Governor please stay

There is an old saying called "everything is impermanent", which means that everything in the world is constantly changing, and nothing is eternal.

For example, the climate in Guangzhou has been hot and humid since ancient times, and it is normal for there to be no snow in winter.However, this winter, before Liu Yishou finished building the road in Dayuling, it snowed heavily.

It even snowed in the Guangzhou area, which really shocked everyone.

Since ancient times, Dayuling has had a wonderful scene: in winter, the north of the mountain road is covered with snow, just like the northern country; the south of the mountain road is lush and green, just like the southern country.

It is common knowledge that the snow does not pass through Shaoguan, and the old people who are still alive in the south of Dayuling Mountain have never seen snowfall in their lifetime.

This winter has been an eye-opener.

Snowfall is not an earth-shattering event, but the rumors caused by snowfall cannot be taken lightly.

The snow scene that is different from previous years makes it easy for locals to think that something unusual will happen this winter!

Gives a great psychological hint.

As all parts of Guangzhou were covered with snow, rumors from unknown sources spread from north to south like a plague, making people in Guangzhou panic.

I don't know who said that when it snows in Guangzhou, something big will happen.Rumor has it that soldiers and horses that became the imperial court will cross Shaoguan, covering the entire Guangzhou area like this white snow!

Panyu and neighboring counties are about to change owners again!

Many times, the exhausted camel is only missing the last straw, and it will fall overwhelmed.The heavy snow in winter became the last straw that crushed Chen Baxian.

Soon after the snow fell, Shaoguan, which is the closest to Dayuling, was the first to turn against the water!
Hou Andu went into battle shirtless, with a stack of willow sticks tied behind his back. Under the escort of his own soldiers, he walked through the Dayuling Ancient Road, which had been almost repaired and was about to be completed, and came to the city of King Wu to "plead guilty" on behalf of all Shaoguan. The defenders asked Liu Yishou, the king of Wu, to surrender, in order to obtain the court's forgiveness and a lenient punishment.

Liu Yishou accepted Hou Andu's request to surrender, and ordered him to lead the Shaoguan defenders as the vanguard, open the way ahead, and attack Guangzhou all the way south!
Liu Yishou himself urged the peasants conscripted from Nankang County to repair the Dayuling Ancient Road as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered Yang Zhong to take over Shaoguan and occupy the northern gate of Guangzhou!To see the effect!
To put it bluntly, let Hou Andu go to the front to explore the way, and try the attitude of the local tyrants in Guangzhou!

Chen Baxian is not a native of Guangzhou. Before he was able to settle down and take root in Guangzhou, he relied on winning over local tyrants and giving away a lot of benefits.In addition, he is very good at fighting and wins over people's hearts, so he can use both grace and power to subdue the locals in Guangzhou for his use.

Now that the foundation of all this no longer exists, with Hou Andu's switch to Liu Yishou as a signal, the local tyrants in Guangzhou changed their banners one after another, drove away the officials sent by Chen Baxian to manage the place, and announced one after another to draw a clear line with them!

When Chen Ba first came, he was full of ambition, but now his cronies are driven away, how embarrassing they are!

For a while, Chen Baxian, who was in charge of Panyu City, was besieged on all sides, and the territory he could govern was greatly reduced. He could only control Panyu City and Suining in the northeast, and his military strength had shrunk to the extreme.

As for those local tyrants who rebelled against him, as long as they didn't provoke him, Chen Baxian took an attitude of ignoring them all.But for those teams who dared to come to the gate of Panyu to provoke, his reaction was surprisingly consistent: lead the troops to attack quickly, and directly beat them to death!

Just when everyone was predicting how Chen Baxian would be trapped to death in Panyu City, and finally ended disastrously, it was the first day of the first lunar month. Chen Baxian took hundreds of soldiers from his hometown and went eastward on several sea boats unexpectedly. Whereabouts, never returned to Panyu.

With his departure, all the dragons in Panyu were in chaos without a leader!
Those local officials who had been abandoned by him hurriedly sent someone to contact Liu Yishou, informed of the sudden situation, and asked the court to surrender.

Five days later, Liu Yishou personally led the imperial court's anti-rebellion army into Panyu City, and the rebellion in Guangzhou was quelled unexpectedly.

However, although Chen Baxian left, the imperial court's liquidation and disposal of the local tyrants in Guangzhou had only just begun.

In the past two years in the Guangzhou area, demons danced wildly, Chen Baxian, the Xiao clan, and the governors who were canonized in the Xiao Yan era (such as Li Qianshi), etc., were messing around here.The local tyrants also adopt the strategy of ignoring the wall, standing in teams everywhere, connecting horizontally and vertically, and working together.

