Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 271 Eunuch
Business really goes hand in hand with each other. Song Qingshu went to the grassland for about two months, and his factory near the Hutuo River actually developed into a small town. Although the wages of the workers hired by him were not much, the average has exceeded this era. The peasants who have money will naturally have the desire to consume. Shi Tianfu himself simply set up a clothing store next to the factory, and then the sellers of tea eggs, skewers, and fried rice and Yangchun noodles also came. A string of small houses was built next to the factory.

That appearance reminded Song Qingshu of the peddlers who were doing student business at the school gate.

The most unbearable thing is that there is a gambling shop here, and many workers who hooked up are shaking the plugs inside. Song Qingshu wanted to keep a low profile when he came back, and came to inspect with a bag of clothes on his back. Some of them are in charge of collecting their own protection fees. This place has really become a small society, with both white and black people.

The little hooligans collecting protection fees have seen what a real black boss is. With Song Qingshu's order, Liu Tichun, who rushed over from Pidianpidian, directly put these guys in sacks. Did they throw them into the Hutuo River or find a place to bury them? Well, Song Qingshu didn't care about it, and the gambling shop was also shut down directly. It couldn't be opened anywhere. It was opened near the factory, just like the Internet cafe next to the school. I don't know why it's not good to go to work by hooking up with workers?

Now this place has been named Songjia Town. Standing in the chairman's office on the second floor of the wooden building of the workshop, the river water below is driving a huge water wheel, driving the spinning machine made of wood in the spinning mill to bang. There was a clang, all of this was his own painstaking effort, and Song Qingshu's guilt on the grassland finally faded away.

But after looking at it for a while, Song Qingshu couldn't help feeling a headache again when he returned to his desk and looked at the thick secret letter on it.

Before he decided to go to the grassland to avoid the chaos in Shanxi, Zijin Liang had actually died of illness. In the past two months, without a unified leader, the peasant army of the 36th Battalion became more chaotic. Xi broke through several times and was beaten back all of them.

At this time, the main battlefield has been fought to the north of Henan, the junction of the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan. To the northeast of Hebei, there are more than [-] officers and troops from the Beijing camp. Hu Dawei and other Shaanxi soldiers, as well as the frontier army mobilized from the Shanxi frontier, also had [-] soldiers. The main army in Henan in the south was the weakest, with only [-] people.

In the past, the Peasant Army still had an activity range of several hundred miles, but now, it is surrounded by a small area of ​​only a few tens of miles in Wu'an, Henan, and it is now more than September, which is equivalent to mid-October in the Gregorian calendar of later generations. , the weather has become extremely cold, hundreds of thousands of peasant troops lack clothing and food, morale is low, and more than half of the horses are sick and starved to death. If this continues, it will not last for half a month.

The news was sent seven days ago, and after that, Lao Huihui's contact with Song Qingshu was also broken. Even Song Qingshu is not sure about the situation of the Wu'an Peasant Army.

In history, Song Qingshu remembered the famous Xingyang Conference in the seventh year of Chongzhen. At the conference, the peasant army determined a strategic plan to move across the country, making it impossible for the government and army to completely suppress it. But he did not remember that there was such a catastrophe in the sixth year of Chongzhen!

Not only worried about the peasant army, Song Qingshu had another new idea after returning from the grassland this time. If the main force of the Shaanxi peasant army was wiped out by the Yellow River, without the peasant army's four attacks in the territory, the Ming Dynasty would be able to Can't bear the wave of Jurchen's crazy invasion?

If the Dashun Army did not make trouble, could the Ming Dynasty that persisted take care of the sprouts of capitalism that Jiangnan had developed with great difficulty, and then give birth to it as a towering tree, allowing Daming to enter the ranks of developed countries?
When a small person is helpless in the face of the changes of the great era, there is a sense of helplessness, but when Song Qingshu, a small person, has the right to determine the direction of an era, he is also at a loss, as if there is an abyss on the left , the right side is like a gully, and it is unpredictable where to go.

Just when Song Qingshu was at a loss, Shi Tianfu, the unlucky one, came again.

"what happened again?"

Seeing Shi Tianfu's big fleshy face wrinkled like fat intestines, Song Qingshu almost vomited blood, and asked with his face drooping and hands spread out helplessly.

"Back to Commander, Yan Siyin, the eunuch guarding Shanxi, is here! He rushed to us!" Shi Tianfu yelled sadly, patting his thigh with a pale face.

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The guarding eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as one of the characteristics of this era. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the management of the eunuchs was good. The Emperor Zhu of Hongwu even erected a special iron monument. Now, Zhu Di’s peace in Beijing is difficult. Many eunuchs in Nanjing escaped because the court was too strict. These eunuchs made suggestions for Zhu Di and exposed the internal news of the court. Later, Ming Renzong couldn't trust the officials under him, so he began to send eunuchs as local guards to monitor officials, so the eunuch forces began to intervene in the local area again.

