Xu Jingchang is waiting for steel. According to the previous design, the main roads had to be paved with railroad tracks. It is useless to occupy Jiangxi, and Jiangxi, which is rich in water and soil, has to be turned out of countless financial resources. With the railroad tracks, the shops on both sides of the main road can immediately do all kinds of business, and it is very convenient to load and unload ships. Through the waterway, silk porcelain continues to go out, and it also attracts a steady stream of foreign cotton cloth to impact the market. At the national level, it is very bad to have a trade surplus alone, with internal production not improving and external business not sustainable. A single-line business is far better than a non-online business, entangled with each other, and everyone will get rich together! Different perspectives lead to different means. Xu Jingchang's level of contact with people is too high, and what he always thinks about is his family and country, and he has never been rich and peaceful.

Fang Zhide got off the boat and came over to greet Xu Jingchang first. Xu Jingchang hurriedly helped him up, and the two brothers began to hook their shoulders and go to the Yamen of the Commander together. What you see along the way is much better than what you come back from. As soon as the merchant ships from the south to the north passed, they set up stalls to sell some steamed buns and wontons. But everyone has no money in their hands, and the workers don't have much food in their mouths, so business is not very good.

The streets are full of people, all men in short clothes doing their work. Nanchang is originally flat, and it is better planned than the place where there is a hillside. But there is also one bad thing, that is, when the flood comes, every family suffers. In order to avoid flooding, the wealthy families lived a little further away from the wharf, but they had a lot of land to spare.

Fang Zhide hurriedly asked: "Do you want residents to live in the area around the wharf?" ”

Xu Jingchang shook his head: "Merchant." Mainly engaged in dock business, no people are allowed to live, only shops and warehouses. Manpower can only avoid waterlogging in the city, but it cannot control the rising water of the river. Therefore, the shops in this area are simple, and it doesn't matter if they are beaten by water. Anything you eat is risky and should not be forced. The pavement is covered with one and a half floors, and when the time comes, they will be taught to use pulleys to lift all the important goods to the second floor. Floods in normal years are as much as possible to avoid damage. Like this year, God wants to accept people, and it is fate. ”

Fang Zhide sighed: "Natural disasters are like this, although I have not been to Nanchang City in previous years, I can roughly estimate what the situation is." You've been here for months, and you still look desolate. ”

Xu Jingchang said: "All the homeless people are included in the army, otherwise there will be no spirit in the city." A soldier can at least have enough to eat. ”

Fang Zhide frowned and said, "Is it really a soldier to work?" Are they willing? ”

Xu Jingchang said with a smile: "Your fourth sister said that they are not happy, so don't be a soldier and follow the Jun family to build roads." Comparing the two sides, they are both building bridges, building roads, and building houses, and those who are soldiers can have a dry meal, and they will have a future in the future, what is not happy? Most of the military households are locals, and when their hometown suffers a disaster, even if they are locked up in the camp and their training thoughts fly out. They simply got their mind. Also, dozens of miles down to Nanchang City, I fell in love with a large piece of open land, which happened to be used as an arsenal. How's your talk over there? ”

Fang Zhide said: "Mr. Ren selected a few young people to follow the foreigners. I don't know what year or month I will be able to come back. The gun factory is called the county master, and Nanyang has it. But it is said that it is not new, and it is in charge of the maintenance of their fleet. I took more than a dozen boats of porcelain from Jingdezhen to exchange with them, and they moved the entire equipment over in a slippery way, and gave them the drawings and materials. I gave them the porcelain, calculated that their things were not very valuable, and made up a few boatloads of silver. I bought steel supplies with the silver again before I sailed back. Now they have gone to Europe. The boredom of trading at the docks, etc., I carefully compared, and their gunpowder was not quite the same as ours. It was very inconvenient for us to refine gunpowder by ourselves, so we simply told them to get a few boatloads of gunpowder next time. How much money does it occupy? Their stuff doesn't sell very well with us, and they often have to use stones to press the boat. When I asked them for gunpowder, they were overjoyed, and they all made money back and forth, and they said a few good things to me, and they almost became a bodhisattva. ”

Xu Jingchang patted Fang Zhide's shoulder and smiled: "You tell the fourth sister about this, she likes to listen to it the most." You came from Songjiang, does Your Highness have a letter? ”

Fang Zhide said: "I didn't continue." But I heard some letters, and I spoke with you. The two of them gossiped as they walked, and they couldn't talk about important things on the street, so they let people listen, and after a short time they entered the house.

The concierge is newly found, and such a position can only be relieved if you are a slave who follows the master's family in life and death. Seeing Xu Jingchang from afar, he greeted him, Xu Jingchang pointed to Fang Zhide: "This is Fang Gongzi, count it as a member of our family, remember." ”

The porter nodded in agreement. The two walked through the gate and headed inside. Entering the courtyard gate, Fang Zhide said curiously: "Why is it so shallow?" ”

Ting Fang had already heard the movement and greeted him, and said: "It's still the style of the founding of the country, the local officials have not lived in the yamen for eight hundred years, they only work in the yamen, and the back is given to ordinary staff to live, don't you think about expanding?" ”

Fang Zhide arched his hand to the court: "Good county lord, what delicious hospitality do you have?" ”

Ting Fang smiled: "No! I have something to ask you, go to the front yard, and I'll come. ”

Fang Zhide also had something to say, as Xu Jingchang walked to the front yard, he bumped into Qian Lianggong, and asked someone to call Zhou Yi. Fang Zhide followed Chang Sui by his side, and dropped out of the door not far behind, so he asked Cuirong to throw it into the empty room in the south of the east chamber, and arranged for the bean sprouts to boil water, and settled neatly.

