Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 414 Yiling Rebellion 1
A happy New Year's holiday passed in laughter and laughter, and firecrackers exploded at the gates of many factories—the start of work.People in Nanyang returned to the factory with the necessary laziness after a long vacation and a fairly full of energy, busy with this year's livelihood. If you want to enjoy such a long vacation, you have to wait until a particularly important festival. .

After more than half a month's rest, the government offices and county offices have resumed work. In the next half month, no one will have any free time, because there are too many affairs accumulated during this long holiday that they urgently need to deal with.Most importantly, refugees with ragged clothes and red and swollen feet from the ice and snow began to bring their families over again. This means that in the next one or two months, Nanyang will hardly experience a wave of terrible disasters. The refugee wave, they accepted 10,000+ refugees last year alone, and there will only be more this year.Having dealt with refugees from other provinces for a long time, Nanyang government has already figured out a set of effective measures. When they come, they will be resettled in refugee camps, given several sets of clothes, and provided with two meals a day. The managers of factories and farms will go to the refugee camps to recruit people. If there are too many recruits, the officials will resettle them in some undeveloped areas, give them farm tools, help them build simple defenses, and provide some cattle. And seeds, anyway, they can't be allowed to wander around the territory like ghosts.The citizen meeting held at the end of last year has already made a decision. This year, we will focus on the development of Zhechuan County and Xinye County. At the same time, we will expand the production capacity of the phosphate fertilizer plant and lay three water diversion pipelines to divert the water from the Danjiang River to counties that are relatively water-scarce. It is a large project that can absorb a large number of people, and it is not difficult to absorb 20 refugees.Fortunately, Nanyang's grain depots have piled up like mountains of potato noodles and wheat from generation to generation. If other state capitals dared to do this, they would have been eaten up long ago.

But this year, there seems to be a particularly large number of refugees coming here. There are waves and waves, and the relevant departments are running in three shifts.According to the information provided by those refugees, the situation in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Shanxi provinces has reached a desperate point. There are severe droughts every year. Many places have eaten up the dead grass and bark. The gates of prefectures and counties are closed. No matter how much they begged, they refused to let them in. As for the relief, it was even more legendary. The little food money the emperor managed to squeeze out was divided up before leaving Beijing.The officers and soldiers killed these refugees as well as killing them. No one ever thought of giving them a bowl of food to eat or a piece of land to plant. It seemed that everything would be fine if they were killed.Speaking of officers and soldiers, these refugees' already numb and dull eyes burst out with deep hatred, which made the officials in charge of receiving them shudder.These refugees are piles of dry firewood. Just a little spark will ignite a fire that soars into the sky. While burning themselves, the whole country will be buried in a sea of ​​flames. Is it really okay to absorb so many refugees?
Yang Menglong said that there is no problem. Nanyang has enough factories and farms to accommodate many refugees. If it is not possible, people can be sent to Denglai, where more people are needed.

Along with the arrival of the refugees, there is also the spring breeze.Although it is still cold, the wheat field is still spewing out a trace of fresh green, and the wheat has sprouted.Farmers are busy again, busy irrigating, busy weeding, busy killing insects.Although they applied a lot of lime to the fields before planting to repel insects, there were still too many pests. Fortunately, there were two new products on the market, one was rotenone powder, and the other was insecticide powder. The ratio is mixed with water and sprayed, and the insecticidal effect is first-class.Seeing the piles of dead pests in the wheat fields, farmers in Nanyang couldn't help but worry: Can the crops sprayed with these pesticides still be edible?It won't eat people to death, will it?

What a blissful trouble—like the farmers in Xinyang Prefecture have been crying bitterly at the crops that have been gnawed into bare poles.

Some land was also opened on Longmen Mountain, where potatoes were planted.The potatoes are growing pretty well, the leaves are green and growing very fast.In addition, there are some fast-growing crops such as radishes and cabbage that do not pick the ground, and they are also growing gratifyingly.A group of old farmers were working in the fields with simple hoes, carefully pulling out every weed.The women endured the biting cold and washed clothes by the river, and the children often ran to make trouble, which added a bit of joy to the atmosphere. These little guys didn't know the hardships of life, they only knew how to play, and they really didn't care. Method.

Where are the young people?

Young men were practicing throwing javelins and grenades in clearings in the valley.These weapons are all made of iron and gunpowder smuggled from Nanyang. The javelin is two meters long and has a simple structure. It is a slender and sharp metal rod inserted into a wooden pole. Big ones can throw it more than 30 meters away, and if it hits it, it will die.As for the grenade, it is made by putting gunpowder into a small clay pot, and some gravel is added to increase the lethality. When using it, light it with a fire twister and just throw it over.Now hundreds of young men and women are lined up in a neat line, following the instructor's command, they are trying their best to swing out the javelins and grenades, which looks pretty decent.When they finished casting, more than 200 of the strongest young men rushed forward with swords and shields in their hands, and pressed their shields against the scarecrow's chest which had been messed up, stabbing their lower abdomen with short knives.This is the most essential part of the entire army, equipped with a shield that cannot be pierced by arrows, and a dog-leg knife made of fine steel bought from Nanyang.The young people who own these equipments have a little background in martial arts, they are brave and fierce, and their eyes turn red when they see blood. They all have blood feuds with officers and soldiers.As for the last part, there are men over 30 years old. They hold four-meter-long bamboo spears and stay still. Qi let out a loud roar, leveled his bamboo spear and stabbed at the "enemy" who was chasing up: "Kill!!!"

