The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 665 Controlling Jinan
If you want to train soldiers and horses, you need a strong population, so Ding Yi will move a wave of soldiers from Shandong to Tianjin in the next step to support Shen Shikui's population.

The expenditure here is relatively small. The annual salary plus food, and the consumption of military weapons, horses, etc. add up to 20 taels at most.

There are quite a lot of fields here, but there is not enough manpower. Ding Yi asked him to stockpile at least [-] mu. Because Ji Town is now blocking the front, Ding Yi estimates that the chance of military disaster here will be small in the future.

So the next step is to immigrate here, and find a way to trick the people from other important towns on the Nine Sides to come here.

There are few people this year, and at most [-] mu of land can be hoarded, which is just enough for expenses.

Next year, if there are more people, and the hoarding will be more than [-] in the future, this place can still make money, unlike Ji Town, which has to post money.

Tianjin is also an important port. In the past, the salaries to Lushun and Pidao, and even Liao’s salaries, went from here, so Ding Yi can make good use of it, and let Shen Shikui organize manpower to expand the port, especially from Dagu to the north. Ponds and places along the coast that can be landed must be repaired.

Ding Yi had a preliminary plan. When Li Zicheng entered the capital and went to Shanhaiguan to attack Wu Sangui, his soldiers and horses could be transported here from Lushun, Shandong, and landed from Tianjin.

This position is very good, it can cut off the route of Li Zicheng and Qing soldiers.

Of course, because of his existence, history has been deviated, even if this kind of thing will not happen, but he and the troops from Lushun and Dengzhou will come here very quickly by sea.

Ding Yi went to Jinan at the end of September and saw Liu Yuan and Zhang Qidong, and the place is also operating in an orderly manner.

And the officials from Jinan Third Division have not arrived yet.

At this time, it has been more than half a year since they went to Jinan. Many people don't understand what they are doing outside, and they have climbed to Jinan.

But these people can't tell the pain.

In fact, as early as the beginning of April, Zhang Qidong and Liu Yuan had not yet arrived in Jinan. Xia Shangzhen from Fujian received an order from the court in March and entered Shandong in April.

He is the new Shandong Zuobu Political Envoy. The imperial court ordered him to rush to Fujian in March. He kept everything simple and brought only three entourages to Shandong on horseback. He arrived in Linqing in early April.

At that time, Liu Zeqing had not yet moved to the town. When he saw Xia Shangzhen coming, he wanted to send a team of soldiers and horses to send him to Jinan.

Xia Shangji said no, what am I afraid of in the Ming Dynasty, I happened to see the people's situation along the way, you sent me soldiers and horses, and the people saw the panic, but it was inconvenient.

Forget it, Liu Zeqing didn't care after sending troops to Dongchang Mansion.

After Xia Shangzhen passed Dongchang, he entered Changqing County and Jinan Prefecture.

He is also considered smart, he didn't go from Dezhou, he went to Dongchang Mansion, probably because he was afraid of encountering rebellious soldiers and refugees, after all, the north is much more chaotic than the south.

In the Ming Dynasty, the north was more chaotic than the south, and in Shandong, the west was more chaotic than the east.

After entering the territory of Shandong, Xia Shangzhen found that there were people cooking porridge for disaster relief everywhere. The first time I saw it, I thought it was just a few counties doing it, but it turned out that there were people in all counties.

Moreover, banners were pulled up in every place, asking people to go to Dengzhou and Laizhou, saying that there were sub-fields, food and so on.

Xia Shangzhen felt it was very strange, he is a civil servant, and he is also a smart civil servant, he immediately thought that someone was diverting people, leading all the refugees and disaster victims to Denglai.

Before he came here, he had also heard that Denglai is the most stable place in Shandong. Since Kong Youde's military rebellion, there has been no disaster for seven or eight years, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and their lives are stable. Businessmen in Fujian have also told him that the business here is prosperous. , Dengzhou port merchants are like clouds, and many Japanese and North Korean goods can be bought. They used to travel long distances to Japan and North Korea to buy goods. Now they can go to Dengzhou, which is much more convenient.

When he came to Linqing, he asked Liu Zeqing who was here to help the victims, and Liu Zeqing immediately said, of course it was me.

Xia Shangyi smiled and remained silent.

After arriving at Dongchang Mansion, he asked the local magistrate again, this place did a good job in helping the victims, who is that kind person?

The local magistrate said, ah, it is the subordinate officials who supervise and the squires support, and this is the kind of good deed. Serving as an official will benefit one party, this is what we should do.

Xia Shangzhen should be greeting them in his heart at this time.

It was all done by you, there will be banners going to Denglai?
So next time he went directly to the porridge cooker and asked them, who told you to do this?

The porridge cook said directly, we were ordered by the Chief Secretary of Shandong to cook porridge to help the victims, and the grain and rice were supported by the local gentry.

Xia Shangzhen thought to himself, before the official came, he had already done disaster relief, right?No wonder no one cares about the civil and military affairs of the prefectures and prefectures in Shandong.

He asked again, who is the chief secretary of Shandong now?
Said to the other side, I didn't know, we are just little people, and we follow orders.

At this time, there are people wearing fast clothes coming over, what are you chattering about, drink the porridge, and leave if you don't drink, don't block the way of the victims.

These were originally local policemen, and they all took Ding Yi's money, and they were paid two cents a day for working very hard.

