Anti Qing

Chapter 103 Martial Law
Li Zijing was taken aback when he heard the words, but he was still a little surprised.

Zhang Xian was originally the head of the Ministry, but he was promoted to be a special captain due to lack of talents. He took a thousand ordinary soldiers and a hundred veterans to station in Dengzhou.

But I didn't expect that the first batch of people would be sent so soon.

Li Zijing then put down the martial arts book in his hand and walked out of the account.

"Go, go and see!"

Going north from Qianying's station in Xinchengwan, passing a relatively large nunnery, you arrive at the port.

Xinchengwan Port is a true portrayal of the busyness of Xiangyang as the throat of the five provinces. No matter day or night, ships in the port are constantly flowing.

Thousands of sails cover the sun, traveling from south to north.

It was noon, the sun was shining brightly, and the surface of the Han River was shimmering with colorful halos.

Standing on the port, Li Zijing looked into the distance, and could still vaguely see the white sails breaking against the wind and breaking with the waves.

The many ships that come into view are mostly merchant ships of various types.

These inland water transport merchant ships basically use Cangshan boats or sand boats, which are similar in size, but also in different colors.

In addition to these merchant ships, there are also a large number of small net shuttle boats and small boats cruising the river, generally only accommodating one or two people.

Such small boats are generally used by civilians.

Soon, a class boat came from afar, with the black banner of the former battalion hanging on the boat, the flag fluttered with the wind, and there were soldiers guarding the boat.

After the class boat, there were a large number of boats of different shapes, each with a black flag, and they were all boats used by the former battalion to transport refugees.

When the class boat docked, Li Zijing went up.

"See General!"

A department head was instructing his subordinates to restrain the refugees. When he saw the person coming, he immediately stepped forward and made a fist salute, and said respectfully.

Li Zijing nodded, a little puzzled.

"Last month, I led an army through Nanyang. The place was empty, and Dengzhou was not populated. How could there be nearly [-] refugees all of a sudden?"

"Where did Zhang Xian find these people?"

As he spoke, Li Zijing set his sights on these ships.

Most of the ships from Dengzhou were requisitioned from the local area, or they were temporarily built by Zhang Xian within this month, and basically they could only be used for transportation.

The only relatively strong one is the Ming Dynasty class ship captured in the moat of Dengzhou.

This kind of class boat is a kind of blessing boat, which is used for tax collection from north to south, and is now used to transport refugees, and it can accommodate 300 people.

As soon as the ship arrived, Hao Yaoqi led some soldiers to control them. They were not allowed to disembark easily, but tables were set up at the pier.

The civil servants recruited for the last expansion of the army were naturally led temporarily by military adviser Gu Junen.

These clerks only dealt with some clerical matters in the former battalion that vulgar warriors could not interfere with. Except for Gu Junen who was revered as the former battalion military adviser, the rest had no rank or official position.

In other words, everything was in a hurry, and Li Zijing was in a hurry, and he hadn't had time to consider the delineation of the civil service system.

The [-] refugees from Dengzhou will be allowed to disembark after these officials will record the names and places of origin of each of them properly.

At the port, it suddenly became very busy.

Many businessmen and local people gathered around and talked endlessly when they saw the lively movement in the front camp.

The head of the department quickly explained.

"General Zhi doesn't know something, but there are still many local people in Dengzhou!"

"This time I came to Xiangyang by water under the orders of Zhang Duwei. The first is to send out the refugees, and the second is to report the news to General Zhi."

"In the past month, tens of thousands of people have returned to Dengzhou City, and the number is increasing day by day. My preliminary estimate is that there are 3 to [-] people who have arrived in Dengzhou before departure."

"According to our inquiries, these people fled to the mountains to escape the war. I heard that I have restored the city in Dashun, and now they are returning to their hometowns one after another."

Li Zijing nodded slightly, his eyes were deep.

What happened in Dengzhou seems to be good news, which can replenish manpower, but it makes Li Zijing a little worried.

"With Dengzhou's manpower, I am afraid that it is not enough to accommodate so many refugees. This is indeed an unexpected situation."

"Zhang Xian is calm and steady, and he did a good job. It seems that I will choose him to be stationed in Dengzhou. This decision is not wrong!"

The general was overjoyed, and quickly clasped his fists and said.

"If you are a low-ranking general and a general, I will tell Zhang Duwei unchanged, but now that the situation in Dengzhou has changed, we still need to make the general's next instructions."

Li Zijing thought about it.

Originally, I thought that there were no people in Dengzhou, so I used it as an outpost to listen to Duoduo's movements in Huaiqing at any time.

Unexpectedly, the local people flocked to the banner of Dashun so much that in less than a month, tens of thousands of people returned home.

Li Zijing observed that the first batch of Zhang Xian sent back these were obviously selected, and they were all young and strong with their families.

Bringing such people back to Xiangyang can also play a constructive role in increasing the population, which is indeed much better than those who are old, weak, sick and disabled.

It seems that Zhang Xian still has some abilities.

"As for the situation in Dengzhou"

Li Zijing pondered slightly, pacing back and forth.

If Dengzhou was just an outpost with a small number of people, there wouldn't be too many problems. You just need to pay attention to the spread of sentry cavalry and collect information.

But now that there are so many people returning to the city, the problem of insufficient troops has been exposed.

No matter where, as long as there are many people, all kinds of disasters will definitely follow.

Some people really want to live a stable life, while others just eat and wait to die, or secretly engage in petty tricks. It is impossible to guard against them.

Dengzhou is not the same as Xiangyang. Xiangyang is the earliest base of Dashun, and the people are determined, but Dengzhou is full of refugees.

It's hard to say how many of these rootless duckweeds want to live a stable life in Dengzhou.

The key is that so many people heard that you, Dashun, came back after recovering Dengzhou, no matter what, that's not the case.

But Dengzhou is waiting to be rebuilt, and it is more difficult to build than Xiangyang.

Now that the construction of Xiangyang has just begun, how can there be extra manpower and material resources to build Dengzhou?
It is useless to build Dengzhou now. Who knows if there are any spies from the Ming army and Qing army among these people who came back from Dengzhou, and how many local hooligans there are.

These people are all going to cause chaos and bad things in the local area. It is very easy to destroy the fruits of hard work.

Li Zijing's eyes were uncertain, he thought for a while, and said firmly.

"Send all the young and strong to Xiangyang in batches. They must have families and houses. Martial law will be enforced in Dengzhou City and strict regulations will be established!"

"Whoever takes to the streets at night will be killed! Anyone who steals a chicken will die!"

"Those homeless old and weak, stay in Dengzhou for the time being, manage them if you can, and abandon them if you can't."

"Xiangyang is also short of food now, so it can't support so many idlers."

Li Zijing knew that the current situation in Dengzhou seemed to be going well, but in reality it was undercurrents.

More than 1000 people, it is really difficult to suppress the increasing number of refugees.

"Tell Zhang Xian that within a month, I will send additional manpower to Dengzhou. During this month, Dengzhou's defense must not go wrong!"

That movie never expected the matter to be so serious, and his expression froze.

"Respect!"

Li Zijing suddenly remembered something and continued.

"Also, the [-] ordinary soldiers in Dengzhou are all promoted to be bosses. The original [-] bosses will immediately return to Xiangyang by boat to participate in the promotion test of the Jingqi Battalion five days later!"

(End of this chapter)