Chapter 1089
Immigration Measures
Chapter 1089 Immigration Measures
The Denglei area after the war was not as peaceful as it seemed on the surface. The reason why so many refugees outside Fushan County would rather live in huts than return to their homes, and the villages in the countryside are full of wariness to outsiders, may be the reason for these phenomena. Not because of the arrival of Haihan people.In the mountainous area to the south and west of Fushan County, there are still several bandits and bandits operating frequently, and their plundering targets are naturally ordinary people who lack resistance.
In this kind of struggle between the weak and the strong, in order to survive, the weaker side either hugs each other for warmth, or they can only rely on the strong.The government, or the gangsters, the people can only choose one side as their own umbrella in troubled times.As for the people living in shacks outside Fushan County, quite a few of them gave up their plans to return to their homes because of the protection of the government.But the protection that the government can provide them is limited to the one-third of an acre of land around the county seat, and places a little farther away from the county seat can only form associations to protect themselves and seek more blessings.
As for sending troops to suppress the bandits, the county government believed that it was the responsibility of the guards. The garrison in the county town struggled even to defend the city, and could not spare any troops to attack the bandits hiding in the mountains.The Guards Army, on the other hand, shirked on the grounds of dissatisfaction with the establishment, insufficient military expenditure, and the fact that the gang's cottage was not in the defense zone, and was also unwilling to contribute.To put it bluntly, no one is willing to take risks to do this kind of thankless and dirty work, and it may not be meritorious for doing it, but if there is a relatively large battle loss and consumption, it will be whoever takes the blame.
Zhang Pucheng, the county magistrate, is very clear about this situation, but with his ability, he can't change anything.But no matter whether it is out of public interest or selfishness, he still wants to do his best to maintain the safety of the people under his rule. Regarding the group of guys outside the city whose origins and intentions are unknown, his opinion is actually the same as that of the captor Han Qin, who believes that the Haihan people are doing relief. The guise of refugees has other plans.
Huang Qu said: "If this group of people really came from the sea, they should be on the same path as the bandits nearby. Even if we don't take action, there should be others who can't see it."
"You mean someone will jump out and eat black?" Zhang Pucheng responded as if he had realized something.
"The bandits don't dare to come to Fushan County to strike, they are just afraid of the government. If these Haihan people encourage the people to leave the county, it will be a rare opportunity for the bandits nearby." Huang Qu pointed to the north of the city and said: " There are still more than ten or twenty miles from here to the sea, and there are only two or three villages inhabited on the way. If there are bandits on the way to rob them, no one can save them. Wait until these people fight to lose both sides, and then choose the opportunity to send troops It will be easier to clean up the mess."
Zhang Pucheng sighed: "Just in this way, the local people will suffer!"
Huang Qu said: "Under the overturned nest, there are no eggs left. Only by keeping this Fushan county can we save more people. Master Zhang, even if you can't bear it, you can only continue to wait and see for now, and deal with it after the situation changes."
Zhang Pucheng also knew that Huang Qu had said so much, but in fact he didn't want to take the risk of leading troops out of the city to drive these people away.Although he didn't quite agree with Huang Qu's idea, he couldn't think of a better way for a while.
However, their knowledge is still too limited, and they can't even imagine the means of the Haihan people, let alone how determined Haihan is in the matter of immigration.Seeing that dusk was approaching, the cavalry gathered their formation and left Fushan County.However, the horse team didn't go too far, and they stopped and set up camp by the Jiahe River, and it seemed that they didn't intend to leave here immediately.And that night, some sporadic people had already abandoned their shacks outside the county seat and moved to the vicinity of the Haihan camp by the Jiahe River, and it seemed that they were going to follow.
The next morning, just after dawn, Sun Zhen was woken up by Wang Jinmin in his sleep.
"Come and take a look, it seems that someone is watching us." Wang Jinmin dragged the sleepy-eyed Sun Zhen out of the bed.
Sun Zhen got up and went outside the tent, using the binoculars to check the direction Wang Jinmin was pointing by taking advantage of the newly lit sky.About a mile to the west of the camp, two people on horseback stopped to watch. Without the help of binoculars, it would be difficult to spot this situation with the naked eye.
