Su Yonglin himself led the main force of the army south to Chaozhou after completing his inspection in Quanzhou in mid-December.
The Ming army encountered no effective resistance in Chaozhou. Su Yonglin quickly led his army through Chaozhou, passed through Huizhou, and finally arrived in Guangzhou, the southernmost big city on the Ming Dynasty.
Compared with other Lingnan cities of the same era, Guangzhou is undoubtedly the largest.
Chaozhou, Meizhou, and Huizhou were the inhabited areas of southern ethnic minorities for a long time before the Tang Dynasty. After a thousand years of population migration and the management of the Pearl River Delta during the Northern Song Dynasty, this area gradually moved towards civilization. develop.
At the turn of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, a large number of people from the Central Plains and Jiangnan crossed the Wuling area and entered Lingnan to settle and seek refuge. They mainly settled in Chaozhou and Huizhou. This brought great changes to the population structure of this area and had a great impact on local production, life and the spread of civilization. It also brought about many positive changes.
Today, the population of these state capitals is large, the gap between production and lifestyle is not large with that of the Lingbei region, and material life is not lacking.
Of course, class contradictions still exist.
The arrival of the Ming army means that the feudal clan-style lifestyle that the powerful landlords relied on for their livelihood has come to an end, and of course they will resist.
In fact, during the entire process of the Ming army going south to destroy the Song Dynasty, the attacks by the landlord armed forces on the Ming army were far more intense than the attacks by the Song army on the Ming army. The organized Song army and Song officialdom caused almost no threats and losses to the Ming army. Can be ignored.
When Su Yonglin went south, only five cities insisted on defending. Eight county magistrates organized troops to resist desperately. Other than that, the only ones who resisted were powerful armed groups of landlords. The officials only focused on escaping, and there were no fucking landlords. The heroes dared to fight against the Ming army.
And this also gave the Ming army an excellent reason to thoroughly clean up the place and carry out a thorough liquidation of the powerful landlord families.
The Ming army went all the way south, and basically helped the grassroots organizations of the Renaissance to do a lot of things along the way. It eradicated almost all the large and powerful local landowners, and the remaining three or two kittens were hardly a problem.
On December 17, the eighth year of Hongwu's reign, Su Yonglin entered Guangzhou City.
At the same time, the entire Guangnan East Road was almost completely occupied by the Ming army. The local Song official power had collapsed and ceased to exist. A few landlords' armed forces were still resisting, but it was only a matter of time before they were completely destroyed.
So Su Yonglin decided to stay in Guangzhou for a while.
In Guangzhou, Su Yonglin met Zhao Yucheng, who came to meet with the troops, and also met Yu Xingyan, the right minister of the Ministry of Finance who stayed here with Lin Jingchun, and his financial management team.
After years of study and accumulation of experience in armed struggle, Zhao Yucheng has become an outstanding political worker and military cadre with very rich struggle experience. He is a person who is strong in both politics and military, and has very strong abilities.
Zhao Yucheng missed Su Yonglin very much because he hadn't seen him for many years. He was supposed to lead his army directly to bypass Guangzhou and go to Zhaoqing Mansion to join other troops to completely eliminate the landlord armed forces. However, he still took two days to rush to Guangzhou, hoping to meet Su Yonglin.
As the actual direct disciple of Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin cared very much about Zhao Yucheng, was very attentive to his education, and gave him very arduous tests. Facts have proved that Zhao Yucheng did not live up to Su Yonglin's tests and expectations of him.
Su Yonglin hoped that he could capture Jiangnan West Road, and he really captured Jiangnan West Road and made it the Jiangxi Province of the Ming Dynasty. During the entire struggle, Zhao Yucheng played a decisive role.
In addition to his contribution to the revolutionary mission, Zhao Yucheng also single-handedly promoted Xu Tong, who was very young at the time, as a major military general. He resolutely appointed him despite many people's doubts about him. As a result, Xu Tong created one military miracle after another. Let Su Yonglin be happy to have his beloved general.
In all senses, Zhao Yucheng is a major achievement since Su Yonglin's revolution.
Outside Guangzhou, when he saw Su Yonglin across the distance, Zhao Yucheng couldn't hold back his excitement. He got off his horse and trotted all the way to Su Yonglin. He knelt down on one knee and saluted in military salute.
