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Chapter 765 In front of Yanyu Tower

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    Inside and outside Jiaxing City, and around the city, there were densely populated Qing military camps with all kinds of flags flying.  Inside the city, the flags of each of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army were flying.  Outside the city, there are all kinds of flags from various camps and towns of the Qing army.  Since they left the army and marched south, all Qing armies have been making smooth progress.  It even defeated Lishui, Liyang, Yixing, Changxing, Guangde, Huzhou, Jiaxing and many other cities.  Wherever the flag of the army arrived, the cities and towns along the way watched the wind and surrendered. The gentry and merchants everywhere either killed officials and offered the city to surrender, or secretly communicated with each other to tell the truth.  In the direction of the Qing army, countless people's homes were destroyed, and their children's property and silk were robbed.  However, Bolo and Turg naturally knew how to use traitors and give full play to the role of leading the party. They gave high-ranking officials generous salaries and heavy gold rewards to the officials and gentry who surrendered along the way.  "They are like hounds and vicious dogs. How can you feed them if you don't have a few meat bones in your hands? How can you set an example for other vicious dogs?" However, when raising dogs, you need to give them bones to feed their subordinates.  The hundreds of thousands of jackals, tigers and leopards need a lot of gold, silver, silk, food, rice, wine and meat.  Where do these mountains of silver and oceans of food, rice, wine, and meat come from?  In front of the Yanyu Tower, two huge gold-woven dragon banners and two huge handsome flags stood in the autumn wind and rain.  In the Yanyu Tower, General Bolo and his deputy Turge were surrounded by dozens of Jia La Zhangjing, Niu Lu Zhangjing, Meile Ezhen, the general, and deputy generals like stars holding the moon.  The two men took off the gilt helmets on their heads, revealing their shaved and shiny foreheads, and both had a slender money rat tail pigtail hanging from the back of their heads.  "Today is not a discussion, everyone can feel free to do as they please!" Following Bolo's words, everyone took off the various helmets on their heads and placed them on the small table at hand. The rude officer even placed  The iron helmet and bronze helmet were hung directly on the head of the official hat chair.  Speaking of the Yanyu Tower, I am afraid that all readers, like the unkind author, have learned about it from the Condor Shooting. Of course, the Nanhu in front of the Yanyu Tower is a different matter, especially the Nanhu.  red boat.  Ahem, cough, the weather is nice today!  Why don¡¯t you all come out and take a walk?  This building, as well as this lake, were originally built during the Five Dynasties period.  During the Later Jin Dynasty (around 940), Zhongwu Jiedushi, the fourth son of King Wuyue of Wuyue Kingdom, and Qian Yuanluo, King of Guangling County, built a building on the bank of Nanhu Lake as a "place for climbing and overlooking", and "built a platform for Yuanhu Lake".  By the side, there are guests in the hotel."  At that time, there was no name "Yanyu Tower".  According to "Jiahe Zhi of the Zhiyuan Dynasty", the word Yanyulou first appeared in Wu Qian's poem "Shui Diao Ge Tou? Inscribed on Yanyulou" in the Southern Song Dynasty.  Although the Yanyu Tower by the lake has changed its owner several times, it has always been a good place to watch the lake.  In the twenty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1549), Zhao Ying, the prefect of Jiaxing, dredged the river and built the Yanyu Tower on the island in the center of the lake. From then on, the tower has been in the lake.  The main building faces south and north, facing the city wall.  (The current Yanyu Tower was rebuilt to face the south and face the city wall to the north in order not to violate taboos during Emperor Qianlong's southern tour.) However, at this time, this Yanyu Tower, which has always been a gathering place for literati to gather poetry and wine, is murderous.  Condensed into clouds.  Downstairs, hundreds of axemen held sharp blades and were dressed in red robes. Their eyes were half-open and half-closed as they looked at the people kneeling in front of them.  These hundreds of people who are about to be beheaded are all people with some status and wealth in Jiaxing City.  Well, he has a head and a good face, a house and land, a shop and business, and gold and silver.  Naturally, today's fatal disaster occurred.  Of course, the reason why they were beheaded was that they were loyal to the rebel Li Shouhan and colluded with the rebel Nanman with evil intentions.  This is such a huge injustice!  These people who have some degree of fame and fame despise those Nanman from the bottom of their hearts!  Of course, the money, food, materials and goods in the hands of the Nanyue Army have always been "Monks don't love money, the more the better." They have status in the city and have a lot of money, so naturally they also have enemies.  Those who took the lead in surrendering the city often had some resentment and resentment towards them.  Taking advantage of the dedication of the city, he was the first to report that they had colluded and had contacts with Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army.  