Great time travel

Chapter 90, Great Immigrants

Due to Nurhachi's cruel policy of massacring the Han people in Liaodong, since the fall of Liaodong, the remaining Liao people have been fleeing to the Liaoxi Corridor and the islands of Dongjiang Town in order to get rid of the bloody rule of the Jurchens since the fall of Liaodong. It is crowded with a population of several 10 people.Obviously, Dongjiang Town with limited resources cannot support such a large population, so the Liao people can only continue to cross the sea and go south to Dengzhou on the Shandong Peninsula.

The problem is that in the late Ming Dynasty, all parts of the Central Plains were "overpopulated" and the people were in dire straits, and Dengzhou was not much better.After the influx of so many people at once, not only could the local people not be able to use these labor forces, but because of competition for living space, serious conflicts broke out between Liao people and Shandong people.Although Chen Xin started his business in Wendeng, he relied on setting up cigarette factories and other industries to absorb part of the remaining population.However, compared with the original number of tenant-lost farmers in Dengzhou, and the hundreds of thousands of Liaodong refugees who continued to pour in, it still seems a bit of a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, most of the Liao people who fled across Hainan prefer to stay in the capital city of Dengzhou and take care of each other—because Denglai governor Sun Yuanhua, a famous Westernization faction in the late Ming Dynasty, wanted to compile and train a combat-capable army as soon as possible. The Western-style new army in Dengzhou mainly relied on recruiting Liaodong deserters to supplement its troops, which led to the formation of many battalions in Dengzhou that were all soldiers from Liaozhen, and many Liaodong deserters also habitually lived with them.

But this situation has aroused great dissatisfaction among the locals in Dengzhou. Dongjiang Town has long been short of food and wages.After arriving in Shandong, those deserters who got into the ranks of soldiers and received official salaries were nothing more than deserters. Many deserters who were not selected actually disguised themselves and went to loot various villages, killing many villages without leaving any dogs.The Liao soldiers in Dengzhou supported them and played the game of officials and bandits. As a result, the conflicts between Shandong people and Liaodong people became more and more intense, and it became common for the people in the countryside to attack and kill each other.

Even after the rebellion in Dengzhou Town and the capture of Fucheng, the conflict between Shandong locals and Liaodong refugees has not been resolved.On the contrary, due to Dengzhou Town's various plans to seize land and set up military settlements to house military dependents and vassal populations, and to fight against big gentry families, the "contradiction between natives and residents" in Dengzhou and Laizhou suddenly became a massacre. In the more complicated three-party chaos, dozens of heads must be cut off every day to survive.As for how to arrange at least one hundred thousand Liaodong deserters and defeated soldiers who have no food or clothing, Dengzhou Town has not yet come up with a proper countermeasure.

In addition to the refugees from Dongjiang Town who fled across the sea from Liaodong, the local refugees in Shandong are also a big headache.This year's Central Plains is full of severe droughts, thousands of miles of barren land, and no crops. Henan is certainly the hardest hit area among the hardest hit areas, and the western provinces of Shandong are not much better. There are hungry people fleeing famine everywhere.Obviously, the decaying and brutal Ming government had no way to deal with such a famine. It could only hold tight to the city and wait for time to solve the problem. According to the official's philosophy, when there is not enough relief food to be raised, the quickest strategy to solve the famine is to kill the population in a short period of time - as long as these humble people are allowed to attack each other, and more starve to death, The "excess" population will naturally be greatly reduced.When the next spring begins, the farmers who have not died of starvation will naturally go back to plow the fields, the civil unrest will disappear, and the elders in the yamen can continue to be their peace officers.As for how many wealthy households and gentry may be victimized during the period...then we can only blame them for their bad luck. How can life be without a few unsatisfactory things?
——In terms of disaster relief, the situation shown by the government in the late Ming Dynasty was not only incompetent, but completely ignored.

