Lu Ming

Chapter 283 Longyan Battle ([-])

After the main body of the boiler was carried back, the accessories delivered by boats in the past few days came in handy.Then within two days, thick smoke billowed from the backyard of Tianhou Palace.

With this big gimmick, there are suddenly more people carrying chickens, ducks, meat and eggs to sell in Tianhou Temple. Everyone wants to go to the backyard to see if the big iron stove with black smoke is cooking for children.

So Ding Liqiu hurriedly ordered the backyard to be isolated separately, no matter who came, they could get a chance to visit, and they could also drink a bowl of hot tea from the boiler for free—unexpectedly, this move won great favor among the locals appreciation.

At the same time, small boats transported a large number of "supervisors" from downstream.These people are all used to doing engineering work in Dayuan. As soon as they came, they held whips and short sticks, pencils in their ears, and work booklets under their armpits. Migrant workers build the pier.

A new trade also spread among the crowd: anyone who can carry a basket of charcoal can use the charcoal to go to the wharf in exchange for salt rice or silver.

Most of the people don't believe it, these people who have been frightened by the government don't believe that there is a pie in the sky.However, under the pressure of a difficult life, there are always a few people who are willing to eat crabs once.

So, a wrinkled old farmer came from twelve miles away from the county seat. He bowed his waist and carried a basket of charcoal dug from the Heipi ditch behind the village.Then, under the watchful eyes of many people eating melons, he exchanged for a wooden spoon of white salt — people in mountainous areas usually eat yellow and black salt sand.

Sometimes it doesn't cost a thousand dollars to buy a horse bone, a spoonful of salt is enough.

From this day on, a continuous stream of "carbon workers" appeared, and there were even women and children in the team.

Things are always changing.When several large clan families near the coal production area figured out the situation, they sent people to seal the place overnight. Some began to set up cards to collect taxes.

The snow-white rice and salt grains just disappeared?Can the dark-skinned mountain people bear it?As a result, several large-scale fights quickly broke out around the coal mining rights that were worthless a few days ago, killing [-] to [-] people and countless casualties.

Such a rapid evolution left Magistrate Yu da dumbfounded—in fact, he hadn't even figured out the cause, effect, and subsequent impact of the "salt for coal" incident, and the matter developed to this point in the end.

Master Yu was inexplicably agitated.

There are too many things that cannot be dealt with these days.This group of short-haired people kept making troubles. The large iron furnace could be moved to live in the barracks, and the salt could be exchanged for coal for repairing the pier. All these made him overwhelmed, who was used to the slow pace of the Middle Ages.

Master Yu now feels that things are a little out of control.

So when Ding Liqiu came to ask the county government to send out manpower to suppress the civil unrest together with the Red Spear Battalion, County Magistrate Yu was quite displeased: You guys did this, and now you want me to wipe my ass?
In the end, under Ding Liqiu's rhetoric, Master Yu reluctantly agreed, but there were still three rules: the yamen servants are only responsible for maintaining order, not responsible for opening the film, and there must be benefits afterwards.
Early the next morning, the mighty army set off.The team included not only the main force of the Red Spear Battalion, but also hundreds of yamen servants, as well as several businessmen headed by Dong Daxing and their entourage.

The time to show strength came soon: in front of a mine, the 200-member Red Gun Battalion confronted nearly 800 indigenous people.The yamen servants and businessmen ran to a safe place in the distance early to watch the show.

The play is very beautiful.

160 soldiers with red and white wooden spears first formed a square formation and slowly approached.When the two sides approached to a distance of 20 meters, the pikemen were all kneeling and shooting under the command of the electric horn, and then the 40 bird gunners in the center of the phalanx fired 4 rows of bursts.

Although the Spanish phalanx produced by many cosplayers is not an anti-dog, it is enough to deal with these clan forces that can only fight with weapons.

Forty rounds of blunderbuss knocked over more than 40 people on the spot, followed by a charge of spears - under the pressure of the slowly pressing queue in the same dress and at the same pace, the aborigines began to retreat hastily without any surprise.

The next moment, two US-style shock grenades were thrown out of the phalanx by someone at a very high altitude, and then the aborigines collapsed. With the two grenades as the center of the circle, densely packed earthquakes knocked down a large group of mountain people. Many of them were covering their ears, drooling, and were shaken like idiots playing walking corpses.

The collapsed team was the best solution, and the soldiers of the Red Gun Battalion began to knock down all the natives who fell behind with the backs of their knives and guns.

The next step is to attack the tulou battle.

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, millions of well-dressed gentry started from the Central Plains and took the first step to move south due to the chaos of war.During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were several large-scale southward migrations, into southern Jiangxi, eastern Jiangxi, and western and northern Fujian.

