Daming pirates

Once the local warriors from each township and village are unable to stop these refugees, the village may be attacked in an instant. The hungry and impatient refugees rush into the village and loot all the property and food they can find, especially

For those wealthy families who were unkind, they used extremely cruel methods. They slaughtered their entire families, robbed everything they could, and even set fire to the village before leaving.

Governments in various places suddenly began to feel nervous, and they constantly mobilized officers and soldiers to clear out these thieves who gathered together. At first, there were some results. After all, the people were habitually afraid of these officers and soldiers. Once they saw the officers and soldiers attacking them,

When they go into suppression, they often disperse in a rush.

But this situation did not last long. Although the refugees were also afraid of the government troops, they still had to find food and survive. Gradually, some large groups of thieves were no longer afraid of the government troops. If they encountered a small number of thieves,

The officers and soldiers no longer dispersed and fled in all directions as before. Instead, under the leadership of some daring men, they began to confront the officers and soldiers.

As for ordinary officers and soldiers, despite the fact that they usually show off their power in front of the people, most of them can only be regarded as armed serfs of some generals. They do not have much fighting power, and they can only be regarded as wearing a military uniform at best.

If the peasants cannot scare away the thieves, the officers and soldiers are often inferior to the hungry and impatient refugees. As a result, there have been cases in various places where the officers and soldiers were defeated by the hungry refugees.

As a result, the urgent documents immediately began to fly to Fuzhou City, the capital of Fujian, like snowflakes, and flew into the governor's Yamen.

After August, Xiong Wencan fell into this overwhelming emergency document and became the captain of the fire brigade. Every day when he opened his eyes, he saw a lot of emergency documents, and then he began to dispatch troops and generals to various places.

Kill these thieves.

But the actual situation is that the bandits are killing more and more, and bandits of all sizes are springing up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a rain. No matter how hard Xiong Wencan tries, he can't solve this problem.

So Xiong Wencan once again thought of his confidant Yu Xiaotian, General Yu, and ordered Yu Xiaotian to dispatch troops and generals to exterminate the bandits in Zhangquan. After September, as Yanping Prefecture and Tingzhou Prefecture were in crisis one after another

, Xiong Wencan had no choice but to order Yu Xiaotian to send troops to these two mansions to help suppress them.

At first, Yu Xiaotian tried to either lead his troops or send troops to eliminate several groups of fierce and cruel bandits in one fell swoop. However, he soon realized that doing so was just blocking and could not fundamentally solve the problem. He wanted to kill them today.

A group of bandits will appear tomorrow and two or three new groups of bandits will emerge. Today a group of bandits will be dispersed. Tomorrow these bandits will gather again and find another place to start fighting.

In fact, the vast majority of these bandits are just ordinary refugees. They just want to survive and eat, and they have to take risks as a last resort, so they start this business with all their heads.

After realizing this, Yu Xiaotian became happy instead of angry. Wouldn't this be great news for him?

He has been secretly and secretly gathering refugees from the mainland or persuading some landless people to immigrate to Taiwan Island to farm for him and develop various parts of Taiwan Island.

In addition to consuming a lot of manpower and material resources, doing so also requires careful precautions against being alerted by the government and someone using this to make an issue to impeach him.

But now there is a severe drought in Fujian, which has caused hungry people all over the place. Wouldn't it just meet his needs? In previous years, he could not get anything from him. Sometimes he had to go to great lengths to persuade some people to leave their homeland and settle on the island of Taiwan.

Using words, even deception, and even using strong methods, some people were able to get some people on board ships and transport them to various parts of Taiwan Island.

But now there is no need to work so hard. Outside every city, there are refugees all over the place. These refugees are all starved, skinny and skinny, and they have even become numb due to hunger.

Some women are even willing to sell their bodies for a piece of cake, just to survive. Some parents, in order for their children to survive, have to sell their children at a low price, hoping that the rich can make a fortune.

Be compassionate and take their children in, even for free. Just give them a bucket of rice and they will be thankful.

It can be said that as long as you give them something to eat, these hungry people don't care what you ask them to do now. As long as you give them a bite to eat, they will follow you. As for where they will go in the future, it is no longer a problem for them to consider.

So after Yu Xiaotian figured it out, he immediately hit the road, took some personal guards, and quickly rushed to Fuzhou City to meet Xiong Wencan.

Recently, Xiong Wencan has been very worried about the victims and relief work, and even his temper has become a lot worse. Many of his people have been reprimanded, and everyone is too busy to keep their feet on the ground. Suddenly, he heard that Yu Xiaotian was not recruiting

Later, Xiong Wencan was busy dealing with things, so he asked Yu Xiaotian to wait outside angrily.

However, all his subordinates knew that Yu Xiaotian was a popular person in front of Xiong Wencan, so they did not dare to neglect him and sent him to a side hall to serve him tea first.

