Yancheng County was originally Yandu County, which belonged to the Huai'an Prefecture of Nanzhili, and there were many waterways in the county, and the coastal area was densely covered with tidal flats, and the reeds grew taller than people.
In the first year of Shunzhi, Liu Zeqing, the eastern Pingbo of the Southern Ming Dynasty, plagued Yancheng County, and then the Prince of Qing Yu led a large army to the south, because Yancheng belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and the local area was naturally slaughtered by the army.
Once or twice, Yancheng is really sparsely populated.
When Shunzhi reported to the household department in the third year, it had a population of only more than 24,000 people, while when the previous dynasty did not pass the army, it had a population of more than 150,000.
Sparsely populated, dense rivers and tidal flats, it is naturally suitable for fugitives from the north to hide.
At the beginning, Yancheng County turned a blind eye to the fugitives and did not ask questions, and let them produce and reproduce on their own in the territory.
The reason for this is because if there are more fugitives in this territory, there will be more dingkou, and if there are more dingkou, there will be people planting in this land.
The more land is planted, the more this tax is naturally collected, and the more taxes are collected, the more taxes will be obtained, and the next year when the officials will be assessed will be excellent.
Such a good thing, where to find However, after only two or three years, the imperial court suddenly issued a strict order, prohibiting local private hiding and concealing fugitives, and not allowing the fugitives to be transferred to registered good citizens, but after discovery, regardless of the official or the people, they were all beheaded.
The reason is that this fugitive is the lifeblood of the Manchurian masters, and the masters are counting on these slaves to cultivate and produce for them In those years, Yancheng County did the most to arrest fugitives, and in order to avoid being arrested by the government, fugitives in the territory hid along the beach and boiled salt in it for a living.
In this world, but if you can survive, but you can keep your family safe, there will be outlaws who take risks.
The fugitives roared in the tidal flats, gathering with salt stoves, or calling large groups, or calling three stoves, or calling salt warehouses, and from time to time there were fugitives fighting with the official officials.
After doing this a few times, the government has no intention of forcing these fugitives too much, and there is no given amount of how many fugitives to return to the north, so if they can deal with it, why take the risk.
Time is ten years past, now Yancheng county surname Zhou name Dalang, this person is Haizhou people in the north, Shunzhi 12 years to raise the body in the Ministry of officials to report, and then make some silver to get this Yancheng County to do Baili Hou.
Although he was born and spent money to get an official, but this week Dalang is also quite capable, after several years of his governance, Yancheng County Dingkou has grown more than 3,000.
God also takes care of it, and the wind and rain are smooth, so Dalang's performance is excellent.
According to the news from Huai'an Mansion, maybe next year Dalang will be promoted to the prefect and Tongzhi, but I don't know where it will rise.
Gao Sheng is naturally a good thing, but Dalang doesn't want to go to Zhejiang, Fujian, Liangguang, and Jiangnan, because there will still be a war there.
I think so, but where to transfer, it is not up to Da Lang to be the master, it all depends on the mood of the officials of the ministry, and he can only secretly ask the Bodhisattva for blessing.
Last year, the situation in Jiangbei became tense, although Zhou Dalang was only a county, but except for the affairs of the county, he did not know anything about the outside situation, only knew that the Qing Emperor had personally led the army to the south, and in a few days he could wipe out the Ming army in the south and dominate the world.
Da Lang didn't go to Huai'an Mansion to inquire about the news, but the house was also chaotic, and he was even more unclear about the battle situation.
After a few inquiries, there was no accurate letter, and Da Lang simply no longer wasted his efforts, he was just a small county, and he had to worry about the major affairs of the country, and he just did a good job of his own one-third of an acre.
Now it is the end of March, and the county is busy urging the people to prepare for the wheat harvest and summer planting, and also to inspect the river embankment and sea wall, so as not to cause floods after the summer, affect the autumn harvest, and mistakenly hand over the money and grain that year.
But thinking that this term can be promoted when it is completed, it is worth it no matter how hard and tiring it is.
It's a pity that there are unforeseen wind and rain, and the official of Dalang has not yet been promoted, Huai'an Mansion has changed its owner, and the banner of the Ming army is planted on the city.
The city was lost, and who in the counties below dared to resist the Ming army.
After the Ming army occupied Huai'an Mansion, they divided their troops to various counties, and there was a Ming army with 100 households with 100 soldiers and drove to Yancheng County, ordering Zhou Dalang in the city to open the city and surrender immediately.
Yancheng County has a green battalion of flood soldiers stationed, but there are only more than 100 people, and the other is more than 300 strong men recruited by the county, in addition to dozens of helpers under a few head hunters.
The number of people is more than the Ming army outside the city, but from Zhou Dalang and below, who dares to have the mind to hold on to the city.
Zhou Da Langping said to the left and right every day that he was the most arrogant in his life, especially with integrity, as long as it was beneficial to the country and the imperial court, he would not hesitate to sacrifice his life, and he would never avoid it because he might be harmed.
In order to strengthen his integrity and become an example for his subordinates, Da Lang called himself "Proud Bone Gong", and took the table word "Iron Heart", which means that the official is arrogant, this heart is harder than iron and stone, no matter how big the difficulty, no matter how big the danger can not scare me The knowledgeable little official of the yamen wrote the words of the county master into a poem, "The life and death of the country is profitable, and it is not because of misfortune and fortune to avoid it", Dalang was deeply satisfied after reading it, and asked people to put this poem in their own anthology, saying that this poem will be able to be passed down through the ages with his name of Zhou Dalang in the future.
