Han’s Son is Not a Slave: Chapter 950 arrogant heart

Yancheng County was originally Yandu County, under the administration of Huaian Prefecture, South Zhili. The county is mostly waterways, and the coast is densely covered with tidal flats. The reeds are taller than people.

In the first year of Shunzhi, Liu Zeqing, an uncle of Nanming Dongping, devastated Yancheng County. After that, the Prince of Qingyu led a large army to march south. Because Yancheng belonged to the Ming Dynasty, the local area was naturally slaughtered by the army. Once or twice, the people in Yancheng are really rare. In the third year of Shunzhi's report to the household department, the population was only over 24,000, while before the army had not yet had a population of over 150,000.

It is sparsely populated, densely covered by rivers, and crowded with tidal flats, which are naturally suitable for escapees from the north to hide. In the beginning, Yancheng County turned a blind eye to the escapees and did not ask them any questions, and let them produce and reproduce on their own within the territory. The reason for this is because if there are more escaped people in this territory, there will be more Dingkou, and if there are more Dingkou, there will be people in this land. The more the land is planted, the more the tax will naturally be collected, and the more the tax, the higher the grades will be in the next year's official examination. Such a good thing, where to find it?

However, after only two or three years, the imperial court suddenly issued a strict order prohibiting the local government from hiding and concealing the escaped people, and even more forbidden to transfer the escaped people to the registered good citizens. The reason is that the escaped man is the lifeblood of the Manchu masters. The masters all count on these slaves to farm and produce for them. If all the slaves escape, who will support the masters?

In those years, what Yancheng County did the most was catching escapees. In order to avoid being arrested by the government, the escapees in the country hid along the beach and boiled salt in them for a living. In this world, if you can survive, but you can keep your family safe, there must be desperate desperados. The fleeing people roared in the tidal flats, gathering in the salt stove, or called the big group, or called the three stoves, or called the salt warehouse. After so many times, the government has no intention of forcing these escapees to go too far. The left and right sides did not specify how many escapees to return to the north, so if they can handle it, why risk it.

Time has passed and ten years have passed. Today, the county magistrate of Yancheng, whose surname is Zhou and Dalang, is from Haizhou in the north. The county of Yancheng became the Marquis of Baili.

Although he was born in a state and spent money to gain an official position, Zhou Dalang is also quite capable. After several years of his governance, Dingkou in Yancheng County has grown by more than 3,000. God also takes care of him, and the weather is good, so Dalang's performance is all excellent. According to the news from the Huai'an Mansion, maybe Dalang will be promoted to prefect and Tongzhi next year, but I don't know exactly where he will be promoted.

Gaosheng is naturally a good thing, but Dalang does not want to go to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and Jiangnan, because there will still be wars there. Today is the Qing Dynasty, and tomorrow is the territory of the Ming Dynasty. This officer is not safe. I think so, but it is not up to Dalang to decide where he will be transferred. It all depends on the mood of the officials in the Ministry of Personnel. At this moment, he can only secretly ask the Bodhisattva to bless him.

Last year, the situation in Jiangbei became tense. Although Zhou Dalang was only a magistrate, he didn't know anything about the situation outside the county except for the affairs in the county. He only knew that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty had personally led the army to march south, and it would be settled in a few days. The Ming army in the south ruled the world. It's not that Dalang didn't go to Huai'an Mansion to inquire about news, but the mansion was also in chaos, and he was even more unclear about the battle situation. After inquiring a few times, Dalang didn't get a letter of approval, and Dalang simply stopped wasting his efforts. He was just a small magistrate around him, and he had to worry about the country's major affairs.

It is now the end of March, and the county is busy urging the people to prepare wheat harvest and summer seeds, and also inspect the river and sea walls to avoid floods after summer, which will affect the harvest in autumn and miss the hand in money and grain that year. Lang has been very busy and tired recently. He went to the countryside several times in succession. Every time he came back, his back was sore and his legs hurt. However, thinking that you can get promoted when you finish this job, it's worth it no matter how hard or tired it is.

It is a pity that there are irregular winds and rains, and the official Dalang has not yet been promoted. If the prefecture city was lost, which of the following counties would dare to resist the Ming army? After the Ming army occupied Huai'an, they divided their troops to each county. One of the Ming army's 100 households and 100 soldiers drove to Yancheng County, and ordered Zhou Dalang in the city to open the city and surrender immediately.

There are green camp flood soldiers garrisoned in Yancheng County, but there are only more than 100 people. In addition, there are more than 300 strong men recruited by the county. In addition, there are dozens of gangs under the head of a few catchers. The number is larger than the Ming army outside the city, but from Zhou Dalang below, who dares to give birth to the mind of Pingcheng.

Zhou Dalang Ping said to the left and right that he was the most arrogant in his life, especially his integrity. As long as it was beneficial to the country and the court, he would not hesitate to sacrifice his own life, and would never avoid it because he might be harmed.

In order to strengthen his integrity and become a role model for his subordinates, Dalang called himself "Proud Bone" and took the word "Tie Xin", which means that the official is proud. Danger does not scare me!

