Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 536 Master Governor
At the beginning of January, Wang Qiaonian, the commander-in-chief of the three sides, came out of Tongguan and arrived near Xiangcheng. When he was ready to fight Li Zicheng, Jiangnan was also on the alert, but Song Qingshu's army was much gentler and more passionate than Wang Qiaonian.

Last year, Shanxi merchants, some Anhui merchants, the Jiaduobao new business group, and the Yangzhou salt merchants, and the Donglin Party conservative business group engaged in a business war. In this battle, Song Qingshu destroyed the assets of the Donglin Party conservatives and defeated the disabled. Yangzhou salt merchants, but when the army was about to be mobilized this year, they found that they had played with themselves.

The development of Taiwan has immigrated more than 60 people, and the poor in the south of the Yangtze River have been exported. The population of Nanjing has dropped from 170 million to 150 million, but the food price has suddenly dropped to the same price as when the country was founded. A large number of people were starving The poor on the Internet suddenly found themselves in the food and clothing class, and the Chinese people's optimism about the status quo has come up again.

The number of labor ships going to Taiwan has dropped from about 1000 per month to more than [-]. Moreover, this time, the money accumulated by salt merchants for hundreds of years was handed over to the landowners who grew grain, and the income from continuing to cultivate grain was suddenly reduced by ten times. , some enlightened landlords also began to invest funds in business.

Just after the Spring Festival, not far from the Bund area in Songjiang, which was just developed by Song Qingshu, the Dasheng Cotton Textile Factory developed by another group of Jiangzuo family has also taken root, and they have also completed the feat that Song Qingshu has never accomplished. Cotton raw materials are produced locally. change.

The six counties of Nantong on the opposite side of the Songjiang River are close to the sea and the land is barren. This is a famous poor county, but the terrain here is flat and the tidal flats are vast. It is a good place to grow cotton. Mr. Zhang Jian Zhang, a manor in the late Qing Dynasty, was founded here. Established Datong Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Land Reclamation Company, reclaimed the sea to cultivate one million mu of cotton fields, and fed a million people.

It's not that Song Qingshu didn't pay attention to this place, but he has too many things to do, and the funds have always been tight and cannot be spread out. Now, before Song Qingshu is one step ahead, these Jiangzuo aristocratic families have developed this place first , and the one who led the development was a famous person in history, Gu Yanwu!
This is actually a good thing. After the loss of the light industry base in Daixian County, Jiaduobao, which started out as a cotton fabric company, was in short supply of cotton fabrics and relied on silk fabrics to support it. However, cotton fabrics keep warm and are cheap, and silk fabrics cannot replace them anyway. When Gu Yanwu organized the township business, he personally visited Song Qingshu's wharf and expressed his willingness to cooperate with him. If the Nantong Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Reclamation Company is successfully developed, only one-seventh of the output can be digested by their own cotton textile factory. , and the remaining six-sevenths were all supplied to Song Qingshu.

The problem is the development of Nantong. Except for about [-] tenants cut off from the fields by the Jiangzuo family themselves, the rest are poor people recruited locally. Eight hundred articles, but after all, it is a local job in the hometown, and it has robbed Song Qingshu of a large part of the labor wave.

Fighting Manila is not for nothing. Although revenge is inevitable, as a bourgeoisie, you can’t buy or sell without losing money. If you fight, you have to gain a firm foothold. Luzon Island can be regarded as a food-producing area, and other islands in the Philippines are not far away. It is also the origin of valuable commodities such as spices and gems. If you want to get these profits, you have to immigrate to grasp them.

But even the locals who have gone out to work in the past ten years are unwilling, let alone go to Manila farther away!Song Qingshu, who repeated his old tricks, recruited at the port for a month, and only recruited a total of more than 100 people. He still dragged his family and his family. Frustrated, he ventured to Henan to recruit refugees. On the other hand, Song Qingshu had to fight own idea.

The labor party and trade unions are inevitable products in history. Anyway, Song Qingshu simply established a trade union gradually in his own factory and textile park. Less conflicts, troubles, and help some needy workers. Now, it's time for trade unions to play their role again.

Suzhou, Jinxiu Textile Co., Ltd. C Sangyuan, when work was off in the evening, hundreds of workers did not go to work as usual, but instead gathered in the conference room where the trade union held a meeting. roared.

"That's horrible!"

"Those Spanish barbarians are simply murderers! On November [-]th, they held muskets and openly broke into our Ming people's settlements, kicked open doors from house to house, and shot and killed them directly with knives, regardless of men and women. Young and old, all hacked and killed, the Pingcang area where our Ming people live, was directly killed and turned into a hell on earth!"

"In the square, they slaughtered our Ming people like livestock. A group of people tied together and cut their throats one by one like killing chickens. At the east end of the settlement, hundreds of our Ming people's girls were raped repeatedly by Western beast soldiers. Then she was burned to death in a big fire! Miss Han, the daughter of Commissioner Han, the special commissioner of the West India Company, went to the governor of the West to protest with righteous indignation, and those beasts stripped Miss Han naked and tied her to the square. On the other hand, he used a steel rod to insert it from where she was a woman, and passed it through her mouth, and tortured her for four full days before the eldest lady died, these Westerners are nothing like beasts!"

"They have bullied us all over our heads, and they are clamoring to fight north to destroy our Ming Empire! Unleash such atrocities on yours, mine, and everyone's family!"

