Hearing that some people were worried about the sugar farmers' rebellion, Wang Youdao said: "Don't worry, you can tell the sugar farmers that the output of the government-run sugar liao is too high, and the Nanzhili side can't sell it at a high price, so the purchase price is reduced." ”

"Listen to Master Wang, what should I do next?"

Wang Youdao continued: "The second step is to let all the sugar farmers go to the government-run sugar liao to sell sugarcane, I estimate that they don't have so much cash, and they will definitely close their doors and not buy sugarcane at that time." The next step is to encourage the sugar farmers to make trouble, and it is better to rush in and burn the candy house. ”

"This is easy to do, there are a lot of lifeless green skins on the street. But the government is going to ask Master Wang to come out. ”

Wang Youdao nodded and said, "I have already sent a letter to Lord Sun, the political envoy of Guangdong, and sued the Ma Governor's Mansion, saying that he was competing with the people for profit. Of course, this money still needs to be scraped together. ”

Silver is not a problem, these big sugar merchants quickly scraped together 10,000 taels of silver and handed it over to Wang Youdao to pay a bribe.

After the discussion, the heads of the families went home one after another to prepare.

Wang Youdao called his housekeeper Wang Fu and said, "Wang Fu, you go to Baisha Island tonight, let the second child prepare manpower, and when the sugar farmers start to make trouble, you must catch those craftsmen when you rush into the sugar house." We're going to get our hands on that sugar-making technology. ”

Wang Fu nodded and went out to prepare.

It turned out that this Wang Youdao was also connected with the pirates off the coast of Xu Wen, and the pirate head on Baisha Island was Wang Youdao's second brother Wang Youde.

Five days later, the head of the sugar mill suddenly found that three times as many sugar farmers came to sell sugar cane every day, and there was a trend of increase. The foreman knew that the prefect had left 10,000 taels of silver before leaving, and that there were less than 5,000 taels after the factory was built, so the open purchase could only last less than ten days.

The foreman knew that the matter was serious, and hurriedly went out to find out the reason, and it turned out that all the other local sugar houses had lowered the purchase price of sugarcane to only one tael per stone. Naturally, sugar farmers come to sell here at a high price.

The foreman found out that it was not good, and now he has collected thousands of stones of sugarcane, which is enough to produce for half a month. He hurriedly ordered the acquisition to be stopped, and then went out to find Xu Wen County Order. The prefect had already greeted Xu Wen County Order and asked them to take care of it.

Xu Wenzhi's name is Tang Qiu, this guy is from Zhejiang, and he is a peripheral member of the Donglin Party. Tang Qiu did not study well, coupled with the fierce competition in Zhejiang, he was not admitted to the examination until he was forty years old. You must know that Jin Juren and Yin Jinshi are also very awesome.

Tang Qiu saw that the imperial examination was hopeless, so he found Qian Qianyi, the boss of Donglin, and got a ministry election to come to Xu Wen as an official.

Tang Qiu was very happy to hear that the new prefect was the boss of the Ma family, Ma Jiyuan, and the Ma family was also regarded as the Donglin Party. When Ma Guoan was alive, he had a good relationship with Donglin bigwigs Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou.

But I didn't expect Ma Jiyuan to be very cold to Tang Qiu, which made Tang Daxian very depressed, and he also told Ma Zhifu in private that he was Qian Qianyi's person, but Ma Zhifu still treated himself with that cold attitude.

What Tang Qiu didn't know was that Qian Qianyi's daughter was now the side princess of Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, and she had already posed a threat to Ma Xiaofang. As a hardcore supporter, how could Ma Jiyuan be enthusiastic about Tang Qiu?

This can already be regarded as Ma Jiyuan is a gentleman, and if he wants to replace Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong, who are black-hearted, he will be sorry for Qian Qianyi if he does not secretly kill the unlucky Tang County Commander.

Although the prefect of Ma did not want to see him, the Tang County Order still had to welcome the officials. So when Ma Jiyuan was leaving, he asked Tang Qiu to take care of the sugar factory, and Tang Qiu was very concerned about this matter.

After hearing the foreman's report, Tang Qiu immediately found Wang Youdao and asked what was going on.

Wang Youdao naturally pushed 625, and kept complaining that the production cost of the government-run sugar house was too low, and he was ready to quit.

Tang Qiu believed what Wang Youdao said at first, after all, he had also received Wang Youdao's silver. went back and told the foreman the truth, and also wrote a letter to Ma Jiyuan to explain that he wanted the government-run sugar house to reduce production.

Tang Daxian Ling thought very beautifully, but the reality was very skinny. On the third day of his letter, things went sour, and angry sugar farmers began to attack the government-run sugar house.

At first, Tang Daxian didn't take it seriously, and sent a few officials to suppress it. Unexpectedly, I received the news in the afternoon that the sugar farmer had killed two officials, and the matter was out of control.

