Investigation and discussion of the actual situation in Jiangxi Province and when the meeting on how to govern is underway, the work of restoring people's livelihood has already begun. Tianlai Novel.|2

Through Jianchang Prefecture, the Rushui River that flows into Poyang Lake through Fuzhou Prefecture and the southern part of Nanchang Prefecture is a waterway that can connect to a large ship of 1,000 tons. It has convenient water transportation and can be said to be the most important waterway in Jianchang Prefecture.

The Rushui started from Guangchang County, the southernmost end of Chang Prefecture, passed through Nanfeng and Nancheng counties, and then flowed into the boundary of Fuzhou Prefecture. However, in Jianchang Prefecture, it did not pass through the two counties of Luxi and Xincheng. In Xincheng County, there is still Lishui flowing into the Rushui River, but the water system flowing through Luxi County directly flows into Xinjiang River, not the Rushui water system.

Since ancient times, the scope of rule has been directly linked to the degree of information transmission. Luxi County is too far away from other prefectures and is originally a county in Jianchang Prefecture. If the waterway is not connected, then the official road becomes necessary. Especially in the southeast of Luxi County is Guangze County of Shaowu Prefecture in Fujian. Continue to move southeast, it is also the location of Shaowu's prefecture. The Ming army also took advantage of the opportunity to recover there during the previous offensive. The repair of the official road in the middle has become an urgent task.

On the official road between Luxi County and Guangze County, a large number of men wearing green camp soldiers uniforms were sweating profusely repairing the official road. They were basically the prisoners captured by the Ming army during the previous battle, the serious Green camp soldiers, among which there were personal soldiers and servants and other prides in the army. However, in the coolie camp of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the uniforms of the Green camp military were their work clothes, and they were even a group of coolie who were in charge of life and death.

There are mostly mountain roads between the two counties, and it is very difficult to renovate. This renovation actually started after Chen Wen arrived in Nanchang. At that time, it was mainly the official road from Guangxin Mansion to Nanchang. It expanded here to this place. For these coolies who have achieved food for labor tasks and can only eat whips if they cannot achieve it, it is really not an easy place.

It’s not that no one has thought about it or that no one has done it, but it seems like there are so many evil ghosts lurking around. As long as someone runs out, the man’s corpse will definitely be hung on a special pole for the camp the next day, without exception.

Under the sun, the coolies work hard. Mountain renovation has the disadvantages of mountain renovation, but there are some benefits. One is that stones are easy to obtain, and the other is that those Ming soldiers who go to the mountains to hunt for nothing will give them some wild game to those who perform better, which is considered a reward.

This morning, the Ming army that was resting went out and soon carried a big wild boar back. Most of them were naturally used by the Ming army, but no matter which team of coolies it was, they did not want to receive the reward for excellent performance today. It has nothing to do with the illusory commutation of sentence, but only with the ownership of the half-strong wild boar's hind legs.

Pure high pressure is not conducive to improving the work efficiency of coolies. Over the past few years, the coolies camp has already summarized too much experience, and appropriate material rewards are one of them.

The wild boar had been beaten to death, and the chef was breaking it apart. For this evening meat meal, the teams were also competing openly and secretly. However, this good working atmosphere was interrupted by a team of hundreds of people.

A group of pedestrians from Guangze County, including men, women, old and young, were mostly worn out in tatters, but on their hands, shoulders, and even some of the same tattered basins and jars on the jars were carefully seen, as if they were afraid they would break them.

This group of people looked more like a group of people fleeing in danger than pedestrians. If it weren't for the two Ming soldiers who led the team and were driving a donkey cart, the word "escape" would have been confirmed.

Someone passed by on the road, and they had to stop for a while and retreated one by one, but the already broken green camp dog skins on their bodies still aroused the exclamation of the group of refugees in the distance.

Fortunately, the Ming army in charge of leading the team obviously knew who these green camp soldiers were, but they didn't care. After a little comfort, they took the refugees to move forward so that they could pass through this area as soon as possible and enter the temporary residence of Luxi County before the sun sets.

The refugees started to move again, but soon a scream came from the coolie, accompanied by the exclamation, and even the group of refugees became timid again.

