Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Therefore, Zhu Heqi adopted a strategy of pressing and pulling these foreign businessmen.The so-called pressure is to temporarily control leaving the country.Right now, they are not allowed to leave. After the situation stabilizes for a while, other methods may be used to keep people.For example, let them pay a fine, and let them pay taxes for their beliefs...

The so-called pull, of course, is to support the Bello family, which is related to the Yanping Palace, as the first merchants of Macanese Portuguese and mixed-race Portuguese.

He asked Miss Bei Jiaxin to be his Latin teacher, firstly because he was eager to learn; secondly, he really liked beautiful female teachers... Thirdly, of course, it was to build a bridge between himself and the Bello family.

As for the religious forces in Macau, Zhu Heqi mainly focuses on oppression!

The reason is very simple, these gods are so fucking rich!

Zhu Heqi has frozen their properties worth more than one hundred and one hundred thousand taels of silver, and they are mainly cash!

How could Zhu Hechi spit out such a huge windfall?And he couldn't vomit... because he scored a sum for Qiu Hui and Qiu Rong!The rest has to be paid to the officials and soldiers below, especially since the expansion of Jinyi's pro-army is about to happen, there are money-spending holes everywhere.

Therefore, Zhu Heqi is now like those monarchs who made Protestant Reformation in Europe, it is impossible to be friends with the Catholic Church again.

However, if Luo Wenzao is willing to take refuge in Xu Guangqi's second priest, Zhu Heqi is still very willing to win him over.Therefore, Luo Wenzao was not only appointed as the bishop of Macau, but also appointed as the head of the city of Macau, and together with Bello, he was in charge of the civil affairs of Macau.

In addition to foreign businessmen and priests, there is actually a third force in Macau, which is mercenaries.Including Portuguese soldiers, mixed Portuguese soldiers, Japanese mercenaries, black slave soldiers and so on.If black slave soldiers are included, the total number is about 300.Some were killed or injured in the previous battle, and more than [-] people ran away with Rotoni, and some were "cleaned"...not killed, but disarmed, and then placed under house arrest in the former cottage.In the end, there were [-] people left, and they were all handed over to Aoi Antou.

Although this Antou Aoi changed his position a bit quickly, he has a good appearance and a dignified appearance, not like a devil, and he is a pure oriental.

Therefore, in the original Macau mercenary system, they belonged to the oppressed class.Now Zhu Heyi promoted all these oriental faces and let them oppress white and mixed-race white mercenaries.

Of course, the status of black mercenaries is still very stable, firmly entrenched at the bottom!

And among all the Eastern mercenaries, Aoi Antou had the best attitude and was the fastest to seek refuge.

And after finding out that there were not enough people around Zhu Heqi, he immediately sent his daughter Aoi Saiwu to the fortress to be Zhu Heqi's personal maid...

With this relationship, Aoi Anton was naturally reused and became Zhu Hechi's "head of barbarians", leading all the barbarians in Macau.

While rectifying the treasure land of Macau, Zhu Heqi also began to recruit strong men from the gates to join the Jinyi pro-army—but he didn’t recruit too many people at once, only recruiting more than 800 people. The twenty leaders brought to Macau were all expanded to 150 people each, and the entire army was expanded to [-].

The reason why he recruited so few was because he was worried that his stride would be too big to digest... After all, his team had just opened, and it had expanded from one or two hundred young soldiers to three thousand in a few months, which was already very aggressive.Those young men who lead the army need time to adapt, and the young soldiers do not have enough experience, so we can't let them take care of the old men from the beginning, we have to let the young men take care of the young.After the teenagers have accumulated some experience and established some prestige, it will be no problem for them to manage the adults.

Therefore, the first batch of soldiers that Zhu Heyi recruited from the Guanzhai market were all poor teenagers aged [-] or [-].

And in order for these three thousand young Jinyi soldiers to quickly form an army, Zhu Heqi also ordered Aoi Anton to select a group of mercenaries who could speak Cantonese to serve as instructors.

