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Chongzhen ten years on the seventh day of June.

In the city of Beijing, when Zhang Hanru speculated that Wen Tiren, who was then a scholar of the Jidian University in the Ministry of Officials, was ready to attack the Donglin Party, he threw himself into his disciples, conspired with Wen Tiren Xiangguo, and weaved a series of means to prepare to deal with the leaders of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi, Qu Shiyun and others. Zhang Hanru charged in front, waving his flag and shouting, while Wen Tiren presided over it behind the scenes, arresting Shui Taileng and Qu Shiyun and tortured them in prison.

In Jiangnan, Zhang Pu has initiated the establishment of another Donglin organization after Donglin, the famous Fushe. It is claimed that the carriages and horses gather from all over the world to admire the people to compete for its door, and for a while, the momentum is no less than that of Donglin in the year, and it is claimed that the voice is facing the right. The title A and B of the product.

A new round of party struggle between the government and the opposition is taking shape.

The bloody storm of party strife in the capital did not affect Nanzhong, which was thousands of miles away, and the people here were concerned about another matter at the moment.

Can cowpox be planted on people, and after planting cowpox, will it grow horns on its head, make mooing cow noises, and become a cow demon as the Western priest said?

A huge platform was erected in front of the Hue Palace, and dozens of military flags of the South Central Army fluttered in the hot summer wind.

Early in the morning, thousands of people gathered in the square in front of the palace. People came to see the general's wives and concubines, the wives and concubines of the lords and gentlemen, and even the people themselves.

The small vendors who had a keen sense of smell and sensed business opportunities had set up bunks around the square. Sell some food and daily necessities, children's toys, women's rouge pollen, etc. There are even some cheap jewelry. The entire square seems to be transformed into a huge temple fair.

"It's okay to set up a stall! Pay attention to environmental hygiene! Originally, the lord held this event for everyone's net worth! You can't throw garbage everywhere! ”

Several inspectors and tax collectors, dressed in their own uniforms, patrolled around the square to prevent the small traders and vendors from littering.

But it's not bad, no matter what kind of goods or food vendors sell, they are very obedient to set up garbage baskets next to the stalls, and throw the garbage generated into the baskets casually.

As the sun gradually rises, the bustling crowds from all corners of the city converge like a stream into the square.

In the crowd, several very inconspicuous men, dressed in half-worn green cloth trousers, dressed as workers who had just gotten off work. The hair also smells of sawdust, shavings and soaphorn mixed together. At first glance, it is clear that it is a worker in a construction factory or a shipyard. Take advantage of the rest to come to the palace to watch the excitement.

However, their eyes were piercing through the crowd, staring sharply at the two groups of people.

Through the figures of the students wearing the white school uniforms of the Nanzhong Medical School and the military doctors and nurses of several health camps of the Nanzhong Army shuttling back and forth in the crowd, the eyes of these people fell on the two groups of people who were dressed in completely different clothes.

One of them. The shirt on his body is a little shabby. Inconspicuous places are also patched with cloth of a similar color. The weather has begun to get hot, and these people are holding folding fans in their hands, pointing all the way. This group of people are the scholars who have entered Nanzhong through various channels in the Liangguang area in the past year. Many people are not talented or old children, and they are all people who can't carry baskets in their hands and can't carry them on their shoulders. Originally, I thought that Nanzhong was a remote place in southern Xinjiang, a wild place. I have read the sage books for many years and arrived here, even if I can't be like the person in white who worships the prime minister, at least Zhang Yuan and others who rushed into Western Xia, and they can establish a reputation and seek some wealth.

However, after staying in Nanzhong for a few days, I learned enough of Mr. Zhuge to lie down in Longzhong, and only waited for a wise lord to come and visit the thatched house. It's a pity that I waited for a long time, and said that it was Uncle Liu Huang, and even Zhang Sanye didn't come.

As a result, this group of people naturally boasted that they had never met each other, and slowly gathered.

