It's dirty, crowded, and damp. There are low shacks and narrow alleys everywhere, feces and garbage can be seen everywhere, and the air is filled with a stench mixed with the smell of feces and garbage.
Two heavily polluted creeks pass through this fenced-off area filled with filth and shanty towns, and finally flow into the Guanzha River.
Because the water in Guanzha River is bitter and salty, almost like sea water, you can't drink it at all. The Qiang farm in Guanzha Hebei is surrounded by wooden fences and cannot be entered or exited at will. Therefore, these two creeks, which are many times dirtier than the Ganges, have become the only sources of drinking water for tens of thousands of people gathered here.
During this period of time, the weather here in Macau has been sunny and it hasn’t rained much. Therefore, the heavily polluted dirty water could not be washed away, so it was all drank into the bellies of the coolies who gathered here to work and make money. It’s not surprising that there is an epidemic of diarrhea…
In fact, this was not the first time that dysentery broke out in Guanzhahe Farm. Dysentery here never disappears, and every year when there is drought and little rain, there will be a big outbreak. The only difference is how many people die?
This year, the Macau-Xiangshan smuggling trade was particularly busy, and the merchants offered high wages for the coolies. This attracted more people than in previous years to gather at the Guanzha River Market, so the scale of the dysentery outbreak was also large. It's even bigger.
Of course, neither the officials sent by Shang Kexi to manage the Guanzha River foraging field, nor the Portuguese on the other side of the Guanzha River, cared about the lives of these working people in Guangdong.
Not only will they not treat patients in the market, they will even send troops to guard the exits on both sides of the market to prevent sick patients from leaving.
There are some Catholic missionaries in Macau who will go into the market to care for the patients there... However, they don't know how to treat them, and they just blindly ask those patients to convert to God.
They also call it euphemistically: save souls!
If the body can't be saved, then just save the soul. If those patients were not treated, most of them would die soon, and their souls would go to the West. When Jesus collected the souls, he would naturally credit those missionaries with merit.
It's just that this good deal of exchanging souls for merit cannot be done this time.
Because the saint Zhu Hezhu, who loves his people like a son, has come... He will save those sick bodies and souls.
Moreover, we have to rescue in front of tens of thousands of strong men, and we have to revive the most seriously ill people who are about to die!
Only in this way will the tens of thousands of strong men here regard Zhu Heji as the destined savior... and then they will follow him wholeheartedly to kill the demon and restore the Ming Dynasty!
This smelly, very crowded, and shantytown-like place can be seen everywhere, but there are also relatively spacious areas. This place is right in the center of the market. There is a wide street that leads from the north gate to the south gate of the market.
On both sides of the street, there are trading markets enclosed by wooden fences. The goods shipped from Macau are not necessarily imported goods. Most of them are goods 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 general office of Pingnan Prince's Mansion 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 one to two million taels of illegal tax revenue for the Pingnan Palace every year.
However, this good thing of illegal yamen managing illegal trade and collecting illegal tariffs has now come to an end.
Now all the "fence fence markets" are guarded by Zhu Heji or Qiu Hui's troops. The merchants either ran away or were locked up in the fence market with sad faces.
As for the non-judges in that illegal yamen, it was even worse. They had all been hacked to death. When Zhu Heji led Da Bo Ling, Zhuge Sanhe, Qiu Rong, Luo Wenzao and others to the illegal yamen, the heads of these slaves of the Shang family had already been thrust into the yamen on both sides of the yamen with spears.
The street outside the Yamen, in addition to dead people, was also crowded with strong men from various shantytowns. At first glance, the shantytowns in the farmhouse looked like one large area crowded together, but in fact they were divided into areas. , and each shantytown is inhabited by fellow villagers from the same county.
These days, I rely on my parents at home, and when I go out, I have to rely on my friends from the same hometown to support each other. Therefore, when fellow villagers get together, they often automatically form a group. Of course, in Guangdong, most areas are divided into aborigines and Hakkas, which are two more gangs.