Therefore, General Bolo, who planned to collect money from the city to raise wages, took advantage of the situation and turned the Yanyu Tower into a prison platform for prison officials.  "What an injustice! It is said that we have colluded with that Li Shouhan and have dealings with the South Guangdong Army. But you don't know, sir, we are just doing business with them! If you say so, I am afraid that in Jiaxing City and the entire Jiangnan, eighty old men  Three-year-old children have to associate with them! It should be noted that in recent years, the food is Nannan rice, the clothes are Nannan cloth, and the money is Nannan.  , Who has nothing to do with the Nanman?!" However, no matter how hard these people defended themselves, Bolo had already sentenced them to death.  The desperate move of making a huge check mark with cinnabar was thrown down from the building.  "These people are all collaborators with thieves. Let's kill them all! Their private property will be confiscated and they will be brought into the government, and their wives, daughters, and family members will all be made slaves!" ThisThis is the fate of these people.  "Two soldiers fought against a condemned prisoner, and no matter how much he struggled and begged, they just grabbed his hands and feet, like an eagle chasing a purple swallow, or a tiger chasing a lamb.  Throwing him in front of the Axeman, before the man had time to struggle and poke his head out of the muddy ground, the ghost-headed sword in the Axeman's hand drew an arc in the air with the sound of wind and rain.  's fell down.  "Poof!" There was a muffled sound, and a blood arrow burst out.  The two soldiers rushed forward, one lifted the head, and the other pulled the legs and feet of the dead body, just like pulling a dead sheep that had been slaughtered, dragging the dead body aside horizontally and vertically, and quickly stripped off its clothes.  In the blink of an eye, hundreds of swordsmen raised and dropped their swords, hundreds of heads were lifted high on the tips of spears by the soldiers, and their stripped clothes piled up like a hill by the lake.  On the other hand, the headless corpses were thrown into the lake by the soldiers. They undulated a few times in the waves and then disappeared.  As the number of corpses increased, the blood in the lake gradually condensed into a mass that could not be dispersed for a long time.  There were more and more corpses in the water, and a small reef was vaguely formed in the lake.  However, other reefs are made of sand and gravel, and the corpses of coral polyps are piled up. This small reef is made of human corpses.  Downstairs in Yanyu, it was a different scene.  Dozens of barbers lined up in a row, sitting behind the barbers. Long queues had already formed in front of the barbers.  Those who had meritorious service in surrendering to the city all loosened their buns, took off their kerchiefs and net scarves, pulled out their hairpins, and threw aside the various hats representing their status as students, ministers, etc., and waited with smiles.  Shave your hair.  Downstairs, broken hair and blood intertwined, laughter and crying coexisted.  "Our soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty went south to fight against thieves. We can be said to be invincible! Our southern route army only went south for more than a month, crossing big rivers and crossing big lakes. Although there were dozens of Mingguo prefectures, counties, and cities along the way, they all surrendered in the hope of wind, which shows that there is good and bad luck.  The victory has been decided, and the people of the Qing Dynasty are moving forward! At this time, the general is already stationed in Songjiangfu City, and his troops are heading towards the Shanghai rebel den!  , the days are numbered! What's more, the places along the way are densely populated and rich in money and food. Our Qing Dynasty has hundreds of thousands of troops, and the daily consumption of food and military pay is huge. It shows that we have captured such a prosperous and prosperous place.  Destiny is with me!" Upstairs, Bolo listened to the muffled "puff" sounds coming from the lake downstairs. It was the sound of big swords and axes hitting people's bodies. This kind of sound  The sound was intertwined with the laughter and polite words of the newly surrendered people downstairs, and it sounded so pleasant to his ears.  While listening, he talked about the words above.  If Governor Hong were here, these words would have to be said in another way.  Well, for example, "We, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, went south to avenge you and your father. However, half of the south of the Yangtze River is ownerless, and we can't bear to see the beautiful paradise become a disaster for powerful officials and vassal towns. I, the Qing Dynasty, obey the people and accept it."  "The purpose of using troops this time is to fight against the rebels and the powerful officials." But Bolo cannot be so sophisticated, smooth and shameless.  Maybe it was because he was surrounded by his subordinates and minions, so he still spoke unscrupulously.  This is probably the difference between educated gangsters and young and energetic bandits.  "The general has sent a military order, asking us to march to Hangzhou quickly. We must contain the Nanman Army's west route soldiers and horses at the foot of Hangzhou City, and do not allow them to send any soldiers, soldiers, boats or artillery towards Songjiang Prefecture. At the same time,  Order us to immediately raise food, rice and military pay for military use." Bolo's words immediately caused a stir in the building.  