Fang Zhide entered the hall in the front yard and poured several cups of hot tea. Sailing on the river, the water vapor is accompanied by the cold, and the bones of the cold people tremble. Qian Lianggong smiled and added two pieces of charcoal to the charcoal basin: "It will be warm after a while, Fang Gongzi is hard!" ”

Fang Zhide waved his hand: "It's not easy for anyone." As he spoke, he reached out and chewed a few bites of the snacks on the table, and said, "Do you have noodles?" I ate all the roasted sweet potatoes on the boat, and the noodle soup was close to the stomach. ”

Qian Lianggong scolded with a smile: "When I saw the housekeeper's wife, I didn't say it, what's the use of talking to me?" Having said that, he stood up and handed a letter outside, telling the kitchen to do it. When Zhou Yi came back, several people surrounded the stove, and Fang Zhide said: "There are flowers everywhere outside, I don't know which one to say." ”

Nanchang has a merchant ship, and after hearing some news outside, Xu Jingchang frowned and said: "Jiangsu has gathered many displaced people and formed a team, and they all say that they want to rebel. Whose hand is it? ”

Fang Zhide said: "Don't mention it, old enemy Liu Yongnian." ”

Ting Fang smiled: "I guessed it was him, but I wasn't sure." After dealing with him for three years, I know that he is restless. What about Liu Yongfeng? ”

Fang Zhide said: "My brother is reconciled." What does such a big event compare to us? Besides, you all ran to Jiangxi, Liu Yongnian couldn't catch up, Liu Yongfeng had no backer, and the two brothers hit it off. Saying that, he couldn't help laughing, "Learn from us to use firearms, I quietly let people touch and see it, or how sooner or later is the style?" However, they have cavalry, and it is not good to take them lightly. According to me, they are easy to deal with, let's learn from the foreigners, set up a fort on the ship, and a few cannons go down to blow them up. ”

Xu Jingchang said: "That's true, he doesn't care about him when he makes trouble in Jiangsu, but he is downstream of us, so he has to guard against it." He doesn't dare to be blatant yet, let's run first. If he asks for tolls, he will give it to him. When this development is done, it will be serious for our gunboats to open the way. Jiangsu has been in chaos for a long time, it is not surprising, is it not that Liu Yongnian has others, is there anything else? ”

Fang Zhide hurriedly said: "There have been several battles in Beijing, saying that the White Lady Sect was broken up, and the leader grabbed and cut off the head, and the White Lady is nowhere to be found. As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said, "The court doesn't care, and the concubine who caught a leader was cut down together, saying that it was the White Lady." Where is the distinction between believers? When they heard that the white lady was dead, they were all discouraged. What is hateful is that the remaining two kings did not have internal strife, they actually divided their own territory, and they were in peace with each other! There are many people in Gyeonggi, and there is a lot of people in the pile, where to find it? Gansu has been pressed down. There is also no peace in the court, and the prince's people have been attacking His Royal Highness's people, and they are arguing. Just in time for the autumn, the saint killed several people who jumped too happy, and in the eyes of the prince, it seemed that he was standing up for our highness. ”

Ting Fang said very politely: "In the prince's brain, there has always been more water than his brain. His Royal Highness is in Beijing, but I'm afraid there is nothing to do. What about taxes? This year, there is a flood in the south and a drought in the north, is there a million taels? ”

Fang Zhide said: "More than 10 million taels, I don't know the specifics." I didn't go to Beijing, I went to East Lake, and I listened to Mr. Ren. Mr. Ren and Mr. Yang asked the county lord how he was, and he also asked Brother Qing how he was. After a pause, he said, "This year's accounting, we don't earn as much as last year." Liu Yongnian came out of a moth, his family has a silk factory, and the price has been suppressed, which has robbed us of a lot of business. I will rob it in the future, so I am in a hurry to buy gunpowder from foreigners. Selling silk may not be as good as him, if we do business, it will not damage our own interests, and make them happy when they get profits. It is said that he is full of body and mind, and he actually talked about the porcelain business with foreigners. It's not a teacup and bowl like us, it's an ornament with a pattern. It's all Western-style, and it's very exquisite, and I saw it in Guangzhou. As he spoke, he took it out of his arms for a long time and pulled out a thin bracelet. Different from the Central Plains, the oval porcelain tiles have the image of a cherub, strung one by one, full of exotic style.

The business has never said which one can monopolize it, as Fang Zhide said, there is no Liu Yongnian and others. Ting Fang asked again: "What about the shipping of the imperial court?" ”

Fang Zhide sighed: "I don't know whether to be happy or unhappy." The imperial court's shipping grabbed the tail of this year and made a good profit. Otherwise, there is not so much income. The hundred-legged insects die but do not stiffen, and no matter how chaotic the world is, they can always survive for more than ten years. As I thought, let's step up. It's not interesting to divide the north and the south like the Song Dynasty. The momentum of thunder has leveled the world, and it is important to be armed. I saw that foreigners were restless, and I was anxious when I looked at them. ”

Ting Fang's eyes froze: "At most, in three years, we will go on a northern expedition." The north and south are flanked in two places, and the capital is captured! 166 Reading Network