Everything is working step by step, and it seems to be very good.

However, on the morning of March [-]th, when Zhu Heqi had finished handling a few official duties and was thinking of going to the recruiting teacher to ask Latin, Lin Ahu, who was in charge of managing the customs office, suddenly flew over. When they arrived at the Macau Castle, they also brought news that Zhu Heqian did not expect.

"What? Plague?"

"My lord, there are more than [-] people who have diarrhea and can't stand it, and there are more than [-] people getting sick!"

The next benefit is dysentery, which can easily break out in places where people gather, sanitation is poor, and drinking water is polluted!

And the gate gate seems to be such a place where diseases are easy to breed!

"My lord, it will be a big deal if the benefits really explode!"

"That's right, my son, there are tens of thousands of people over there at the gate... If ten or twenty thousand get sick, what should we do?"

"Master, you must block the market to prevent the disease from spreading to Macau Island!"

"My lord...you should also be careful at the former cottage!"

Military Adviser Zhuge, Master Guo, Luo Wenzao, and Da Boling, who were in charge of a group of people, all went to Zhu Heqi's study as soon as they got the news, and started talking to Zhu Heqi.

It's a trick, but they don't have any good tricks, and even this idea is a bit bad.

But Zhu Heqi is confident... He may not be able to deal with other diseases, but this diarrhea disease really can't help him.

And this epidemic, in his opinion, is not only not a crisis, but even a god-sent opportunity!

Because Zhu Heqi happened to know the extraction method of an antibiotic that can treat dysentery and common diarrhea... This antibiotic is allicin!

As a senior perfume expert, Zhu Hechi himself is very proficient in extracting the essence of various spices...including extracting the essence of garlic!Because he once tried to produce a "garlic" perfume!

That's right, it's the smell of "garlic bone"!People who have never worked in this industry can't imagine how close the distance between perfume and the kitchen is... What kind of pepper, pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves, etc. can be used to process perfume, and garlic is of course also Can!

Although the "garlic bone" scented perfume turned out to be a joke, Zhu and Qi still mastered several methods of extracting allicin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and three of them can be used in the seventeenth century. Tools for soil extraction!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi stood up as soon as he slapped the table, and looked at the people in front of him with burning eyes, "Isn't it just a profit? I can cure this disease!"

Chapter 132 Believe in Zhu San, you have to live!

It's dirty, crowded, and wet.There are low-slung shanties everywhere, narrow alleys, excrement and garbage can be seen everywhere, and the air is filled with a stench mixed with the smell of excrement and garbage.

Two heavily polluted creeks flow through this fenced-in area of ​​filth and shantytowns, before emptying into the Guanzha River.

Because the water in the Guanzha River is bitter and salty, almost like sea water, it is not drinkable at all.And the area around the Hebei gate of the gate is surrounded by wooden fences, so you can't go in and out casually.Therefore, these two streams, which are many times dirtier than the water of the Ganges, became the only source of drinking water for the tens of thousands of people gathered here.

During this period of time, the weather here in Macau has been sunny and there is not much rain, so the heavily polluted dirty water cannot be washed away, and it is drunk into the stomachs of the coolies who gather here to work and earn money.It is not surprising that the outbreak of epidemic diarrhea...

In fact, it is not the first time that the dysentery outbreak in the Guanzha River Basin has occurred.Dysentery here has never disappeared, and every year when there is drought and little rain, there will be a big outbreak.The only difference is how many dead?

This year, because the Macao-Xiangshan smuggling trade is particularly busy, and the merchants offer high wages for the coolies, more people are attracted than in previous years to gather in the Guanzha River Daba, so the scale of the dysentery outbreak is also large. It's even bigger.

Of course, the officials that Shang Kexi sent to manage the Guanzha River market, as well as the Portuguese on the other side of the Guanzha River, would not care about the life and death of these working people in Guangdong.

