The third child of the Fan family, who was pulled by Fang Lajun, took his nephews and nieces to board a boat and enter Taihu Lake north. The boat will soon arrive in Wuhu and return to Mingyuezhuang with the other boats.

The old couple of the Fan family on the shore watched the third daughter-in-law and grandchildren on the boat go away, listening to the little doll's cry gradually subduing, but they were only sad for a few breaths, and then considered the livelihood of the remaining people.

It's not that the Fan family is too cold, but the reality is too cruel.

People who go away have at least a bite to eat, and they have to think about survival.

The third daughter-in-law "voluntarily" remarried thousands of miles away, in exchange for the Fan family being incorporated into the people's young and strong, and they did not have to worry about being treated as "thieves and rebels" like the ordinary people in most places.

When Fang La's army attacked, the tragedies of burning, killing, and looting emerged one after another. When the Great Zhou army attacked, military discipline was not much better.

The current era is humane compared to the past millennium. But the small people are still called grass people, like weeds on the ground, and if they kill one stubble, they will grow another. No one is on their side because they don't have a voice.

What's more, Fang La's slaughter of gentry and officials was much more terrifying to the scholars and doctors who controlled the world than foreign enemies who smelled of sheep's flesh.

The gentry in the area occupied by Fangla were almost wiped out, and now that it was the turn of the Great Zhou army to attack, there was no one to supervise military discipline.

The female dependents were humiliated, the old and weak were killed, the young and strong were taken away, and the only remaining family property was also robbed.

As the Great Zhou army penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Yongle Dynasty, all kinds of evil deeds were frequently staged with the acquiescence of the Great Zhou scholars, the promotion of martial artists at all levels, and the strong desires of the low-level soldiers.

Because of the great fear, Fang Weiliang recruited women, which was simply invincible. There were more than 200 women who boarded the boat at the same time as the three daughters-in-law of the Fan family!

The old couple of the Fan family picked up the dowry jewelry that the third daughter-in-law threw on the ground, held it in their arms with tears, supported each other with their families, and followed Fang Weiliang and his party towards the official army's labor camp.

Two days later, the old woman of the Fan family closed her eyes as soon as she arrived at the camp and passed away with peace of mind. The old man of the Fan family endured his grief and tried his best to look happy, and stuffed the wedding jewelry of the third daughter-in-law into the sleeve of a clerk in exchange for easier work.

Except for one person who died of wind and fever, Fan's family survived.

Time returned to the present, Fang Weiliang was talking to Chen Jiaxing.

Fang Weiliang raised his eyebrows, and found that Chen Jiaxing, whom Shen Lao Ying had mentioned to Gongzhong, was really not simple. Clear thinking and concise language are rare among people who can't read big words.

The people of Mingyuezhuang and Mingyueji flocked to Jiangnan to make a fortune, and Chen Jiaxing, a cursed trafficker, was no exception.

Five days ago, Fang Weiliang met Chen Jiaxing, who was buying and selling women and dolls, and asked Chen Jiaxing to do something with him on a whim, which should be a vest to cover his shame.

Chen Jiaxing trembled with excitement. He has already done a lot of dirty work for Mingyuezhuang, as long as he behaves well in Jiangnan, according to Li Xiangzhuang's style of rewarding and punishing clearly, wouldn't his wife and children have a stable place to go, and they don't have to worry about it every day?

Fang Weiliang sat on the flatbed truck, squinted and took a nap, and said:

"The identity of the traffickers is really not good."

"But you don't have to feel inferior. It is also a good thing to draw the afflicted women to the north and to renew their families, just as you have done these days. If you stay and be played by the soldiers, you will either die or be disabled, and those who survive will not be able to be people. ”

Then Fang Weiliang thought about it again and again, and gave Chen Jiaxing a reassurance, "There are too many people in the village who know you, and it is too difficult for you to settle in Mingyue Village, and the villagers will make a quarrel with the public." ”

"In this way, the owner of the village has given me the right to arbitrarily make decisions on the spot, and I have a hundred blank household registrations on hand, which can be used when I get it to the public school. Seventeen for you, that's seventeen households, is enough? ”

Chen Jiaxing had been walking beside the car, and suddenly tripped over a stone, grabbed the car and said:

"Enough, enough! Thank you, Mr. Fang, you must go in the water, go in the fire, and ...... for the owner."

