Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 709

Shao Shude moved away from Yantai in a rare way, and then took a boat to Dengzhou Port, which is very close to Yantai.Along with him, there was a whole company of soldiers from the East Coast Army, a battalion of Black Eight Banners infantry, and a thousand military men. After entering the city, these people immediately occupied the government office of Dengzhou, and then packed them up for sacrifice. Shao Shude lives temporarily.

Shao Shude smiled at the restless servants in the government office, and then told everyone that they were on vacation for a few days, so they didn't need to stay here to serve, and then sent two yuan to each of them to go home.

"This Dong Xueli is really extravagant." Shao Shude looked at the maids and servants who retreated as if they had been amnesty, and said with a complex expression: "It is really unreasonable for him to kidnap more than half of the more than 400 palace maids in the Hengwang Mansion of Qingzhou. Wait for the old Dong to come back." , I want to have a good talk with him, and send all these court ladies to meritorious men to be their daughters-in-law. Our Heishui Pioneering Team area is not rich yet, and such extravagant behavior cannot be allowed to exist."

Captain Li Wenchang, the Yantai garrison commander who came to inspect with Shao Shude, nodded repeatedly when he heard the words, but he continued to slander in private: he is an old-fashioned soldier. After enjoying the blessings for several years, it is probably unrealistic for you to let him carry forward the spirit of hard work and simplicity.

Perhaps Shao Shude also felt that his requirements were a bit harsh, so he sighed and said: "These revolutionary soldiers—well, the servant army—really disgraceful, and many of them are still fighting in Jinan. I allocated Dengzhou, Ninghai Prefecture, Weihaiwei and other places to them, and I have already sent my confidantes back to search for manpower, enclose land and build houses, and everyone behaves like a gentleman. If things go on like this, the cohesion of the troops will inevitably decline rapidly. That’s all. , I can’t control them about many things, so I just send someone to warn them and forget it. In times of war, the problem of life style is indeed a trivial matter.”

"Yes, I will send someone to warn Dong Xueli." Li Wenchang nodded, but he felt a little envious of Dong Xueli in his heart.He has also seen those maids of Prince Heng's Mansion, and many of them are as beautiful as flowers, Nima, I haven't enjoyed it yet, you gang of generals are welcome.At this time, Li Wenchang was already thinking about how to beat Dong Xueli, and this man would probably panic for a while after hearing his warning. According to his personality, he would definitely choose more than a hundred of the four hundred court ladies to send to Shao Shude's mansion. , and then continue to enjoy the rest with peace of mind.Damn, I have to find a way to get some beautiful ones out of them, I also lack warm quilts.

Shao Shude stayed in the government office of Dengzhou for one night, and on the second day he took a large number of followers to inspect the rebuilt Dengzhou City Wall.There are two rebuilt city walls, the outer city and the water city.Among them, Shuicheng only sent people to gradually clean up the silted small sea from the south (the ship berthing place is located in a bay inset and surrounded by city walls), and Shao Shude focused on the outer city.

The outer city of Dengzhou was originally damaged by many wars.After the people on the east bank took over the place, they quickly mobilized a large number of civilians to rebuild and repair it. Among them, the damaged parts of the city wall were not repaired, but were all rebuilt with masonry and cement transported from Heishui.The newly built city wall is in the shape of a zigzagging line, and there are some protrusions as side firepower, which are shaped like a bastion.

The original intact city wall section has also been repaired: the place where the bricks fell off was re-reinforced, the gaps and holes in the city wall were also tightly blocked, and some artillery firing positions were added to the tower, etc. All these measures have been completed. After the completion of the construction, if there are thousands of brave men guarding the city, it will be difficult for the Qing army to attack without artillery.Even if they go crazy and mobilize some cumbersome artillery, it may be difficult to suppress the artillery on the east bank above the city, because there is an insurmountable gap between the artillery of both sides in terms of equipment and technology.

Dengzhou City has been rebuilt, and the army of civilian husbands has been transferred to Ninghai Prefecture.Ninghai Prefecture had undergone a lot of construction when the Qing army was stationed in Haoge, and the city was still relatively strong. Now all the people on the east coast have to do is to rebuild it, that is, to transform it into a modern fortress that can reduce the bomb nest. It is also necessary to increase the artillery positions, otherwise it will be difficult to defend.

Weihaiwei is the same as Ninghai Prefecture, except that this city is more dilapidated, and only simple repairs were carried out during the Qing army's occupation.After the green battalion of Qingdengzhou Town and Jiaozhou Town collapsed, the [-] green battalion soldiers of the Qing army who guarded the city surrendered and have now been resettled on Jeju Island. As for Weihai Wei Shao Shude decided to hand it over to Xie Qian.This city is currently undergoing vigorous repairs and reconstructions, but there may not be enough time—of course, the Qing army may not dare to drag the long supply line to Weihaiwei City—it is impossible, and the naval warships will launch In the past, he helped guard this coastal stronghold.

"How's the progress of the training of the defensive artillery?" After inspecting the inside and outside of Dengzhou City, the 50-year-old Shao Shude was slightly out of breath, so he sat in the Penglai Pavilion near Shuicheng with his entourage, drinking Tea took a break.

