Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Li Sanshui, pale and dizzy, as if he was walking on clouds, staggered down from the boat, feeling as if he was in another world.

Before this trip, he had never imagined that the ocean was so big and that there was so much water in it. It took more than a month to reach the destination.

He also heard that their migration destination, Dongningwei, was on an island surrounded by sea, with even larger seas to the east and south.

This filled his heart with awe for the sea, and at the same time, he felt a little sad, thinking of his arid hometown.

If Yansui had so much water, wouldn't they be immune to drought and not have to migrate?

When he expressed this idea, he was laughed at by the sailors.

The sailors told him that sea water was not only unsuitable for irrigation, but also unsuitable for drinking.

In this sea full of water, fresh water is very precious.

If they are not sailing along the coastline, they can get supplies at any time. There are many places on the ship to store fresh water.

Li Sanshui therefore understood the difference between sea water and fresh water and asked many questions.

As a village head in charge of a hundred households, and a person that officials had ordered to be looked after, the captain and the sailors were quite polite to Li Sanshui and did not look down on his military household status.

Especially when they found out that Li Sanshui would be awarded the hereditary second-class sergeant, they were even more respectful. They knew that this person was also excellent among the military households and would become one of the grassroots officials in the future.

This kind of grassroots official was not of high rank, or even had no rank, but he had great power, especially during the pioneering period.

Given Li Sanshui's prestige among the refugees, he would most likely continue to be the head of the village. He might even become the chief of the city, assisting the officials of the garrison.

In the organization of Dongning Prefecture, a Wei was equivalent to a county, and under the Wei there was a Du. One Du had ten Baos, one Bao had ten Jias, and one Jia had ten households.

It can be said that a village head has hundreds of households under his command, which was considered a sixth-rank official in the past.

A dubaochang had thousands of households under his command, which was considered a fifth-rank official in the past.

However, the imperial court strictly controlled the ranks of officials, and the military and civilian guards were not completely managed in a militarized manner, so they changed the names based on the local Dujia system and Baojia system, calling the Hundred Households Baozhang and the Thousand Households Dubaozhang or Duzhang.

Official positions such as Qianbaihu have become additional titles and are disappearing from actual positions.

According to the plan of Huo Weihua and others, Dongning Prefecture will have four guards, from north to south, namely North Guard, Central Guard, South Guard and East Guard.

The North Guard, with Tamsui as its center, was responsible for squeezing out the Spaniards.

Zhongwei and Nanwei are divided by Bengang Port. This port was renamed Bengang Port. As the location of Dongning Port, it is usually called Dongning Port, which is far away from Penghu.

There is a Dadu Kingdom in Zhongwei, and we need to conquer them before we can fully develop it. In the future, we may establish a Dadu Tusi, which will be governed by Dongning Prefecture.

There are many chieftains under the Military and Civilian Government. Huo Weihua did not think of completely destroying the Dadu Kingdom, but he also wanted to subdue them and make them chieftains, so that they would not come out to cause trouble when the land was being reclaimed.

Therefore, Zhongwei has the strongest strength. Of the 50,000 households that moved here from Shaanxi this year, Huo Weihua plans to place 20,000 of them in Zhongwei.

The remaining 20,000 households were placed in Nanwei and 10,000 households in Beiwei. These people were used to squeeze the Dutch and Spanish from the island and drive them out.

As for Dongwei, Huo Weihua cannot take care of it now, so he can only send a few expedition teams to establish a stronghold in the east of the island.

After Li Sanshui got off the boat, he took another bath as usual and was quarantined for ten days.

After it was confirmed that there was no epidemic, he was left in Dongning Zhongwei.

Because of Song Yingsheng's care and because he was an honest farmer, Li Sanshui was not sent to the border to defend against the Dadu Kingdom, but was responsible for reclaiming land near Hong Kong.

In order to help them adapt faster, some Han Chinese who were relocated by Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong were also incorporated into the military and civilian guards by Huo Weihua.

Zheng Zhilong had nothing to say about this matter. Chen Zhongji and others were somewhat indignant, but they did not dare to voice their opposition.

After all, the two largest forces, the Zheng family and the Li family, chose to surrender to the imperial court. Even if they were dissatisfied, they could not resist.

What's more, the imperial court was quite good to them. They could choose titles and fields on Dongning Island or open up territories in Southeast Asia.

These pirate leaders have already surrendered to the imperial court. This is why Huo Weihua dared to incorporate the Han people on the island into the garrison.

It can be said that the exploration and accumulated experience of Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong on the island over the years have paved the way for the current Dongning Prefecture.

If these people had not existed, Huo Weihua, Xu Dahao and others would not have dared to ask the emperor for permission to move 50,000 households here all at once.

