Chapter 9: Fear Gives Rise to Anger and Seeks Courage Abroad

After having a meal at Cheng Feng's house, Fu Ning felt a lot less afraid, Fu Ning's foundation was too shallow after all, and he really couldn't think of any other help except Cheng Feng and Yaowan Village for a while. After pondering for a while www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion said: "Brother Cheng! Now that I think about it, I really have a plan to quit the weaving yard. ”

Cheng Feng's smiling face immediately changed, and he was so serious that he said, "Brother, don't be confused!" With our Yangzhou weaving line to take care of you, you will be fine; But if you really want to quit, they will come like a pack of wolves and swallow you up, and then it will be too late for you to regret it, brother! ”。

"Brother Cheng, don't worry! I'll tell you what I think." Fu Ning smiled and comforted Cheng Feng, "My foundation is still too shallow, to be honest, now I hold five million shares of the weaving yard, just like a three-year-old child holding a gold brick on the street, Brother Cheng can't protect me for a lifetime." Now I have a business of perfumes, matches, and soaps, all in Yaowan Village, where I am the head of the land, and no one dares to deceive me; Besides, in the past two years, I have made good friends with a few maritime merchants, and you also know the relationship between Lao Yue and several maritime merchants and me, and now people from all walks of life want to eat my shares in the weaving yard, I might as well take the opportunity to withdraw and only concentrate on perfume and seafood; As for the five million weaving yard shares in my hand, I will not sell them to others, but only transfer them to our brothers in Yangzhou weaving shop; When the two brothers in the line started work a year ago, they intended to buy some shares, and these two brothers were all friends of Brother Cheng's Qiu family, and I can rest assured that I will transfer them two million! ”

"I don't have a problem with what you say; The fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and there is no problem in selling it to the brothers in the industry. What I'm worried about is that if you sell your shares to outsiders, those people will definitely get Longwang Shu and reach out to our Yangzhou weaving shop. Besides, I think your weaving yards are very clever, that is, the hens that lay golden eggs, and I am afraid that you will spread them to the weaving shops in other places. ”

"Brother Cheng, rest assured, brother, I swear that I will never pass on those management methods; As for the weaving yard shares in my hand, brother, you gather all the brothers of our Yangzhou weaving line, and everyone will share a point. ”

"That's fine! You leave me a million shares, and I'll give you 1,500,000 taels. ”

"My brother is so out-of-this! How can I ask you for 1.5 million, you can give me 1 million taels. Thanks to Brother Cheng all the time, how dare I ask you how much. As for the remaining four million shares, they will be discussed by all the old brothers in the weaving shop, and everyone will discuss and give them when the time comes, so that I can free up my hands to concentrate on perfume and seafood. ”

Pushing back and forth, Fu Ning reluctantly accepted 1.2 million taels of silver tickets and transferred them to Cheng Feng for one million shares, and the remaining shares were agreed to be divided when the weaving line gathered.

Out of the house is already evening, ride the carriage to the city outside Yaowan, the city gate will not be closed until dark, but do not need to be too anxious, after all, let go of the heart, their foundation is still too shallow, it is not a pity to lose the shares of the weaving yard.

Four Assassins were killed along the way, the coachman's dead and loyal servant Chen Dong was severely wounded, and the Assassin slashed Fu Ning in the shoulder and put the knife on Fu Ning's neck.

"Boy! Hurry up and transfer the shares to our salt gang, or you will die next time! After the assassin left, the officers and soldiers hurried over, Fu Ning was shocked into a cold sweat, and only found a sense of security after returning to Yaowan Village.

That night, Cheng Changlao of the Salt Gang rushed to Yaowan, and after some inquiry, he assured Fu Ning that he would give Fu Ning an explanation. Fu Ning told him that the assassins were well-traveled, murderous, and not from the Salt Gang, but should be from the ranks of officers and soldiers, and they had a Yandi accent, and they must have come from Beijing, and it seemed that someone wanted to muddy the waters of Yangzhou. Cheng Changlao was surprised, pondered for a while, and then went back, never mentioning the matter of shares.

At noon the next day, Cheng Feng came to visit, and Fu Ning handed over the resale of the shares of the weaving yard to Cheng Feng to deal with; In the afternoon, when Yuan Qi came to visit, he brought a news that Qingyunlou, a branch of Huayuanlou, had received two strong men the night before, with a Beijing accent, which was very mysterious. Fu Ning immediately asked people to send a message to the salt gang Cheng Changlao. That night, Cheng Changlao came with the news that the Salt Gang had killed more than a dozen people before they surrounded the five assassins in a small courtyard on the outskirts of the city, but unfortunately the five people were all seriously injured and died of poison, and they were all dead. Cheng Changlao had sent someone to contact the capital in order to continue to inquire about the origin of the Assassins; In the metaphorical words of Elder Cheng - the matter has reached this point, it is no longer Fu Ning's business, it has risen to the game in the capital, and the Salt Gang has done its best.

