Lu Ming

"Yes, yes. Don't talk about it, I'll go to bed again."

Turning his head back to the cabin, Fu Youdi lay down again with peace of mind, and fell asleep again.

In the middle of the night, the shaking of the cabin finally woke Fu Youdi up.

He took out his pocket watch to check the time, it was just after twelve o'clock.Get up and climb out of the cabin, and wait and see on the deck.

On the river, a row of navigation lights quietly revealed the fleet's driving track.Nothing could be seen from the outside except the light signals.Occasionally, dark mountains and cliffs, like monsters, suddenly passed the field of vision.

According to the regulations, since no one specially came to organize it, it proved that it was not yet time.The big-hearted Guanjiao Fu stood on the side of the boat and urinated, then climbed into the cabin again.

Finally, at three o'clock in the night, Fu Youdi felt that the speed of the boat dropped first, then pulled over, and anchored somewhere.

After a while, a squadron leader from the second watch boarded the boat with a kerosene lamp.Soon, everyone was summoned and waited on the dark deck.

Surrounding the kerosene lamp with their bodies, occasionally there were a few low-pitched jokes, and everyone just let the wind quietly on the deck.

This state lasted for more than an hour, until a faint whiteness appeared in the sky.

The next moment, three red signal flares rose simultaneously on the west side of the river and in the direction of the land.

As soon as the distant signal bomb was seen flying into the sky, the fleet shone brightly, and all kinds of bright and dark lights were lit up.Immediately afterwards, the anchor was pulled up, and the fleet hurriedly set sail and sailed forward.

At this time, Fu Youdi could vaguely see that the place where he stopped before was a long iron floating pier among the reeds.

After driving for about two miles, I could already see a flash of light on the river bank ahead: it was gunfire.

A little further away, the sound of shouting and killing also drifted into Fu Youdi's ears along the river wind.

At this time, the sky was just bright.Fu Youdi could easily see the large number of ships on the distant river bank and the river bank where the battle was taking place.

Strictly speaking, the large number of ships on the river bank are divided into two parts: the military ships surrounded by the outer layer, and the densely packed rows of fishing boats on the bank.

Seeing this scene, Fu Youdi finally knew the target of catching Fulang this time: Xu Min.

Xu Min is a fisherman living in the Fujian and Guangdong regions.They are wandering around, take the boat as their home, and are not allowed to go ashore for life.The government of the Ming Dynasty even had a formal provision stipulating that Xu Min could not marry Han Min and could not take part in the imperial examination.

The life of the traditional Xu people is very difficult.In addition to making a living by fishing and shipping goods, Xumin, a mobile gypsy fishing village on the water, will also set up prostitutes on board, use their wives to pick up customers, and turn into water bandits, running around and robbing.

In real history, it was not until the period of the Republic of China that Xumin was arranged by the government to settle ashore on a large scale.

What Fu Youdi didn't know was that in this plane, Xumin from the Fujian and Guangdong regions had already been recruited by the traversing people to go ashore.There are various means, and they can do everything they can to win over and seize.

Today's wave, in a sense, is a milestone "catch the floating waves": among the Xu people here, there is hidden the last large-scale Xijiang water bandit gang in Guangdong.And the mobile fishing village here is the base of the gang, and it is also the last large mobile fishing village.

The battle that took place on the bank of the Xijiang River lasted for about half an hour and ended.

The whole process looked more lively, but it was obvious that there was more than enough bluffing and not enough confrontation.After all, the "floating waves" could only swing their fish knives twice at most, facing the large number of officers and troops who surrounded them from the river and land with cannons and guns, Xu Min could not produce a decent resistance.

Next, it was Fu Youdi's turn to appear.The big boat approached the fishing boat, and a string of short, dark-skinned adult Xumin men with obvious bow-legged features were driven into the cabin by sharp bayonets.

As the receiver, Fu Youdi stood at the hatch, and his first task was to count the number of people.Of course, as an excellent discipline cadre, Discipline Fu will never forget the regulations.The Qiongzhou No. [-] Kan expressly stipulates that male newcomers must at least receive a whip when they enter the camp.

As a result, the men who were driven into the cabin back and forth were at least severely beaten by the black leather whip.There were also those who looked ugly and disturbed compared to Fu Jiaojiao, and were beaten twice.

