Chen Ming was fighting the final battle in Suzhou, and Nanjing, as the center of the Jiangnan control area of the Fu Han Army, the flames of war burning north and south of the Yangtze River did not affect the peace here at all.

The shops, restaurants, teahouses, and inns here should be opened or opened, and the small merchants and hawkers who walk the streets can still run around Seoul. The Han Army's control over the city of Nanjing was divided into two, and the Han City was somewhat grasping the big and letting go of the small, while the whole city -- the Ming Emperor's Palace, where there were full of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, the armament was tight, and idle people were not allowed to enter.

When the first rays of the sun came in, the morning mist slowly dissipated, the sound of birds flapping their wings could be heard in the distance on Xuanwu Lake, and the calm lake surface looked so calm against the background of the morning glow, everything seemed to have just woken up.

Nanjing in the 18th century had a very different pace from the big cities of China in the 21st century, and I don't know if it was a panic about the future, or because it was this nature, the merchants who stayed in the city were so quiet and indifferent. It is as quiet as a mirror, and it is more like the hearts of the people in this ancient city at this moment.

Chen Ming likes to get up early when he is in Nanjing, he likes Xuanwu Lake, I have to say that Gao Jin's taste is very good, and the sunrise in the early morning also reflects the other side of this ancient city, simple and elegant, and the annual rings of history make people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.

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In the streets and alleys, the boy soldiers of the Fu Han Army were organized by squad platoons, with no time rules and no action rules.

Compared with the fierce soldiers of the Fu Han Army, the pressure brought by these boy soldiers to the citizens of Nanjing will undoubtedly be much smaller. Although they also carry knives and guns, adults always have a sense of superiority when they look at children, so the boy scouts of the Fuhan Army do a good job of patrolling the police. With these deterrents are not strong, but they are always the power of deterrence, and the market in Nanjing City is very peaceful these days.

Although there are fights and brawls in Nanjing from time to time, and even deaths, the latter are mostly headless lawsuits, and the corpses of many people and the portraits of the Fu Han army are posted at the city gate, and no one comes to claim them. It's just that once there is a bitter master, this matter is the trouble of the Han army.

There was a very special department in the Fu Han army -- the Public Security Department, and the people in it were either the original scouts or the local arresters and servants who were forcibly taken away by the Fu Han Army in the course of sweeping along the river, and the latter were all experts in handling cases and investigating cases, and the only role of this public security department was to act as a police station when the Fu Han Army occupied a certain place for a long time.

These days, Nanjing's cityscape has been much more prosperous than at the beginning, many ships rushed to Nanjing from Wusongkou, in addition to a large number of sulfur saltpeter, there are all kinds of goods, complementing each other and communicating, providing Nanjing with a lot of daily necessities. Moreover, the merchants in Nanjing have found that the miscellaneous taxes of the Fu Han army are very small, which is conducive to the development of commerce, but the Fu Han army is not generally sharp in its means and intensity of cracking down on hoarding goods and raising prices.

Whether it was salt, grain, cloth or something else, if the Fu Han army had such goods in their own hands, they would release a lot of them, and the merchants who could hoard goods and raise the price would never have a better day. And if they come across materials that are also in short supply in their hands, such as medicinal herbs, they will directly use knives.

Once, twice, or three times, ...... all the businesses that were still open in Nanjing learned to be obedient. One by one, they took the "Regulations on Urban Management" issued by the Fu Han Army and studied it diligently, and found a very glaring term -- cracking down on speculation. And what is speculation? The popular meaning of these four words is to hoard goods and raise prices, and manipulate prices. Matching this charge were the monkeys who were killed, and they were all guilty of opportunism. There is a special page in the "Regulations on Urban Management" is the "Regulations on Price Management", which was formulated with the aim of strengthening price management, ensuring the basic stability of market prices, stabilizing the people's livelihood, and ensuring economic development. This is all the written explanation of the Fu Han Army, in fact, it is 'killing the rich and helping the poor'!

The price of more goods falls, and the shortage of goods rises. This is the practice of shopping malls, and as a result, it is the turn of the Fu Han Army, and there are even regulations on the price increase of items. The maximum price cannot be more than twice the original price. Although twice as much is already a huge profit, when something can rise to twice the original price, it can completely rise to three or five times, and the requirements of the Fu Han army in this regard make the big merchants in Nanjing seriously dissatisfied.

But it didn't work.

Don't look at these big merchants, the shops in Nanjing City are still open, but their big proprietors are definitely not in Nanjing City, these people's butts will not sit on the side of the Fu Han Army, in this case, is it necessary for Chen Ming to take into account their feelings?

