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The population of Suzhou is not less than one million, and it is the most populous metropolis in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is also the most economically developed metropolis, which is not inferior to the status of the magic capital in later generations.

With the power of the government, it is not impossible to mobilize forces, and bulk goods arrive to alleviate the temporary needs of the people in the city, but it is really unimaginable to sell in unlimited quantities, especially if it is still said by the county magistrate in a formal tone and in an emphatic tone.

However, the people are here to make a living, and after listening to the words of the county magistrate at this moment, the anger quickly disappeared, and they waited for the words of the county magistrate one by one.

Compared with the gentry's hissing before, the magistrate just used an iron horn to let more people hear his voice. The situation reversed, and the gentry hurriedly gave a look to a cronie family member below, and the cronie's family member also jumped out and asked the magistrate in a loud voice: "Lord of the county, millions of people in the city are waiting to be fed, how can there be so many goods, don't bully the public." ”

Since leaving the county office, the afterglow of the county has always stayed on the gentry, and he is also well aware of such a greasy. Seeing this, he simply sat down on the steps without respect, and said that when the goods would come, he would never sit and die here.

The magistrate has a good reputation in the market on weekdays, seeing that his parents and officials are like this, no matter how radical the people with ulterior motives are, those people are rarely how much, and it will only take an hour of hard work, so he simply waited here and watched the magistrate fulfill his promise.

The scene was deadlocked, and this was not what they wanted. But now that this was the case, the gentry had to look at the other gentry, who, after nodding his head, also glanced at one of the close family members in the crowd, and instructed them to ask for help from those powerful people behind them.

However, without waiting for those gentry and the rich to react, guards arrived at the Qi Gate in the north of the city and the Changmen Gate in the west of the city, and the news of the entry of large quantities of goods into the city spread as quickly as possible.

"What are you waiting for, go shopping, if you go late, you won't be able to buy it."

The county has already posted a list, and the goods are on sale, one is the street of each gate in Suzhou, and the other is the well-known areas such as Tiger Hill and Confucian Temple, but the gate of the Yamen of the county is not included because of the excessive number of people gathered. When they got the news, the people scattered in a hurry, rushed to the place not far from their homes, and even returned directly to their homes, calling men, women and children to go out together to buy as many as possible, so as not to sell out the goods and go hungry again.

The people dispersed, and the gentry were also dumbfounded to watch all this, especially the person who was the leader, who participated in the strike several times, how could he have seen such a situation. It wasn't until he was pushed by the magistrate that he reacted.

"The county respects the compassion of the subordinates, and is worthy of being the parent official of the county, and the students admire it very much."

The gentry reacted a little quickly, but the magistrate was stunned for a moment, and then sneered at them: "Go against His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and wait for yourself." ”

After that, the magistrate turned around and left, but he didn't go back to the county office, but went to the nearby sales point. It's just that the look on his face before turning around, full of ridicule of the mantis arm as a car, stabbed the gentry almost unable to look directly.

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The gentry's cronies and family members struggled to leave the crowd and headed straight for the nearest wealthy merchant. However, the rich merchant didn't go home to rest until dawn yesterday, and he was sleeping like a dead pig at this time, so he had to explain one or two and left here, and went straight to Wang Shimin's home.

Wang Shimin is old, and he left not long after last night. Thinking about paying attention to health preservation, he has just had breakfast for a long time at the moment, and he is splashing ink, but he is worried about the trend of the city boycott, thinking of Gu Shu's words, there is always an uneasiness in his heart, which makes his pen always unsatisfactory.

But at this moment, the gentry's cronies and family members arrived, and the yamen mobilized a large number of goods, which shocked Wang Shimin's right hand and the pen fell to the ground.

"Sunny?"

"Let's go, let's go, let's go to Changmen Street and have a look."

After that, Wang Shimin walked in the direction of the gate of the house in three steps and two steps, looking at the legs and feet, and the dexterity, he did not look like a sixty-seven-year-old man.

