I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 170
The first year of Jianwu, the third day of May.

The Ming army invaded and occupied Ningguo Fucheng.

Yang Gong accepted the Ningguo Mansion's suggestion to demote his officials, and they wrote a message and sent it to Sifang counties and towns, and then went there with a large army.

In just three days, the five counties of Nanling, Jingxian, Jingde, Ningguo, and Taiping and their villages and towns, under the power of the Ming army and the persuasion of their colleagues, opened their cities and surrendered.

The Ming army effortlessly captured the entire territory of Ningguo Mansion, the gateway to southern Anhui.

As the Kongfu and Qianqiu Passes were stationed and controlled by the Ming army, Zhejiang and Southern Anhui finally successfully connected together. Guangzhou, which had not yet surrendered, was surrounded and became a caged beast.

The Huizhou Mansion to the south of Ningguo was also blocked from leaving the mansion, making it difficult to protect itself, let alone go north to fight against thieves.

Just as Ningguo Mansion, the gateway to southern Anhui, was defeated by the Ming army in one battle, Yang Gong's army in Wuhu County was not willing to be left alone.

A total of [-] troops from the three towns went west and crossed the Huai River to Fanchang County. The Fanchang County magistrate, who had been prepared for a long time, surrendered without a fight.

The entire territory of Taiping Mansion was recovered.

At this point, only Chizhou Prefecture in southern Anhui is still under the rule of the Qing court, and the remaining Guangzhou Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture are just a matter of time.

The news spread quickly like rumors, and by the time it reached the capital of Chizhou, it had already changed beyond recognition.

The Puppet Ming army has completely conquered southern Anhui, and only Chizhou Prefecture has not yet been conquered. There are still 20 Puppet Ming troops, each one more outrageous than the last.

The entire city of Chizhou was in chaos instantly, and wealthy wealthy households who had the conditions packed up their assets and fled.

Because there were so many people fleeing, there were even city officials among them, along with their entourage and family members, and countless gold and silver property.

In just two days, many life-threatening lawsuits broke out in the capital city of Chizhou, and the victims were all the servants and entourage of wealthy gentry and wealthy families.

As for how they died, it was nothing more than a group of people who wanted to run away first, but no one gave in to each other. After this back and forth, it was inevitable that there would be quarrels or even fights, and casualties would come.

This has caused great harm to the officials and police officers of the Chizhou government, because the person who committed the murder was either an official from above, or Cai Ke, who has a close relationship with the officials, or simply a member of the "Scholarly Sect" "No.", the family is either a Jinshi or a high official or something.

Only those with such high status dare to compete with others.

It makes it impossible for these low-level officials to be arrested or not.

Facing the Ming army who was eyeing the Ming army next door, the entire city of Chizhou did not do any defense at all, and everything was in a panic.

Oh, some measures have been taken.

The magistrate of Chizhou wrote an urgent letter and sent someone to Anqing Mansion to ask for help from Mr. Long Keduolong.

Then, I don’t care about anything, but I don’t care about anything at all.

No, the prefect is taking advantage of the current opportunity to amass wealth in the city, such as city departure tax, soldier recruitment tax, military training tax, thieves suppression tax, thieves pacification tax, etc. These are higher than the three major levies of Emperor Chongzhen in the past. Outrageous.

The prefects have taken the lead, and the officials below, and even the lower-level officials, naturally cannot be idle. If the officials eat meat, then they must have a taste of the soup!

As a result, not only the people of the city, but also the wealthy gentry who had no time to leave, were all tortured by the Chizhou officials.

After all, no matter how much money the common people have, the real big ones still have to be the big households.

Ha ha.

At this time, even before the Ming army came, the rich and common people in Chizhou Prefecture all hated the government.

Lost hearts!

……

Chizhou Fucheng.

Dai Kun was riding a war horse, followed by nine soldiers who were also riding horses and were walking through the streets.

As you can see, the flow of people is sparse and people's livelihood is in decline. Not to mention the street vendors, several street shops have also been closed.

