Such a speed of expansion is naturally due to the fact that the soldiers are good at weapons and have abundant money and food. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info And Li Shouhan's way of money and food, but Jiang Chun's financial management skills have always been admired. He even quietly worshipped Li Shouhan's immortal tablet in the secret room like those people in Nanzhong, and offered incense every day, in order to get the reincarnation of the God of Wealth to bless him to continue to make a fortune.

(Damn!) I said why things didn't go well after Lao Tzu arrived in Jiangnan. It turns out that you people let Lao Tzu live with incense! Isn't this a clear way to let Lao Tzu lose his life! Li Shouhan jumped to his feet and scolded! ）

Li Shouhan listened to Jiang Chun's heartfelt compliments, and showed a rather smug smile on his face, in this era, if you talk about poetry and songs, any Jiangnan literati can get rid of Lao Tzu's eight streets, but about the concept of industrial production and fiscal and taxation system, means, I am afraid that in addition to me, the Ming court will not be able to find a second person.

"Jiang Dadong, you are now also a famous big proprietor on the Yangtze River and the canal. There is one thing I don't understand, so I'm going to ask for advice. ”

"General, please."

"You said that this Yangtze River, south of the Yangtze River, north and south, what workshop has the most?"

The general laughed. If someone else asks, then dare to say a few words below. However, the trading houses under the command of the general traveled in all directions, and what types of workshops and businesses in various parts of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei rivers were the most, and how to ask them? ”

A few words of humility, but Jiang Chun's mind was spinning rapidly. Nowadays, official notices are posted everywhere, and the imperial court is going to start collecting taxes according to the new money, grain, fiscal and tax system. Could it be that the general is going to make some new moves? You have to listen to this well, and you can take advantage of it and avoid disadvantages!

Zha Jizuo, who was beside Jiang Chun and accompanied the last seat, was also spinning rapidly, trying to find the answer from the general's questioning, so as to become a step forward in front of the general. Looking at Jiang Chun and Zha Jizuo's incomprehensible expressions, Li Shouhan didn't speak, but just ordered someone to take a few things and put them in front of the table of the three of them.

Two sheets of paper of the same size, one slightly yellowed, is the rough-edged paper that Jiang Chun and Zha Jizuo are used to seeing on weekdays. The other one is as white as snow, and it makes people happy when they look at it.

On the other side, there are two pieces of raw white cloth. At first glance, you can see that it has just been made from the weaving mill and has not yet been printed and dyed. It's just that the contrast is huge. One is yellowish, but the other is quite white.

"Lao Jiang, and this Mr. Cha, have you ever seen any difference between them?"

Seeing two pieces of white cloth and two pieces of white paper in front of him, Jiang Chun was very annoyed in his heart! Jiangnan and Jiangbei are not the most weaving mills, dyeing workshops and papermaking workshops?! If there is no papermaking workshop, what can we talk about the flourishing literary style and humanities of Jiangnan? Go to the mountains to cut bamboo and cut bamboo slips!

"General, what is this?"

"One is the Matsue muslin that I asked people to buy on the street, and the other is something from Nanzhong. So is paper. You might as well look at the difference between the two. ”

Do you still need to see this? Two things are placed together, the same quality, from the point of view of appearance, it is the daughter and the fire girl standing together. Jiang Chun's heart was beating suddenly, and he instinctively felt that just like when he discovered Hejing's refined salt business, he now had another big fortune at his doorstep.

"I can't buy endless Hengtang yarn, and I can't finish collecting Songjiang cloth. There are also silk cocoons in the area of Hangjia Lake, and silk machine workshops everywhere. Papermaking workshops in Ningguo, Shexian, Jingxian and Xuancheng. It seems that the generals are all opening up the net for them, so that the millions of people in Jiangnan and Jiangbei who depend on this industry for a living will not lose their sources of food and clothing. "Zha Jizuo's words were very decent, and they slapped Li Shouhan's ass, which made our General Li feel extremely comfortable. He turned his gaze and glanced at this guy, after all, he was a character descended from a famous writer, and he was comfortable when he spoke.

"Chun Gong." Li Shouhan changed the title of public and private to call Jiang Chun. "You might as well calculate, if the weaving mills, papermaking workshops, silk machine rooms, dyeing workshops, and silk shops in the south and north of the Yangtze River can have such quality products, how much benefit will there be during the period?"