Changmen Street, that is, a street straight to the east in the northwest city gate of Suzhou, was the most prosperous commercial street in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Just as the opening chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions" said: "On that day, the land fell into the southeast, and there was a place called Gusu in this southeast corner, and there was a city called Changmen, which was the most rich and noble place in the red dust." ”

Wang Shimin sat in a sedan chair and went straight here, just to see the doorway here. However, there was a sudden change, I was anxious, how many times I urged the sedan chair man along the way, and at this moment he was running wildly in the streets and alleys like flying, Wang Shimin sat in the sedan chair, and he was already nauseated by the bumps, and his stomach consciously turned the undigested food yesterday to his throat.

But even so, Wang Shimin still forcibly spit out, if it wasn't for fear that he would really spit it out, he really couldn't open his mouth, but he was afraid that he would continue to urge those palanquin drivers to speed up.

The Wang family's house is not far from Changmen Street, but it is not close, the sedan chair driver ran all the way, and the shaking Wang Shimin almost spit out, but it was when this feeling of vomiting could no longer bear it, the sedan chair drivers stopped abruptly after turning an alley, and almost threw Wang Shimin out of the sedan chair, but they also happened to swallow the vomit back.

"Why did you stop?"

Before the words fell, Wang Shimin already understood why the palanquin man suddenly stopped, and the shouting sound not far away directly poured a basin of ice water on his sweaty head.

"The shiitake mushrooms in the state capital, the birthplace of shiitake mushroom cultivation, have the best fragrance."

"Take a look, take a look, Jinhua ham, the soldiers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wang Divisions are the tartars that only ran away after eating the ham of our Jinhua Mansion."

"The porcelain of Jingdezhen, produced by the Imperial Ware Workshop, is not bullied."

"Huguang's rice, one tael of silver and two stones, the taste is no worse than local rice."

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Wang Shimin listened carefully, but the more he listened to it, the colder his heart became, especially the rice from Huguang, which shocked him on the spot.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang appeared due to the prosperity of maritime trade and the phenomenon of agricultural cash cropping, at that time, the phenomenon of mulberry fighting for rice fields and cotton fighting for wheat fields was full of land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. On the other hand, after a long period of development, the land of Huguang is also fertile, which has replaced the status of "Su Lake is ripe, the world is full", and the vast rice of Huguang sells well in the surrounding provinces, and the total grain output of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is declining year by year.

This phenomenon was not curbed until the Qing army moved south, and the Qing army and the Nanming Dynasty fought in the Huguang area for more than ten years, and the place was ruined, and grain production was greatly affected. In this way, without the commercial grain of Huguang, there was a shortage of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, but the people had to eat first, and in addition to the expropriation and expropriation of the Manchu government, the production of cash crops was also affected, and the peasants in the south of the Yangtze River were able to switch to grain cultivation on a large scale.

Among them, the most exaggerated and the most unimaginable is that, according to the records of the contemporaries, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, which was extremely prosperous in the Ming Dynasty, during the period when there was the greatest shortage of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, even those abandoned tiles and brothels were demolished, just so that there were more places to grow food, so as to support the daily needs of the hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners Army, Eight Banners families and clothed servants in Beijing.

Wang Shimin came from the Chengping era, and he knows very well what kind of situation Huguang will be like once production resumes. However, less than two years after the recovery of Huguang, the extent of recovery was limited. What is more important is that there is a distance of no less than 1,500 miles from Suzhou to Huguang -- from the Suzhou strike, to the news to the Qi Wangfu in Nanjing, and then the Qi Wangfu ordered the Huguang government to go downstream, and finally mobilized grain down the river.

This time they boycotted the market, and they fought exactly the idea of the time difference, but now they were beaten hard by Chen Wen, which is really unimaginable.

However, with Wang Shimin's experience, if you think about it carefully, it is not impossible - if only food is delivered, Wang Shimin may have to investigate whether Chen Wen used the tricks used by Nanjing to supply the grain stocks of the Huainan army, but after listening to those things such as mushrooms and ham, a thought that he would never dare to believe suddenly came to his mind.

"It's a trap, it's a trap!"

