The first thing to choose is the side of the river, the steam factory is not smaller than the small workshop, and the production process requires a large amount of industrial water.

In addition, water transport is always the cheapest mode of transport at any time, light cotton slivers can be transported by mules and horses, and heavy coal must be transported by water.

It took three or four days to finalize the address and allocation, and the 27 counties of Shuncheonfu began to excavate the foundation, lay the bricks, and build the fence one after another.

First harden the ground, build all the infrastructure, and wait for the craftsmen of the General Bureau of Beiping Machinery to build a steam plant and install a steam engine and a carding machine.

Baiyangkou, an ordinary guard house in the Ming Dynasty, basically all of the people who live here are military households.

It is not close or far from the steam factory next to the Yongding River, about 80 miles away.

It is the nearest health post in the vicinity, and there is a large area of dry land to grow cotton, and the first cotton carding factory was established in Baiyangkou.

When the guard was first established, the life of the military households was relatively rich.

In order to realize Emperor Taizu's grand plan of raising a million soldiers without costing a grain of grain for the people, the military households of the guard house owned a large amount of land, and as long as they worked hard, they would have a rich harvest every year.

With the passage of time, the land and property of the guard house were annexed by the bureaucrats and gentry by various despicable means, and the life of the military households was getting worse day by day.

The land property was seized by the bureaucrats and gentry, but the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes apportioned remained unchanged, and the life of the military households was miserable to the point where their husbands were soldiers and their wives and daughters were prostitutes.

The situation has only improved since the potatoes were planted in the health center, and at least they can have enough to eat, and their wives and daughters no longer need to earn food rations from prostitutes.

On the banks of the Beisha River, which is full of mud and sand, stands a steam factory.

The black smoke that reached into the sky, and the roaring sound of machines breaking the silence of this empty land for thousands of years.

Distance.

A shepherd, who was herding sheep, put down the stone he had used to raise in his hand and stretched his neck.

Look at the magical and grotesque scene on the bank of the Beisha River.

Jiannu's trick was a desperate plan, and all that suffered was the high-quality water to water the fields and the middle fields.

Shimoda narrowly escaped, and the more dry fields also escaped.

A few sheep who were eating weeds stopped grazing, turned their heads, and stared vigilantly at the bank of the Beisha River.

Next to the steam factory, there was also a squire named Jin Zude.

Jin Zude and the officials of the third class and six rooms in the county government have colluded for many years and have taken over the lawsuit.

In the face of a squire of the same status, he knows that he has three points for everything, and his appearance is not so ugly.

It's different in the face of the common people, cruel as ignoring the law, and everything must be done.

In the county, he is a powerful person who is feared by everyone.

Jin Zude has been intertwined in the local area for so many years, and he is extremely familiar with the taxation, miscellaneous, fire consumption and so on in the township.

Shuncheon cloth dominated the cotton market in Shuncheon Province at an extremely low price, and Kim Zude knew that his opportunity had come.

A great opportunity to become a big shot in the capital.

It's a pity that halfway through the kill came out a potato flour.

Jin Zude, who was ready to agitate the villagers, immediately failed in his abacus, so he could only continue to wait.

After so many days of hard work, Jin Zude once again gave him a chance.

With the greed of the bureaucratic squire, it was impossible to let go of the profitable potato flour, and they began to squeeze the potato flour in the hands of the military households under various names.

Just yesterday, one of Jin Zude's relatives inquired about the news that the wives and daughters of military households in some villages had started to do secret business again.

The military households in these villages are an opportunity for Jin Zude, and as long as these military households are instigated to smash the steam factory, they can set off a popular uprising.

Although Jin Zude has lived in the countryside for a long time, he has a good habit of insisting on buying a newspaper.

Through this newspaper, Jin Zude can learn a lot about the world, such as Gao Yingxiang, who claims to be the king of Chuang.

Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, has completely become big, Henan, Shaanxi, and Huguang are full of rogues, and this year they even invaded Sichuan.

The civil uprising has become a matter that has completely made the imperial court completely anxious.

As long as he uses the matter of the popular uprising, Jin Zude is confident that he can solve one thing that those big officials in the capital can't solve.

Destroy the steam factories on the banks of the Yongding River.

No matter how much benefit the steam factory can bring to the imperial court, as long as it will cause a popular uprising, the imperial court will not hesitate to close the steam factory.

The harm of the civil uprising, the court has already learned from King Gao Yingxiang.

Jin Zude also deduced one thing from a very short text in the newspaper, and became more and more confident.

What the emperor really cares about is potato flour, and he only needs to keep the steam factory that benefits the country and the people, as for the steam textile factory that caused the people's uprising.

There will only be one end.

Jin Zude was very cautious in doing things, and when he learned that another steam factory was being built next to Beishahe, he just resisted the desire in his heart and endured it for more than a month.

The Donglin Party and Jin Shang, who are accustomed to smooth sailing, every time they make a mistake, it is not because Zhu Shun is calculating, but because the things he invented are too incomprehensible.

Jin Zude worked hard for more than a month, wandering around the steam factory for several days, trying to figure out what this new steam factory was used for.

I don't know how the housekeepers of the steam factory are so brainless, and they know all day long that they stand at the door with a musket flintlock pistol, and they don't want to stuff them with silver.