But the refugees will not starve to death in peace, but will do everything they can to find something to eat, or flee to a place where they can eat.Although the Shandong Peninsula, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides, has always been barren and not rich in products, it is not the best choice for the hungry to flee.But now there is a severe drought in Henan and North Zhili, and there is no food to be found there.Although Nanzhili is rich and prosperous, the Wenxiangjiao rebel army blocked the road to the south, and the refugees who ran there were all filled with cannon fodder and filled trenches during the siege... In contrast, it is said that they were Jiaodong, where military households in Dengzhou are quite prosperous, is actually a good place to go.

Since the beginning of summer, there have been continuous wars on the ground in Shandong, and more war refugees have been created. In the modern world, where humanitarian thinking has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, people in war-torn areas are forced to leave their homes, not to mention the army blatantly burning It was the end of Ming Dynasty when killing common people became commonplace.

Therefore, since the beginning of autumn, refugees and refugees from all directions have made the civil servants in charge of the civil affairs of Dengzhou Town almost grey-haired. The reserves are not sufficient.Now that there are so many mouths to eat suddenly, because of the flag-raising rebellion, it is difficult to import a large amount of food from the south for a while, and I suddenly feel overwhelmed.

However, just as Marshal Chen Xin was about to be ruthless and deport these refugees who could not support themselves to other places to fend for themselves, the steel warships of the Global Chinese Traversal Alliance fell from the sky... Thus, Dengzhou Town treated the refugees His attitude immediately changed accordingly—the troops under Dengzhou Town stationed on the edge of the occupied area have all received military orders to provide relief on the spot, take in the refugees, and transfer them to the rear port...

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Laizhou, Shahe (There seem to be many places called Shahe in China, and there are five Shahes that I know of.)
Next to a newly completed military camp, Brother Guan, a soldier from Dengzhou Town wearing a red shirt, was just like his colleagues, holding a long gun tightly in his hand, watching a large group of ragged, disheveled faces and dirty bodies in the distance The refugees were driven over with whips by a dozen cavalrymen from Dengzhou Town.And in an open space surrounded by barbed wire next to the barracks, there are more unkempt refugees sitting on the ground crowded together.

Seeing these refugees obediently entering the temporary refugee camp surrounded by barbed wire, Guan Dadi and others breathed a sigh of relief—don’t look at these half-dead refugees so pitifully, thinking that as long as they are willing to give them something to eat, the refugees will be obedient obedient.In fact, people who are hungry and crazy are often the scariest. When helping the refugees before, some people tried to attack the army and rob food: there is no way. Crazy, something to sacrifice your life for.

Fortunately, the shining knives and guns and the whistling whips of the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army restored the sanity of many people and deterred the ambitions of those bad ruffians. In front of the heavily armed and murderous soldiers, the vast majority of refugees They still chose to obey, and those who disobeyed were killed.

To make matters worse, because this place is not far from the front line, bandits and bandits or Shandong government troops often send spies disguised as refugees in an attempt to infiltrate the refugee camps and cause disturbances, thereby looting the relief food and rice of the Dengzhou Army... Fortunately, Dengzhou Quite a few people in the town have also been refugees, and they know how to dig out these spies—among a group of skinny and half-starved refugees, anyone who is still strong, has a red face, and has the strength to jump Well, it must be either a spy or a bad guy. When you meet such a suspicious guy, just shoot him to death with a long gun!

"... 280... 290... 310... 320... [-]... Well, there are so many people here today, can Dengzhou really support so many mouths?" A piece of head, Brother Guan muttered with some worry.

As a military household in Dengzhou Town, Brother Guan's family was also allocated fields, so he knew that although compared with the Central Plains where there are thousands of miles of red land, Dengzhou benefited from the water conservancy channels that Chen Dashuai worked hard to build, and the crop harvest was barely enough. It's okay, but it's also a little less than the previous two years.Now Marshal Chen is fighting with the imperial court, and taking in refugees, people eat horse chews, I really don't know how long the food storage can last.

Although the standard of food in the army has not dropped at all, Brother Guan is still very afraid of experiencing the taste of starvation again in the near future.

Compared with the fear of lack of food and starvation, the reality that Dengzhou Town is now fighting with the imperial court did not make Guan Dadi feel much worry:

First of all, since the flag was raised, the Dengzhou Army has been invincible all the way. Even Kefu County has repeatedly defeated the official army.Since he is not afraid of the officers and soldiers, naturally he will not worry about the future.

