A few days later, the governor of Hunan and the governor of Huguang jointly issued a notice: one dou of planting, two dou of repaid after it is ripe, and two dou of rent per mu will be collected, and two dou of planting will be borrowed based on the number of land acres. The number is not limited. Those without cattle will be given to cattle and mules, each of which will be three dou per year. If there is a war, they will be recruited in time and raised in the family on weekdays.

In addition, those who pay the rent on time will build the lower households to borrow the land and allow them to continue planting. For those who have been continuously for three consecutive years, this field will be used as the permanent land of the household, and the limit will be as follows: 50 acres per quintuary. Once the notice is released, the four towns will be happy.

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Just as the revival situation in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places was in great prosperity, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian were in a serious crisis.

As early as the end of the second year of Longwu (1646 AD), when Zhu Youlang's soul was penetrated, and after Emperor Longwu Zhu Youjian was killed by the Qing army, some civil and military officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing court changed to Zhu Yihai, the governor of Lu, which greatly changed the legitimacy of the Lu king's regime.

In the southwest of Yongli, the Lu regime did not adopt a tit-for-tat policy, the purpose was to allow the Yongli regime to try its best to hold back the Qing army going south and share some military pressure for them.

In this way, the south can form a three-way situation (the Qing court, the Yongli regime and the Lu regime).

Later, with the advice of the famous minister Zhang Mingzhen, the King of Lu sent troops to attack and kill Huang Binqing, the general of the vassal state, and took over Huang Binqing's 10,000 naval troops.

At the end of the second year of Longwu, the Duke of Ping of the Ming Dynasty and the Admiral of Fujian Zheng Zhilong rushed to Fuzhou to surrender to the Prince of Manchuria Boluo. The general Zheng Cai was unwilling to surrender to the Tartars and decided to support Zhu Yihai as the main force. Zhu Yihai's strength has grown rapidly. Most officials and civilians in Zhejiang and Fujian took the Lu State as the banner of reviving the Ming Dynasty. Furthermore, the main force of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia has been brought back to Beijing by Prince Duan Chong Boluo, and the Qing army in Fujian was empty.

At the beginning of the first year of Yongli (1647), when Zhu Youlang, the emperor and his ministers fought against Li Chengdong's Qing army in Wuzhou, Guangxi, King Zhu Yihai of Lu vowed to Changyuan, and the army initially rectified and began to recover the lost territories. At the oath meeting, he showed the determination to "the king's life is not indifferent to peace" to all armies.

In just half a year, many prefectures and counties in Fujian were recaptured one after another. In July, Zhu Yihai, the governor of Lu, personally launched an expedition, calling on gentry and people from all over the country to raise affairs and create great causes together.

Jianning Prefecture, Jianyang, Chong'an, Songxi, Zhenghe, Shouning, Lianjiang, Changle, Yongfu, Minqing, Luoyuan, Ningde and other three prefectures and twenty-seven counties in northeastern Fujian were all recovered in a very short time. In October of the same year, Funing Prefecture was also conquered by the Ming army, and the provincial capital Fuzhou almost became an isolated city. The Qing Dynasty's rule in Fujian was on the verge of collapse.

In order to capture Fuzhou as soon as possible and restore the entire Fujian, Zhu Yihai, the governor of Lu, personally visited Min'an Town outside Fuzhou City to command the siege. With the inspiration of Zhu Yihai, charity troops outside Fuzhou City gathered.

During the siege, the powerful minister Zheng Cai wanted to undermine Zhu Yihai and then gain military and political power. In the second year of Yongli (1648), Zheng Cai killed Grand Secretary Xiong Rulin for no reason. Zheng Zunqian, the Marquis of Yixing, was very dissatisfied. Zheng Cai ordered people to force Zheng Zunqian to jump into the sea and die.

When Zhu Yihai learned about it, he was furious and forced him to die. The ministers and Zheng Cai hurriedly dissuaded him, and finally killed more than ten people under Zheng Cai.

Then, Zhu Yihai, who was unwilling to become a puppet, appointed Qian Sule, the Minister of War, to take over as the Grand Secretary, to be responsible for the government plan. Unexpectedly, Zheng Cai bullied Qian Sule many times, causing Qian Sule to vomit blood and die.

At the critical moment, the Lu King regime had internal conflicts and had serious power, which gave the Qing army in Fuzhou a valuable respite.

At the beginning of the second year of Yongli (1648), the army of Sanshun kings led by Pingnan General Kong Youde went south. After crossing the Yangtze River, Kong Youde divided his troops into two groups and his headquarters entered Huguang. At the same time, he ordered Gushan Ezhen Jinli to lead 30,000 Han Eight Banners and Green Camp to enter Fujian from Nanzhili. He planned to destroy the Lu King regime and the remaining troops of the Zheng family in Fujian, and then join forces from Fujian to Guangdong and Li Chengdong. Finally, he and Huguang's main troops attacked the Yongli regime in Guangdong and Guangxi.

When Jin Li's 30,000 army reached Fujian, the Lu Jianguo regime happened to be in an internal strife. Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, located in Fuzhou, and Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian, seized the opportunity and cooperated with the 30,000 reinforcements outside the city to launch a large counterattack against the Ming army.

Because Zheng Cai's rejection of dissidents caused the people of Lu Jianguo to be volatile, the morale of the army was sluggish, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Zheng Chenggong, who was operating in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, also refused to accept the military order of Lu Jianguo to rescue the army in the name of respecting the dead Longwu Emperor.

Under such circumstances, the Ming army suffered several defeats and retreated in a hurry. They fled all the way to the island before evading the pursuit of the Qing army. The three prefectures, one prefectures, and twenty-seven counties in Fujian that they had previously captured were immediately taken away by the Qing army.

Seeing that the 30,000 troops of the Jin Li army of the Qing army were about to enter Guangdong from Chaozhou, there were only more than 4,000 infantrymen of Li Chengdong's army general Chen Hu, guarding him, with shortage of troops and equipment, and the situation was not optimistic. During this period, Li Chengdong received a memorial for help from Ganzhou.

At this time, the main force of the Dongjiang army of the Sanshun King's army in Yuezhou Prefecture was seriously damaged and was licking the wound, and there was no counterattack power for a while.

With the two sides and one combination, Zhu Youlang planned to return to Zhaoqing, Guangdong, to take charge of the capital, and to support all parties. At the same time, he sent the imperial camp's personal army, eight or nine thousand infantry and cavalry to set off quickly to support Li Chengdong in Ganzhou City, and Jiao Lian, the general of Yulin Town, and went to Chaozhou Fenshui Pass to preside over military affairs, resisting the 30,000 Han Eight Banners and Green Camp Army in Fujian.

The Fenshui Pass is the first barrier between Fujian and Guangdong, and is close to Zhao'an. The establishment of the pass here began during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. The city of Guan was built in the early years of Tianqi. The city wall was more than 1,250 meters long and the wall was eighty meters high. There was one gate in the east, west and north. There was a fort in the pass, and now another was built to help each other.

The city defense is very complete, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as Jiao Lian's elite troops arrive there before Jin Li breaks through the pass, there will basically be no problem.
Chapter completed!