Qiming 1158

Chapter 1346 I miss Uncle Yuting too

Su Yonglin himself led the main force of the army south to Chaozhou after his inspection in Quanzhou in mid-December.

The Ming army did not encounter any effective resistance in Chaozhou. Su Yonglin quickly led his army through Chaozhou, Huizhou, and finally arrived in Guangzhou, the southernmost city on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with other Lingnan cities of the same era, Guangzhou is undoubtedly the largest one.

Chaozhou, Meizhou, and Huizhou were the inhabited areas of southern ethnic minorities for a long time before the Tang Dynasty. After thousands of years of population migration and the management of the Pearl River Delta region during the Northern Song Dynasty, this area has gradually become civilized. develop.

At the turn of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, a large number of people from the Central Plains and Jiangnan crossed the Wuling area and settled in Lingnan, mainly in Chaozhou and Huizhou. It also brought a lot of positive changes.

Today, the population of these state capitals is quite large, the gap between production and lifestyle and Lingbei area is not large, and material life is not lacking.

Of course, class contradictions also exist.

The arrival of the Ming army meant that the feudal clan-style lifestyle that the landlords and tyrants depended on for a living had come to an end, and of course they had to resist.

In fact, during the whole process of the Ming army going south to destroy the Song Dynasty, the attacks by the landlord armed forces on the Ming army were far more intense than the attack by the Song army on the Ming army. can be ignored.

During Su Yonglin's southward journey, there were only five cities that insisted on defending, and eight county magistrates organized armies to resist desperately. Others were desperately resisting armed groups with powerful landlords. The tyrannical dared to confront the Ming army.

And this also gave the Ming army an excellent reason to completely clean up the place and the landlords and the powerful families.

The Ming army went all the way south, and basically helped the grass-roots organizations of the Renaissance Society to do a lot of things along the way. Almost all the large and powerful local landlords were eradicated, and the remaining three or two kittens were almost not a problem.

On December [-], the eighth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin entered the city of Guangzhou.

At the same time, the entire Guangnan East Road was almost completely occupied by the Ming army. The local Song official forces had disintegrated and ceased to exist. A small number of landlord armed forces were still stubbornly resisting, but it was only a matter of time before they were completely destroyed.

So Su Yonglin decided to stay in Guangzhou for a while.

In Guangzhou, Su Yonglin met Zhao Yucheng, who led the troops to meet him, and Yu Xingyan, the right minister of the Ministry of Finance, who was staying here by Lin Jingchun, and his financial management team.

After years of study and accumulation of experience in armed struggle, Zhao Yucheng is already an excellent political worker and military cadre with very rich fighting experience.

Because he hadn't seen him for many years, Zhao Yucheng missed Su Yonglin very much. He should have led his army to bypass Guangzhou and go to Zhaoqing Prefecture to join other troops to completely deal with the landlord's armed forces, but he still took two days to rush to Guangzhou, hoping to meet Su Yonglin.

As the actual direct disciple of Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin cared about Zhao Yucheng very much, cared very much about his education, and gave him a very difficult test, but it turned out that Zhao Yucheng did not live up to Su Yonglin's test and expectations for him.

Su Yonglin hoped that he could win Jiangnan West Road, and he really won Jiangnan West Road, making it the Jiangxi province of Daming. During the entire struggle, Zhao Yucheng played a decisive role.

In addition to his contribution to the revolutionary mission, Zhao Yucheng also single-handedly promoted Xu Tong, who was very young at the time, as a major military general, resisting the doubts of many people and resolutely appointing him, thus allowing Xu Tong to create one military miracle after another. Let Su Yonglin like his love general.

In every sense, Zhao Yucheng is a major achievement since Su Yonglin's revolution.

Outside the city of Guangzhou, when he saw Su Yonglin across the distance, Zhao Yucheng couldn't hold back his excitement. He got off his horse and trotted all the way to Su Yonglin.

"I will meet the chairman at the end!"

"Ok!"

