Nanming Engineer

Chapter 155 Managing Kuizhou
There was nothing to say that night, the wind was calm and the sea was calm, not even a dog barked in the county town.

Early the next morning, members of the Tan family ran around to deliver news to the clansmen. These people were very sensible. After a night of consideration, they found that they had no other choice but to follow Wang Huan's request. It will only lead to the tragedy of extermination.

After noon, the Tan family began to support the old and the young in the county town, driving a car with burdens, and escorted by soldiers sent by Wang Huan with their belongings. The family rushed over to join in. Slowly, the number of people outside the city gate increased. When it was almost the same, the Tan family in Chengtou was the county magistrate. He counted the number of people and reported to the ancestor who was riding on the horse and holding a spear. With a sound, Zu Bian nodded expressionlessly.

The members of the Tan family converged into a long dragon, led by the Kuizhou soldiers who led the way, and walked along the official road towards the stone pillar. At the stone pillar, Wang Huan had already sent someone to arrange it. Qin Liangyu would break up these people and separate them by household. They were assigned to various headman villages to work and farm to support themselves.

From a modern point of view, doing this is a bit cruel, but under the circumstances at that time, it was a very humane approach. If Tan Wen occupied the Longevity Valley, everyone who had anything to do with Wang Huan would be beheaded.

Fengjie has a total of only 5 people. Nearly [-] people have left at once, and many fields have been vacated. Of course, they should not be wasted. Wang Huan immediately organized the refugees who had recently returned to Fengjie to migrate to Fengjie. Shizhu is much better, at least there is a lot of fertile land, and planting it properly can supply Wang Huan's lack of food, reduce the amount of external purchases, and save a lot of money.

Wang Huankai's conditions were very generous. The fields could be distributed free of charge. As long as they were willing to open up wasteland, the reclaimed wasteland would also belong to the pioneers themselves. The fields were priceless. This alone attracted many voluntary converts.Another condition is to exempt Fengjie from the land tax for one year. The government will not pay for it. This is great news. Whatever you grow is your own. If you don’t pass it, you will be a fool. At the same time, the law of exempting from the land tax also exchanges for the local people of Fengjie County. In the hearts of the residents, they originally had feelings of despair and sorrow for the Tan family's exile. As soon as this decree came out, they immediately turned into incomparable support for Wang Huan.

Wang Huan erected another monument at the gate of Fengjie County, engraved with the same provisions on pensions for joining the army as in Longevity City. There is no need to worry about food and drink, and you can get paid on a monthly basis. The whole city is boiling in Fengjie. If it weren't for Wang Huan's extremely strict requirements for joining the Kuizhou Army, he would be able to recruit tens of thousands of troops that month.

In September, Wang Huan kept busy. From Fengjie to the east, to the west of Daba Mountain, several other counties under the Kuizhou Prefecture in the Sichuan Basin, under the order of Wang Huan, the local magistrates came to Kuizhou in person. Of course, Meng Zhiyu was credited for the defection of the state army. He wrote several letters to the magistrates of these counties, bluntly saying that the newly appointed general of Kuizhou is a dignified master, and he is dedicated to Kuizhou. It is very different from Zeng Ying and others who raise soldiers like bandits and treat people like pigs and dogs. This can be seen from the fact that they are exempted from Fengjie's one-year land tax. The most important thing is that Wang Zongbing is a Confucian generals, what does Confucian generals mean?He is proficient in literature and ink, literati, my own people, and scholars all over the world are united, so of course we have to support it.

So in just one month, Wang Huan recovered ten counties and one prefecture in Kuizhou Prefecture, with a territory of thousands of miles and a population of more than [-] people. Except for a few prefectures and counties such as Chongqing Prefecture and a few remote chieftains, the entire eastern Sichuan Province was included. In Wang Huan's palm.