Chinese businessmen are not Western businessmen, and these people are far less powerful than their financial resources. Even if some of the Shilin gentry will have a deep relationship with it, the Fu Han Army itself is not 'loved' by the Shilin gentry, so it doesn't hurt to have more hatred.

Liu Chengshan is fifteen years old. This little guy who took the Boy Scouts to copy the Mu family at the fork of Yunxi is now an officer of the Boy Scouts, and he is still a student in the intermediate class of the Teaching Brigade Camp School. By the time he graduated two years later, seventeen-year-old Liu Chengshan would become a corporal in the regular army of the Fu Han Army as long as he passed the grades; If you have excellent grades and are in the top five of your class, you can also become a sergeant; In the whole class, only the first person in the class can become a sergeant. The teaching of the senior class in the camp school is aimed at all the officers and battalion officers of the regular army, and it is not the same concept as the junior class and the intermediate class.

The Boy Scouts also have holidays, and no one has a salary, but what about the Boy Scouts? Most of them are orphans, and they are young, so they will not think about saving money to marry a daughter-in-law. It's not that there are no such people, but there are very few.

At least Liu Chengshan is not among them, his ideals are very ambitious, at least become a sergeant in two years, and then step by step to become a general, and when the Manchu Qing is overthrown, he can also glorify his ancestors, what kind of daughter-in-law will he marry at that time? Do you still need to save your own money? The money in Liu Chengshan's hands is always used to eat and drink, and because of this, his prestige in the eyes of the boy soldiers of their squadron is very high. Because Liu Chengshan always takes his subordinates with him when he eats and drinks, he doesn't know who it is.

And Nanjing City is undoubtedly a very large and very prosperous place, where the food, the north and the south, the east and the west, are also everything. For the boy scouts who couldn't even eat enough a year ago, that was a huge temptation.

The Confucius Temple by the Qinhuai River is Liu Chengshan's favorite place to come, and the boy soldiers are not rare in the Qinhuai River, and women are not more attractive to them who have just grown their hair, and there is no delicious food. What's more, the system of the Han Army does not shy away from women. If there is no evasion in the army, there is no mystery and no greatest allure for the boy soldiers.

"Liu Tou, what are we going to eat today?"

"Are you still going to drink osmanthus porridge?" Children have a sweet tooth, and this Boy Scout is one of them right now. As he spoke, he seemed to think of the taste of osmanthus porridge, and he was dripping down.

"I don't drink osmanthus porridge anymore. The rice cake is also that flavor, let's eat duck today. Buy two salted ducks, and then go to Lao Ma's noodle restaurant to eat beef noodles and beef potstickers. Obviously, Liu Chengshan is a carnivore, and the few boy soldiers behind him are all meat tigers, and even the boy soldiers who loved osmanthus porridge before were instantly salivating, salted duck, beef, and ......

In the noodle restaurant of Lao Ma's house. A group of six boy scouts sat around one, with ducks, sliced braised beef, pot stickers, and fragrant and delicious beef noodles on the table, and the owner of the noodle restaurant did everything for Liu Chengshan and his party as quickly as possible.

For this group of boy soldiers, the people of Nanjing are not afraid, but they are also cowardly. They have knives in their hands after all.

"My lord, this is a fake for the rebel army to release child soldiers. These baby soldiers can rest for two days a month, and at the end of the fifteenth month. Liu Chengshan, who was eating duck, didn't know that on the Qinhuai River flower boat diagonally opposite the old Majia noodle restaurant, two pairs of eyes were staring at them viciously. One of them was Zhou Mazi, the head snake on the Qinhuai River, who disappeared after the Fu Han army captured Nanjing.

"Chen Thief is interested in these dolls. This is exactly what we can do. You have to plan this matter well, don't rush it, and put a long line to catch big fish. If things can be done and you can steal all the methods of casting cannons and making guns from Chen Thief, you will be a hero of my Qing Dynasty. ”

"Adults can rest assured, the small ones have already found candidates, and there will be no flaws."

"That's good." The adult took a sip of the teacup, his eyes staring at the smiling Liu Chengshan and his party.

"If the adults are bored of looking at it, the small ones will arrange for people to ...... these six little cubs, and the result will be." Zhou Mazi made a gesture of cutting off his head.

"Don't startle the snake." The adult glanced at Zhou Mazi, his voice suddenly became much heavier, Zhou Mazi was agitated, and his waist suddenly lowered again.

