The Huai Army captured Chaoyang, and the two surrounding military offices were cleaned up. After the military offices were cleaned up, the fishermen who lived in the seaside town lost their protective umbrellas. The Jinyiwei captured more than 30 fishermen on the seashore of Chaozhou Prefecture in one go. These fishermen owned fishing boats, rented fishing boats to fishermen, and collected rent; they also controlled the market, bought seafood from fishermen at low prices, sold grain from grain merchants at high prices, and sold them to fishermen at high prices, and obtained a lot of ill-gotten wealth. Moreover, these fishermen also used usury, bullying men and women, and doing all the bad things. Moreover, these fishermen also sold private salt. The fishermen at the beach did not lack salt. Men went fishing in the sea, and the women and children at home often cooked some salt. The salt could not be finished at home, so they were also sold to fishermen.

However, when the Jinyiwei took these fishermen to the fishing village and held a public trial meeting, the fishermen were not happy that these fishermen who rode on their heads were knocked down, but instead felt extremely sad.

"Master Qingtian, although these people do bad things, they can't do without them. You knocked them down, who do we want to sell the fish we caught?"

"Master Jinyiwei, we are counting on selling the fish we have worked hard to catch, and barely making a living by changing some food, cotton cloth and daily necessities. But without these people, our fish will be smelly at home."

Zhang Shuheng asked: "Dear fellow villagers, can't you go to the county town and town to sell fish? Then buy food and cloth?"

"But no one took it. We went to sea once and caught so many fish, who could take it all away?" said an old fisherman.

In fact, just like the rich stoves of the Lianghuai salt households, those people controlled the sales route. If there was no rich stove, there would be no place to sell the salt cooked by the salt households. The same is true for fishermen in these fishing villages, and they had no sales channels in their own hands.

Zhang Shuheng couldn't help fishermen solve this problem, but Li Guodong came up with a good solution.

"Brother Wang Quan, your Xinyuantang can open a seafood wholesale market in Chaoyang and collect all the goods in the hands of fishermen." Li Guodong turned to Wang Quan and said.

"This is a good idea," Zhang Shuheng said.

Wang Quan replied with a frown: "Brother, if these seafood cannot be sold, they will be smelly. We have offended all the gentry in Guangdong now. If I open a seafood wholesale market here, who can I sell the goods I bought?"

Nowadays, except for fishermen who are forced to eat seafood every day, only the rich, restaurants and brothels can buy seafood. Who can afford it? On one hand, the fishermen have too much seafood in their hands, and on the other hand, farmers who can't afford seafood.

Li Guodong laughed: "You can make some adjustments. Some of the seafood you received canned can be dried and made into dry goods; wouldn't it be enough to use the other part to be made into canned food?"

In this era, seafood was mainly difficult to transport for long distances. As long as it was made into dry goods and canned food, it could be transported for long distances. As long as it was transported to big cities like Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and emerging Shanghai, there was no need to worry about no sales.

Li Guodong also proposed: "Developing fisheries can also solve the problem of insufficient food. In addition to making dried fish and canned fish, we can also get some boats to sell fresh seafood, load seawater on the boats, put live fish, crabs and shrimps in it, and transport them to the big city to sell."

Next, Li Guodong discovered another problem: sweet potatoes that are rare in the north are everywhere in Guangdong, and there are so many sweet potatoes that cannot be eaten at all. Farmers eat this kind of thing every day and are afraid of seeing it.

"It seems that the seafood wholesale market is going to be changed to a comprehensive market. Xinyuantang simply opens a semicolon in Guangdong. In addition to purchasing seafood, it also purchases sweet potatoes that farmers can't eat. We can dry the sweet potatoes and transport them to the north for sale, or make sweet potato flour and make sweet potato vermicelli. If you ship them to the north, you will definitely make a lot of money." Li Guodong suggested.

"Transport food to the north?" Wang Quan was surprised, "Isn't that a foe?"