All the personnel involved in this operation of catching the floating waves are very clear about the next process.

The entire mobile fishing village has about [-] people.Among them, adult men will be transported back first, followed by women and children.

Floating waves will spend a period of time in the quarantine camp.During the period, there will be screening, purification, learning new social rules, assignment of work and other processes waiting for them.

Years of life in the cabin made most Xu people suffer from the sub-disease of bowed legs.But it doesn't matter. Although the bandy legs affect joining the army, they don't affect screw driving. They are still qualified as social animals. These buoys are very valuable.

In the end, after identification, some professional bandits will eventually fall into the hands of Guanjiao Fu.The fate of these people is full of challenges... Either they are driven to the construction site to do hard labor, or they are loaded on a ship and sent to Fort Licone to do hard labor.

The day's transport, plus a few military ships, took most of the float away.

And because Guanjiao Fu is a single dog, he can sleep wherever he needs, so he was left on the difficult fishing boat to guard the captives.

After waiting like this for three days, five empty ships finally came again.

Seeing a long list of empty ships, Fu Youdi was a little puzzled: for the remaining people who needed to be loaded, at most three or four ships would be enough, what would five ships do?

Soon, Guanjiao Fu knew the answer: he needed to take an empty boat with a few colleagues, and go to Luoding to pick up a boat of indigenous workers recruited locally and return to Guangzhou.

Well, just go, it's all work, you can't pick and choose.

The location of Luoding Prefecture is between Zhaoqing and Deqing, not far from the departure point.That is to say, after Fu Youdi got on the boat, he only needed to turn around and cross the river to the other side for a while.

This time, the old guard Xue Duanzheng was the one who led the team to Luoding Prefecture.The pier where the pick-up ship finally docked was not the capital of Luoding Prefecture, but an apparently newly built building complex on the shore.

After getting off the boat, the first thing Fu Youdi saw was the familiar low fence and various slogans about fire prevention and hard work.

You don't need to ask Fu Youdi to know that there must be some kind of workshop behind the wall.

Sure enough, Xue Duanzheng told him that behind the wall here is a small industrial park, which houses various factories for processing primary mountain products.

And the destination of the land is not in the dock area.The place he was going to was called Fuxing Village, a cottage outside the dock area.After walking along a road paved with cement and stone slabs for about 10 minutes, we arrived at the destination of Fuyoudi.

The number of soldiers stationed here is quite large.According to Fu Youdi's visual inspection, there is at least one company of regular soldiers and a large number of security guards.

After entering the door, seeing orderly red brick buildings, red brick squares, watchtowers, and a pocket-sized commercial street full of various commodities, Fu knew with certainty that this Fuxing village was undoubtedly built by the Shuaifu.

A group of people entered the village with their identities clearly identified, and Xue Duanzheng found the director's office next to the village square with ease.

Seeing Instructor Xue enter the door, the chubby Fuxing Village director Bai Yuanji greeted him: "It's good if you come, old Xue, you can drink a few cups with my brother first, and we can talk about it tomorrow."

So, not long after, Fu Youdi, who covered his head and turned around, sat by a fire pit, roasting mountain venison and drinking plum wine.

During the drinking process, Fu Youdi asked the reason for this place, so Director Bai began to talk about ancient times.

This riverside architectural complex in Luoding Prefecture was specially set up to recruit the surrounding Yao, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities.

Guangdong, Guangxi and other places have been places where ethnic minorities gather since ancient times.Among them, the Yao, Zhuang, She and other ethnic groups accounted for most of the minority places in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.

Luoding Prefecture is located on the border of Guangdong and Guangxi, with many mountains and lush forests. The local Han and Yao people are mixed, and it has always been the place where the Yao people rebelled.

For the ethnic minorities who often rebelled, the ancient government actually didn't have much to do. It was nothing more than severe suppression and strict defense.In this way, the two sides have feuded for generations, and there will never be peace for each other.

In real history, when the government's control was weakened at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the chaos of Yao and Yao in Guangdong began one after another, which restrained a lot of energy of the Ming court.

Travelers who know this historical process will definitely not let this happen.In the second year after landing in Guangzhou, through commerce and government recruitment, the war potential of the local Yao Zhuang people has been gradually extracted.

