Chapter 54: Have You Heard of Shen Wansan?
"Li Jinglong is a pig!"
Xu Miaojin criticized unceremoniously, "His existence is to insult the King of Qiyang!" ”
"That's what you think of him?" Liu Chun was surprised.
"It's not...... That's what my fourth brother said. ”
Xu Miaojin's fourth brother is Xu Da's fourth son named Xu Zengshou, who frequently helped Zhu Di in the Battle of Jingjing, and finally let Zhu Yunwen cut off his head, and after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he was immediately posthumously crowned as the Duke of Dingguo, hereditary replacement, and the same life as the country, the Xu family has a great relationship with Xu Zengshou.
Looks like this guy has a really good eye.
"Don't say it's ten days, even if it's a month, those workshops can't get 10,000 catties of iron!"
Liu Chun is full of confidence, he can get enough pig iron, relying on two things, one is a super large blast furnace, and the other is sufficient raw materials. Those workshops, regardless of the cost, rush to work quickly, they also need to get enough raw materials.
And due to the lack of air preheating and blast technology, the ironmaking cycle is much longer than that of Baiyangkou, no matter what, don't think about success!
Unless other workshops can invite Master Lu to open a super hang of twenty-nine kills, they will have to wait for death!
"What happens if they can't get it? Do you want to sell them some iron ore at a high price? Xu Miaojin tried to suggest that she is now the general ledger office of Baiyangkou, receiving the boss's salary, and of course she has to give some ideas to make money.
Liu Chun smiled dumbly, "It's okay to sell some, but I don't think Lao Fang and Li Jinglong are so stupid." ”
Xu Miaojin was not convinced, "They don't even know the time to produce steel, aren't they stupid?" ”
"Hahaha!"
Liu Chun laughed, "Maybe they just think those workshops can't get it!" That's right...... Have you heard of Shen Wansan? ”
Xu Miaojin shook his head, "I heard of a man named Wan Er, I heard that His Majesty raided more than 170 powerful and wealthy families in Yingtian, but this Wan Er slipped away in advance and escaped with his life." Two years ago, I saw him go to the temple to burn incense and make a vow! ”
Xu Miaojin had never heard of Shen Wansan, so it was not surprising at all.
Shen Wansan is an authentic native of the Yuan Dynasty, born in the Yuan Dynasty and died in the Yuan Dynasty, perhaps he has never even heard of Zhu Yuanzhang's name.
Because according to the "Wujiang County Chronicles", when Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou, Shen Wansan was already dead, and his two sons, Shen Mao and Shen Wang, secretly transported grain and rice from Jiangnan to Yuan Dadu.
Judging from this, the role of the Shen family is not very glorious.
Mo Dan, the author of "Wujiang County Chronicles", and the Shen family are sons and daughters, so his words are very credible.
However, Shen Wansan is dead, but the family wealth is still there, and the descendants are also there, it is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Suzhou, he and many heroes vigorously supported Zhang Shicheng.
As a result, Zhang Shicheng was defeated, and Zhu Yuanzhang severely punished the wealthy families in Wuzhong, many of whom were relocated to other places, and all their family property was confiscated.
However, there seems to be a saying that Shen Wansan's son-in-law was falsely accused of seducing a married man and implicated in Lan Yu's case, and finally lost his life, and the Shen family was completely ruined.
Throughout the whole story, Shen Wansan does exist, he should have started in the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, relying on overseas trade and accumulating huge wealth, he also died in the Yuan Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang.
And Shen Wansan's descendants, in the turbulent times, made several bet mistakes, lost a lot of family wealth, and lost a lot of people, and finally lost a lot of money, which is similar to what happened to most rich families......
As for the blatant mention in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Shen Wansan paid for the construction of one-third of Nanjing City, which attracted the jealousy of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was assigned to Yunnan and lost his life, which was completely out of nowhere.
Nothing else, the city wall has stood for hundreds of years, and it is still there, and if you look around, you can know that the bricks and stones of the city wall are all specially fired, and such a large project needs to requisition millions of people and rely on unpaid labor to build.
How much money does Shen Wansan have? Can you build a third of the wall?
Even if he has money, Zhu Yuanzhang can rest assured that he will repair it?
The people of the court, the workshop, let him use it casually?
Are the ministers of the court all decorations?
