"In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was exiled to Baling County..." A middle-aged man in his early thirties and wearing a thick shirt shook his head and moaned. At this time, he was standing in front of the Yueyang Tower, which was rebuilt a few years ago, looking at the vast Dongting Lake outside the building, and was filled with emotion. Unfortunately, the circle of people around him were not rough people who did not understand elegance. Some of them were soldiers of the East Coast Army, some were officers of the standing team, some were lieutenant generals of the Dashun Army, and the only down-and-out scholar-in-law was also counting supplies in the distance, and they had no time to come here to flatter the East Coast pirate Huang Da's flatterer.

The shopkeeper Huang Da is named Huang Yi. He is a real time traveler. Before the time travel, he was a junior high school student, only 16 years old. He has been with him in various yamen in the local area, and he is not satisfied with his highs and lows. He is very unsatisfied. In addition, his young man's temper is not popular. This time he didn't know what was wrong with him. He taught music in the Corps and Fortress and taught him well. He insisted on coming to the Far East to survive. The Director of Academic Affairs, who had long disliked him, was naturally overjoyed and quickly completed the procedures for him and kicked him to the Far East.

When he arrived in the Far East, this guy finally calmed down. He had always been delighted in front of people like Mo Dashun and had never had any disputes. After he volunteered to serve as the contact person for the Dashun regime, Mo Ming also gave him some people with great face and set up a trading company to specialize in commercial trade with Dashun. This so-called commercial trade is actually very simple, that is, the people of the East Coast "sell" weapons and equipment to Dashun (it can be said to be half sold and half given away), while Dashun collected some things needed on the East Coast in his own control area and the Qing army controlled area, such as medicinal materials, grain, gold and silver, tea, silk, porcelain, and even antique calligraphy and paintings. As for the population, it is far from the East Coast control area and it is difficult to transfer. Therefore, he had no choice but to give up.

Of course, not trading the population on a large scale does not mean that there is no one "koujiao". For example, at this time, there were a group of people with disdain on the wharf of Baling County. Most of these people were women and children, and only a few were half-aged teenagers. As for adult men, they were even a few of them. They were basically the orphans of the martyrs who had been with the army for many years in Li Chuang's army, and the sources were also relatively diverse. But most of them were from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and Henan. As the Qing army mobilized heavy troops from the north to Wuchang, the next key military strike against Dashun was about to be launched. Leaving these old, weak, women and children by their side was simply pushing them into the fire pit.

In the year since entering Hunan, many people have died due to malnutrition, lack of medical treatment, and poor water and soil. During the war, when materials are given priority to support the combat troops, these people will die in large numbers. For example, when Shaanxi retreated in history, tens of thousands of women and children were frozen to death by a heavy snow. Therefore, giving these people to the East Coast people may leave them a way out. In this way, the Shun Army can concentrate all their energy on fighting with the Qing army. These elderly, weak women and children who were often captured and killed by the Qing army during the war because of the defeat of the Shun Army and retreated in a hurry can also be spared from death, which is beneficial to everyone. Of course, sending these people to the East Coast control area must adhere to the principle of voluntary action. They cannot be packaged and given to the East Coast people like selling piglets, otherwise it may affect the morale of the army.

So, under such a background, with Li Zicheng's acquiescence, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang and others began to count the military's women and children who were willing to go to the East Coast control area. They praised the East Coast control area as a fairyland, making the elderly, young, women and children who were usually unable to eat, wear warm clothes, and threatened their lives from time to time were very moved. Soon, after several months of mobilization, the first batch of more than 1,000 elderly, weak women and children were plotted out, and they would board the ships to the East Coast today and bid farewell to Dashun.

People are not plants and trees, so who can be ruthless? When we part, many people are naturally reluctant to leave. After all, no matter how bad the big reign is, it is their last support. After so many years, there are the panic of war with the Ming army in Henan, the cheers of entering Xi'an City, and the ecstasy after entering Beijing. Of course, what is now filled with everyone's hearts is the despair and loss of being defeated by the Qing army repeatedly and fleeing. Especially those teenagers, it can be said that their childhood and youth were spent in such an environment. Now they have let them part with their friends who have been together for many years, and their uncles and aunts, and they are naturally extremely reluctant to part with them.

However, the world is so cruel. If you want to survive, you have to leave. With the current situation of Dashun, it is difficult to take care of Zhou Quan’s tens of thousands of women and children. Leaving is a relief for everyone. In fact, they are still lucky. Compared with the large number of innocent deaths caused by Dashun’s sweeping the north, the women and children who were forced to die in front of the Ming army by Dashun as a signing army, they are really lucky because they at least survived.

Huang Yi shook his head and finished reciting Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower Notes", and then pretended to be elegant and drank a pot of tea. Then he walked to the dock with a few East Coast Army soldiers on the dock who were commanding the Shun army to unload weapons. Then he looked at the elderly, weak, women and children who were squatting quietly on the grass, thinking about it, took out a handful of candies made of cocoa powder from his arms and distributed them to some children closest to him.

The child was bare butt, and there were two lines of clear water flowing under his nose. His face and hands were dirty. He might be very hungry, so he grabbed the candy and stuffed it into his mouth. Perhaps because he had never eaten such a good thing before, the child narrowed his eyes happily, and after eating, he looked at Huang Yi with a eager look.

