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Chapter 1034 The beginning of the seventeenth year of Wanli

Today's Zheng family can be described as "no one in sight", and it is rampant everywhere, everyone really wants to sell a little face, arrogant, once there is a setback, then it feels extremely uncomfortable, and you must find a way back to stop. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the news of Songjiang Mansion was sent to Beijing by 6 fast horses, the Zheng family was furious, in their opinion, you dare to fight with our Zheng family if you lose power, this is not knowing life or death, if you don't fight back, wouldn't it weaken the prestige of our Zheng family, lose the face of the Zheng family, and let the queen lose face.

The crowd below is clamoring, Zheng Guotai himself understands some measure, but he is not very old, after all, he is young and vigorous, and there are not many rich years, and he is instigated by others, so it is inevitable that he will be impetuous.

Zheng Guotai himself has no foundation in Beijing, and the Zheng family is very stiff with Wenchen and the veteran lords of Jingshi when they are fighting for the country, and he has to count on Empress Zheng for what he wants to do.

Compared with the arrogant clansmen and impetuous younger brothers outside, Empress Zheng understood very well, she just said:

"Now that you are familiar with Jingshi, who are the people who can use it?"

Zheng Guotai has just appeared, and the officials and nobles who can help the Zheng family in Jingshi almost all have such and such relationships with Wang Tong, and they are all involved in fighting for the country.

"If Wang Tong beats our family's people in Beijing, it is called Bahu, but if you do it in Songjiang, it is called not changing your true colors, and Long Live Lord is also commended."

Speaking of which, Empress Zheng's face was serious, and she said coldly:

"Our Zheng family has finally survived to this day, the grace of the saint is heavy, and our family should also cherish the blessings, those people outside are doing nonsense in the name of mourning the family, do you really think that no one dares to care? Dongchang and Jinyiwei are staring at it, this time, robbed someone's son, and colluded with pirates to sell human beings, such a person does not know how to be grateful, it is a scourge"

"Your sister and Chang Luo have today, who are they relying on, is it those relatives of our family, not the emperor's great kindness, Wang Tong's kindness, although Wang Tong is in Songjiang Mansion now, but where are his cronies, you have to think about the future"

Jin Yiwei's letterhead actually arrived in Beijing earlier than the news of the Zheng family, Zheng Guotai was reprimanded by his sister and returned to the mansion, and after a little checking, he found out what happened.

It was really convenient for him to check the people of the master's family, and then several of the slave clansmen in the family with heads and faces were all broken and expelled together, and some were even sent to Shuntianfu for questioning.

Zheng Guotai pondered again, don't make a living because of a servant, Songjiang is so prosperous now, there is no harm in sending people to go over to operate, so it is simply a cronie who went to Songjiang Mansion with a large sum of silver.

This kind of seemingly soft move, but it shocked the wealth and officialdom of Jiangnan, and even the Zheng family had to bow their heads, Wang Tong was really Wang Tong.

Things have come to this, there is no need to say anything, with Wang Tong's protection, this Songjiang port opening is not a question of good or bad, it is a question of how good it can become, everyone hurry up and keep up, it's too late to be too late, the example of Tianjin Wei is over there, Songjiang is about to be a golden mountain.

At the end of the month, Yang Sichen's family rushed to Songjiang, which can be regarded as the county magistrate's appointment, and at the reception banquet set by Wang Tong, Yang Sichen smiled and praised:

"Grandpa took advantage of the trend and suddenly became powerful in Jiangnan, which is really clever."

The original idea for Wang Tong was to find an opportunity to be the master of the people in Songjiang Mansion, and to clean up a short-sighted role on the street, but he didn't expect the Zheng family to send it to the door by himself, but it was for Wang Tong to seize this opportunity to shock the Quartet, and determine the situation in Songjiang Mansion in one fell swoop, and everything went on smoothly.

Qianzhuang, insurance firms, shipping companies, shipyards and workshops, etc., Tianjin Wei institutions, are all arranged for personnel to come to Songjiang to prepare, they set up a branch factory or something, all need to take the waterway transportation, now Tianjin Wei is closed to the sea, can not come.

The leather goods store and alkali store in which the Li family and the Ma family are all involved are to set up a point in Tianjinwei, not to mention this, Sun Shoulian and Li Rubai of Liaozhen will also set up a branch here, and transport the special products of Liaozhen and outside the border wall from the sea, and even those Portuguese businessmen in Tianjin Wei have come to investigate.

There are not many things that need to be done by Wang Tong himself, and many people below are familiar with it, not to mention that the officials of the Songjiang Division and the General Office of the Port are also from Tianjin Wei, and they are familiar with the road.