The yamen's knowledgeable and interesting clerk wrote the words of the magistrate into a poem "Gouli's country is life and death, why should it be avoided because of misfortune and good fortune?" It is said that this verse will be passed down through the ages with his name of Zhou Dalang in the future.

However, Zhou Dalang, who was arrogant and hard-hearted, failed to report to the king with his death, but instead opened the city gate with his subordinates.

In this regard, Da Lang's explanation is that a hero does not suffer immediate losses. Although I am down now, I am in the Ming Dynasty and my heart is clear. He moved out of the Spring and Autumn Period of Yue Guojian's deeds of living hard and trying hard to cover up himself with money. With some flattering words, he really made a bunch of his subordinates think that the magistrate is a man who can bend and stretch. What happened next made all his men speechless. This week Dalang not only accepted the appointment of the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, but also flattered and flattered the hundreds of Ming soldiers who came here. He offered his wife to bed.

Zhou Dalang's well-behaved performance made the Taiping Army Hundred Households who came to take over Yancheng County very satisfied. When reporting to Huai'an, they made a lot of good words for this week's Dalang, so that the thousands of officials in Huaian reported this week's Dalang as a typical capable official anyway. Not surprisingly, Zhou Dalang will definitely be promoted to one level in the coming year.

With the return of Huai'an to Ming Dynasty, the situation in Jianghuai became more and more clear. Zhou Dalang was born in a noble family, and he has been a county magistrate for several years. However, after receiving the official document on the investigation of smuggled salt from Huai'an Prefecture, Zhou Dalang felt that the matter was very difficult.

Yancheng County is named after salt, and the natural salt industry in the territory is prosperous. The more prosperous it is, the more salt smugglers will be. In addition, in the past ten years, there have been many fugitives from the north who are potentially engaged in cooking salt in Yancheng, making the business of private salt more and more dangerous. Those fleeing from the north and the local salt dealers were all outlaws. Zhou Dalang could not solve them in his previous two tenures. After he took office, he didn't bother with the idea that it would be better to have less than one more thing.

It should be noted that this salt smuggler is not like the smuggler who walks the streets and makes money, but he is really brave and ruthless, and he does not obey Wang Hua at all. It is strictly forbidden for all dynasties, and if you seize it, you must re-do it. Yancheng is named after salt, and there are sub-inspection and inspection divisions of the two Huai salt administrations in the territory. Official and private salt dealers are fighting hard. Fortunately, since the Ming Dynasty, Yancheng County has an unwritten rule. , that is, this county is in charge of civil affairs, not salt administration, so although those illicit salt dealers are rampant, they have nothing to do with Dalang, it is all about the two Huai salt administration. Therefore, as long as Dalang escapes and the salt dealers don't commit any crimes, it doesn't affect the security of the county, and he doesn't bother to take care of it.

But now they want to rectify the salt administration, saying that it was a warrant sent by King Qi himself, and the wording of the official documents of the Huai'an government was even more severe. In addition to having a headache, I couldn't help but scold the **** in Huaian Mansion for being unreasonable. Don't they know about Yancheng? When those smugglers sent benefits to the Lianghuai Salt Administration, they didn't forget to give you a copy. Now you guys are better. Just pat on the buttocks and don't care about anything, and push me all the way to Yancheng County. This is not to embarrass me. !

Whether it's a headache or cursing, this matter can be tied to his own life. Da Lang doesn't want to be slashed by the court in a confused way. I heard that the Taiping Army is a murderous **** who kills people without blinking an eye, and he can't be provoked.

Things must be solved~www.mtlnovel.com~ How can we solve it? I really want to arrest those fugitives selling smuggled salt. Dalang's strength is far from enough. Dalang has only more than 300 people at his disposal, but there are thousands of salt dealers, and they are really vicious. Can't see.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng, who used a lonely city in Gaoyou to reject the millions of troops of the Yuan Dynasty, was born in Yancheng County as a private salt dealer!

With Zhang Shicheng's lessons learned, Da Lang had to take this matter seriously. He didn't dare to anger the salt dealers. If these desperados launched a fierce attack and gathered a crowd to attack the county town, if the county town was really lost, his official position would be over. But no matter what, the wording of the Huai'an mansion is strict, and the news he sent to the mansion to inquire also said that if the salt government could not be rectified this time, King Qi would kill!

Da Lang thought about it, but he came up with an idea. Since the salt dealer is in Yancheng County, there is no reason for him, the foreign magistrate, to do it all. Immediately, they convened a group of squires in the territory, first told them the official document issued by the government, so that they knew how powerful it was, and then reasoned with them, and asked the squires to persuade those who were hiding and escaped to bring themselves to justice, and then pay for help to the county government. Deal with the salt dealers.

This is obviously not enough. Dalang sent a report to the Huai'an government, and asked the government to send troops to assist in this matter. In addition, the two Huai salt administrations were written, and the patrolling soldiers under the salt administration department cooperated with them.