But after quietly inquiring, it turned out that this Nanzhong is not like the mainland, there are many literate people and many people who read. Although he does not read the Four Books and the Five Classics, the general truth cannot be refuted. The magic weapon that these people in the mainland have tried and tested, the two invincible weapons of controlling the right to speak and guiding public opinion, has also been shattered by the outrageous literacy rate and newspapers.

Only some of the four books and five classics, eight articles on weekdays can not be done, but for some bookkeeping and arithmetic and other miscellaneous guys, the brain because of the fast turn and quickly find an errand, in some schools when the schoolchildren literacy or to some stores pù bookkeeping, of course, the big business of the bookkeeper they can't be, there are the implementation of double-entry bookkeeping.

Seeing that people who are not as good as themselves on weekdays are mixed well, they are so angry that this group of saint disciples curses behind their backs from time to time, "Li Shouhan, this guy, if you don't respect the way of the saints, sooner or later you will be attacked by the thunder!" ”

In Nanzhong, even if you point at Zhu Youzhen's nose and scold Zhu Yuanzhang, no one may care about you. However, even if you are scolding Li Shouhan in the wilderness to the wilderness, maybe two people jumped out of the grass and quietly reported you. Even if this group of people scolded a few words to vent their anger at a private gathering, they were rarely secretly reported to the security chief and the patrol by the neighbors. First, the report is meritorious, and secondly, this is the first accusation, lest once they have an accident, the family will have something to do, and they will be connected to the whole family. The method invented by Wang Yangming, the new one, has been fully implemented and inherited here in Nanzhong.

It's a pity that these guys are already inside the prison door, but they don't know it, holding the pamphlet handed to them by the medical students, and they can't stop accusing and laughing.

"Brother Nian!" Someone used a very shameless title to greet their companions, and most of these people were not famous, at most they were just old children. If they were heard by their kind in the mainland, it would be a sneer, and Yan Zòng would be scolded by the scholars and the head of the academy. has no merit at all, and dares to call each other Brother Nian?

"Such a beautiful white paper, but such vulgar words are printed, and these fonts are used that lack pen and strokes. It's ridiculous! ”

The man who spoke was holding a pamphlet on health and epidemic prevention that had just been given to him by two medical students with a few fingers, as if it were the most vulgar thing in the world, and his face was full of disdain.

The pamphlet is bound and printed on fine white paper, with both pictures and texts, and is beautifully printed, so that even a farmer who has just completed literacy and a first-year student in the school can roughly understand it. What these Confucian scholars blame is the font above.

Shouhan thought that there were too many strokes in traditional characters, so he ordered people to burn movable type in simplified characters for printing textbooks and spreading culture. I don't want to be in the eyes of this group. It's like a laughing stock.

"Rank the eldest brother. You see, this love has no heart, how to love? If you don't see it, how to be a parent? ”

"What Brother Nian said is extremely true! The little brother has nothing to do. Look at the textbooks used by the students in the neighborhood and the left. The end is crude. What a misguided child! The so-called relatives are not seen, love is heartless, and production is not born. Empty, no wheat on the face, no car, no way, no head, flying a wing, there is no cloud and no rain, there is no door to open and close, there is no lang in the township, the saint can not listen and cannot speak, buy into a hook knife under the head, the wheel of the adult under the dagger, into the better and better and go to the well, but the devil is still the devil, the devil is still the devil, the devil is still the devil, steal or steal, cheat or cheat, greedy or greedy, poison or poison, black or black, gambling or gambling. ”

"Not bad!"

"That's right!"

While a group of people were proud and proud that they were able to write several ways to write fennel beans, someone in the crowd next to them answered.