Rao is Jiang Chun is already a figure on the rich side, but when he thinks that he can become a figure who controls so many industries, he can't help but feel his index finger. He is now the leader of Yangzhou's salt industry and the head of the Jiangbei grain industry, as for the various businesses he runs in private, it goes without saying. If you can insert a foot in the weaving, printing and dyeing, silk and papermaking industries, wouldn't the Jiang family be comparable to Shen Wansan at the beginning of the dynasty?

"The general has another earth-shattering method? Can you turn decay into magic and turn stones into gold? Jiang Chun has secretly made up his mind, as long as the general can hand over this method and related products to him, not to mention the immortal tablet, it doesn't matter if the general is built in the north and south of the river!

"Someone! Bring up the little things that the official prepared for Jiang Dadong's family! ”

With Li Shouhan's call, the two soldiers walked in with a porcelain jar in their hands, placed the porcelain jar on the table in front of Jiang Chun and Li Shouhan, saluted and turned to leave.

Jiang Chun's heart suddenly beat even harder, he knew that the secret was in this porcelain jar.

Li Shouhan opened the lid of the porcelain jar, and a pungent smell rushed out, making Zha Jizuo frown, but he secretly thought to himself in his heart: "Is this the smell of copper?" ”

Ignoring the pungent smell, Jiang Chun carefully looked at the powders on the marble table that looked no different from flour, and was suspicious in his heart. He also admires Li Shouhan's endless methods. At the beginning, he got refined salt and white sugar, and also quietly did experiments in several salt houses to see if he could make the same salt in the Jiangbei salt factory, but after some effort, he found that the cost was higher than buying refined salt in Nanzhong and selling it back. It also put an end to the idea of his own production in the Jiangbei salt factory. (Actually, that's the cost of mass production and low-volume trials.) There is no way, one is the entire industrial system, and the other is just a businessman in the circulation field, and the two people naturally cannot be compared. ）

These powders are actually a by-product of the new chemical industry chain in Nanzhong, calcium hypochlorite, also known as bleaching powder.

A chemical industry chain, in addition to the production of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, chloric acid @ potassium and other substances, but also the production of calcium hypochlorite such as by-products. Of course, it also belongs to a different fruit that bears on another branch.

Compared with the fiery temper of chlorine @ potassium acid, calcium hypochlorite is much gentler. Its main use is that it can be used as a bleaching agent for the bleaching of wood pulp, silk, cloth and fiber in the papermaking and textile industries, and at the same time, if you want to give full play to its disinfection, sterilization and bleaching functions, it can be used in aquaculture and planting to prevent infectious diseases and parasite control.

In addition, if you want to continue to squeeze the surplus value, it can also be used for purification, sterilization and disinfection of water quality.

Since the professors in Nanzhong University developed this chemical industry chain, Li Shouhan ordered that all units of the Nanyue Army must have a certain dose of bleaching powder in the accompanying baggage, which is used to purify the water quality when the army is marching and stationing, so as to prevent the emergence of various infectious diseases due to water quality.

This thing also quietly appeared on the sea ships walking on the east, west, north and south routes. A small part is used for its own use, which is used to purify and disinfect the clean water carried on board. The large bags are sold to the European turtles encountered along the way. Through these turtle ships, more bleaching powder will be shipped to Europe, so that the European monarchs who are fighting will not have to worry about non-combat attrition due to water quality problems, and can continue to fight boldly with confidence.

"Chun Gong, this official intends to hand over to you the management power of this thing in a large area south of the Huai River and south of the Yangtze River, do you have any intentions?"

The so-called power of management is actually the power of agency. Jiang Chun is very clear about this. His first pot of gold came from the agency of refined salt. Now that there are such great benefits, how can the God of Wealth be pushed outward, "But the general has a life, and Chunyan has a reason not to obey." ”

Zha Jizuo cursed secretly in his heart on the side, if someone sends the silver to my door and asks me if I want it, I will definitely be willing!

However, an old and refined person like Jiang Chun naturally would not let Zha Jizuo enter Baoshan and return empty. In addition to being very humble in asking Mr. Zha to do the sales rights and promotion business in Zhejiang, he also introduced Mr. Yi Huang to Li Shouhan.

"This Mr. Yi Huang was quite famous when he was young, and now he is even more spicy." Since it was a friend he brought, Jiang Chun had to tout a few words for Zha Jizuo. It's also to earn some face for yourself.

