Chapter 625 A quiet place

Overnight, the provinces south of the Yangtze River suddenly discovered that their defense was so empty that the mobile troops in each province were transferred to Fujian to encircle and suppress the so-called defeated soldiers in Huazhou. But the news now is that the defeated soldiers in Huazhou had nearly 40,000, which had defeated all the Ming troops to Fujian.

The Huazhou Army has a powerful fleet, which has been spread in the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is light or dark. There are no soldiers everywhere and the defense is empty. Isn’t the opponent’s fleet willing to attack from ashore or where it can attack from? It can’t even react on its own side.

Officials from Zhejiang prefectures, especially Songjiang Prefecture, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Hangzhou, began to wonder whether to transport the treasures they have recovered over the years to other places and escape as soon as possible. The major prefectures and counties in Nanzhili are also similar.

Some officials are thinking about making a fortune in the end. Generally speaking, people are in panic at this time. Officials can use the power of the government and garrisons to protect themselves, but merchants and landlords do not have this ability. According to convention, they are bribed officials in order to obtain the protection of officials, and can be safe in chaos and run away together when they escape.

However, the merchants were not in a state of movement, as if they were not in chaos outside the city. They still did their business as usual, and the shops seemed to have no effect.

The various shops and workshops of merchants are open as usual, which is to stabilize people's hearts. The proportion of farmers in southern Zhili and Zhejiang is very low. Most of them work in the city to make money to support their families. The shops and workshops of merchants are constantly operating, so these civilians will not lose their livelihoods due to chaos, so they will naturally not be in chaos.

Local officials from all over the country also want to extort, but organizations like the Thirteenth Chamber of Commerce are not very afraid of the government. At this time, for some reason, they are even more courageous.

The yamen runners came to find trouble and provoked each other, but the other party ignored them at all. They wanted to take the people, but the stewards guards kept by each household were not decorations. When they started, the people who suffered losses were all from the government. After the fight, these merchants even threatened with words:

"Our business is a business dealer with Liuheng Island Shuangyu. You have to leave a way out for everything, don't do it!"

Who knows about Xu Liao and Deng Qi on the Shuangyu Island of Liuheng Island? It is the territory of Huazhou. The merchants understand very well. The yamen runners also heard rumors. When they heard this, their hair was standing up all over their bodies. They dared to continue to catch and ask questions.

In a prefecture, there were only one or two hundred gangs around him, but the strength of the merchants' servants and the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce was no less than a thousand. In addition to the workplace and workers, they were all young and strong, and the power difference was already huge.

In addition, most of the troops were dispersed in Fujian. In the past, they could only use the command of the military soldiers outside the city to capture them. Now there are almost no war soldiers outside the city. The military soldiers were decaying and were already controlled by the merchants from all households in the form of employment. If they were to mobilize troops into the city, they would not know who would send troops to threaten whom.

Moreover, the merchants threatened Liuheng Island and Shuangyu. This matter was very clear. Now almost all the people in Zhili, Zhejiang Province have been infiltrated by Huazhou.

At first, the intention of making the last fortune in the chaos gradually disappeared. Officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River began to consider their retreat in fear, but the result was strange things. There were yamen runners and sent people from various yamen to surrender to the big merchants' homes, willing to become slaves or farmers. Some officials took their families and money they had plundered for many years and fled overnight. When they got up in the morning, the yamen had become empty houses.

Some officials wrote documents of surrender and sent them to the Shuangyu Islands of Liuheng Island in various ways. Without the guards of the officials, there was no one to manage the entire social security. Throughout the dynasties, civilians were the most unlucky at this time, because the bandits and the evil people in the city were about to start to cause trouble and harm the villagers.

This phenomenon did occur. After a few days, when the prefectures and counties where officials fled, they saw that no one was managing the market, and immediately there were rogues wandering on the streets and evil people outside the city, who began to get together and prepare to make a vote in the city. However, these people did not expect that the world has indeed changed now.

Setting fires at night causes chaos, and then choosing those medium-sized families, who are generally protected but have some property in the home, go in and wash the gold and silver women, and indulge them well.

Anyway, there were no yamen soldiers in the city at this time to maintain public order. It was a great time to rob. The first one was Yuhang County. In the middle of the night, several piles of firewood were lit in the west of the city. The rogue gathered together clamored loudly, shouting: "The Huazhou Army has entered the city", and was preparing to rob.

Unexpectedly, before he started to hit the door and climbed over the wall, the family who was robbed started to ring the clapper. The rogues outside were stunned, thinking what the use of knocking the clapper was. Now the government is completely empty, so who else can do it?

As a result, it didn't take long to see Zhuang Ding's guards and others rushing over from all directions. These scoundrels were holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks, but those Zhuang Ding's guards were holding big swords and axes in their hands, and some even held bows and arrows and muskets.

He rushed over with great momentum, and immediately scared the bandits who took advantage of the situation and robbed them to death. However, after so many years of robbery, he had already passed down his rich historical experience. The bandits quickly dropped the weapon in their hands and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

They knew that such civilian escorts and joint security organizations generally did not dare to kill people easily, for fear of being involved in a lawsuit. The final result was either sent to the yamen or be beaten and let go. Now the government has no one, and endured the pain of flesh and blood and escaped.

These people had a good plan, but they didn't expect that the patriarch guards would surround them. Someone stood up and said:

"What is the use of this kind of disaster? I cut my head and hung it on the pole. If there is such a person who takes the opportunity to make trouble, let them knock it."
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