Chapter 480: A Thousand Miles of Hunger

The huge fleet was divided into two routes at the mouth of the Pearl River, and Huang Mingdao took most of the warships and merchant ships to Lingao to unload the population and materials in Thanksgiving. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Huang Sheng led the white pole soldiers, a general musketeer, a general heavy infantry, auxiliaries, and engineers to take a grass skimming boat up the river and land directly at the dock of Guangzhou Prefecture.

Of course, the top officials of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian were warmly welcomed by the officials of these three provinces, and Huang Sheng did not embarrass all the officials, everything was as usual, and he did not shirk the filial piety he deserved.

Sometimes you have to follow the customs, the Ming officialdom is so corrupt, if you refuse to be corrupted and never get it, it is very bad to be maverick, and the officials who give gifts will also feel uneasy because they are turned away and affect stability and unity.

All Huang Sheng came to a harmonious atmosphere, and those who came did not refuse, so the officials of the three provinces were really relieved.

Huang Sheng is really not a corrupt official, the successive governors of Liangguang have all taken office by land, and no one is stupid to take the sea route.

Because all the way through the state and the government, it will be a lot of income to receive officials at all levels on the way.

Some of the greedy also intend to stay in each state capital for a few days and wait for people to give gifts, often taking office documents to issue, and I am afraid that it will take a year and a half on the road to take office.

Gu Ling'er bought a piece of land facing the street in Guangzhou City to build the Guangzhou branch of "Huaxia Daqian Village", and the "Guangzhou Grand Theater" and the post office also started construction at the same time.

The next day, Huang Sheng decided to put himself in the shoes of Guangzhou City, and was not ready to put up a guard of honor to make the people jump, Liu Guozheng arranged for the pro-soldiers to blend in with the people in advance, and he followed in civilian clothes with a member of the general flag.

Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty is just a medium-sized city, the circumference of the city is about 20 miles, the degree of prosperity is far less than that of Suzhou and Hangzhou, and Yangzhou and Linqing are not comparable, because the smuggling trade is rampant, so it is considered to be the prosperity of the south.

However, the Ming Dynasty had a very strict control over the Xiyi and the Waifan people, and refused to allow them to enter and leave Guangzhou freely, especially the Xiyi women were not allowed to set foot in Guangzhou.

Therefore, Hao Jing Macao will become a bottleneck of trade, Xiyi's foothold, purchase are there, and the delivery of goods must also be carried out there, so that the Portuguese have a cheap price, just like Hong Kong in later generations.

Hong Kong's fortune is entirely due to the fact that it has been a unique bottleneck in trade with the West for decades, and most of it has been thanks to the Communist Party.

With the reform and opening up of the mainland, in just over 30 years, looking at the rising mainland cities, how much is the gap between them and Hong Kong? You can see it. These cities are still under the condition of the "ten thousand taxes" of the national dynasty, and they bear much more taxes than Hong Kong.

Huang Sheng was wearing a scholar's green shirt, cloth, not that Huang Sheng deliberately did this, but that he really didn't like silk and liked cotton products, and a little sweat silk would stick to his body, Huang Sheng felt very unhappy.

It's July and it's so hot that it's unbearable, so it's fun to walk around the old city with a paper fan.

People come and go, no less than the scene of the Qingming Shanghe map, all living beings are busy making a living, and the bustling market is the epitome of the life of the small people in the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for his soul to penetrate this dynasty, twenty years later, the "Gengyin Disaster" in Guangzhou, the current deputy general of Guangludao in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, Shang Kexi, was canonized as the king of Pingnan by Jiannu, slaughtering the most prosperous place in the southeast, and there is also an accomplice Geng Jimao, the son of Geng Zhongming.

"Guangdong Tongzhi" and other historical materials recorded: "Kill 700,000 people". This is a minimum estimate. Therefore, in order not to forget the national shame, Huang Sheng named a battleship "Guangzhou".

If Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming, the apprentices of the three mines in Liaodong, still rebelled like history and surrendered to Jiannu, Huang Sheng would really arrest them alive.