Secondly, the reason for the rise of troops this time was that those dirty civil servants in the prefecture set up a scheme to assassinate Marshal Chen first, because of the hostility of the big gentry in Dengzhou to the military households in this town. Do you want to sit still and let others slaughter you?
Third, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was common for the army to rebel. There was a precedent of the governor of Liaodong being beaten to death before, and the law did not punish the public after the incident... From the soldiers' point of view, now that this incident has come to an end, At most, it's nothing more than murder and arson to be recruited, so why worry too much?

On the contrary, if you swallow your anger and accept it submissively, you don't know how you will be bullied by those civil servants and gentry in the days to come!
More importantly, according to the general social concept in the late Ming Dynasty, these soldiers felt that since they had eaten Marshal Chen's food, received Marshal Chen's salary, wore Marshal Chen's clothes, and lived in Marshal Chen's house.Dashuai Chen also allocated them a field so that their whole family would have enough food and clothing, so his own life already belonged to Dashuai Chen.When Dashuai Chen said they wanted to fight the Tartars, they would fight the Tartars, and when Dashuai Chen said they wanted to rebel, they rebelled.Anyway, only Dashuai Chen treats them so well in the world, so I will unswervingly work for Dashuai Chen.If anyone wants to kill Dashuai Chen, take away the house and fields that Dashuai Chen gave them, and destroy the happy life of their family now, they will fight these bad guys desperately!
In the same way, although everyone felt a little strange about the fact that Marshal Chen had joined the "Huameng", since the treatment of the whole army did not decline because of this, the Marshal Huangshi who became the new boss sent everyone some food. Wearing supplies as a reward, and no outsiders were randomly inserted in to issue orders and extort money, so the Dengzhou Army accepted the reality, at least not very contradictory.

——After all, as the legendary general who swept the invincible Liaodong during the Tianqi period, Huangshi's reputation in northern China is still quite loud. Even the low-level people like Guan Dadi have heard that Huangshi is invincible and invincible. The Story of Killing the Enemy Chief...

Next, news came from the family in the rear, saying that Marshal Huangshi had rewarded them with some miraculous crop seeds, and the wheat that was planted would grow like crazy!It only takes seven days to mature and harvest!After learning of this incident, the soldiers in the frontline Dengzhou Army were in an uproar—at first most of them didn't believe it, thinking it was some kind of cover-up.But when someone actually brought some seeds from the rear and sowed them near the barracks, the soldiers stared at the magical wheat harvested every seven days with their own eyes.
Such an unimaginable agricultural miracle, if placed in the modern world of the 21st century, may not have touched people deeply-who cares how many days your crops will be harvested?Anyway, how many years have not seen anyone starved to death!It's better to go online and check out the games that are about to be launched recently!
But for these ordinary low-level farmers in the late Ming Dynasty, such fast-growing crops were simply their hope for survival and reproduction!It means that their children and grandchildren can have enough food!Such a favor is simply greater than the sky!It is more precious than sending a mountain of gold—after all, gold cannot be eaten.According to Guan Dadi's thinking, even if it's just for these seeds, it's worth it for Chen Dashuai to bring everyone to join Huang Dashuai!

——The idea of ​​the common people is quite simple. If you let me eat and wear warm clothes, there are additional benefits, and I will fully support you and be loyal to you.

It's a pity that there are still few such miraculous seeds. I don't know if they can fill so many mouths that have been pouring in recently... squinting at the hundreds of thousands of foreign refugees flocking here to beg for food every day, Brother Guan scratched his head. He scratched his hair, thinking anxiously.

Then, he was knocked on the helmet by the captain, and two other Dengzhou Army colleagues were also knocked-"...you, you, and you! Come with me quickly, and the chopped Send the firewood to the camp over there, and now we're going to feed the starving ghosts from the west!"

So Brother Guan and his two colleagues temporarily put down their weapons, each carried two bundles of firewood, and walked slowly towards the refugee camp.