1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 605 Refugees

1648 was a year of decisive significance for the whole world, whether it was the east of the world or the west of the world.

In Europe, on May 1648, 5, a combined French and Swedish army led by Turenne (Durenne) and Carl Gustav Wrangel was at Juschmalhausen, west of Augsburg. defeated the Holy Roman Empire army led by Melander, and Melander was killed.After the war, Bavaria sued for peace.Shinra has gradually shown signs of failure, and the 17-year European war has also come to an end.

At the same time in Britain, after the end of the first civil war, the royalist forces were hit hard, but what followed was a sharp rise in internal conflicts among various political groups, especially the intensified conflict between the parliament and the army. King Charles I Taking the opportunity to flee from Newmarket to the Isle of Wight in the south. In February, the royalists launched a rebellion in the southwest, and the second British civil war broke out.

In the east, the situation in Daming, which had been almost silent for nearly a year, suddenly exploded with drastic changes.Last year, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's Daxi Army, who had been in a tug-of-war with the Wu Sangui Department of the Qing Army in Sichuan and Chongqing, suddenly abandoned Chongqing and entered Guizhou from Zunyi.

However, Li Zicheng's Dashun army, which had been under attack from the Qing army's Azige and the governor of Huguang in the Yongchu court, He Tengjiao, disregarded the threat of the Qing army from Wuchang and Xiangyang, and at the beginning of March, the main force left Jingzhou and attacked south Changde, Yiyang, approaching Changsha.The Ming army was defeated and retreated all the way, and then defended Changsha to the death.

On the 27th of the first lunar month, Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren in Jiangxi suddenly announced their anti-Qing and returning to the Ming Dynasty, respecting the Emperor Yongchu’s title of the Ming Dynasty, removing the braids of the whole army, restoring the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, beheading Jiangxi patrolling Dong Xuecheng, and most of the Qing court officials in Nanchang also followed suit. , Those who refused anyway were hunted down.The king and ministers of Yongchu were overjoyed, and issued an imperial edict to make Jin Shengheng the Duke of Yu and Wang Deren the Marquis of Jianwu.

Subsequently, Raozhou, Yuanzhou, Ji'an Jiujiang and other places in Jiangxi were restored successively, and re-entered the territory of the Ming court in Yongchu. The Qing court only had a few isolated strongholds such as Ganzhou in Jiangxi.Wang Deren marched to Hubei after he was reversing, and even in many places, Hubei and Anhui set off a wave of anti-Qing upsurge.

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and other units of the Qing army who were fighting against Li Zicheng's Dashun army were worried that their retreat would be cut off, so the whole army withdrew to Wuchang and let the Shun army invade Hunan.

And on April [-]th, Li Chengdong, the admiral of the Qing army in Guangdong, was dissatisfied with his low reward, and suddenly announced in Guangzhou that he would rebel against the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty.Anyway, Li Chengdong brought the whole province of Guangdong and some parts of Guangxi back to the territory of Ming Dynasty, and was later conferred the title of Duke Huiguo by Emperor Yongchu, the prime minister of Guangdong and Guangxi affairs.

According to Denglai, the Yongchu court also launched an offensive immediately. In April, on the North Road, Jiang Yongrui sent troops out of Weixian County, occupied Changle, and approached Qingzhou; on the South Road, Li Benshen attacked Yizhou, occupied Pingyi, and threatened Jining; With the cooperation of the ships of the Qi State Navy, a group of soldiers and horses bypassed the Denglai Peninsula, landed in Haizhou (now Lianyungang), attacked Huaibei, and peeped at Xuzhou and Huai'an.

In Zheng Zhilong, Fujian Province, the land and sea combined attack, and with the cooperation of part of the Ming army, Ningbo was conquered. The commander of the Qing army in Shaoxing, Luck Dehun, felt that his troops were insufficient and retreated to Hangzhou. At the same time, he ordered the Qing troops in Jinhua and Hengzhou Retreat to Jiangxi, attack Raozhou first, and then attack Nanchang together with Tan Tai, the general who conquered the south in Wuchang, to put down the chaos in Jiangxi.

The situation in the entire Ming Dynasty suddenly reversed, especially in the south, which was extremely beneficial to the Yongchu court. For this reason, the Emperor Yongchu repeatedly issued edicts, calling on all parts of the Ming Dynasty to surrender and obey the Ming army on the spot. .

Faced with such a situation, Qing Ting felt a little overwhelmed and lost ground. At the same time, he also deeply distrusted the large number of Qing and Han troops who surrendered after entering the customs.In order to ease the intensified conflict between Manchu and Han, and at the same time, in exchange for the contribution of the Han landlord and gentry class in the ruling area.Dorgon accepted Hong Chengchou's suggestion, temporarily abolished the fugitive law, stopped shaving his hair and changing clothes, and in the name of Emperor Shunzhi, opened Enke twice in a row to win over literati from all over the world.

April 5, Batavia.

Su Ancheng talked for more than an hour, telling the Qi military officer in front of him one by one the important events that happened in Daming in the past few months, then picked up the teacups on the case, drank the tea in one gulp, and sat down quietly. In chairs, looking at each other.

He Qing, the deputy commander of the black-clothed guards, kept silent for a while, only occasionally glanced at the clerk beside him, seeing him taking notes quickly with a charcoal pencil.

"Treasurer Su, thank you for your hard work." Seeing that the clerk nodded to indicate that everything had been recorded, He Qing smiled and said to Su Ancheng: "When you left Guangzhou, did the officials and the army at the wharf keep you in trouble?"

