After getting off the boat from Guazhou Ferry on the other side, Lin Haifeng ordered Liu Xianghe and others to go to the post station in Zhenjiang City to set up a temporary residence.
Su Sanniang became anxious when she heard this, "Your Highness, it's better to live in the Guarding Envoy's Yamen. The place is big and more convenient."
"No need," Lin Haifeng chuckled, "I'd better live alone. Firstly, I won't disturb you, and secondly, I want to keep you quiet. But you don't know, I have a special skill, that is, when sleeping My teeth are chattering loudly, and if I stay at your place, I'm afraid no one in the entire Yamen will be able to have peace at night."
Su Sanniang covered her mouth and smiled, "Your Highness is really good at telling jokes, how could it be so serious?"
Lin Haifeng waved his hand, "It's up to you whether you believe it or not, but don't give in anymore." He glared at Liu Xianghe who was snickering, "Why are you laughing? Go and arrange it quickly. You need to prepare more people for dinner. I, the king We have a banquet for all the dignitaries."
Su Sanniang had no choice but to ask her female guards to accompany Liu Xianghe and the others to make arrangements first, and then looked at King An questioningly, "Your Highness, aren't you going back?"
"There's no rush, I want to take you for a ride." As he said that, he got on the horse.
Su Sanniang caught up with King An and walked for a while, then turned her head and looked at King An, "I heard from Wang Haiyang that His Highness personally led a team to attack the Qingyao Camp?"
Lin Haifeng blinked and smiled, "Don't listen to their nonsense. It's embarrassing to mention it. How can I compare to you, General Su?"
Su Sanniang blushed, "Your Highness is really good at joking. How can Sanniang compare with His Highness?"
"Why are you joking?" Lin Haifeng waved the horse whip in his hand, "The female Yuan Rong with the green flag and the yellow hat, the beaded hat and the dragon are finished; the eight hundred female soldiers are barefoot, and the barbarians wear trousers and walk like the wind. This is not the king's blindness. Did you make it up?"
Su Sanniang¡¯s face turned even redder, ¡°That¡¯s what they were singing nonsense too.¡±
"This is not nonsense. When Zhenjiang was conquered, it was Su Sanniang who made the first contribution. The heroic appearance of the female battalion has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This is the pride of you, General Su, and the female army of the Celestial Dynasty." Lin Haifeng said seriously. Said.
"That's all the credit of the sisters in the female camp. No matter how strong Sanniang is, what can she do on her own?"
"Well, that makes sense." Lin Haifeng nodded, turning his head to look at this heroine who was already twenty-seven or eighty-years-old. She couldn't be said to be very beautiful, but she was the kind of woman who was well-regarded. Unlike the cheerful and straightforward Hong Xuanjiao, what is seen on her face is more of calmness and solemnity. Occasionally when he purses his lips, he always reveals a hint of masculine domineering. He couldn't help but believe what Yang Xiuqing said when she accepted his personnel arrangements before leaving, "Brother, when you arrive in Zhenjiang, Su Sanniang is not easy to mess with."
Lin Haifeng looked at Su Sanniang, who had her head lowered slightly by looking at him, and chuckled, "Most of the people who joined the Heavenly Army with you couldn't stand the strict rules of the Heavenly Army, and left the Heavenly Army one after another. Only you, Su San Mother has always followed the Celestial Empire. For this reason, I cannot praise you enough, Su Sanniang." Seeing that he had arrived at a village in the northwest suburbs of the city, he pointed with his riding crop, "I want to meet you. If you go into the village and count them carefully, you will definitely find that many people have migrated and few have stayed.¡±
"How could this happen?" Su Sanniang looked at King An in disbelief, and then at the deserted village, "The land has been divided, who would be willing to leave the fields at hand and become a refugee again."
"What can I do if I don't leave?" Qi Min stood at the door and looked at the old woman who was still looking around at everything in the house, her eyes full of nostalgia and sighing, and at the old woman who was squatting on the ground with her head in her hands and sighing. Dad, he looked at his son who was holding his wife's withered breasts and crying non-stop. He pointed at the empty rice vat and stamped his foot, "Let's go. If you stay any longer, you'll starve to death."
"The Celestial Empire treats us well," Dad slowly raised his head, his dark and thin face full of vicissitudes of time, "Because your eldest brother became a member of the Celestial Empire in Tianjing, the Celestial Army also intentionally gave it to us when the land was divided. We are the closest to the good land of the village. The difficulty may only be temporary. If we really leave like this, the land will be barren, and we will be sorry to the heaven."
"That's right, where did he go? Although your eldest brother is in Tianjing, there is no news since then. A golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as your own nest." I wiped the moist corners of my eyes and muttered softly.
"Father, mother, if you don't leave, I will." Qi Min snatched the child who was only a few months old from his wife's arms, "Sir, we have to think about the child. After almost a year of work, we are still empty-handed. Even the children can't drink a bowl of rice soup. I" He couldn't continue.