With the help of these Han people, Li Sanshui and other Shaanxi immigrants gradually adapted to the local water and soil. They organized people to reclaim the wasteland and plant rice the following year.

These people are very happy about Dongning Island's humid climate and the streams that exist everywhere.

Having witnessed the drought in the dog days of summer and the withering of crops, they felt that this island was a treasure trove.

Especially after the land distribution regulations came down, and each household was allocated at least 50 mu of land, they could no longer hold back their tears, and many cried out loud.

Some people were venting the pain they had along the way, while others were thinking about those who had died on the road.

Li Sanshui also thought of his deceased father-in-law and planned to bury him.

However, in Dongning Prefecture, you can't just find a random place to bury. According to the order of the Military and Civilian Office, you must be buried in the cemetery attached to the City God Temple.

So as to avoid occupying reclaimable land and causing trouble for future reclamation.

Moreover, this policy is based on the regulations of the City God's Office.

The duties that Zhu Youjian set for the City God system were to send the dead to the afterlife, send souls to the underworld for reincarnation, and manage the underworld.

Therefore, the City God Temple naturally had the responsibility of funerals, and a cemetery was set up next to the temple, modeled after Western churches and cemeteries.

Because of this, many City God Temples are not only built in the city, but also at the foot of the mountain.

A piece of forest is used as a cemetery and provided to the public.

The City God Temple can also collect some money in this process as maintenance expenses.

The current City God of Dongning Prefecture, Yu Dayou, was transferred from Quanzhou Prefecture.

At the beginning, because Yu Dayou was born in Quanzhou, Zhu Youjian planned to confer him the title of Quanzhou City God.

As long as the people of Quanzhou do not strongly oppose it, the official decree of enthronement will be issued.

The same was true for other city gods, and basically no problems occurred.

The only exception is Quanzhou, where the City God Temple is so effective in the imperial examinations that the scholars and common people are not willing to change it.

In addition, Yu Zigao did a poor job and not only did he not have the prestige of his father, he was defeated repeatedly in Fujian. Some time ago, he was also exposed for protecting his relatives Wu Chunfu and Huo Weihua and other eunuchs, and was attacked by the gentry of Quanzhou.

As a result, Yu Dayou was implicated and opposed by the people of Quanzhou to become the City God.

Zhu Youjian did not expect this to happen. After careful consideration, he finally decided to respect the opinions of the people of Quanzhou. Yu Dayou was transferred to be the God of Dongning City, and the God of Quanzhou City remained unchanged.

Yu Dayou became the only one among the Purple Pavilion heroes to be transferred to a new title.

Yu Zigao was humiliated by this incident. Huo Weihua and others felt bad about it, so they vigorously built the City God Temple in Dongning Prefecture and strictly enforced the regulations of the City God Office. They ordered all citizens not to bury their dead privately, but only in the cemetery of the City God Temple. If Li Sanshui wanted to bury his father-in-law, he had to go to the cemetery of the City God Temple.

After finding out all these things, Li Sanshui, Yang Dani, Yang Erwa and others went to the City God Temple together.

Looking at the majestic statue of the City God that looked like a general, Li Sanshui was filled with awe.

After explaining the purpose of the visit, the priest of the Yu family who presided over the City God Temple said:
"Does the layman want to be buried in a Feng Shui treasured place?"

"Or do you just want to find a place for burial?"

Li Sanshui was confused and asked:
"How do you say Feng Shui is a good place?"

"What about finding a place to bury him?"

Priest Yu looked at the sheepskin coat on him, his eyes sparkling, and said:

"It's a Feng Shui treasure land, so of course it needs to be consulted. The temple will charge some fees for the consultation."

"The geomancer will make a plan for what kind of tomb to build, and even arrange for craftsmen to help the layperson build it."

"Also, the cemetery in this Feng Shui treasure land can be reserved. As long as the lay Buddhists reserve it, all family members can be buried nearby in the future. The City God Temple will also send people to maintain it to prevent the cemetery from falling into disrepair."

"It can be said that as long as the lay Buddhist chooses a piece of Feng Shui treasure land in the Chenghuang Temple Cemetery, that piece of land will become the lay Buddhist's family cemetery."

This statement made Li Sanshui very excited, and he thought of the scattered tombs of his ancestors.

Because the cemeteries were too scattered, no one remembered some of his family's ancestral graves. After moving to Dongning, no one worshipped at all the graves.

Thinking that he was invited by Song Yingsheng and might return to his hometown in the future to move the cemetery of his ancestors there, Li Sanshui had an impulse to choose a cemetery for his family.

But looking at his pockets, he was now extremely poor, so Li Sanshui could only helplessly say:
"I don't have any money now, so I can't afford to hire a master from the temple."

"Master, please point out a piece of land and help me bury my father-in-law."