"But the people in the north are also ordinary people of our Ming Dynasty. How hard did they live under the iron hoof of Jiannu? Even if we don't send food to the north, would Jiannu starve to death?" Li Guodong replied.

Indeed, even if the south does not send food to the north, the Eight Banners soldiers, Han officials, and Green Camp soldiers of the Qing Dynasty would not starve to death. Even if the people all starve to death, these backbone forces of the Qing Dynasty would still have enough food to survive.

The northern Eight Banners soldiers are now enclosing lands. The Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners soldiers are enclosing land. As long as the cultivated land is enclosed by them, they become their land. The original owners of those lands, whether they are gentry or peasants, are driven out. If they do not look like they leave, they become slaves of the Eight Banners soldiers.

To drive away the people in the enclosure, that was what the Qing army did when they first entered the pass. Now that the Eight Banners soldiers have even enclosed the land, the people on the enclosure are automatically turned into serfs of the Eight Banners soldiers!

The common people who were forced to become slaves were in a miserable way. They would rather choose to escape than be slaves to the Eight Banners Master.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty issued the Fugitive Law again. The Fugitive Law stipulated that the serfs on the land were caught for the first and second time and whipped one hundred times; the third time they were caught, and the law was rectified on the spot! The person who was harboring the fugitive was killed, his wife's property was not given to the master, and his family moved outside the pass to the Eight Banners soldiers as slaves.

The law of fugitives was very harsh. In the original time and space, Geng Zhongming, one of the Three Shun Kings, hid more than 300 escaped slaves in the army as soldiers, but was found by Dorgon. He was worried about being severely punished and committed suicide.

Even Geng Zhongming, who was the prince, was forced to commit suicide after violating the law of fugitives. It can be imagined that anyone dared to hide the fugitive slave?

As long as the law of fugitives is violated, no matter whether it is a bannerman or a Han person, no matter whether it is a Manchu Eight Banner, the Mongolian Eight Banner and the Han Eight Banners, they will all die.

Moreover, there are rewards for reporting the escaped slaves. It is said that Zhang Cunren reported the matter about Geng Zhongming. Geng Zhongming committed suicide when he heard that his incident happened.

"We are transporting food to the north now, not to support the enemy, but to make the people survive. The Manchus introduced extremely harsh fugitive laws, and the people who were forced to be serfs by them could only starve to death. We sent a batch of food to make them survive." Li Guodong said.

In fact, Xinyuantang's business had been doing business with Hou Jin as early as the Great Jin era. Although it did not sell grain and iron to Hou Jin at that time, it transported a lot of cigarettes, ceramics, silk and tea and other daily necessities to Hou Jin every year. It obtained Dongzhu, ginseng, mink and other goods from Hou Jin and transported them back to the Ming Dynasty for sale.

Even if the food provided to the Qing Dynasty fell into the hands of the Eight Banners soldiers and funded the Qing Dynasty, Li Guodong was no longer worried, because after Guangdong took it, the Huai Army had the strongest steel production base in the world that year, and soon could build a new army with pure flintlock rifles and bayonets.

With a flintlock rifle and bayonet, you can queule and shoot. With the cooperation of scattered soldiers and heavy cavalry, even if you meet the most elite Eight Banners soldiers, it is just the Baliqiao Battle ahead of schedule.

Li Guodong also had a big killer weapon in his hand. He had not developed it before because of cost considerations. After seizing the entire territory of Guangdong, he would let this weapon come out.

This weapon is a new type of Rocket, but it is actually the Congreve Rocket.

The rocket's accuracy is too poor, and the rocket that uses black gunpowder as explosives is not ideal, but it will waste much more launching drugs than artillery to launch. But as long as there is money, these are not problems.

The Congrive rocket used to scare people is the best weapon to scare the enemy's horses. Just imagine that the overwhelming rocket fell among the charging cavalry and exploded, which would cause the war horses to frighten, and tens of thousands of cavalry could collapse in one go.
Chapter completed!