Now that the imperial court's anti-insurgency army is here, could it be that Liu Yishou will put down the board that was raised high if these people say "it has nothing to do with me"?
Countering the rebellion was not just about entertaining guests. How to deal with the local tyrants in Guangzhou became the primary issue before Liu Yishou, and it was also the issue that the locals were most concerned about.

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"The ethnic groups in Guangzhou are not as simple as you think. The Hakka groups centered on Shaoguan and Shixing County, the Guangfu ethnic groups centered on Panyu, and the Chaoshan ethnic groups centered on Ngee'an and Chaoyang are not the same group at all. people.

The situation here is completely different from the situation in the Central Plains, so the handling methods cannot be handled roughly like we did in Jiankang and Lianghuai. "

In the signing room at the head of Panyu city, Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei without raising his head while checking the account books in the treasury.

"My lord, what are you talking about!"

Wang Wei was at a loss when he heard it, and he didn't understand why.Liu Yishou's information comes from his previous life, which is relatively advanced. Although the above three ethnic groups have formed their own factions, they are all in the process of forming, and they are just taking shape.

Obviously, the restoration of the Dayuling Ancient Road will greatly affect the composition of various ethnic groups in Guangzhou. The possible impact in the future is completely unpredictable.

"The war between the two Jin Dynasties, Yongjia's southward crossing, many surnames in the Central Plains came to Guangzhou from the ancient Dayuling Road, and were classified as customers by the imperial court, also called Hakkas, and most of them lived near Shaoguan.

Many Cantonese people are the Lingnan ethnic group formed after the Chu people who followed the Great Qin Dynasty to the south and lived together with the local slang.

The last so-called Chaoshan ethnic group is the Warring States Period, when the Yue State was destroyed and the Yue ethnic group migrated southward on a large scale.Part of the descendants of King Goujian of Yue came to the Jiulongjiang River and the area east of Guangzhou, where they merged with the local Fujianese and barbarians to form a new ethnic group.

However, most of them are barren land with a small population, so they did not participate in the rebellion in Guangzhou at all. It was Yu Wentai who dealt with those people before, and Chen Baxian couldn't control them.

If anyone among them is a barbarian, then it can only be said that none of them are barbarians, they are all members of my Han family.But to deal with them, you can't just grab the beard and eyebrows. "

Liu Yishou said like a thousand treasures.

Hearing this, Wang Wei was amazed.

Who is Chen Baxian here? He is an outsider!Including Liu Yishou, officials at all levels appointed by the imperial court are all officials in other places and are "outsiders".

However, the local ethnic groups in Guangzhou are not considered "one of our own" among themselves, and they are also very xenophobic to each other. The reasons for this are very complicated and have a long history.

The local atmosphere here is very strong, which is completely different from the situation around Jiankang, where the rich and powerful change every few decades, and they don't care whether you are a local or not.

"My lord, the situation in Guangzhou is different from what my subordinates thought before. I thought this place should be a barren land with few people. The Dingkou account books of the Jin Dynasty show that there should be only about [-] households here..."

Wang Wei said with a depressed face.

Yongjia's south crossing, I don't know how many people from the Central Plains went south, and the Guangzhou area is much more stable than the Central Plains.The old almanac of the Jin Dynasty has been seriously out of touch with the current situation in Guangzhou.

Now in the Guangzhou area, counting all ethnic groups, let alone 50 households, I am afraid that 20 households is a little less!There are more than [-] households under Mrs. Xian's banner!
It's no wonder that Chen Baxian fled in despair. Without the support of the imperial court, the strength in his hands could not level the local ethnic group at all!If there is any disturbance, it is easy to capsize.

"My lord, how do we deal with the wealthy chieftains here in Guangzhou?"

Wang Wei discovered that Liu Yishou's thinking on the governance of the Guangzhou area was completely different from his own, so he simply didn't mention what he thought.

"To be honest, we can't do anything to them, but the imperial court can strengthen its control over Panyu, the Beijiang River Basin, and the middle and lower reaches of the Dongjiang River. The imperial court will not deal with these powerful chieftains, but will re-divide the living areas of the powerful chieftains there and place them in other places. The place.

Some sites should be released elsewhere for those people to settle. This is [-] boards each, as punishment for their thieves!
These tyrants who have to migrate to new places will definitely have conflicts with the aborigines in the new place. When the time comes, the imperial court will fight while fighting, and support whoever is weak, and check and balance each other.If you want to use conventional methods to deal with these people, such as killing people and standing up, everyone in Guangzhou will feel insecure.

When we have the strength to manage Guangzhou, it will not be too late to start intensive cultivation and layout.

After the restoration of the Dayuling Ancient Road, the trade route from Jiankang to Guangzhou and the route of population migration have been opened up.Prioritize ensuring that this channel is under our control, and then talk about other things.In the future, there will be plenty of time to manage Guangzhou, and there is no need to do everything in one go. "

Liu Yishou said with a sigh.

