Dominate the Country

After staying in prison for two months, Li Gui finally saw the sun outside.

He regretted very much why he was so obsessed with money that he took the money in the cupboard when the Fuhan Army entered Chongqing. As a result, when the Fuhan Army entered his hometown of Zigong, his employer actually had nothing to do with it. , nothing happened. Say important things three times!

His proprietors had donated two to three hundred thousand taels of gold to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Niu Wanwan, who was once a wealthy and prosperous Zigong, was almost turned upside down. If Wu Xueli, the general magistrate of Xuzhou Prefecture at that time, had not stood up to "deliver justice," the Niu family would have collapsed.

But something strange happened. The Fuhan Army invaded Xuzhou and occupied Ziliujing. The Niu family who donated two to three hundred thousand taels to the Qing Dynasty was fine! However, many salt merchants who donated far less than one million cattle were severely punished one after another, and even their whole families were destroyed. Then he was the unlucky one. It was revealed that he was greedy for the money on the counter, and his boss sent him to the Yamen without mercy.

Li Gui was screwed, completely screwed. Not only was he ruined, but his whole family was also ruined. But he admired his boss very much. He was really powerful. He was able to hook up with the Fuhan Army in Sichuan. But he was also really curious, what did the Niu family give up to make his donation of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan to the Qing Dynasty blow away?

Of course, since the Fuhan Army entered Sichuan, it can be said that they have done no harm to the people, not even a single one. So much so that the more than one thousand taels of silver he embezzled on the counter was clearly revealed! The most tragic part is that Li Gui, who embezzled more than one thousand taels of silver, still thinks about the more than three thousand stones of salt on the cabinet, and his family is still living in the same place. Get it right when someone picks it up!

In fact, as the chief shopkeeper of the Niu family's salt shop in Chongqing, Li Gui's status in the Niu family is not low. But when it comes to "collaborating with bandits" to make the whole family lose their heads, unless Li Gui turns into Niu Gui, he will not be able to do it at all. It's impossible to know. Li Gui had no idea that Wu Xueli, a close friend of the Niu family, had an old classmate named Pang Zhenkun. So he can only be tragic!

The evidence of Li Gui's crime was conclusive, and he himself admitted that Chongqing, under military control, did not even give him a chance to appear in court, so he was thrown into prison. In two months, Li Gui knew that his family had left Chongqing. That day, his old wife and her children and grandchildren cried and told him that after losing the money in the cabinet, the family still had some money, but the Li family was still in Chongqing. Sichuan has no place to stand. They are going to Hubei to start a new life in a completely new place. Otherwise, the children and grandchildren of the Li family will not be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives with a father like him on their backs.

The small window in the prison faced north and was not very big. Little sunlight came in, and the room was a little dank. However, the grass on the shop is still clean and is changed every five days. There is no foul smell and no insects. The rooms are often sprinkled with lime, and the walls are also thickly coated with lime to prevent insects. The convenient cleaning buckets are also clean. The Fuhan Army specially cleaned the prison after capturing Chongqing. It was not just the head jailer who was being cleaned up, but also the entire prison environment.

The guards in the prison carry batons and short knives and patrol back and forth every hour. At noon, the meal was served with vegetables, radish and steamed buns, but it was still enough to fill the stomach. The prison guard said more than once: If the prisoners have enough to eat and sleep, that is the moral policy of the current court. It's time for you thieves to catch up with the good times.

It was not like Li Gui had never visited prisons for others before. After comparing the two sides, he felt that what the prison guards said was indeed right. Life in prison was indeed easier now. It's just that no matter how good the life here is, can he have the life he had in the past?

No matter how clean this prison is, how can I keep my own yard clean?

Li Gui still wanted to look at life outside, and the strange thing was that his crime was already confirmed and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Why did he always stay in prison? As he walked outside, he picked the straw on his body.

In the past two days, three people in his cell were dragged out and never came back. Others were in good condition. Now two people were taken out with Li Gui.

This is the first "outing" after being imprisoned. Li Gui also saw many old friends, gangsters from Chongqing, old men from the government offices, and a few local people who had been involved in league training, many of whom he had met before. However, he still carefully discovered that he did not see any of those people who had a lot of anger and bad reputation in the past.

Thinking of the "Qiu Wugui" when the Fuhan Army entered Chongqing, Li Gui felt that the Fuhan Army was definitely not on the same side as those bullies and murderers. Then the fate of these people can be predicted.

"Are you going to kill us?"

Zou Bin, who was thrown into jail the same day as Li Gui, was trembling all over after being a fair-weather friend at the dinner table. Two old friends met here with comic effect.

Li Gui is four or five years younger than Zou Bin, but Zou Bin is a pure prodigal. He used the family property and shop passed down from his ancestors to eat, drink, whore and gamble. He didn't know what kind of crime he committed in the new dynasty and was thrown into prison. in. Li Gui also asked Zou Bin, but he didn't know what law he had broken. He donated more than 10,000 taels of silver to the Qing Dynasty, but there were so many people in Chongqing who donated money and food amounting to 8,000 taels of money, so how could he be arrested? Zou Bin was so scared that his legs were weak now.