The more he thought about it, the more flustered Wang Shimin became. It wasn't until a long time later that he could barely recover his strength, but his heart calmed down a little, so he hurriedly asked the sedan chair man to go forward and go to Changmen Street to check it out for himself.

However, the entrance of this alley has long been tightly blocked by temporary stalls, and it is impossible for a sedan chair to pass through. But Wang Shimin is also getting older, and the Changmen Street at this moment is more crowded than usual, shoulder to shoulder, and his body may not be able to support it.

"Go, let's see what else is there, remember to ask clearly, how much has been shipped."

The butler took the order and left, and only returned after a long time, sweating profusely. However, the news brought back by the housekeeper made Wang Shimin even more like a pins and needles.

"Master, I've asked, except for our Suzhou specialties, there are almost everything, even Songjiang Mansion and Changzhou Mansion. In terms of quantity, those guys told the villain two words, enough to manage. ”

Hearing this, Wang Shimin's eyes were dark, and when he slowed down, he hurriedly called the sedan chair man to carry him to Deyue Tower, where they agreed to meet place, and now things have exceeded expectations, and a countermeasure must be discussed as soon as possible.

The sedan chair man of the Wang family started the crazy mode again, but when Wang Shimin arrived at Deyue Tower, the people in the inner circle of the boycott had already come, especially the representative sent by the Gu family, but it was like a frosted eggplant, and he no longer lived up to the grace of the Jiangnan genius last night.

"First show the enemy to be weak, and then suddenly attack, this is the usual method of King Qi, this must be a conspiracy, it must be a conspiracy!"

With the lesson of the last time in Wuxi, Gu Shu was the least daring to underestimate Chen Wen among the people present. At this moment, seeing the goods being transported into the city, seeing that these people were falling behind Chen Wen with invincible methods, a month ago, the villagers scattered in a hurry, and the officials scattered the tenants with water and fire sticks, and the garrison did not even have a chance to make a move.

"Enough!"

The Gu family is the founder of Donglin, Wang Shimin took the letter this time, and met the Gu family, which also gave enough face. But what he didn't expect was that this backbone of the Gu family was so poor, which really made him very angry in his heart.

"They are so blatantly setting up a stall in front of the shop where they are waiting, why don't they send someone to drive them away."

Wang Shimin didn't want to continue to attack Gu Shu, so he pointed the finger at those rich businessmen, but the answer he got was not what he wanted to hear.

"Xun Weng, there are officials from the prefecture and county yamen everywhere. They said, let's open for business, they will let those outsiders move the place, otherwise if we dare to do it, they will drag our shopkeeper and men to the yamen to beat the board, saying that they will be beaten to death on the charge of disrupting the order of the market, and who dares to do it. ”

The short and fat grain merchant has a bitter gourd face, as if he can squeeze out the bitter water. Grain merchants, compared with other merchants, due to the characteristics of the goods, can contact and send many more men and helpers, but now this number one grain merchant in Suzhou is cowardly in front of the government, and the others are also stunned and speechless.

"Then let them fight, it's better to kill a few, so that we can use the topic to play and force the government to compromise!"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Shimin, Gu Shu, the grain merchant and everyone present looked at the merchant who had just stepped into the door of the house, and the cold and fierce eyes like a wolf swept over, which made everyone present shudder.

"Listen to Brother Cheng, everyone call all the green-skinned wanderers who can be contacted, and then bother Brother Cheng to find some salt gang heroes. This time it can be done, everyone has a heavy reward, the reward for the injured is doubled, the dead are burned and buried by my Wang family, and the parents, wives and children have generous gifts! ”

This person, who was not looked down upon by the gentry and wealthy merchants in Suzhou on weekdays, was born as a smuggler of salt, and had an inextricable relationship with the organized salt gangs that ate salt. Compared with the green-skinned loafers, or even those who specialize in fighting for others, the Salt Gang has to deal with the army guarding the salt works from time to time, and it is not uncommon to kill people and steal goods, and their combat effectiveness is far superior.

At this moment, even if the "smuggler salt dealer" said such a sentence from this top scholar who had been the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet in his family, even if his face was reddened, the scar on his neck was even more eye-catching.

"Sun, just take a look."