"How long have those two been here?" Sun Zhen put down the binoculars and asked.
"The sentinel only discovered it at dawn, and I don't know when it came last night." Wang Jinmin replied, "What route do you think this is? Is it the Ming army or someone else?"
Sun Zhendao: "It's hard to say, and I can't see it clearly through the telescope. Just in case, I'd better go and talk to Lianchang Liu."
When Liu Xian received the news and came out to check, the two riders had disappeared from where they had stopped before.Wang Jinmin believed that the opponent had retreated to a further place, so as not to be discovered by his own side after dawn.
"I can't manage that much anymore. The navy will send a ship here today. We need to arrange for the immigrants to leave here as soon as possible, and we must deal with the matter here first." Liu Xian didn't have the heart to track down the identity of the monitor at the moment. The first priority is to mobilize the local people to go to Zhifu Bay, and other things can be put aside.
After looking at the specific situation in Fushan County, Liu Xian and others believed that Haihan could at least harvest thousands of immigrants here, but how to get these people to Zhifu Island still needs a little more work.The original plan was for the Navy to send a boat to pick up at the mouth of the Jiahe River, but the cavalry went upstream along the Jiahe River yesterday, and found that the navigability of the river should be pretty good. The width of the river and the water depth are enough for Haihan's passenger and cargo sailboats to navigate.Therefore, last night, the cavalry team sent people back to the beach, notified the Navy of the progress of the operation, and applied to send sailboats directly to the vicinity of Fushan County, the upper reaches of the Jiahe River, so that the people could board the boats from the local area and avoid going to the mouth of the Jiahe River by themselves. Variables that may arise along the way.
Although this arrangement takes a little more effort than the original plan, the benefits are obvious. It avoids accidents on the way to the coast, and these people will be transported directly to Zhifu Island after boarding the boat. opportunity.If someone wants to hinder Haihan's immigration arrangements during this period, then the Haihan Cavalry may use some unconventional means.
After dawn, some of the refugees outside the city went to the camp of the Haihan horse team sporadically. According to the information they got, as long as they stayed with the horse team, they would soon be rescued by the good people of Haihan.This is not a one-time relief of giving a bowl of porridge to each person, but it is said that it can distribute land and provide a good way out for long-term livelihood.
For some people who are already on the verge of despair, although this life-saving straw does not seem so strong, but in the current environment, what other options are there?Either slowly starve to death in the slums outside Fushan County, rotten and stinking, or gamble with his wealth and life to see if the paradise that the Haihan people claim really exists.What most people think is that even if they are deceived, they have nothing to lose except this life. As long as the Haihan people can provide better living conditions than they are now, what does it matter if they are slaves?After all, in Terengganu, the road of selling one's body into slavery has long been impracticable, and there is no buyer willing to pay for it in the market.
As long as the initial group of people take action, some onlookers will follow. When a certain proportion of people choose this way out, there is no need for Haihan to do in-depth publicity. Group effect and join the immigrant ranks.Of course, the premise is that Haihan can guarantee the smoothness and safety of the immigration transportation line.
Similar to the magistrates and generals in Fushan County, who also couldn't understand Haihan's actions, there was also a group of bandits who just came here from the mountainous area ten miles west of the county to check the situation.The leader of this group was named Wan Meng, who was originally a butcher in Fushan County. After the Dengzhou Mutiny in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Fushan County was also directly affected. However, he was rejected because he could not provide collateral such as a real estate title deed.In a rage, Wan Meng killed seven members of the big family with a butcher's knife. Knowing that the crime was unforgivable, he simply gathered a group of desperadoes and set up a banner in the nearby mountain, calling themselves the Wanjia Army.
Wanmeng's group initially consisted of only 30 to [-] people, but as the war in Dengzhou intensified, more and more people fled from various towns. They turned into bandits and plundered folk wealth everywhere.More than three years later, Kong Youde's rebel army had already fled to Liaodong, but the bandit armed forces of the Wanjia Army had gained a foothold in Dengzhou Prefecture. There are more than a thousand armed personnel in the multiple armed strongholds of Qizhai and Twelve Forts.
