If it is in the later generations, all kinds of festive things, naturally there are a lot of colorful banners, as well as a variety of flower baskets, but in this era, it is more particular, it is to send gift lists, all kinds of gifts, as a congratulatory gift.

Of course, when China generally does not start construction, it is generally not so prosperous, this is the business of lowly craftsmen, that is, they need to do all kinds of rituals before the start of construction, in fact, it is to spend money to buy the local religious sticks, so that they do not slander the project and destroy feng shui at will.

There is a great dialectic in this, because it is impossible for people to live in the world without problems, and the difference is only big and small, and in a neighborhood where something will not happen one day?

The neighbor's child fell out of his teeth, the drunken old man fell drunk on the ground, and when he died after stealing the vegetables that other people put in the yard, he carried the corpse to make trouble.

This is like some newspapers in later generations, they like to write some specious fake news first, such as the hemorrhoids suppositories produced by a company are "suspected" to be ineffective, suspected of running away, etc., if you go to sue, it is equivalent to giving those companies the opportunity to arrange you, and the hype is greater, you say, who suffers?

Similarly, what those bald donkeys like most is to spread all kinds of gossip everywhere when someone builds a house and repairs a house, saying that his neighbor has a stomachache and can't eat and doesn't soak a woman because his family repairs the house without permission.

Since people can do it, steal something to eat at your house first, and then no matter how they die, they can go to your house to make trouble and ask for compensation, so it is normal to go directly to someone to repair the house and make trouble.

As a result, many large households have to regularly feed these inhumane bald donkeys and cows with various benefits, otherwise these people will make a noise, and the problem is not small, of course, this is all "internal contradictions of the ruling class", and there is no problem.

After a long time, these lords have naturally learned, nothing more than to find a reason, asking everyone to donate money to repair a memorial arch, to make a golden body, and then, the old man's money is returned, and the poor people's money is divided by themselves, beautiful.

Of course, Suzhou Mall told everyone at the beginning that I was not to be messed with.

Naturally, there is also a Taoist priest who doesn't know where to run out, wearing a brand-new Taoist robe, which is usually put away at a glance, and only put it on when he works at a critical moment, and hangs around the construction site.

The words he spread were simply the same old tunes, nothing more than those contents, but soon, someone arrested this Zuo Menggeng element.

That's right, we have a professional torture team, say you are a Manchu demon, you are a demon, say you are Zuo Menggeng's chaotic party, you are a chaotic party, although the Council of Elders can be called full of discipline in the new time and space, but once you are willing to abandon the discipline, then it can also become an extremely undisciplined organization.

In one day, the entire temple in Suzhou, as long as they had a bad reputation, secretly raised women, and ate dog meat, were all taken away to assist in the investigation, to see if they were suspected of colluding with the Japanese and preparing to slaughter the city and loot the whole city.

Shouting grievances? Could it be that the monks of the Japanese Tradition Sect who are holding a knife in one hand and chanting sutras in the other are not your peers, hum.

Li Xiangqian stayed in Suzhou to protect Li Xiangjun's more than a dozen people, don't look at the number of people, but with the help of the Wu family, they quickly cleaned up the local bald donkey forces in Suzhou, what is shocking is that the wealth of these monks is no less than that of the rich businessmen, and they only enter and do not go out all the year round.

Such a purge naturally caused a backlash, but these monks were released after writing a "letter of guarantee" and "letter of repentance", although most of the money was gone, but at least their lives were saved, and the Taoist priest moved directly after interrogating him for seduction and other behaviors.

Since then, a Buddhist and Taoist force has been formed in Suzhou to advocate for the imperial capital, and its kneeling and licking posture even the elders themselves can't stand it, known as the self-dry Buddha, which is actually quite influential, of course, the elders basically don't even give a dog bone.