The five assassins may have just wanted to muddy the waters of Yangzhou, but they didn't expect the local forces in Yangzhou to act too quickly, so that all the assassins died in Yangzhou, presumably the people behind the scenes must be regretting it, right? As for the purpose of muddying the waters, only they know.

After recuperating from his injuries for more than half a month, Fu Ning found that since Xiaoyang Village was slaughtered, he had not been afraid for a day, and now he finally laid a foundation in Yangzhou but was inadvertently involved in the game of the princes. Feudal society! There is really no guarantee of human life at all, Fu Ning is already completely angry, not only angry with the four major families of Jia Shi Wang Xue, nor only angry with the royal family, but completely angry with the entire feudal society. The original Fu Ning once wanted to avenge the blood feud in Xiaoyang Village, become a rich man, and then find the monk in the world of the Red Chamber to find a way to return to his original world; But now, Fu Ning, who is angry in the face of the cruel reality, just wants to overthrow this cannibalistic feudal society!

The five million taels of weaving yard shares were finally sold for eight million taels of silver tickets, as for who to sell to, Fu Ning did not ask Cheng Feng, but just reminded Cheng Feng of the places that need to be paid attention to in the future; Although he withdrew from the Hongxiang Weaving Field East Affairs Association, he had his own efforts after all.

After taking stock of his assets, there were more than 12 million silver bills alone, and he arranged for the chief housekeeper Yao Shizhu to secretly move to Jilong Port in Liuqiu Mansion to buy a house and land, and recruit groups of displaced people to move to reclamation; After Zhen Run received the money, the Zhen family provided a lot of convenience. Two months later, Yao Shizhu Feige sent a message: 23,000 acres of land had been purchased, 12,000 hectares of mountains and forests had been purchased, 17 real estate properties had been purchased, and the total cost of silver was 2.43 million, and the chicken coop had been bought out. With the silver taels plus the token of the Zhen family, the prefect of Liuqiu Mansion gave Yao Shisun a lot of convenience.

At present, Jilong Port is just a small town by the sea in the north of Liuqiu, and the surrounding area is mostly wild, and the 23,000 acres of fields are already all the fields near Jilong Port; Jilong Port belongs to Liuqiu Province, which in turn belongs to Fujian Province; There is only one prefect in the whole Liuqiu Island, hundreds of thousands of natives, more than 100,000 Han people, the Han people are mainly concentrated in the area of Chichicheng in the south of Liuqiu Island, in the eyes of the British court, Liuqiu Island is just a wild place that the court has recovered from the red-haired Dutch people for more than ten years, but in the eyes of Fu Ning, this is indeed a treasure land for Taoguang and obscurity, and accumulate strength.

Zhen Run regretted that Fu Ning moved away from Yangzhou, Yao Shiyuan, the patriarch of Yaowan Village, persuaded Fu Ning to stay, the old father-in-law Wen Qingshan and Wen Yang did not want to be displaced again, Fu Ning, who was determined to rebel in the future, persuaded Wen Qingshan to leave together without success, and finally had to take Xiao Yanglan and move to the chicken coop; The perfume workshop moved away, the match workshop and the soap workshop were given to Yao Shiyuan, and the steam engine workshop was given to Cheng Feng at a discount of one and a half millions, but Fu Ning took away the latest technical drawings. Although Yao Yun was reluctant, she still left with Fu Ning.

In the middle of March of the 19th year of Qianping, with the help of the maritime merchant Lao Yue, Fu Ning brought a large number of people to the chicken coop port, a large number of displaced people, purchased the displaced people, set up a guard team, built houses, opened up wasteland, built villages everywhere, purchased a large amount of grain from the mainland, created military workshops, and so on, this is Fu Ning was in a hurry after arriving at the chicken coop, fortunately Fu Ning had more than 10 million silver tickets to support, spending money like flowing water, in this time it is still a wild chicken coop port Fu Ning is the emperor of the soil, on a blank piece of paper as he wants to plan and build.