Not only will they not treat patients in the hall, but they will even send troops to guard the exits on both sides of the hall, preventing sick patients from leaving.

There are some Catholic missionaries in Macau who will go into the big discussion field to care for the patients there...but they don't know how to treat them, they just blindly ask those patients to convert to God.

It is also euphemistically called: Save Souls!

If the body can't be saved, then let's save the soul casually.If those patients were not healed, most of them would die soon, and their souls would go to the west. Jesus took the souls, and he would give credit to those missionaries.

It's just that this good deal of exchanging souls for merit can't be done this time.

Because the sages Zhu and Zhu Zhu, who love the people like their sons, have come...he will save those sick bodies and souls.

Moreover, he had to rescue in front of tens of thousands of strong and strong men, and he had to save the most seriously ill people who were about to die!

Only in this way, the tens of thousands of strong men here will regard Zhu Heqi as the savior who bears the destiny of heaven... and will follow him wholeheartedly to kill demons and restore Ming Dynasty!

This smelly, very crowded, and shanty town can be seen everywhere, and there are relatively spacious places.This place is in the center of the market, and there is a wide street that runs from the north gate of the market to the south gate.

On both sides of the street, there are trading markets surrounded by wooden fences one by one. The goods shipped from Macau—not necessarily imported products, most of them are shipped from Jiangnan, Fujian, Chaozhou and other places— Products produced in Guangfu, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and other places are traded in these markets.

In addition, a chief yamen of Pingnan Wangfu is also located on this street.

Of course, this Yamen is illegal!It did not exist in the establishment of the Qing court and government.

But this illegal yamen can earn illegal taxes of 200 million taels of silver for the Pingnan Palace every year.

However, this kind of good thing that the illegal yamen manages illegal trade and collects illegal tariffs is now over.

Now all the "shilan markets" are guarded by Zhu Hechi or Qiu Hui's men.The merchants either ran away, or they were locked in the fence market with a sad face.

And the few non-judges in the illegal yamen were even worse, they were all hacked to death.When Zhu Heqi led Da Boling, Zhuge Sanhe, Qiu Rong, Luo Wenzao and others to the front of the illegal yamen, the heads of these servants of the Shang family had already been stuck on both sides of the yamen with spears for public display.

On the street outside the yamen, apart from the dead heads, it was also crowded with strong men from various shantytowns—the shantytowns in Daqianchang looked like a large crowd at first glance, but in fact they were divided into subdivisions Yes, and every piece of shantytown is inhabited by fellow villagers from a county.

These days, I rely on my parents at home, and I have to support each other with friends from my hometown when I go out.Therefore, when fellow villagers get together, they often form a group automatically.Of course, on the Guangdong side, there are also aboriginals and Hakkas in most areas, which are two groups again.

But now the natives and Hakka young men who gathered in the big hall didn't have much thought to fight, because now they are "misfortunes never come singly"!

On the one hand, in the case of epidemic diarrhea, many companions have already fallen ill, and those who have not yet fallen ill do not know when they will become ill.

On the other hand, they also encountered a confused war - the reason why they say confused is because they still haven't figured out who is fighting with whom?

Oh, it is certain that the Chinese play Western Baifan.But who are those Chinese?At the beginning, it was said that it was a man of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi.

Everyone believed it too... The news that Wu Sangui is coming to Guangdong has already spread all over Macau!If it weren't for this news, those profiteers who engaged in "tax smuggling" wouldn't charge such high wages for them to work hard!

Isn't this just to grab the deal before Wu Sangui takes office?

But it didn't take long for everyone to realize that the situation had changed!

Those generals who have firmly controlled the market are no longer called Pingxi King, but anti-Qing and Ming-ming!

what 's wrong?

Is Wu Sangui going to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, or is it that the rebels from Chaozhou hit Macau, and then followed Wu Sangui's banner to control the big debate?