He also wanted to do it once and for all, but the experience and lessons from his previous life told him that if he handled it that way, he would get nothing.

Don't worry about the few but the unevenness. If the imperial court "slightly punishes" all the local tyrants in Guangzhou, then in order to deal with the upcoming fighting and conflicts, they will have to compromise with the imperial court in exchange for more support.Hitting the board is also a kind of "alternative fairness".

After all, whoever wants to blow up his hair, other people can cooperate with the court, and it will be clear at a glance who is unlucky.

This is better than simply killing people and standing up!
At this time, whether it is the Cantonese ethnic group that is being formed in the Guangzhou area, or the Hakka or even the Chaoshan ethnic group, they are all brave and ruthless people, but there are many cunning philistines who have milk and are mothers.

Even within the same big clan, it is not uncommon for the big clan to oppress the small clan, the big house to oppress the small house, and the strong branch to oppress the weak branch.The trick of killing chickens to scare monkeys doesn't work here at all.

Of course, if Chen Ba could be caught first and used his sacrificial flag to warn the powerful local clans, it might still have some effect.

"I'll write down the main points of dealing with the affairs in Guangzhou. You sit in Panyu City and ask Yang Zhong to cooperate with you in suppressing dissatisfaction. When the time comes, Hou An will do all the dirty work.

Remember, just grasp the main body, don't ask about the minutiae.Fighting in the countryside or something, if the scale is small, let them go.As long as the route between Dayuling and Panyu is smooth, and the sea route is also smooth, that's fine, and you can consider the rest.

Let me wrong you to be the governor of Guangzhou. "

Liu Yishou patted Wang Wei on the shoulder and said.

"My lord, please rest assured that this trivial matter can still be done well by the subordinates."

Wang Wei bowed his hands and saluted.

The intricate relationship between the various ethnic groups in the Guangzhou area, as well as their different origins, make it impossible for them to be twisted together without external support.Liu Yishou took a fancy to this point, and then used the contradiction in it to sideline the situation.

"My lord, I have a question that I don't understand very well, please ask my lord to clarify."

Wang Wei folded his sleeves and bowed deeply and asked.

"Go ahead, I'm listening."

Liu Yishou continued to look down at the account book in his hand, and he saw many unusual things in it.At this time, in the Panyu area, the agricultural development was very average, but the tax revenue was frighteningly high.Many of them are collected from business taxes at the port.

A lot of pearls, ivory, rhino horn, shellfish, etc. were imported here, and then resold to Jiankang through other channels, in exchange for a lot of money!

If it wasn't for this, Liu Yishou would not have adopted the strategy he just mentioned to Wang Wei in the Guangzhou area.If the trade routes were interrupted due to turmoil, the losses would be huge.

In his previous life, Chen Baxian might have been a prominent figure in history, but in this life he is just a small character, at least here in Guangzhou, his weight is not important, and he can't affect anything.Liu Yishou's focus is on a more profound level.

"My lord, it's the first time you've come to Guangzhou. How do you know so much about the people in this place?

Wang Wei asked with some doubts.

He looked at the faintly visible snowflakes outside the door, and it was strange to say that Guangzhou has been humid and hot all year round, so this year it will snow and fall endlessly, which is really unbelievable.

"These are useless, don't worry about them, hahahaha!"

Liu Yishou laughed casually and said, he can't tell Wang Wei about the history of the Cantonese and Hakka casualties in the late Qing Dynasty with millions of casualties, right?This protracted 13-year struggle was extremely tragic because of the corruption and inaction of the late Qing government.

In Guangdong, as long as it is a feudal society and the fundamentals of the folk ethnic groups have not changed substantially, there will inevitably be some local conditions and customs that are "adapted to local conditions".

Although the times are different, the law of the change of people's hearts is the same.Liu Yishou couldn't explain these things to Wang Wei, let alone tell Wang Wei that Chen Baxian was also a failed manager who managed Guangdong without any rules!
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On the sea east of Ngee An County (Shantou), several seagoing ships were marching against the strong wind.But their boat is not big enough, and the sea wind this winter is particularly strong, they have seriously deviated from the course, and they can even see land in the west!

The original route was supposed to be away from the mainland and heading northeast.

Chen Baxian stood on the bow of the ship when a big wave hit him, and his whole body was soaked in the bitterly cold sea water.However, before he came back to his senses, Chen Baxian discovered in horror that the boat on his right had disappeared into the waves, and seemed to have capsized and sunk!
"General Chen! Let's dock, if this continues, the boat will capsize!"

The sailor who controlled the sail yelled at Chen Baxian who was not far away from him.

At this time, Guangzhou refers to Greater Guangzhou, which is larger than the current Guangdong Province.