A large number of displaced people were transported here voluntarily or involuntarily, and at the beginning, every homeless Fu Ning sent a shipper to give a tael of silver, regardless of men, women, young and old, but soon it rose to two taels, and at the highest time it rose to six taels of silver for a homeless person, so a boatload of homeless people, grain, coal, steel, cloth, etc., were transported to Jilong Harbor like crazyβ€”

The perfume workshop was quickly rebuilt, the steam engine workshop was quickly rebuilt; The forests everywhere inspired Fu Ning, so the paper workshop and the sea ship yard were quickly built. The gunpowder workshop and the military workshop were the first batch of buildings, which were quickly established under the theoretical guidance of Fu Ning and grew to more than 4,000 people in a month and a half. Under the guidance of Fu Ning's theory, the craftsmen quickly produced various munitions samples such as breech muskets, ignition grenades, rough mortars with gravity-excited primers, and two-kick guns without conscience, and then began mass production. So the army was quickly formed, and the indigenous mountain people were cleaned up, and the displaced people quickly followed to build villages and villages to reclaim the wasteland, and then divided the fields and land under Fu Ning's arrangement.

The flying pigeon quickly flew to all parts of the country, with more than 10 million silver tickets as the base, Fu Ning frantically bought people, grain, and everything needed from the maritime merchants. So boats and boats of displaced people were "bought", and then the land was divided and large-scale construction was carried out. Fu Ning didn't have the energy to discuss the integration with the mountain people, so he only sent a word to the new army about the indigenous Fu Ning - clean up, deal with it, as long as you see it, clean it up immediately! Fu Ning didn't have time to care about those trivial things, just one attitude - cut through the mess quickly, deal with it quickly, whether perfect or not, but it must be fast! Fu Ning didn't have the heart to do it himself, there was just one way to do everything - to provide them with theoretical guidance by himself, and whoever did a good job would use him immediately!

The pace is impatient, the expansion is rapid, and the construction is rapid; Boatloads of grain and displaced people arrived, and the land was stabilized by the construction of houses in batches, and then the expansion of land in batches.

Rapid addition, expansion, rapid stability, and then rapid expansion; The musketeers increased from 200 to 2,000, and then rapidly to 5,000, 10,000, and 20,000.

At the end of March, a coal mine was discovered in Jilong, and then at the end of April, news came from the north of Huwei that a small iron mine had been discovered, and two months later there was news in the southeast of Jilong that a small copper mine and a large sulfur mine had been discovered. So the small blast furnace for ironmaking was quickly established under the guidance of Fu Ning's theory, the raw coal was used for coking, the inlet was sent to the iron ore powder, coke and slag limestone, and the steam-powered blower was sent to the preheated air and then ignited, so a large number of small blast furnaces were quickly established, a large number of iron tools were manufactured under the stamping of steam machine tools, and a large number of steel knives and iron tools were sold to maritime merchants in all directions and then exchanged for boats of grain and people.

At the beginning of June, the new army had reached Grasshopper, arrived in Taoyuan at the end of June, had killed the bamboo trench at the end of July, had killed Changhua at the end of August, killed in Nantou at the beginning of September, killed at the end of September, killed in Chichi, at the end of October, the East Route Army had been killed in Hualien, and in early November, the news came from the Middle Route Army that it had been killed in Lanshan.

Swords, arrows, spears were shattered by muskets and artillery fire, and all the natives were cleared; The Han people on the island either surrendered, and those who did not surrender were immediately sent to the chicken coop for mining, until they were willing to surrender, and all the Han people could be given grain, fields, or a large amount of wasteland to be cleared.

There is no longer a single aboriginal to the north of Mengping, then Taoyuan, then Hsinchu. The natives fled and migrated quickly to the mountains and the south, fearing the "man-eating devils" killed in the north.

Beginning in mid-August, the natives who fled south began to attack Chichi in large numbers, and the Ryukyu Prefect stationed in Chichi City sent official letters to the chicken coop one after another, demanding that Fu Ning immediately stop the expansion! Stop killing now! Fu Ning immediately asked people to send 200,000 taels of silver tickets to the Liuqiu Governor's Mansion, so the Liuqiu Governor's Mansion temporarily stopped; However, at the end of September, the new army had already arrived under the Chichicheng City, and under the shock of muskets and artillery, and under the temptation of dividing the land and grain, a large number of Han people surrendered. As for the individual Han people who were unwilling to submit to the prefect and yamen, they were immediately sent to the chicken coop to open mines.

From March of the 19th year of Qianping to the 19th year of Qianping, in just ten months, Fu Ning cleaned up hundreds of thousands of natives in Liuqiu, and there was no longer a single native north of Chiji City; At the same time, Fu Ning also migrated more than 400,000 displaced people from the mainland. In November, a steam-powered artillery ship of more than 1,000 tons was built, and in July, Dutch craftsmen hired at a high price loaded the new ship with flowering cannons in November.