But why did the anti-Qing and Fuming come to Macau?The Portuguese in Macau don’t seem to have provoked Daming much!

But this morning, there was even more incredible news, saying that the son of the Ming Dynasty Supervisor Guoding, that is, the third grandson of Zhu San, had come to Macau, and he was going to come to the big forum... to save the suffering and help everyone treat the epidemic .

What does it mean?

Is the third grandson of Zhu wanting to invite the upper body of the god, and then cast a mantra to invite everyone to drink the talisman water?Their old Zhu family is also doing this now?Does it work?

Just when a group of feudal and superstitious Cantonese strong workers were thinking wildly, Zhu Heqi, who was dressed in a commoner scarf and had a long sword and a thunderbolt, had already arrived at the Yamen of the Dachao, riding a Lusitano ocean horse surrounded by a group of subordinates. forward.

Seeing the costumes of Zhu Heqi and the original Confucian knights who followed him, the strong workers below were also surprised—this is not to pretend to be a god, but to pretend to be a Confucian saint!

"Children, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old..."

When Zhu and Qi reined in their war horses outside the yamen, the Jinyi pro-army and Qiu's army officers and soldiers standing in front of the yamen and outside the wooden fence market gates to maintain order cheered loudly together.

Zhu Heqi raised his right hand and waved it lightly, the cheers came to an abrupt end.

Then Zhu and Qi did not dismount, but gave a speech on horseback.

"Listen, everyone. I am the grandson of Emperor Weizong of the Ming Dynasty, the son of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty. Now I am supported by all the righteous people in Chaozhou. I reopened the Ming Dynasty in Jieyang. Now I am leading five thousand tigers and tigers. I came across the sea to Macao. One is to take Guangzhou. I think revival is fundamental; the second is to save the people of Guangfu from suffering. This is my destiny!

Yesterday, I heard that the disease was rampant in Daqianchang, so I led the crowd to come for treatment.If the fate is my destiny, the epidemic should be relieved within a few days and end within ten days... Well, stop talking empty words!Now, Gujia announces three ways to fight the epidemic.

First, Xia Li is a disease that comes from the mouth, so from now on, all the drinking water and food in the venue will be supplied by Macau Island, and no more parties are allowed in the venue.So that more people don't get sick!

Second, all the patients were concentrated in the warehouse of the East India Company on the south bank of the Gate River.The lonely family will treat them with special medicine, and within ten days, most of them should recover.

In addition, each patient must be taken care of by a special person, and the person who takes care of the patient will be recruited from the venue, and each person will be given a hundred dollars a day!

Thirdly, two days later, the strong men who are not sick and have not applied to take care of the sick will have to send [-] people to the Qianshanzhai area north of the Guanzha River to resettle and train in the ranks... Food and lodging is included, per person Another fifty cash per day! "

Chapter 133 It's gratifying, do you want to change house?

In the 11th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, on the first day of March, the Mianhu village in Chaozhou was camped.

This place is now a sea of ​​Qing soldiers!

The original Mianhu Walled City had been overcrowded long ago, and the Chaozhou people in the city had long been coaxed out by Shang Zhixiao to make room for the green battalion soldiers who came from the north. The banner soldiers of Nanwang Mansion and Duke Xushun Mansion are first-class, but they are the guards of Mi Sihan, the imperial envoy, and Emperor Kangxi personally dispatched them from Zhili, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi and other provinces for Mi Sihan Green Battalion.

So Shang Zhixiao didn't dare to be negligent, and had to treat them as "Green Masters".And the Pingnan Wangfu Banner Army and the Green Battalion soldiers under the vassal who came from Guangzhou naturally became the "second-class soldiers" in Guangdong. They set up a camp outside the Mianhu Walled City to protect the "Master Green" from the north.On the outskirts of the "second-class soldiers" in the Pingnan Palace, there are the "third-class soldiers" of the Guangdong Green Camp led by Yan Ziming, Miao Zhixiu, Zhang Guoxun, Wang Guodong, etc., as well as Fengmingshan, the Chaozhou Tongzhi who was dismissed and retained. Leading two thousand Chaozhou people and regiments.

