In the Ming Dynasty, the area south of the Yangtze River was once known as the land of fish and rice, but now it seems that there are many changes.

At that time, the people in the north were struggling to make a living, and the imperial court had no food to help the victims, but it also had a lot to do with the changes in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River today.

Once at the time of the autumn harvest, it was a golden rice field, but now at a glance, most of them are lush and green, although with the autumn mood and a little decadent, but the greenery in the field still occupies the upper hand.

Walking in, the fields that were supposed to be planted with rice and grain are now planted with mulberry hemp, but they are used by large families to feed silkworms.

The only land that remained to grow grain was mostly planted by the tenants who had rented the landlord's land, and most of the grain they grew needed to pay various taxes and taxes on the landlord's family. It's not even enough to feed a family, let alone have a surplus market for food.

It has been more than a year since they broke with the Hongmen people and entered a state of war hostility, but for the Ming Dynasty government, they were at a complete disadvantage after more than a year of war.

Needless to say, the battle of the naval fleet of the sea division did not even dare to sail out of the coastline until now; And the war on the land is also desolate, and it is not easy to recover from the hands of the Qing Dynasty and the Dashun enemy back to the northern homeland, and before it can be covered in the hand, it is out of his own control again and has become the territory of Hongmen.

Jingshi Shuntianfu, Daimyofu, Gwangpyeongfu and other mansions fell one after another. Almost the entire territory north of the Yellow River is no longer under the control of the Ming government.

Finally relying on the Yellow River moat, the Ming Dynasty regained its strength and established an imperfect front, but it still temporarily contained the offensive of Hongtang's army.

Of course, the so-called containment of the offensive of the Hongtang army is actually the Ming Dynasty army deceiving itself, the real reason is well known to everyone, it is not that the Hongtang army needs to digest their harvest and rectify the army.

Across the river, most of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army were apprehensive, and their confidence in the moat in front of them was not so strong, because the most powerful Hongtang army was precisely the naval fleet that had not fully demonstrated their strength.

Even the endless sea. It is difficult to stop the Hongtang fleet from moving forward, not to mention the inland Yellow River, the widest width is only tens of zhang!

Of course, these are still things that the government needs to have a headache for, but the people of the Ming Dynasty have made waves because of one thing.

The cause of the matter is actually very simple, that is, the war between Hongmen and the Ming Dynasty, and the warring blockade between the two sides as a result of this eventually caused a change that followed.

The first thing that caused the change was that the Jiangnan area had become accustomed to selling a large number of factories and businesses selling various specialties, and with the Hongmen issuing a statement banning trade between overseas merchants and the Ming Dynasty, many factory owners and workshop owners spent a lot of money to produce goods, and suddenly lost their buyers.

The domestic market of the Ming Dynasty, where can the internal digestion of Jiangnan commodities be achieved now, not to mention the ethnic minority areas in the southwest, few people like Jiangnan goods in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the local people in Jiangnan, and because of factors such as land annexation, few can afford these luxury goods.

There is no buyer, and there is

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It means that the goods produced by the factory owners and workshop owners have become useless things that have been accumulated in the warehouse, and they cannot be exchanged for money, so the factory owners and workshop owners will have no way to pay the wages of the workers, purchase raw materials and continue to work.

After a short period of blockade, the factory owners and workshop owners were able to grit their teeth and insist on persisting at that time, but seeing that the war blockade had lasted for more than a year, and there was no end in sight, the factory owners who wanted to persist couldn't help but retreat at this time.

It's not that they don't want to hold on, it's that they can't do it anymore.

At the beginning of Hongmen's army, no one could have imagined that the king of the South China Sea would give up the throne with a different surname second only to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and they were looking forward to the rich profits brought by the Age of Discovery, and used the silver money earned by processing products again and again. Expand their factories and workshops to earn more money, and the cycle continues.

There are even those who are bold enough to go to someone to borrow usury, in a vain attempt to get rich overnight, but now it seems that they have fallen into it because of this, and the future prospects are not optimistic!

"Proprietor Liu, open the door, it's me Lao Chen!"

"Surnamed Liu, open the door!"

"If we don't open the door again, we're welcome!"

Outside Suzhou, outside a private house, six or seven men's men knocked on the door of the mansion, but no one answered.

"Boss, did the family run away?"

Someone knocked on the door impatiently. Turning back to the middle-aged man who was squatting in the shade behind him, he complained.

"Don't care if they're not at home, just knock on the door for Lao Tzu!"

The middle-aged man who squatted on the ground to rest, surnamed Su Huairen, was born in the city of Suzhou, and since he was a child, he has been fighting in various walks of life in the people, and when he grew up, he became one of the leaders of the rangers in the city of Suzhou.

said that it was a ranger, but in fact, it was just Su Huairen's own reputation, and in the eyes of outsiders, they were actually just a group of gangsters who did not enter the stream, and they were even inferior to other people of the third and ninth ranks.

But gangsters like them naturally have the value of their existence, like something happened to a money bank gambling house, or they will return the account. It can just be handed over to these people to do things, anyway, they don't have much money to do things, and they can be thrown away at any time, so it's very useful.

This time, Su Huairen took on the errand to recover a debt that was about to expire for the Shen family in the city, and the borrower happened to be the Liu family's mansion that they blocked at this time.

The owner of this Liu mansion is named Dewang, who was originally a wealthy family in the city of Suzhou, and there were hundreds of acres of fertile land in the early years, and the family also opened a silk shop in the west of the city.

It is said that such a family should not have any foreign debts, just because their family business is well managed, and it is quite comfortable.

But to blame their family's ancestral inheritance, their family embroidered Su brocade, although it has not reached the point of offering to the royal family, but in Suzhou, a place famous for Suzhou embroidery, their family produces Su embroidery, which is also a well-known time-honored brand in the neighborhood.

With the opening of the Age of Discovery, and the Ming Dynasty government gradually relaxed its control over maritime trade, civil officials began to join in this lucrative situation.