Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2150 Nanning Mansion

"Stop! What's in your car?" On a certain official road in Yongchun County, Nanning Prefecture, a group of Shunjun officers and soldiers were setting up checkpoints, because they saw a few people dressed as local mountain people who were suspicious. The soldier pressed his waist knife and stepped forward to ask.

"What are you looking at? It's you! Don't pretend you don't understand!" Another soldier with a spear chimed in.He was wearing leather armor on his upper body, with a knife hanging from his waist, and his expression looked extremely ferocious.

The mountain people were a little hesitant. They looked at the goods on the ox cart for a while, and looked at the soldiers of the Shunjun army, showing hesitation.There were two teenagers who couldn't hold their breath, and their hands had slowly slid to their waists, as if they wanted to touch the short blade hidden on their bodies.However, in the eyes of veterans of the Shun Army who have experienced the battlefield of life and death, their small tricks are so ridiculous!No, some Shunjun soldiers who were sitting and watching also stood up. They took out their muskets loaded with ammunition and pointed their guns at these mountain people obliquely. Short gun, shouted: "You all want to die, don't you? Squat aside! Zhang Xiaomao, blow the whistle! Brothers, cheer up and search for me!"

The sharp bamboo whistle sounded soon, and another group of Shunjun soldiers who were resting rushed out from the nearby bamboo building. They were wearing armor and holding blades, looking like they were fighting hard.Seeing that they were surrounded by so many people, the six or seven mountain people immediately gave up, obediently left the bullock cart, and squatted aside.

The Shun army with a pistol was spitting at them, and then lifted some fragmented goods covered on the bullock cart, revealing several packages made of sacks.The team pouted, and soon a soldier cut open the package with a dagger, revealing the true content of the goods inside: a large number of medicinal materials collected from the mountains.

The team was smiling contentedly, and then said with a strong Hunan accent: "Tie me up! How dare you smuggle controlled materials to Hengzhou, I really don't want to!"

The surrounding soldiers were ordered, and immediately stepped forward like wolves and tigers to control these mountain people.And these seemingly sturdy mountain people, facing the swords, guns, swords and halberds pointed at them, did not dare to resist from the beginning to the end, and obediently captured them with nothing.The team didn't take it seriously, and didn't even look at them. These days, he has already caught more than a dozen traders who smuggled food, medicinal materials and other controlled commodities to the East Coast control area, which can be described as a bumper harvest.

As for the sudden control of common commodities such as food and medicinal materials, this is mainly related to the severe situation in Nanning Prefecture.Everyone knows that Guangxi has many mountains and little land since ancient times, with complicated people and poor products.After the Shun army occupied this place, because of the instability of people's hearts and the destruction of the local economy by the war, it was a bit of a paralysis for a while, and it was completely stuck in it.

General Wang Wanchun of the Shun Army had more than 6 soldiers and horses on hand. Every day, the people ate horse chews, and the supplies, money and food were consumed very quickly, and gradually reached the point where they could not support them.There was no way, since he couldn't reach out to Changsha, he could only search as much as possible in Guangxi Province.The basis of the search is that Guangxi's limited grain and money cannot flow out. Therefore, it is necessary to list strategic materials such as grain as controlled commodities and strictly control them.

On the other hand, due to the hot and humid climate and the harsh environment, an epidemic broke out in his barracks a while ago, and more than [-] people were laid down at once, and the morale of the troops fell.There is no way, Mr. Wang can only issue another order, listing medicinal materials as controlled commodities, which can only be circulated within the territory of Shunguo, and are not allowed to flow into the area under the jurisdiction of the Lianwu Management Committee of the Dongan people or the Li family in Guangdong.On the other hand, the people on the east bank have a lot of waste to do, and there is also a great demand for food, medicinal materials and other in-demand supplies, and the purchase price given is very good (a premium of more than [-]% compared to the market price), so it has attracted Many Guangxi merchants smuggled food and medicinal materials to earn excess profits.

To the east of Yongchun County is Hengzhou controlled by the Dong'an people.Both originally belonged to Nanning Prefecture, but now they belong to both sides due to the war.Therefore, it was natural that the people of Yongchun County were attracted by the high profits of the border trade, and began to disregard the Shunjun ban and venture to smuggle controlled goods to the people on the east coast.Shunjun's repeated orders and five applications are useless, and they can only send troops to station at various traffic nodes and set up cards to intercept them.And their interception will obviously arouse hostility in the local area. The people of Guangxi don't care whether you are Emperor Zhu or Emperor Li, whoever moves their jobs will be anxious with whoever!

Therefore, after the suppression of Li Sixing's tribe, the situation of the Shun army in Guangxi did not change fundamentally. Naturally, the towns with more Han people were better controlled, but their rule was weaker in remote places or areas where the chieftains were strong.There were people who opposed them every three days in the local area, and the scattered Nanming remnant soldiers also moved into this area, and they fell into the mountains and turned into bandits. Law and order war.Wang Wanchun once asked Changsha for an order to send troops into Vietnam regardless of the bandits and chieftains, and pursue the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but Li Laiheng refused.

