"Why are we fighting against the Marquis of Zhongyong?"

And on this same night, in a room on the second floor of the Nanjing Huguang Hall, Chen Zilong was standing in front of the window and said.

This is the residence of the king's husband.

However, at this time, it was not only Huguang people who gathered here, but also many members of several societies, including Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, and many of them were also incumbent officials. This is the information that Yuanyuan gave to Yang Qing about several societies, and the Susong gentry with the Susong gentry and the Huguang gentry with the several societies as the core are forming an alliance and becoming the fourth force in the Ming political arena......

Yang Qing's Northern Party.

Donglin Party.

Huang Zongxi and others are the core of the Zhejiang Party, or it can also be said that the Restoration Party.

And the Socialist Party is the fourth share.

The basis of the alliance between the Huguang gentry and the Susong gentry is actually very simple, the former's exports are all agents of the latter, and the sales of Huguang materials to overseas must all have to go from Shanghai Customs.

Moreover, after experiencing a series of tosses such as Zhang Xianzhong's killing, Zuo Liangyu's rebellion, and then King Gui's proclamation as emperor, it can basically be said that they suffered heavy losses. Originally, the Chu Party was suppressed in the Chongzhen Dynasty because of Wei Zhongxian, and it has not even been a decent member in the court until now, and there is only one household servant Zhang Tongchang, a Yang He who has just been transferred to the governor of Guizhou, and Guo Duxian, the governor of Jiangxi. In this case, they must form an alliance with other forces, and Su Song's group has become an inevitable choice, although Chen Zilong, Shen Tingyang, and He Gang from Su Song may not be very high, but they are all the backbone of the middle level of the court.

And their principles ......

"Wouldn't it be better to cooperate?"

Chen Zilong said.

"But I'm afraid that the ambition of the Loyal and Brave Marquis will not stop there!"

He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, said worriedly because Tao Runai, who had entered Beijing on official business.

"So what? The prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty is not fake, the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, how could Yingtian City have been prosperous today? Even in its heyday, it was not as good as that! Brother Zhongtiao, I don't want to discuss what you are worried about, I just want to say one thing, isn't it enough to have such a prosperous world? ”

He Gang said.

He was a close subordinate of Shi Kefa and a good friend of Chen Zilong, who originally died in Yangzhou with Shi Kefa in history.

"Brother Zhongtuo, are you worried about the Zhongyong Marquis learning from Jia Dao? I admit that this is possible, Zhongyong Hou is still very upright, and he has indeed publicly praised Jia Yidao's Gongtian Law many times! But he won't do that for at least 10 years, not even 20 years, because Huguang still has a lot of land to reclaim to accommodate the population.

Of course, this has nothing to do with us.

Even if these lands are cultivated, they will belong to the Imperial Village.

For us, it is a very simple question, is the future Ming the most important field?

No!

It's trade, it's a workshop, it's a mine!

That's what really matters.

My Shen family sold half of Chongming's land, and scraped together enough silver to double the fleet to the Wa Kingdom, and the silver earned back last year was equivalent to the value of all the original land. So why do you keep staring at the fields? Think about the time when Zhang Xianzhong plundered Huguang, and the poor people everywhere flocked to respond, how many landlords died in this catastrophe?

We must understand that peace is the foundation of everything.

Without peace, everything is empty.

The foundation of Taiping is to make everyone have enough to eat, this principle is very simple, but if we still keep our eyes on the land and still rely on land rent to maintain the family business, it will still make the tenants not have enough to eat after all.

And then they will rebel.

Hasn't it been like this since ancient times?

In the past, we really couldn't help it, after all, there was nothing really rich except for collecting rent, whether it was silkworms or tea, in the final analysis, it was out of the ground, but now it's different, mining, maritime, and starting a field can all make money, and earn more, so why don't we change the way? My land was sold to the Huangzhuang of Chongming, and according to the market price, the tenants happily entered the Huangzhuang, and I used the money from the sale of the land to expand the maritime trade and make more money, and they lived a full life in the Huangzhuang, and they were happy with the best of both worlds.

And my Shen family also reaped the peace.

At this time, Chongming don't say that Li Zicheng and his ilk, that is, Zhang Jiao's ilk is resurrected, and don't want to incite the people to rebel again, where it can be described as not closing the door at night, and not leaving the road behind, even if I go out of the city alone in the middle of the night, I don't need to worry about anything, let alone worry about the robbers breaking down one day.

That's all that matters.

Without a peaceful and prosperous world, what is the use of our wealth? Which of those who died in torture in the northern capital had no money? ”

Shen Tingyang said somewhat high-spiritedly.

Obviously, the Shen family's maritime trade has indeed made a lot of money in the past two years, and the previous Wa Kingdom was actually dominated by Zheng Zhilong, but Yang Qing was the master of the Shen family and the Zheng family to re-divide the direction of trade. The latter specializes in maritime trade in the South Seas, and the former specializes in the North Seas, to be precise, one is mainly south of the Taiwan Strait, and the other is mainly in the north, but both are cross-shareholding between the two major companies in the South and North Seas, and the small maritime merchants either participate in the North or the South Seas, otherwise it is smuggling. As a vested interest in shipping, he was extremely supportive of Zhongyong Marquis, and even sold half of the Shen family's land in order to make up the share capital of shipbuilding.

