Li Guodong replied: "You don't have to worry. You will take a temporary position when you return to the capital. In fact, it won't take long. Li will lead the army to the northern expedition. At that time, there will be more county towns that need local officials. At that time, you will definitely have the opportunity to send out. So, my country's Duke is kind and kind. Since you take the initiative to offer the city, my country's Duke can reward you with 1,000 taels of silver. These silvers are enough for you to live in the capital for several years." "Thank you for your kindness and virtue." The county magistrate thanked him for a lot of gratitude and left Chaoyang after taking the silver that Li Guodong rewarded him.

The reason why Li Guodong would rather pay out his own pocket and give the county magistrate who surrendered to Kaicheng and ask him to return to Beijing to the Ministry of Revenue, rather than keep the county magistrate in the local area and continue to be the county magistrate, it is because the county magistrate must have some connection with the local people in the local area. If he was asked to stay and continue to be the county magistrate, some things would be difficult to deal with. However, he took the initiative to surrender and could not convict him at will. If the surrendered person is still convicted, who dares to surrender in the future?

Chaoyang County has a small land and a large population. The only fertile land is in the hands of Chaoyang Vilatory and Haimen Station. The local people either rely on helping merchants or fishing to make a living.

It can be imagined how miserable the people here would be if Guangdong had not been involved in the Qing Dynasty after it was not for Li Guodong and the Qing court issued a ban on sea and the order to relocate sea!

Chaoyang was small and there were many people. In order to prevent Zheng Chenggong, the Qing court forced to move away from the people on the sea. As a result, the people were forced to give up the sea where they depended for their living. When they went to the inland, there was no land where they could grow food. I don’t know how many people starved to death. During the implementation of the sea relocation order, countless people died halfway.

After moving the people away, Wu Liuqi built a defense line by the sea. Once people were found to cross the line, they would either behead them on the spot or beheaded to the yamen. The bloody heads were hung on the beach, warning those ordinary people who tried to go out to fish must not cross the line.

However, Wu Liuqi is in Li Guodong's army now, and he has no chance to be a traitor, so he is even more unlikely to resolutely implement the ban on seas to kill the people.

This time, Wu Liuqi followed Li Guodong to Chaozhou, which was considered to be a hometown. Wu Liuqi was poor since his family, so he went to a temple to work as a fire craftsman and learned martial arts secretly. He was born with great strength and learned superb martial arts. Unfortunately, he never had the chance to serve his country. Wu Liuqi met Li Guodong, and he was quickly promoted from a soldier, and his promotion was like a rocket.

This time Wu Liuqi returned to his hometown, which was considered a return home in glory. In front of his hometown, he earned enough others' envious eyes.

After conquering Chaoyang County, the Huai Army headed straight to Haimen.

The Haimen Station was originally a naval garrison with poor land combat capabilities. As early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the border troops of those garrisons were already useless. When the Japanese pirates attacked, they only dared to hide in the acropolis and stayed in the door, watching the Japanese pirates burn, kill and loot, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

With such garbage soldiers, Li Guodong's two thousand Huai Army could definitely easily make them surrender.

Li Guodong ordered the artillery to be set up, and then a magic archer was sent to shoot a letter of persuasion into the city.

The letter of surrender said that it would give Haimen Station half an hour to consider the time. If the time comes, if the city does not open and surrender, the Huai Army will attack the city. Once the city is broken, all officers above the general flag in Haimen Station will behead them.

Half an hour before the deadline, Li Guodong and his confidants walked around the city of Haimen. They saw that the garage was located in the mouth of the river and controlled the entrance of Lianjiang River. The garage was built on the walls of the sea and Lianjiang River. However, I heard that those cannons were old antiques from the Zhengde period and even Hongwu period. I don’t know whether they could be fired. At best, they were just used to scare people.

This ward is surrounded by water on three sides, with the southwest being Lianjiang River, the northeast being Hanjiang River, the southeast being the sea, and the northwest being adjacent to Chaoyang County.

On the other side of Hanjiang is Chenghai County, which is the later Jinping District and Longhu District of Shantou in later generations. The terrain of Haimen is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, before half an hour had arrived, the gate of the guards opened and the defenders in the city surrendered.

"Just surrender, we are all our Ming army, why do we have to kill each other?" Li Guodong said with a smile.

Although the garrison surrendered voluntarily, the officers of the garrison could not allow them to stay here. They rode on the heads of the military households and sucked bones and marrow and exploited them. Li Guodong had to arrange a place for these hereditary garrison officers.

"Although you have surrendered and have taken the initiative to surrender, according to convention, you cannot stay in Haimen Station. All the fields in Haimen Station are taken back to the imperial fields. My country's Duke will arrange for you to take people to expand territory. However, now, the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty has not yet been quelled, and there are Jiannu in the north. You can follow your country to equate the civil strife and then fight against the Central Plains in the north!" Li Guodong said to the surrendered military officers.

Although the land obtained by these military officers who embezzled the military household fields for generations and were deprived of all the land they received by Li Guodong for a few words, they did not regret their decision to surrender, because if they did not surrender, their heads had already landed. Moreover, after they surrendered, the gold, silver and treasures in their families could be retained.

These officers of the garrison were arranged by Li Guodong to join the Huai Army Engineers. Anyway, they did not expect them to be able to fight, so they were allowed to take up the positions of construction projects and transport materials. When the Ming Dynasty was preparing to colonize the North American continent, they would send all these people out.

Although these hereditary officers have become extremely decayed after more than two hundred years, they have been practicing martial arts for generations after all. After sending them overseas, they can restore their original fierceness in their blood in a harsh environment. They are still good officers. Just expanding territory, that is the future.

The officers could only thank him and left the garrison and followed the Huai Army for the time being.

The Huai Army took over the Haimen Station and first re-selected the original border troops of the garrison. Some of the old, weak, sick and disabled became farmers and were specifically responsible for farming. Those strong men were all adapted into recruiting soldiers and were responsible for garrisoning the fort. At the same time, the fort was repaired to protect the maritime gate of Chaozhou Prefecture.

All the fields in the garrison were confiscated and classified as imperial fields, and rented to the original military households to cultivate. Military households were treated the same as farmers who cultivated imperial fields. They only paid tenant rent and did not collect taxes.

Li Guodong had already reported to Chongzhen about the issue of dealing with military households. After nearly three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, those military households were not only not armed forces to defend their country, but instead became one of the burdens of the Ming Dynasty.

There are three burdens for the Ming Dynasty: the first is the royal family, which was destroyed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, greatly reducing the burden.

The second burden is the group of civil servants and gentry. The group of civil servants and gentry in the north has been reduced to the Qing Dynasty. In the future, Li Guodong will slowly deal with them. Under the differentiation of Li Guodong, the group of civil servants and gentry in the south has become two types: one is the gentry in Jiangnan. Those gentry in Jiangnan will become the emerging bourgeoisie with the support of Li Guodong. Another is the traditional gentry in land. Li Guodong will gradually eliminate those gentry in land, some of which are military strikes, such as the gentry in Guangdong and other places. If the land gentry in Hubei and Jiangnan has no excuses to deal with, they will be transformed into industrial and commercial gentry through legal competitive means.
Chapter completed!