"Since Mr. Yi Huang is an acquaintance of Jiangda's family, he is also the person who gathers articles in eastern Zhejiang. Then a certain family will have to borrow something. Thinking of the great deeds of Zha Jizuo in history, Li Shouhan couldn't help laughing wildly in his heart, if Jiangnan Shilin knew how to do it, if he didn't know what was good or bad, he resisted the new money and grain policy implemented by himself and Ma Shiying, then I'm sorry, in addition to the examination of officials, Li Shouhan also prepared Zha Jizuo for them. Report their misdeeds! Anyway, everyone comes out of the same nest, and they are very clear about each other's things, and they must be told one by one. This is what the old man said: "A fortress is the easiest to attack from the inside." ”

The big deal is that it is also like learning from Ao Shaobao, and giving some of the points of the various belongings of the house to Zha Jizuo. Anyway, several major cases in Jiangnan in the early Qing Dynasty, such as the Ming History Case, the Wailing Temple Case, and the Sales Case, were all aimed at cracking down on the power and arrogance of the Jiangnan Group, so they did so. If there is no crying temple case, there will also be a grave case, or a singing case. If there is no case, there will be other cases. In short, the court is staring at the Jiangnan clique, and it always wants to change the law and weaken their power. This is why the Jiangnan Group, which was so arrogant in the Ming Dynasty, was a hard-working old scalper in the Qing Dynasty, eating grass and squeezing out money and grain. There was no way, the court and Ningguta arranged a position at any time. If you don't listen to the greeting, do you plan to eat bandao noodles or send the whole family to Ningguta and slaves with the armored people?

"A certain family is a general, in charge of the world's rebellion, soldiers, horses, money and food, in this shogunate, it is the time to employ people. Mr. Yi Huang might as well be in a certain shogunate for a while. It's also good to let a certain family borrow a lot of talent. ”

Do you really want Li Shouhan to learn from Liu Xuande, the order of Xinye County, to go to Wollongong to eat three times of closed-door soup? Even if you are Zhuge Liang, you dare to let Uncle Liu Huang eat three times because you are the representative of Jingzhou Shiren Group. Whether it is a father-in-law, a teacher, or a friend around him, they are all the leading figures in Jingzhou, and Zhuge Liang has this confidence. not only has this confidence, but also the plot is arranged very well, every time Uncle Liu Huang comes out after eating a closed door, there will be extras who come out to brag for him and cheer up Uncle Liu.

Zha Jizuo did not have the Jingzhou Shiren Group to support him behind his back. Seeing that General Li Shouhan had already said such earnest words to solicit, he even expressed his willingness to serve in the shogunate. However, he could not come until he settled down the affairs of his family in Zhejiang.

Regarding Zha Jizuo's request, Li Shouhan was not in a hurry to release this mad dog to bite Jiangnan Shiren anyway, so he agreed with a smile. Zhai Jizuo was arranged here, and Jiang Chun and Long Sheng's people over there also negotiated a general outline of the use, quantity, price and other matters of bleaching powder. The specific details are naturally not discussed by the big owner in person, and the two parties will discuss it after agreeing on the time.

So, the three guests and hosts began to talk.

When it is said to be a clear talk, it is actually to understand the situation of all parties.

"General, this Jiangbei Shimin, when he learned that he was going to see the general, he asked the general to make a statement, for the stability of the Ming Dynasty, he also asked the general to send a strong force to Jiangbei to station!" Jiang Chun thought of those troops in Jiangbei, and then looked at the troops around Nanjing, and couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

At this time, the person stationed in Yangzhou was Shi Kefa, who was a scholar of Dongge University and a supervisor in the name of the secretary of the military department. The official position is not small, but it is a pity that the Cabinet Department is a bare-bones commander. Except for the hundreds of Sichuan soldiers who were used as guards, Shi Kefa had no soldiers in his hands. In this way, seeing these hundreds of guards who followed the cabinet lord to live and sit and lie down, Xingping Bo Gaojie stationed near Yangzhou was still uncertain. Even if Shi Kefa left only a hundred of his own soldiers with him, and gave the rest to Gao Jie, it could not calm the doubts in his heart.

In addition to the fact that there were no soldiers, which could be used to suppress Gao Jie and the others, the Shi Pavilion Department did not have enough food in his hands to feed the desires of Gao Jie and the others. According to the strength of the military register, Gao Jie's subordinates have 30,000 soldiers, 9,000 mules and horses, and should be given 200,000 stone of grain and rice and 400,000 yuan of military salary every year. However, Gao Jie asked Shi Kefa to give him a year at a time. Moreover, it is required that the number of soldiers and horses is increasing day by day, and the salary and rations of the army must also be increased accordingly.

