After leaving an army to quickly stabilize the local order, Li Zhong, the commander of the Zhejiang Front Army, boarded the ship at Yuliangba and personally led the vanguard of the Zhejiang people to go straight downstream.

Set off in the morning and conquer the street in the afternoon.

Then, before it got dark, they officially conquered Yongping, the first town in Zhejiang......

Actually, they didn't fight.

There were hundreds of Chun'an people in his forwards, many of whom were from the Yongping area, and shouted a few voices directly outside the town, and the villagers tied up the Yongping patrol who still wanted to resist stubbornly.

Immediately after the next day, at noon, the soldiers came to Chun'an.

A few uncool-headed gentry in Chun'an also tried to hold on with the militia, and then more than 300 Chun'an soldiers lined up under the city and shouted in unison, and the young men who were forcibly driven to the city wall looked at the familiar faces inside, and chose to defect without hesitation. Just when there was chaos on the city wall, the villagers who flocked to the city gate below also opened the city gate, and then the army drove in, and a fellow villager was so angry that he jumped directly from the city wall......

Instead, he accidentally injured a soldier of the Jingnan Army.

Immediately after Li Zhong personally shot three local heinous villagers, and then announced the opening of the warehouse to release grain, he was almost three years of loyal soldiers, he was extremely familiar with this set of processes, first killed a few heinous gentry, and then opened the warehouse to release grain and announced the division of the field, the enthusiasm of the local villagers was mobilized at once.

It's simple.

By noon on the third day, his army had already arrived at Jinxi Pass.

It's still bloodless.

A local soldier of Jinxi Pass, carrying the banner of the Jingnan Army, stepped on the dock proudly, and the local inspection surrendered.

Then the next stop is Yanzhou Mansion City Jiande.

Of course, it is not the modern Jiande, it was relocated in the sixties, at this time the Jiande City was in Meicheng Town, the ancient city that controlled the Xin'an River, Lanxi, and Fuchun River, which was the hub of water transportation at the three forks, ushered in the second war in just two years......

Quzhou.

Shuitingmen Pier.

"Hurry, Dutama hurry up, if you can't load the ship before dark, you will be deducted a day's wages!"

The overseer's roar rang out.

He Fu, a coolie at the docks, lowered his head and carried a heavy wooden box on his back, struggling to move forward, and although it was early spring, the sweat on his forehead was still dripping.

The sulfur in this box should have been transported from Fujian, although there was still an oilcloth inside, he could still smell the disgusting smell, because the Beiyang Navy Division blockaded Ningbo and other coastal ports, and all sulfur was forbidden to be imported, so the sulfur used in the gunpowder workshops in Zhejiang was purchased from Fujian. The armed fleets of Zheng Zhilong, Yan Siqi and others transported the sulfur produced in the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyus to Fuzhou, and then transported it north by inland water from Fuzhou, and then took the Xianxia Pass and other roads to Jiangshan by land, and transported here by small boats to transfer to large ships and continue to Jinhua and other places.

It's not just sulfur.

At this time, almost all the needs of Zhejiang were shipped from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces.

Copper, iron, grain, and even nitrate from Sichuan, tin from Yunnan, in short, as long as they need to be purchased, they all rely on the gentry of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces to provide them here, and these goods, whether by water or land, are finally concentrated in Quzhou, and they are loaded on big ships at Shuitingmen Wharf and set sail.

Countless boats of all sizes crowded and waited on the banks of the Qujiang River every day.

This is the lifeline of the Zhejiang gentry.

At this time, the fierce battle in Yanzhou had already begun.

It's just that after the attacker was frustrated, Li Zhong had stopped waiting for the follow-up main force.

In the whole of Zhejiang, whether in eastern or western Zhejiang, all the gentry are going all out, preparing to defend this gate that can be called Zhejiang, including Quzhou, and even some of the reinforcements organized by the Jiangxi gentry have also arrived in Yanzhou and Shouchang and other places, and the Jingnan army along the Xin'an River is preparing for a decisive battle with Yanzhou as the battlefield.

There is the Congshan Pass of the Zhejiang gentry.

If they could hold Yanzhou, the Jingnan army would not be able to really enter Zhejiang.

After all, it can't be done without water transport.

In the past, it was possible not to rely on water transportation, and the cavalry rode horses with cold weapons to support the rapid expansion of warfare, but at this time, it was difficult to move an inch without water transportation, and it was impossible for those cannons to travel hundreds of miles on mountain roads, and it was impossible for ammunition in the rear to travel hundreds of miles on mountain roads without water transportation. And the scientific and technological content of the war has advanced to the current level, leaving aside artillery and firearms, even the Jingnan army can't beat the Zhejiang regiment drillers at this time......

Well, the Jingnan Army going south is also the Datong Army in the past or the current regimental training.

"Your third child has a letter?"

A coolie next to him whispered.

"Nope!"

He Fu shook his head.

"Xu Si heard that he voted over there."

The man whispered.

"Don't talk nonsense, let people know that he will be implicated in his family again!"

He Fu said.