"He, Li Chengdong, has returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and he is already the Duke Hui of the Ming Dynasty. Seeing the dragon flag of Qi State hanging on the bow of our boat, he will naturally not make it difficult for us." Su Ancheng smiled, "Actually, last year he belonged to Jiannu At that time, there was no difficulty for maritime merchants entering and leaving Guangzhou. After all, Guangzhou has always been a major overseas trading port, if it is made ugly, it will affect their channels for obtaining foreign goods, won’t it?”

"Then is there any restriction on people going to sea in Guangzhou?"

"Personnel going to sea?" Su Ancheng was taken aback, and then understood that the other party was referring to the immigration issue, "No. Because of the war, Guangzhou has gathered hundreds of thousands of refugees who have left their homes, which is also a big burden for the entire region, and even a potential problem. danger. If someone transfers people out, I think the officials in Guangzhou will welcome it."

He Qing nodded, and asked casually: "Master Su returned to Batavia, and I think he brought a lot of people back on board."

"More than 50 people were brought back on board." Su Ancheng said: "Some gentry and wealthy businessmen were worried that there would be repeated attacks in Guangzhou, and they were afraid that Jian slaves would call again, so they sold their properties one after another, and wanted to escape from Guangzhou by boat and temporarily escape overseas."

"Are they willing to go to Hanzhou?"

"Maybe half of those who escaped would like to go to Hanzhou, after all, it is our country of Han people. However, some people plan to stay in Batavia temporarily, and they want to wait for the situation in Ming Dynasty to be completely stabilized, and they are ready to return to the mainland at any time." Su Ancheng thought Thinking, said softly: "However, after many ordinary people fled to Batavia, they were controlled by the Dutch, and they were going to be transported to Ambon, Malacca, Ceylon, and even India to farm and cut trees for the Dutch. That kind of environment And the treatment, I'm afraid it's a little... a little unbearable."

"This, we know." He Qing sighed inexplicably, "We are trying to find a way to get those people back from the Dutch."

Su Ancheng wanted to say something when he heard the words, but the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and he also sighed slightly, and didn't speak any more.What the population of Qi said was to find a way, nothing more than negotiating with the Dutch continuously, so that the other party agreed that the Ming people in the territory could come and go freely, and they could go to Hanzhou.Of course, it is also possible that they will spend money to sell back those Ming people controlled by the Dutch.

Because the Dutch East India Company issued a decree two years ago, any resident who wants to leave Batavia, whether a businessman or an ordinary person, must provide the Dutch with a departure deposit of fifty guilders before they can sit. The boat goes to sea.After returning, with the entry certificate, you can claim back the security deposit.

It is impossible for the countless natives in Batavia to leave by boat, and they don't have that much financial resources to submit this so-called deposit.Therefore, this decree is actually aimed at the many Ming people who fled from Daming to Batavia due to the war in recent years.The Dutch didn't want Hanzhou to get these immigrants who came to Nanyang voluntarily for nothing, and artificially set up obstacles to blackmail Hanzhou a sum of money.

In fact, with the several gold mines that Qi State currently has and develops, even if the four or five thousand Ming people who have poured into Batavia in recent years are all "buy" all of them, there will be no problem.After all, there are not a few young women who are purchased through the Barbary pirates and the surrounding kingdoms every year, and the Qi people are not short of the money to buy from the Dutch.

However, these many Ming people who have worked so hard to come to Nanyang by boats came to Batavia to escape the war and survive, and you Dutch are going to sell them to the Han as "goods" continent.This is a bit unreasonable!Listen, it makes people uncomfortable.How can we Han people allow these Western barbarians to buy and sell at will.

Therefore, since last year, Qi State has been negotiating with the Dutch East India Company on this matter, asking the other party not to arbitrarily restrict the entry and exit of Batavia, and to cancel the so-called departure deposit.

The Dutch East India Company claimed that this decree was an internal matter of the East India Company, and Qi State had no right to interfere.Moreover, this policy of restricting the entry and exit of personnel did not include Qi people, and the other party should not unreasonably accuse the normal management behavior of the East India Company.

In addition, probably in order to further increase the development and construction of colonies such as Malacca and Ceylon, the East India Company successively shipped to these Ming people who were unable to pay taxes in Batavia and did not pay the detention tax. Colonial stronghold.In addition to wanting to evacuate too many Ming people gathered in the city, there is also a desire to use the hard work of the Ming people to improve the basic daily supply conditions of each colony.

However, for the country of Qi, which is extremely hungry for population, how can they be willing to see that the Dutch are planning to invest many Ming people in various colonies for development and construction.Recently, the representative of the State of Qi in Batavia put forward a new proposal to the Dutch, that is, to exchange the Ming people in the city with the Dutch with the same number of natives.Don't you want to develop the various colonial strongholds under your banner? I will provide you with thousands of natives, and you can use them as you like.

The Dutch didn't even think about this proposal, and directly rejected it.Just kidding, those natives are not easy to use.Those natives are lazy and stupid, and three or four of them are not worth a wise person.

Ming people are industrious, down-to-earth, and obedient. If you put them in a plantation, you will be the best farmer. If you put them in a workshop, you will become a good worker. After you have a small fortune, you will be a natural businessman. It is the creator of wealth.Thinking about it, Hanzhou developed so rapidly because it had many Ming people.

Huang Mingfang, the representative in Batavia, walked out of the Batavia City Hall with a gloomy face. When he got into the carriage, he couldn't help but look back and saw Batavia Mayor Sylvie Heimer and several Dutch colonial officials on the steps. Smiling and waving goodbye to him.

"It's time to fight the Dutch again!" Huang Mingfang got into the carriage, exhaled a long breath, and then said harshly.

(End of this chapter)