Although the Terengganu Prefecture also tried to wipe out the local bandit armed forces after the war, it was still unable to do what it wanted, and it simply did not have enough financial resources and troops to wipe out the many civilian armed forces in the inland mountainous areas.The garrison in Fushan County is not sufficient. The former Qianhu House in Fushan, which was originally stationed in Fushan County, was wiped out during the landing chaos, and even the establishment has been cancelled. Take a look around.The garrison in the county couldn't even go out of the city to drive away the Haihan cavalry, so naturally there was no need to mention going into the mountains to suppress the bandits.
However, Wan Meng also had an unwritten agreement with Zhang Pucheng, the magistrate of Fushan County, that the Wanjia Army would not attack the county, and Fushan County could not interfere with the activities of the Wanjia Army in nearby areas.To put it simply, the Wanjia army is trying to control the area and population outside the county seat in this area, and what the county government has to do is to sit on the sidelines and not react too aggressively.It is precisely because of such a secret transaction that Fushan County has become a shelter for displaced people, and a large-scale shanty town has spontaneously formed outside the city.
Zhang Pucheng hoped to use this to strive for a stable recovery period. When the place was safe and production resumed, he re-established the garrison and civilian defense, and then wiped out these bandit armed forces.But the trend of the situation is not in line with his hope. Because the government is unable to provide shelter in the villages in Fushan County, they can only regularly hand over a certain amount of money and food to the Wanjia Army in exchange for safety.Over time, most of the resources produced by the local government were sucked away by the Wanjia Army, while the local government and the garrison have been in a state of being unable to rebuild, and the gap in strength between the two sides has been further widened.
Not to mention reorganizing the army now, even maintaining the law and order of the three-acre land in the county will be a bit difficult. Zhang Pucheng can only hope that Wanmeng will keep his promise for a longer time, otherwise Wanmeng will be violent one day and send troops to attack Fushan County. , the possibility of this place being able to hold is not great.At that time, Zhangzhi County will have no other way out except to die for the country.
At this stage, in terms of the degree of control over Fushan County, the county government may not be as good as Wanmeng, the local emperor, so when the Haihan horse team appeared outside the county, Wanjiajun also received the wind.In fact, when the immigration policy was being promoted outside the city yesterday, there were people from Wan Jiajun mixed in among the spectators, and relevant news was reported to Wan Jiajun's cottage overnight.
However, it was not Wan Meng himself who received the news, but Pu Xueguang, the military advisor of the Wan Family Army.This person was originally a private school teacher in Dengzhou city, and he was once a scholar. When Kong Youde's rebel army occupied Dengzhou, Pu Xueguang once served for the rebel army in order to save his life.However, when Kong Youde defected to Liaodong later, all the peripheral personnel were abandoned because of the limited capacity of the ships, and Pu Xueguang was one of them.Worried about being liquidated by the government after the war, he fled Dengzhou City, and later fled to Fushan County, where he joined the Wanjia Army by chance.
This Pu Xueguang has a lot of ink in his stomach, and he has learned some military knowledge more or less during his work for the rebel army. Although he is only a theoretical school, but with his verbal skills accumulated in teaching and lectures, he can also bluff Wan Meng, who is only a fool. A rough guy who knows how to beat and kill.So Pu Xueguang relied on his theoretical knowledge, and soon got the position of military adviser in the Wanjia Army.
At first, the Wanjia Army only used simple looting as the main method of activity. It was not until Pu Xueguang came that there were changes. Such practices as coercing the government to control the local area, building multiple armed strongholds, and regularly collecting protection fees from the local area were basically the same. It was his idea to Wan Meng.And these methods are all focused on long-term development, and they are considered advanced players in civil armed organizations.Sure enough, it only took more than a year for the Wanjia Army to gain a firm foothold in the mountainous area between Fushan County and Qixia County, and annexed four or five smaller armed forces. Its influence in this area has even exceeded government.
Pu Xueguang listened to his subordinates report the news about the Haihan cavalry team, and then read the notice leaflet that Haihan sent back to attract immigrants. He couldn't sit still at the moment, and asked people to go to another cottage overnight to inform Wanmeng, but he himself was not at dawn. Then he took people to Fushan County.
