The money and property were robbed by Qing court officials, and people were killed and plundered by the green camp. Everything was done blatantly. How could it be so easy to blame others?

What's more, due to nostalgia, people from the same province are naturally more trustworthy than outsiders. It's human nature, and there are definitely not a few people who think this way. Throughout the spring, Xinghua Prefecture and Yanping Prefecture, which are adjacent to Quanzhou Prefecture, continued to have a large number of people.

Many people moved here, and many even simply moved from Fuzhou Prefecture to Quanzhou Prefecture across Xinghua Prefecture.

During this period, the officials in both places adhered to the past style of feudal bureaucracy and let it go. They were even glad that these rebel reserve teams moved to Zhangquan to eat up Zheng Chenggong. In this way, they not only reduced the pressure, but also had less

If there is trouble, you can also divert the trouble to the west and use the refugees as a flood to force Zheng Chenggong to accept the peace negotiation. It is really a brilliant strategy that only Zhuge was reborn and Bowen was still alive.

Many people have already begun to write memorials. As for why so many ordinary people want to flee to Quanzhou, officials have reached the most perfect explanation in the simplest terms - that is, Fujian was affected by the disaster, and this place is not a grain-producing province.

They couldn't afford to eat, and they couldn't bear to watch the people starve to death, so they naturally went to Quanzhou to eat from the rich!

The following reports are constantly being sent to Liu Qingtai and Tong Guoqi. They naturally understand the tricks in the officialdom and just see through them without telling them. It is always right to leave some room for superiors and subordinates.

Now, as Zheng Chenggong refused to shave his head first and then receive the order on Langqi Island, Zheng Kuna, Zacina and his party have returned to the capital. As the highest-ranking officials of the Sovereign Sect in Fujian, they are also local

The military and political leaders now know that it will be difficult to stop the wave once it begins. All they can do is to get the recruitment matter done as soon as possible. However, according to Zheng Hongkui, it seems that the war faction within the Zheng Group is still very tenacious.

Especially because of Chen Kai's stubborn temper, rather than convincing Chen Kai, it would be easier to divide and disintegrate the other main militant factions.

"Just kill Chen Kai!"

This thought popped up in my mind countless times, but in the end it could only be a sigh. No way, in addition to being the governor of the Ming Dynasty and Zheng Chenggong's deputy, Chen Kai was also Zheng Hongkui's son-in-law. Zheng Hongkui had several children.

, it is said that the one he loved the most was Chen Kai's wife. Even during the battle between Zhongzuo and Zhongzuo, Zheng Hongkui was so angry that he didn't want to marry his daughter to Chen Kai. But in the end, it was the Duke Dingguo of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty who were the first to retort.

Uncle Fenghua, it can be seen that Zheng Hongkui still loves his daughter.

After killing Chen Kai, Zheng Hongkui's daughter became a widow. It is said that this woman was very strong. When her grandmother ordered her to repent, she was able to endure it. If they assassinated her husband, even Zheng Hongkui would be killed.

He firmly stood on the side of the main war faction.

"Killing Chen Kai will make other warring factions sad and more determined to oppose the imperial court. And those who are willing to surrender to the imperial court will also feel fear because of this, fearing whether the treatment they surrendered to them will be realized, so they will be shaken to the point of claiming to be supported.

position.”

Liu Qingtai had said this earlier, Tong Guoqi had said the same thing, and even Zheng Kuna and Zacina understood it. They believed that the Qing court would naturally understand it as well.

"Lin Cha, Li Jianjie, Ke Chenshu, Ke Chenmei, Du Hui, Chen Bin, Wan Li, Lang Deng, Zhou Quanbin, Lin Dezhong, Jiang Mei'ao, these guys all advocate continuing to cause rebellion..."

According to their investigation, there are still some people in the main fighting faction of the Ming army, such as Chen Bao, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others, but these people are the ones who shout the most fiercely.

Among them, Lin Cha and Chen Kai have cooperated for many years and have a tacit understanding; Li Jianjie and Chen Bin were both surrendered to the Qing Dynasty by the Ming army, and they did not dare to surrender again; the Ke family brothers, Du Hui, Zhou Quanbin, Lang Deng, etc.

Everyone has lived and died with Chen Kai; Lin Dezhong and Jiang Mei'ao are said to be Chen Kai's loyal confidants. Speaking of which, it is not easy to divide and disintegrate.

"What's even more despicable is that most of these rebellious officials and traitors are still in Guangdong, under the command of Chen Kai, and they are even more powerful."

Zheng Hongkui also secretly explained the situation in this regard to the people they sent. On the Guangdong side, the Shanggeng and Geng vassals have always been strong. Zheng Chenggong cannot take care of both southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong, so he can only leave it to Chen Kai, a close confidant and deputy.

to preside over. But Chen Kai is a civilian official, and the ancestral system of using civil servants to control military forces is no longer useful these days. Zheng Chenggong will inevitably have the problem of generals not obeying orders, so he simply sends those who have friendship with Chen Kai.