There is no army to suppress it, so that Gao Jie, these arrogant soldiers, are afraid of military discipline and dare not make mistakes, and there are not enough bones in their hands to temporarily pacify them, our Shi Pavilion Department has Zhuge Liang's ability and Yue Wumu's loyalty, and there is no way to make Gao Jie and these people quiet.

What's more, this mountain harrier himself was born as a thief in Shaanxi, and he has no money or food, so the easiest solution is to do it himself and rob it by rummaging through the cabinets. In troubled times, soldiers and horses are the foundation of these generals. It's also simple to expand the soldiers and horses, just take those young and strong people away.

Gao Jie's nephew and chief soldier Li Benshen, Hu Maozhen of the Chinese army of the pavilion standard, Li Chengdong of the general soldier of Xuzhou and others are all good players. They all rushed out and ransacked the villages and towns of Yangzhou Zuojinzhou County.

Among them, Li Chengdong, the chief soldier of Xuzhou, was the most cruel and tyrannical. His own official position is the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, but at this time, Xuzhou, Mengcheng, and Bozhou are already the defense areas of Li Huayu, the eldest son of Li, and he asked himself if these four or five thousand men and horses under him are definitely not the opponents of the strong army under Li Houye, how dare they go to Xuzhou to pick up the tiger's beard? So, he and Gao Jie stationed in Yangzhou together.

As a participant and producer of the two massacres of the notorious "Yangzhou Ten Days" and the "Jiading Three Massacres" in history (Li Chengdong was just a pawn during the Yangzhou Ten Days, but the Jiading Three Massacres were completed by himself. The various means of looting the state and county and slaughtering the good people can be imagined.

When Jiading slaughtered the city for the first time, the tragic scene at that time was testified by Zhu Zisu's "Jiading Massacre of the City": "Among the citizens, those who hung beams, those who threw themselves into wells, those who threw themselves into rivers, those with bloody faces, those who had severed limbs, those who were cut off and did not die, and those who were still in ruins", a living picture of hell on earth.

As in the case of Yangzhou, women were brutally raped. In case of resistance, these Qing soldiers nailed the hands of the resisting women to the door panel with long nails, and then ran rampantly. After a killing, Li Chengdong's subordinates plundered property again, and when they saw people, they shouted "barbarians offer treasures", and they did not hack them to death with a knife, and the cut people took out gold and silver, and the Qing soldiers jumped away; And he that hath not much gold or silver in his loins shall be struck three times, deep or shallow, and the swords will be slashed to the bone. At that time, "the sound of knives was cut far and near." The sound of begging for life is as noisy as the city". The massacre lasted a day until corpses blocked the river and more than 30,000 people were killed. This is the infamous Jiading Massacre in the annals of history. In the end, the 5,000 Qing troops with big pigtails actually robbed the property of 300 ships and transported them all out of Jiading under the command of Li Chengdong.

If this person has such means, it can be imagined that the people of Yangzhou Mansion have suffered a tragic military disaster. Gaoyou, Xinghua, Baoying, Yizhen, Taizhou and other places, no state and county were spared.

According to Dai Mingshi's "Yiyou Yangzhou City Shou Ji Luo", it is recorded that "Jie Du Huai, as for Yangzhou. Its soldiers are not strong, and the people of Yangzhou hate it, and they hold on to it. And the massacre of the four fields is not counted. "The first soldiers are full of murder, and Wen Gong (referring to Shi Kefa) is coming, so he divides the soldiers and digs the wreckage in the middle of the night."

Although Jiang Chun lived in Yangzhou City, he was also deeply affected. More than 10,000 stones, grains, and rice hoarded by the canal were looted by Li Chengdong, not to mention that dozens of large ships were also looted. What's more, the ancestral grave of the Jiang family has actually become a place where Li Chengdong's department raises horses and chops firewood.

A little wealth is fine, but the land of the ancestors' tombs cannot be trampled on like this. Jiang Chun invited someone to intercede in the middle, asked Li Chengdong to open the net, and withdrew the soldiers and horses.

"That's good! I heard that this Jiang family minister is a rich man, so he will take out some silver as a reward for our Lao Tzu's soldiers and horses. ”

"So, how much silver?"

"With less than 200,000 silver, let's get up and bask in the sun from his family's ancestors!" (To be continued.) )