"Protect your hands, love and friends, stove fire, obvious, turtle has nails, pens have hair, treasure has jade, there are many people, the net is like-shaped, no water is needed to extinguish, there is no need for water, there is a mouth, the number is not a tiger roaring, the war is not suitable for a single person, the day is a foot high at sunrise, the worm is not more and more is less the better, and the Buddha is still the Buddha, God is still God, faith is still faith, benevolence is benevolence, kindness is also good, beauty is still beauty, blessing is blessing, joy is joy."

A childish child's voice flew over the heads of the people, as if someone had picked up a big slap on the faces of the group of people, and they started to work on the left and right sides of the group's faces, and slapped twenty-four mouths in a row. They snapped in the face.

"Toot! Where did the reckless schoolchildren come from! Gentlemen are here to discuss the text, where is your turn to speak! ”

The man holding the health and epidemic prevention booklet in his hand threw it out in order to show his anger.

"Alas! I don't know how to cherish the paper, I don't know if I can't throw away the books, and I say that I am a reader! ”

A passing vegetable farmer picked up the booklet from the ground, patted it, and put it away with great care.

"You! You! ”

The rotten Confucian had to point his finger at the back of the vegetable farmer in the laughter and disdainful eyes of the crowd, but he could not make a sound of accusation and scolding, but he had already thought about it, and after he returned, he wrote down in his diary what he saw and heard today. The military and civilians do not talk about education and do not know how to respect scholars, and they only know how to chase fame and fortune every day, while the officials here only know how to extort and collect high taxes every day, so as to achieve the goal of reckless military force and extreme luxury! This Nanzhong needs the edification of the saints.

And the other group of people who are staring at by those men are completely opposite to this group of rotten Confucians.

Unlike the poor and sour Confucians, who were poorly dressed but had to make a superior appearance, they were all neat and decently dressed, and the most inconspicuous of them were also dressed in robes made of ramie, and their faces were full of smiles.

For the people left and right, they are all smiling and nodding, making people feel like a spring breeze, and they attach great importance to the collection of all kinds of pamphlets distributed by medical students and health camp medical officers, and hand them over to special people for safekeeping.

Under the guidance of several Jiangxi businessmen, Huang Da, a shopkeeper from Shanxi, habitually nodded and smiled at the people around him, although he did not necessarily know one of the thirty people, but laughter has become a part of his daily life. Just like a pot of old vinegar, it is indispensable.

From the moment he stepped on the land of Nanzhong, the shopkeeper Huang Da and several of his shopkeepers began to seriously observe this land that made the owners extremely curious.

He was struck by the busy, orderly port, the wide, flat ash roads that connected the port to the town, and the strict registration system that governed it. He also boasted that he had been a businessman from the south to the north for decades, from the beginning of his apprenticeship to now becoming a big treasurer. There are hundreds of towns and villages, but this is the first time I have encountered such a scene.

However, if you don't have a household registration booklet with you, which is called a residence permit or a part-time job permit in Nanzhong, any patrol officer can detain you if you find it, and if you find out that you belong to a black household without household registration, you will have to go to the mine to sell coolies.

When they entered the city, the security chiefs of the neighborhoods would also come over from time to time to check the household register to see if there were any blacks with private collections.

All of this is unspeakably miserable and annoying.

But once you get acquainted with this kind of life, you get used to it. You'll find the benefits in between.

As long as you have silver dollars and tongbao in your pocket. Then you can taste all kinds of delicacies on the street, and there are a variety of goods in each business, ironware, cloth, salt, vegetable oil, porcelain, silk, grain, as a merchant. The shopkeeper smelled the infinite business opportunities here. I saw silver that could fill the ocean.

And all kinds of people in different styles and colors of uniforms appear on the streets. It's what they're focused on.

The proprietors have explained that they should carefully observe the soldiers of the Nanzhong Army and understand their organizational structure and internal relations. Personnel composition and training.

For such a request, the shopkeeper of Huang Da is already familiar and can no longer be familiar, going back and forth in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation of the officials and soldiers is not understood by the businessmen?

