In Guangdong in March, it is the most suitable time. If you go to the previous month, it will be very hot. However, no matter how suitable the weather is, Li Lutai, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was sweating all over. The new Guangzhou General Hahamu has already met with the Ezhenga Laidaoga, Gushan, who went south, and will arrive in Guangzhou today. In order to welcome Hahamu and Galaidaoga, all the soldiers and civilians in Guangzhou were mobilized. King Pingnan Shang Kexi and King Jingnan Geng Jimao also dressed out early to welcome Hahamu, the upstart of the Zhenghuang Banner of Manzhou.

At the morning of the morning, Hahamu sent a quick Malay to spread the news that he led the Eight Banners soldiers to enter the city at noon, and there was no need to disturb Guangzhou. After the banner soldiers entered the city, they drove into the city to rest and avoid disturbing the people. But that's it, how could the civil and military officials in Guangzhou take serious action? King Pingnan and King Jingnan both left the city early to welcome the marquis. Can the people below dare to be more arrogant than the prince? If they really don't go, their jobs will definitely be smashed by the superiors!

Li Lutai did not rush to leave the city, but led a group of people in the Governor's yamen, as well as the Guangzhou prefect Zhu Guorong to conduct a final inspection of Xinjian Mancheng.

Since receiving the imperial decree to set up a city in Guangzhou, the Governor has focused all his thoughts on the construction of the city. It has been said that he has not been delayed for a day or relaxed for a day. Finally, the sky has paid off. After two months of construction, a brand new city that can be built for more than 100,000 people seems to have stood in the city of Guangzhou overnight. From a distance, it is both tall and majestic.

The construction speed is so fast, mainly because Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province, so Guangzhou was built in a huge way during the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the massacre of Guangzhou by the Qing army made the population in the city more than ten times less than during its peak period, so there were many empty spaces in the city. This saved the process of relocating residents before construction and saved a lot of time.

In order to allow the Manchu soldiers and their families to have excellent living conditions after moving into Mancheng, Li Lutai specially selected the best area in Guangzhou City to build Mancheng, which accounted for one-third of the size of Guangzhou City. Not only that, Li Lutai also ordered the renovation of the original Han people's houses in Mancheng, and demolished the ugly ones and rebuilt them all.

In this way, it is necessary to repair the city walls, houses, streets, and moats. The project is too big, and it must be too late to go to time, but the imperial court's will is to build the city before the arrival of the Eight Banners in the south. Therefore, the only way Li Lutai took was to use a large number of civil servants to complete this impossible task regardless of the lives and death of civil servants. This caused the tragedy of more than 4,000 Chinese people who died of death in the construction project of Mancheng for more than two months. Poor, the death of these more than 4,000 Chinese peoples was not worth mentioning in Li Lutai's eyes. He did not even take this matter seriously, and only the newly added bones on the mass grave outside Guangzhou City preserved the matter.

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"Sir, it's getting late, is it time to go out of the city and prepare?"

Following the Governor General's inspection around the city, Guangzhou Prime Minister Zhu Guorong was a little worried that he would not have time to go out of the city to welcome the Eight Banners soldiers, so he reminded Li Shutai for a few words.

"No hurry, it's too early, it's too early."

Li Ruitai was still not in a hurry. He took out the incense chew from his sleeve and wiped his forehead sweat. He went to the grain warehouse to look at it patiently. He confirmed that the rice supplied to the Eight Banners soldiers and their families was full of piles, without including the old rice and sand and gravel. The meat and vegetables supplied were also very fresh when he was transported in from outside the city in the morning. He smiled satisfied and ordered to prepare sedan chairs. Everyone with him went out of the city to welcome the arrival of the Guangzhou general and the Eight Banners soldiers.

Before leaving, Zhu Guorong looked back at the granary filled with rice, and felt very satisfied, because the grain, vegetables, and fish were all handled by him, Prefect Zhu. After the Manchu soldiers entered the city, they would definitely be very satisfied with the supply of Guangzhou Prefecture. Guangzhou General Hahamu also praised him.

After Li led Tai to the outside of the city, he saw the first sight of King Shang Kexi of Pingnan and King Geng Jimao of Jingnan. The governors under Shangfan and Geng Fan, and the deputy governors came a lot, and their red tops were shining under the sunlight. The prince of King Shang Zhixin of Pingnan was also there, but he was not as arrogant as before. He just stood by his father with his hands hanging down and said silently. It was rare that Geng Jimao, who was two years younger than him, looked at his face.

"A vulgar martial artist who fails to succeed and fails to succeed!"

Li Rutai secretly scolded Shang Zhixin for his defeat in Xinhui, causing heavy losses to the Qing army, but he calmly stepped forward and stood up to the monk Kexi, and Geng Jimao politely took advantage of it.

"The two princes came much earlier than the officials, haha."

"It's not too late for the Governor to come. I and King Jingnan were also bored in the mansion, so I came early and used my muscles and bones to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Nanyue, haha."

Shang Kexi smiled and politely spoke to Li Rutai, but Geng Jimao was very cold. After dealing with it, he turned his head and looked north.

"The young man is proud but does not know how to be a human being, and he will eventually be in trouble!"

Li Rutai snorted secretly, pretending not to see him, as if he had met an old friend, the monk said happily that the scenery outside the city had come.

Shang Kexi is also a mature person. He doesn't like Li Lutai anymore, but he is very happy to talk with Li Lutai at the moment.

Outside the city gate, the Han army inlaid blue flags of Shangfan and the Han army in Gengfan were all transferred a lot of elite soldiers, and lined up to welcome the marquis with their respective flags of the two vassals. They looked neat and powerful. Li Shutai's confidant, the governor-general Hu Qili, who retreated without authorization in the Battle of Xinhui, also led 500 models to form an independent team. Judging from the military appearance alone, it was no worse than the soldiers of the two vassals' flags.

In order to please the superiors, Zhu Guorong specially organized thousands of people to go outside the city to welcome the marquis, prepared wine and food for rewarding the army, and also prepared gongs and drums, which looked very lively.

Just after noon, the fast horse sent to inquire about the army's itinerary returned, saying that the Eight Banners soldiers would arrive in another moment.

Upon hearing the news, Li Rutai was excited and immediately ordered to welcome the Guangzhou General and the Eight Banners.

Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao also ordered each other, and all the flag soldiers under the two vassals cheered up and raised their heads and waists.

Just after noon, the new Guangzhou General Hahamu led the Manzhou Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Guangzhou, and appeared in the sight of everyone in the city gate.

Hahamu was originally stationed in Zhangjing, Angbang, Jiangning, and was under the jurisdiction of the Zhenghuang Banner of Manzhou. When Li Dingguo first attacked Guangdong the previous year, Hahamu led Jiangning's manpower troops to the south to support it, so for Guangdong's civil and military officials, Hahamu was also an acquaintance.

Li Rutai welcomed Hahamu's appointment as the general of Guangzhou, and had long made up his mind to curry favor with the new general. The reason was that Hahamu was someone in the court. That person was his confidant - Sony, who served as the Minister of the Interior, and was also the Minister of Political Affairs and the Office of the Interior.
Chapter completed!