In the city of Changping, it was almost a day of surprise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Many gentry received the news as soon as possible, and within a day or two, after the news was confirmed, a large number of gentry began to leave the city with their families.

When Shi Congbin came out of the inn, he saw that the west gate was blocked, and there were a sea of people, not only the gentry or wealthy businessmen who fled with their families in a cart, but also a considerable number of small civilian families pushing wheelbarrows or carrying flat burdens.

It's really helping the old and the young, the city gate is in chaos, the ordinary people are trying their best to bring their belongings, even the gentry and rich families are also as much as possible to bring the floating wealth with them, plus the accompanying small servants and maids, etc., the women who usually don't go out are also crowded with the flat-headed people at the city gate, sweating, screaming again and again, a lot of pot-bellied poop, wearing long shirts and robes, wearing various colored turbans and hats crowded in the crowd, they have horses or carts, but they can only come down and squeeze at the city gate, Their white faces were full of sweat and panic, because of poor physical fitness, most of them were panting, and they had to worry about protecting their female dependents, but those who were dark or scorched yellow, looking quite thin ordinary people, women holding children, men pushing carts, walking calmly and powerfully, not too flustered, even white-haired old people or children with horns and shaved heads, are also much more flexible than rich families.

"Third brother, third brother, I'm here."

Shi Congbin looked at the situation at the city gate with a calm face, and didn't pay attention to someone calling him at the city gate, he looked through the crowd with difficulty, only to see that it was a distant brother of his own family who was brought out this time, and somehow was squeezed into the crowd.

Shi Congbin could only go to the periphery of the crowd and ask a few servants to help pull his cousin out.

At this time, I couldn't help but hear a lot of conversations, all of them were gentry exchanging information, and everyone was speculating about the overall situation, but no one knew the exact news.

Someone said: "Has the Governor left the city?" ”

"It seems that I went out this morning, and the city gate was opened a moment earlier."

"Are you going to Panjiakou?"

"Exactly, indeed. One of his servants had been working in the governor's yamen, and he saw the governor's guard riding out of the city with the governor on horseback. ”

"In such weather, horseback riding is a hard job, but it must be an emergency, otherwise the governor will sit in a sedan chair."

"Exactly. As soon as I heard about it, I immediately ordered my family to prepare, be sure to go out of the city today, Changping is not far from Jingshi, I think I must enter Jingshi City before the gate of Jingshi is closed tonight. ”

"Yes, yes! When you enter the city, you will be safe. ”

"Alas, the Northern Captives are vicious and ruthless, and there are still rumors everywhere that the Northern Captives plundered everywhere during the Jiajing period, burning and killing traitors. Lewd things, my generation of well-read people, it is advisable to stay away as soon as possible, and give this place to those martial artists. ”

"It can't be purely handed over to the martial arts, there must always be a civil servant like the governor to lead the operation, otherwise he will not know the general strategy."

"Speechless, it's better to get out of the city quickly."

"Yes, it's better to get out of here...... At that time, the Beiyu broke Panjiakou and plundered the cities, and he was young, but the events at that time were vivid, so this time he must take his family to go before the Beiyu breach, even if it was a false alarm, it was just a trip in vain. ”

Everyone is talking about this time the captivity, and no one understands the strength of the northern captives, and no one is angry at the arrogance of the northern captives and the invasion and harassment of foreign races on their own tribe and raises troops angrily, in the Ming Dynasty, the gentry have privileges, but at this time no one will turn this privilege into a service to the country and the nation, until more than ten years later, the world collapsed, and the thieves and the eastern captives threatened farther places from time to time, where the gentry did not have a big city with a radius of fifty or sixty miles like the capital to hide, and even the family was ruined. At that time, many gentry rose up to train their soldiers and organized their servants and families into regiments, but by then it was too late.

The decline of morale is a full example of this.

Not to mention the Han Dynasty, which was famous for its martial arts, the good families and scholars in the border counties were enough to find teeth all over the land where thousands of northern captives were beaten, and they were the Han landlords in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and they would never be such a frightened and fleeing scene of the last days......

"Forget it, it's very stuffy here." Shi Congbin was upset and left from the city gate with Congren.

Recently, the Xiangfu historian can be described as unfavorable, of course, it is not that the career is not smooth or there are people in the local difficulty, there is Shi Kefa, a person who lifts people, and Zuo Guangdou is a strong reinforcement, plus a family of officials and gentry who have studied for generations, even if it is a local official, they have to rely on a few points, and they will never dare to embarrass a big gentry family like Shijia.

Shi Congbin's unfavorable years are mainly a matter of business...... Like the ordinary gentry families at that time, due to the social atmosphere turned extravagant after Chenghua, the use of local gentry families increased greatly, and the atmosphere was no longer as exclusive and suppressed as at the beginning of the country, the number of official gentry families doing business gradually increased, and after the opening of the sea in Longwan, there were few gentry families who did not do business.