In this process, the government of Suzhou was as silent as a blind man's cage, even if the begging monks had opened the price to the point that any corrupt official could directly give up his black gauze hat, but at the beginning, Li Xiangqian used a drone to throw a piece of fresh pig heart bought in the bazaar on the old man's desk, but the prefect was frightened, the pig heart is a heart, this is a real threat, but he didn't dare to export, but the inner house still killed several so-called henchmen, After all, his own study, except for a woman who has been warming his quilt every day since he was nine years old, and officially became a concubine at the age of twelve, is a scholar he bought for him from his family after the examination.

Now, there is such a problem in the study, the dignified lord, there is such a bloody thing on the desk, not only frightened, but also a face problem.

That night, whether it was the sixteen-year-old concubine, or the dog-legged housekeeper who was only a dozen years younger than the old man, he had worked hard all his life to accumulate wealth and kill the people and seize the wealth, all of them were beaten to death, but the next day, after the prefect strictly ordered that no one should enter or leave the study, the second heart appeared in the study again!

God is pitiful, the doors and windows in the study are completely locked, there are no loopholes, and even the cleaning is ready for the master to do it himself, and there is only one air window that cats can't pass through.

The prefect was discouraged and strictly ordered not to provoke the people from the imperial capital, so that Li Xiangqian's power in Suzhou was not less than the prestige in Shandong for a while, at least the big family who got the news used various excuses to run the clansmen outside, whether it was to visit the mountains and rivers or visit relatives and friends, on the other hand, it also made the construction ceremony of the mall high.

It can be said that it was a gathering order of Jiangnan officialdom, as long as it was within a distance, it sent generous gifts, even if it was a die-hard anti-imperialist capitalist, they had to send concubines who were not very valued in the family, even if they were boiled and eaten, to congratulate them.

Of course, the scene is still very lively, the candy and friendly maltose prepared by Li Xiangqian is enough to buy all the children in Suzhou, and the hired jugglers and magic artists also render the atmosphere, of course, this is not a good word.

For the elders, mastering the most powerful productive forces in the present time and space does not mean that everything is fine, if the masses are too poor, who will buy the products they produce? No matter how crazy the rich man is, he is only a dozen concubines, and eating two steamed buns per meal is the limit, and once the people become rich, it is a huge benefit!

British businessmen may be excited about adding an inch to the hem of Chinese shirts, but those small businessmen on the island countries have seen this, leading a race of tens of millions of people to increase to a billion level, and occupy the richest land in the world.

In other words, even without calculating moral superiority, the elders' motivation to push the people at the bottom to prosperity is stronger than the Confucian scholars who naturally hope that the people at the bottom of China will go to poverty so that they can be rent-collecting lords for generations.

Therefore, in Suzhou, where literati originally gathered and the scenery was beautiful, the large area of land around the bell tower had a bit of a market atmosphere, and in this kind of noise, there was naturally no formal ceremony, and Li Xiangqian was not there, so this was more like a ceremony of friendship, that is, the fireworks show prepared at night, or more grand.

Of course, Li Xiangjun still appeared to maintain, Wu Han was also busy, not to mention being able to manage such a big deal at once, in recent times, due to several moves, Li Xiangqian has almost reached the status of the second government in Suzhou, if the army is not used, it will be impossible to expel and deal with them, but once it is moved, then the person who gave the order will be dangerous.

In the final analysis, they are a loose alliance of landlord ruling groups, and it can be said that landlord A is nothing when he arrives at the territory of landlord B, and no matter how strong the officials are, the management within their jurisdiction is only careless, and in an era of lack of household registration management, this is both technical helplessness and ideological indifference.

As long as these Nanming cities still open their doors to welcome the food and vegetable supplies outside the city, then it is impossible to avoid the infiltration of the elders, and as long as they infiltrate in, the lives of these officials and masters will be threatened, of course, so far, it is basically just a horse head cut off at the head of the bed.

However, in order to show his strength, he still found a master of ceremonies, and preached the great vision of the mall, how to make money in the future, completely ignoring the fact that Suzhou was still the world of the Ming Dynasty at this time, but the effect was still very good, especially the various people who had served in the imperial court also came to send people to congratulate, which was naturally more popular.

