Chapter 308 The land is easy to recover, but people's hearts are hard to recover!
Whether or not to keep pigtails has become a top concern for the people of Jinzhou these days. Afraid of the officers and soldiers grabbing their pigtails, the people of Jinzhou even hid when they saw the officers and soldiers. Thinking of Mr. Wu and his family in Wujiacun, they even hid
Don't go out at home.
Ren Shuangyou is not in the mood to take care of the matter of pulling pigtails. Controlling Jinzhou City is only the first step. Clearing out the remaining forces in the countryside and building defense lines are the most important tasks at the moment.
"To the north and south of Jinzhou City, two large military cities need to be built, and at the same time, a group of small forts must be built in the front and rear. Your Majesty means that tunnels and transport trenches must be dug between the forts to surround Jinzhou.
The city has completely formed a natural moat to prepare for the winter defensive battle. Therefore, these tasks must be started now. Transporting people from the sea will be very slow. We must first mobilize the local people to help complete this task.
"In order to repair the defense line as soon as possible, Ren Shuangyou plans to use the local people in Jinzhou to get things done first. Unlike Daning, Jinzhou has a lot of Han people. It shouldn't be difficult as long as you give them money to do the work.
However, Ren Shuangyou's plan came to nothing. The headquarters issued the list and even asked the soldiers to go to nearby villages and towns to make notifications. The result was that there were very few applicants, and less than a thousand people signed up.
It is impossible that Jinzhou only has such a small number of laborers. It is the size of a health center anyway. How can it be possible that there are only so many people to sign up? It is not like asking them to work voluntarily.
Just when Ren Shuangyou was wondering why the people of Jinzhou responded so coldly to this matter, Fang Ruocheng and others from Lushun also sent a letter, complaining that the people near the port not only did not cooperate with them in regulating the port, but some fishing villages even formed villages to protect themselves.
The small fishing boat went to great lengths to convey military information to the nearby Qing army.
What's going on? It's okay for Master Wang to come over and welcome them without blocking the way, but they still want to capture the thieves! Don't these gang of unruly people have any sense of loyalty in their hearts? Ren Shuangyou was so angry that he wanted to send troops to arrest all the unruly people here.
Come here and work as a laborer. I have seen people who go to excess, but I have never seen people who go to such excess.
"Send a clipper to Tianjin to report our current situation to the court, so that the court can make a decision as soon as possible. The people here have become traitors and have become traitors."
The frustrated Ren Shuangyou had to ask the imperial court for emergency help. Without the support of the people, it would be difficult for him to stand firm in Jinzhou with the three to five thousand people in front of him.
After Zhu Youjian from Beijing received the situation report from Ren Shuangyou, he was silent for a long time before sighing faintly and said: "The earth is easy to recover, but the people's hearts are hard to recover."
The fall of Jinzhou has not been long, and the mentality of the people has already changed like this. It is even harder to say in other places in Liaodong.
The reason why people have such a good sense of belonging to the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not that the policies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are popular with the people. People often say that good governance wins the hearts of the people, but in fact, bad governance can also win the hearts of the people! Sometimes bad governance even leaves a mark in the hearts of the people.
The mark of good governance will last longer than good governance.
The serfdom system implemented by the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong made the people more dependent on the Manchu nobles and weaker in their awareness of freedom. In the hearts of the people, the Manchus were already their masters. After the Ming army came over, their control was broken.
They had a balanced mind, so they did not accept the arrival of the Ming army very much. This is the so-called servile mentality, or the mentality of a masochist. Thieves in the mountains are easy to kill, but thieves in the heart are difficult to get rid of. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties have left a mark in the hearts of the people of Liaodong over the years.
It takes a long time to get rid of the slavish mentality.