"I will finally pay my respects to the Chairman!"
"Um!"
Su Yonglin stepped forward and helped Zhao Yucheng up with a smile.
After not seeing each other for several years, Zhao Yucheng's face no longer looked childish.
The immature young man who once tried to launch land reform on his own was no longer there, replaced by a mature revolutionary, a revolutionary who was reborn from the ashes after experiencing betrayal and disillusionment.
"This battle was fought well. Did you encounter any obstacles along the way south?"
"Is there any obstacle? It's just a mantis trying to use a chariot. It's just a group of wishful thinking people who want to block the revolutionary tide. They will definitely die."
Zhao Yucheng smiled and said: "I haven't seen him for several years, and the chairman's figure is becoming more and more majestic. I will be very happy to see him like this."
"You shouldn't use titles like general and chairman with such disgusting words."
Su Yonglin smiled and patted Zhao Yucheng on the shoulder: "Let's go, I have prepared the banquet and am waiting for you to come."
"kindness!"
Zhao Yucheng followed Su Yonglin into Guangzhou City with a smile, and had a good reception banquet in the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion.
"Since you come to the beach, you have to eat standard seafood. Guangzhou people are good at cooking seafood, which is full of flavor. It is also different from the river seafood that people in Jiangnan often eat. I like this taste very much."
Su Yonglin peeled off the large claws of a crab in the sea and handed it to Zhao Yucheng. Zhao Yucheng laughed so hard that he could hardly open his eyes. He took it with both hands and ate the crab claws as if he were enjoying dragon liver and phoenix marrow. Clean and tidy.
A bunch of civil servants and generals below looked at Zhao Yucheng with great envy, and seemed to yearn for the treatment of Su Yonglin personally peeling off the meat for him to eat.
It's no wonder that given Su Yonglin's actual status, being able to do this is really a great honor for his subordinates, and it makes him happier than any reward.
Most of them also knew Zhao Yucheng's special status, but in order to appease the hearts of the civilian officials and military generals, Su Yonglin frequently raised glasses and toasted, thanking the civilian officials and military generals for their efforts for the great cause of the revolution, and thanking them for their efforts in this great unification war. everything of.
Several civilian and military generals who had made the greatest contributions were named by Su Yonglin, and then he walked over to raise a toast in person.
Everyone had a great time drinking together and eating seafood together.
After having a good meal and wine, Su Yonglin personally arranged their food and accommodation, and then went to the military camp outside the city to inspect the soldiers' food and accommodation, and received a warm welcome from the soldiers.
After a period of inspection, Su Yonglin, accompanied by Zhao Yucheng, returned to Guangzhou City. It was already dusk, but Su Yonglin didn't want to rest, so he took Zhao Yucheng to the Guangzhou City Tower to overlook the beautiful sea and sky in the distance.
"The last time I talked to you alone was a few years ago in Zhongdu. When you set off south to Jiangnan West Road, you have been busy reorganizing the army in Jiangxi since the revolution, and you have no time to come back to see me. But I miss you so much."
"I miss Uncle Yuting very much too."
When the two of them were alone, Zhao Yucheng stopped calling him Chairman or General, and instead called him the names he had during the Liberation Army.
"From the beginning to the end, you are the only one calling me that."
Su Yonglin smiled and patted Zhao Yucheng's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm only three years older than you, but you call me uncle, which always feels a little strange."
"Relative titles such as seniority do not depend on age. In the past, there was a newly born child in the clan, but his seniority was frighteningly high. He was considered my grandfather, but I was about ten years older than him.
You and my father are of the same generation, so it is natural for me to call you uncle. Over the years, you have treated me like your own nephew. How can you not deserve this title? "
Zhao Yucheng smiled and said: "I am very lucky to have an elder like you to guide me and educate me, letting me know what I should do and how I should live. Otherwise, I would still be confused and not know what a person should do in this life. What makes the most sense?
When I was betrayed by my tribe and imprisoned in prison, I really wanted to die during that time. I just believed in my heart that Uncle Yuting would definitely come to save me. Otherwise, he might commit suicide in prison. . "
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