Li Ming, Song Tao, Zhou Billy and others had just stepped off the airship, and Song Shiping came up with more than a dozen subordinates. As soon as he grabbed Li Ming's hand, he said excitedly: "The leaders have worked hard......

Song Shiping is now a person from the Far East, because he has been in Daming for a long time, he still behaves in the same way as Daming, but when he saw Li Ming, he still changed his name, making him a little indecent.

Li Ming held Song Shiping's hand, shook it vigorously, and said with a smile: "Brother, I haven't seen you for a few years, and ......I've been blessed."

"Haha...... Aren't you comfortable with the Far East, brother, I really miss you. I prepared hot water for everyone, you can take a good bath, and then I will accompany the leaders to have a good drink. ”

The advance team and the rest of the intelligence department, Song Shiping also arranged for people to wait, led everyone to bathe and change clothes everywhere, and then set up a banquet and sat down to eat.

Li Ming picked up the wine glass and smiled at Song Shiping: "Brother, I respect you on behalf of the company, you have made the work of Jiangsu and Zhejiang impressive in the past few years, and have made great contributions to the company, come to ...... I respect you......"

After he finished speaking, he fell on his back, and Song Shiping hurriedly followed with a drink. He wiped his mouth and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the leaders who saved my old Song family back then, my rotten bones and scum would be gone now." I thought about it, I will follow the Far East in this life, and in the future, my sons and grandsons will also follow the Far East, and our old Song family will make cattle and horses for the Far East, and we will not be able to repay your life-saving grace. ”

Everyone had a pleasantry, and the scene was very lively. Song Shiping deliberately arranged some people who could speak well. The atmosphere was very good at each table, and everyone drank happily.

Song Shiping has been prosperous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in recent years, and a lot of silver has been sprinkled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Even Nan Zhili, whether it is the underworld or the white way, is very open. With all kinds of commodities from the Far East, they are sold in various places, plus the trading at sea, the annual income is added up, and it is really a sea of gold and silver.

He puts the annual earnings. All of them were exchanged for grain, cotton, silk fabrics, porcelain and other materials needed by the Far East, and were continuously transported to Liaodong and Manila, making great contributions to the Far East. He also gathered the Ming refugees, women, craftsmen and orphans everywhere, and organized a large number of ships to be sent to Liaodong every year.

The Far Eastern Company also took good care of him, not only took out the annual income from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to give him dividends, but also sent his family to Manila, assigned his family a beautiful seaside villa and several bungalows, and also got a shop for him in the entertainment and leisure area and the commercial area of Manila.

After all, he has been in business for many years. In recent years, Song Shiping has invested heavily in Manila, buying real estate and shops with his private money, which alone can allow his descendants to enjoy prosperity and wealth for several lifetimes.

Song Shiping would go to Manila every year to stay with his family for a period of time, and he was very shocked by the prosperity of Manila, which made him even more desperate for the Far East. In recent years, he has worked very hard in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As long as it is something that the Far East explains, he can do it properly.

The advance team and the intelligence department rested here for the night. He boarded a sailing ship of the Admiralty and headed north to the waters near the mouth of the Yellow River at Yuntiguan. At present, the fleet of ships from the Far East is concentrated here, and two of their converted river engine sailing boats are also moored there.

When Li Ming and the sailboat they were on came to this sea area, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. I saw that on the distant horizon, there were dense sail shadows. As the sailboat continues to move forward, the shadows of the sails in the distance become clearer and clearer, and countless sailboats almost cover the sea, and the scene is very shocking.

Small boats were also coming through the ladders, each full of displaced people. The displaced people were then transferred to sailboats moored at sea. But the scene was very chaotic, the whole process was full of violence, the homeless people were driven to the sailboats by the officers and soldiers of the Far East crying, and the leather whips and clubs were constantly waved and hit the bodies of the homeless.

The whole sea was full of the cries of homeless people and the shouts and scolding of officers and soldiers in the Far East, and from time to time a few homeless people fell into the sea, causing the surrounding people to cry out again and again.

Li Ming and Song Tao stood on the deck, looking at the chaotic scene here, and they didn't feel good in their hearts.

"Paralyzed, people in troubled times are not as good as dogs......" Song Tao couldn't stand it anymore, and muttered and scolded.

Zhou Billy smiled and said lightly: "When you arrive in Henan and Shanxi, you will know what the troubled times are." Where did I go, entering the Shanxi region, the displaced people crossed the border, thousands of miles of red land, starvation everywhere, even the bark was gnawed away, the trees along the way were bare, and I couldn't find a grass root on the ground. ”

"The world of this dog day ......" Song Tao scolded again, and then exhaled deeply.

Li Ming pointed to the boatload of displaced people from Shanxi who had been sent over in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "In the past few years, we have collected a large number of displaced people, but we have limited transportation capacity and limited resources, and two or three hundred thousand displaced people a year is simply a drop in the bucket. If we open up the Hetao base area, we will be able to collect the displaced people nearby, and then we will be able to save more people.

Starting next year, the impact of the great drought in Chongzhen will be revealed, and the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty will be full of displaced people. No matter how hard we try in the Far East every year, we can't save so many people, and most of them still have to starve to death. The treasury of the Ming Dynasty is empty, not to mention providing relief to the victims, and it is difficult to even maintain its operation.

However, the landlords and gentry of the Ming Dynasty did not lack food, let alone silver. In the face of the displaced people everywhere, they seldom took out grain to help the victims, and they also kept the grain in their hands and did not sell it, waiting for the grain to rise to sky-high prices, so that they could make a lot of money. Moreover, in this year of calamity, they were able to annex land on a large scale, anyway, the gentry class did not pay food, and they were not afraid of any more land. ”

Zhou Billy sneered: "Why are the exile armies in Daming repeatedly banned, it's not that the exiles have been forced to have no way to live, they are all dead anyway, it is better to join the exile army and eat a few full meals." This time, our intelligence department went to the northwest, and the focus was to investigate those traitors, Jin merchants and big landlords in Shanxi, and rob them of all the grain and silver in their hands. ”

Song Tao was happy when he heard it, he smiled and said: "Lao Tzu personally took people to go, paralyzed, when the time comes, I will scrape off their walls, let them store grain and not sell it, let them annex the land, I will let them return to the pre-liberation period once." (To be continued......)

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