"What are you afraid of, I'm afraid that three thousand young people from Quzhou City will have to vote over there, and the townsmen will dare to find trouble with anyone, can't they learn from those in Huizhou if they are in a hurry? Ma's, I really can't live this day, the wages are deducted every day, the food is getting more and more expensive, the old things of the Xiangxian Association are scared, they don't want to pay the money and finally pay it back, and they can pick and choose if they can spend money, so they want to let us work in vain. ”

The man said indignantly.

What he said was the truth.

The Zhejiang gentry have no bottom in their hearts.

Although they are still going all out, the silver is becoming more and more reluctant to take it out, after all, once they lose, they will be beaten with chickens and eggs, and there is no way to buy raw materials from the outside, but these coolies inside, workers and the like can drag it out. In the same way, they control the price of grain and constantly increase in order to extract as much wealth as possible from the people, so that the losses are passed on, anyway, they control the land and control the grain trade, and they have the final say in the price of grain.

In this way, in the end, even if Yanzhou can't hold it and needs to surrender, he can save as much silver as he can in his hands, after all, Yang Xin still has to ask them to pay for it.

The peasants are better.

After all, Zhejiang is a place suitable for agriculture, even if the surrounding mountains and forests dig wild vegetables, you can make do.

But these coolies and workers could only endure their oppression, and after the brief boom brought about by the initial economic development, the gentry became more and more unified.

This may not be able to catch up!

"Alas!"

He Fu sighed.

At this time, he walked on the springboard, but because he didn't have enough to eat, he continued to do heavy physical work, and his legs were weak on the shaking springboard.

He exclaimed.

Immediately afterwards, the whole person fell forward.

But he still tried his best to let the box of sulfur smash on the boat, but unfortunately it didn't all smash, just smashed on the edge, with the sound of the wooden box breaking and the sulfur falling inside, he also fell into the river, and then woke up under the stimulation of the cold river water, and hurriedly got up from it, but the moment he got up, a whip fell on his shoulder.

"Rubbish!"

Shouting and scolding rang out.

He did not dare to speak, climbed up to the dock with his head down, and lay there weakly.

But then the whip fell again......

"Why are you still beating people!"

The companion hurriedly grabbed the overseer's arm.

"Ma, if you want to rebel, no matter how much you do, you will smoke it together, drag this waste aside, and you will die to the side."

Overseer said.

"Wait!"

A voice suddenly rang out.

"The king is in charge!"

The overseer quickly groveled.

Then a guy with an abacus appeared......

"Calculate this account first, this box of sulfur looks like it has to be sprinkled with more than forty catties, even if it is forty catties, this batch of sulfur is bought for one catty and seven cents of silver, and forty catties is two taels of silver, plus a fine, even if it is three taels, take out these three taels of silver first."

Steward Wang said.

He Fu looked at him stupidly.

"What? Ruined the master's goods, do you think you don't have to pay? ”

Steward Wang glared and shouted.

"You have deducted his salary of seven cents of silver this month alone, and I will work for you for nothing for half a month, and it will be a big deal to deduct it from my salary in the future!"

The companion said.

"One yard to one yard, wages are wages, compensation is compensation, we are all talking about the rules, you do something wrong to deduct wages, but if you don't pay this silver, you have to find me if you don't have the account, hurry up, go back and get it if you don't have any silver, and slowly deduct it later? Who am I looking for when you ran away tonight? ”

Steward Wang said.

"Steward Wang, I only received one or two taels of silver a month when I was young, and now the price of rice is one and a half, and the family doesn't even have the money to buy rice, where does the silver come from?"

He Fu said crying.

"That's not going to work!"

Steward Wang said.

"You don't pay for work, but you want us to give you money? You are unreasonable! ”

The companion said angrily.

"That's right, Steward Wang, what's the matter with deducting wages every day?"

"I've only received less than one tael this month, and my family counts the rice grains every day and drinks them thin, you can't bully people like this"

……

The coolies shouted and gathered around.

"What are you doing, if you want to rebel, hurry up and work, if you don't work, how can you get paid?"

The overseer shouted.

"You haven't been paid for our work, Ma, Lao Tzu is no longer working, brothers, we don't serve them anymore, Lao Tzu doesn't get as much as you deduct a month, this job is still a fart!"

The companion said angrily.

"Dog thing, dare to strike? Arrest him and send him to the yamen! ”

The king's steward shouted.

"If you want to do the work for you, you can do it, if you don't want to, you won't do it, Lao Tzu is not your slave, why can't you not do it, Lao Tzu won't do it, brothers, if they don't give us the law, we won't do it!" Deduct wages every day, you can deduct wages when Lao Tzu pees, and you set the number of times you drink water, you obviously just watched the Jing Nanjun call, and you didn't want to pay your wages, so you deliberately found fault with the deduction. ”

The companion shouted.

"It's the opposite, it's a rebellion, the militia group, arrest this Diao people who instigated trouble!"

The king shouted angrily.

Apparently the coolie lifted the last fig leaf for them.

There was a sudden silence all around.

The coolies who had come to their senses looked at each other......

"Ma, this is a white wolf playing with empty gloves!"

A merchant who watched the excitement stood on a boat not far away and said with a smile.

"Brothers, don't them!"

A burly coolie shouted.

(Three chapters, later in the next chapter, send my daughter to school)

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