At the end of the first day, Wang Jiang had a night talk with Zhang Huangyan in the evening, but Chen Wen really didn't have that kung fu, and even the next day, even Wang Jiang plunged into complicated official business, and Zhang Huangyan had to arrange a civil reception. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a tiring journey, Zhang Huangyan rested in the post house for a day the next day, and went back to rest after having dinner with Chen Wen and Wang Jiang in the evening. On the second day, accompanied by the civil official in charge of hospitality, he visited Nanchang City with a few guards in civilian clothes.

The carriage left the post house and went south to Guangrunmen according to Zhang Huangyan's request -- he remembered that when he first came to Nanchang the day before, the officials who greeted him had casually mentioned the prosperity of Guangrunmen.

Guangrunmen is adjacent to the Ganjiang River, and has always been the place where the department stores and merchants gather in Nanchang. Zhang Huangyan and his entourage sat in a carriage, and after a while, they approached the left side of Guangrun Gate, but the closer they were to this Guangrun Gate, the greater the flow of people, and the speed of the carriage naturally became slower and slower. Fortunately, Zhang Huangyan was just out for a walk this time, and he was able to see more carefully if he was slower.

Peeking out of the carriage window, I saw that the shops on both sides of the street were already open. A large amount of goods were carried by the wharf on the wheelbarrow to the warehouse behind the shops in the alley, and the goods were moved in and stacked under the command of the bookkeeper and the man, sometimes even with the help of the man himself.

Zhang Huangyan sat in the carriage and couldn't see exactly how many goods had been moved in, but none of the shops were deserted, and there were more or less men and women shopping for goods inside.

Most of the daily necessities are ordinary people, Zhang Huangyan knows, large families generally have an appointment with a fixed shop, and some consumables that do not need to be selected by the master will be directly transported over, and the housekeeper, cook and others will pick them at the back door of the house, and those who push a cart or drive a donkey cart to the city are probably like this. But even if you enter the shop, some are greeted by a guy, and some are greeted by the shopkeeper in person, which is naturally very different.

There will be a difference in status, the strength of the merchant, or the volume of goods sold - the pursuit of profit maximization is naturally more important than the best use of it.

The carriage moved forward slowly, and the streets and alleys not far from Guangrunmen, such as Cotton Market, Ribbon Lane, and Shangtangcheng Street, were full of shops of salt, grain, cloth, spindles, paints, and department stores.

Some are retail, some are wholesale, and more are both, but the internal priority still needs to be clearly divided by insiders. However, Zhang Huangyan can still hear that the Guangrunmen area is not only the local accent of Nanchang, he rarely hears it in Jiangxi Province, but it is very familiar in Zhejiang, and there are still a lot of them.

"Push closer to the Guangrun Gate."

Zhang Huangyan silently recited this sentence He is also a Nanchang folk proverb that he has just learned, and the prosperity of the heyday can be seen from the seven words in this district, and today he has walked on this experience, and his heart is full of emotion.

"This soldier, in fact, this Guangrunmen is still much inferior to back then."

There was a bit of desolation in the words of the civil official, Zhang Huangyan knew that the civilian official who was responsible for accompanying him was a local, and he followed Zhang Zisheng into the banner of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army. He was not a survivor of the massacre a few years ago, because he had already joined the anti-Qing rebels at that time. But as a local, I was used to seeing prosperity when I was young, and now even if I have begun to recover my life, I will inevitably touch the scene.

"I'm sorry, the lower official lost his temper."

"Nothing, nothing. Don't hide it from the noble officials, this official also returned to his hometown after raising the army, and the prisoners were in tatters everywhere. Although Yin County was not slaughtered, commerce inside and outside the city was sluggish, people were scattered, and the fields were barren. Most of the people who took refuge in the mountains were slaughtered by the Tartars, as was the case with the Tartars' washing of Siming Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli. ”

"Fortunately, the king is here, otherwise the lower officials will be afraid that it will be difficult to return to their homeland in this life."

"Yes, fortunately, there is still Chen Wen......"

Zhang Huangyan muttered to himself, he knew very well that almost all of the excellent situation of the Ming court south of the Yangtze River was created by Chen Wen single-handedly, and his people could still insist on reducing taxes in the disaster-stricken areas and strictly governing the whole under the extremely difficult circumstances, so as to restore the people's livelihood, and he was indeed a Buddha-like figure in ten thousand families.

But such a Confucian general was very strict with the gentry, and in Zhejiang alone, he vigorously attacked the gentry on charges of participating in the Cao Conglong Rebellion, opposing the New Deal, and participating in the Manchu imperial examination, and confiscated the land and property of those Zhejiang gentry.

Zhang Huangyan mentioned from several of his close friends in Yinxian County, such as Lu Yuding, who had long praised his military quartermaster and used his own house as the contact point between Zhang Huangyan's headquarters in eastern Zhejiang and other anti-Qing forces, and Li Yehei, whose father died in the township three years ago and was buried in place of his father, Chen Wen distributed a lot of scraped land to the soldiers under his command as military merits, and these warriors were more supportive of Chen Wen's harshness towards the gentry.