In a blink of an eye, a "bang" sounded, and the coolie who had blown the first whistle immediately curled up on the ground in pain. Then, a loud shout suddenly sounded.

"Whistle, it seems you are very idle. Which bastard whistled just now? After finishing what he should do today, he will smash the stone for another half an hour!"

It is inevitable that the sows will turn into Diao Chan after three years of being in the army. Although these green camp soldiers have only been captured for a few months, the temptation of women is not a joke at all, especially those ordinary people who are like refugees. They were all weak people who bullied whatever they wanted. Compared with the vicious Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, when they noticed that there were still women in the refugee team, they naturally had to reveal their true colors.

However, the whip's explosion aroused their fear, and they immediately became timid, and for a moment it seemed even more pitiful than the refugees.

The momentum grew and the other was declining, and refugees began to pass slowly under the leadership of the Ming army. The supervisors kept a close eye on the coolies, for fear of causing trouble. Even the Ming army in the distance, with a force of the strong and sharp-stained people came to guard the situation.

As soon as the Ming army arrived, the possibility of chaos disappeared immediately. The military supervisors breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them turned his attention to the refugees.

In fact, refugees were nothing good. However, the two Ming soldiers were driving a donkey cart, while the other was walking forward behind the team. If they were guarding, they gave the remaining space in the donkey cart to several elderly people who were obviously unable to move.

"A such a royal army may not be able to compete with the Yue family army and the Qi family army."

A hint of relief appeared on the supervisor's face. But at this moment, a coolie came to him, nodded and bowed to the supervisor and said, "Mr. Wang, what are these people doing? Why are there military officials leading the team?"

The Wang Jiangong mentioned by Kuli was Wang Qinian, a local soldier in the Biaoying in Jinhua Town that he had participated in the construction of the Anhua Town Fortress.

Cao Conglong's initiative in the rebellion. Although the Ming army had an additional one year sentence after quelling the rebellion, he had already known a new officer from the Coolie Camp with his advantage of his hometown. He soon got into the job of a lower-level supervisor. He also received a reduced sentence by relying on his hard work and excellent performance.

When he was released after his sentence, he soon returned to the coolie camp to serve as an intermediate supervisor of the Ming army, and he whipped the whip just now.

"What? Do you want to find a little sissy to warm up your bed?"

"Oh, look at what you said, I don't have the courage. I just can't do the work for the time being, so I'm not going to fight for time."

Wang Qinian glanced at him and knew that this was a guy who was so sensible but had no courage, otherwise he would have lost his head long ago.

"Those people were the people of Fujian who came to Jiangxi by the King of Kings. If nothing unexpected happens, these people are either craftsmen or their families. But it is hard to say that this is still the first batch, and there are some ordinary farmer men in it."

Wang Qinian was not wrong. These people were not just craftsmen that the Ming army attached more importance to. Half of them were ordinary farmers. They responded to the call in Shaowu to come to Jiangxi to seek a new life.

A few days ago, the Ming army had just executed Wang Zhigang, the Qing army commander who had been in trouble for many years in the local area in Lingchi, Shaowu. Even in the eyes of the gentry, the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were also the kingly army that saved the people from water and fire. The words they said were naturally extremely credible. Moreover, Fujian is mountainous and the land is far less fertile than Jiangxi. Many people know these things. Among this group of refugees, some of whom were forced to move to Fujian due to the continuous disasters in Jiangxi. For them, this was just a return home.

"Oh, so that's the case."

More than a hundred people, the team quickly passed, and the work of renovating the road continued. However, Wang Qinian and others actually knew only one thing but not the other. As the Ming army invaded the prefectures and counties in Guangdong and Fujian, the work of calling the people of these two provinces to Jiangxi was already begun.

Since the Qing army headed south, Jiangxi has suffered huge population losses. In addition to calling on the people hiding in the mountains to return to their hometowns, attracting people from other provinces into Jiangxi is also an effective strategy to increase the actual population control in the occupied areas as soon as possible.

In history, after the Qing Dynasty arrived in the world, there was also a policy of filling Sichuan with Huguang. Even in the early Ming Dynasty, there was an example of a big locust tree. Chen Wen only took advantage of the opportunity of the main Qing army forces in these two provinces to call on the people to enter Jiangxi in the surrounding areas near the Ming army occupied areas, which was incomparable to the previous two.

