Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 526 Impossible

It is widely rumored in the south of the Yangtze River that Gu Hengbo was able to go from a lowly prostitute to today's strong woman who makes people tremble in the whole Nanzhili because she is Song Qingshu's confinement. In fact, this is true, after all, Song Qingshu is also It was impossible not to fall in love with a normal man with such a charming beauty.

However, the relationship between two people is not that one side completely leans towards the other. On the contrary, it is somewhat similar to the relationship between lovers in the West. They are relatively equal in independence. This time Gu Hengbo accompanied Song Qingshu to meet Qian Qianyi. In the evening, just On the other hand, Song Qingshu had to treat himself as a reward to accompany Gu Hengbo.

It really feels like a stranger in the later generations. The big hotel room facing the sea has a double bed with lace curtains. The room is cold with the sea breeze, and the thick white cotton quilt wraps the two tightly together.

Men and women are really two kinds of animals. Men are usually tired and drowsy after doing bad things, but women become more energetic after doing bad things. Finally, they hang the high-necked Tang clothes on the wall, Song Qingshu is confused Gu Hengbo continued to draw circles on Song Qingshu's chest with the ends of her hair.

It's really an evil feudal society. In the previous life, Song Qingshu would have only seen people like Gu Hengbo on TV. Unlike today, he lay on his bed obediently like a cat. It's common, Song Qingshu was confused, and suddenly Gu Hengbo threw a question at him.

"Marshal, if you ran out of money that day, can you sell Gu Mei like this?"

"That's not right!"

In a word, Gu Hengbo's lewd eyes turned round, but he turned around vaguely, while Song Qingshu clicked his lips with a smile on his face.

"However, I have to find a good buyer. The executive director of Jiaduobao Company is worth 270 million taels of local tyrants. The Ming Empire can afford it. I seem to be the only one!"

Women need romance. If they answer no directly, it will make Gu Hengbo feel bored. Unlike now, those seductive winking eyes bend into two crescent moons, full of smiles He hammered Song Qingshu's chest and said.

"So, if one day the commander-in-chief runs out of money, Hengbo can buy the commander-in-chief, and it will only belong to me!"

"Don't make trouble, Commander, let's talk about something serious. Why don't you just take away that little bastard Liu Rushi today? Also, how do we deal with our food supply to those hypocrites who have been lending money to Donglin Fushe?"

Although Gu Hengbo is the executive director, there are only a few people who know about some major events. Although the noose is almost done now, Song Qingshu still has a trick.

"The mountain people have their own tricks!"

Not wanting Gu Hengbo to ask more questions, Song Qingshu immediately changed the topic again: "As for why Liu Rushi was not taken away today, it is also my own selfishness. Now Qian Qianyi and Gu Hengbo are still full of fighting spirit, and taking Liu Rushi away, but let us It's just a little more fighting spirit, and what I want to see is what kind of wonderful expressions the two of them will have when they are mentioned three months later!"

"As expected of a handsome man! These hypocrites, we should let them know what utter despair is!"

Among the several women in Song Qingshu, the one who is as dark as Song Qingshu is probably the only one who is Gu Hengbo. Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun are too noble. After all, the little pepper was grown in a honeypot. Having seen it face to face, Gu Hengbo is extremely disdainful of the so-called gentlemen of Donglin and those scholar-bureaucrats.

"By the way, Commander, after getting Liu Rushi, can you give her to Gu Mei? This damn girl has always been against me, picking on my faults all day long. , what kind of old man Qian Qianyi is she next to!"

The war between women is really endless. Unknowingly, Song Qingshu's hand climbed up the snow hill again. With nephrite in his hand, he naturally wouldn't do those things that spoil the scenery. It's an indifferent nod.

"Here, I'll give you all. It's just Liu Rushi. I guess she's just a condition for a showdown between the Donglin Party and the salt merchants. In two days, those salt merchants will have to sell their blood!"

The sound gradually became blurred, and a scented handkerchief was precisely thrown on the oil lamp not far away, and the lamp was extinguished. In the darkness, there were bursts of huh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh. out.