In such a vast territory, Zeng Ying spent a lot of effort at the beginning, conquering each county one by one, and paid a huge price. The number of soldiers who died in the battle alone was close to tens of thousands. The result is that counties in eastern Sichuan are more dilapidated than counties, and people's livelihoods are dying. The town generals sent by Zeng Ying are ignorant of civil affairs, and only care about exploiting what little people are left. The local people experienced the two military disasters of Zhang Xianzhong and Zeng Ying, which made the entire eastern Sichuan extremely impoverished. Many villages were empty, large areas of land were barren, and the scene of the end of the world was everywhere.

It can be said that what Wang Huan took over was a mess, but he didn't care. On the contrary, he felt that a blank sheet of paper was easy to paint, and the few people could be filled with refugees who moved from abroad. Without the influence of local powerful families, it was more conducive to his own governance and control. , as long as the two only methods of collecting the hearts of the people in troubled times, the two methods of dividing the land and exempting land taxes in the past, can easily get the hearts of the people to surrender and establish the absolute authority of the Kuizhou Army.

Anyone who compares Wang Huan with the civil servants and military generals who controlled Kuizhou before can draw the conclusion that Wang Dashan is well-deserved. No matter the local aborigines or the refugees who moved from abroad, they are all grateful to him.

All of this is based on strong financial resources. Without money, Wang Huan can hardly move forward. The importance of the Tubaozhai silver mine is reflected all the time. With the increasing number of skilled miners and skilled silversmiths, Wang Huan asked Ma Chongming to expand The scale of the mine increased its output from 2000 taels per day to 3000 taels. The silver ingots with white flowers are never tired of it.

A steady stream of new miners drove into the deep mountains of the stone pillars, increasing mining efforts. At this time, the safety of the mines was very poor, and collapses and flooding often occurred, and deaths were common, but people had no complaints and rushed to sign up. There is no other reason, the money is enough.

Fengjie County is the seat of the government of Kuizhou Prefecture, and the magistrate has long since fled. Wang Huan was also happy that he was not restrained by civil officials of the same level. The prefect's rights and civil affairs, big and small, are all handled by him. He only sets the principles and bottom line, and leaves the rest to him for consideration.

Meng Zhiyu was like a galloping horse meeting Bole, ecstatic and full of energy, earnestly followed Wang Huan's instructions, busily busy, and finally moved the entire county office to the general office in order to ask Wang Huan for instructions nearby. In the middle of the soldiers' camp, a courtyard was occupied, and the original county government had long been dilapidated and abandoned.

In this way, the entire military and civil affairs of Kuizhou came into the hands of Wang Huan. He asked Qin Liangyu to send a group of reliable officials from Shizhu to station in various prefectures and counties. In name, they were to assist the magistrates in handling affairs. In fact, everyone knew that This is the real owner. This group of officials recruits local people and establishes local armed forces. The number is more or less, no less than 500 people. They are named Tuanlian and are responsible for maintaining local security and self-protection. , the own Guards Hundreds sent more than twenty soldiers to serve as regiment training instructors, and could also serve as the reserve team of the Kuizhou Army, thereby improving Kuizhou's military defense.

It took Wang Huan two months to deal with all kinds of things. During this time, three major events happened in Central Sichuan and Outside Sichuan.

The first thing is that after forcing Li Zicheng to death and occupying Nanjing, the Qing army Duoduo and Azig returned to the court, leaving Mei Lezhangjing Tong Yanghe to guard Wuchang, and served as the "Governor of the Eight Provincial Army Gates" to control the troops stationed in the south of the Yangtze River and guard against them. Nan Ming.

The second thing is that Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, spread to the world that all men must shave their hair and keep their braids, and those who disobey will be killed without mercy.

The third matter is that Zhang Xianzhong and Zeng Ying confronted each other in the Chongqing government. When the stalemate was at stake, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, He Zhen and others who stayed behind in Shaanxi from Li Zicheng's old department took Sichuan and went down the Yangtze River to Huguang. The main force of the Chuang army who had already stayed in Huguang converged.

(End of this chapter)