Nanchang Mansion, General Association of Jiangxi Merchants.

In recent years, with the encouragement of the imperial court to relax the ban on commerce, a number of landlords with rich furniture have naturally emerged in the local area to do business, and the birth of chambers of commerce in various provinces is completely borrowed from Zhu Yunwen to build the imperial merchant association for the clansmen.

There is no way, the Royal Chamber of Commerce has abundant capital, and it is backed by the policy support of the imperial court, and there are all kinds of fields that cannot reach out in various places, but the imperial merchants have already made a lot of money, in this case, if the place is still a mess of sand, no one can compete.

No one is a fool, and no one wants to watch the imperial merchants snatch all the wealth of their hometowns, so under the leadership of large landlords such as the grain chief of the local provincial government, the rich places of Jiangxi and Zhejiang have set up their own local business organizations.

Earlier than them, it was the Shanxi Coal Merchants Association: Jin Merchants!

The provincial political envoys are still very encouraged by the establishment of local commercial organizations, because this can maximize the integration of resources, unified coordination, and will be more efficient for taxation and disaster relief.

The capital power of the Ming Dynasty is not to mention the germination, and the current establishment of a chamber of commerce organization linked by fellow villagers is at best the seed of the Ming capital, to encourage the development of capital, in order to make the country rich and strong the people at the fastest speed, and the only thing Zhu Yunwen has to do is to use his own time to make an indestructible cage for the beast of capital, and when the claws of the capital monster stretch out of the cage, cut it off!

"Master, everyone is here."

The leader of the Chamber of Commerce, Wei Hezhou, the chief of the Jiangxi Political Envoy Division, was the highest, and the subordinates in the house came forward to say a word, and the former raised his eyelids.

is in a high position, but Wei Hezhou's age is actually not very old, he is only in his early thirties this year, he inherited his father's family foundation, and naturally inherited his father's position as the provincial grain chief.

Looking around, the Chamber of Commerce has more than a dozen shopkeepers in addition to himself, in addition to the grain chiefs of various provinces, some of the earliest wealthy businessmen who did business are also there, and they are all the most powerful lords in Jiangxi.

"The big guy is called here today for the sake of our Jiangxi flood this time."

As soon as Wei Hezhou spoke, everyone's faces couldn't help but show a little pain.

"My old Wei's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in Jiujiang and Nanchang have been submerged, and it is estimated that the land in the south will not be able to run away."

The old Wei family's more than 100,000 acres of industry, this flood will be out of production for at least two years, and it can't be calculated, and Wei and Zhou have the heart to die, which is the ancestral property left by his father for decades.

"I know everyone is just like me, and now they are all very distressed."

Holding the tea bowl, Wei Hezhou sighed: "But distress is distress, what we should do must be done after all." ”

The lobby fell silent, and everyone was carefully smacking the meaning of Wei Hezhou's words.

What does it mean to do what needs to be done?

"In times of disaster, as the local grain chief, he should open a warehouse to provide grain relief and stabilize prices, so as to prevent the people from starving and having no rice to cook."

The big guy's eyelids fluttered.

In the past, it is not that Jiangxi has not encountered disasters and disasters, but what is the scale? One or two counties in the sky, to put it mildly, the big guys sitting together with the leaky strips between their fingers are enough for this group of people to live, but what is the scene in Jiangxi now?

The three prefectures of northern Jiangxi alone are millions of people, looking at the posture of the heavy rain, Jiangxi Province is enough to keep it, that is, millions of people, this disaster, where can they come over?

Even if the relief is over, and the grain is out of the warehouse, will the court admit it in the future?

The Ming Dynasty is not modern, the credibility of the ancient government, tsk, everyone understands it in their hearts.

And to put it mildly, since ancient times, there has been no official court to rob the rich and help the poor, Emperor Taizu set up a provincial government two-level grain chief, that is, robbing the rich and helping the poor, the old Zhu family even did this kind of thing, this catastrophe, they did not return their food, it is not an unusual thing.

"The official grain of the provinces is being transported to Jiangxi, but priority must be given to supplying the troops blocking the front line, the rear and the people, and they must be self-reliant for the time being."

Wei Hezhou looked around: "So the purpose of summoning the big guys here is to ask: Can you put this grain or not?" How much to put? ”

Everyone fell silent, and no one wanted to be a bird in this kind of thing.

Say no, in the future, the court will liquidate the first beheading, and say that if the court does not admit it in the future, this person will be isolated by the big guy and regarded as a thorn in the eye.

"Our Jiangxi businessmen have always been led by mutual aid, or if you say a word about mutual aid, we are willing to listen."

The first person on Wei Hezhou's left hand was a thin old man, stroking his chin and laughing, but he pushed the matter back to Wei Hezhou.

"Let me say, then I'll say it."

Wei Hezhou saw that no one was willing to speak, so he simply took the conversation.

"But before I say it, I don't want to tell a story to the big guys."