It is not entirely unreasonable for civil servants not to like the emperor's mining.Most of those miners are young, energetic, aggressive, and love to cuddle together. Thousands of such guys nest together, and accidents are easy to happen.No, something happened now, but this incident was completely caused by the idiots of the government and Prince Xiang's mansion. They robbed the phosphate mine that the miners had dug with great difficulty, and even chopped off the heads of some of them. Take it back and ask for credit, this feud is so deep that it can only be washed away with blood.

Wang Rui smiled and looked at the young people who were training hard, and said to Qin Mai: "It's finally looking good."

Qin Mai shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, it's too bad! They barely have a little discipline and courage. In terms of combat skills, they are still far behind. If they really fight, I can bring 100 people to defeat them Already!"

Wang Rui laughed: "Old Qin, this is not a new army, so don't be too demanding."

Qin Mai sighed: "Well, I have been in the new army for a long time, and I am used to the first-rate soldiers and officers, and when I look at other troops, it doesn't look right... probably only the Tianxiong Army can still see it. "

Wang Rui hehe twice, but did not speak.Why is he not like this, Heluo Xinjun is a majestic mountain, standing on it and looking down, no matter how high the mountain is, it is just an inconspicuous bump in his eyes.

Qin Mai asked: "When will we do it?"

Wang Rui said: "It's coming soon, maybe in the next few days." He looked at the more than 1000 subordinates who were training with some confusion, and sighed: "I just don't know how many of them can survive this bloody storm." come down?"

Qin Mai patted Wang Rui on the shoulder: "Old Wang, don't think that way. Even without us, they would still die, either they will freeze and starve to death in this mountain forest, or they will be treated as bandits by officers and soldiers Killing, in short, it is inevitable to die. They may die faster if they follow us, but at least they can breathe out their anger and fight!"

Wang Rui took a breath and said, "You're right, it's my childishness."

"The head of the family..." A timid voice sounded, looking back, a girl with bright eyes and white teeth was holding a javelin and was saluting to them.It was the girl who was kicked to vomit blood by the officers and soldiers on the Jiguan Mountain Road, but she was still stubborn. She was rescued by Wang Rui, and after being recuperated, her injuries have recovered.

Wang Rui returned the salute and asked, "Miss Yue'e, what's the matter?"

Sun Yuee said: "The training is over..."

Wang Rui saw that, sure enough, everyone stopped and began to gather.In other words, he should have spoken in the past.He smiled and said, "I'll go right away." He strode over.

Sun Yuee followed and called, "Here comes the master!"

The exhausted soldiers immediately snapped to attention, almost instinctively.Everyone has been getting along for a while, and after this period of observation, everyone found that the dozens of "bandits" headed by Wang Dangjia and Qin Dangjia are actually very polite and principled people, and they are friendly and pleasant to everyone Don't bully others.There was a shortage of food on the mountain, so they allocated some of their share to the elderly, children, and girls who were growing up. Several times, the girls who had extra food came to their room in the middle of the night to repay them with their bodies. He was pushed out by them with a black face, but he didn't scold anyone, he just sent him back to his parents quietly, and asked them to watch their children more closely—how did they know that this was all hinted by their parents?Although they don't talk much, they are easy to get along with, but they will not be polite to anyone who dares to be sloppy during training. Indispensable.As for the male soldiers, they were dealt with even more ruthlessly. Everyone knew that the two masters would not recognize their relatives when they arrived on the training ground, so if you don't want to be dealt with, you'd better keep your spirits up.

Wang Rui quickly walked up to a boy who was only about 17 years old, and said in a gentle voice, "Where is my hometown?"

The boy said: "Shanxi, Shanxi Taiyuan."

Wang Rui said: "Taiyuan? It's a good place, much richer than our Shaanxi side. How did you come here?"

The boy said: "The weather was too dry, the crops failed, and I couldn't pay the taxes, so I had to flee from famine... Two sisters and one younger sister were sold, and my father died of illness on the way, and I was the only one left..."

The childish voice made everyone's heart feel heavier. This is something that almost all of them have experienced.

Wang Rui sighed heavily, rubbed the child's head, faced everyone, and asked, "A lot of people come here like this, right?"

The soldiers chattered and said:
"When I was six years old, my parents took me away from my hometown, and they escaped here after a lot of hardships! We were a big family when we escaped from our hometown, and now it's just me and my mother. !"

"Originally, my father and my mother took our brothers to pile up three acres of paddy fields with silt by the lake. The harvest was guaranteed during drought and flood. Although life was hard, it was still able to survive. But God damn Xu Laocai colluded with the government to forge the land deed, Forcibly robbed our paddy fields, my father went to the county government to file a complaint, was severely beaten eighty times by the dog officer, and died as soon as he got home, my brother also had Xu Laocai's thugs put them into a sack and throw them into the lake, No one is alive, no one is dead, no corpse..."

"My family was even worse. On the way to escape from the famine, we met officers and soldiers, who blocked us as bandits. They hacked and killed us indiscriminately, killing people everywhere! I was also stabbed, and a piece of my scalp was cut off. Fortunately, I was clever, and I lay down among the dead and pretended to be dead. It was dark at that time, and there were still people running around. They were busy chasing and killing the escaped people, so I escaped, but our family was all dead! "

"Our crops were eaten up by locusts, and the government collected our seeds as rent. We were so hungry that we wandered around. No matter where we went, the city gates were closed and refused to accept us. We even All the dry grass was eaten up, and I was so hungry that I even cut off the flesh of the dead, my mother and my younger sister just disappeared..."

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(End of this chapter)