"It's finally here!"

Looking at Wuxi City in front of him, Yang Xin also sighed.

"Lao Tzu came to arrest a teacher, it is actually more difficult than going to the battlefield to fight Jiannu, and the battle of Shenyang has never been so troublesome and laborious!"

He said vulgarly.

The city of Wuxi in front of you is not very big.

After all, this is only a county under the Changzhou government.

However, it is still much larger than many prefectures in the north, whether it is Guangping Mansion City or Dongchang Mansion City, all of which are smaller than this Wuxi county town with a circumference of twelve miles.

And the prosperity and wealth here are no worse than Changzhou.

However, compared to Changzhou, which is more focused on agriculture, the textile industry here is much more prosperous, whether it is the canal at Yang Xin's feet, the Xicheng Canal in front of it, and even the small boats on both sides, all of which are full of bales of cotton and cotton cloth transported out.

Even on the streets of residential areas outside the city, cotton cloth in transit can be seen everywhere.

On the rivers on both banks, there are water wheels, which drive a series of water-powered spinning wheels, spinning cotton from all over the world into yarn, and then sending it to large and small weaving workshops, using those manpower looms to turn cotton cloth into cotton cloth.

However, in contrast, there is a serious shortage of food here.

In addition to the cotton and cloth transporters, the rest were grain ships.

The land had really begun to transform from an agrarian to an industrial society, and the countless weavers who crowded the land supplied almost all of East Asia and even half of the world as far as the Americas, and countless Koreans, Wakokus, Luzons and even Indians all wore their woven cloth. Of course, it also includes the Ming Dynasty's own people, the rich wear the silk they weave, the ordinary wear the cotton cloth they weave, and those who really don't have money can wear the linen they weave, their technology is more advanced and larger than that of contemporaneous Europe.

And this city, shaped like a turtle shell, is just the entrance to this land.

From here, the east bank of Taihu Lake to the Qiantang River is the same for the whole area, and the core is less than a hundred miles away......

"Suhu is ripe, the world is full, there is no Suhu ripe anymore!"

Yang Xin said.

"There is silver to buy."

Li Chengzuo said with a smile.

"What if there is nowhere to buy it? What if other places can't produce food because of natural disasters? ”

Yang Xin said.

"So what? If you don't make money with white flowers, you will continue to grow those worthless grains? Wouldn't that be a fool? In a normal year here, after the autumn harvest, a stone of rice is only six or seven hundred Wen, and when the price of grain is extremely expensive in disaster years, it is only a little more than one or two. ”

Yan Shenggong said disdainfully.

However, he did not know that in another ten years, the price of rice here would jump to nearly three taels.

But at least now Yang Xin can't refute him.

As the three of them spoke, their boat slowly approached the dock.

This wharf is also the most important rice market in Wuxi, densely packed with small boats transporting rice, most of which come from the polder area of Furong Lake, or even simply trade on the water. But to their surprise, there were still people here to greet them, and they were officially greeted by the county commander.

Although it was the Yan Sheng Gong who was greeted.

"Liu Wuwei, the magistrate of Wuxi, greets the Holy Father of Yan and the Marquis of Fengcheng."

In front of the official pavilion, a green-robed civil official shouted and bowed in a slightly Sichuan-style accent.

Then he was surrounded by gongs and drums.

"There is Lao Liu County Zun!"

Yan Shenggong returned to a half-dead state again and said.

"Liu Xianzun, don't you welcome me?"

Yang Xin said very unhappily.

"Who is Your Excellency? Could it be the guards of the Holy Father? Please forgive me for being clumsy. ”

Liu Xianling said.

"Very good, I remember you!"

Yang Xin said.

"Liu is a native of Wanxian County, Sichuan, and a scholar in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Your Excellency can remember it more clearly."

Liu Zhixian said proudly.

"Do you know that Sun Chuanting, who was the same year of your year, has been transferred from the county magistrate to the military department as the chief because he has a deep friendship with Yang?"

Yang Xin said.

"Liu is not going to bend his waist for a main matter."

Liu Zhixian said.

The squires all around applauded.

Yang Xin was finally defeated, and a good story spread among the gentry.

Immediately after Liu Zhixian greeted, Yan Shenggong and Fengcheng Hou and his entourage crossed the Lianrong Bridge to enter Jiangmen, although there were no welcome people along the way, but it was not like Changzhou where countless people were waiting, and even a few old squires who greeted Yan Shenggong were quite polite. Although it is obvious that there is a hidden contempt, at least on the surface, they still meet the standards for welcoming Yan Shenggong, and they are also very polite to Li Chengzuo, as for Yang Xin's family, they don't even bother to get close, like a piece of stinky shit.

"It's weird!"

Yang Xin muttered to himself while looking at the scenery in Wuxi.

I have to say that the scenery here is still very good, and there are small bridges and flowing water everywhere.