The recovery of productivity naturally starts with agriculture. But first, it is not about how many agricultural tools are made or how many water conservancy facilities are built, but about people having land before there will be fertile land.

Chen Wen is still struggling with the land, but there are a lot of abandoned land in Jiangxi prefectures and counties, so there is no pressure. Only some people have suffered heavy slaughter in Zhejiang and have a large decline in population. Even if people's livelihood has recovered in recent years, Jinhua Mansion, which was first revived, has only been only three years. The recovery of labor force cannot be based on the birth of newborns, but can only come out of the mountains and forests or the occupied areas of the Qing army as much as possible, such as now.

After completing the work of a day, the team with the best work results received the reward of half a boar leg. Although there were many people in this team, each of them could only get one or two pieces of meat and a large bowl of broth, it was already a rare meal. Some of them were even more "a good at living a life" and came up with the idea of ​​eating one piece and leaving one piece, and then eating it when you are hungry or hungry.

Compared with those coolies who could have a great meal of meat, the Ming army itself had a meat ratio. Although they were not many troops like local garrison troops, they could go out to hunt and always get some wild game back if they rested.

After Wang Qinian had dinner, he took advantage of the opportunity of patrol patrol and handed a large piece of meat he had hidden to a coolie. The coolie looked around and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Brother, is there any?" Before the piece in his mouth was swallowed, the coolie hurriedly asked Wang Qinian.

In fact, many people in the Kuli Camp knew that this Kuli was an officer of Biao Camp in Jinhua Town, and his concubine was Wang Qinian's sister. Because of this relationship, he brought Wang Qinian to Biao Camp in Jinhua Town to avoid bullying by other green camp soldiers. Now it is still the same relationship, but Wang Qinian has come to take care of him.

"It's gone, our team knows it, but taking too much will easily lead to displeasure among others."

He chewed it finely, swallowed the fat meat in his mouth with his eyes closed, and the aroma of the meat seemed to still linger between his lips and teeth. It was not until a moment later that the coolie opened his eyes and licked the fragrance between his lips while saying to Wang Qinian: "What brother said is so much, it will be bad if it gets bigger."

After patrolling the camp, he had to go back to rest, but Wang Qinian waited for his brother-in-law to recall it for a long time. He said, "You can do more on weekdays and strive for a reduction in sentence. Otherwise, I will be transferred, and those people will not bully you as they die."

Unexpectedly, when he heard this, the coolie was stunned. Then he sighed and said to him: "Brother, it will take more than ten years to reduce his sentence."

The truth about Coolie is not an excuse. He was an officer from Biaoying, Jinhua Town, and he was also a fellow townsman of Ma Jinbao. He was not of high rank, but once he had a direct relationship with Ma Jinbao, the punishment would inevitably be aggravated, and he was an example.

The sentence lasted for more than 20 years, and it was because Wang Qinian's family begged several neighbors to say good things to him. When the sentence ended, even if he was not exhausted in the coolie camp, he would be a little old man when he went out. How could he bear it if he was accustomed to eating and drinking with Ma Jinbao like this?

Unexpectedly, as soon as this statement came out, Wang Qinian grabbed the coolie's collar, and even the "sharp" of the material torn apart could not suppress his anger.

"It's not an exaggeration to cut off your head as a good thing. My sister is still guarding you at home. If it weren't for her, would you think I would be here to accompany you, a bastard? There have been two officers in the village, both of whom I have lived for the past, so where can't I go?"

Speaking of this, Wang Qinian gasped for a few breaths before lowering his voice and said to the coolie: "Even if you ignore yourself, you have to care about my sister and nephew!"

As soon as he said that, the two looked at each other speechlessly. But compared to the coolie who was the wife and children at home, Wang Qinian suddenly remembered a person whom he didn't want to remember again for many years - the Cao Conglong Rebellion, and in the end he and another coolie escaped from the encirclement of the Ming army. But later he went back and took the head of the Green Camp soldier who had had a lifelong friendship with him in the Biaoying in Jinhua Town, and handed over the letter of fame...

"What my brother said is that I still have a wife and a son. I have to work more and go out to reunite with my wife earlier, and maybe I can get along with my son."
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