This was true, so that civil and military forces could work together to defend the territory in eastern Guangdong, but it also laid the groundwork for the recruitment dilemma.

Speaking of which, not only were they anxious about this matter, but so was Zheng Chenggong. In order to avoid internal divisions in the Ming army, Zheng Chenggong also wrote to the Qing court, requesting more prefectures and counties to accommodate troops. To put it bluntly, too many high-ranking officials and generous salaries were used to

Only by buying off the generals can the strength of the main war faction be weakened to a negligible level. However, this undoubtedly requires the approval of the Qing court, and the two sides will inevitably continue to bargain.

"We can't go on like this, we must finalize the matter as soon as possible!"

As a local official of the main support faction, it is already May at this time. After a year of work on the recruitment, there is still no result. If it were that simple, that would be fine, but the problem is that the current situation in Fujian is already very serious.

Unfortunately, Zhaofuyin has turned this province into a mess. As far as they are concerned, only by completely completing the recruitment can they be able to cover up all their ugliness. Otherwise, they will have to wait to be imprisoned and have no other choice.

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Once the two gamblers who lost their minds received the order from the Qing court, they quickly sent people to the Zhongzuo Institute. At this time, Zheng Chenggong was not at the Zhongzuo Institute, but had already arrived in Quanzhou.

A large number of landless and hungry people poured into Quanzhou, and the local security inevitably deteriorated. Zheng Chenggong stationed here as a deterrent, but more importantly, Chen Kai had not expected that the current situation would occur.

, to be precise, it is within the plan. Zheng Chenggong is here just to further implement the plan.

"Fifty percent of the new residents in Yongchun County have been transferred to the boundaries of Zhangzhou Prefecture, and 20% of them have moved to Dehua County. In addition, many residents of Yanping Prefecture are migrating from Ningyang County to Longyan and Zhangping. Students have been sent

I informed the local officials in both places to organize manpower to restrain them."

The person who spoke was Pan Gengzhong. Zheng Chenggong had now abandoned Feng Chengshi’s most useful staff behind the scenes. What Pan Gengzhong was talking about at this moment was also the current priority. Only the core members of the Zheng Group knew the entire plan.

"Very good, we have to take care of Chaozhou as well. It's equally important there."

"Students understand, students will do it now."

Pan Gengzhong said goodbye and left, continuing to do his work. Sitting in the office room, Zheng Chenggong frowned slightly and recalled Chen Kai's plan. In fact, the estimated scale of the refugee flow had already been deviated. Those

There were far more people who could not survive in the areas controlled by the Qing government than they imagined, and they arrived earlier.

This is indeed because they underestimated the greed of the Qing officials. But now this has undoubtedly affected the pace of the plan, forcing Zheng Chenggong to speed up the pace to cope with the current changes.

In Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, there are many small fortresses to the east of the county seat, forming an indestructible defense system. However, the Qing army had already hit a wall on the banks of the Luo River. This is not the only way to pass, but only

Acted as a deterrent.

To the west of the county town, a camp prepared for the fleeing people was already overcrowded. The family that was still in Huangbo Mountain not long ago had moved here not long ago. Although they only passed through the small Xinghua Prefecture along the way, they looted and robbed people in Green Camp.

When bandits were rampant among the people, they also lost seven or eight tribesmen, including men, women, the elderly, and children. Many of them did not reach this destination alive.

By dinner time, there was already a long queue at the soup kitchen. Men, women, old and young all had to queue up by themselves. This was a rule and they had to abide by it.

There were frequent thefts in the camp, which were simply caused by hunger. The family simply divided into two groups, one group went to line up, and the other group stayed in the settlement to look at the limited belongings.

The porridge is, as always, semi-thin but not thick. It is impossible to be full, but you can always survive by filling your belly. If you drink more water, you can still be half-full. As long as you don't pee easily.

, at least this illusory feeling is still there.

He held a piece of bamboo in his hand with a strange symbol stamped on it, which was a voucher for receiving the porridge. The man finally got to the place in line, threw the piece of bamboo into a basket, and a cook filled it with a bowl.

The vegetable porridge was handed to him.

After receiving the porridge, the man hurried back with several tribesmen in front and behind him, and another group of tribesmen had to rush to line up. When he returned with the porridge, two men got into a fight because they spilled the porridge in the bowl.

, it had nothing to do with him, he didn't stop, he just took a look, especially when he saw the law enforcement team of the Ming Army approaching in the distance, he lost interest in watching the excitement even more.

After returning to the gathering place, other clan members went to get porridge, but several elders in the clan were sitting there, waiting for them to come back.