The defensive wall of the capital is an important thing, which can be called the important weapon of the country and a century-old project! Saying that Shen Wansan repaired it is like saying that a certain richest man donated money to build the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line, who believes who is a fool.
Of course, although Shen Wansan's story is fabricated, it is true that in the Hongwu Dynasty, the rich and powerful had a bad time.
Lao Zhu raided his house at every turn, and moved to other places at every turn.
And he threw the thankless task of transporting military rations to the frontier to the merchants.
In Lao Zhu's eyes, the "people" he has to take care of are only those farmers who work honestly and diligently.
As for the wealthy merchants, they are cattle, horses, and livestock, and if they can use them, they will use them, and if they can't use them, they will kill them and eat meat.
Obviously, Lao Zhu is completely different from the king of the dead country behind. Because in the case of the king of the dead country, the "people" are the powerful gentry, and not competing with the people for profit is to protect the interests of the gentry, while the ordinary people can squeeze fish and meat at will, and the two practices are far from each other, and the results are obvious.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoru and Li Jinglong may not know that the businessman can't take out 10,000 catties of pig iron, but they don't care...... "I've only heard of the farmers who rebelled, and I haven't heard of the merchants rebelling!" The merchant is cunning and cunning, and is good at pretending to be poor. Obviously, the wealth in the family is piled up, but he pretends to be poor and sour. We only need to press hard, let the merchants contribute money and efforts, and arrange the people from Naha, and then we can give an account to the saint. ”
Fang Xiaoru drank tea and said lightly to Li Jinglong, full of confidence between the words.
Li Jinglong was born as a son-in-law, and when he was in Beijing, there were too many immortals, and he had to be restrained, but when he arrived in Beiping, he was almost equivalent to Qincha, and he was in power, so what else did he have to fear.
What's more, Fang Xiaoru has spoken like this, what else is he hesitating.
"Please rest assured, Mr. Fang, my people have already gone to urge it, and whoever dares not to pay it will be locked up immediately, until they pay for it! These businessmen are just underwhelmed! ”
Li Jinglong thought for a while, and then said: "Mr. Fang, there are still six government-run workshops, what do you think should be done?" ”
Fang Xiaoru took a breath, "Is it a government-run workshop!" There should be more iron material, let them give two, it is 30,000 catties! ”
"Okay!
Li Jinglong turned around and went to make arrangements.
Fang Xiaoru squinted his eyes and tasted tea slowly.
In fact, it is not so difficult to govern the country and do things!
As a scholar, I wrote the way of Confucius and Mencius, put my conscience right, and did everything to be unstoppable.
The current world style is far worse than at the beginning of the founding of the country, many scholars, clinging to the powerful, using power, annexing land, and doing everything, it is simply a shame for Shilin!
When this matter is done and he returns to Beijing, he advises the prince that he must use a heavy fist to curb the merger, and it is best to take all the fields into the possession of the Son of Heaven like the rule of the three generations, and then distribute it equally to every people, no more, no less, so that there can be long-term peace and stability!
Lao Fang conceived the ideal country in his heart, but he didn't know that he had already poked the big basket.
The first to move was not the businessmen who ran the iron-smelting plant, but the Yamen, the political envoy of Beiping! And the officials below!
Lose your marbles!
The surname Fang is crazy!
At this time, the government-run iron factory was actually allowed to produce iron, have you asked us?
The princes who are solemn on weekdays have suddenly become monkeys jumping up and down, going to find Song Guogong, to see Ying Guogong, to meet Yongchang Marquis, and to see Yan Wang Zhu Di!
They don't have a head and flies to run around.
In any case, it is necessary to stop Fang Xiaoru's actions.
It's a pity that these people all hid in the barracks as if they had made an appointment, and no one was seen!
Lan Yu grabbed the flask and gulped down.
There was a smile on his face, this Liu Chun, he was really a fucking ghost, and he didn't make a sound, so he let Fang Xiaoru make trouble with the civil officials in Beiping, let them eat the dog!
"Don't be unaware, in order to deal with the Tartars, a lot of money has been allocated to various workshops for them to buy ore and build ordnance! And the result! I didn't see many weapons, but everything was gone! Let the surnamed Fang toss, I want to see how much of it flows into those people's purses! "Lan Yu's eyes are shining fiercely, whoever dares to spoil the Ming Dynasty will have to taste his Lan Yu's butcher knife!