There is joy in being able to grab a lot of money, but there is also resentment and anger: We are all slaves, why do you, Luck Dehun, give orders to our soldiers and horses in Manchuria with two white flags?  If we rob him, won¡¯t we honor our master?  But no matter what, with this order, everyone can make a fortune by themselves in all parts of Jiangnan reasonably and legally.  When everyone was north of the Yellow River, they heard countless people say that the people south of the Yangtze River were so rich, with gold and silver everywhere, silk ribbons everywhere, and beautiful women everywhere.  What¡¯s more, the Li family has been operating here for many years, and there are mountains and seas of gold, silver, grain, and rice from overseas.  "Go on! In accordance with the decree of the regent, in the name of General Zhengnan and this general, we will send orders to conquer all states, counties and cities. The hair must be shaved within five days to show the attitude of obedience. Those who dare to disobey orders and do not shave their heads are those who are disobedient.  The thieves colluded with the southern barbarians and ordered him to be beheaded on the spot! His family property was confiscated and his wife and family were sold into slavery! "In fact, the reason why Bolo arranged his Chinese army's headquarters in Jiaxing and Huzhou was other than what he claimed to the outside world!  In addition to the high-sounding "in order to ensure the safety of the flanks of the Eastern Route Army led by General Luck Dehun and to contain the Southern Barbarian troops and artillery boats", it was also because he and Turg had already launched an attack on Hangjiahu.The rich people in the original area are salivating.  After the two left Nanjing, they had a brief exchange with each other and immediately hit it off.  Killed south along the direction of Jiaxing, Huzhou.  Along the way, it is inevitable to have some soul-deep life and death discussions with rich people everywhere. However, this kind of discussion is just like what Mr. Ma said, the weapons of criticism and the criticism of weapons.  Bolobele just used swords, guns and fire to continue life-and-death discussions with wealthy people from all over the country.  Let them hand over their own answers to the higher philosophical questions of whether life or death, wealth or life is more valuable.  Therefore, it does not matter to Bolo whether there is this military order from Luck Dehun. He has already selected a large number of exquisite ones from the gold and silver treasures plundered along the way, together with twenty people from Jiangnan noble families.  The beauties from the south of the Yangtze River, selected from the rich families, and forty horses from the heavens, were ordered to go north overnight and sent to the regent's palace.  Almost identical gifts were given to Prince Yu Duduo by another group of people.  Everyone knows that the regent loves and relies on his younger brother the most.  Once Prince Heshuoyu has been cured, no matter how much we do in Jiangnan, even if we burn Jiangnan to ashes, nothing will happen!  After learning that he could let go and order the jackals, tigers and leopards under his command to rob and kill, all the generals, deputy generals, Jia La Zhang Jing and Mele Zhang Jing showed bloodthirsty and greedy smiles on their faces.  "Master, this gold and silver wealth is easy to handle. As long as we set up a folang machine in front of any wealthy family and set out firecrackers, there will be a mountain of silver. But where should we raise this food?  ? The regent has issued orders several times, asking us to transport food northward quickly. But where can we find this food?" Bolo's deputy, Prince-in-law Turge, hesitated.  Turg also lived in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for a period of time. He discovered a phenomenon from his daily life, that is, there were very few large families in Jiangnan and Jiangbei who stored a large amount of food in their homes.  Those rich and wealthy businessmen often have large sums of silver dollars, a lot of gold tickets, warehouses full of silks and fine cloths, and even cellars full of hams, shochu and cured meats, but there is not much  Lots of food.  During the torture and plundering, some Qing soldiers also asked these people why they didn¡¯t keep more grains and rice at home so that they could not find the grains for cooking!  However, although these people were armed with swords and axes, they still replied plausibly: "Why do you need to save so much grain and rice at home? Just enough to last for half a month. Anyway, there are plenty of rice accounts in the town.  Food! I had nothing to eat, so I took out dozens of silver dollars, and dozens of fine Japonica rice from the heather were immediately delivered to my home! It¡¯s better to keep some valuable things at home!  "It's too cheap!" "In Jiangnan, it's easy to find one million silver, but it's too difficult to find two hundred thousand stone grain and rice!" This is the unanimous view of the Qing army generals.  "However, they only saw the phenomenon or one of the results, but did not know the root cause.  This is the so-called emergence of capitalism, which resulted in a large number of cash crops occupying the space of food crops. This is also a phenomenon recorded in history books such as "mulberry fields occupying rice fields" and "cotton occupying wheat fields."  At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a large amount of land originally planted with food crops in the Jiangnan region was converted to planting cash crops.  