The priests in the City God Temple are not Taoists, and strictly speaking, they do not even belong to Taoism. The City God they worship belongs to the Confucian pantheon.

However, Zhu Youjian deliberately confused this point and gave them the uniforms that were commonly seen in later generations, which looked very much like Taoist robes. Therefore, priests were often called Taoists.

Priest Yu naturally knew this after training, but he did not have the time to correct it, and the City God had never asked for it.

He was more concerned about how much money the City God Temple could earn. When he heard Li Sanshui say that they couldn't even afford a geomancer, he immediately lost interest and thought:
"I thought that since he was wearing a sheepskin coat, he would have some money."

"I didn't expect that you were a poor man, but you still came to bury your father-in-law."

If it was to bury his parents, he felt that if he tried hard, he could convince Li Sanshui to pawn his coat.

But he felt that no one would go bankrupt just to bury his father-in-law.

Although Yu wanted to squeeze some money, he did not dare to violate the regulations of the City God Temple. According to the regulations on cemeteries, the City God Temple can provide paid services, but there must be free cemeteries. Even when encountering unclaimed bodies, the City God Temple must ask the forensic doctor to perform an autopsy and be responsible for the burial.

So he suppressed his displeasure and pointed in a direction:

"There's a small hill over there where you can bury your father-in-law."

“If you want to perform a ritual, it will be free this winter solstice.”

"Do you need a stone tablet or a wooden tablet? Do you want a ancestral tablet?"

When Li Sanshui heard that there was no charge for the cemetery and that there were free rituals on the winter solstice, he nodded hurriedly.

After asking about the price of the wooden tablet and the ancestral tablet, he gathered together twenty copper coins and said:
"First make a wooden stele and place a ancestral tablet at home."

Priest Yu, seemingly with a solemn expression but actually without any interest, picked up the brush and wrote the name of the deceased on a wooden tablet, and also wrote a ancestral tablet.

Li Sanshui and others took these and dug a hole to bury their father-in-law's ashes.

When burying his father-in-law, Li Sanshui looked at a family in the distance who were hiring a geomancer to look at a good feng shui site, and said to Yang Dani and Yang Erwa with envy:

"One day, I, Li Sanshui, will be able to afford a Feng Shui treasure land."

"When the time comes, I will move the graves of my parents, my eldest brother, my second brother, and my father-in-law to the Li family cemetery."

He was determined to reclaim the 801 acres of land allocated to him as soon as possible and earn enough money to buy the Feng Shui land.

There are many people like Li Sanshui. After burying their relatives and friends who died on the road, many people want to buy a family cemetery.

Driven by this motivation, many people worked enthusiastically and did not stay idle throughout the winter to cultivate the land for the next year.

These immigrants from Shaanxi gradually took root in Dongning and regarded themselves as locals.

Faced with this scene, Huo Weihua and others were happy, but Chen Zhongji sighed.

He was the first person to propose occupying Dongning and dominating the southeast. Two pirate leaders, Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, also implemented this strategy.

But unfortunately, these pirates were too weak and couldn't even occupy Dongning Island.

Now that the imperial court has arrived, all their early development efforts have been in vain.

After the arrival of military households from the imperial court, this area was completely incorporated into the imperial court system.

It can be said that the Weisuo system, which was originally suitable for immigration and border defense, became very suitable for development after adjustments.

This made Huo Weihua and others extremely proud, but at the same time they felt like a thorn in their throats towards the Dutch in Fort Zeelandia.

Zheng Zhilong and others had discussed this fortress with the Dutch governor Peter Neuze several times, and even sent troops to deter the Dutch.

But this person refused to give in and said he wanted to wait for news from Batavia.

Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu and others were angry, but the emperor said that they should not fight if they could, so they had to endure it. To avoid a major war, the immigrants' ships were threatened by the Dutch.

Huo Weihua and others did the same before, but after immigrants from Shaanxi arrived one after another, they could no longer bear it.

Huo Weihua selected 2,000 soldiers from the officers and households of the garrison, and asked a capable village chief like Li Sanshui to organize able-bodied men and lead tens of thousands of people to the southern part of the island for demonstration.

These strong men maintained good discipline during their migration. At least they walked steadily and looked very intimidating.

After seeing the huge crowd, Peter Nuys could no longer sit still.

Anyone who is not a fool knows that it is impossible to use a few hundred people to resist tens of thousands of people relying on an unbuilt fortress.

Because of this, before Huo Weihua ordered a tentative attack, he saw Peter Nuiz sending people to raise the white flag to discuss a peaceful handover.

This surprised him a little. He really didn't expect that there would be such a person.

But he was also happy not to fight, because he knew that his troops were just for show, and the elite troops from the border were not transferred at all. (End of this chapter)