The eunuchs are not all perverts who harm the country and the people, such as Zheng He, the Sanbao eunuch in Nanyang, but the eunuchs who are close to the emperor, once they master the complete set, most of them will get carried away. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, because of Wei Zhongxian, it was a little better at the beginning, and mine supervisors and tax supervisors in various places were recalled one after another. Came out again.

The guarding eunuch Yan Siyin was sent this year, together with Sun Maolin, Chen Dakui and other four eunuchs, to supervise the army of Junshan, Shanxi, and Liaodong respectively. However, the main battlefield has been fought in Henan. Yan Siyin is still wandering in Taiyuan The ground hung three feet high, which made Taiyuan people give him the nickname, Drowning Man!

Who knows how this guy found out about Dai County, and came after him again!

On September [-]th, a large group of monsters and monsters came to Dai County in this way.

This guy is really magnificent, he is not satisfied with eight sedan chairs, sixteen people are carrying a pole, carrying a small house, and there are more than 100 brocade guards wearing ribbon brocade, I don’t know It wasn't that Yan Siyin brought all the hooligans from Taiyuan, and there were hundreds of gangsters following behind, looking like hozens.

Early in the morning, Song Qingshu didn't even eat breakfast, so he had no choice but to lead many merchants in Dai County to come forward to greet him. The gate of Dai County opened an hour earlier, and even the county government gambling house brothel [-]:[-] line The county magistrate Zhao followed.

"Eunuch Yan is here!"

A long distance away, the two helpers wandering in front were already yelling from afar. Hearing the yelling, the county magistrate Zhao who was leading the crowd to greet him had no literati integrity. He just plopped and knelt on the ground. The big family also knelt down in a row with a clatter, and Song Qingshu couldn't stand by himself, so he shrank into the crowd and squatted down.

Damn it, he's in the wrong grave!Shrunk in the crowd, Song Qingshu thought depressingly.

It’s not like Song Qingshu has never seen a eunuch before, and now the begging army still has one. Jiao Dalin, the former eunuch in charge of the Prince of Qin’s mansion, is now the eunuch in charge of the begging army, in charge of some errands, but he is as ostentatious as this guy, Song Qingshu I have never seen those sixteen large sedan chairs descending one after the other, all in order, and then the three helpers, one tall, one fat, and one short, knelt in front of the sedan chairs, which happened to be a human stair stool, and then a beautiful girl set off the sedan chairs. The curtain, the great eunuch Yan Siyin, who was wearing a vermilion robe and a tuanwusha, swayed his white and chubby face, with a dust whisk in his hand, and stepped down on the human staircase.

"The next official, Zhao Siqi, leads the elders of Dai County, and welcomes Eunuch Yan to Dai County!"

The county magistrate Zhao knelt on the ground kowtowed and yelled in a very unscrupulous and obsequious way. The fat eunuch who heard it grinned, and he didn't know if it was on purpose, or just said in that tone, yin and yang.

"Magistrate Zhao has a heart, get up!"

The magistrate Zhao stood up nodding and bowing, but his back was still arched. Behind him, the wealthy businessmen in Dai County also stood up one after another. They were relieved, and Song Qingshu hurriedly jumped up behind him.

Not going into the city either, the eunuch was full of pomp and gesture, and clasped his fists facing the east.

"Thanks to the trust of Long Live God, I sent miscellaneous family members to patrol Shanxi on behalf of the sky. This road has been covered with bandits doing evil, and the local people are poisoned. Only our generation of county has a prosperous business and population. Zhao County Magistrate is good at governance!"

"Thank you father-in-law for the compliment, thank you father-in-law for the compliment!" The Zhao county magistrate immediately nodded with a smile on his face like the elementary school students who were praised by the teacher. Damn, Dai County is rich and prosperous, if there is less filial piety, will it still be worth it?

Song Qingshu was also depressed. If he wanted to get rid of this catastrophe, he might not have 10 taels of silver. Can give the imperial court hatred or something.

Just when Song Qingshu was fascinated by his thoughts, the dead eunuch suddenly changed his tone.

"However, the magistrate of Zhao County is diligent in serving the public, but he is negligent in investigating the internal affairs. Miscellaneous families have been reported. In the territory of Dai County, there are rebels harboring, and they dare to set aside land and claim the title of king. How unreasonable it is!"

Song Qingshu's heart skipped a beat, how could he reveal his secrets?

Sure enough, the spearhead was pointed at him, and the county magistrate of Zhao knelt down on the ground in fear and kowtowed his head, begging: "My father-in-law sees clearly that the fathers and elders of Daixian County are good people who are loyal to the court and obey the law! Where are there rebels?"

"Really? The miscellaneous family heard about Song Qingshu in Dai County, but there is such a person!"

With a clatter, the merchants beside Song Qingshu moved away in disbelief, exposing Song Qingshu himself, cursing these white-eyed wolves in their hearts, and Song Qingshu stood up as a bachelor.

"That's Song, I don't know why my father-in-law called me?"

"Under? Hmph! Take it!"

With a bang, two big men in royal guards came up and grabbed Song Qingshu's shoulders...

(End of this chapter)