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The Lantern Festival has only passed for three days, and the city of Yangzhou is full of flames and gunsmoke. Li Shutai took the 80,000 elites of the Han army under his command under the Zhenglan Banner plus the green battalion of Shandong, Tokyogi, and the total number of newly recruited Han soldiers was 150,000, and the four big characters of "revenge and shame" were written on the banner.

Li Shutai took the lead, and he must be the first in every battle, and before leaving, he wrote to Dolgon, bluntly saying that he could not take Yangzhou, and he was willing to engage in military law. Dolgon was greatly moved, and although Li Shutai was a Han Chinese, he was more loyal to his master than the Manchus. Dolgon made him a second-class Adhaha, hereditary.

All the counties north of Yangzhou were lost, and only one city in the entire Yangzhou Mansion was still in the hands of Zhu Dadian.

The Huozi Battalion stationed in Zhenjiang Prefecture received a distress letter, and the whole army set out to fight across the river, and the situation in Jiangbei became tense in an instant.

Although Hou Xuanyan said that he was preparing for a big wedding in Suzhou, in fact, someone handled everything for him, but he just started to standardize the formulation of commercial taxes, and mixed with a group of wealthy businessmen and maritime businessmen every day.

When the news of Yangzhou's emergency reached Suzhou, Hou Xuanyan was on a spinning wheel, experiencing the pedal spinning wheel and the stirring wheel loaded with feet.

Although Gu Shouye is relatively sluggish in other aspects, when it comes to the workshop industry, the head is the way. He smiled to himself: "In the past, weaving cloth was up to three horses a day for one person, but now our Gu family has ten pieces of cloth a day for one person." ”

Next to him was Wu Jikun's second son, Wu Shouyu, whose face was stunned when he heard the words, obviously angry and didn't dare to speak. His family is a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, and his main industries are concentrated in Jinling, which is really thicker than the Gu family. Wu Shouyu has been dressed and fed since he was a child, and today because he wants to accompany Hou Xuanyan, I don't know where to find an ordinary dress, which doesn't fit very well on the body, and has been awkward, like a monkey, and has lost his demeanor on weekdays.

Hou Xuanyan listened to his father-in-law's words, smiled even more, and said, "Such a good thing, why not promote it?" ”

Wu Shouyu finally couldn't help it, twisted his shoulders, and interjected: "This thing was originally used by our Wu family, and later it was sued to the Yamen, Zhao Zhilong, who was guarding Nanjing at that time, insisted that our workshop used an automatic loom, which was unfair to the people and workshops who weaved cloth by hand, so the government took back our spinning wheel and let everyone continue to weave cloth by hand." ”

Hou Xuanyan understood as soon as he heard it, since this technology has appeared, there must be people who can make spinning wheels. The Wu family didn't let it be used, but the Gu family dared to use it, because under the protection of Suzhou itself, no one dared to trouble the Gu family.

Hou Xuanyan understood the joints, and naturally refused to let such a pedantic and ridiculous thing continue to happen, and said with a smile: "In the future, it will be changed to like this, if anyone can improve more, they will be rewarded." Now isn't it a market for one person a day, someone can make twenty horses a day for each person, and the bounty is a thousand taels. ”

Wu Shouyu was overjoyed, bent down and said, "Thank you for being the commander for making decisions for the people." ”

When Gu Shouye heard this, his face sank, and he said: "I'm afraid that those retail investors are unwilling, and it's not good to gather people to make trouble." ”

Hou Xuanyan disagreed, and said: "They want to be fair, and they can all use it is fair." If anyone who is ahead of them should be punished, then we should drink blood. I'm not used to these stinky problems, whoever dares to make trouble has its own law, and it's not easy to do it here if the law doesn't blame the public, if you come to a diao people, I'll hit one, and if you come to 10,000, I'll hit 10,000. ”

Wu Shouyu didn't expect that Hou Xuanyan didn't think about making a fortune at all, and respected him by three points from the bottom of his heart. Hou Xuanyan continued: "After the fall of the north, there are countless people who have fled across the river, these people have no property of their own, and have lost the land of their ancestors. Their wages can be paid seven by you, and three by the yamen. In this way, I will also save a little money on alms, and you will also save a little wages, and the refugees will be fine. Why not kill three birds with one stone? ”

Wu Shouyu took the lead in expressing his position and said: "Grandpa Guo, rest assured, our Wu family voluntarily gave up the salary of the yamen, and paying for it on our own can be regarded as doing some modest help for the compatriots in the north." ”

Hou Xuanyan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It is already rare for Wu Gongzi to be able to say this, but there are no rules. You Wu family don't want it, and other merchants don't dare to ask for it in order to please me. In this way, I am afraid that this benevolent government for the benefit of the people will be difficult to implement. As long as you don't deliberately lower wages and exploit refugees, that's fine, you don't have to save money. Everyone hurriedly agreed, and Hou Xuan said with a straight face: "I said ugly things in front, who dares to make a fortune with a black hand, I will never be soft." ”

Wu Shouyu bent down and said: "Don't worry, Guogong, this is the case, our Wu family will donate 300,000 taels of silver alone to help help the refugees." ”

Hou Xuanyan nodded and said, "Go back and let the yamen make a pennant and send it to the Wu family." ”

Xia Yunyi, the prefect of Suzhou, hurriedly rushed to the Gu family's weaving workshop with urgent documents.

Hou Xuanyan's personal soldier recognized him as the prefect of the mansion, and hurriedly led him to the workshop.

Xia Yunyi ran too fast, and his official hat was crooked, and he shouted while holding the emergency document in one hand: "Wen Yuan, Yangzhou is in a hurry!" ”

When the workshop heard this, they immediately fell into a panic, and they had all seen the speed of the Qing soldiers going south. The merchants exchanged heads and ears, and there was chaos in the workshop. Hou Xuanyan said in a deep voice: "What are you panicking, give me the paperwork." ”

Stretched out his hand to take the document handed by Xia Yunyi, which read: Li led Tai's 150,000 troops to level the seven counties of Yangzhou in three prefectures, and the troops were under the city of Yangzhou. The Shuizi battalion was defending the city, and its strength was overwhelmed, so it begged to send reinforcements quickly.

Hou Xuanyan saw that people's hearts were in turmoil, chuckled, and said: "A mere 150,000 miscellaneous soldiers have been lucky enough to hit Yangzhou City, and there are still 100,000 soldiers and horses in the city. Zhu Dadian invited me to send troops to attack the Qing army, but I was afraid that I would be late and would be escaped by Li Shuitai. That's why I used the urgent paperwork, Xia Zhifu You are the lord of a mansion, what do you look like in a panic. ”

Xia Yunyi had read the paperwork, so he naturally knew that Hou Xuanyan was talking about it, but after thinking about it, he really did something wrong. Jiangnan was initially decided, people's hearts may not be stabilized, if someone has a different heart, it is too dangerous. Hurriedly said: "What Wen Yuan said is that I was too anxious to send it to you without reading the paperwork." ”

Hou Xuanyan quietly hid the paperwork in his sleeve, stood up and said, "Follow me back to the Yamen, Li Shutai is a fellow who has come to commit crimes many times." Shenzong has a saying: Righteousness and martial arts are promoted, and those who jump off the beam will be killed even if they are strong. This time, this thief will be killed, his head will be cut off, and it will spread all over Jiangnan. ”

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