A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 4 Red scarf!The end of troubled times

"You are all senior members of my Yan family. Your time is precious, so I won't go into too much nonsense. You must write down what I say next and use it as the main line of family operations in the next few years." Yan Ling quickly gathered it. The power of the entire family makes the family operate according to its own experience.

"A large amount of food, gold, silver and even copper coins were hoarded. All the treasure banknotes in the clan (Zhongtong Yuanbao banknotes, official banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty) were sold. The treasure banknotes traded in the future were immediately replaced with materials and the like, and no storage was allowed. ! Don’t worry about the county magistrate, leave them to me!”

"The three sea ships owned by the clan require complete control. In the past few years, we must go to sea more often. We can make money wherever we go in Japan, Luzon, and Java! Shops will be opened throughout Qingyuan Road (Ningbo Prefecture). "

"In a word, we will go wherever it is easy to make money and make quick money, make a fortune and leave without worrying about long-term development."

"Farming is encouraged on the fields within the clan. Even tenants who do not belong to our clan must be treated kindly and no exclusion is allowed!"

"Select 200 servants and young men from the clan. I will train them myself and receive good treatment. However, if there is any slack in training, I will expel the clan soldiers immediately!"

"The few blacksmith shops in the clan are secretly forging weapons, so there is no need to worry about the officials. Again, just leave it to me and I will take care of it!"

"Before the 11th year of Zhizheng, everything must be on track!"

"Now, it's the last peaceful years..."

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To April of the 11th year of Zhengzheng.

Yellow River, Huanglinggang River Channel.

The sun was scorching high in the sky, and migrant workers dressed in shorts were cleaning the river channels and repairing the river banks under the scolding of the supervisors.

Wang Sijiu was working on the construction site as always. He slammed his hoe on the ground, wiped the sweat from his face, and glanced sideways behind him.

"Bah!" Seeing that the supervisor was not looking at him, Wang Sijiu spat heavily on the ground to vent his anger.

"Brother Sijiu, let's work." The fellow villager advised him. He was naked, showing his lean body, and his row of ribs was clearly visible.

"Made is a bastard. The fine grain that he promised to control has turned into corn mixed with sand. That's fine. The special code deduction of wages is not much in the first place, and only one-third is given. What the hell is that? Zheng Bao Chao? What the heck is Zheng Bao Chao? It’s so hard to wipe your butt, you damn dog officials!”

Wang Sijiu cursed in a low voice. Looking at his dark and thin body, you knew that the life of river management was really difficult.

Ever since the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty announced the issuance of Zhizhengbao banknotes and started printing banknotes in order to alleviate the terrible fiscal deficit, the banknotes officially issued by the Yuan Dynasty have depreciated year after year and become less and less credible. Although they are not yet It’s really reduced to toilet paper, but it’s becoming less and less valuable.

According to the "History of the Yuan Dynasty", the annual circulation of treasure banknotes in the mid-Yuan Dynasty was 20 ingots. By the 12th year of Zhizheng, the circulation of treasure banknotes was 200 million ingots; in the 15th year of Zhizheng, the circulation surged to 600 million ingots; As of the 18th year of Zhengzheng, there is no official record of the circulation of Baobao, but the actual amount is probably an astronomical figure.

When the Red Scarf Army revolted, the price of rice in the Yuan Dynasty was 7 times higher than when it had just conquered the Southern Song Dynasty!
So when the heroes came to claim the throne, they almost immediately launched their own currency, because the Yuan Dynasty's currency was no longer usable.

But the officials of the Yuan Dynasty did not care about this.

Do you still want the big man to exchange gold and silver of equivalent value for you?

"Brother Sijiu, there's nothing we can do. Let's go to work." The fellow villagers also looked bitter, but with overseers with whips and soldiers holding swords around them, what could they do?
"That's not necessarily true, Chongwu, do you remember that sentence..." Wang Sijiu looked around and said softly.

"You mean..."

Before he finished speaking, a group of migrant workers not far away suddenly burst into exclamations, causing a large number of people to raise their heads.

