Chapter 13 This is a good thing

Chen Hua was not worried at all that Yinyang would not be able to sell. Although he was very dark when he made Yinyang.

However, silver dollars with a fixed weight and silver content are much easier to use than broken silver pieces of different weights and silver contents.

You know, there is a big difference between this silver and silver. is the nominal official silver, who dares to say that a single ingot is ninety-five percent?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the fineness of the silver circulating in the market was too mixed. Then in business you will be sinned.

There must not only be an account room around you, but also an expert who checks the quality of the silver, otherwise the capital will be lost to you.

A standard currency is too important in trade development. Otherwise, from ancient times to the present, how could the small countries around Middle-earth take the copper coins of the Central Plains as treasures? That's not all because the Central Plains copper coins are exquisite and clear.

It's the silver ocean of the West, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, didn't it slowly spread in China? Just like Anping, just like Denglai, this Yinyang cast by Chen Hua was smoothly integrated into daily life, and there were no twists and turns.

Chen Hua is at ease with the money he earns.

Zheng Zhipeng packed his bags and set off. I took the boat all the way to Jinmen, and I was not in a hurry, so when I arrived at Zhifu Island, it was already early August.

At this time, Zhifu Island was completely controlled by the Zheng family. Although Zheng Sen didn't say such a thing at all, the entire Denglai officials had already acquiesced to this. So much so that Shi Lang wanted to set up a real water village on the island.

When Zheng Zhipeng arrived, he saw two boats full of refugees and displaced people arriving, and his eyes were full of joy when he looked at the refugees who were being driven off the boats by whips and guns. "Good billet, good billet. They are all good sons of my Zheng family in the future! ”

Zheng Sen looked at the refugees who were shivering in the cold wind, and said with a very ugly face: "It's not the son of man." I have told them many times not to be cruel to the people. These corrupt officials and officials are vicious soldiers, but they still looted all the refugees' belongings, and now they don't even let go of their clothes. ”

It's already the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and it's the Xiaoice River period, the sea breeze is blowing, and the refugees and displaced people who are almost wearing only single clothes, how can they not be cold?

Zheng Zhipeng smiled, "It's a good thing that the virtuous nephew is going to be angry." These displaced refugees are not worth a penny in the eyes of the Penglai gentry, but they are the most important thing to my Zheng family. The more harsh the Penglai gentry treated, the better my Zheng family will treat. People are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless. When he receives my favor, he will become more and more loyal to me......"

A great man in later generations once said that the problem should be divided into two. Wise sayings.

Zheng Sen was speechless.

After Zheng Zhipeng was introduced into the residence, Zheng Zhipeng was also introduced to some of the situation of Zhifu Island along the way.

There are seven villages on the island, which have gathered more than 10,000 displaced refugees, and there are also many camps on land in Denglai and Denglai Prefectures, which are guarded by many people for the transfer of displaced refugees. In addition, the refugees are generally in poor health, so they cannot be immediately put on the boat and head south. It will have to be raised for some time! This is also the biggest reason why the population of Zhifu Island is tens of thousands.

"When it comes to winter, my nephew's mouth here may skyrocket! Therefore, the nephew first selected some strong men as guards to maintain order here. "Now Zheng Sen has selected nearly a thousand people!

Then these people were driven to work, turning Zhifu Island into a large construction site, constantly resting the camp, digging ditches, wells, cutting down logs, building adobe grass houses, and leveling a lot of land.

On paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that I have to do it. Zheng Sen, a child who grew up in a blessed nest, would never have imagined that the people of the Ming Dynasty had become like this, and he didn't know that there would be so many dark sides in the bottom society of the Ming Dynasty.

If time could be reversed, Chen Hua would not 'confide in his heart' at that time, and now Zheng Sen is afraid that he will also feel hopeless.

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road" is very important, how many times has Yi Zi's human tragedy of cannibalism tortured him. What crimes have not been suffered by those refugees and displaced people who have fled from the North Zhili or the Central Plains? Of course, there are some refugees in Qilu locally, but not many.