Lu Yuding is okay about this, Zhang Huangyan knows that this friend of his has always been more important than wealth. But such people are a minority after all, what kind of virtue is the southeast gentry, Zhang Huangyan has seen a lot over the years. One by one, the fields and goods were piled up in the cellar and rusted, all of which benefited from the preferential treatment of the Ming court, but when they needed to contribute, they repeatedly cried poor. These guys, as if they couldn't open the pot if they donated the money on their bodies, went straight to the flower boat on the Qinhuai River in a blink of an eye.

It's just that the southeast gentry is not a matter of one or two days, the Donglin Party is their representative, as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty, they have begun to make waves in the court, and the background is not at all comparable to Chen Wen, a new warlord, and the attitude of the Jiangnan gentry towards Chen Wen ......

Zhang Huangyan doesn't want to say anything about the contradiction between the two, but the current good situation can never be lost. Especially after Zheng Chenggong's defeat in Nanjing, Zhang Huangyan really didn't want to see a fiasco again.

"Why are all those Lifu pushing wheelbarrows?"

Running away from these nonsense thoughts for the time being, Zhang Huangyan's eyes were quickly attracted by those lifu. The use of a wheelbarrow can indeed improve efficiency, but the loss is not something that these laborers can afford, at least he has never seen such a strange appearance, whether it is at the dock in Yinxian County, or in the Zhongzuosuo and Haicheng in the area occupied by Zheng Chenggong.

"Oh, this is what Senator Song asked him to do. Our army has just recovered Nanchang, and a large number of troops need to be transferred from here, and there is a shortage of manpower, so we have these. Later, the people's livelihood gradually recovered, and the freight pressure was increasing day by day, but the recruitment and Tuntian were being implemented, and few people were willing to go to the wharf to endure the hardships. ”

Zhang Huangyan did not know who the Song Senate was in the mouth of the civil official, but Wang Jiang's follow-up administration was quite meritorious. Lifu's labor intensity has decreased, and he has made more money, and the freight pressure of various terminals in Nanchang has also been alleviated, which can be described as the best of both worlds.

It's just that the Ming Empire of 70 million ding, the capital city of Jiangxi, a large province with a total population of no less than 20 million, actually had a shortage of manpower, which really made Zhang Huangyan sigh.

"Jiangxi's slaughter by the Tartars over the years can be seen from this."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the population plummeted, if the north can still be said to be natural disasters, tax increases, rogues, bandits and the breach of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, then the south is purely killed by my Qing Dynasty, and no one is qualified to compare with my Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Huangyan sighed, and the carriage also turned into a street. This street is clearly distinguished from other streets and alleys in the Guangrunmen area, there is no large amount of goods coming in and out, and women account for the majority of the people walking on the street and in and out of the shops.

"This?"

"I don't know that this place is called Cuihua Street, which is where the jewelry shops in Nanchang City gather. According to our customs in Nanchang, but all such a happy event as a wedding, whether it is a famous family or a well-off family, you have to come here to buy a few pieces of jewelry, even outsiders come to Nanchang, Cuihua Street is also a must-come. ”

"I see."

Zhang Huangyan nodded, the common people can have money to purchase jewelry for marriage, which is a phenomenon that will only exist when people's livelihood is restored. This trip to Guangrunmen really made him feel a lot of emotion, but since he came here, especially after listening to the explanation of the accompanying civil official, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

"Which shop has better workmanship, can you take the official to see it?"

Zhang Huangyan followed Qian Sule and others to start an incident in Ningbo, it has been more than ten years of ups and downs, but he rarely has the opportunity to go home once, even his father died and could not go back to mourn, and his wife Dong raised her father-in-law and only son in her hometown in the countryside, and guarded the women's way. Now that Ningbo has been restored for a year, and there is nothing to do with him in the war for the time being, maybe it's time to go back.

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Historically, Zhang Huangyan's wife Dong and his only son Zhang Wanqi were captured by the Qing army and put in prison. After Zhang Huangyan was captured, he would rather die than surrender, and the Qing army executed his wife and only son three days before the execution of Zhang Huangyan, and then Zhang Huangyan was killed.

Now, it has been a whole year since Ningbo was recovered, and Zhang Huangyan's family Chen Wen has also specially asked the local officials in Ningbo to take good care of it, so there will be no more tragedies like in history.

Chen Wen has done many similar things, although not everyone will accept his affection, but he wants to be worthy of his heart. However, for Zhang Huangyan, Chen Wen really didn't have much time to pull the last of the three heroes of West Lake into the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army groups, and everything still went naturally.

