Daming Yinghua

Chapter 189 Settle in Chongming Island

"Master, that blue-robed civil servant is called Huang Zunsu. He was the one who came up with the idea with the servant's second uncle. He said that if he wanted to save me from being imprisoned, he would fool around with him. The second uncle wished to send me away. I was driven farther away, so I was sent to Liaodong to be a concubine for that wretched old man Qiao Yiqi."

Outside Wusong Wharf, in front of an unremarkable bullock cart beside the reeds, Han Xiying said bitterly.

The person she calls "Master" is also a woman in her thirties, with a biscuit face, single eyelids, and a fairly well-proportioned facial features, except that her teeth are a little protruding, and her cheekbones to her jaw are covered with thick powder. Covered up a lot of pits.

The woman's name is Tong Xiyu, who is the younger sister of Tong Yangxing, the owner of the Tongjia Village in Fushun, Liaodong. She married the Tong family's business partner in Shandong in her early years.She didn't want the man to die early, Tong Xiyu didn't have a child, and because of her savage temperament, she didn't want to be seen by her husband's family, so she simply turned her head and went back to her old nest in the northeast, Tongjiazhuang, to help Tong Yangxing secretly contact Houjin.

Two years ago, the Tartars were defeated in Fushun. At first, they thought that Nurhachi would definitely be able to occupy Tong Yangxing in Fushun. Fearing that their connection to the chieftain would be revealed, they set fire to Zhuangzi and took dozens of people to Nurhachi.

Nurhachi was quite fond of Tong Yangxing, a traitor family who had traveled around the Ming Dynasty to do business. Without saying a word, he gave one of his granddaughters to Tong Yangxing as his wife, and gave Tong Xiyu the land and slaves.

Last year, Nurhachi, who had recovered a bit, did not dare to attack Fushun, which had been guarded by Zou Chuxian, so he went north to attack the Yehe tribe, trying to unify the entire Northeast Jurchen.

No miracle happened to the Yehe tribe in this time and space, and they were wiped out by Nurhachi in one fell swoop.Buyangu, the leader of the Yehe tribe, surrendered after receiving Nurhachi's promise not to kill, but he was still killed by the untrustworthy old chief.

The Hou Jin army of the victorious squad, with arrogance again, detoured a Ming army fort near Kaiyuan, and suddenly launched a night attack. They took advantage of it and killed the guerrilla general Qiao Yiqi who passed through Kaiyuan and was resting in the fort. They also snatched away several female family members of the Qiao family, including Han Xiying.

Half of Han Xiying's face was burned in the flames of war, and she didn't speak Manchu like the women of Yehe tribe. When Nurhachi returned to the royal city and distributed the spoils and women, let alone the banner owners, even Niu Lu'ezhen couldn't see it. fuck her.

Tong Xiyu, who was about to be rewarded with a coat to make a reproductive tool, heard her crying and shouting in Chinese, and asked questions out of curiosity, so she begged Houjin to be a domestic servant.

In Shura Hell, Han Xiying met a Han woman who didn't look like a devil. She suddenly turned from extreme fear to extreme dependence. She confessed her origin to Tong Xiyu and pan, and expressed her hatred for the Songjiang family and a woman named Zheng Haizhu.

From time to time, the Jurchen spies from the frontier came to inquire one after another. Back then, the Leigong iron lump at the head of Fushun City was transported from Songjiang, and it was heard that the Ming Dynasty smelted this Vulcan killer there.The scheming Tong Yangxing brother and sister immediately presented a bold strategy to Nurhachi. Tong Xiyu took his servant who could speak Shandong dialect to Songjiang, and asked the servant to pretend to be a recruited laborer and secretly learn the skill of making firearms.Han Xiying, who is beyond recognition and unrecognizable, can serve as a guide who is familiar with Songjiang's local conditions, and can teach spies to understand Songjiang dialect along the way.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived in Songjiang, Tong and Han discovered that Zheng Haizhu owned the Artillery Factory.

Neither Nurhachi nor the Tong family knew that Zheng Haizhu had played such a strategic role in the defense of Fushun, but Tong Xiyu still ignited a fire of hatred towards this woman.

Tong Xiyu firmly believed that if this woman hadn't bought cannons and firecrackers to the north, Jianzhou Jinlu would have been able to defeat Fushun even without Li Yongfang's internal support, and their old Tong family would not have to leave Tongjiazhuang in a hurry. many acres as a reward.

At this moment, Tong Xiyu watched the several sand boats with bamboo sails raised slowly away from the river, turned her head to stare at Han Xiying and said, "The bitch surnamed Zheng seems to be doing well in your hometown, even Songjiang Mansion The second master, all came to see her off."