"Ahem, be careful! What does the owner have to do with the sale of women? It is clear that there is a shortage of school-age women in Qinling, and the people in the village see that it is profitable, so they make such a dirty livelihood in the south of the Yangtze River. I've never been involved in anything like that, you know? ”

"Uh, understood, understood. Look at my beak, I open my mouth to tell nonsense, and I'll remind my brothers to take care of their mouths later! ”

Take the dirty stuff on yourself. Chen Jiaxing is a pickled person that everyone hates, does he care more about notoriety?

The seventeen blank household registrations that Fang Weiliang promised to Chen Jiaxing meant to let Chen Jiaxing arrange them himself. The maximum limit of Mingyuezhuang is 20 people per household, which is enough to arrange the wives and children of Chen Jiaxing's brothers.

As for how many families are put together into one, and the children have to change their surnames or something, Chen Jiaxing and his brothers don't care at all.

Chen Jiaxing and crooked mouths, people with great reputations, can't join the yellow household registration, and it is also a matter of course. Everyone pays attention to face, and recruits the traffickers who deserve a thousand knives, and the proud Zhuang people are definitely not happy.

The reason why Chen Jiaxing served the people of Mingyuezhuang before and after the saddle, and wanted to win the approval of the owner of Li Xiang Zhuang at any cost, was mainly because Mingyuezhuang only recognized the rules of the public school, protected private property, and was not guilty of the three advantages of his wife and children.

People have humanity, and dogs have dog ways.

There are a lot of pickled people like Chen Jiaxing who make money, and they live a life of licking blood at the tip of a knife, and what they are most afraid of is that there will be no end after death.

When the traffickers die, the government will not protect them, the big families will not approve of them, and the people will only spurn them. The family property was seized, and the wife and children were kicked out of the house.

Therefore, Chen Jiaxing's group is very united, in order not to be bullied. Therefore, the household registration of Mingyuezhuang is like a magnet to attract them, and they are willing to do anything in order to get the qualification to gain a foothold in Mingyueji, by the Han River, and in Mingyuezhuang.

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Since the power of the Yongle Dynasty developed to its peak, the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan who returned to the Taihu Lake region wanted to exert pressure through the government and scholars to drive away the martial forces that took advantage of the war to open workshops and mines, as well as foreign merchants who went down the river.

Since a hundred years ago, the Great Zhou Dynasty has been accustomed to buying rather than requisitioning materials, which is why the commercial economy of this dynasty will flourish and the merchant class will be so large.

Proceeding from the standpoint of reducing the burden on the national dynasty, Yu Yunwen took advantage of the momentum created by Li Xiang to temporarily suppress the intertwined and powerful industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan, and instigated the merchants of Jingnan Road, Jinghu Road, Xichuan Road, Jianghuai Road, and even Jingdong East Road to compete fiercely in Jiangnan.

Today's Gangnam shopping malls are extremely chaotic and complex.

The merchants of Jingnan Road are called "Northwest Merchants", those who come from Jinghu and Xichuan Road are called "Xilai Merchants", and the merchants of Jianghuai Road are called "Northbound Merchants", which contains the subtle differences in the attitudes of Jiangnan locals towards outsiders.

The Great Zhou army launched a full-scale counteroffensive, and the various supplies needed every day were recorded in a thousand stones. Yu Yunwen's strategy was very successful, and it directly reduced the cost of the war by 30%, otherwise the current money and food dilemma would be even more tense.

Merchants from all over the country no longer hand over bulk goods to Jiangnan merchants as usual to make some hard-earned money. Instead, they were sold directly to the government or the army, or sold to temporary workshops west of Taihu Lake for processing, or even purchased and built their own workshops by the river.

The merchants who came from Jingnan Road were, of course, represented by the merchants of the lower reaches of the Han River, Mingyuezhuang, Mingyueji and Danjiangkou.