However, Zhou Dalang, who was arrogant and had a heart like iron, failed to repay the king with his death, but opened the city gate with his subordinates.
In this regard, Dalang's explanation is that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, although I am descending today, but I am in the Ming Dynasty and my heart is clear. and moved out of the Spring and Autumn Period Yue Guo Gou practiced the deeds of lying on the salary and tasting the courage to cover up for himself, and under some clever words, he really made a group of subordinates think that the county master is a big husband who can bend and stretch.
What happened then made all his subordinates speechless, this week Dalang not only accepted the appointment of the governor of the Ming Dynasty, but also flattered the Ming army hundred households who came, and was extremely sycophant, if it wasn't for the old wife at home who really couldn't take it, I am afraid that he would sacrifice his wife to the bed.
Zhou Dalang's well-behaved performance made the Taiping Army who came to take over Yancheng County be satisfied, and when he reported to Huai'an, he said a lot of good things for this Zhou Dalang, so that the thousands of officials in Huai'an reported this Zhou Dalang to Nandu as a typical official anyway, if nothing else, Zhou Dalang will definitely be able to be promoted to a level in the coming year.
With the return of Huai'an, the situation in Jianghuai became more and more clear, Zhou Dalang was so vicious and vicious, and he had been a county magistrate for a few years, how could he not know the truth that the person who knew the times was Junjie, so he also took care of it and did his best to deal with government affairs.
However, after receiving the official document from Huai'an Mansion on this day to investigate and seize smuggled salt, Zhou Dalang felt that this matter was very tricky.
Yancheng County is named after salt, and the natural salt industry in the territory is thriving, and the more prosperous it is, the more people who smuggle salt.
In addition, in the past ten years, there have been many fugitives from the north who have been engaged in boiling salt in Yancheng, making the illegal salt industry more and more dangerous.
Those fugitives from the north and local salt dealers were all outlaws, and Zhou Dalang had not been able to solve them in the previous two terms, and after he took office, he held the idea that more things are better than less things.
It must be known that this salt smuggler is not as amiable as the merchant who walks through the streets and alleys, but is really brave and ruthless, does not obey the king at all, can kill people for profit at every turn, and even dares to gather crowds to attack the government, so it has always been strictly forbidden by all dynasties, and it must be redone if it is caught.
Yancheng is named after salt, and there are two Huai salt government sub-inspection and inspection divisions in the territory, the official face, the private salt dealers are inextricably fighting, fortunately, since the Ming Dynasty, Yancheng County has an unwritten rule, that is, the county is in charge of civil affairs, regardless of salt administration, so although those private salt dealers are rampant, it is not about Dalang's business, it is all the two Huai salt politics in the question.
Therefore, as long as Dalang and the salt dealers do not commit crimes, do not affect the security of the county, and are too lazy to care, there are still two Huai salt politics on the left and right, so why should he meddle with a mouse.
But now the above is to rectify the salt administration, saying that it is a warrant sent by the king of Qi himself, and the wording of the official document of Huai'an Mansion is even more severe, if Dalang can't rectify the salt administration in the territory, he will take his posture of punishing the crime, so that Dalang has a headache and can't help but scold the bastards in Huai'an Mansion for not understanding people's feelings, don't they know that the gang of illegal salt dealers didn't forget to give you a copy when they sent benefits to the two Huai Salt Administration, and now you are good, pat your ass and don't care about anything, and push it to me Yancheng County, isn't this clearly embarrassing me Whether it's a headache or a scolding, this matter can be tied to his own life, Da Lang doesn't want to be stabbed by the court in a daze, I heard that the Taiping army is a fierce god who kills people without blinking, and he can't be provoked.
The matter must be solved, but how to solve the problem is really to arrest those fugitives who sell smuggled salt, Da Lang's strength at hand is very insufficient, Da Lang can only use more than 300 people, but the salt dealers are thousands, and they are really fierce, which makes people look down on them.
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At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng, who resisted the million-strong army of the Yuan Dynasty with a lonely city in Gaoyou, was born as a smuggler in Yancheng County With Zhang Shicheng's experience in the past, Da Lang had to be cautious about this matter, he didn't dare to provoke the salt dealers, if these outlaws launched a murder to gather a crowd to attack the county seat, if the county town really failed, he would be the end of the official.
But no matter what, the wording of Huai'an Mansion is harsh, and the news he sent to the mansion to inquire also said that if the salt administration cannot be rectified this time, King Qi will kill people Da Lang thought about it, but he had an idea, since the salt dealer was in Yancheng County, there was no reason for him, an outsider, to bear it.
At the moment, he summoned a cadre of squires in the territory, first told them the official documents sent by the government, so that they knew how powerful, and then reasoned with them, and asked the squires to persuade those who hid and fled to bring themselves to justice, and then pay and send people to help the county government deal with the salt dealers.
This alone is obviously not enough, Dalang sent someone to report to Huai'an Mansion, asking the government to send troops to assist in this matter, and separately wrote two Huai Salt Administration, and the patrol soldiers under the Salt Administration Department coordinated to handle it. oshow7 t1706231537: