Great time travel

172 Chapter [-]
In March of Yangchun, the warbler grows long.

When the spring breeze blows, the tourists are drunk.Unknowingly, the West Lake in Hangzhou ushered in another bright spring.The willows on the Su Causeway pulled out new branches, dancing gently, as if they were braiding themselves; the peach blossoms on the Gushan poked their heads out, looking at the figure of Miss Chun on the branches.

However, tens of thousands of ashen-faced and ragged war refugees appeared one after another from the northern horizon, abruptly breaking into this wonderful scroll of scenery, smearing the scenery of the West Lake, which is now sunny and beautiful in spring. A layer of thick haze of turbulent times was cast.

——It has been a whole year since this world-famous "paradise on earth" fell into the hands of the "Australian thieves".

Compared with a year ago, Hangzhou now has become much deserted.Because the gentry, who are the main consumers, either absconded with their families or were almost wiped out by thieves, most of the most luxurious brothels and taverns have closed down.Famous brothel prostitutes who were once paid for by high-ranking customers have been forced to lower their prices one after another, or redeem themselves for good.There are also many famous actors in the Liyuan, who also lost their livelihoods because no one cares about them.And those people engaged in the service industry also fell into unemployment and hardship one after another because of the greatly reduced source of customers.

——Just as every time the economic crisis comes in the later generations, the first unlucky city is the tourism industry, so Hangzhou is also depressed in all industries right now.Although strictly speaking, Hangzhou is not without the potential to develop light industry and manufacturing industry. In fact, it has been a famous producing area of ​​silk and tea since ancient times.But the problem is, for the Global Chinese Traversal Alliance, which has overexpanded last year and its digestion capacity has far exceeded its limit, Hangzhou is already the northernmost edge of the South China occupied area. Not to mention organizing and resuming production, even maintaining the occupation It's already very difficult.

As a result, the Allied forces could only control a few major cities such as Hangzhou and Fuyang for a long time, but never completely ruled the vast rural areas.

Therefore, this year, Hangzhou's economic situation is very bad.As a large number of gentry were killed or fled, the original industrial chain of mulberry planting and sericulture was broken, and the local silk weaving industry in Hangzhou was on the verge of shutting down.Although tea production has not been greatly affected, it has not been able to create many jobs.As a result, the remaining Hangzhou citizens soon became unemployed in large numbers. If the food supply of the Allied Army had not been abundant, and they could set up porridge every day so that the unemployed citizens could make do with it so that they would not starve to death, then a great chaos would have already occurred. broke out in the city.

——In the modern world, even if the people barely have food to eat, they would have already caused trouble in such a situation.However, the living standards of the ancient people were obviously much lower than those of modern people. As long as they don't starve to death, they will be thankful.

Fortunately, after a period of digestion and resettlement, the republics of the Chinese League have resumed their ability to absorb immigrants since last fall.After all, Huameng owns half of the earth's land for reclamation and cultivation, and through the bio-black technology of the 22nd century, it can obtain inexhaustible food at any time, so there is no upper limit on the number of people it can accommodate.And these down-and-out refugees who were willing to do anything for food in the seventeenth century were different from those refugees who flooded into Europe in the 21st century. Juren and other scholars may be so greedy, but the sticks and whips of the relevant departments will soon teach them how to behave).

The introduction of immigrants was once suspended only because the management capacity of the bureaucratic system has reached its limit, and it is impossible to arrange housing and jobs for so many people at once, which is similar to the backlog of passengers at train stations during the peak period of Spring Festival travel.But as long as this peak is over, and there will be a few more civil servants to expand recruitment and strengthen management capabilities, then the resettlement and land reclamation work can start in full swing again.

Therefore, those poor people in Hangzhou who had no means of living, after being half-starved and drinking porridge for several months, were lured by food and silver coins, and entered the immigration quarantine camp of the Allied Army. , respectively received tickets to travel around the world.

Among them, the most honest guys arranged to go to North America, and work in state-owned farms, lumberyards or factories under the arrangement of the government of the Chinese American Republic; the more honest but somewhat bloody guys arranged to go to South America to build frontier forts, and by the way beat the Indian natives, or Get it to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland, and occasionally deal with headhunters and savages.As for the most rebellious thorns and soldiers and rogues, they will be thrown to Africa to dig for gold and diamonds, and play with Uncle Black by the way—anyway, as long as you get there, you can’t help but die.In the end, as a pilot, a small group of carefully selected "excellent immigrants" who were the most law-abiding and disciplined were sent to the southwestern part of Australia, where the initial construction was completed, so that this future "world capital" could be more or less popular.

As a result, under the vigorous organization of immigration by the Allied forces, the population of Hangzhou City dropped rapidly to about 30.In the past, the bustling neighborhoods where every inch of land was expensive, but now there are large areas of uninhabited empty houses everywhere, just like ghost towns where real estate development failed in later generations.

After extracting so many people at once, by the end of last year, the work of the immigration department in the Hangzhou area had come to a standstill, because the surplus population in the Hangzhou area had been basically exhausted, and the contradiction between people and land had been greatly resolved. Relief, there's not much to tap into potential anymore.And the vast majority of Chinese people have the idea of ​​relocating to another country, and they are not very willing to move to other places as long as they can barely survive.

Therefore, unless the relevant departments are willing to use violence and coercion like bandits, they will not be able to recruit immigrants even if they take out silver coins and food.

Regrettably, although in the eyes of modern society, the Chinese League is already in a humanitarian disaster.But compared to the vast majority of warlords these days, the upper echelons of the Huameng are more disciplined, and they still can't afford to do such dirty work.

But just when the immigration department of the Chinese League was about to close the stalls from Hangzhou, the Eight Banners Qing army crossed the south of the Yangtze River and raced to enclose land, but in an instant, millions of war refugees were created in the south of the Yangtze River, and at least half of them were on the way. They rushed across or around Taihu Lake to Zhejiang in a panic.Especially those Hangzhou people who fled north because of "avoiding the thieves", now turn around and flee back with regret—if they are not dead.Many of them knelt down as soon as they got to the edge of the West Lake, howling in front of the rippling water of the West Lake, presumably they suffered a lot while fleeing.

However, what these unlucky people who moved back and forth did not know was that quite a few of them would have to suffer more in the future...

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At this very moment, student Wang Qiu, who holds the title of the most senior special commissioner, is sitting in a gazebo facing the West Lake in Phoenix Mountain Villa. Tired civil servants chat casually.

"...In the past few months, there are really enough refugees from Jiangsu Province! The total number should exceed 100 million!"

While drinking the absolutely authentic Hangzhou Longjing tea, Wang Qiu asked casually, "... Jiangnan will not let the Eight Banners Tartars kill it!"

"...Actually, the total number of immigrants we recruited before and after this round has exceeded 200 million! As for Jiangnan being killed and emptied, it can't be said. First of all, the territory that the Qing army is currently harming in Jiangnan is actually Taiping Mansion, Ying The combined area of ​​Tianfu, Changzhou, Suzhou and Zhenjiang is less than half of the entire Jiangnan. Secondly, the population of Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty had exceeded 200 million, and the population of Songjiang and Suzhou had reached [-]. More than [-], just tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, no matter how much they kill and loot, they will not kill them all. But it will definitely cause devastating damage to the local society."

A civil servant from the republic on the east coast of South America yawned, and at the same time he struck a match and lit a Havana cigar. This is simply impossible! The Aixinjueluo family has lost their base in Liaodong, and can only roam around in the core hinterland of the Han people. What? At most, it is just like the Hou Jing Rebellion in the Southern and Northern Dynasties era, after a few years of tossing, it will be wiped out."

Speaking of this, he paused, and opened his mouth to blow out a smoke ring, "...From ancient times to the present, in China, only the Hu people occupied the north and confronted the Han regime in the south. There has never been a situation where the Hu people occupied the south and confronted the north. The long-term confrontation of the Han regime is a strange thing! What's more, now that even the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Taiji, is dead, and the candidate for the new emperor has not been determined for a long time, maybe a cannibalism is imminent. The newly born Qing Dynasty Whether the empire can barely survive, or just break up and collapse, is still a big question mark!"

"...Are you saying that we can watch the Qing Dynasty, whose vitality is as tenacious as a cockroach, be self-defeating? This... I am not as optimistic as you! After all, the end of the Ming Dynasty itself was an extremely strange and subversive era. , and the arrival of us traversers seems to make this era more and more strange... For example, the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties can sit together to go to court, and three Ming emperors appeared at the same time..."

Wang Qiu sighed and shook his head, "...Besides, although there are relatively few Hu people who established political power in southern China, it is not uncommon. I happen to know one example, that is, in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a group of Di people, um, that is During the Battle of Feishui, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian’s family once separatized Bashu and established Han Kingdom... If we captured Liaodong and destroyed the old nest of the Manchus, it turned out that the Qing Empire moved to the south of the Yangtze River and established , That feeling is really weird! Should it be said that the vitality of the Eight Banners is too strong, or does it mean that the fighting power of the Chaoren is too overwhelming?"

"... Well, considering how wonderful the scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River were in the Ming Dynasty, it is not impossible for the Qing court to establish a country in Nanjing. It is not completely impossible... Haha, but this is too ridiculous! It is almost like moving the Roman Empire to Greece Continuing Guozuo on the people's territory is still a spoof!"

The civil servant of the East Coast Republic thought for a while, and couldn't help laughing, "... But it seems that there is nothing wrong with us! Only when there is comparison, can there be progress, and only when there is killing, can there be refugees! There is no Manchu Eight Banners manufacturing How can we bring out our generosity and benevolence? Anyway, whether it is the Eight Banners Tartars or the landlords and gentry, they are all targets that need to be eradicated. Only the naturalized people cultivated from refugees are the basic base we can rely on .If the Qing army can really burn the south of the Yangtze River into a piece of white land, then the refugees created will be enough for us to conquer America!"

For the above-mentioned cruel statement that is inhumane and benevolent, almost everyone in the room gasped.

Indeed, for travelers who are planning to build a new world, the Jiangnan water town with its prosperous literary style and natural treasures is actually a tough bone that is difficult to digest.Although there is a large population here, it is strictly controlled by those landlords and gentry from thought to people.Whether the traversers want to carry out large-scale immigration, or want to carry out modernization in the south of the Yangtze River, they need to eradicate these old-age scholars!

In other words, whether it is to liberate the labor force or rationally use land resources, the traversers need to eradicate the entire landlord and gentry class and the soil where they exist, and the contradiction between the two is irreconcilable.It is indeed a relatively easy way to use the butcher knife of the Manchu Tartars to kill the southern gentry and avoid getting your hands dirty.But the problem is, in this way, there will be too many people who will die because of this in Jiangnan...

So, after a while, someone raised an objection, "...Are you hoping that Jiangnan will be smashed to pieces? If this is really the case, then this land will definitely be devastated, and the people will not be able to live. How many years have accumulated All Chinese cultural heritage will be gone.”