The rule is to do all kinds of business, the strong Liang is to put usury money, the strength is enough is to open a silver shop, pawn shop and other businesses that make sure you don't lose money, although the Shi family is quite powerful, but only do some grocery business, some oil mills and grain stores are very common shops, the most profitable is the cloth shop managed by Shi Congbin.

Since the last run, Shi Congbin has been on the blacklist of the Beijing firm, not only that He Yusheng will no longer transfer silver for him, but also no longer sell flags to him, of course, it is impossible to cooperate in logistics, so the cost has increased greatly...... During the Apocalypse, due to the great increase in commercial and local taxes, the people were actually very poor...... Chongzhen's early years of light and simple conscription certainly had an idealized side, but it was mainly because during the Apocalypse, mainly during Wei Zhongxian's upheld of national politics, the people were too difficult, and there was also a feeling of setting things right and resting with the people.

To the example is that the imperial court collects three points, the place adds seven points, the burden is doubled, the people are poor, the obvious example is the gradual increase in the number of displaced people, although the large-scale uprising is the second year of Chongzhen, but in the last years of Wanli mutiny and famous thieves recorded there are many times, the wind started at the end of the Qing Ping, Henan and Shandong at this time, in fact, it is already a powder keg, Shandong is more ringing horses, Henan is more bandits and strong beams.

The Shi family's convoy, under the banner of He Yusheng, not only does not have to worry about tax cards and extortion by Xu officials along the way, but also does not have to worry about small groups of bandits Qiang Liang, those people also know that He Yusheng is not easy to mess with, they can go to rob others, and they don't have to come to pick up and Yusheng's tiger whiskers.

The Shi family originally played the banner of Heyusheng, but it didn't cost much, and it couldn't be used anymore recently, and it was blackmailed several times in a row, and it was necessary to hire more people to follow the convoy to prevent being robbed...... This cost more than doubled, but I didn't dare not use it.

This is not enough, when I arrived in the capital, I found that the several big commercial houses that I originally cooperated with no longer cooperated with Shi Congbin, of course, people will not be so direct and rude, but the price will be raised by several percent, and the goods will not be repurchased by Shi Congbin.

The goods of the Shi family had to no longer go to the capital, but detoured to Linqing, the competition in Linqing was more intense, the capital was thick and the money was thin, and the Shandong horse was noisy, and the road was even more unsafe.

This time I came to Changping, mainly to see if I could sell the local products brought by the auspicious charms around the capital, and to inquire about the cloth market in the Changping area...... Now Shi Congbin has been in the capital can not buy cheap cloth, his inventory is about to be empty, and the weather is getting colder, the largest shipment of cloth is winter, summer and autumn people can wear thinner and more broken, as long as they can cover the body, in autumn and winter, if you don't make a jacket, it will be difficult to survive, no matter how frugal people are, once the jacket is damaged to the point that it can not be repaired, you can only buy cloth clothes, in addition, children are growing every year, and it is not necessarily suitable for old clothes, as long as the days go on, the cold winter is coming, In addition, cotton production has increased in recent years, and winter has become colder and colder year by year, and the demand for cotton cloth and cotton has increased greatly.

Shi Congbin knows that the cloth business is getting better and better, but the supply is insufficient, he has no way, there is cloth in Linqing, but the price is higher than that of Jingshi, the amount absorbed by Jingshi is large, and they are all bulk transactions, the competition is also fierce, the price is much lower than that of a transit city like Linqing, and it is much lower than that of Kaifeng Xiangfu, so even if the road is difficult and the cost increases, Shi Congbin also wants to find a stable supply of goods, even if he makes less money, it is much better than having no goods to sell.

It's a pity that for a few days in Changping, even running a number of big businesses was fruitless, maybe Changping was too close to Beijing, and Yusheng's ban on Xiangfu Shijia also reached here...... Since the incident last time, Shi Congbin has also been very accepting of such a result, since he has done such a thing, it is normal to be countered by others......

"Third brother, is this a semicolon with Yusheng?"

Shi Congbin's helper cousin Shi Congde is a little stupid, after all, he is a child, after the county test and the government test, but he can't live or die, he is still poor, he can only follow Shi Congbin out to learn to do business, he can get home dozens of taels of silver a year, it is difficult to go to the museum as a child, even if he can be a school teacher, he is also a rural school teacher, and a red envelope of six taels a year is considered a good income.

"Exactly." Shi Congbin was very sad in his heart, the source of goods was not settled, and it was difficult to ship, so he could only give up completely after tossing twice, and he could only do some small business in Nanjing, Henan in the future. Falling into such a field now, in fact, I can't complain about myself.

However, there is quite a bit of excitement to see in front of the semicolon of He Yusheng, and many gentry and merchants who are planning to leave the city are gathered in front of the semicolon of Heyusheng, listening to what the shopkeeper of the semicolon is preaching loudly......