At first, Ding Yi only gave one point, but now that Ding Yi has more money, it has increased from one point to two points. Even if the government servants of various prefectures skipped work and quit their work, they would come to help.

Now Ding Yi is adding more officials in various counties and counties. These former arresters have already done this specifically. They don't need to go back to the yamen, and the salary from the original yamen will still be given to them. Of course they are happy.

Xia Shangyi's subordinates wanted to reprimand the arrester, but Xia Shangyi held out his hand to refuse, turned around and left, knowing that he could not find the answer here, he had to go to Denglai.

At this time, he found that after the drainage along the way, the closer he was to Denglai, the more refugees there were. He also encountered a group of refugees on the road. They were originally from Shandong. They were the people of Shanxian County near Henan. Unable to survive, he decided to try his luck in Denglei.

In the past few years, Ding Yi's people have been draining people on the border between Shandong and Henan. The people here know that life in Denglai, Shandong is very good, so now they have lost their harvest and can't survive. Didn't they rise up to rebel the first time? , but to Dunley.

On April [-]rd, after Xia Shangji entered Changqing County with his three relatives, he suddenly turned east and headed for Tai'an.

He planned to go directly to Denglai instead of Jinan.

Not long after walking, a follower ran over behind him and said in a low voice, "My lord, I feel that someone is following us secretly?"

"?" Xia Shangzhen had a question mark on his face, who will follow us?He looked back.

This is an official road, and there are many refugees, so he didn't see anything, so he personally signaled to walk slowly and walk with the refugees.

Xia Shangji and the others had horses, but the refugees did not have horses, so it was impossible to go with them, and the refugees would often gather around to ask for food.

Xia Shangji still wanted to enter Denglai quickly, so he ordered to hurry up and get rid of the people behind him.

They went faster and faster, and after a while, they left the refugees and accelerated towards Tai'an.

At this moment, a lot of hoofbeats suddenly came from behind.

The expressions of the three of them changed drastically.

Looking back, a group of bandit soldiers masked in black scarves swept down like a strong wind.

"Run, my lord." My followers screamed.

But there were more horses behind them than them, and they were better than them, and their riding skills were even more exquisite, so they caught up in a while.

The entourage drew their swords and shouted: "This is Xia Shang, the new Shandong chief envoy, Mr. Xia, please don't mess around, if you have any needs, you can ask the court—"

Before he finished speaking, he saw the opposite party pick up the gun.

"Put down the knife quickly." Xia Shangxi said anxiously.

Several people were arrested and covered their faces with black cloths, so they couldn't see clearly.

Then in a daze, I walked and stopped all the way, and I could only untie the cloth every day when it was dark and when I was eating, and I would find myself either in the house or in an unknown place.

I don't know how long it took, when Xia Shangzhen lifted the veil, he saw Zhao Guangzhang in the room, and the two of them looked at each other. They lived here for about a month, and saw Shao Jiechun again.

The three were dumbfounded.

Zhao Guangzhang and Shao Jiechun brought their family members here, and they all live here, eating and drinking well every day.

They repeatedly asked the people outside, who are you, and how long will we be locked up, and the other party would always reply coldly, don't push me, if you push me again, I will cut you off.

The three of them were frightened and did not dare to speak out.

At this time Liu Yuan hadn't arrived in Jinan yet, the three of them had nothing to do, they just moved to another place to live.

One person was out of luck. Zhao Baihe, the new Commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Command, set out from the capital with great loyalty. He walked from Tianjin (at that time the commander-in-chief was Ma Jian, and Shen Shikui had not yet arrived), crossed Tianjin to Jinghe, and walked along the Weihe left, and stayed at Fengxinyi, which had been cut down that night. Just as he was about to leave the next day, he encountered a wave of bandit soldiers.

Zhao Baihe led a team of soldiers and horses, there were more than 100 people, but there were more than 200 people on the opposite side, and they came up with firecrackers. More than 200 people blocked them, raised the blunderbuss, bang bang bang, and beat them in a row. Immediately collapsed and surrendered.

Zhao Baihe was frightened and frightened, and immediately wanted to buy his life with money.

The other party took the money and looked at him coldly: "Zhao Qianhu, Mr. Ding asked me to say hello to you for him. You ran so fast back then."

Zhao Baihe hissed, gasped.

The next moment, he wanted to cry: "Back then, I also obeyed orders."

"Puchi..." Someone chopped it down with a knife: "That's right, we also obey orders."

In July, Liu Yuan and Zhang Qidong went to Jinan and began to resettle the refugees and count the houses.

Jinan was the same as Dengzhou back then, even worse than Dengzhou. Officials and wealthy households were almost wiped out, because the Qing soldiers took the lead in purging officials and wealthy households in order to rob food and silver.

Now there are ten houses and nine empty houses in the city, and the houses and farmland are all empty there.

Liu Yuan brought a thousand officials from Dengzhou, and first prepared to count the number of acres of fields and the unoccupied houses in the city.

During the inventory, it was found that someone had already rushed ahead of them, occupying fertile land and shops and houses.

After the Qing soldiers retreated in February, Chang Hui was here to organize and clean up the corpses and the environment.

The surviving people in the city, the country gentry and officials are all occupying fertile land, shops and houses.

Originally, the young ones became more fields, and the ones with few houses became many houses. Chang Hui even commanded Zhao Baihe to occupy several shops for the newcomer, waiting to flatter Shangguan.

Some ordinary people see that their neighbors are all dead, and even occupy their neighbors' houses and shops.

(End of this chapter)