Tang Da County Commander just came to Xu Wendang County Commander this year, and he still wants to ask for progress, now that there is such a big thing under his rule, the first thing he thinks of is not to report it first, and it is best to solve it locally.

Therefore, Tang Daxian ordered deign to come to Wangjiazhuang to find Wang Youdao.

After Tang Qiu saw Wang Youdao, he asked: "Master Wang, how did you get this matter, now that someone has died, you still don't let your people stop?" ”

"Lord Tang, this is really not what I meant, now that the price of sugar is very low, we will lose money if we buy sugarcane at the original price, and Lord Tang can't look at us for food."

Tang Qiu was very unhappy when he heard Wang Youdao say this, and said in a deep voice: "What do you want, Master Wang?" ”

When Wang Youdao saw Tang Qiu say this, he also felt that there was no need to pretend, and said: "It's very simple, that government-run sugar house has been discontinued. ”

"This is impossible, it was done by the prefect himself, and if the production is stopped, how can you let the official explain in front of the prefect?"

"Lord Tang doesn't have to worry about it at all, we have already sent someone to Guangdong to ask the political envoy Lord Sun, and ask him to transfer the Ma Governor's Mansion away, so that everything will be fine."

Tang Qiu said in his heart: "The political envoy Sun Chaorang is not as powerful as the Ma family. But he didn't say this to Wang Youdao, after all, he Tang Qiu and Ma Jiyuan are both Donglin Party, although I don't know why Ma Jiyuan doesn't care about himself, but he still has to face Ma Jiyuan at a critical time.

Hearing that Wang Youdao had already involved the political envoy, Tang Qiu was not ready to take care of it, and his official position was small, so let Ma Zhifu worry about this kind of thing.

After Tang Qiu returned to the county office, he wrote a letter to Ma Jiyuan, mentioning Wang Youdao's meaning tactfully. Tang Qiu felt that as a Donglin lineage, this was already benevolent and righteous.

The letter was delivered to Ma Jiyuan three days later, and Ma Jiyuan was taken aback. He knew the importance of the sugar industry to the King of Chu, and this could never be wrong.

Ma Jiyuan hurriedly sent a letter back to Tang Qiu, in which he thanked Tang Qiu for his timely notice, and then ordered Tang Qiu to suppress this matter. At the same time, Ma Jiyuan thought that this was the first time he came out to take charge of himself, so he didn't notify Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, in time, and felt that he should be able to handle it.

The transportation of the Ming Dynasty was really backward, and when Ma Jiyuan's letter reached Tang Qiu, it was already five days later. Things have developed to the point where they are irreversible.

Several of the stewards of the sugar factory are all from Dongguan, and they are all used to being in Dongguan. Unexpectedly, Xu Wen was so angry that a steward shot and killed a sugar farmer in a conflict with a sugar farmer.

This stabbed the hornet's nest, and at the instigation of well-intentioned people, sugar farmers began to attack the sugar factory. In the end, the sugar factory was burned, the two stewards were killed, and all the craftsmen were captured.

At this time, Tang Qiu knew that the matter was getting bigger, and told Ma Jiyuan the truth. Ma Jiyuan was helpless about this kind of thing, so he had to write to the local Hai'an Station and wanted to ask the local garrison for help. However, the local garrison had already received the benefits of Wang Youdao, and ignored Ma Jiyuan's request on the grounds that they were not subordinate to him.

This time, Ma Jiyuan really had no choice, so he had to write to Dongguan for help.

Ma Mingyuan didn't dare to hide the letter from his eldest brother, and told the truth to Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu.

Zhu Hongsan was very angry, and when the matter reached the point where it was unsolvable, Ma Jiyuan reported to himself, delaying the best time to solve it. Now that Xu Wen is like this, he can only cut through the mess with a quick knife. But the army from Dongguan was transferred to the place for less than half a month, and I don't know if those craftsmen can save their lives at that time.

So Zhu Hongsan thought about it, only Zhou Yubu, who was transferred in Qiongzhou, they were only one Leizhou Strait away from Xu Wen, and they could arrive in two days. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan was afraid that other forces would be involved in this matter, so he sent three new warships built by the shipyard, that is, the kind of new sea ships whose keels were steel.

This is the result of the shipyard's full operation in the past few months, and Yan Qingshan was very excited to receive Zhu Hongsan's order to "ground tank". There were twenty guns on each new warship, and Yan Qingshan wanted to go out to test the guns a long time ago.

This time, he received Zhu Hongsan's military order and hurriedly led his pirate team from the Nantou Military Port in Xin'an County to the south, and went straight to Leizhou Mansion.

And Zhou Yu received the order on the sixth day of December, he knew that the order was urgent, and hurriedly rushed to Qiongzhou by boat in Changhua, and rushed to Xuwen County with 2,000 people.