Su Yonglin stepped forward and supported Zhao Yucheng with a smile.

After not seeing each other for several years, Zhao Yucheng's face has lost the childish look he once had.

The immature young man who once tried to launch the land reform on his own is gone, replaced by a mature revolutionary, a revolutionary who has been reborn from ashes after betrayal and shattered ideals.

"This battle was fought well, all the way to the south, did you encounter any obstacles?"

"How can there be any obstacles? It's just a man's arm and a car. It's just a group of people who want to stop the tide of revolution. They will die."

Zhao Yucheng smiled and said, "I haven't seen each other for several years. The chairman's appearance has become more and more majestic. Seeing this, I will be overjoyed at the end."

"This kind of nauseous words should not be called the last general, the chairman or the like."

Su Yonglin smiled and patted Zhao Yucheng's shoulder: "Let's go, I've prepared the banquet, I'll be waiting for you."

"kindness!"

Zhao Yucheng smiled and followed Su Yonglin into Guangzhou City, and had a good reception in the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion.

"Since you come to the seaside, you have to eat standard seafood. Guangzhou people are good at making seafood, and the taste is full. It is also different from the river seafood that Jiangnan people often eat. I like this taste very much."

Su Yonglin personally peeled the big tongs of a crab in the sea and handed it to Zhao Yucheng. Zhao Yucheng laughed so hard that his eyes could hardly open, he took it with both hands, and then ate the crab tongs as if he was enjoying the dragon liver and phoenix marrow. clean.

A group of civil servants and military generals below looked at Zhao Yucheng with great admiration, as if they were yearning for the treatment that Su Yonglin gave him by peeling the meat with his own hands.

It's no wonder that, given Su Yonglin's actual status, being able to do this is really a great honor for his subordinates, and it makes him more happy than any reward.

Most of them also know Zhao Yucheng's special status, but in order to appease the hearts of the civil servants and military generals, Su Yonglin frequently toasted and toasted, thanking the civil servants and generals for their efforts for the great cause of revolution, and for their dedication to this great unification war everything of.

Several civil servants and military generals who made the most of the credit were named by Su Yonglin, and then walked over to raise a toast in person.

Everyone drinks together and eats seafood together.

After drinking and eating, Su Yonglin personally arranged their room and board, and went to the military camp outside the city to inspect the soldiers' room and board, which was warmly welcomed by the soldiers.

After inspecting for a while, Su Yonglin, accompanied by Zhao Yucheng, returned to Guangzhou City. It was already dusk, but Su Yonglin didn't want to rest, so he took Zhao Yucheng to the Guangzhou City Tower and looked at the beauty of the sea and the sky in the distance.

"The last time I spoke with you alone was in Zhongdu a few years ago. When you set off south to Jiangnan West Road, after the revolution was successful, you have been busy reorganizing the army in Jiangxi, and you have no time to come back to see me. But make me miss you so much."

"I also miss Uncle Yuting very much."

In the environment where the two were alone, Zhao Yucheng didn't call him the chairman or the last general, and instead called him the name of the Restoration Army.

"From the beginning to the end, you were the only one who called me like that."

Su Yonglin patted Zhao Yucheng's shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile, "Actually, I'm only three years older than you, yet you call me uncle, it's a little strange."

"The name of relatives such as seniority itself does not depend on age. In the past, there was a newly born child in the clan, but the seniority was terrifyingly high. It is my grandfather's generation, but I am about ten years older than him.

You and my father are of the same generation. It is a matter of course for me to call you uncle. Over the years, you have treated me like your own nephew. How can you afford this title? "

Zhao Yucheng smiled and said, "I'm very lucky to have an elder like you to guide me and teach me, let me know what I should do and how to live, otherwise I will still be confused and don't know what to do in my life. what makes the most sense.

When I was betrayed by my tribe and locked in prison, I really wanted to die during that time, but I still believed in my heart that Uncle Yu Ting would definitely come to save me, otherwise, I might have committed suicide in prison. . "

(End of this chapter)