"The pian over there said he would send us to Zhangzhou Prefecture. He said that when we get there, we will have more work and more food to eat."

"Why."

Although they are both in the same province, and they are not far apart, they are getting further and further away from their hometown. But now that they are on the other side of the country, if they don't obey, they will probably be kicked out directly. The above has arranged it like this,

They can only do it. At the very least, the saying "eat more food" is still very tempting.

After eating the porridge, someone will take away the bowl when the time comes. At the same time, the inspection personnel will issue a voucher for the next meal on a family basis. The bowl will be organized by the women in the camp to be washed by the stream. This is

One of their jobs. In addition, they have to sweep and carry corpses inside the camp, and there are also manual jobs such as digging ditches outside the camp. Of course, those who do manual work can get some extra dry food, which is better than eating free meals in the camp.

You need to eat more.

Early the next morning, the family that had been transferred to Zhangzhou Prefecture had a slightly more hearty meal, which was just a thicker vegetable porridge. Next, according to the arrangement of the clerk, hundreds of people formed a team

Under the leadership of the Ming army, they marched towards Zhangzhou Prefecture. There was a camp for shelter every step of the way, and this was also to prevent them from disturbing the local people too much.

A few days later, they arrived in Changtai County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, where there was already a large camp. They entered and were arranged to live in a tent settlement near the northwest edge of the camp. Before they could put down the belongings they were carrying, Ming troops were already knocking on the door.

Come and shout with the gong.

"The King's division recruits soldiers at a discount of one or two and a half cents per month, and one stone per month, which is enough to feed a family. If you are willing to have a full meal, go to the recruitment office at the east exit of the camp to take the test. There is no waste among Mr. Guo's men.

, and don’t want waste!”

A group of Ming soldiers passed by with gongs, and they were not responsible for explanations. They just followed the instructions of their superiors. Although the status of military households was low in the Ming Dynasty, the discount of two and a half coins plus the true value of one stone still made many people

Tempting.

After discussing it with the elders of the clan, especially when they saw that the men from two families who were traveling with them had already rushed to recruit soldiers, they were afraid that the quota would be full, so they did not care about whether military households or not. That was it.

, a group of men hurried over.

There were already a lot of people gathered around the recruiting point. They still lined up according to the rules, and finally got to the front to see clearly. In fact, the requirement is not difficult, just lift a stone lock and walk three steps. The man prides himself on his strength.

Finally, he got in line, stepped forward, bowed his hands, and grabbed the stone lock. When he raised his breath, the stone lock rose up, which immediately attracted applause from everyone around him.

It is said that this was the rule for recruiting soldiers when Mr. Guo Xing raised troops in Nan'ao. The man did not know this, but the Ming army who had just recruited soldiers said that they could enter the camp after walking three steps, so he did so.

The stone lock was lifted up in one breath, all thanks to that breath of Dantian Qi. It was fine at first, and the first step was quite stable, but when I took the second step, I always felt that the breath was not enough.

, but before taking the third step, his arms could no longer hold on, and the stone lock was released, but the muffled sound immediately made his heart sink.

"Master Jun, I've probably been hungry for a long time. I can walk not only three steps, but even ten steps on weekdays."

The recruiting stone was modeled after the one in front of the Nan'ao town hall. It weighed two hundred and forty kilograms, which was indeed heavy enough. The man wanted to try again, but he didn't know that the officer sitting there didn't even look at it.

He lifted it up but didn't complete three steps. He was just doing it business-like, without any accommodating attitude, and just let the next one try.

The next one was one of his cousins, who was usually not his opponent in arm wrestling, but seeing him fail this time, he gathered all his strength and staggered down the three steps.

"Go over there, register, and then go have a meal after registering!"

"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master."

After several rounds, some of the brothers in the clan became successful, and some did not. Some were happy and some were sad. When everyone was done, and everyone returned to the place where they lived, it was the same.

Only he, the best among his peers, failed to pass the test and fell below the expectations of his tribe.

"I heard that the recruitment of soldiers has been going on for a while, and it has not stopped. Eat more in these two days, and slow down your strength before going again!"

The other brothers in his room were useless, and they were all pointing to him alone. As expected, after two days of recuperating his strength and eating more food, when he went back the next afternoon, he was able to complete the three steps without any effort.

He even continued to walk forward holding the stone lock.

"You don't understand what you're saying? Just take three steps. It's forbidden by military orders. If you don't obey, get out."

The officer said this, how could a man dare to show off, so he quickly put the stone lock away, bowed respectfully, and went to register happily.

To sign up, you naturally have to enter the camp. A few days later, the man and other people who passed the test were taken to a camp in the south of Haicheng County by a team of Ming troops, where they would undergo the most basic training, and then

He would be assigned to various military camps for further training and running-in. However, as soon as he entered the camp and saw the sea of ​​people in front of him, the man couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Chapter completed!