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Text: Day 194: Refugees in Gyeonggi Province

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    On the 17th of the month, after cleaning up the battlefield a little, Gaishui camp sent Lieutenant back to Funing County, and continued to approach Santun camp with more than a thousand newly acquired horses.  After walking for more than ten miles, I encountered a large group of refugees fleeing the wilderness.

    These are the hungry people near Yongping - they were robbed by the Tatars who made the city into a city. Later, when the Tatars withdrew, they used carriages to transport the looted food and property. Now, all the people near Yongping are gone.  food.

    It¡¯s not just the poor who are unlucky. This time when they encounter the Tatars, the entire capital has no food.  All the land was robbed by the Jurchens, and there were no wealthy Jin gentry villagers to come out to open porridge shacks to provide relief.  The imperial court could not count on it. Gansu and Shaanxi were so hungry. The officers and soldiers in the six provinces only encircled and massacred the refugees. There was no news that the government would open warehouses to release grain.

    ? ? Continuing to stay in Yongping looks like a dead end.

    There is news coming from Funing that there is a way to survive there.  The distance between Yongping and Funing was only sixty or seventy miles, so the brave men headed east.  The news they brought back made the victims near Yongping very excited - those lawless Nanhai people were inspired by some Bodhisattva, and they actually drove away the Tatars and opened warehouses to cook porridge and rice to provide disaster relief!

    When the Tatars came, some people hid some food without telling the Tatars, but the Tatars came quickly, so they really didn¡¯t hide much.  Near Yongping, the victims were so hungry that they started eating people.  What else is there to say in this disaster year?  Run away wherever there is a way to survive.  First, the families who got the news went east to Funing by themselves, but the news quickly spread, and the people fled to the seaside occupied by the Nanhai people without saying a word.

    Tens of thousands of refugees, dragging their families with them, are moving across the wilderness carrying simple packages.  From a distance, all I could see was a dense mass of darkness, overwhelmingly blocking the entire field of vision.  Those village elders with clear aspirations were the spiritual leaders of this huge team. Some middle-aged people from the clan maintained order in front of and behind the team, shouting at the people not to block the road to change the water camp.

    It seems that they have heard about the Hai people fighting the Tatars to save the people. This huge refugee team is not afraid of the Nanhai people's army. They just pass by the Gaishui camp out of curiosity with weak eyes.  They were so hungry that every time they walked through a place, they would drop a few people who were fainting from hunger and fall to the ground, leaving a trail in the wilderness.

    Such a team of refugees made the surrounding situation a little complicated. Gaishuiying simply stopped and set up camp to build fortifications.

    After being attacked by Mang Gurtai, the troops who moved to the water camp became more cautious.  After stopping the march, the soldiers immediately dug holes around the camp to secure their horses, and then began to erect wooden piles and earthen walls near the camp.  Not only were scouts sent out, entire teams of musketeers were also sent out in large numbers to search the nearby area for dozens of miles to ensure that large-scale enemy forces could be discovered immediately.

    It¡¯s noon now.  Seeing that the refugees were extremely hungry, Mingtao asked the logistics team to take some rice out.  We set up a few sheds in the distance and started cooking porridge.

    Looking at the frighteningly hungry people, Wu had nothing on him.  Apart from a pair of tattered clothes, all that was left was a body that was dying of hunger.  Chang Wenguang couldn't help but shook his head.  He looked at the well-informed Li Jinxi.  Chang Wenguang asked.  "Military advisor. Why are these Tatars robbing everything like locusts? So is Liaodong so short of things?"

    Li Jinxi was thinking about something and was stunned when he said this.  He put away the small map in his hand.  After thinking for a while he said.  "After all, there is a lack of land. Nurhachi raised his flag to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, but the real people in front of them had horse markets and Ming Dynasty transactions. At first, the horse market trading rights were the treasures of the Jurchens who fought with each other to rob each other. But later the horse market was withdrawn and the Ming Dynasty strictly prohibited merchants and  The Tatars do business. Outside the customs there is a shortage of everything."

    Boss Liang looked at Li Jinxi and asked.  "I heard that Shanxi merchants transported grain to the Tatars?"

    Li Jinxi said lightly.  "This is true. It is true that some Shanxi merchants colluded with the Tatars. But this trade was not big. The Tatars had hundreds of thousands of bannermen outside the pass. It was of little use to rely on Shanxi merchants to secretly transport a few trucks and dozens of trucks of grain. At that time, Chongzhen  Let Yuan Chonghuan supervise Ji Liao. He also gave full authorization and did not interfere. But as soon as the little emperor heard that Yuan Chonghuan had sold rice and transferred it to the Tatars, he immediately intervened. He immediately sent someone to stop"

    Li Jinxi shook his head.  said.  "The Tatars beat the Ming Dynasty and it hurts. This trade is still strictly prohibited. I heard that there was a famine outside the customs the year Huang Taiji came to the throne. The Tatars were cannibals. I didn't see how much rice Shanxi merchants sold to Huang Taiji. Shenyang  A stone of ground and millet costs as much as eighty taels."

    After hearing this, several officers grinned and looked at each other speechless. They suddenly felt that life for the Tatars was really difficult.  Li Jinxi smiled and said,

    "Compared with the sea smuggling carried out by Nanwang in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, the scale of Houjin's land smuggling is really pitiful. Everything outside the customs is in short supply, so I think about entering the customs every day to rob this beautiful world"

    Chang Wenguang raised his eyebrows and shouted, "King Nan is quite capable! He has a good relationship with the governor Xiong Wencan, so I think it will be of great use!"

    Li Jinxi raised his eyebrows and said, "Ertailai will fight to the death with us.  Now that the Zhenglan flag has been abolished, let's talk about what you think of the battle ahead.  "

    Chang Wenguang looked at the line between Santunying and Xifengkou and said,

    "The number of Tatars who entered the customs this time was only 17,000 or 8 at most. I heard that Lu Xiangsheng became more and more brave in fighting. What kind of Tianxiong army is he leading now? He is leading a few Ming national flag troops to besiege Yutian. In addition, Zhang Zongheng  And Wu Xiang No, it's Wu Sangui now. With Tongzhou holding the back, Huang Taiji will be restrained by seven or eight thousand people no matter what."

    Boss Liang and Zhao De looked at the sand table and remained silent.

    Li Jinxi sighed and said, "I have always heard that Mang Gurtai has opinions about Huang Taiji. Now Zhenglan Banner has been directly abolished by us. We have helped Huang Taiji. The slave is Mang Gurtai.  Casting stones to ask for directions, and then using our guns to borrow knives to kill people, killing two birds with one stone, it is really cunning.¡±

    Li Jinxi took a look around Jizhou and said, "Although the main force of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty has been defeated, there are still many miscellaneous soldiers. It is impossible for all the Tatar forces to be mobilized to deal with us Huang Taiji can't do it no matter what."  Raise a flag If we continue to push forward, I don¡¯t think Huang Taiji will be able to resist. After all, the Tatars have a small population, so it is impossible for them to fight a war of attrition with us."

    "I think we should withdraw quickly when the time comes, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Ming army."

    Qin Mingtao looked at the sand table, took a bite of the bun, and swallowed it slowly.  Qin Mingtao straightened his upper body, nodded and said, "Okay, let's continue to force the Santun camp as planned."
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