After several days of wandering around, Jin Zude didn't get any news from the mouths of the family members, and it was still the same to stuff the money into those patrolling family members.

To this day, Jin Zude was relieved to see a donkey cart pulling a full load of cotton into the steam factory.

It seems to be another steam factory for spinning.

Jin Zude, who had a thorough understanding of his heart, put away the newspaper in his hand and sat in the sedan chair: "Go to Chenji Village first." ”

Chenji Village is a big village in Baiyangkou, because there is a small market in the village, and the people of ten miles and eight villages will come here to buy things, and Chencun Village has slowly become Chenji Village.

The only small market in Chenji Village was dilapidated a long time ago, and because it could not survive, many military families fled and became homeless.

Since the potato flour came out, the situation has improved slightly, and many military households who have fled their citizenship have come back one after another.

The county government did not pursue it, after all, population growth is a very important achievement of the county.

But this turnaround did not last long, and under the pressure of the bureaucratic gentry, there was another phenomenon of desertion.

Jin Zude understands very well how much resentment a person who has been hungry all the year round will have to live a full life and let him live back to his previous poor life.

Jin Zude wanted to take advantage of this resentment to set off a popular uprising and completely destroy the large steam factories on the banks of the Yongding River.

Kim Zude passed by the desolate little bazaar, and the once lively teahouses and liquor shops were all in tatters.

There was no shadow of a person in the small bazaar, and halfway through it was only to see a few wild cats, hungry and skinny, staring at a pair of big protruding eyes, very mad.

If it weren't for the wild cats on the side of the dirt road, they wouldn't even have the strength to climb when they were hungry, but if they had a little strength, these wild cats would definitely dare to pounce on them and bite the palanquin.

From the desolate little bazaar, I saw an equally skinny old woman at the end of the street.

The old woman, who was wearing some rags on her thin body, sat under the elm tree at the door, holding a stone pestle with some white roots.

Jin Zude saw that the old woman was not dead, and he was more sure of the calculation in his heart.

This old woman is the oldest old man in Chenji Village, and her mother's family is the second largest clan in Chenji Village, with more than 100 people.

The husband's family is the largest clan in Chenji Village, with as many as 200 people, and his son is still a small banner in the guard.

There are so many villages in Baiyangkou, Jin Zude has chosen for a long time, and he chose this old woman, except for the reasons of her mother's family and her husband's family.

is also because this old woman, when she was a young girl, she was a famous Qiao Niang in ten miles and eight villages, and she was fast in weaving and had a good texture.

Even if there is no potato flour, the old woman can support her little grandson with weaving alone.

Now.

can only count on the salary of his son who has been exploited layer by layer.

Jin Zude stepped off the sedan chair, put on a smiling face and said, "Old lady, I'm here to buy your cotton cloth again." ”

From a year ago, Jin Zude found a reason to come here and began to buy the old woman's cotton cloth in person.

When the old woman saw Jin Zude wearing a large ball of silk, she hurriedly wiped her hands on her body and gave a blessing: "I'm afraid Master Jin will be disappointed again this time." ”

"The silver given by Master Jin is already five cents more than that on the market, but the money is not enough to buy cotton, where will there be cotton cloth."

Jin Zude immediately put on a look of righteous indignation, and his voice was raised a lot: "It's all to blame on the damn Zhu Shun." ”

"If it weren't for the steam factory built by Zhu Shun to keep the price of cotton cloth so low, the common people would have a way to live, where would it be like now, destroying the people's way of life, isn't this forcing the people to a dead end!"

The old woman's maiden family and her husband's family lived next to each other, and Jin Zude's voice was very loud, and the two families sitting in the earthen walls of the house heard Jin Zude's words very clearly.

The old woman, who was sincerely frightened when she saw Jin Yuanwai, changed her face in an instant, sat on the stump, and no longer paid attention to Jin Zude.

Jin Zude thought that the effect had been achieved, and left here satisfied.

After three or four days of tiring running around the countryside, Jin Zude's voice was hoarse, and he finally said something similar.

But when he waited for three days, the soldiers never moved.

On the fourth day, a cronie housekeeper ran into the weeping flower gate and said with a panicked expression: "The master is not good, a group of chaotic people have come to the door." ”

Jin Zude stood in the courtyard, feeding the carp in the mud-glazed vat, all of which were white crystal high-quality Wuxi rice.

Hearing that the housekeeper said that a group of chaotic people came at the door, Jin Zude was not in a good mood, but he finally cleared up, and said with a smile: "I don't know the road, I hope this master will show the way to Yongding River." ”

"Let's go out and have a look."

Jin Zude took the purple clay pot soaked in the fat sea, opened his legs, walked out of the hanging flower door, and came to the closed gate.

Let the housekeeper guarding the door open the door and walk out with a kind smile.

"Is he insulting Engong?"

"That's right, it's him!"

"Are you sure he's Kim Zud?"

"Sure, I used to work as a day job at his house."

Before Jin Zude could understand what was going on, he was knocked to the ground by a wooden rake, and soon some other farm tools were smashed over with his head and face.

Jin Zude, who thought that the conspiracy had succeeded, died in the hands of a group of angry people for no apparent reason.

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