"Brother Sijiu, come and take a look. Have you not been to a private school for two days? Help us take a look..." A migrant worker ran over and grabbed Wang Sijiu's shoulder with his big hand, his eyes flashing strangely. of light.

"What the hell?" Wang Sijiu spat again and followed him.The crowd made way for him, but when he saw the object lying in the mud in the middle, he stopped suddenly, as if he saw something incredible.

It was a man carved out of stone. Everything else looked exactly like a real person, except that there was nothing else on his face, only one big eye.

"Sijiu, look, what's written here?" Before he could react, someone pointed at the back of the stone man and asked, where two lines of words were engraved.

When Wang Sijiu saw that word, his eyes widened suddenly, his scalp was numb, and a wave of heat rose from his lower abdomen to the top of his head.

"There is no way the stone man has only one eye. If this thing comes out, it will turn the world upside down." He murmured.

"What?" No one heard clearly.

"There is no way the stone man has only one eye. Once this thing appears, it will turn the world upside down." Wang Sijiu raised his voice and said loudly. He suddenly felt as if he was witnessing something, and pride burst out in his chest.

"It's that thing..." The crowd was all stunned, and it took a long time before someone whispered.

"What are you doing together? Why don't you go to work quickly? Do you want to get whipped?" The supervisor came over, waving the whip in the air, as arrogant as usual.

In the past, if the supervisor came like this, the migrant workers would have dispersed, and no one would want to be whipped.There would be no difference this time, he thought.

However, this time, the migrant workers, who had always been as docile as sheep, did not collapse under his whips and scoldings as before. Instead, they turned around and looked at him with a strange look.

"The stone man has one eye, stirring up rebellion across the Yellow River!"

"The stone man has one eye, stirring up rebellion across the Yellow River!"

"The stone man has one eye, stirring up rebellion across the Yellow River!"

The voices in the crowd became louder and louder. Everyone listened to Wang Sijiu's words and couldn't help but chant along with them. Isn't this the motto they have been passing on orally for several years?
There seemed to be a fire burning in their eyes!
The long-standing grievances, the brutal rule of the Mongolian nobles against the Han people, and the oppression of the officials are now piled up in the chest, ready to come out, just waiting for a spark to detonate the explosive that is enough to shatter the dynasty!

The whip in the overseer's hand fell to the ground, his face turned pale, and his eyes widened. He had naturally heard of this ballad.

"The world is against..."

A bolt of thunder streaked across the sky, and a cloudless sunny day suddenly began to rain heavily. It seemed to indicate that the Yuan Dynasty, which had ruled the Central Plains for hundreds of years, was about to fall into turmoil!
The news of the stone man's appearance swept across the entire land of China in an instant, as if it had been given wings, and people's hearts were moved!

In May of the 11th year of the Zheng Dynasty, Liu Futong and Han Shantong raised troops and fell into Yingzhou. According to Zhu Gao, they defeated Luoshan, Zhenyang and Queshan.

In June, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces sent troops to conquer Fang Guozhen, but they were defeated. "Guozhen led his troops at night, set fires and made noise. The officers and soldiers were defeated without fighting, and more than half of them died in the water." The commander-in-chief of the province, Zuocheng Boluo Timur, was captured.

In August, Li Er and his party in Xiao County gathered people to burn incense and rebel, and trapped Xuzhou with Lao Peng and Zhao Jun.Xu Shouhui raised troops and captured Qishui County and Huangzhou Road.In the same month, Liu Futong captured Runing Prefecture, Xizhou, and Guangzhou, with a force of [-].

In the first month of the twelfth year, bandits in Zhushan County captured Xiangyang Road and the general manager Chai Su was killed. On the same day, Jingmen Prefecture was also captured.

In the same month, Xu Shouhui fell into Hanyang, and soon defeated Xingguo, Wuchang, Anlu, Jiangzhou, and Yuanzhou. The force pointed at it was unstoppable!

In February, the thieves in Fangzhou fell into Guizhou, the thieves in Dengzhou captured Wang Quan, and Zhang Chun fell into Lizhou!

The world is against!

(End of this chapter)