Zhang Hongying and Lu Ruomei are both pregnant, and the whole family has become the main thing for them to do this, and the news of a cadre of honors and nobles in Nanjing City is very well-informed, and they are big families, and they naturally have their own abilities in this regard.

Another thing is that although Wang Tong's son Wang Xia is young, it is also time for enlightenment, according to Han Xia's meaning, it is not too late to let Wang Xia study for a few more years, but Wang Tong is not ambiguous in this matter.

However, there are no too strict requirements, just let Yang Sichen teach the child to read and write, and then Sha Dongning took the child to practice the body, of course, a small child is just learning a few words, making a few strokes, and getting familiar with it first, but the meaning of this matter is not only that.

At least Yang Sichen and Sha Dongning are solemn, even more serious than when they were given official positions, in their opinion, Wang Tong entrusted them with the education of his eldest son's civil and military knowledge, which is a trust and value for them, which is much closer than others.

After the news of this incident spread, Li Hutou and Lu Wancai both wrote to complain, saying that this matter was more suitable for them.

Soon it was the seventeenth year of Wanli, Songjiang was on the right track step by step, Wang Tong was also comfortable and leisurely in life, and the wives and concubines were very satisfied with such days, because Wang Tong spent the most time with them over the years, and the family was also in a peaceful atmosphere.

Since the Hongzhi period, or even earlier, the residents of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty began to migrate to the South Seas, for the farmers of China, it is extremely difficult to leave their hometowns and go to a foreign country to survive, but the oppression of the heroes, large and small disasters, so that these farmers have no home and no job in the Ming Dynasty, and even have nowhere to survive, they can only travel to the ocean to survive.

During the Zhengde period, the sea trade flourished, the sea route was unimpeded, and naturally a large number of farmers went to the South Seas, some people became pirates at sea, and more people went to Southeast Asian countries to continue farming and breeding, mining and business.

In this era, the colonization of white Europeans in Southeast Asia has begun for many years, and it has entered a period of great exhibition, if you want to have more spices, more minerals, and more wealth, you must have more labor, and you need industrious and serious labor.

Moreover, the local aborigines are actually in a very primitive state, and they cannot provide all the materials needed by the white Europeans, which can only be provided by the Ming Dynasty and sold and produced by the Han people.

There are quite a lot of natives in Southeast Asia, but these people do not have the ability to become good laborers, and they have long been nourished by the tropical climate and rich natural environment.

In the warm tropical climate, they don't need too much clothing to keep warm, they don't need to work much, they can collect fruit trees, they would rather be poor than work, and even starve to death rather than work, and these people often have subordinates, are slaves or lords of local chiefs and nobles, and the white colonists of Europe also need them to maintain local rule, so it is not good to make too much trouble, plus these natives themselves are lazy and lazy waste, and they are not willing to spend too much effort on them.

In this case, there is actually not much room for choice, in Macao there are actually some Japanese Catholics working, but the number is very small, and Japan is too far away from the South Seas, so the people and residents of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty have become the best choice.

The arable land in Fujian and Guangdong is very scarce compared to other provinces in the Ming Dynasty, and the coastal people are not so resistant to going abroad, so they account for more than ninety percent of the Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia.

In order to attract these immigrants, the whites and the local indigenous nobles offered good conditions, such as a piece of land to cultivate, a short period of tax exemption, and even a free supply of rice and salt.

Under such conditions, the poor people along the coast of Daming are naturally willing to go, and there are more people who go, and there are also clan surnames and rich businessmen, but more are hard-working and sincere people.

Because of them, the tin mines, silver mines, and gold mines in Southeast Asia have been greatly opened, and grain production has also been greatly developed, not to mention that the trade between Southeast Asia and the Ming Dynasty has almost increased tremendously, and the white colonists have made huge profits in it, and the indigenous nobles and leaders have also made huge profits in it.

But there is an old saying that the hearts of non-ethnic groups must be different, and the diligent labor and openness of the Han people are not the thanks and gratitude of the white colonists and the local natives, but their vigilance and jealousy.

When Han people arrive in a foreign country, they are naturally close to their own fellow villagers, communicate with each other, help each other, and live together.

Such a group is getting bigger and bigger, which will inevitably make the local white colonists and natives afraid, the Han people are diligent and intelligent, so that the innate pride of the white people is also shocking and shaken, originally they are completely superior to the natives of Southeast Asia, thinking that they are superior, and they should indeed rule these monkeys, but after coming into contact with the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, they will even feel that the Han people are truly civilized people, compared to themselves, they are so barbaric.

The white colonists were afraid that the Han people would drive them away, and the natives were jealous and hated the Han people's wealth, believing that they had robbed them of their wealth, while the Han people held the attitude of causing as little trouble as possible, swallowing their anger and acting kindly.

Then, disaster struck