However, the strong natives and Hakka men gathered in the market now have little thought for fighting, because they are now "misfortunes never come singly"!
On the one hand, we encountered an epidemic of diarrhea. Many of our companions had already fallen ill. Those who had not yet fallen ill had no idea when they would get sick.
On the other hand, they also encountered a confusing war - the reason why it is said to be confusing is because they still haven't figured out who is fighting whom?
Oh, it’s for sure that the Chinese will play Western porn. But who are those Chinese people? At first it was said that he was from Pingxi King Wu Sangui.
Everyone also believed it... The news that Wu Sangui was coming to Guangdong had already spread throughout Macau! Without this news, those profiteers engaged in "tax smuggling" would not have offered such high wages to make them work hard!
Isn't this just to get the deal done before Wu Sangui takes office?
But it didn’t take long for everyone to discover that the situation had changed!
Those soldiers and generals who have firmly controlled the battle field are no longer said to be members of King Pingxi, but instead said they are fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty!
what 's wrong?
Did Wu Sangui want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, or did the rebels from Chaozhou invade Macau, and then took control of the market under Wu Sangui's banner?
But why did the people who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty end up in Macau? The Portuguese in Macau don’t seem to have provoked the Ming Dynasty much!
And this morning, even more unbelievable news came. It was said that the Prince of Ming Dynasty Prince Ding, that is, the great grandson of Zhu San, had come to Macau, and he was also coming to the Great Market... to save the people and help them. Cure the epidemic for everyone.
What does it mean?
Is this Zhu San Taisun going to invite a god to come to him, and then chant a spell and cast a spell to invite everyone to drink the talisman water? Is their old Zhu family doing this now? Doesn't it work?
Just when a group of feudal and superstitious Guangdong workers were thinking wildly, Zhu Heji, who was dressed in commoners and wore a scarf and wielded a sword called Tianlei, had already arrived at the Yamen of Daqiang on a Lusitano Ocean horse, surrounded by a group of subordinates. forward.
Seeing the costumes of Zhu Heji and the original Confucian knights who followed him, the strong workers below were also surprised - they were not pretending to be gods, but pretending to be Confucian saints!
"The prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old..."
When Zhu Heji reined in his horse outside the Yamen, the Jinyi soldiers and Qiu family officers and soldiers who were standing in front of the Yamen and outside the wooden fence markets to maintain order cheered loudly together.
Zhu Heji raised his right hand and waved it lightly, and the cheers suddenly stopped.
Then Zhu Heji gave a speech on horseback without dismounting.
"Everyone, listen, I am the grandson of Emperor Weizong of the Ming Dynasty and the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty Supervisor Guoding. Now I have won the support of all the righteous people in Chaozhou and reopened the Ming Dynasty court in Jieyang. Now I led five thousand tigers across the sea to Macau, one to capture Guangzhou I think it is the foundation of revival; the second thing is to save the people of Guangfu from fire and water. This is my destiny!
Yesterday, I heard that an epidemic was rampant in the Daqian Market, so I led everyone to come for treatment. If destiny is on my side, the epidemic will be relieved within a few days and end within ten days... Okay, no more empty words! Now, Gujia announces three ways to fight the epidemic.
First, the disease is transmitted through the mouth, so from now on, all drinking water and food in the Daqi market will be provided by Macau Island, and no more food is allowed in the Daqi market. To prevent more people from getting sick!
Second, all patients were concentrated in the East India Company's warehouses on the south bank of the Guanzha River. Gujia will use special medicine to treat them, and most of them will recover within ten days.
In addition, each patient must be taken care of by a dedicated person. The people who take care of the patients will be recruited from the market, and each person will be given a hundred coins per day!
Third, two days later, thousands of strong men who are not sick and have not been recruited to take care of the sick will be sent to the Qianshanzhai area north of the Guanzha River Daqing Field to be placed and practice formation... Food included Stay, and give each person fifty cash per day! "