Xiong Wencan was busy for a long time, and then he remembered that Yu Xiaotian was still drying outside, so he called his subordinates to recruit Yu Xiaotian into the study.

When he saw Yu Xiaotian walking into his study with a relaxed expression on his face, Xiong Wencan couldn't help but feel a little angry. He snorted with a straight face: "If you don't arrange to suppress thieves, why don't you suddenly stop?"

Zhao Zi Lai, why did you come to me here?"

Yu Xiaotian hurriedly walked forward to greet Xiong Wencan with his smiling face, and said to Xiong Wencan with a smile: "Master Qi, I have come here this time because I have something important to discuss with you!"

Xiong Wencan said angrily: "What important matter can be more important than the current matter of suppressing thieves? You tell me!"

Yu Xiaotian laughed a few times and glanced at the servants waiting beside him. Xiong Wencan knew what Yu Xiaotian had discussed with him today. He probably didn't want more people to know about it, so he snorted coldly and waved his hand to Xian Za.

Everyone was kicked out.

"Tell me! What do you want to discuss with me when you come here this time?"

"Sir, I have been thinking about suppressing thieves for a long time these days. Suddenly, I had an idea and thought of a way to solve this problem once and for all! I don't know if you are willing to listen or not!" Mr. Yu Xiaotian

This gave Xiong Wencan a pass.

Xiong Wencan was having a headache over this matter. Although he had already reported to the court, hoping that the court could allocate some relief food to Fujian and reduce or reduce some extra food for Fujian, but according to his understanding of the current situation of the court, he also knew that the court would allocate some relief food to Fujian.

possibility of food

Very small. Nowadays, the northern provinces have suffered from drought for many years, and the disaster is more serious than that in Fujian. However, the imperial court has not been able to allocate much money and food for relief. For Fujian, it is even less likely that the court will allocate large amounts of money and food for relief. As for

There is no need to think about reductions or exemptions.

Nowadays, the establishment of slaves in Liaodong is becoming more and more arrogant. The imperial court continues to send more troops to Liaodong. Such an action will definitely consume a lot of food and salary. With the current financial situation of the imperial court, it is impossible to maintain it without adding more troops. Even so, Liaodong still has troops from time to time.

There has been a long-term arrears of wages, and there have been many mutinies recently, so it is basically impossible for the imperial court to reduce or increase the amount of troops sent to Fujian.

However, he currently does not have enough money and food on hand for disaster relief. Without money and food, he will naturally not be able to save the victims. Naturally, the victims will not sit still and wait for death without food. They will definitely take risks and gather in the mountains and forests to plunder for a living. This is an endless cycle. He

I also know that suppression alone cannot solve the problem.

However, he has no better way now than to rely on suppression. He cannot just sit back and watch these refugees gather and act recklessly, so he can only send troops to suppress them. Nowadays, Fujian can be said to be in a state of chaos, and the situation is getting more chaotic every day.

, but he could never think of a perfect solution.

Although he is very good at recruiting, and those thieves are willing to accept recruiting, but the premise is that after recruiting, you have to give them food. It just so happens that he does not have so much food on hand. Even if he is recruited, as long as the food supply is cut off, these thieves will

It will still continue to happen again and again.

When Yu Xiaotian said that he had a way to solve this trouble once and for all, Xiong Wencan couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he immediately stood up and said anxiously: "Tell me quickly! What good way do you have? Oh! Sit down and talk!"

Come, watch the tea!"

Yu Xiaotian then found a chair and sat down. Someone quickly brought a bowl of tea from outside, and then quickly left.

Yu Xiaotian then said seriously to Xiong Wencan: "Your Excellency, in fact, the civil unrest in various places in Fujian is basically due to the lack of food, so that the people have no way to live, so they have to take risks and become thieves!

If you want to solve this problem, there are no more than two ways. One is to force the rich and wealthy gentry across Fujian to open warehouses for relief, and strictly control the price of food on the market. No one is allowed to hoard

The goods are so rare that they are driving up food prices! As a last resort, we can only kill some criminals.

However, doing this will definitely cause a backlash from many gentry and relatives, which may be detrimental to your future career and will indeed offend many people!

Some time ago, Beizhi thought of a way to force them to contribute money and food. Beizhi went to several prefectures and counties to persuade local wealthy people, wealthy families, merchants, and gentry to donate. These people were not originally

They are willing to contribute money and food, but they are humble enough to erect a monument of merit outside the gates of these prefectures and counties to make it known to everyone. The names of those who donate money and food are engraved on the monument, and the amount of money and food they donate is clearly marked.

.

In this way, it did play some role. Some gentry, wealthy families and merchants, although they were unkind to get rich, still wanted to save face. When they saw the humble position and set up monuments to show it, they had to spend more money and food for the sake of face.

Buy a reputation.

In this way, a batch of money and food was collected, which helped some victims!..." After saying this, Yu Xiaotian paused for a moment.

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