Recently, he has been very troubled by the matter of dividing the land in the Second Mansion of Denglai. Some of the surviving landlords and gentry in the Second Mansion have been living peacefully with the Yellow Clothes Thieves for more than two years.The local gentry lamented that the yellow-clothed thief was indeed "a remnant of the army", "not a person who sits in the world", and "has never heard of such a harsh treatment of the gentry in ancient times". Then he pinched his nose and admitted.Of course, more gentry resisted openly. They bewitched the villagers, contacted the Qing army forces in the west, and ambushed the east bank soldiers who went to the countryside to collect grain and taxes at the same time, creating a bloody case.

Shao Shude is not a hypocritical saint, so he quickly mobilized the entire Black Eight Banners infantry battalion stationed in Yantai Fort, and began to wipe out the rebellious gentry one by one.However, due to the rebellion one after another, the army on the east bank lost sight of the other and was unable to defend against it. Therefore, it was not until last week that the apparently rebellious gentry armed forces in the entire Denglai Second Mansion were wiped out one by one.So far, the remaining landlord and gentry forces in the Second Mansion of Denglei have been plowed again, and they are basically out of control.

After the rebellious gentry were dealt with, the work of clearing and measuring the fields continued.In order to create a new class in the Denglai area to fill the grassroots power vacuum after the gentry was eliminated, a large amount of land confiscated from the landlords without compensation was distributed according to the list to the servants who were currently on the front lines of Qingzhou and Jinan and the Qing army. Officers and soldiers.

Although the former Marshal Mo led the army across the north and south, his prestige was incomparable, but in fact his foundation was quite unstable, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under his command was also average, so he could only bully the green camp of the Qing army with a considerable number of people.Everyone is even more lacking in a kind of heart, that is, they don't know what the future is like, and they don't know what they are fighting for.This is actually a common problem of the ancient army, not just the army on the east coast. However, after Shao Shude arrived here, he immediately set the tone of attacking local tyrants and dividing the land in the Second Mansion of Denglai.That is to say, the land controlled by the Denglai Second Mansion under the name of the gentry was first and equally distributed to the servants and Qing troops who surrendered, and secondly to the landless refugees or tenant farmers.

After these lands (mostly concentrated in Dengzhou) were allocated, the old forces in the Second Mansion of Denglai were wiped out, and a new force supported by people from the east coast began to come to power.Since these gentry would not agree with the East Coast people no matter what, and they would not cooperate with them much, then it would be no trouble to simply shuffle the cards and replace them with obedient people.Although maybe this new force supported by the East Coast people will have their own ideas and will after their wings harden, but that must be many years later, at least in the short term they will still be highly dependent on the East Coast people .Among other things, the low productivity level of Denglai Second Mansion is doomed that they still need to import various daily necessities and even food from the outside!

In Shao Shude's plan, the next step is to vigorously develop Dengzhou's agriculture, and at the same time increase economic and trade ties with North Korea, Heishui, Japan and other places, and strive to gradually develop commerce.The residents of Yantaibao have gradually gotten used to this kind of life. They consume salmon, saury and sardines from Heishui Port, use hardwood furniture imported from Dabo Port, and wear wild sheepskin clothes. Winter clothes, of course, the above are limited to the family members of some officers and soldiers who have the ability to spend.

However, it is an indisputable fact that the living standards of the small number of local residents in Yantai have improved. This is mainly due to the higher administrative efficiency and productivity of the people on the east coast.It is believed that with the passage of time, after the Second Mansion of Terengganu gradually integrates into the Far East economic system dominated by the east coast, the living standards of the people will gradually improve.At that time, due to the existence of the demonstration effect, some subtle changes will take place in Shandong and even neighboring Beizhili, Henan, Jiangbei and other places.

However, the long-term changes have not yet been seen, and the short-term drastic changes quickly reached Shao Shude's ears: news came from the direction of Qingzhou that more than [-] Manchurian and Mongolian troops led by Tan Tai suddenly arrived at Dongchang Mansion. After winning the battle, they quickly smashed out the Yuyuan army which was the most noisy. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining local thieves withdrew to their lairs one after another, preparing to rely on the complicated terrain there to deal with the Qing army.Of course, if they don't have external assistance, sooner or later they will be dead, and the Qing army is nothing more than wasting more time and military power.

In addition, another news is even more shocking: In May, Li Chengdong, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren and others in the south resented the unfair rewards and punishments of the Qing army and the excessive extortion and bullying by civil officials on the one hand. Therefore, he resolutely raised the banner of anti-Qing and Fuming, and counterattacked, causing the Qing army in the south to be in chaos.

On the other hand, the Milayin and Ding Guodong troops of the Qing army in Gansu resented the matter of shaving their hair and changing their clothes. In addition, they were also dissatisfied with the Qing army's plan to send them to Sichuan to suppress Zhang Xianzhong's tribe. As soon as his head got hot, he raised his troops and rebelled. At one time, more than [-] people gathered to trap and kill the governor of Gansu appointed by the Qing court, and then captured many towns, which shocked the whole of Shaanxi and Gansu.He Zhen's unit, who had just been driven to the junction of Sichuan, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces, was also ready to move, intending to return to Shaanxi and seek revenge on the governor of Shaanxi, Meng Qiaofang.

After these two news reached Dengzhou, they immediately set off waves in Shao Shude's heart.

(End of this chapter)