(End of this chapter)
The Denglei area after the war was not as peaceful as it seemed on the surface. The reason why so many refugees outside Fushan County would rather live in huts than return to their homes, and the villages in the countryside are full of wariness to outsiders, may be the reason for these phenomena. Not because of the arrival of Haihan people.In the mountainous area to the south and west of Fushan County, there are still several bandits and bandits operating frequently, and their plundering targets are naturally ordinary people who lack resistance.
In this kind of struggle between the weak and the strong, in order to survive, the weaker side either hugs each other for warmth, or they can only rely on the strong.The government, or the gangsters, the people can only choose one side as their own umbrella in troubled times.As for the people living in shacks outside Fushan County, quite a few of them gave up their plans to return to their homes because of the protection of the government.But the protection that the government can provide them is limited to the one-third of an acre of land around the county seat, and places a little farther away from the county seat can only form associations to protect themselves and seek more blessings.
As for sending troops to suppress the bandits, the county government believed that it was the responsibility of the guards. The garrison in the county town struggled even to defend the city, and could not spare any troops to attack the bandits hiding in the mountains.The Guards Army, on the other hand, shirked on the grounds of dissatisfaction with the establishment, insufficient military expenditure, and the fact that the gang's cottage was not in the defense zone, and was also unwilling to contribute.To put it bluntly, no one is willing to take risks to do this kind of thankless and dirty work, and it may not be meritorious for doing it, but if there is a relatively large battle loss and consumption, it will be whoever takes the blame.
Zhang Pucheng, the county magistrate, is very clear about this situation, but with his ability, he can't change anything.But no matter whether it is out of public interest or selfishness, he still wants to do his best to maintain the safety of the people under his rule. Regarding the group of guys outside the city whose origins and intentions are unknown, his opinion is actually the same as that of the captor Han Qin, who believes that the Haihan people are doing relief. The guise of refugees has other plans.
Huang Qu said: "If this group of people really came from the sea, they should be on the same path as the bandits nearby. Even if we don't take action, there should be others who can't see it."
"You mean someone will jump out and eat black?" Zhang Pucheng responded as if he had realized something.
"The bandits don't dare to come to Fushan County to strike, they are just afraid of the government. If these Haihan people encourage the people to leave the county, it will be a rare opportunity for the bandits nearby." Huang Qu pointed to the north of the city and said: " There are still more than ten or twenty miles from here to the sea, and there are only two or three villages inhabited on the way. If there are bandits on the way to rob them, no one can save them. Wait until these people fight to lose both sides, and then choose the opportunity to send troops It will be easier to clean up the mess."
Zhang Pucheng sighed: "Just in this way, the local people will suffer!"
Huang Qu said: "Under the overturned nest, there are no eggs left. Only by keeping this Fushan county can we save more people. Master Zhang, even if you can't bear it, you can only continue to wait and see for now, and deal with it after the situation changes."
Zhang Pucheng also knew that Huang Qu had said so much, but in fact he didn't want to take the risk of leading troops out of the city to drive these people away.Although he didn't quite agree with Huang Qu's idea, he couldn't think of a better way for a while.
However, their knowledge is still too limited, and they can't even imagine the means of the Haihan people, let alone how determined Haihan is in the matter of immigration.Seeing that dusk was approaching, the cavalry gathered their formation and left Fushan County.However, the horse team didn't go too far, and they stopped and set up camp by the Jiahe River, and it seemed that they didn't intend to leave here immediately.And that night, some sporadic people had already abandoned their shacks outside the county seat and moved to the vicinity of the Haihan camp by the Jiahe River, and it seemed that they were going to follow.
The next morning, just after dawn, Sun Zhen was woken up by Wang Jinmin in his sleep.
"Come and take a look, it seems that someone is watching us." Wang Jinmin dragged the sleepy-eyed Sun Zhen out of the bed.
Sun Zhen got up and went outside the tent, using the binoculars to check the direction Wang Jinmin was pointing by taking advantage of the newly lit sky.About a mile to the west of the camp, two people on horseback stopped to watch. Without the help of binoculars, it would be difficult to spot this situation with the naked eye.