"How about" I looked at the old man with a consulting look, "How about we ask the children to go to Tianjing to find the boss, and we stay here to take care of the crops in the fields. Is it better than being stuck together like this?"
Dad let out a long sigh and stood up. He first took it from his son's handThe little grandson's eyes were flashing with tears, "No one can leave." The father gritted his teeth, turned around and handed his grandson into his daughter-in-law's arms, "We are from the Chinese dynasty, and we are different from them. No one can leave." You can run, but we can¡¯t run.¡±
He walked to the door and pulled his son away with all his strength, "The Heavenly Army fights every day, how can we fight without collecting money? Don't think about yourself too much. If the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty come back, we will be even more unlucky."
"Dad, what are you"
"Alas!" Dad shook his head, "I'd better go to the soldier commander to borrow some first" As he spoke, he stepped out of the threshold, but he happened to bump into someone
In the temporary residence, during dinner time, Lin Haifeng summoned officials from the Zhenjiang Town Guardian Envoy and Comfort Envoy Yamen. While eating, he announced the adjustments to Zhenjiang officials by the General Command and the Department of Civil Affairs. People who come to eat have their own tastes of sour, sweet, bitter and spicy.
"Xiucheng, your current task is to seize the time to reorganize the Zhenjiang garrison according to the pattern of the Red Army. Part of the original women's battalion will be left to Su Yao, and the rest will be like the women's army in Tianjing. In addition, there are We need to continue to expand the water camp established by Su Fu. Don't focus on large ships. We can develop more small sampans. The property our General Su left you is rich enough." Lin Haifeng looked at the person sitting opposite him and mumbled. The face of Su Sanniang.
He smiled, picked up a bowl of rice, and looked at Xu Zongyang, Deputy Prime Minister of Dongguan and former Zhenjiang pacifier, "Prime Minister Xu, you may be aggrieved and say that the fault is not yours, and the slap should not be on you. Yes, it is. This has been repeated in many places before. But have you ever thought about whether those people you imprisoned can give you money? Let¡¯s not talk about it for now. What will happen to them after they come out? Can you still get the money next time? Who should I ask for? And your subordinates in various villages. I looked at some places roughly, and it is hard for me to imagine that they usually work in the fields like other people. I guess they regard themselves as 'I'. What you are doing is destroying our rice bowl." He tapped the rice bowl lightly with chopsticks, "Without the rice in the bowl, how can we eat enough if we have a colorful table?"
"You go back to the garrison envoy's office first to help Xiucheng manage the military affairs of the water camp." Lin Haifeng said, taking two mouthfuls of rice and looking at everyone present, "I want not only the rice bowl, but also the rice in the bowl. "
Everyone present was silently eating the food in front of them, savoring the meaning of King An's words. The officials of the Yamen were all worried at this time. Xu Zongyang's fault was naturally inseparable from them.
Huang Zilong, who was sitting next to Xu Zongyang, was even more frightened. He is Xu Zongyang's deputy. Since Xu Zongyang is too lazy to deal with affairs in these places, most of the decisions are basically made by him. Not to mention that east of Zhenjiang, no land distribution was done at all. Even where it was implemented, as King An just said, due to his harsh measures, more people ran away than stayed. , some villages are basically empty of houses, and people inside and outside Zhenjiang have already called him "Huang Bai Di", treating him like a locust. He lowered his head and glanced furtively at His Highness Prince An. He was really getting more and more afraid of something. When he saw King An's eyes directed towards him, his heart immediately tightened and the chopsticks in his hand stopped.
Lin Haifeng looked at Huang Zilong and ate his meal leisurely, "Master Huang, I heard that you are quite famous in Zhenjiang. You seem to have some resounding nickname. If you can tell me, Do you want to listen?"
Huang Zilong's body trembled, and the rice bowl in his hand rolled to the ground, making a crisp smashing sound. "Your Highness humble duty humble duty" He did not dare to look at Prince An's knife-like eyes and trembled his lips cowardly.
"Yellow and white land, haha, not bad." Lin Haifeng casually took a bite of the vegetables placed in front of him, "You really think about it, the expropriation of grain and money will make those who have land unwilling to cultivate, and would rather leave their homes. Yes. Ah, after working hard for more than half a year, I said I have a piece of land, but at the end of the day, the harvest is not enough for your various taxes. Don't say that you just rely on the harvest from the land to survive, even I myself don't. I don't want to do such a wasteful thing. A person who has made great contributions to the Celestial Empire, his father and mother have to borrow food from your so-called soldier commanders to make ends meet, but they still keep in mind the benefits of our Celestial Empire. I just don¡¯t understand, what do you think about every day?¡±
Huang Zilong didn't dare to sit down anymore. He staggered out of his seat, fell to his knees on the ground, and crawled forward twice. "Chitose, I know I was wrong. I beg Chitose to give me another chance. I will definitely change my ways!" He kowtowed repeatedly. Nodding his head, he begged