Of the four counties in Nan'an Prefecture, only Chongyi County has not been won for the time being.
? Chongyi County is poor, remote and hard to get around. There are basically no aborigines in Jiangxi. Most of them are Hakkas from Guangdong, and a small part of them are Yao people from Guangdong. And moved to Jiangxi for a long time, at least 130 years before Wang Yangming suppressed the bandits!
As for Shangyou County, just next door to Chongyi County, the conflict between locals and Hakkas in the southwest of the county is very serious, and most Hakka people are descended from Chongyi County.
Zhao Han invited more than forty representatives from the surrounding counties. Naturally, it is impossible to cover everything. These representatives need to go back and pass on information.
As soon as Zhao Han left Ganzhou, Shangyou County started a commotion.
At this time, it is the earing and flowering period of rice, and the evaporation is large in the high temperature season. Once there is a lack of water, the pollen and pistil stigmas are easy to wither, resulting in difficulty in earing, normal pollination, and the formation of hollow paddy.
And you can't irrigate too much at one time. It is best to keep shallow water in the rice field and irrigate every two to three days.
In a word, frequent water is required.
? Shangyou County, Jilong Village.
There is a small river here that flows into the Shangyou River. Due to the lack of rain for half a year, the small river is almost dry, and only a little bit of the center of the river is still flowing.
The Hakka people, whose ancestral home is in Guangdong, live in the upper reaches of the mountains. Except for the area along the river, the overall land is relatively barren. The natives of Jiangxi live in the lower reaches, and the land is relatively fertile as a whole, and there are much more flat terrain.
However, the Hakka people have an advantage every time when drought grabs water, because they live upstream!
"Boom boom boom boom!"
"The bandits are blocking the river, the bandits are blocking the river!"
The aborigines in the lower reaches were beating gongs and drums. After a while, every family had boys. Even children aged twelve or thirteen began to gather with hoes and sticks.
The backbone of the peasant association was so frightened that they rushed over to dissuade them: "Don't mess around, don't mess around, I'll report to the mayor, and the mayor will make decisions for us!"
"Noisy, tie him up!"
Several backbones of the peasant association were all tied up. Although many villagers have also joined the peasant association, in order to compete for water sources, they do not listen to the backbone of the peasant association at this moment.
In half a day, more than 300 people gathered, all of whom were men from the downstream villages.
They rushed upstream in a mighty way, and soon found the place where the river was crossed. There was a temporary dam on the river there, blocking all the small river water upstream.
"Demolished!"
Just when the aborigines in Jiangxi demolished the dams, the Hakkas also started to tell each other, rushing over with red eyes with all kinds of farm tools.
A total of more than 700 people from both sides fought in the dry and shallow river.
This time the fight was even more fierce, because there was no rain for half a year, and it was the critical heading period.
In terms of casualties, the intensity has surpassed that of Fei Ruhe's siege in Nangan
The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour. Hundreds of people were killed or injured on both sides, and more than 20 people were killed on the spot.
The natives in Jiangxi were few, so they couldn't beat them. They didn't even care about the corpses, so they fled with the wounded. They went back and immediately released the backbone of the peasant association, and then ran to the mayor to complain. The mayor was transferred from Wan'an County, not a native of Shangyou County, so he immediately sent someone to report to Ganzhou City.
"It's time to kill people, and we can't blindly be virtuous." Liu Huan suggested.
Liu Anfeng also said: "Half a month ago, the general town made the rules. It's understandable if the distance is far away, maybe the mountain people don't know it, but Jilong Village in Shangyou County is very close. Their kind of The way to do it is to not pay attention to the general town, nor to pay attention to the government and peasant association in Ganzhou!"
"well!"
Chen Maosheng sighed: "I'm going to transfer troops."
There were only 300 soldiers stationed in Ganzhou City. When Zhao Han left, Chen Maosheng was allowed to move at will.
Two days later, Chen Maosheng summoned hundreds of missionaries and the backbone of the peasant association, and rushed towards Shangyou County with 300 soldiers. Although the Shangyou River was dry and shallow, small warships could still sail there. After arriving at the county seat by boat, they walked along the small river to Jilong Village.
"Master Chen, you have to decide for us, those bandits are so unreasonable!"
As soon as he entered the village, many farmers came running, kneeling on the ground and begging Chen Maosheng for help.
Chen Maosheng said expressionlessly: "Who took the lead in tying up the members of the peasant association?"
No one spoke.
Chen Maosheng turned around immediately: "Go back to Ganzhou, don't worry about things here."
"Liu Baocheng asked him to tie him up. I tried to persuade him, but he didn't!" A farmer shouted.
"Yes, that's Liu Baocheng!" Another farmer said, "He joined the peasant association late, and he didn't become the leader of the peasant association.One by one, the charges were read out, and after the sentence was completed, they were killed, and several heads were chopped off in succession.
When the Hakka people were cut down, those Hakka villagers were ready to move, and the three hundred Datong soldiers immediately raised their weapons.
"brush!"
Another head fell to the ground.
After more than a dozen heads were chopped off, Chen Maosheng said: "After nitrating with lime, spread it to all counties and villages, and let them see what happens to those who advocate chaos and break the law!"
In the next half a month or so, Chen Maosheng was directly stationed here, forcibly forming a peasant association and dividing the land.
?Because the grain is planted in the field, the result of this division of the field will be effective after the grain is harvested, and we will resolutely attack the Hakka leaders who produce too much land!
Ordinary Hakka farmers get benefits and get more land. Although I don't say I really support it, at least I have conflicts with the Hakka leaders, and I will definitely not want to listen to those leaders in the future.
Then there is drought relief. The river is almost dry, so we can only dig wells to try our luck.
Two hundred of the three hundred regular soldiers helped the villagers in the upper and lower reaches to dig wells, and gradually got closer to the people at the bottom during labor.
Just when the rice earing was over, there was a sudden heavy rain.
Regardless of the natives and the common people, they all cheered and celebrated.
However, the General Military Mansion was on alert. From southern Jiangxi to central Jiangxi, heavy rains continued in various counties.
After half a year of drought, a big flood is likely to come!
For a place like Nanchang County, the spring drought is only a slight failure of the harvest, and the big flood may wipe out the rice harvest!
What is strange is that there are continuous heavy rains in central and southern Jiangxi, but the northern part of Jiangxi is still suffering from severe drought. To be precise, it is the eastern part of Jiujiang Prefecture, the northeastern part of Nankang Prefecture, and the northern part of Raozhou Prefecture. These places suffered severe drought last year, and this year there is still no rainfall even in summer.
? Floods and droughts come at the same time, God really doesn't leave a way for people to survive.