When he was wandering, two plainclothes soldiers came to Liu Guozheng's ear and whispered something, Liu Guozheng immediately came to the head of the family and said: "My lord, not far ahead is the customary human trafficking market in Guangzhou City. ”

The subordinates knew that the head of the family was anxious for justice and righteousness, and had been widely accepting the homeless, and when they spread out the vigilance, they found this kind of place, and one by one they had compassion, and hurriedly returned to Liu Guozheng to tell the head of the family.

"Oh? Every city in the Ming Dynasty has such a place, not strange, look at it. ”

Huang Sheng has visited the places where Beijing sells human beings, many of them are sold to large families as small maids and teenage children after a few years of training, and the price is not low, such as Yangzhou bustards who specialize in raising daughters and selling them, and there are also those who sell a "thin horse" to earn hundreds of taels of silver.

"Skinny horse" is an insulting term for women, meaning that they can be brutalized and ravaged at will, just as they abuse weak horses.

Huang Sheng followed Liu Guozheng all the way, and the Qingming Shanghe map became a thousand miles of starvation! It is shocking to describe the withered, unkempt, dirty, and dull-eyed people who are on the verge of death.

Seeing a group of brightly dressed people coming, they immediately met a few people, and before they could speak, they fell to the ground screaming one by one.

These boys actually dared to go straight to Huang Sheng, how could the martial artists allow these people to approach the head of the family, three punches and two kicks, and naturally beat them all over the ground to find teeth.

There were a few green-skinned gangsters and the like who also wanted to use their fists to theorize, and when they found that the people who came were fierce and vicious, they immediately nodded and flashed, and the people who were beaten knew that this group of masters was not easy to mess with, and they sighed to themselves and didn't dare to say anything.

Huang Shengtie walked silently in the market full of garbage and sewage with a blue face, with an indescribable strange smell and pungent smell, and the "buzzing sound" of flies and mosquitoes was extremely disgusting.

"Okay, I bought a small one, although the small one is thin, it is hungry, the small one has the strength as long as it eats a little bit, and the small one can do any job, you and my mother will follow you if you give two taels of silver."

"Master, buy a slave and maid, as long as you give a mouthful of food, the slave and maid's children can't see it, woo woo woo ......."

"Master, it doesn't matter if you don't buy small ones, give me something to eat......."

"Master, you can do well, take these two children away, the little one doesn't dare to ask for silver, just ask for a way to live."

Like a scene of hell on earth, it made the soldiers of the pro-soldier team furious.

They adapted to the prosperity and well-being of the Huang family, and once again saw the nightmare of the past, with tears in everyone's eyes, and the sad past scenes reappeared in their hearts.

Huang Sheng felt desolate in his heart, it has only been three years since Chongzhen, there are so many hungry displaced people, and the future years may worsen, how many miserable people will starve to death?

"Liu Guozheng, do you see, there is a porridge shed there, go and occupy it, let them boil porridge, if they insert chopsticks and pour it, they will cook the porridge for these people to eat." Huang Sheng saw the insensitive appearance of several errand officers, and his heart was angry, and he ordered Liu Guozheng to do the right thing.

Liu Guozheng was energetic, and it was really cool to follow the adult, and immediately said loudly: "Look, my lord!" ”

After a while, the fragrance of porridge drifted in, the gong of porridge sounded, and the refugees helped the old and the young to get the porridge, and when they came closer, no one dared to step forward, because those errand servants who usually raised their eyebrows were laughing strangely today, and they also took the initiative to get close to the refugees.

Liu Guozheng looked at the sky gloomily and said: "No one comes to get the porridge, no one dares to eat it?" You can see how much these people are afraid of you, you should be killed! Let's just cook you to calm the people's hearts. ”

A shiny face was so frightened that they were soaking wet, and although they didn't know who it was, they knew they couldn't afford to be provoked by that fierce look, and hurriedly ran to a refugee and snatched his broken bowl.

Seeing that it didn't work, he quickly brought a large bowl full of porridge that might have been used by them and sent it to the refugees, saying, "Master, you can do well, hurry up and drink porridge." ”

Then he took the initiative to pack porridge and give it to the second refugee with a smiling face.

The other officers reacted, and immediately nodded their heads one by one, and took the initiative to provide services to the refugees, so enthusiastic that the refugees were like seeing a wolf grandmother, what a bunch of cheap bones.

It can be seen that these officers will serve the people! It can be seen that a bad system can turn people into animals!

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