After a long while, the voice of the 'adult' sounded again: "You say..., these child soldiers are very loyal to Chen Rei?" Have you been in contact with these thieves? ”

"Don't dare to hide it from the adults, the little ones did send people to contact these thieves. The four temptations all hit the wall, and the thieves immediately howled, and only one of the four people sent out by the small one came back. ”

"The three brothers who missed were all cut down by the thieves. Especially for the first time, the small one was staring at the teahouse on the side. As a result, the brother who was sent was cut into a blood gourd by three thieves with knives at the door of the teahouse, and blood flowed all over the ground...... "There was a hint of crying in his voice, and his eyes were red. I don't know if Zhou Mazi really has feelings for his subordinates, or if he has superb acting skills.

The atmosphere in the flower boat fell silent for a while, and the 'lord' sighed and said, "The state is in turmoil, these are righteous people who died for the imperial court." You have sorted out the names and origins of the people who sacrificed their lives, and I will take them back to Suzhou and report them to Beijing. The imperial court will not let Zhongliang shed blood in vain, and when the official army calms down Chen Rebellion and restores Jiangnan, these people will be rewarded by the imperial court and patronize future generations. ”

"Bang, bang, bang......" Zhou Mazi knelt in the cabin and kowtowed three times to the 'adult'. With this sentence of the adult, although my brothers have no regrets in death. Zhou Mazi represented the dead brother Xie Daren Xie Imperial Court. ”

"Get up, get up quickly......" The adult was very satisfied with Zhou Mazi's reaction.

"Listen to me, sir. The villain is a scoundrel in the market, and the villain in the market can actually win the favor of adults and contribute to the court. Little daring adults can rest assured! ”

There are even more smiles on the faces of adults. "Don't worry, this official has always been very reassuring to you."

He got up and pulled up Zhou Mazi: "The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the country is in turmoil to show loyalty." You are a loyal and good official of my Qing Dynasty. I have seen all your hard work in my eyes and remembered it in my heart. The court will not forget you, and the officials will not forget you.

Now the imperial court only gives you an official body from the eighth grade, which is a little lower, but this is only the beginning. After all, you are a white body, not even a showman, and it is already commendable to live in the eighth grade. ”

"My lord, you always know my Zhou Mazi, the four books and five classics, I Zhou Mazi recognize one, two, three, four, five, but they are not human to my Zhou Mazi......"

"Hehehe, I still have to read two more books and recognize more words in the future. Some secrets must be opened by you yourself. This eight products is just the first step for you to step into the officialdom, you have to look up and look forward, a good future is still waiting for you. ”

When the secret camps of the Fu Han army were blooming everywhere and their prestige was grand, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also sacrificed their magic weapon - sticky pole. That is, the blood droplets that were spread by the people in later generations, and no one could tell whether it was true or false.

Emperor Qianlong was not stupid at all. Since the Fu Han army dared to attack and kill officials in broad daylight in the local area, why didn't they do it in the city of Beijing? Is it the Fu Han army that doesn't dare? Whoever still has such a ridiculous idea is pure pig brains. The only explanation is that the Fu Han army did not want to make Beijing nervous, and they could get more and greater benefits while the city remained as it was. Emperor Qianlong's first task to the sticky pole was to clean up the city of Beijing, without causing panic, to clean up the anti-thief dens in the city, and then to assist the local government in clearing the rebels of the rebellious party.

You don't care that the sticky rod in the thirty-third year of Qianlong is still somewhat similar to the blood droplets in the Yongzheng Dynasty, but as soon as this brand is revealed, it will have N great influence.

Zhou Mazi in front of him is one of the people who kneel and lick and worship very neatly. This former head snake on the Qinhuai River has now turned into one of the secret enemies of the Fu Han army.

The flower boat docked at the pier next to the Confucius Temple, and the 'adult' was dressed in an ordinary cyan robe, blending in with the crowd and quickly disappeared. This man came to a certain house inside the Guanyin Gate.

This is a foothold of the sticky pole in Nanjing City, such as Zhou Mazi, there must be more than one in the entire Nanjing City. Zhou Mazi could only passively wait for the appearance of the sticky rod, he didn't know the specific foothold of the sticky rod in Nanjing City.

"Zhou Mazi's people are also ready. This time, the three forces are working together, and I don't believe that I can't seep in. "The first task of the establishment of the sticky pole department is to figure out the method of casting cannons and making guns of the Fu Han army, and as for cleaning up the hidden camps in various places, that is the general task of the sticky pole department.

When you come to Nanjing City, it is easy for people at the sticky pole to settle in the city. They sent the prepared people to the inner city in various capacities, such as little beggars, orphans, deaf and mute, etc., but they were like meat buns beating dogs, and there was no return. The Fu Han army also used the people they sent in as bait to hang a fish at the sticky pole, so that the first batch of people who rushed to Nanjing at the sticky pole were almost wiped out.

The contest between the two sides in the dark is not as bloody as thousands of horses and thousands of armies, but the danger and mystery in it make ordinary people shudder. (To be continued.) )