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Liu Rushi was really the condition for a showdown between Donglin Fushe and Yangzhou salt merchants. Even the party leader Qian Qianyi was able to take Liu Rushi out as his concubine. Naturally, the salt merchants had nothing to say. On the day when the 10 taels of silver were taken away, the salt merchant also brought out a good thing that made Song Qingshu salivate.

Tea!
Like salt, tea is also a national monopoly. Song Qingshu’s Maojian tea in Xinyang is privately owned. Of course, this rule is as rotten as the salt government. Tea mountains are now mostly controlled by Huizhou merchants, and tea is one of their important commodities just like salt.

The earliest conflict between Song Qingshu and Huizhou merchants was because he intervened in the private tea business.

Although Song Qingshu also increased planting in the Dabie Mountains, it takes time for tea to grow. Not all kinds of tea can be sold, and the best tea also needs a unique climate. Although the West India Company’s black tea business overseas every year is very Large, but it is still restricted by the output.

But this time, the salt merchants gave Song Qingshu more than a dozen tea mountains in Qimen County, Huizhou, the best black tea producing area in Ming Dynasty and even the world, to Song Qingshu.

With this tea mountain, the tea sales volume of the West India Company can be doubled immediately. In the later Qing Dynasty, how the Tsarist Russia made a fortune was to buy tea cakes from merchants who walked west, and then sold them at high prices to Western Europe, that is, Because of the enthusiasm for tea, the British talent circle occupied the entire India, and planted tea trees in Ceylon and other places in India. Now they have established a trade with the British East India Company. Song Qingshu can sell as much tea as he wants, so the tea mountain is The more you come, the better.

Without saying a word, Song Qingshu directly approved the note to get the money, and sent someone to take over the tea mountain in this county that day.

However, the situation is getting more and more serious. I dare not say that there will be no one to come. This time, the Donglin Party and the Yangzhou salt merchants have joined forces, at least it is unprecedented, monopolizing all the commodity grains in the entire Nanzhili and even Zhejiang and Jiangxi. , took the money, and finally the hundreds of thousands of dans of grain on the market were also sold out.

Immediately, the whole of southern Zhili began to panic. In the highly urbanized Jiangnan grain store, there was no food in the store, and tens of millions of people were facing the crisis of food shortage. This incident even alarmed the court. Horrified, Zhou Yanru wrote seven or eight letters to Zhang Pu in a row, urging him to release food quickly, and even threatened him, but Zhang Pu was really stinky and hard, and even clamored not to force him in his reply, otherwise he would never The fire burned all the food in the south of the Yangtze River.

Fear began to spread day by day.

Songjiang, Shanghai County.

Because of this general environment, even the busy businessmen on the Bund seem to have decreased a lot, and the bustling restaurants have fallen into a state of food shortage, and they have to close down one after another. The Donglin scholars who want to drink are gone place.

Coming out of a restaurant in disappointment, Chen Zilong couldn't help but sighed and patted his legs when he saw the depression everywhere: "This is really a crime. Tens of thousands of people died because of you and me. I have to go to the [-]th floor of hell, dryness, let’s put some food, if it’s not possible, selling it at a high price is better than hoarding it like this?”

"No! This is the time to wrestle with the Song bandits. It only takes one month! In just one month, Song bandits' business will collapse under starvation. At that time, the entire Jiangnan will be able to restore the peaceful world of singing and pastoral music. To get rid of this traitor for the country, even if you go to the eighteenth floor of hell, why not?"

Zhang Pu couldn't find any appearance of Mr. Renxue, his face was full of ferocity and paranoia, and he snorted coldly.

"That's right, as long as you get rid of Song Qingshu, why not turn into a ghost?"

Hou Fangyu, who was also bitter and bitter, nodded his head in response. Seeing the terrifying eyes of the two, Fang Yizhi, Wu Yingji and other friends were all chilled and suddenly speechless.