These fourth-class Qing soldiers gathered layer upon layer around Mianhu Village, forming a heavy army group with as many as [-] people!

In addition to the [-] army here, Haiyang County, the capital city of Chaozhou, also stationed Liu Jinzhong's army to prevent the troops of Zhu San and his son from running eastward to Fujian.At Yanling Pass, a key pass at the junction of Chaozhou and Jiayingzhou, the Xushun Gongfu Banner Army led by Deng Guangming and Zhang Mengji was stationed, and they blocked the way of Zhu San and his son's northward escape.

With no way to go east or north, Zhu San and his son theoretically had no choice but to stay in Jieyang County honestly, waiting to be crushed to death by the [-] Qing troops hugged into a regiment by Mianhu Village.

Although there is a sure chance of winning, Shang Kexi, the Southern King of Great Qingping, is still very careful at this time!

He didn't want to be like Yang Gao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, who divided his troops and rushed forward, only to be defeated by the Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty who concentrated his forces.

And Shang Kexi didn't dare to concentrate his forces to rush forward... He just wants to "soldiers are more important than victory, not speed"!

"It's only sixty or seventy miles from Mianhu Village to Jieyang City. If you climb a few miles a day, you can reach it in a month! My king has an army of [-], and there are so many red barbarian cannons. Set up a fort, bombard it day and night... Even if Jieyang City is made of iron, this king can break it!"

Shang Kexi was proudly sitting in the courtyard of the Mianhu Walled City at this time, talking with Mi Sihan, the imperial envoy, Liu Bingquan, the governor of Guangdong, Jin Guang, Shang Kexi's military adviser, and a group of admirals, generals, and deputy generals. A set of stable strategies for suppressing thieves.

The group of Mi Sihan, Liu Bingquan, and Yan Ziming all nodded their heads, as if they were all familiar with the Three Kingdoms, no, they were military strategists who were familiar with the art of war.

Shang Kexi's two sons, my father Shang Zhixin and the second son Shang Zhixiao were also standing in the Xingyuan hall, but they didn't listen to Shang Kexi's words very much, but were competing with each other with their eyes.

As soon as Shang Kexi finished speaking, the two young masters came out to stand at the same time.

"Ama, Zhixin is willing to be the vanguard, lead a brigade of elites, and open the way for the army!"

"Ama, Zhixiao is willing to be the vanguard, lead the elite soldiers of the headquarters, and open the way for the army!"

Seeing the two sons jumping out at once, Shang Kexi couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart: "You two little bastards are arguing! Miao Zhixiu, Zhang Guoxun, Wang Guodong and others can't go to the job of pioneering the road!" OK?"

Just when Shang Kexi was about to teach his two hot-headed sons a lesson, and then leave the task of sending him to death to someone else, he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the hall: "My lord, my slave Li Tianzhi needs to report urgent military affairs!"

Shang Kexi was taken aback for a moment, Li Tianzhi was Shang Kexi's confidant, and he was officially worshiped as the chief history of Prince Pingnan's residence.

Today Li Tianzhi was on duty in the Chinese army at the camp in Mianhuzhai, so he did not come to participate in the Xingyuan army meeting.If it wasn't for something big, he wouldn't have come to interrupt the military discussion!

"Call him in!"

Shang Kexi hurriedly asked the left and right to invite this Li Dachangshi in, and before Li Tianzhi gave him a thousand presents, Shang Kexi could already see something was wrong from his face.

This Li Tianzhi originally had a bright red face, but now it looks pale!What's the big deal?

"Li, Li Changshi, what happened?" Shang Kexi didn't know well, so he hurriedly asked.

"My lord, my lord, I just received an urgent report from the Guangzhou Palace... saying that Macau was occupied by the false Ming Prince Ding's son!"