Later, in order to let the mountain people understand what "job" is, Dayan State even spared no effort to invest resources to build primary factory clusters on the edge of several Yao districts in order to recruit and transform "part-time workers" who are worried about Han people.

Here Director Bai is drinking and talking about ancient times, while Officer Fu over there has already buried himself in a full stomach of barbecue.After eating, Fu Youdi was very happy to hear what the director said, and he couldn't help asking: "How effective is this policy?"

"Hehe, you haven't been to the big factory in the new area to see it."

Before Director Bai could answer, Officer Xue smiled and told Fu Youdi: "The effect is not good, why are we here?"

"That's right." Fu Youdi came to his senses: "I think I recruited a lot."

Director Bai patted his belly, and added with a smile: "Hehe, tomorrow is the big fair, let's see how many heads we can gather, and you all will take them away."

Only then did Fu Youdi know that since the Fuxing Village was built, all the villages in the surrounding area, regardless of Yao and Han, will hold a big fair here every 15th day of the lunar new year.

Sure enough, early the next morning, scattered Yao people came.Afterwards, three or five, or seven or eight market-going teams came out of the mountains one after another, carrying big bags of mountain goods, and entered the stockade.

When the mountain people come to the market, they always count the time, and most of them will come in the morning.So before noon, the big set had reached its climax.A large number of mountain people first exchange the mountain goods for Cao Datou and banknotes, and then go shopping in the commercial street.

Fu Youdi is here in the square, assisting in the registration of mountain people's "occupation" matters.

There are three kinds of mountain people who come to "join the occupation".

The first type: those who go to the foot of the mountain to do odd jobs.Most of these people are women, young and old.

There are no restrictions on odd jobs, and the wages are settled every half a month. The temporary workers just come to pick up their families and go back to the village when they are rushing to the big market.

The second type: employees.

The employees are the kind who are willing to go to the new area for "long-term occupation". Most of them are middle-aged and elderly men. Of course, there are also young and middle-aged men.

This kind of employees have the same salary and benefits as other regular employees, but they can only go back to the stockade to visit relatives during their annual leave.So at today's joining ceremony, Director Bai will represent Marshal Cao and give the joiners a "signature fee".

The signing fee is drizzle in the eyes of later generations: a bag of [-] grams of food-grade granular sea salt, the kind used for pickling vegetables by later generations.There is also a small bag of twenty catties of rice.If you don't want these, you can also replace them with equivalent daily necessities such as cloth or leather shoes.

Fu Youdi stood behind the registration desk, looking at a wrinkled, barefoot middle-aged man in a homemade skirt, cheerfully took the salt rice and handed it to his own woman who came with him.He couldn't help curling his lips, feeling superior.

The next moment, Fu Youdi turned his head and asked in a low voice: "Salt rice will be given out when you enter the factory to enjoy the blessings? The people in Qiongzhou will not give it when they are requisitioned! I hate Shanman for daring to deceive the commander-in-chief?"

"Hehe, it takes a lot of trouble to catch him back, not counting the military expenses, but it costs money to keep him in a quarantine camp for a few months?"

Officer Xue, who heard the question, also explained in a low voice: "It doesn't matter, these poor savages are going to make trouble. How many people are there? The Yaodong in Guangdong are connected to Guangxi, and they have violent attacks, all over the mountains and plains."

"Oh..." After Xue Guanjiao said this, Fu Youdi understood: "If you take one away, you will lose one."

"Correct."

The last type of recruits are the honorable enlisted soldiers who "responded to the call of the commander-in-chief" and came to "support the construction of the country's border defense".

The recruits who came to join the army were all young and young, and there were about twenty of them.

The settling expenses of these young people are very high.Each military family can receive two bags of rice with a total weight of [-] catties, and a bag of sea salt with a weight of five kilograms.In addition, there are daily necessities spree including fabrics, needlework groceries, tin kettles, small briquette stoves, etc.

Seeing the young offspring surrounded by relatives in the village to bid farewell, Fu Youdi felt a sense of melancholy and emptiness... Should he find a matchmaker to ask for a wife, raise a few cubs, and send them to the military camp to serve as the commander in chief?

Just when Fu Yuedi was thinking about it, an ancient ceremony began in the square.