"How long have those two been here?" Sun Zhen put down the binoculars and asked.
"The sentinel only discovered it at dawn, and I don't know when it came last night." Wang Jinmin replied, "What route do you think this is? Is it the Ming army or someone else?"
Sun Zhendao: "It's hard to say, and I can't see it clearly through the telescope. Just in case, I'd better go and talk to Lianchang Liu."
When Liu Xian received the news and came out to check, the two riders had disappeared from where they had stopped before.Wang Jinmin believed that the opponent had retreated to a further place, so as not to be discovered by his own side after dawn.
"I can't manage that much anymore. The navy will send a ship here today. We need to arrange for the immigrants to leave here as soon as possible, and we must deal with the matter here first." Liu Xian didn't have the heart to track down the identity of the monitor at the moment. The first priority is to mobilize the local people to go to Zhifu Bay, and other things can be put aside.
After looking at the specific situation in Fushan County, Liu Xian and others believed that Haihan could at least harvest thousands of immigrants here, but how to get these people to Zhifu Island still needs a little more work.The original plan was for the Navy to send a boat to pick up at the mouth of the Jiahe River, but the cavalry went upstream along the Jiahe River yesterday, and found that the navigability of the river should be pretty good. The width of the river and the water depth are enough for Haihan's passenger and cargo sailboats to navigate.Therefore, last night, the cavalry team sent people back to the beach, notified the Navy of the progress of the operation, and applied to send sailboats directly to the vicinity of Fushan County, the upper reaches of the Jiahe River, so that the people could board the boats from the local area and avoid going to the mouth of the Jiahe River by themselves. Variables that may arise along the way.
Although this arrangement takes a little more effort than the original plan, the benefits are obvious. It avoids accidents on the way to the coast, and these people will be transported directly to Zhifu Island after boarding the boat. opportunity.If someone wants to hinder Haihan's immigration arrangements during this period, then the Haihan Cavalry may use some unconventional means.
After dawn, some of the refugees outside the city went to the camp of the Haihan horse team sporadically. According to the information they got, as long as they stayed with the horse team, they would soon be rescued by the good people of Haihan.This is not a one-time relief of giving a bowl of porridge to each person, but it is said that it can distribute land and provide a good way out for long-term livelihood.
For some people who are already on the verge of despair, although this life-saving straw does not seem so strong, but in the current environment, what other options are there?Either slowly starve to death in the slums outside Fushan County, rotten and stinking, or gamble with his wealth and life to see if the paradise that the Haihan people claim really exists.What most people think is that even if they are deceived, they have nothing to lose except this life. As long as the Haihan people can provide better living conditions than they are now, what does it matter if they are slaves?After all, in Terengganu, the road of selling one's body into slavery has long been impracticable, and there is no buyer willing to pay for it in the market.
As long as the initial group of people take action, some onlookers will follow. When a certain proportion of people choose this way out, there is no need for Haihan to do in-depth publicity. Group effect and join the immigrant ranks.Of course, the premise is that Haihan can guarantee the smoothness and safety of the immigration transportation line.
Similar to the magistrates and generals in Fushan County, who also couldn't understand Haihan's actions, there was also a group of bandits who just came here from the mountainous area ten miles west of the county to check the situation.The leader of this group was named Wan Meng, who was originally a butcher in Fushan County. After the Dengzhou Mutiny in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Fushan County was also directly affected. However, he was rejected because he could not provide collateral such as a real estate title deed.In a rage, Wan Meng killed seven members of the big family with a butcher's knife. Knowing that the crime was unforgivable, he simply gathered a group of desperadoes and set up a banner in the nearby mountain, calling themselves the Wanjia Army.
Wanmeng's group initially consisted of only 30 to [-] people, but as the war in Dengzhou intensified, more and more people fled from various towns. They turned into bandits and plundered folk wealth everywhere.More than three years later, Kong Youde's rebel army had already fled to Liaodong, but the bandit armed forces of the Wanjia Army had gained a foothold in Dengzhou Prefecture. There are more than a thousand armed personnel in the multiple armed strongholds of Qizhai and Twelve Forts.