Li Laiheng has more face in comparison.As the majestic Emperor of Dashun, if he can't even manage the security of the next province, it will have a devastating impact on his reputation. The gentry in Guangxi who originally favored him will probably be disappointed and reconsider which side to vote for.Therefore, this is not only a security war, but also a political war, not only to be fought, but also to be fought well.Therefore, Wang Wanchun's [-] troops were almost completely trapped in Guangxi, unable to move for a while, and their morale was still very low, which made people angry.

It is similar to Yunnan.The "Central Forbidden Army" of Li Shun's regime marched in from Guangxi, with a very obvious intention to grab the territory!Although Liu Zhonggui has always been extremely submissive to the court, Li Laiheng is unwilling to see her territory expand again no matter what.Therefore, even if Yunnan was mainly captured by Liu Zhonggui, the Jiedu envoy of Sichuan, the central government would have to take it—even if it can’t take all of it, it still needs some of it!

For this reason, Hao Ping, the commander of the Yinqiang Xiaojie Army, has led tens of thousands of troops into the Qujing Mansion. While clearing out the local chieftain forces, he is observing the situation and preparing for the next step.Although Liu Zhonggui did not want the troops from Changsha to occupy Yunnan, but he was a minister and a Jiedu envoy appointed by Li Laiheng, so he was inconvenient to oppose it openly, so he could only use his strength secretly, and the constraints were quite large. Hao Ping made troubles and so on, in order to finally achieve the goal of slowing down their marching pace or even forcing them back.But now it seems that Changsha's determination is relatively high, and it has to get a foothold in Yunnan. This is a test of Liu Zhonggui's ability to deal with emergencies.

This is the case in Yunnan and Guangxi, and Guizhou is not much better.You must know that during the Southern Expedition, most of Guizhou was basically captured peacefully and opened the city without blood.If the Dashun regime wants to actually control this province, it still needs to spend energy and go deep into it.In particular, their current national policy is to reform the land and liberate more people, so it is even more necessary to attack those chieftains who are still in the slave society.No, the 70-year-old veteran Zhang Neng took command again, and together with the Mesozoic general Gao Shougui, he led the Dashun Rear Battalion and the Ming Jiang Army with more than [-] people (the Ming Jiang Army in the three southwestern provinces has been eliminated, and the rest are basically gone. were dispersed and placed in the middle camp and the rear camp), and at the same time launched in various parts of Guizhou Province, trying to penetrate Dashun's influence into every county and every village.Otherwise, if these people can surrender today, they can surrender to others tomorrow, and at the same time they don't pay taxes and don't pay taxes, which is always a hidden danger.

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While the Shun army was in a hurry to sort out the internal affairs of the three southwestern provinces, and set up checkpoints in counties and townships to prevent the outflow of strategic materials, the people on the east coast of Wuzhou were also thinking of ways to build places and expand their influence.

Jiang Yunfan, director of the Lianwu Management Committee, cherishes this hard-won opportunity very much. After a period of discussion and field research, he has initially set the next development direction, which is to develop an export-oriented economy, that is, export-oriented Accumulate the original capital, and then plan other.

As for what commodities to export, in fact, he has already thought about it, mainly medicinal materials and timber, and the other is the foreign entrepot trade base for commodities from other prefectures and counties in the interior of Guangxi.Of course, the latter needs to open up the relationship with Shunguo. First of all, let everyone open the borders and allow free flow of people and goods, otherwise it will not work.

Jiang Yunfan also noticed the current closed policy adopted by Shunguo in Guangxi, which made it a bit of a headache.But at the beginning, the east coast side decided to cut off most of the economic and trade ties with Shunguo. For this reason, some equipment and weapons that Shunguo had already paid for were not delivered, and they are still in the warehouse in Ningbo.The situation in Nanning is more complicated. The two sides fought openly and secretly to grab the territory. The people on the east coast even directly bombarded the Shun army, and directly suppressed a small army of the Shun army as the Ming army. The relationship is so bad. pole.

Under such circumstances, it is indeed a bit difficult to develop economic and trade exchanges with the southwest region controlled by Shun country. This first requires the two sides to improve their relations at the political level.It's just that in this way, wouldn't people on the east bank hold their noses and admit the legitimacy of Shunguo's occupation of the three southwestern provinces?Will the East Coast government agree?Jiang Yunfan was not sure, but he subconsciously felt that even so it might not be impossible.Politics was originally a product of compromise, and Shunguo's occupation of the three southwestern provinces had become a fact, and no matter what happened on the east coast, it was impossible to force them to spit out the meat they had swallowed.Instead of this, why don't you be more pragmatic and let them give up some commercial interests on the condition of acknowledging the fait accompli of Shun Kingdom's occupation of the three southwestern provinces? Wouldn't it be better?

Jiang Yunfan planned to visit Ningbo after a while.To reconcile with Shunguo, the Southern Pioneering Team will definitely not be able to get around it.

(End of this chapter)