Spit spattered and patted his chest, Han Dahu growled fiercely: "How does the commander treat the big guys? Poor clothes, hungry food, food prices have been reduced recently, and everyone's wages have been raised. Without the commander, I will Han Dahu is still a bachelor, where did the youngest son come from? Now that the commander-in-chief wants to take revenge, I, Han Dahu, will be the first to follow and fight at the forefront!"

"Brothers, do you have a hot-blooded boy who went with our old Han?"

The working class is the most revolutionary and the most passionate. Revolutions in many countries in later generations were promoted by the labor movement. Workers in this era are not lacking in enthusiasm. Listening to Han Dahu's roar, they associate big guys with firms and Daming closely. After being connected together, dozens of people in Sangyuan raised their fists together and roared angrily, not even the women were left behind.

"Bring me one!"

"Brother Big Tiger, I'll go with you!"

"Kill all these barbarians!"

"Count me in!"

A form was spread out on the spot, and almost half of the people in a mulberry garden were registered, and the rest went home to ask their parents for permission. Scenes like this are all over Suzhou workshops.

Sitting at Jinxiufang headquarters not far from here, holding lists one after another, Song Qingshu revealed a list of sad reminders.

At least 20 workers under his command have signed up, and the number is still increasing. The 20 skilled workers have seriously affected the production of various workshops, and everyone has been deceived by him, saying that they are joining the army. In fact, their numbers It is the Luzon Production and Construction Corps, and they still work when they go there. There is no shortage of rough men with knives and guns under their command. Song Qingshu is reluctant to let these skilled workers go to work. There is no big battle in the place, and Song Qingshu doesn't know how much trouble he will encounter. .

Moreover, these people were fooled away. Basically, Song Qingshu didn't want them to come back, so there is no need to force them to stay. After working for a few years, they have a house and land, and they are unwilling to leave. Not only do they have to fill the vacancies of these people, but also Facing the complaints from the shareholders, Song Qingshu couldn't help but have a headache after thinking about it!

But at this time, Li Xiangjun, the intelligence secretary outside the door, was full of dignity again, moving her slender thighs wrapped in black pencil pants and hurried in with a document.

"Commander, urgent message! Hong Chengchou is back and serves as the prime minister of the five southern provinces. The Tai'an branch came to report. Hong Chengchou walked the canal from Shandong and went straight to Songjiang!"

"Is Father Ben coming?"

This juncture is really an inch, no empire would allow its generals to declare war on other countries casually, and finally dealt with the Donglin Party. At this time, Hong Chengchou came to make trouble again, and Song Qingshu pointed his nose in amazement.

What should come is what should come. This Hong Chengchou is like reincarnation. He arrived in Tianjin on the day he took the order. He took a fast boat to Yangzhou at the other end of the Grand Canal in less than seven or eight days. He wanted to curry favor with this upstart from the southern province and set up a banquet, but this person didn't receive it. Just as he got off the tank boat, the prime minister of the five provinces got on the passenger boat of Jiangnan General Transport and headed straight for the opposite Songjiang River.

But here he is not so beautiful, not to mention the dinner, there is no one to pick him up at the port, so Hong Chengchou blinded his eyes and followed the passengers off the boat, and then he was caught blind.

"Wu Na Song Qingshu, so rude! The prime ministers of the five provinces arrived, and he dared not come to greet them in person! And there is no one to meet him, governor, let's divert now, go to Jianghuai, and go straight to the governor of Fengyang Officials, punish him for being rude!"

It is impossible for Hong Chengchou to be a bare-bones commander, but Chongzhen did not have any troops or money in his hands, so he barely drew 3000 troops in the Beijing camp, but Hong Chengchou declined, and another inmate was picked out by name and surname, Lintao President The soldier Cao Bianjiao and his twenty or so soldiers were already considered Hong Chengchou's hardcore, but with the grace of recovery, Cao Bianjiao was completely devoted to Hong Chengchou.

Clenching his fists angrily, Cao Bianjiao roared indignantly, but Hong Chengchou who heard it smiled wryly and shook his head.

"You're going to Fengyang, do you think it's useful?"

"How useless? Isn't someone Song a soldier of the imperial court, a subordinate of Governor Fengyang?"

"never mind!"

Waving his hand to interrupt Cao Bianjiao's complaint, Hong Chengchou beckoned at the side of the port road very familiarly, and a four-wheeled carriage with a red can of herbal tea sign stopped in response. Under Cao Bianjiao's surprised gaze, Hong Chengchou pulled away He opened the door and said to the driver.

"Go to the head office of Jiaduobao!"

Many people in Songjiang are businessmen, and time is gold. Therefore, in Songjiang, Jiaduobao set up the first taxi driver in the Ming Dynasty. More than 500 taxis wandered on the major roads in Songjiang every day. , Hong Chengchou has a general understanding of the begging army, even this.

It was the first time for a group of soldiers to experience what a big cart is. Twenty minutes later, Song Qingshu’s office door in the Bund was knocked open. Under his amazed gaze, Cao Bianjiao, who was full of reluctance, was led by Hong Chengchou. Li Xiangjun was led in with a smile all over his face, and what was even more surprising was that Hong Chengchou bowed before Song Qingshu stood up from behind the table to greet him.

"Hong Chengchou pays homage to Marshal Lianghuai!"

He deliberately gave Hong Chengchou a disgrace, all the cold reception was arranged by Song Qingshu himself, but he didn't expect Hong Chengchou to really dare to knock his head on the ground, his eyes almost popped out, watching Hong Chengchou bow, standing there in amazement, Song Qingshu was beaten I was caught off guard.

(End of this chapter)