Dai Kun successfully broke through the encirclement in the battle that day. After all, the horse he rode was a Mongolian horse from the grassland, which was itself a war horse. How could the southwestern ponies ridden by the Ming army be able to catch up.

However, because the Ming cavalry was in hot pursuit, Dai Kun still paid a heavy price in order to get rid of these Ming cavalry.

The soldiers brought from Zhejiang were wandering around now, and now only these nine are left.

"Appreciate~"

Dai Kun suddenly reined in his horse and stopped.

"Headquarters, why don't you leave?" The captain of the soldiers rode forward.

Dai Kun glanced at the sluggish flow of people on the street, and then said: "We can't stay in Chizhou Mansion anymore. Let's leave here immediately. Cross the river and find Marshal Long!" The soldiers didn't understand, but they were Dai Kun's soldiers. , Wherever the adults go, they naturally have to follow.

As a result, as soon as Dai Kun entered the city with his front foot, he turned his horse's head back to prepare to leave the city.

Before he passed the city gate, he was stopped by several soldiers at the city gate.

"Hurry up and hand over the city money, or don't leave the city."

He stretched out his hand carelessly.

These soldiers had no armor and were all wearing uniforms. It was obvious that Chizhou Prefecture had recruited training soldiers.

Although it was difficult for Dai Kun to train troops in Ning Guofu, he still equipped the training soldiers below with leather armor as much as possible, and the senior generals at the upper level even had iron armor.

Not to mention cotton armor, it’s too expensive and difficult to make.

The Ming army had only captured less than a thousand weapons from the Eight Banners generals before, and the overall quality was not as light and powerful as historical data and rumors said.

Perhaps it is also due to cost, and these are local garrison Eight Banners, so the quality of the cotton armor itself is not high.

Dai Kun just pondered for a moment, put his hand into his arms, dropped a few big coins and left.

"Driving~"

The soldiers behind him were all stunned, and seemed to understand why their master said that Chizhou could not stay any longer.

With things like this, when Chizhou Mansion will be breached depends entirely on when Puppet Ming comes to fight.

"Drive~drive~drive~~"

The few of them didn't say much, and then rode away without even giving them any money.

Yes, the out-of-city fee is still paid per person.

A training soldier who was picking up money stood up and shouted: "Don't leave, not yet..."

"Forget it, forget it, didn't you see these guys all carrying swords and riding horses? Don't bring trouble to yourself!"

"Fine!"

……

The corruption of Chizhou's military training is not actually the fault of the training soldiers who were extorted from these city gates.

There are policies and measures to counter.

Longkodo and Dai Kun, one in southern Anhui and the other in northern Anhui, ordered each government to recruit and train troops and organize their defense.

But just like the emperor's decree will be completely different as soon as it leaves the capital. They ordered to recruit troops and train the army, but how the officials in the various states do it is their own business.

Just like Wang Keduan, the prefect of Taiping who had already lost his city and died, he had indeed trained an army of ten thousand soldiers.

But other people... For them, what's so good about this military training? It's better for everyone to make more money.

Even Wang Keduan from before also did what he should, but it was just not that excessive.

This was because the Yangtze River Navy was nearby, and he was afraid of others snitching.

However, the Chizhou Prefecture did not have such scruples. Not only did they not pay much attention to the training of troops, but they also played traditional skills on the number of troops, falsely claiming their pay.

Recruiting and training soldiers can lead to empty pay.

These soldiers who were practicing unscrupulous extortion at the city gate could only come to become city gate robbers simply because they couldn't survive with the money and food in the army and they didn't dare to desert.

These were only those seen by Dai Kun, and there were many more that were not seen.

As for why the Chizhou prefect dared to do this.

Naturally, this is because Dai Kun is based in Ningguo Mansion, and Longkodo's Yangtze River Navy is stationed on the Yangtze River defense line. Anqing Mansion, where Longkodo is personally in charge, is on the other side of the river, facing Chizhou Mansion across the river.

When the sky falls, the adults above are there to support it. They just take advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and make more money.

When the sky fell, the tall ones fell, and the short ones like them were really hit.

Then they will probably realize the seriousness.

(End of this chapter)