Huang Yi suddenly felt a little sore in his nose. Thinking about this and that he was dissatisfied all day long, he had an objection to this and didn't like that. He was like a dumb all day long. He thought he had done a lot of amazing things, but in the end he was shit. It would be more meaningful to save more poor children like now. Why do you need so much money? Isn't it enough to enjoy and squander yourself! Is it interesting to have a fuck all day long? In the end, it's not a waste!

From now on, it is important to do more meaningful things. Save more children and teach them to read and read. They have the right to receive education. What awaits them is a beautiful and prosperous life, rather than a journey of death that has been traversed in the gullies. Now the continental powers have begun to gradually pay attention to knowledge and education. The living standards of some regions such as France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands have far surpassed those of the Ming Dynasty. Their children can also learn knowledge or craftsmanship to fight for future life.

Lay a solid foundation. In contrast, the Ming Dynasty was almost everywhere in the country, with a sharp decline in population and a sharp decline in living standards. Children were either eaten by hungry adults, killed by the army like murderous demons for fun, or struggled to survive in the hunger and cold, and in short, they were unable to live quietly. Thinking of this, Huang Yi suddenly felt a little sad. There were more than the group of children in front of him to save him. There were thousands of children who needed him to save him, but could he save him?

Forget it, I can't change this matter? I just need to be in front of me and be worthy of my conscience. A tall man with such a strong character as Madman Mo can't save the world. Well, he seems to have taken dozens of children as adopted sons and daughters. He can also learn from him. Huang Yi made up his mind, then shook his head and threw all these negative emotions out of his mind, and returned to the appearance of the "two-pinch" manager Huang.

He saw him shaking his folding fan in the winter, walking to Guo Sheng, who was receiving the weapons at the dock, and said with a smile: "Ship Guo is still satisfied? This is the third batch of weapons, but our army's inventory is cleared. Look at this bow and arrow. This arrow must have high-quality horns and bulbs. The savings of the Korean Lee family on Jeju Island for many years have been here. Look at this musket, this saber is also comparable to that. There is also this armor, which can block the lead of the Tartar bird gun from sixty steps, and can block its heavy arrow from thirty steps, and it has extraordinary power."

"What Shopkeeper Huang said is true. Everyone knows my love for the east coast armour." Guo Sheng smiled, and a heavy flintlock rifle seemed extremely flexible under his palm-like big hand. He pulled out a 41-year-old steel bayonet from his waist, skillfully hung and stuck in the sleeve under the barrel, and then stabbed the void twice, saying with satisfaction: "A few days ago, Cihou (Liu Fangliang) led 60,000 troops to besiege Jingzhou, and helmets relied on the ordnance sent by the noble army. The yellow-clothed cannon broke the city, wearing breastplate, arm armor, and helmets broke the formation, and killed the old turtle of Zheng Siwei in one battle. It was so satisfying!"

A few months ago, Li Guo, who had just arrived in Hubei from Shaanxi and Gansu, had tens of thousands of troops besieged Jingzhou City by Gao Yigong. Unfortunately, he failed because of the lack of heavy weapons. Zheng Siwei, the deputy general of the Qing court, was proud for a long time. Now relying on the yellow-clothed cannon to break the Jingzhou city wall like a turtle shell, Zheng Siwei was also beheaded, and finally he was angry! Moreover, since the extremely light but extremely protective armor sent by the Yellow-clothed Army, the casualty rate of experienced old officers has plummeted, effectively ensuring the combat effectiveness of various units of the Shun Army.

"Haha, just like the general." Huang Yi also laughed a few times, then said, "I heard that the King of Chuang has broken Changsha City, and the He Tengjiao of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Du Yinxi has already rushed far away to Hengyang. It is really gratifying! But the general may as well advise the King of Chuang more when he has time. Now the Qing court is in great power, and the Ming Dynasty is weak. Why not join forces to fight against the Tartars? Do not do things that the relatives are happy and the enemy is happy!"

"Shopkeeper Huang doesn't know anything." Guo Sheng waved his hand and then whispered: "Your Majesty has relapsed since he defeated Changsha, and is currently recuperating in the city. Now the generals of the army are Li, Gao and Liu. Everyone has quit the Ming court. Now the heavy troops gather in Jingzhou, Yuezhou and Lizhou. They want to fight Kong Youde, and they will never have any trouble with the Ming court at this time."

"Then I'll be relieved." Huang Yi touched the green chin, and then said with a smile: "This time I brought twelve engineers, all of whom are experienced. Cihou and Bo Hou want to renovate the walls of Baling, Linxiang, Pingjiang, Lizhou, Yiyang, Liuyang and other counties. If there is anything wrong, you can ask more than ten technicians here."

In fact, Liu Fangliang, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others were still quite interested in the bastion technology vigorously promoted by the East Coast people. Therefore, preparing to build some medium-sized bastions with mixed brick, stone, civil and wood structures in some important places, and then equipped with artillery funded by the East Coast people should be able to greatly delay the Qing army's offensive. This is also the reason why the East Coast people sent these twelve engineers here. To put it bluntly, they were here to guide the Shun army to build the bastion and set up artillery positions.

The human resources in the Dashun controlled area are still far greater than those of the East Coast, and bricks and timber are not difficult to obtain. If you seize the time, it will be no problem to build a medium-sized bastion that can house thousands of troops in the outer areas of the two important cities of Yuezhou and Lizhou. If the Qing army teams come to besiege Yuezhou and Lizhou City, then the bastion outside the city will definitely make them feel like a thorn in their backs and cannot attack the city with all their strength.
Chapter completed!