For example, the cultivated land in Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Prefecture, which were once known as "Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Prefecture", have generally formed a pattern of half rice fields and half cotton fields. In some counties, the area of ??cotton fields exceeds the area of ??rice fields.  In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhang Luxiang's "Book of Supplementing Farmers" mentioned that "the fields in Tongxiang are comparable, and the profits from sericulture are huge The benefits of the land are for the benefit, and it is better to cultivate more land than to cultivate more fields." At the same time, the price comparison of cotton production and grain production  Changes have also taken place. The cotton produced in Shandong and other places was transferred to the south of the Yangtze River and settled in the market, and the benefits of grain were less than half. Growing grain was not as profitable as growing cotton and mulberry trees, so mulberry trees competed for rice fields.  and cotton competing for grain fields.  Anyway, as long as you have money, you can always buy food.  At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, after mulberry competed for rice fields and cotton competed for grain fields, Chinese agriculture changed its farming system and further developed in the direction of a multi-cropping system. Since mulberry and cotton occupied a large amount of grain fields, the development of the multi-cropping system was based on  The starting point is to increase grain output. One aspect is to produce as much grain as possible in grain fields, such as rice-wheat, rice-spring flowers (broad beans, rape, etc.), rice-bean, rice-buckwheat, etc., among which the most eye-catching ones are  It is the development of double-cropping rice; double-cropping rice had already appeared before the Tang and Song Dynasties, but it was mainly based on regenerated double-cropping rice. Until the early Ming Dynasty, the double-cropping rice in Fujian and Guangzhou was still intercropping double-cropping rice. After the middle and late Ming Dynasty,  , Continuous double-cropping of rice was developed.  "Tiangong Kaiwu? Naili" said: "In the southern plains, there are many fields where two crops are planted and two crops are harvested. They plant rice seedlings again. The common name is late glutinous rice, which is not japonica. The first crops are harvested in June, and the old fields are plowed and transplanted.  "Regenerated rice seedlings." On the basis of double-cropping rice, various types of wheat were added to develop into a three-cropping system of wheat-rice-rice.  The development of the multi-cropping system in grain fields has promoted the increase in output per unit area and has contributed to slowing down theThe reduction in grain production has played a positive role in solving the decline in grain planting area caused by mulberry competing for rice fields and cotton competing for grain fields. Another aspect is to squeeze as much grain into cotton and mulberry fields as possible to reduce the decline in grain planting caused by mulberry competing for rice fields and cotton.  The reduction in grain production caused by the competition for grain fields is as stated in the "Encyclopedia of Agricultural Policy": "Anyone who has a high field with cotton or rice can plant cotton for two years and plow rice for one year." Implement cotton-rice rotation, as stated in the "Encyclopedia of Agricultural Policy"  He also proposed a kind of intercropping in cotton fields, "prepare to plant wheat in holes in the plowed ground in autumn and winter, and then plant cotton in holes in the wheat field in spring. However, if you can plant wheat in holes, you can plant cotton in full and you can also mow wheat." This is Chu Hua.  "Wheat hybrids" mentioned in "Kapok Spectrum" means "Those who grow cotton may sow barley together. Wheat is harvested in the summer and cotton is harvested in autumn, which is called wheat hybrids." In addition to wheat, cotton fields are intercropped.  Crops include soybeans, sesame, corn, green manure, etc. According to the records of Kangxi's "Jiading County Chronicle", "Today, tenants breed beans next to the two ditches of cotton. If the cotton fails, the beans will still be used to pay for the rent." It needs to be pointed out.  What is surprising is that multiple cropping and intercropping of cotton and wheat have also been adopted in the north. "Qunfang Pu" says: "In any field, those who plan to plant rice next year can plant wheat; those who plan to plant cotton next year, do not plant it.   If the land is crowded and the land is narrow, you can plant barley or rye as a last resort, and still use dung to supplement it, but you must not plant wheat. "Mulberry interplanting has been around for a long time, and it was further developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as shown in "Qunfang".  It is mentioned in the "Spectrum" that "broad beansare planted under the mulberry trees in two Zhejiang provinces." In addition, the development of mulberry rice fields has also led to the emergence of mulberry-based fish ponds. The rice fields are dug deep into ponds and the soil is piled around to form a foundation.  , the pond is used to raise fish, and the base is used to plant mulberry trees.  While increasing the yield of mulberry leaves, fish farming is also used to make up for the food shortage caused by mulberry leaves competing for rice fields.
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