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Chapter 498: Storms in the Three Southeast Provinces (Second Update) []
After receiving the news that Dalinghe Fort was breached and Sun Chengzong and others were killed in battle, Chongzhen vomited blood on the spot. txt e-book download** Taiwan's 200,000 troops sent troops to the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Within a few days, they had conquered most of the three provinces, and Chongzhen almost fainted.
After the war in Liaodong basically came to an end and the coalition forces were defeated. In Taiwan, which is thousands of miles away from Liaodong, the mobilization of troops has also been completed.
Under the dispatch of Chen Yuanyun, Taiwan's three-pronged army invaded Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces from Taiwan, Hainan Island and the northern part of Longchuan Province.
With little promotion and prevention, the three-pronged armies invaded the capital cities of the three provinces before they could organize a resistance. Most of the important officials from the three provinces were also captured.
After that, the three armies quickly spread to other parts of the three provinces, becoming invincible wherever they went. The provinces were unable to organize effective resistance at all, and various places were occupied one after another.
By April 10th, most of the three provinces had been occupied, except for northern Fujian and the area close to Zhejiang. Because part of the Fujian navy escaped and entered Zhejiang, it successfully served as an early warning, causing the Zhejiang governor to urgently mobilize the army to go south. As many as 100,000 troops were deployed in Fu'an and Zhenghe in northern Fujian, barely holding on to some places in northern Fujian.
But it¡¯s not that Taiwan¡¯s army in Fujian has nothing to do with these 100,000 people, but because Fujian is too big, and the main attack direction of Taiwan¡¯s North Army is to the south, thus joining forces with the Central Army heading north. That's why the Ming army was given this opportunity.
However, the Ming army also reacted later. Ming army generals from various places who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty led their men to flee to other provinces, leaving the three provinces surrounded by more than 300,000 Ming troops.
¡°Moreover, the terrain bordering the three provinces is complex, and the people do not support the Taiwanese army as intruders. In addition, these three provinces are different from Liaodong in that their populations are thin. There is a need to leave troops everywhere to maintain rule. Therefore, after completing the lightning-fast battle against the three provinces, Taiwan was unable to attack the other surrounding Ming armies.
Therefore, Chen Yuanyun ordered all armies to stop advancing and stay in place to assist military and government officials in completing substantive rule of the local area.
Fortunately, these three provinces are greatly influenced by Taiwan and are not very hostile to Taiwan. Otherwise, ordinary people would drag them to death.
"Mr. Zhou, please tell me something! What does Taiwan mean? Do you really want us to spit out the land?"
The wealthy gentry in Guangzhou originally thought that when Taiwan came, it would just change the ruler, which would have little impact on them. But who knew that on the sixth day after Guangzhou was occupied by Taiwan, the military and political officials who took control of Guangzhou suddenly issued an announcement saying that the land was state-owned and that the land in all parts of Guangdong would need to be measured and distributed uniformly.
For those gentry who owned a large amount of land, they would redeem one acre of land for four taels of silver or exchange the use rights for the same area of ??land as in Nanyang, Australia and other places.
With four taels of silver just trying to buy the fertile land they have managed for generations, what is the difference between this and robbery? How could the gentry in Guangzhou agree to this? They all gathered at the house of Zhou Ruotai, the largest gentry in Guangzhou, to discuss how to deal with these outsiders who did not know the rules.
"Everyone, I know what you mean. This world belongs to the people of the world, and there has never been any robbery of land from the people in the past dynasties. Therefore, we cannot agree to this kind of banditry by the Taiwanese people.
"After you go back, you can mobilize your tribesmen and tenants and ask them to stand up together against this tyranny. I don't believe they can kill everyone!" "
As the largest landowner in Guangzhou, Zhou Tai would certainly not see his more than 300,000 acres of farmland taken away by Taiwan at such a low price. He has already thought about it. If the Taiwanese really dare to use force, he will contact other big households and organize local braves to fight the Taiwanese to the end. As for the replacement of equal areas of land, Zhou Tai has never thought about it. In his opinion, those places were wild places. How could he be willing to go to those places.
Since then, rumors have spread throughout Guangzhou that the Taiwanese nationalized the land, intending to give all the land to the Taiwanese and make all Guangzhou residents lose their land.
Those ordinary people do not understand the meaning of land nationalization. They will believe whatever the high-ranking officials say. For a time, people in Guangzhou were panicked.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The local gangsters in Guangzhou city are organized by the big households to block the military and government offices in Guangzhou every day, putting pressure on the military and government offices, demanding the cancellation of the land nationalization policy, and not allowing low-priced purchases of land owned by the gentry.
In fact, it¡¯s not just Guangzhou, the wholeSimilar things are happening in the three coastal provinces, and public dissatisfaction can be said to be boiling for a while. Even though Taiwan mobilized a large amount of supplies and stabilized prices that had been soaring for more than a year, they could not offset the impact of these rumors from the gentry class.
This is still good. After Taiwan¡¯s military and government officials made it clear that land nationalization and land surveying, acquisition, and replacement could not be changed, no less than a thousand riots broke out in various places in the three provinces. Some of the riots were so serious that they resulted in the death of at least a thousand United Guards soldiers.
Such a huge death was more than the battle deaths in the three provinces occupied. This made everyone in Taiwan extremely angry.
"Mobilize the troops from all provinces and ask the Ming Dynasty Division to cooperate and arrest all the leading gentry. If there is resistance, shoot them to death.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of all the crimes of the gentry who participated in the resistance, and let the Ministry of Justice send capable people to go to various parts of the three provinces to conduct public trials of those gentry who opposed the land redemption and replacement, and deprive all the gentry who participated in the resistance of all their property. "
After receiving reports from military and political officials stationed in the three provinces, Tang Hongsheng went berserk on the spot and issued extremely tough orders.
In fact, redemption and replacement are already some relaxations made by the military and government in the disposal strategy of Xiao Mingqian. Hopefully, in this way, there will be less resistance from the gentry everywhere.
But the facts show that for those Ming Dynasty gentry who value land very seriously, touching their land is killing them, and they will not make any compromise.
The outbreak of resistance in various places also made Tang Hongsheng and others completely give up their plans to treat the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty gently. Start to deal with such things with the most drastic means. The military and government officials were ruthless, and the self-righteous gentry could not withstand it.
After giving the order, the already angry United Guards troops were dispatched to various places, sweeping away all resistance with thunderous force. As many as 70,000 people participated in the resistance were killed or injured, which greatly shocked various places.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Justice dispatched more than 5,000 legal personnel, with the cooperation of the Ming Dynasty Division, to conduct public trials of gentry who opposed the state-owned land in various places, and made all their crimes known to the world. Let the common people see who they are following.