The Changting area to the north of Longyan is also known as the "Hakka capital" of Fujian. The ancestors moved south from here, including Longyan, Sanming, Zhangzhou and other places, which are important starting points and important gathering places for the formation of the Hakka ethnic group.

At this point in the 17th century, more than 80% of the local aborigines in Longyan were Hakkas.And what is the most famous Hakka left to later generations: Hakka Tulou.

The Hakka Tulou listed on the World Heritage List, the lower floor is made of rammed clay and sandstone, and the upper floor is a plywood wooden house.

These tulou are usually huge concentric circles and squares.A so-called tulou is actually a small fortified city with a strong defensive function, in which dozens of households and hundreds of people of the same clan live.

The landmarks of a large clan in southwestern Fujian are usually earth buildings.Three to five, seven or eight perfectly round earth buildings are gathered in the mountains, looking from a distance like a bunch of alien flying saucers. The symbol of Hakka culture.

The next step for the Red Gun Battalion to deal with is the nearby Chen Family Tulou Group.

Tulou, which was very effective against bandits in the past, is useless against a certain army.Before the young men who fled back to the tulou organized an effective defense. In fact, those stone and gray bottles could not be called effective, and the attack here began.

The simple and effective attack is divided into two steps: the first step is to use the bird gun made by industrial machine tools to suppress the wall, and the second step is to charge the blaster.

Back then, so many machine guns + rifles could not stop the assault of the local Communist blasters, let alone the natives in the 17th century.

Only a few of the people who were huddled behind the wall saw the figure rushing over. The two gray bottles thrown out in a hurry were like melon rinds thrown from the partition wall, and they were useless except to scare people.

The next moment, the wooden gate of the village was torn apart by explosives, and when officers and soldiers in short coats rushed into the earth building, the Chen family had no choice but to surrender.

This Tulou battle was the first battle of a company of soldiers in Ming mainland.

Although the equipment has been restrained, the level of organization is much higher than that of the indigenous officers and soldiers, and they still take down the opponent like melons and vegetables.

The Chen family thought that a catastrophe was imminent.

After the first earthen building that gathered the young and strong of the whole clan was breached, the whole clan was in fact a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Everyone knows that the reason why the tyrants can compete with the bandits and the government is because of the tortoises who gather together.

Today, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the Chen family was not only defeated by officers and soldiers far less than their own in the field, but even the hardest fortress was easily breached.

This seemingly simple way of breaking the city, but it contains a strong high-tech, not only completely wiped out the Chen family's will to resist, but also surprised the melon-eating crowd watching the battle-some people were surprised with a smile on their faces. His expression became cloudy and uncertain.

Then it was time for the post-war trial.

To everyone's surprise, the high-spirited officers and soldiers not only did not wantonly ravage and loot Chenjiazhai, but instead summoned people from various forces to the public house in the middle of the earth building, and Ding Liqiu Ding Master came forward and solemnly announced a piece of good news: Heipigou Mining Co., Ltd. was established from now on!

The mining company is composed of the following shareholders: the cross-country party responsible for purchasing products and investing in technology and machinery, the county businessman responsible for providing start-up capital and management, and the Chen family and several nearby clans responsible for providing manpower.

The agreement was quickly signed.

The merchants headed by Dong Daxing had been prepared long ago, but the Chen family of local snakes had already lost their bargaining power-dozens of young corpses and dilapidated gates made the patriarch extremely sober. Everyone knows how to choose.

The cold and embarrassing listing ceremony of the mining company was completed in a pool of bayonets and blood.

After that, there is the liquidation procedure: the officers and soldiers are not dispatched for nothing. If the Chen family is not punished, wouldn't everyone be able to violently resist the law?

Therefore, the Chen family's [-] strong men were "confiscated" as punishment.These people will work at the dock site in the county town for three months, and the cross-travelers will only pay for food, and will not be paid.

However, something that people don't like in time travel does not mean that others don't like it——Wang Haogu, the master Wang Haogu, who came forward to evaluate the action on behalf of the county magistrate, stepped forward in time.

After Master Wang jumped out, he immediately pointed out from a strategic position: First, the Chen family owed the government taxes over the years, and it is time to take this opportunity to clear up.

Second, since this newly-opened commercial firm wants to run a mine, it needs to go to the county government to buy an official certificate, and in the future it will have to levy taxes-in fact, most of the coal mines are located on barren official land, and the newly established company buys The title deed should also be.

The Chen family on the side wanted to say something about MMP: So they were waiting here.

However, people are knives and I am fish, and it is useless to understand.This time the Chen family suffered a big defeat: After an imaginary fight with incompetent officers and soldiers, the Chen family not only lost dozens of young men, but also had hundreds of wounded and lost hundreds of loads of grain and rice. , Not to mention a large sum of money, but someone forcibly took away a hundred of them
The tragedy of the severely injured Chen family spread to all nearby forces overnight.

(End of this chapter)