Han Xiying echoed: "Master is right. This woman is attracted by her savage demeanor to attract these men who have never seen the world and obey her orders. However, from the beginning, she didn't think about it. She joined our Han family because she was my second uncle's aunt. The master saw Huang Zunsu, maybe he had thought about accepting her at the beginning, so she didn't like her. What she wants is probably this kind of wind-shattering Get excited."

Tong Xiyu smiled and said: "Ah Ying, master, I don't think I can be a Fujin for the Baylors. Now I am so comfortable, inside and outside the room, only men listen to me, and I don't listen to men."

Han Xiying, the former daughter of the Songjiang family, is now used to Tong Xiyu's outspokenness and outspokenness.The man in and out of the room that Tong Xiyu mentioned was Li Desheng, the leader of her family from Shandong. I am afraid that her man became her concubine before he died of illness. On the certificate, it was Li Desheng who came forward to leave his name.

Han Xiying possessed herself to flatter her: "The master is naturally much smarter than the one surnamed Zheng."

Tong Xiyu said sadly: "She loves to show off so much, we will drag her to Hetuala after we finish the matter, and have a good taste of the northwestern wind in Liaodong."

"What the master said is, with the master's ability, what's so difficult about killing her in Songjiang? But it's too cheap for her."

Tong Xiyu supported Han Xiying's hand, got into the bullock cart, faced Han Xiying who was lowering her head to straighten her skirt, and said softly, "Do you want to visit your mother's grave? It will be clear soon."

"Thank you, master. The slave will not go. I'm afraid of side effects, and I don't want to be distracted."

"Okay, I've seen it for a long time, you are a kind girl. You should think of a way as soon as possible, so that Li Desheng and his men can go to the artillery factory."

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The sandboat traveled up the misty Yangtze River for two hours, and anchored at the southern end of Dongsha Island where the Chongming County Government is located.

Zheng Haizhu's name has been known to Zhezhi officials in recent years, and now she wears the imperial order of "Mrs. Anyuan".

"Madame Zheng," the county magistrate bowed his hands politely, "I told my nephew earlier when he came to investigate and test the cannon factory that the number of tenants brought by the madam is around 150. The national precedent is [-] mu per household, but Our Chongming and Taicang Songjiang are not comparable, many of them are sandbanks and salt fields, and the sand fields can’t be divided too much, Madam, let’s give each household [-] mu of cultivated land first, how about it?”

Zheng Haizhu hastily expressed his thanks.As Mrs. Chiming, the tenants in the village do not have to pay taxes, and each household has [-] acres of mature land. It is not a big problem to initially support these small households.

He winks at Wu Bangde again.

Wu Bangde understood it, stepped forward and respectfully said to the magistrate: "Second Master, we brought some soil instruments from the north, please send a subordinate to lead the grass people."

The county magistrate glanced at the big mules coming with the boat, and pretended to be annoyed: "Madam Zheng is too polite."

So he ordered two servants to come over, and said: "Go to the Grand Master's Mansion first."

Wu Bangde drove the mules and followed them. The county magistrate personally led the way and led Zheng Haizhu and the Liao people for two miles to a thatched hut.

"Madam Zheng, please look here. This is where the sandbank has just grown into a sandfield in recent years. There is a pond between the fields, but it is no longer salty water, and geese and ducks can be raised. Half a mile to the east, there is a small building built by Lord Jiajing. The pier is still usable. Later, I will send a few fishermen over to teach the hoarders to go fishing.”

Zheng Haizhu politely pointed to the west, and said joyfully: "That small slope is also very good for herding sheep. I really appreciate the care of the Elder Master and the Second Master!"

Behind her, the faces of the Liao people who were tired and exhausted from the boats and boats also showed surprise.

They thought that when they arrived at Chongming Island, they would have to cut trees and build huts by themselves, but they didn't expect that they already had a house and farm tools in front of the door.

Suddenly, a man's cry came from the crowd.

"What's wrong with this brother?" Zheng Haizhu asked the leaders standing in the front row.

The young man was already crying and came up: "I, I saw such a good field and saw the water here so much, so I thought, if the land in my hometown is like this, parents, daughter-in-law and children will be fine. will die."

"Hey, tsk tsk," the Chongming county magistrate showed a look of impatience, and whispered to Zheng Haizhu softly, "Their family members starved to death?"

Zheng Haizhu shook his head: "I didn't starve to death, but was killed by the Tartars. When Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, abandoned the six forts outside the pass, Nurhaci took it. Many people in our Ming Dynasty have been farming there since their ancestors. They fled back. In order to raise soldiers, the Tartars forced more and more grain, and the six forts outside the pass were frequently plagued by drought, and the grain harvests failed. The Tartars thought that the Han people deliberately hid grain and refused to hand it over. The Tartars made a rule. If the Han people pay less For a bucket of grain, the grain urging officer of the Jurchen Tartars will kill a person."

The Chongming county magistrate opened his mouth when he heard the words, and was speechless for a long time.

(End of this chapter)