Li Gui is much better than Zou Bin. "If you kill someone, you have to eat a meal first. Didn't you hear what Zhang Dadao said? The imperial court is short of manpower for mining and building roads. Most of us prisoners need to be rehabilitated through labor."

"What to say!"

The prison guard next to him heard the sound and scolded him with raised eyebrows.

The prison guard looked at Li Gui fiercely. He remembered this guy. What do you mean by changing a skin? Do you think this skin is so easy to change? The prison heads are now all in the underworld. Only a few small shrimps are left of the former Chongqing government bosses. They have no chance to do evil on weekdays, so they can have a new dignity.

Li Gui was swept by the prison guard's fierce eyes, as if he was stabbed by a needle. He immediately tightened his mouth, hid his head and arched his back, and stopped talking.

A group of people were driven out of the prison. When they came out of the back door, they saw a row of carts parked in the alley. They were all the most common four-wheeled carts, and they were definitely not comparable to four-wheeled carriages in terms of shock absorption. They only had the advantage of high load capacity and wear resistance.

There were more than a dozen people in each cart, and fifty or sixty prisoners were all driven into four carts.

There was a team of cavalry next to them. The convoy turned left and right, and finally passed through a gate and stopped.

Everyone got off the bus, and Li Gui shrank in the crowd, trying not to attract attention. But his eyes were not idle. He looked left and right along the way and found that this was a place he knew. It was the original station of Chongqing Jiangguan Inspection Office.

Not far away, a small group of soldiers with guns lined up on the left and right, guarding a table in the middle. Behind the table sat a man who looked like an officer, holding a pen and a piece of paper in front of him.

"It should be a clerk." Li Gui saw that the officer's rank was two bronze stars. He knew that this was called a sergeant, and his face was also gentle, so he thought subconsciously. This really made him right. This sergeant officer is not just a trainer.

Fifty or sixty people lined up in a long line, and under the watchful eyes of the Fu Han Army, they were all very obedient.

"Name."

One by one, when it came to Li Gui, the clerk in his eyes didn't even raise his head, and asked while dipping the pen in ink.

"My surname is Li, and my name is Gui."

The officer had an aura that showed he didn't take anyone seriously. It was a tone of complete contempt, contempt, and disdain, which made Li Gui, who was originally a person of status, hate him in his heart. But he could only endure the anger, and he was angry in his heart, but he also smiled on his face.

The officer wrote "Li Gui" on the roster neatly. "Where are you from? How old are you?" As he spoke, the officer finally raised his eyes and looked at Li Gui. But Li Gui was insulted and humiliated even more.

"I'm forty years old, from Nanxi, Xuzhou." Li Gui gritted his teeth and endured his anger. He walked into another team, and then he turned back and stared at the officer. He was hating in his heart, "I'll remember you. Don't let your grandfather fall into your hands one day!" Although it was like a daydream.

"Sit down, sit down honestly!"

Just as Li Gui was cursing in his heart, a scolding voice reached his ears. Li Gui immediately woke up from his fantasy, turned his head to look at the bayonet against his thigh, his legs immediately softened, and he sat down cross-legged on the ground obediently.

Then he saw a group of barbers carrying hot water and razors, carrying stools and basins to them.

"Sit on the stool, shut up, close your eyes, don't move, don't talk."

The harsh rebuke made everyone dare not disobey. No matter what your identity was before. Now you are just a prisoner.

Sit down honestly and close your eyes. Everyone can feel a rustling sound on the top of their heads, and they can also feel something falling on their shoulders. Finally, a handful of hot water is poured on their heads.

When Li Gui was lifted up from the stool, he had already been shaved bald. His original greasy hair could only touch the bald scalp.

Now he has to become a monk!

Li Gui really didn't know what he and others would face. Even if he really wanted to reform through labor, he had never heard of shaving his head bald?

"Go in and wash yourself." In a daze, Li Gui and a group of people came to a big house. As soon as they lifted the cotton blanket at the door, they could feel a warm and humid air blowing in their faces.

"Is it a bathhouse?" Li Gui's mind was confused. Zou Bin on the side also screamed in surprise: "What on earth does the court want to do with us? After shaving our heads, we still need to take a bath?"

If it were outside, taking a bath in the winter would definitely be a pleasure. But now, it's a bit scary.

Li Gui took off his clothes in a few seconds and was driven into the house with Zou Bin. "Since we are here, we should make the best of it. Our current identities are up to fate!" Li Gui didn't know that he had become Li Gui. He pointed to the sky while speaking, but this "sky" obviously did not refer to God, but to the court of Nanjing City.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Gui and others were driven out. The clothes were no longer the same as before, but the same thick cotton jacket, cotton hat and shoes.