However, the attempt to approach the Nanzhong army ended in failure, and the military camps everywhere were tightly guarded, and without the order of the upper peak, the idlers and other people could never enter, and they could only obtain useful information in the conversation in the teahouse and restaurant like panning for gold in the sand. However, from the patrol officers who were dressed in black and red uniforms, carrying short sticks and hanging a rope from their waists, they looked far higher than those elite Cheng dù in the Ming Kingdom in terms of mental outlook and physical appearance. If the officers and men of the Nanzhong Army were like this, then Manchuria with the Red Banner and Mongolia with the Red Flag would have lost unjustly in Hexi.

After living in Nanzhong for a while, under the influence of life and Jiangxi businessmen, Huang Da and his subordinates formed two completely different factions of impression of Nanzhong.

According to the views of Jiangxi merchants, one faction believes that Nanzhong is the ideal place written by the sage, people know each other's etiquette and law-abidingness, and the warehouses are abundant and cheap. If possible, we must develop and settle in Nanzhong, and even if we can't get the opportunity to settle in Nanzhong, we must find a way to become a business partner with the Nanzhong Army, and we can obtain huge profits by transporting the qiē produced here to the mainland for sale. The other faction is just the opposite, believing that although Nanzhong is rich in products and rich people, Nanzhong is extremely greedy, and there are many exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, such as a value-added tax, an import and export tariff, and an official gentry who pays grain and taxes as an errand and so on. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to settle in Nanzhong.

Intentionally or unintentionally, they ignore the duty-free goods in the import and export tariffs and the policy of levying first and then refunding.

"No matter how they look at it, the Mongols have only one meaning, and that is to do business! Buy the ideas of the owners who want to buy and ship them out of Nanzhong, and your stock will rise! ”

This is what the shopkeeper Huang told his subordinates in private.

Now, a group of them have also come to see the excitement of this public cowpox planting conference.

Behind and on both sides of the high platform, there are tents made of reed mats, which are used to rest for the children of their families who are preparing to plant cowpox when they are young, and for the people of Siam, Ryukyu, Burma, and the Portuguese Restoration Army who come to watch the ceremony.

In the largest tent behind the high platform, the Ryukyu king's son, Shoxian, was being received by Shouhan.

Over the years, they have made a lot of money and food from trading with Nanchu, but what has always disturbed the Ryukyu king's father and son is the so-called righteous issues such as the identity and name of Shouhan. If the Ming court knew that he was inferior to a maritime merchant with no identity, he would inevitably face a disaster.

But fortunately, a few years ago, a maritime merchant brought good news, Li Shouhan was greatly rewarded with the status of an official and a guard of honor because of King Qin's meritorious service in killing the enemy, which made the Ryukyu King father and son fall to the ground with a stone. Hurriedly put on some gifts and ordered Sang-hyun to come to say goodbye, and by the way, mention this year's rice for sugarcane.

In a few nearby sheds, the children who are going to plant cowpox after a while are happily playing under the leadership of their mothers.

Some well-intentioned people reported their husband's name and official position to several wives of Li Shouhan, who were dressed in the clothes of a wife, in an attempt to establish some kind of connection with the palace through such an opportunity as today.

And the family members of some officials with very old qualifications sat with Yan Mei'er, discussing how to promote the cultivation of cowpox to the entire Nanzhong Military District after this conference!

And the children who ran around, introducing each other to new friends and meeting new friends, forgot about the activities they were going to do today. In their eyes, today is a big festival with so many peers and people like uncles and aunts.

Seeing that the children quickly became familiar and warm, forming small groups playing there, the children's parents and aunts were full of joy in their hearts.

For most people, this kind of activity is not only to show loyalty to the Lord, but also to build a variety of personal networks.

The children who were playing did not know because they were the first children to be planted with cowpox, and because they came from a special background, and many years later, some people with ulterior motives gave them the title of a group.

"The First Cowpox Gang!" (To be continued......)