"What? Second uncle...what did you say? Someone named Zhu wants to bring tens of thousands of people to Guangzhou to kill our family? How is this possible? Where did he get so many people?"
"What a fool! This surnamed Mrs. Zhu is so good at deceiving people. He convinced tens of thousands of coolies in the Guanzha River farm to board pirate ships!"
"The coolies in the big market? Why? They have relied on the grace of our Shang family for their survival these years. Why did they leave with the person named Zhu? Do they have any conscience?"
"Your Majesty, according to the notice from Xiangshan County, dysentery was spreading in the Daqiang area a while ago, and many Lipas were infected... I don't know what magic trick the fake grandson Zhu San used. He actually cured many dye workers with garlic. Then he lied and claimed that we had cut off the supply of garlic, and seduced those coolies into coming to Guangzhou to snatch garlic, and wiped out our family by the way!"
"What? You turned against us just for a little bit of garlic, and you want to destroy our door...Are these Cantonese people crazy?"
In the palace of Prince Pingnan in Guangzhou City, Shang Zhixin, who had just returned from a day and night journey with Li Tianzhi, Nie Bao, and Wang Guodong with eight hundred cavalry, did not even have time to rest for a while when he heard a piece of bad news that made him unbelievable.
Because of a few garlic heads, the tens of thousands of coolies gathered in the Guanzha River Farm at the north gate of Macau actually followed Zhu Heji in rebellion! And he also wanted to destroy the Wang family in Pingnan... How could he have such hatred?
"Your Majesty, those coolies are the enemies of your family!" Prince Shi Li Tianzhi, who returned to Guangzhou with Shang Zhixin, saw that Prince Pingnan, who had returned from Beijing, seemed to know nothing, so he kindly reminded him.
"Enemies?" Shang Zhixin was stunned, "My family has only been in Guangdong a few years ago, how could there be tens of thousands of enemies?"
"Tens of thousands?" Li Tianzhi smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "How can it be only tens of thousands..."
"Ah?" Shang Zhixin was stunned, "More than tens of thousands? How many?"
"Several million!" Li Tianzhi said with a bitter smile, "I can't say that everyone in Guangdong has a grudge against your family, but to say that only half of them have a grudge against the Shizi family is definitely underestimating it."
Well, most of the monks in Guangdong are happy to have a family feud!
"Ah! Millions..." Shang Zhixin couldn't believe his ears and looked back at Shang Keai, "Second uncle, are there really that many?"
Hearing his question, Shang Keai could only smile bitterly and nod: "Zhixin, our family does have more enemies in Guangdong."
"Is this too much?" Shang Zhixin was anxious, "This is too much... What has my Ama done in these years? How come I have offended so many people?"
"Yeah, I didn't do anything," Shang Keai said with a bitter smile, "I just killed two to three million Cantonese people..."
"Two to three million..." Shang Zhixin's eyes widened, "Why so many?"
I don’t know how Shang Zhixin became the heir apparent of Prince Pingnan? Probably during those years in Beijing, he only focused on eating, drinking and having fun with Emperor Shunzhi and eating, drinking and having fun himself. He didn't know how many unscrupulous things he, Ama Shangkexi, had done in Guangdong. Of course, he wasn't completely ignorant, but he didn't expect that his Amma would kill people for the Manchus to such an extent!
Li Tianzhi heard what Shang Zhixin said and sighed: "When the prince attacked Guangzhou, because the defenders were too stubborn, he massacred the city and killed hundreds of thousands! Later, Wang Xing of Dawen Village massacred them one after another. Hundreds of thousands! Later, the border was moved along the coast... hundreds of thousands of people died in the eight counties of Guangdong!"
"What? Why did so many people die when the border was moved and the sea was banned?" Shang Zhixin was stunned again and again. When he was eating, drinking and having fun in Beijing, he heard about the Massacre of Guangzhou, the Massacre of Wencun, the Massacre of Chaozhou, and the Massacre of Jieshi. But I haven’t heard of the Haijin Massacre.
Li Tianzhi sighed again and said: "The Massacre at Sea Ban is the most bizarre disaster in Guangdong since ancient times! And it happened in the peaceful years, so it is really hard to talk about it. The prince is far away in Beijing, so it is not surprising that he doesn't know what happened."