Silenced, Wei and Zhou organized the language.

"There is a young man in Shandong who is not yet a weak crown, because he has many brothers in his family and is poor. I heard that when I was a soldier for a year, I was paid 20 taels of silver, so I joined the army and joined the army, thinking that I would return to my hometown to buy a few acres of thin land in a few years, marry a daughter-in-law, and cultivate the land to raise children.

The days in the barracks are very hard, every day is drilling, training and training, so every year on annual leave, his comrades-in-arms will run into the city of Nanjing, go to a kiln and drink a big drink, but he didn't, he chose to keep the salary and save it, and when he was discharged from the army, he could return to his hometown to fulfill his wish, so he was a soldier for two years, and he didn't even spend a penny.

One day, the emperor wanted to drive the expedition in person, and this soldier went to the southwest to fight. After returning to Nanjing, because he experienced the baptism of life and death, his comrades-in-arms spent more lavishly, for fear that he would have his life to earn and not to spend, but he still chose to save it.

This year, the great flood in Jiangxi, this soldier followed us to Jiangxi, the flood burst the embankment, this soldier and his comrades did not hesitate to block the gap, because if it is not blocked, the roaring and rolling flood will not only flood the fertile land, but also sweep and kill countless people.

In order to buy time for the people to enter the city, in order to fight for the chance for the people to live, this young man who had been a monk and soldier for several years stood in the way without hesitation.

For six whole days, except for the time of eating and resting during the rotation, this young man who had never even been to the kiln, and had not even touched the woman's hand, had been blocking the breach, his feet were soaked to necrosis, his chest and back were soaked in flesh and blood, and he was glued to his underwear, which was several times more painful than the sword and body, but this soldier did not escape, and when it was his turn to be on duty, he still gritted his teeth and went to the front.

In the end, in a violent impact, the soldier died, died in this strange land, and until he died, the silver he had accumulated was not spent once, and the small life he dreamed of cultivating the land and raising children could no longer live, and his life was over before it began. ”

The atmosphere in the lobby began to be depressed, and Wei Hezhou's voice was low and lonely.

"He's a warrior, a warrior who has been in battle. He is also a hero, a hero who is not afraid of life and death in order to save others.

But this warrior and hero ended up with a dead body and no bones.

On the day of his death, he was not yet twenty years old.

Heaven and earth should not be like this, and reality should not be like this. ”

Tears flowed from Wei Hezhou's eyes, and he wept silently and stood up suddenly.

"A young man from Shandong can even give his life in order to save the people of Jiangxi, and we Jiangxi people are hesitant to save themselves, and are they afraid!

This story is what I heard from the envoy Yamen, on the front line, there are many such stories, such heroes.

Thousands of lives died on the Yangtze River embankment, and in the future, there will be more lives left there forever, and we can now stay in the house safely, eating fine white rice, tasting chicken, duck and fish, and hesitating at night for which concubine's boudoir to go, but I never thought about how many such young men paid for our lives!

My Wei family ancestors have been in Jiangxi for generations, if it weren't for Emperor Taizu Gao's establishment of the country, my Wei Hezhou would have been a slave as soon as he was born, and it was those martyrs who fought bloodily who gave me the qualifications to be an upright person.

Today, it is those heroes who sacrifice their lives and deaths on the front line to fight floods, protecting our people in Jiangxi.

I should do something, I can do something. ”

Wei Hezhou sat back in his place, his expression solemn, and said in a firm tone.

"There are 700,000 stones of grain stored in the warehouses of my Wei family, and all of them will be taken out this time for disaster relief!"

700,000 stones, all disaster relief!

Everyone in the lobby was taken aback, and after looking at each other, several young people stepped forward.

"My grandson's family gave 300,000 stones."

"My Li family gave 200,000 stones."

“......”

In the end, everyone in the hall spoke up, maybe some people did not pour out like Wei Hezhou, but they were willing to dedicate their strength.

They may not be willing to give their lives, but they are helping more people to live in this way.

They are using this way to pay tribute to the brave soldiers on the front line of the flood fight, and to pay tribute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people!

A country without heroes is a country without hope, a country that does not know how to protect heroes, and even less a country worthy of recognition.

Because the hero is the most valuable wealth of a country, the hero is very small, he is also a mortal in the flesh, he does not have the wisdom of Zhuge Liang, the bravery of the overlord of Chu, and the great strategy of the first emperor through the ages.

The hero is very great, he has the spirit of infecting countless people, and has the great power to shape the backbone of a nation and the belief of the country.

Only when the people have faith can the nation have hope and the country have strength!

The warriors used their lives to build an impregnable embankment of flesh and blood to buy time for the transfer of the people, and now, their heroic spirit has infected more people, and when all have this faith, it will burst out with great power for the eyes of heaven and earth.

This power is far more powerful than the flood and the earth's movement, ten times and a hundred times!

Faith is immortal, the nation is immortal, and the country is eternal!