First, from a special brick house, three elderly priests wearing a full set of exquisite silver ornaments, called "Ga Xiang" by the Yao people... These are local and prestigious priests specially hired by Fuxingzhai.

Next, under the command of the priest, the entire square, centered on the enlisted soldiers, the priests, and the families of the recruits formed a circle around the periphery.

The next moment, a flame of firewood mixed with kerosene ignited in a shallow ditch on the edge of the square.

After the flame is lit, the priest shakes the long drum and plays the mountain flute.Others cooperated with the recruits, danced the ancient dance, and sang desolate songs.

Fu Youdi, who was awakened, was stunned and speechless after witnessing the talent show in the raging fire.

After a long time, when the flames were exhausted, the ceremony that took into account both blessing and exorcism was considered to be over.

In the end, the recruits who had received the high-level blessing of the three high priests all blushed and came to the director to register.

After noon, Director Bai, who had completed all the formalities, handed the registration book to Xue Guanjiao after seeing that there were no new recruits: "Okay, you can sign. The total number is 33 employees and 21 recruits. You now Let's lead them to the boat, go down the river, and try to reach the new area at night."

Xue Guanjiao nodded again and again: "Okay, Guanjiao Fu, whistle formation, let's go back to the pier."

Just at Fu Youdi, he took out his whistle and blew a whistle, signaling the recruits to come and gather here. Suddenly, an accident happened: a messenger wearing leggings and a bright orange belt tied on his chest rushed into the village with sweat on his head. .

The next moment, Director Bai was found, and the messenger took out a sealing document.

After reading the document with a serious face, Director Bai first pulled Guanjiao Xue and Fu Youdi away, and said secretly: "Lead the people away quickly, it's terrible, something big happened!"

"What's the big deal?"

"Guangzhou has raised troops! You go back quickly, I will impose martial law here!"

"what!"

Xue Guanjiao and Fu Youdi looked at each other, they turned pale with shock, hurriedly greeted other colleagues, hurriedly led dozens of employees and recruits, boarded the boat at the dock, and set sail at high speed towards Guangzhou.

At the moment when the boat left the port, Director Bai released the latest news to all the Yao people in the village: From now on, whether it is the signature fee of the employees or the settlement fee of the recruits, they will all increase three times!

The mountain people who got the news were overjoyed, picked up the exchanged goods one after another, and hurriedly disappeared into the mountains.

In the middle of the night, Fu Youdi rushed back to the new area, and got a thunderbolt news from the deputy director of One Arm Lao: Second, all single dogs, get ready from now on, ready to go north with the army at any time.

As for what kind of army... Deputy Director Lao told Fu Youdi that he would know tomorrow morning.

In the early morning of the second day, the avenue in front of the palace in the new district stretched all the way to the famous Grand Cross Turntable, and they were lined up with excited young soldiers.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Cao Chuan himself delivered his first "national" speech from the tweeters temporarily installed throughout the new district and in the old city of Guangzhou.

The theme of the speech is "Expelling the Tartars, Blessing China"

The subtitle of the speech is "Resisting the Qing Dynasty and Aiding the Ming Dynasty"

At that time, all the time-traveling people standing on the viewing platform of the supermarket version of the imperial palace all concentrated and calmed down, listening to Mr. Cao finish reading the speech into the microphone.

After that, Uncle Zhongyong of the Ming Dynasty, Doctor Ronglu, Zhu Guo, Minister of the Ministry of War, Cao Chuan, the left governor of the rear military governor's mansion, who was wearing a vermilion sitting python robe, stretched out his hand, pulled out the sword from his waist, and pointed it obliquely to the north. .

Immediately, the sea of ​​soldiers who could not see the end, the cry of "Northern Expedition" resounded through the land of the new district.

Soon after, the cry of "Northern Expedition" was replaced by the sound of long live the mountains and tsunami.

At this moment, the earth trembled and the mountains shook, and the sky and the earth changed color.

The eighth volume of the world

Chapter 717

To tell the truth, as long as there is a little way, everyone will not push out the real BOSS Mr. Cao, please go to the top floor of the supermarket, and announce the dispatch of troops in front of the world... After that, you will have to use a prop sword to dangle around.

It is really forced by the situation, and it is a last resort.