Shang Zhixin turned to look at Shang Keai again, and Shang Keai nodded with a wry smile: "The matter of maritime ban and border relocation has indeed been done in a hurry...many places only gave three days, and the people below had no time to prepare. ? Many people didn’t even know they were moving. They didn’t know something was wrong until the officers and soldiers came to the door. But where did they have time to prepare food rations and luggage? The officers and soldiers who were forced to move didn’t wait for anyone. When the time came, they set fire to the houses and left them with nothing. Stay. Just the forced relocation alone killed more than half of the people on the coast. And those who went to the inland had no money, food or land to resettle, so only one-tenth of them survived. Among the coastal counties of Guangdong, only Qiongzhou Prefecture The situation in Xinhui County, Chaozhou Prefecture and Guangfu Prefecture is slightly better, Qiongzhou will not be moved, and Chaozhou, because of the resistance of Su Li, Qiu Hui, Xu Long and others, allows the coastal people to survive longer."
"This, this, this... why bother?" Shang Zhixin shook his head repeatedly, "Isn't Guangdong my family's vassal territory? Why do you kill innocent people so indiscriminately?"
Li Tianzhi sighed again: "The prince always has to work harder to complete the matters assigned by the court, but he offended the Cantonese people too much!"
Shang Keai also nodded and said: "Among the three vassals, our family is the most loyal... In these years, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, almost half of the Cantonese people have turned into mortal enemies!"
"What an old fool..." Shang Zhixin stamped his feet. Apart from scolding his father, he really had nothing to say.
It's okay to kill people as lackeys for the Qing government, but turning half of the Cantonese people into blood feuds is too much.
Moreover...these Cantonese people now have divine thunder and can perform magic tricks!
Now tens of thousands of enemies who hate the Shang family have come to Guangzhou with grenade hammers to seek revenge. What should we do?
"We can't let these Cantonese people break into Guangzhou City!" Shang Zhixin was anxious. These are all enemies... The Shang family killed their brothers, grandparents, and forced them to leave their hometown and bankrupt their entire family. That's terrible. The hatred is as deep as the sea.
What's even more frightening is that now the enemies of the Shang family have grenade hammers... If you don't have too many enemies, you just have to worry that you won't be able to defeat them!
If you can't beat them, you will be exterminated!
"Second uncle," Shang Zhixin thought for a moment and then asked, "How many fighting troops are there in Guangzhou now?"
"Um..." Shang Keai frowned, "All the elites in the vassal have followed your Ama to Jieyang. There are only old, weak, women and children in Guangzhou. Among them, there are only the old people and servants under the vassal who can still carry weapons into battle. Three to four thousand men, as well as three to four thousand strong women, can also climb the city to fight. There is also a Guangzhou city defense camp available."
"Even including women, it's less than 10,000?" Shang Zhixin was anxious, "How can this be enough?"
Shang Ke said happily: "Zhixin, don't worry... There are still many troops outside Guangzhou City. There is a Navy Association at Humenkou. Dongguan and Shunde have left some troops. Xiangshan and Xinde have left some troops." There are also city defense camps in Ning, Xinhui, Xin'an, Foshan and other places. The total number of these soldiers and horses is seven or eight thousand, and the troops of the fake grandson Zhu San are not so easy to attack the city of Guangzhou.
In addition, the entire army of Gaolei Commander-in-Chief Zu Zeqing has not been dispatched. If they are all transferred to Guangfu, another four to five thousand troops can be added. "
"Isn't Zu Zeqing a member of Wu Sangui?" Shang Zhixin frowned, "Don't count his people... If you add all these miscellaneous things together, I don't know if there are even fifteen thousand scattered around. Every place is just like sprinkling pepper noodles. If the tens of thousands of fake Zhu San Taisun's people arrive at the gate of Guangzhou, we will only have a few thousand to use. What the heck! This is not possible. We have to transfer all the troops from everywhere to Guangzhou City. Come."
"Zhixin, this is not possible!" Shang Keai shook his head, "If all these soldiers arrive in Guangzhou, what will happen elsewhere? If the fake Zhu San Taisun divided his troops to attack the counties in Guangfu, wouldn't they all be easily defeated? If only the city of Guangfu is left, it won’t last long!”
Shang Zhixin hummed and said: "Now the soldiers of the puppet grandson Zhu San are heading north along the Xijiang waterway, heading straight for Guangzhou! It will take another seven or eight days at most before they can reach the city of Guangzhou. If we can't gather the troops now, , by then we can still mobilize reinforcements from outside the city?
Besides, there are local officials in each county. They have the responsibility to defend the territory. They can mobilize the people and the regiments to hold on... They may not necessarily break the city! Second uncle, please quickly send orders to people from Dongguan, Shunde, Xiangshan, Xinning, Xinhui, Xin'an, Foshan and other places to come to Guangzhou! "
Shang Keai said: "Zhixin, you can abandon the other small counties in Guangfu, but there is one place you must not abandon!"
"Where?" Shang Zhixin asked.
"New meeting!"