The color was dark gray and very plain, just like a monk's robe. Dozens of bald men were dressed the same. At first glance, they looked like dozens of monks gathered together.

"Listen to me carefully. From tomorrow on, you will be a member of the second team of the Sichuan 055 Battalion. Eat well at noon today and set off together in the afternoon."

"In the labor camp from now on, you have the right to write a letter to your relatives every quarter. If you can't read, you can ask the instructor to write the letter for you and hand it to your family. So, after arriving at the labor camp, you have one last chance to change your home address. Don't be clever and ruin your chance to communicate with your family." This is not an exaggeration. There are so many such things.

...

At the beginning of the new year, when the 145th year of Chongzhen, a year that left a strong mark in the history of China in this time and space, opened, no one knew that hundreds of thousands of "Li Gui" had already embarked on the road of labor reform.

Some of them became road builders, some became laborers to dredge rivers, and some became miners in mines, or came to coastal defense key points to build one artillery battery after another. Just like Shantou and Qinzhou, for example, Sandu'ao!

Especially the latter, it is a project that Chen Ming is very concerned about. Obviously, Sandu'ao is a world-class natural deep-water port with wide waters and good water depth. The area of ​​deep waters above 10 meters is 26 times that of Ningbo Beilun and 8 times that of Rotterdam in the Netherlands; the deep-water coastline around Sandu'ao is 5 times that of Ningbo Beilun and 3 times that of Yokohama Port in Japan. The deep-water coastline and deep waters rank first in the world. The waterway is excellent, the shelter conditions are good, and it has a natural deep-water channel. There are 6 ideal anchorages with a water depth of more than 10 meters in Aonei, and there are no reefs that hinder navigation. At the same time, the mouth of Aonei is large, and the width of the mouth of Aonei is only 3 kilometers. The natural barrier formed by the mountains makes it mostly calm. It is not frozen or silted. It is an extremely typical drowning valley deep-water harbor. The rivers flowing into Aonei have a large flow, a small sand content, and are not easy to silt up. The geological structure in the port area is stable.

Any conditions are first-class and perfect! But in another time and space, Sanduao has become the "golden fault zone" in the mouth of economists because of various internal and external political reasons, as well as the geographical transportation difficulties in Ningde area!

Shanghai Port, Shenzhen Port, Qingdao Port, Ningbo Port, Guangzhou Port, Tianjin Port, Xiamen Port, Qinhuangdao Port, Dalian Port, Yingkou Port, etc. According to the area, it can be divided into the following five port areas: ports in the Bohai Rim, ports in the Yangtze River Delta, ports in the southeast coastal area, ports in the Pearl River Delta, and ports in the southwest coastal area.

However, Sandu'ao is located between the ports in the Yangtze River Delta and the ports in the southeast coastal area. It is a great pity that a world-class deep-water port has been almost vacant for fifty years.

Of course, with the current strength of the Fu Han Army and the existing scientific and technological means, it is unrealistic to improve the land transportation in Ningde.

But it is not a problem to build Sandu'ao Port.

The latter was also the "gateway to the coast of eastern Fujian and the throat of the Five Counties" in ancient times. In the third year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, Sandu'ao established a river port; in the twenty-third year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, after the demise of Zheng Ming, the Qing Dynasty established the Ningde Taxation General Port here, which had nine ports under its jurisdiction; and in the late Qing Dynasty, which was too late to look back, the Qing Dynasty opened Sandu'ao, and Sandu Island was opened as a foreign trade port, and the Fu Customs was officially established on Sandu Island. Then 24 countries including Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, and Portugal built berths, set up offices or representative offices here, and four countries set up banks here, and Italy also set up a consulate here.

Therefore, even if the land transportation is not smooth, and Sandu'ao is only used as a "transit" and a naval base, it definitely has its own value.

The Fu Han Army now has a relatively strict attitude towards the captured bannermen and Mongolians, killing those who are seriously injured and those with blood on their weapons. For the Green Camp, the civilians, the training army, etc., they no longer kill easily, and the injured are treated with all their strength. To be more precise, the Fu Han Army's attitude towards the Tartars has also been restrained a lot. Before, they were killed if they were injured-they couldn't act alone; now as long as someone is willing to carry you, you will follow the prisoner team, and you will be given some medicinal materials, and then it depends on fate. Because there is a lack of important labor all over the country, every prisoner of war is a very valuable wealth asset of the country.

In Nanjing City, after Chen Ming replaced Chen Hui to worship the ancestors, he held a great court, and Chen Hui still supported himself to come out. He has been coughing for these days, and Chen Ming is afraid that this cough has "turned" into pneumonia. In the previous life, pneumonia was not a disease, but at this time, pneumonia can kill people.

Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Ming went to the palace every day. In the palace, he truly realized that he already had so many brothers and sisters without realizing it...