You must know that Qilu is a province with many disasters, not to mention that there were many natural and man-made disasters here in the late Wanli period. It is only said that the Wuqiao Mutiny in the fourth year of Chongzhen, and the situation in Denglai was completely eroded in the two years before and after, and the hinterland of Shandong was also ravaged. The losses are too great to count.

Anyway, at this point, Denglai is barren, the Dongjiang River is shaking, maritime containment is no longer mentioned, and no one cares about strategic attacks at sea. This is probably a more dangerous thing than Houjin getting a cannon.

Two years later, people's livelihood just improved, and a 'Chongzhen drought' recorded in the annals of history came to the north again. Other provinces are not mentioned, only Qilu. First of all, more than 10 states and counties had no wheat in summer drought and no grain harvest; Later, more than 50 counties and wells were exhausted, and the yellow wind was made from time to time, and the sand flew all over the sky.

In the whole Qilu, the homeless people carry the road, the children are eaten, the land is barren, and the villages are ruins. It was only this year that God opened his eyes, the drought was greatly reduced, and the situation improved. And in the middle, there is Chongzhen's eleventh year of Dolgon knocking into the pass, and then half of Qilu suffered. Jinan was broken.

This spring, the drought in Qilu has changed, and a large number of refugees from the province have returned to their homeland. Therefore, at this moment, most of the people who can be sent to Zhifu Island by the Denglai government are refugees from other provinces.

Chen Hua once asked Zheng Sen to have an in-depth understanding of their experiences while embarking on the relocation of displaced refugees. Then write a copy of the regulations for the relief of the refugees.

The more Zheng Sen listened, the more he watched, the more he understood nature, and the more he experienced. And for the Ming Dynasty in front of him, he is becoming more and more desperate!

"Natural and man-made disasters, internal and external troubles, this is God is going to put an end to the Ming Society."

Zheng Sen didn't have a big understanding, cut off all the past thoughts, and followed his father to rebel wholeheartedly. At least psychologically, he recognized Chen Hua's abacus and Chen Hua's thinking.

Of course, he is not without his own persistence. It's kind of like "I don't agree with you, but I respect your right to choose." ”

"Transporting grain to Ningyuan?" Zheng Sen said to Zheng Zhipeng in surprise.

"Hmm. That Jiang Dejing and Hong Chengchou were bright for a while, although they couldn't see the connection on the surface, they were both scholars, and they broke bones and connected tendons. Don't be careful. ”

This is a little bit of Chen Hua's heart.

Zheng Zhipeng didn't take this matter seriously, that is, Zheng Sen transported all the grain from Zhifu Island to Ningyuan, which was only tens of thousands of stones, that is, tens of thousands of taels of silver. What's the matter?

If you can take the opportunity to befriend Hong Chengchou, it will be worth a lot of money.

"But this money and grain is granted privately, if the court knows about it......?" Zheng Sen said as he counted the food at hand. There are no less than 30,000 stone of grain on Zhifu Island, and there are also 30,000 or 20,000 pieces of Yinyang.

"Fusong is also worried. If this little thing can't be covered up, Hong Chengchou will be a mediocre man with a big name. ”

Even if the news really reaches the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households. Those who are in office are only happy, and there is nothing unhappy. At most, they are not glad that the money has not been lost by them.

"That being the case, the little nephew understands."

Zheng Zhipeng didn't ask Zheng Sen how much he was going to transport to Hong Hengjiu, and he rested comfortably on Zhifu Island for a day, and then boarded the ship again and sailed to Jinmen the next morning.

And on Zhifu Island, Zheng Sen also began to get busy.

He first hired twenty ships from Shen Tingyang, all of which were sand ships, and then asked Shi Lang to prepare, this time Ningyuan could be regarded as entering the war zone, and he could not be negligent.

Although there are some self-defense weapons on the sand boat, the shotgun is much worse than the Zheng family's bird boat.

However, the sea route from Denglai to Guanwai is well known to the Shen family. You must know that Shen Tingyang had been ordered to receive Ning Yuan's salary before. Its departure from Denglai, seven days and arrived at Jinmen, and then through the Shanhaiguan left to Ningyuan, 15 days can be reached.