While talking, several people had already walked to the pier. The pier, which has been bustling since the ninth year of Chongzhen, has become much more depressed now. Their hearts are full of passion. Looking at a large row of dock workers sitting in the corner, Zhang Pu is still very much a savior. Standing in front of them with a general sense of compassion, he shouted loudly.

"You all hurry up and find your own way of life, go back to your hometown and start farming and weaving again! Song Qingshu, a thief, is about to perish. He has no food to confuse people. To feed you, do business and cheap business, return to farming is the right way!"

Zhang Pu himself thought he was talking about passion, but dozens of dock workers sitting on chairs resting in the corner didn't even raise their eyelids to look at him, and the head foreman turned his face away contemptuously, humming said a word.

"Stupid!"

One sentence made Zhang Pu so angry that he almost jumped up, rolled up his arms and fought with the foreman desperately. He is too proud and has experienced too many scenes. The big man who was once admired by everyone, now even dares to be a low-class porter Scolding him is worse than having a needle stuck in his heart.

If it weren't for Fang Yizhi and a few people pulling him, the two of them almost didn't fight.

"Hmph, the grasshopper after autumn will not be able to jump for a few days!"

After finally being dragged back, he straightened his clothes angrily, and Zhang Pu cursed disdainfully again, but at this moment, a worker suddenly ran back from the edge of the port in a hurry.

"Hai Dayu No. [-] is here, brothers, get to work!"

"I'm working for our boss!" He deliberately glanced at Zhang Pu, the foreman yelled loudly, and more than 100 workers stood up and rushed to the port. Regardless of them, other places also ran out. Thousands of workers gathered together towards the seashore.

The reason why Shanghai was successful in later generations, and in turn was able to annex Songjiang, is because of its excellent deep-water port. Song Qingshu's wharf was paved with cement for tens of meters of shipping, and it was set up for large ships to dock. The existence of Song Qingshu made the people of Southern Zhili used to seeing big ships. Such a huge treasure ship is still rare in the world. In the shocking eyes of Zhang Pu who followed secretly, it is 200 meters long and has two rows of twelve sails. Haidyu No. [-] slowly leaned against the port, and dozens of wooden escalators were moved up. Workers in blue uniforms immediately climbed up like ants, and walked down quickly carrying sacks one by one.

There are so many people and strength, within ten minutes, the sacks at the port have piled up into a hill, looking at the thing, Zhang Pu shouted with sour resentment: "Gold, stones, pearls and jade, you can't eat when you are hungry, and you can't wear clothes when you are cold! Song thieves will make these depraved things!"

"Something seems wrong!"

The old man next to him, Wu Yingji's face became a little dignified, and he sniffed vigorously, looking at the pile of linen bags, he said in surprise, "It's a scent of rice! It looks like rice!"

"Rice? Impossible, all the rice in the south of the Yangtze River is in our hands, how could he Song Qingshu have rice! Impossible!"

He forced a smile, but Zhang Pu also became a little unconfident, smiling nervously, he suddenly took out a tea knife from his arms in a frenzy, walked to the pile of goods, and cut it off with one knife past.

"Did I say it's impossible! Look, this, this, this..."

Pearl-like crystal grains of rice flowed out of the sack, causing Zhang Pu's face to freeze there. For a moment, he swung his knife at other packages even more crazily!
"Impossible! It's not true. Why is it still there? Impossible. It must be the sorcery released by Song thief. If you want to lie to me, there is no way! Impossible!"

"Hey, you lunatic, what are you doing? Security, come here!"

Dozens of pockets were slashed crazily, and the rice flowed all over the floor, which also alarmed the workers nearby. Amidst the shouts, dozens of security guards with sticks kicked and beat Zhang Pu and a dozen other scholars out of the port. Unhappily shaking the torn sleeves, the security captain shouted angrily.

"You idiots, don't let me see you again, dare to come to the port again, and interrupt your dog legs!"

At this moment, it was really gentle, his face was bruised and purple, and the corners of his mouth were broken, but supported by the same few embarrassed scholars, Zhang Pu stretched his neck like a madman and looked at the huge sea in the port. Fish number, muttered repeatedly like a fool.

"impossible!"

(End of this chapter)