Zhuang Min was instigated by Li Xiang and took the lead in coming to Jiangnan to make a fortune.

Being embarrassed, deceived, and tricked, the merchant class of Mingyuezhuang, which is still a new tenderness, has grown rapidly in the tempering, and occupies an absolutely dominant position in the trade of some handmade objects.

The merchants of Mingyuezhuang mainly dealt in finished medicines, ironware, distilled alcohol, clothes, hats, shoes and socks, and also provided iron-making furnaces, waterwheels, bellows and other essential key components to the martial arts workshops blockaded by the Jiangnan forces.

The big businesses of Myeongwolji, such as the Zhangjia family in Gyeonggi Province, the Sima family in Hedong, and the Sanhuai Wang's business, have almost monopolized the markets for cattle, sheep, horse tendons, cattle and sheep horns, bone glue, bulk forage, pack horses, donkeys and mules by using their strong backgrounds, contacts and supply sources.

For the first time, the big business of Mingyueji has been able to hand over the goods directly to the big buyers, and the profits are huge.

Compared with the merchants of Mingyuezhuang, who need to run around in order to open up the market little by little, the stewards of large businesses only need to sit in Jiankang and other big cities to complete a transaction, because the goods have priorities.

Danjiangkou was developed as a waterway transfer station for the Hanjiang River workshop group to transport goods outward, and the most important thing is the fleet, convoy and lifu.

The proprietor behind the bow, handlebar and foot head saw that Jiangnan had a lot to do, and hurriedly asked them to follow the fleet to Jiangnan more than 3,000 miles away, and by the way, it solved the problem that Mingyueji urgently needed a large number of ships to carry cargo.

After helping Wang Yu and Yang Keshi's army cross the river free of charge, those guys in the Danjiang Estuary who traveled south and north traveled to the Yangtze River, canals, Taihu Lake and offshore seas, accounting for 20% of the total freight transportation on the front line.

The merchants of Mingyuezhuang belonged to the aggregation of small and medium-sized merchants under the protection of Haoqiang, the Mingyueji merchants belonged to the monopoly large merchants protected by the gentry and the government, and the Danjiangkou caravan belonged to the reselling caravan supported by local forces.

There is not much conflict between the three, on the contrary, they can be mutually beneficial and complement each other. Faced with the pressure of the Jiangnan merchant class, the three who wanted to stay in Jiangnan for a while and even wanted to take root were temporarily in a state of cooperation.

The merchants of Jingnan Road have made more or less money, and the merchants in other places have also had their own opportunities.

Food prices soared during the war.

The price of grain on the two roads south of the Yangtze River has risen for more than half a year, and by the end of April it has risen to a sky-high price of nearly five and one stone.

Merchants on Sichuan Road and Jinghu Road brought large quantities of grain, cloth and medicine, and cooperated with the local gentry and wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, collecting money and land one by one.

The army is dispatched, and Shio-chan follows.

Soldiers fought and shed blood, and people built roads and bridges, and needed a lot of salt every day. Once there was a shortage of salt sauce, the combat power of the soldiers was immediately reduced by a small half, and the Yongle Dynasty suffered a great loss in salt.

The government-run salt farms on the two roads of Jianghuai and Huai Province felt very aggrieved by supplying hundreds of thousands of troops and people to eat salt at a low price, and they happened to make up for it among the people in Jiangnan, who made Jiangnan rich? As a result, not only the small people in the market, but also the gentry and wealthy businessmen further aggravated their ill feelings towards the people of Jianghuai. Fang La captured Hangzhou, and there were good things that you Jianghuai people did, and they even took advantage of the fire to rob them?!

In short, most of the foreign merchants made money on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where the war continued.

The Lingnan merchants had not yet recovered from the decline of the invasion of the Dali Kingdom, and the scattered southwestern merchants were not treated by the Great Zhou as always. Fortunately, the advantageous goods in the hands of the two, such as herbs and homespun cloth, are all valued by Mingyuezhuang, and they finally earned some under Li Xiang's repeated care.

On the surface, the invincible industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan have died down, but in fact, a great counterattack is brewing. They will never let too many outsiders take root in Jiangnan and share the big cake after the war.