been working for a few months, and Guangzhou City had to interrupt this work when it improved slightly. The reason was that the Xinhui, a stalwart that Li Dingguo had not been able to conquer the city of Xinhui, who had even caused a bandit soldier from somewhere, also blocked the attack of the 20,000 army of King Pingnan, forcing the prince to lead his army to siege the city.

The siege consumed not only the money and food of the bandits in the city, but also the money and food of the Qing army. In order to supply the food and grass of the siege army, the Governor's Office had tightened his stomach, and Guangzhou Prefecture, which directly cared for the transportation of money and food, complained even more. In the massacre that year, the two princes Jing, who had killed each other, had a great kill, but it was a pain to Guangzhou Prefecture. Without the people under the rule, there would be no one to farm in this place. Where did you ask them to get money and food?

The governor of Guangzhou Zhu Guorong turned over the land and finally managed to gather enough money and food for the army to go to the expedition. Unexpectedly, the Prince of Pingnan did not take back Xinhui even if he personally fought. Instead, the army stayed outside Xinhui City and consumed the bandits in the city. This made Zhu Guorong so anxious that he was so anxious that he could hang himself.

Sure enough, a few days after the besieged city, the Governor's Office called him away and asked Guangzhou Prefecture to continue to supply food and supplies to the besieged army in any case. Otherwise, the prefect would pack up his parcel and go back to his hometown in Shanxi.

How about getting back to your hometown in Shanxi?!

Zhu Guorong's previous dynasty was just a little master of juren. If the Regent had not led the army into the pass, Zhu Guorong would have been a little master of juren until his death. How could he have the official position today?

After the news of Li Dingguo's two famous kings spread to Beijing that day, the colleagues outside the Ministry of Personnel who were originally waiting for candidates were frightened and looked down upon. They were sick and sick, but they refused, for fear of being sent to the south to die. At this moment, Zhu Guorong was bold and knew that wealth and honor were in danger. He gritted his teeth and walked towards the Ministry of Personnel, who could no longer see a crow, and volunteered to go to the south to become an official. This move reached the ears of the emperor in the palace that day. The emperor was very happy and ordered Zhu Guorong to take over as the prefect of Guangzhou. From the lord to the prefect, he was promoted to seven levels in a row. If Zhu Guorong had not known wealth and honor, such a good thing would have fallen on him?

In the past two years, the prefect has been smooth sailing. Although the provincial capital of Guangzhou is not as good as before, it is not as a provincial capital. Whether it is official status or income, Zhu Guorong is very satisfied. He wonders whether he will send people to Beijing to do activities in two years. His name has long fallen into the emperor's ears. If he has a little activity here, he may be able to go up to the first floor and be a governor or a supervisor. If he is lucky, he may even be able to get a governor.

He really served the two vassal kings Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao. They could really be transferred away, and Zhu Guorong could wake up in his dreams. But to be honest, although he was not willing to serve these two vassal kings, Zhu Guorong never worried about his own wealth and life with these two vassal kings. The two princes were a little difficult to serve, but they could fight! Nowadays, when he became an official, promotion and wealth were the second most important thing, his life was not safe. Therefore, for this, although the fact that the two princes were difficult to deal with, Zhu Guorong gritted his teeth and took over, but this time, he really had no choice.

Zhu Guorong must have done nothing when he got back to his hometown in Shanxi, but the Governor's yamen was unable to delay the chore. If he really didn't do his best to get the chore, the Governor, who was a royal relative, could really put him over. There was no way, so Zhu Guorong had to ask his grandfather to sue him, and then he tried his best to suppress the county below, regardless of the lives and death of the people. Then he barely helped the army's food and grass. Fortunately, the Governor's yamen also knew the difficulties of Guangzhou Prefecture. After a month, he transferred the grain from Chaoshan area. Now he finally solved Zhu Guorong's urgent needs and made him stable for two months.

But I don’t know if God dislikes him or something. It’s only been two months since I was stable, and the headache came again. This time it was not the Governor’s Office, but the Pingnan Prince’s Mansion that killed him this time.

Just after noon, Zhu Guorong received an order from King Shang Kexi of Pingnan. The order was very simple, and it was limited to collecting 5,000 stones of grain within seven days of Guangzhou Prefecture.

When the official document was sent from the Pingnan Prince's Mansion was still on the way, Shang Kexi handed a letter to the governor Ban Zhifu, who had just returned from Xinhui, in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, which was originally rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty Governor's Governor's Office.

The study room is very large, but the decoration is very simple. It only has a few desks and chairs. It is said that the study room is not visible, and there is no bookshelves on the desk. There is only a pen and inkstone. However, judging from the wind-dried inkstone, I am afraid that King Pingnan has never picked up his pen and written characters after he moved in.

The original owner of this study was Du Yonghe, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi of Nanming. He was a martial artist, but he insisted on being a good person. After Li Chengdong's death, he opened a seal without the consent of the Yongli court and became the new owner of the Governor's Office. In order to show the world his elegance, or he really felt that he had too little ink in his stomach, Du Yonghe ordered people to search for thousands of books and put them into the study. When he was fine, he always stayed in the study for a while, or held it for a moment, or asked his master to read it to him. After the Qing army broke through the city, Du Yonghe led his confidants to escape from the city, but these books remained here. As a result, the new owner Shang Kexi moved in and asked someone to move all the books away. If he couldn't move, he would burn it.

The two masters had completely different attitudes, and the study room also changed drastically.
Chapter completed!