There was no way, Zhang Yingxiang's capture and the news from Nanjing and other places all showed that Zilharang was leading a large number of elite Qing troops from Manchuria, Mongolia and Han armies to the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion in the north to move south along the canal. And Chen Wen originally planned to train some more troops to ensure the safety of Jiangxi after Sun Kewang lifted the confrontation, and then went north to recover Nanjing, but now since it is not Jidu who came, but Jidu's old son Jierharang, then he is not in a hurry at all.

According to calculations, when Zierharang arrives in Nanjing, it will be the end of autumn, and during this time, collecting taxes, building equipment, recruiting and training troops, Chen Wen needs to maintain a certain degree of military presence in Jiangxi in order to rest assured that he will lead the army out of Hangjia Lake to Nanjing in the north.

Those who have constant production and permanent employment have perseverance, this is the truth that Chen Wen has always firmly believed, and the system he formulated has also greatly promoted the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness from this point. Just as Zheng Chenggong needed to bring the families of the soldiers with him to ensure that the army would not collapse due to the fear that the old nest would be taken out, Chen Wen also wanted to ensure the safety of Jiangxi, and only when the family members and military achievements were effectively protected in the rear, the soldiers who went out on the expedition could devote themselves to the battle.

In addition, the issuance and implementation of the policy of exempting floating grain is also a major event related to the people's will and the recovery of people's livelihood in Jiangxi. The abolition of an unreasonable tax that has been implemented for more than 200 years and almost 300 years also requires great energy, and there are many things involved, and it is by no means possible to achieve practical results with two lips closed at a time.

There is a sum of silver, grain and an income worth one million taels here, and the attention of the sea trade side will be even greater. The city shipping department is still like that, recovering an extra piece of lost coastal land can increase some of the income, but Chen Wen is now concerned about what happens to the cargo of those dozens of sea ships.

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On the third day of the seventh month of the ninth year of Yongli, the port of Nagasaki, after several months of sailing, the sea trade fleet of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang finally arrived in Japan.

A large fleet under the banner of the Ming army arrived, and the elders of the Nagasaki Domain of Japan personally greeted them, who let the captains who had been employed by the southeastern gentry in the past two years to run the sea trade say that the strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was strong, and it had recovered the territory of nearly three provinces in two provinces, and the Ming court was expected to turn around, that is, the temper of the king of Huiji County was not too easy to match.

"The old ...... of the clan of the Chōshū clan in Shimokoku"

Before he finished speaking, the two officers led by the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming army fleets glanced at each other, and the military general with sideburns and beard rudely interrupted the etiquette of this Japanese minister.

"I don't have time to greet you, there are goods on the ship, and I have to go back to chop tartars after the transaction is over."

Mo said that he was an officer of Nanming, even if he was an envoy who came to Japan to ask for reinforcements, he had seen it, but it was still rare to see such a faceless person like this one, even if he had heard about some things in the Ming Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, it really made him stunned.

This officer looked impatient, but the other officer, Zheng Qi, was much more amiable, not only knew a lot about maritime trade, but also spoke Japanese. However, Zheng Qi is harmonious and angry, but in his bones he is no different from the other officer, which really makes the old man a little uncomfortable.

"This hasn't driven the Tartars out yet, it's so hard to talk, and the envoys of King Lu and King Yanping didn't come like this before." In his heart, the old man is still smiling and welcoming.

In the Imjin War, Japan's hundreds of thousands of elite Warring States annihilated Korea like a bag, and as a result, the Ming army, which was capped at 40,000 or 50,000 people, was hung up and fought, and since then, Japan has been very afraid of the Ming Dynasty's armed forces. Later, the Ming Dynasty was declining, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a posture of dominating the world, and the envoys of the Ming court came to Japan to ask for help, and even a few years ago, there was a drama of crying Qin Ting, and Japan's awe of China began to decline slowly.

This time, the fleet of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang came, and the Changzhou Domain sent him over mainly to test the meaning of the comer. After all, those ship owners have mentioned that this Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming army started with a mandarin duck array, and some people say that the king of Huiji County is the son-in-law of the Penglai Qi family. Qi Jiajun is the nemesis of the Japanese, and today, when the Ming Court has the possibility of turning the tables, there is no need to offend a powerful faction like Chen Wen who has hundreds of thousands of troops for no reason.

"To tell the truth, His Royal Highness King Lu sent envoys to ask for reinforcements, and the Changzhou Domain of the Lower Kingdom strongly supported it. However, the shogunate has an order not to send troops......"

The beggar teacher who went to Japan is not unfamiliar to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming army from Dalanshan, and there is also a story in the army that Chen Wenli advised Wang Yi to cancel the beggar teacher who went to Japan, and many people know Chen Wen's position.

Patiently listening to the old man's words, Zheng Qi, who was always responsible for singing red-faced, sneered: "Those Wenchen who don't know soldiers have made your country laugh. With all due respect, the decision of the shogunate of your country was correct. The king of my family once said that between the emperor and the Tartars, it was a fight between the gods, and you, hehe, couldn't get involved. ”