But the rewards are handsome.

"How can Huguang compare with Chongming?"

The former Nanjing Guozi supervised the sacrificial wine, and Chongzhen had already dismissed the official at home before the southern crossing, and Wen Anzhi, who came to supervise the Huguang Simin delegation, said at this time.

"Brother Tie'an, didn't the Sichuan goods go out of Sichuan from Yiling? Isn't Yiling tea famous? If you hire someone to learn how to make black tea, collect tea leaves and make black tea and ship it out, I can guarantee that you can sell as much as you ship, even if you don't make black tea, you can fry green tea directly. There are as many black tea as the Dutch want, and they don't buy enough in Fujian, even green tea is also popular. ”

Shen Tingyang said.

The large-scale export of Chinese tea, in fact, did not really form in the Ming Dynasty, at this time the European merchant ships purchased goods are the first silk, the second porcelain, the third sugar, and then cotton, tea, and a special commodity is books, which is still very surprising, but all kinds of books are indeed the third largest export goods of the Ming Dynasty.

The largest export destination is the Wa Kingdom.

In addition, the Nanyang area also bought a large number of books from the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the establishment of the Nanyang Company, the export of books was strictly censored, the export of scientific and technological books was strictly banned, and Yang Qing, who knew very well what would be the most profitable from Europe in the future, had already begun to sell large quantities of black tea to Batavia, which was easier to preserve than green tea. In fact, even if green tea is shipped to Europe, even if it is not moldy, it is basically the same color as black tea, and even European profiteers add patina to tea leaves in order to add color, I have to say that their brains are also very amazing.

Black tea, on the other hand, avoids the deterioration of long-distance transportation to the greatest extent.

It is black tea that makes the export of tea.

The earliest recorded purchase of black tea by European merchant ships is Fujian, that is, Zhengshan Xiaozhong, which is also the earliest record of black tea, at this time the common is fried green tea, Japan is still steamed until the beginning of the nineteenth century, by a bald thief to fry green tea.

Yang Qing now encourages the making of black tea.

Wen'an's hometown is Yiling, and Yihong's recorded export is from the beginning of the 19th century.

Shen Tingyang has always been jealous when he sees the Zheng family's wealth in the black tea business, but his hand can't reach Fujian, and the Dutch merchant ships of Shanghai Customs have solved the export problem, and all he needs is suppliers. Obviously, he wanted to win over the gentry of Huguang to be the supplier, after all, Huguang and mountainous areas are one of the oldest tea producing areas, and all he needs is to change roasted green tea to black tea, and the Yangtze River will solve the transportation problem to Shanghai.

Wen Anzhi immediately shut up.

"The principle of Zhongyong Marquis is very simple, he encourages industry and commerce, encourages overseas trade, and even wants to promote the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to colonize overseas like the Taixi countries. But he opposed land annexation, because the Ming Dynasty almost lost the country, which was caused by land annexation, and he wanted the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty to continue, first of all, he must prevent land annexation, so that the cultivators have their land and everyone has enough to eat. If you have enough to eat, you won't rebel, and if you don't rebel, this peace can be maintained, but he also pointed us to another way, I went this way, I feel very satisfied, so why should I confront the Marquis of Zhongyong?

What can confrontation bring me?

Don't say that we can't fight him, even if we can fight him, what can be the result of that fight? Could it be that Dolgon, Li Zicheng, and even Zhang Xianzhong won't take advantage of the situation?

Two dogs strive for a bone and a third runs away with it.

There are a lot of people waiting outside for us to come to this Jiangnan flower world to make a fortune, don't forget that when we sing and dance here, Dolgon has five taels of silver for one stone, and don't forget that Li Zicheng is there, and everyone is still providing food at a fixed rate. We are the biggest piece of fat in the world, the fat that everyone covets, it is the Marquis of Zhongyong who leads the army to block them, without the Marquis of Zhongyong, who can stop Li Zicheng's army of 300,000 tigers and wolves, and who can stop Dolgon's 100,000 iron cavalry? ”

Shen Tingyang said.

"What if the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage has different aspirations?"

Li Xiangzhong said.

He was a native of Chengtian, and was originally martyred with his son after the fall of Zhoushan.

Shen Tingyang smiled.

"If the Marquis of Zhongyong has different aspirations, who do I think I can be a filial piety? I, Shen Tingyang, thought I couldn't do it first! ”

He went on to say.

There was silence throughout the room.

Indeed, who thinks they can be Fang Xiaoru? If Yang Qing is a rogue, Hu Lu, these people do dare to talk about a war, in fact, most of these people died of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, such as Wen Anzhi is a bachelor of Yongli, and finally died of illness in Kuidong's army. Even if he didn't die in the anti-Qing Dynasty, he lived in seclusion after the defeat, for example, even if Tao Runai died for decades, the article could be banned by the fourth elder brother's text and even implicated in prison.

But now they really don't have that confidence.

"Look at the city that never sleeps!"

Shen Tingyang pushed open the window and looked outside at the city being illuminated by various lights......

"How many things have risen and fallen through the ages, leisurely, not endlessly, the Yangtze River is rolling!"

He shouted. (https:)

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