"Uncle, why is my nephew a little uneasy?"

Even Yang Huan was a little hairy.

With the previous encounter in Changzhou City, they were also prepared to welcome each other with a big stick here, and even Yang Xin even wrote a speech on the way, but he didn't dare to guarantee that it would be useful, after all, he had done it once in Changzhou, and the sages of Donglin would definitely take corresponding countermeasures. And the Dangkou army is also full of food and drink, in order to avoid causing too many casualties, Yang Xin issued an additional short stick, once he was beaten by the people, he directly got on the short stick, it can be said that he was full of energy and prepared for a vicious battle.

But what the hell is this?

Instead of resisting, they treated each other with courtesy?

Even if it is obviously a courtesy, it is also a courtesy, even if it is just a county order with a few old squires, it also represents that the people of Wuxi greeted them.

"Yang Yanshi, there are a few people in Wuxi City, I have been here a few times before, at this time, the street is not to mention shoulder to shoulder, I can't see a few pedestrians today, even the shops on both sides are closed, they must be ready to deal with us."

A brocade guard whispered.

Yang Xinqing only noticed that the shops were really closed.

"I'm afraid that he is a bird, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, where is Donglin Academy?"

Yang Xin asked.

"In the east gate, you just enter the door."

The brocade guard said.

Yang Xin nodded, and then looked at Yan Shenggong in front of him.

"Yan Shenggong, it's not too early, let's get down to business first!"

He said.

"Yang Yanshi, it's still early!"

Yan Shenggong said dissatisfiedly.

"It's useless for you to drag, it's also a knife to stretch your neck and shrink your neck, don't forget what I told you before."

Yang Xin said.

Yan Shenggong looked at Liu Zhixian.

"Liu Xianzun, Kong Mou is the same as Fengcheng Hou, Yang Yan has official business, and he will go to the county government after he finishes it."

He said.

"In that case, please do it!"

Liu Zhixian said as if he didn't know what they were going to do.

"Liu Zhixian, where is Donglin Academy, Yang is going to catch Gao Panlong."

Yang Xin shouted defiantly.

Liu Zhixian glanced at him with disdain, greeted the old squires, and then they walked away so proudly that even the pedestrians on the street were quickly cleaned, and they were left in the whole street next to the canal. Coupled with the fact that those shops were closed, Yang Xin suddenly felt a little killed, as if he was in a Longmen Inn in the desert and yellow sand, instead of a prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River, he stood on the long street paved with stone and looked around......

A small boat suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

It was a small boat resembling a canopy boat, and there were several young men standing on board, looking at them with their arms crossed.

Then more of these boats appeared, and under the support of the captain, they sailed out of the deep waterway like ghosts, and quickly entered the canal beside them, and all the boats were full of young people, looking at them one by one, and even seeing that there were also large wooden sticks on board.

I have to say that this kind of water city is not good, no one knows where a boatload of people suddenly appeared.

Especially Wuxi City.

At this time, the canal actually passes through the city, enters the water gate next to the river gate, and then goes straight to the south and then goes out from the water gate next to the lake gate in the south, and the canal in the city divides dozens of tributaries, which use a waterway to string countless streets and alleys. In a sense, the main street of the city is not the one under his feet, but the canal, and at the same time the city has no streets, and the waterways are streets. Therefore, they don't need to arrange people here at all, those young people who are ready to beat them up are waiting in the boats of the water alleys, and they can gather with a command when needed.

This environment is not good for them.

Because people can maneuver on the water at any time, and even cross other waterways at any time in front of them, they can also go directly into the water once they want to withdraw, while the mountain people under him can't water, and they may be dragged down and pressed into the water to death if they are not careful.

"But why did they greet us?"

Yang Xin said.

"People are salutes first and then soldiers, I am still Yan Shenggong, although I have been ruined by your reputation, but I am Yan Shenggong after all, it is wrong not to greet it.

As for your arrest of Gao Panlong, it's your business.

Similarly, you arrested Gao Panlong to provoke a civil uprising, this has nothing to do with them welcoming me, they are not rude, as a Confucian disciple, they are worthy of their identity, but the etiquette has been fulfilled, and the rest is to let go of the hoe and rape. How many times have I said it, you just don't listen, we are like this, you can't offend the local gentry and those big families in what you do, how good it is for you to be honest and powerful in the capital, you can make money if you want to, you want women to have, why do you have to find yourself unhappy?

Now, I'll see how you break this game. ”

Yan Shenggong said.

"Then why don't you come up yet?"

Yang Xin looked at the increasing number of boats on the rivers around him.

At this time, all the outlets of the waterways were full of such boats, which densely covered the canals, and all the boats were young and strong, and they stood on the boats and watched them quietly.

I have to say that this feeling is still very depressing.

"Because you haven't arrested anyone yet."

Yan Shenggong said.