In short, it didn't take long for the Qing troops to become arrogant one by one. Even when they heard any noise, they jumped up and ran away in fright.
Under such circumstances, one can imagine how strong the Qing army's control over the territory was.
The Qing troops in several provinces were retreated to provincial capitals and state capitals, and were unwilling to go to lower counties and rural areas.
Because those places have become base areas for the anti-Qing rebels.
As a result, in addition to provincial capitals and state capitals, it would be difficult for the Qing army to collect various taxes below.
Every time local officials from the Qing government went to collect taxes, they needed a large team of people to guard them. Otherwise, they would be beheaded before they even reached the county seat.
It can be said that the Qing armies everywhere were reduced to a situation where everyone shouted for beatings.
Some Qing troops even took off their uniforms and fled quietly. After all, these Qing troops were not from the Eight Banners series. They took off their uniforms, changed their clothes, and became ordinary people.
Under such circumstances, Nanming, the Zheng Family Army and even the Xinghai Kingdom immediately sent troops to attack the Qing troops in various places.
Two groups of soldiers and horses under Nanming's command entered Shichuan from Yunnan and Guizhou respectively, while two groups of soldiers and horses from Guangxiguangdong entered Hunan.
The Zheng Jiajun fought from the south of Hu Jian to the north of Hu Jian, and sent troops to cooperate with Nanming all the way from the south of Jiangxi to the north.
As for the Xinghai Kingdom, they sent the Northern Fleet up the Changjiang River, completely blocking the Qing army's waterway from south to north.
After that, they used Zhoushan as a base to capture Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places, and included all the Qing troops in Zhejiang and the southern parts of Anhui and Jiangshu provinces into the encirclement circle.
However, only Xinghai Kingdom can do such a move.
With their retreat route completely blocked, the Qing troops located in various states had no choice but to raise the white flag and surrender to the 3rd Xinghai Division.
However, for Xinghai Kingdom, swallowing more than 400,000 square kilometers of land in one breath is really a bit overwhelming.
After all, Xinghai Kingdom does not have a large and mixed army like Nanming. It only has a third division. Even after it is strengthened, it only has 12,000 people stationed in various state capitals and counties, which seems to be a bit weak.
The only good thing is that Xinghai Kingdom has trained a large number of administrative talents in these years.
Therefore, after swallowing up more than 400,000 square kilometers of land, Xinghai Kingdom immediately dispatched a large number of administrative talents there.
The transport ship departing from Xinghai City was filled with naturalized civilian officials who were going to Zhejiang, Jiangshu, Anhui and other places.
It has to be said that this is a bright future for them.
Once upon a time, only Wenquxing could serve as county magistrates!
"I heard that many of those county officials were beheaded. Even those who remain need to go to Xinghai City School for retraining."
A young man who had just graduated from school and was assigned to serve as a clerk and alternate official in a certain county in Zhejiang said excitedly.
All the young people on the deck started talking about it.
For them, the future is bright.
Xinghai Kingdom has completely abandoned the old feudal official selection system. Anyone with some ability can get ahead after being trained in school. There are two routes.
One is the technical staff and the other is the administrative staff.
Of course, considering the current situation of Xinghai Kingdom, there is no doubt that technical personnel are more popular.
On this transport ship heading to Zhejiang, in addition to the two hundred officials and alternate officials, there are also fifty technical personnel. They mainly go to various places to provide technical guidance in agriculture, sericulture, etc., and create a country from scratch.
Xinghai Kingdom’s own farm.
It has to be said that due to the rampage of the Qing army, the original gentry class was almost completely liquidated.
The upstarts and remaining gentry who were attached to the Qing army were quickly cleared out by the Star Navy fleet, which meant that there were no gentry who directly controlled the land in Zhejiang.
This provides a land and manpower basis for the establishment of the farm.
Of course, immigration work is still being closely pursued.
After all, provinces like Zhejiang and Jiangshu were considered fertile lands in any dynasty, which meant they had a large population.
In fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land in these places was no longer enough to support the population that had been produced for more than two hundred years.
You must know that Orie was the most populous province in the Ariake Dynasty. At its peak, including the uncounted hidden households, the population was as high as 22 million.
How terrifying is such a population!
Although there are frequent wars, population loss, and the Qing army's frequent massacres, the population of Zhejiang has dropped to 6 million. However, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it was still one of the top provinces in terms of population.
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Therefore, like Uncle Jiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui, it has become a key province for Xinghai Kingdom’s immigration work.
Uncle Jiang, with a peak population of 20 million, is almost as populous as Zhejiang, the same land of plenty and nurturing land.
However, by this time the population had dropped to over 8 million.
Jiangxi, with a peak population of 20 million, dropped to 8 million.
Anhui, with a peak population of 8 million, dropped to 4 million.
The Xinghai Kingdom now occupies the entire province of Zhejiang, south of Jiangshu and Anhui, and has a total population of approximately 11 million!
This simply made the staff of the immigration working group extremely excited.
According to the latest "Immigration and Resettlement Measures" passed by the Xinghai State Senate, Xinghai State will gradually move 6 million people from the three provinces to the South China Sea Island and various overseas territories to enrich the population of each overseas territory, thereby realizing a rapid leap in the population strategy of Xinghai State.
The remaining 5 million people are enough to support the development of industry, agriculture and other industries in the three provinces.
As for Nanhai Island, the current population has reached 1.3 million.
According to the resettlement method, Nanhai Island will gradually reduce the number of immigrants after its population reaches 3 million.
After all, according to the plan of the Ministry of Industrial Affairs, a population of three million is enough to support the development of Xinghai Kingdom's core industries. As for the lower-level industrial system, it will gradually migrate to other territories for development, so that Nanhai Island can take charge of core industries and other territories.
The purpose of developing auxiliary industries.
However, in order to achieve such an ambitious goal, it is impossible to achieve it by relocating the population alone. It is also necessary to train enough industrial technicians and technicians in other industries.
Under the guidance of this idea, a large number of normal schools were established on Nanhai Island.
These normal schools will train a sufficient number of teachers to establish schools in various overseas territories, thereby copying the education system on the South China Sea Islands to various overseas territories to cultivate enough technical personnel.
In just two years, Xinghai Kingdom relocated three million people from Zhejiang, Jiangshu, Anhui and other places.
In fact, a large number of these three million people migrated from the neighboring northern Jiangshu, northern Anhui and Jiangxi.
There is no way, people go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.