"Send a message to the Military Command Hall to deploy another main battle brigade to help Ren Shuangyou and the others defend Jinzhou. At the same time, Ren Shuangyou and the others must conduct a thorough cleanup of the countryside of Jinzhou. Not only must they clear out the remaining forces of the Jianlu, but also the bandit villages, and
The rural forces who disobeyed the king. Anyone who harbored the Manchus or tipped off the bandits were treated as criminals. They were transported to Zhili by ship and their whole families were sent to the coolie team. In addition, all the people in Jinzhou had their pigtails cut off.
,Those who keep pigtails will be punished as robbers."
Originally, Zhu Youjian thought that whether or not to keep his braids was entirely up to his own free will. Over time, the people there would cut off their braids on their own. Now it seems that he is a bit too idealistic, and he cannot rely on a gentle policy in a short time.
To restore people's hearts. The policy in Liaodong should not be too soft. If it is too soft, it will be weak. People with slavish hearts may not appreciate this favor!
"In addition, a decree was sent to Taipu Temple, asking Taipu Temple to select 10,000 outstanding workers from the intruder laborers to go to Liaodong to help Ren Shuangyou and the others build Jinzhou's fortifications as soon as possible! The laborers who go to Liaodong will work for half a year.
Later, the imperial court acquitted them of their crimes and allowed them to live as people in Jinzhou. The imperial court provided funds to help them open land and settle down in Jinzhou. They sent a decree to the Shanxi Civil Affairs Bureau, asking them to select 1,000 households with outstanding performance from the refugees.
Go to Jinzhou to settle down and give them their lands and houses to the sinners of Jinzhou."
Moving a thousand households of refugees there actually sets a target for Ren Shuangyou and others to relocate a thousand households in Jinzhou. In short, they have to make a lot of efforts in Jinzhou. Will such a radical policy usher in Jinzhou?
Resistance from local households in the prefecture? I guess there will be! It is to force these people who are loyal to the Manchus out, and then the subsequent work can be carried out. These immigrants this year are the first step. In the future, they will move to Jinzhou and Liaoning
Moving more people to the southern region of Liaoning and carrying out a real large-scale development of the southern region of Liaoning is the basis for restoring Liaoning. Restoring Liaoning not only requires restoring the land, but also restoring the people.
Five days later, Ren Shuangyou and others in Jinzhou received the imperial edict, and even received an engineering team urgently dispatched from Taipus Temple.
"His Majesty's decree states that Jinzhou will adopt military control measures this year and there will be no civil affairs department. The Jinzhou Campaign Command will take charge of military and civilian affairs within the territory. Let us take the elimination of the poison of the bandits and the construction of fortifications as our top priority. This matter is important.
, all members of the command center cannot take it lightly. After the soldiers are transferred in a few days, we will have to start the braid-cutting and inventory work throughout Jinzhou. Before these tasks can be carried out, the Army Combat Forces and the Engineering Team will work together to
First, dig a trench line of defense outside Jinzhou City to prevent the Qing army from counterattacking. The navy's mission these days is to patrol along both sides of the Jinzhou Peninsula and disarm the bandits on nearby islands." After receiving the imperial edict, Ren Shuangyou said,
He immediately held a meeting to assign tasks. It was his first time to take charge of military and civilian affairs, and he was a little excited.
"Commander, in addition to some pirates on the nearby islands, there are also some small forces who are interested in the country. These days, they have sent people to Lushun to discuss recruitment matters. How to deal with this matter?" Fang Ruocheng told Ren Shuangyou a new story.
Situation. Not all Liao people submitted to the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. There are still some small groups of resistance forces in the southern Liaoning waters.
"There are also instructions in the letter from the military command hall on this matter. All the armed forces that have been resisting the imperialists will be integrated by the imperial court. After the integration, their families will be resettled in Tianjin! They will also undergo a half-year training and reorganization in Tianjin and Dengzhou.
. Those armed forces that disobey the imperial court will be treated as thieves and gradually eliminated. Putting down the pirate forces in the Liaodong Sea will be an important task for the navy to train for war."