When Chongming County Magistrate Lu Guang heard that the food crisis was resolved, he was very happy that he finally didn't have to hang himself. Lu Guang immediately returned to the county and organized people to come to the dock to unload the goods.

This time, Li Zhi brought twenty sea ships. In addition to the reinforcements and weapons and ammunition transported, the rest were all loaded with grain and salt. Now the grain from Guangdong was imported from Vietnam. This time, the 50,000 stones of rice brought by Li Zhi was shipped directly to Chongming by Vietnam.

As for salt, it was also the first batch of outputs of the newly built salt farm in Yong'an Prefecture. After Zhu Hongsan arrived in Guangdong, he began to refine cement. The principle of this thing is very simple, but he just doesn't know the formula.

Zhu Hongsan used to know the recipe when he was working in the township, but it had been more than 20 years since this era. His original memory was already blurred. He only knew to use limestone and gypsum to add some slag to calcin. Zhu Hongsan failed to do it several times, so he was not in the mood to make it, so he left it to the craftsmen in the brick kiln to do it himself.

Unexpectedly, in March this year, he finally made qualified cement. Zhu Hongsan came to take a look. If you say that the things made by these craftsmen were cement, but the strength after condensation was not as strong as those of later generations. Zhu Hongsan gave the craftsmen a lot of rewards and ordered the mass production of this fake cement.

The direct consequence of cement production is the huge price reduction of salt. After each salt field uses cement to expand the salt field, the output has risen sharply and the cost has dropped significantly. The price of fine salt in Guangdong is less than ten taels of silver per stone. You should know that in Fujian, there are twenty taels of silver per stone. If it is official salt, it will be twice as expensive.

This time, Li Zhi brought a lot of grain and also brought a lot of fine salt. In Nanzhili, this white fine salt is basically equivalent to silver, and in some places it can be used directly as silver.

In the next few days, Li Zhi started working from officials brought to Guangdong, and these people had a lot of experience in dealing with refugees. First, the refugees outside the city were divided into ten districts, each with 10,000 people. Each ten to fifteen people were organized into a Baojia, and Chief A was selected to be responsible. Each refugee area was separated by roads, and each hundred people had a public bathroom and a bathroom to prevent the epidemic of the disease.

At the same time, a thousand young and strong people were recruited among the refugees and formed a guard team to maintain public order in the refugee area. Finally, young and strong people were organized to work for relief and build a large number of forts along the river. After all, Chongming is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it is in the heart of the Qing Dynasty, so defensive facilities must be prepared.

Li Zhi was not idle either. His arrival brought Zhu Hongsan's latest plan, which was to migrate a large number of people to Guangdong. Now Guangdong has developed industries and a serious labor gap. Now the war in Nanzhili is in chaos. At this time, I would be sorry for Zhu Yuanzhang if I didn't let the Qing Dynasty bleed.

Li Zhi ordered the army to change the previous policy of defending the city and turn it into guerrilla warfare. He took advantage of his own water warfare and found places with weak defenses in the Qing Dynasty to get ashore to trap the population, so he retreated with one blow, and did not get entangled with the Qing Dynasty's troops. The Navy was responsible for striving to completely eliminate the Qing Dynasty's water strength on the front line of the Yangtze River.

On the fifth day after Li Zhi arrived, the first batch of refugees transported to Guangdong began to ship. The first batch of 10,000 people took twenty sea boats south. The sea itinerary could reach Guangdong in about ten days, and other ships would be transferred to Qiongzhou Prefecture, Yong'an Prefecture, Hongji Port and other places respectively.

Li Zhi was indeed a capable official, and Zhu Hongsan read it wrong. In the next year, Li Zhi planned to transport more than one million refugees to Guangdong. At the same time, he killed and injured the Qing army in Nanzhili and Zhejiang. In the end, the Qing government had no choice but to launch Hong Chengchou.

Dorgon in Beijing saw war in the south, and Prince Yu Duoduo was busy putting out fires everywhere. In the intercalary June, he could not send Hong Chengchou to replace Duoduo and awarded the title of "recruiting military affairs grandmaster of the Governors of Jiangnan provinces" and granting him the right to act with a bargain.

After taking office, Hong Chengchou took two steps to prepare. The first was to set up a chain of iron in the narrow Yangtze River to prevent the Ming army from going up the river. The second was to clear the fields along the Yangtze River and the sea, and it was not allowed to live within 20 miles. For the people who had rebelled, they adopted strategies of focusing on comfort and suppression as the auxiliary, and a series of measures to reduce the burden on the people and stimulate economic development. Under Hong Chengchou's effective measures, the resistance movements in Nanzhili and Zhejiang were slowly suppressed. In addition, Chongming Island was really small, and Li Zhi asked Zhu Hongsan for instructions and moved the command headquarters to Dinghai County, the Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang, and continued to organize the anti-Qing here.

A large number of working people in the north flocked into Guangdong, bringing enough labor to Zhu Hongsan. At this time, Zhu Hongsan's industry had developed to a bottleneck, and it could no longer continue to develop with manpower and hydraulic power. The population of Guangdong Province was less than 10 million. This was the disaster of bandits in the north in recent years. The influx of refugees from Huguang and Jiangxi brought a large amount of labor to Guangdong.

Originally, Guangdong and Guangxi were not economically developed regions in the Ming Dynasty, and Guangdong's great development was in the late Qing Dynasty. This time, the north had a population of one million solved Zhu Hongsan's major problem. Zhu Hongsan set up two industrial bases in Changhua County, Qiongzhou and Hongji Port in Vietnam. Changhua mainly bears steelmaking and ductile iron production, while Hongji Port is mainly the coal industry. These two places produce semi-finished products and transport them to Dongguan for deep processing.

At this time, Guangdong's Pearl River Economic Belt was finally completed, mainly in Dongguan Development Zone, Guangzhou New City District, Shunde Shipyard and other areas. The entire Pearl River Economic Belt concentrated two-thirds of the population of Guangdong and 90% of the industry in Guangdong. It can be said that Guangdong has surpassed the European powers in overall strength in terms of overall strength.

While Zhu Hongsan was complacent about his development achievements, a tragedy occurred in Manila, thousands of miles away.

Now the Philippines is still under the rule of Spain. In addition to political rule, economic exploitation and military occupation, the Spanish governor of the country has more importantly spread education, with the purpose of making the Filipinos believe in Catholicism in religion and receive Spanish education in education. As a result, except for the Maolu people who believe in Islam, most of the Filipinos should believe in Catholicism.

But there is a special place where it is difficult for Chinese in the Philippines to accept this kind of education. Most of them believe in Buddhism and cannot accept sudden change of belief. Chinese culture has a long history and is used to regarding themselves as the Celestial Empire, which is difficult to accept foreign culture, let alone giving up their own culture. This is usually regarded as a "betrayal" of our ancestors and will be punished by God. Moreover, these Chinese people came to the Philippines in the early days just to make a living and did not intend to live for a long time, so they would not pay attention to this kind of education in Spain.
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