Hou Fangyu was mixed in the crowd, his eyes were on fire, and he first saw Li Xiangjun, who had not been seen for a long time and was already dressed as a woman, and then looked at those big figures, especially the Wen family, and the Wu family had sent people, which was already an attitude.

Obviously, there are thieves in front of him, but no one dares to resist, which makes people's teeth cold.

Although Hou Fangyu was resentful, he could only stomp his feet at this time, slowly leave, and continue to live in the slum.

After waiting for many days, there was still no news, or the news came only bad and worse, bad and worse, Hou Fangyu gradually went to a desperate situation, and when he walked with Zhang Dai and his family, something suddenly happened wrong......

Hou Fangyu himself is an old man, and the old housekeeper is doing the money, at this time his father was "forced to die", (Hou Fangyu will definitely not believe in the words of scared to death) The family property was confiscated and his reputation was ruined, but those enemy opponents were better day by day, he could only send people to inquire about the news every day, until, early in the morning, he found that those veterans of Zuo Mengeng's family were all gone, and his old housekeeper was killed, and the money on his body was also robbed.

Zhang Dai looked at Hou Fangyu's sad appearance, the money around him was taken away, but he didn't care too much, this was also a blow, Hou Fangyu didn't know what happened at this time, as soon as the housekeeper died, he was really alone and had nothing, and the people sent by Zuo Mengeng were naturally married to their fathers and mothers.

"Virtuous nephew, since there is today, it is better for you to quickly report to the official and turn yourself in, I will naturally come forward to ensure that you are okay, and the big things will be turned into small things."

"No, is there any official in Jiangnan who hasn't taken refuge in the imperial capital now? You yourself said it, how the officials of the imperial capital oppress the people, life is worse than death, even the leftovers in the store are not allowed to be eaten by beggars, they can only be thrown away, so brutal, but everyone takes refuge, I don't accept it. ”

"The people's heart is like this, virtuous nephew, I still have some jade rings here, this fan can also be sold for some money, you can take this money and escape quickly, there are many people in Jiangnan who know you, once you find ......"

Zhang Dai was also very weak in his heart, if those family members were not afraid of the government, they would have sent Hou Fangyu to exchange money because of the reward of five thousand taels, that is, they were not clean, so they robbed Hou Fangyu of the last bit of money and simply walked away.

Hou Fangyu looked at it and said: "Then, Uncle Shi, are you willing to go back to your hometown to raise the flag, as long as you return to your hometown, someone will definitely follow you, and when the time comes, a hundred thousand troops will be at your fingertips, and we will support you as prime minister, you will be one person under ten thousand people, and when the time comes, ......"

Zhang Dai was frightened, as if he had heard something terrible, and asked him to do this kind of thing, it was like digging an ancestral grave, especially watching Zuo Mengeng's tens of thousands of troops, because after the large army was stunned, they were basically arrested and captured and turned into slaves, which was even more miserable, what he wanted was to stay rich and prosperous for a long time, not to die.

"That's good, don't say that."

Hou Fangyu shouted: "Uncle Shi has received the grace of the king, how can he not repay it at this time?" ”

Zhang Dai said: "Civil officials are naturally strategizing, where can they do the things of martial arts, martial arts are not angry, it is not our business." ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the policy of literati meddling in the military was continued since the Song Dynasty, and the tradition of kneeling and licking in the face of foreign clans was continued since my great send-off.

No matter how high-sounding and loyal and patriotic they are, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not regard those foreign races and foreign enemies as enemies from the bottom of their hearts, and the military generals and martial artists who snatched their official positions and fortunes were more dangerous enemies than Jiannu!

The reason is very simple, the front line won the battle, that is also the emperor's country, after winning the battle, if you get the reward, you must first deduct it and let them eat it, and at the same time, you must not be favored by those martial artists!

(End of chapter)