Although the Terengganu Prefecture also tried to wipe out the local bandit armed forces after the war, it was still unable to do what it wanted, and it simply did not have enough financial resources and troops to wipe out the many civilian armed forces in the inland mountainous areas.The garrison in Fushan County is not sufficient. The former Qianhu House in Fushan, which was originally stationed in Fushan County, was wiped out during the landing chaos, and even the establishment has been cancelled. Take a look around.The garrison in the county couldn't even go out of the city to drive away the Haihan cavalry, so naturally there was no need to mention going into the mountains to suppress the bandits.
However, Wan Meng also had an unwritten agreement with Zhang Pucheng, the magistrate of Fushan County, that the Wanjia Army would not attack the county, and Fushan County could not interfere with the activities of the Wanjia Army in nearby areas.To put it simply, the Wanjia army is trying to control the area and population outside the county seat in this area, and what the county government has to do is to sit on the sidelines and not react too aggressively.It is precisely because of such a secret transaction that Fushan County has become a shelter for displaced people, and a large-scale shanty town has spontaneously formed outside the city.
Zhang Pucheng hoped to use this to strive for a stable recovery period. When the place was safe and production resumed, he re-established the garrison and civilian defense, and then wiped out these bandit armed forces.But the trend of the situation is not in line with his hope. Because the government is unable to provide shelter in the villages in Fushan County, they can only regularly hand over a certain amount of money and food to the Wanjia Army in exchange for safety.Over time, most of the resources produced by the local government were sucked away by the Wanjia Army, while the local government and the garrison have been in a state of being unable to rebuild, and the gap in strength between the two sides has been further widened.
Not to mention reorganizing the army now, even maintaining the law and order of the three-acre land in the county will be a bit difficult. Zhang Pucheng can only hope that Wanmeng will keep his promise for a longer time, otherwise Wanmeng will be violent one day and send troops to attack Fushan County. , the possibility of this place being able to hold is not great.At that time, Zhangzhi County will have no other way out except to die for the country.
At this stage, in terms of the degree of control over Fushan County, the county government may not be as good as Wanmeng, the local emperor, so when the Haihan horse team appeared outside the county, Wanjiajun also received the wind.In fact, when the immigration policy was being promoted outside the city yesterday, there were people from Wan Jiajun mixed in among the spectators, and relevant news was reported to Wan Jiajun's cottage overnight.
However, it was not Wan Meng himself who received the news, but Pu Xueguang, the military advisor of the Wan Family Army.This person was originally a private school teacher in Dengzhou city, and he was once a scholar. When Kong Youde's rebel army occupied Dengzhou, Pu Xueguang once served for the rebel army in order to save his life.However, when Kong Youde defected to Liaodong later, all the peripheral personnel were abandoned because of the limited capacity of the ships, and Pu Xueguang was one of them.Worried about being liquidated by the government after the war, he fled Dengzhou City, and later fled to Fushan County, where he joined the Wanjia Army by chance.
This Pu Xueguang has a lot of ink in his stomach, and he has learned some military knowledge more or less during his work for the rebel army. Although he is only a theoretical school, but with his verbal skills accumulated in teaching and lectures, he can also bluff Wan Meng, who is only a fool. A rough guy who knows how to beat and kill.So Pu Xueguang relied on his theoretical knowledge, and soon got the position of military adviser in the Wanjia Army.
At first, the Wanjia Army only used simple looting as the main method of activity. It was not until Pu Xueguang came that there were changes. Such practices as coercing the government to control the local area, building multiple armed strongholds, and regularly collecting protection fees from the local area were basically the same. It was his idea to Wan Meng.And these methods are all focused on long-term development, and they are considered advanced players in civil armed organizations.Sure enough, it only took more than a year for the Wanjia Army to gain a firm foothold in the mountainous area between Fushan County and Qixia County, and annexed four or five smaller armed forces. Its influence in this area has even exceeded government.
Pu Xueguang listened to his subordinates report the news about the Haihan cavalry team, and then read the notice leaflet that Haihan sent back to attract immigrants. He couldn't sit still at the moment, and asked people to go to another cottage overnight to inform Wanmeng, but he himself was not at dawn. Then he took people to Fushan County.
(End of this chapter)