Gu Yanwu set off from Zhenjiang to Songjiang, and before that, he stayed in Yangzhou for more than two months. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This is not that the Qi Wangfu has any order not to let Gu Yanwu cross the river, but that Gu Yanwu has an interest in the restructuring of the salt industry in Jiangbei and the Jiangbei Army that is being reorganized, so he stayed there to observe, so it was delayed.

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", Rao is Zhou Shixiang was just an ordinary soldier in his previous life, and these eight words also made him thunderous. In terms of prestige, Gu Yanwu definitely can't compare with Qian Qianyi; In terms of status, Qian Qianyi has been a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and now he is the Taifu of the Dingwu Imperial Court, but Gu Yanwu has only been a junior official of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Hongguang Dynasty, and he has not yet arrived. In terms of fame, Gu Yanwu is a national prisoner who was born as a donor, which cannot be compared with Qian Qianyi, the leader of the literary world and Tanhualang. But Zhou Shixiang valued Gu Yanwu very much, and as soon as the news from Yangzhou arrived, he immediately asked Gui Yongzhi to pick up Gu Yanwu in person. When he heard that Gu Yanwu was going to stay in Yangzhou for a while, Zhou Shixiang did not urge, and wrote to Ge Yi, the Jianghuai envoy in Yangzhou, asking him to treat Gu Yanwu politely, not to make things difficult, and to open a convenient door for him, and let him visit various places.

After Zhou Shixiang went to Songjiang, Gu Yanwu crossed the river from Guazhou, Yangzhou to Jingkou. Three days later, Zhou Shixiang arrived quickly and asked Gu Yanwu to meet with Songjiang. Gu Yanwu did not refuse, considering that Gu Yanwu was tired of traveling and it was not suitable to take a horse boat, Gui Yongzhi, who had been accompanying him, ordered someone to prepare a boat and go to Songjiang by water. The ship is converted from a cargo ship, with a table and a bed in the cabin, which can sit or lie down, and is relatively large, and is jointly run by the shipowner and his wife, who is in charge of the ship, and the wife greets the guests to live and eat. Although it looks simple, this ship is famous for its cleanliness and thoughtfulness, and most of the businessmen who sit on it are eunuchs and cousins who come and go from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The boat anchored in Yutang, Changzhou, Gu Yanwu and Gui Yongzhi went ashore and stayed comfortably in the inn for a night, ate salty porridge and egg cakes for breakfast, and then set off early. As the hull of the boat swayed, Gu Yanwu unconsciously took a nap.

"Mr. Gu, there is Yan Zilingtai ahead, do you want to get off the boat and take a walk?" Gui Yongzhi let out a soft cry and woke up Gu Yanwu.

"Yes! Please dock at the boathouse. Gu Yanwu said without thinking.

Yan Ziling was Yan Guang, a master of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was originally a classmate of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu asked Yan Guang to help him after he became emperor. After many searches, they finally found that the two were talking with candles in the palace, sleeping together in the bed, very happy, sleeping soundly at night, Yan Guang even rested his feet on Emperor Guangwu's body. Yan Guang felt that the officialdom was sinister, so he quietly left, living in seclusion at the foot of Fuchun Mountain in Zhejiang, and let Emperor Guangwu send people to persuade him, and he did not want to see him again. This Ziling platform in Changzhou was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was engraved with Fan Zhongyan for Yan Guang's writing, "The clouds and mountains are firm, and the rivers are beautiful." The wind of Mr., the mountains are high and the water is long".

Approaching Ziling Platform, Gu Yanwu walked on the stone chair under the tree and rested for a while. Gui Yongzhi accompanied him to visit the scenery and was not impatient. After leaving Zilingtai, the boat continued to sail in the direction of Songjiang and reached the territory of Suzhou, where Gu Yanwu proposed to visit Hanshan Temple. This Hanshan Temple is a famous Zen temple in Gusu, Gui Yongzhi has heard of it before, but he has never seen it in person, and there is a handsome explanation, so he agrees.

When the two of them were worshipping Buddha in the temple, Qian Qianyi suddenly came, which made Gu Yanwu very surprised, because he had not handed Qian Qianyi a letter, how would he know that he was passing through Suzhou. Qian Qianyi's appearance made Gui Yongzhi also strange, but after thinking about it, he already knew that Qian was a Taifu after all, and Gu Yanwu's news couldn't be hidden from him, so he stepped forward to greet Qian Qianyi with a smile.

"Master Zongbo is still healthy, and the younger generation is happy!"

Gu Yanwu was a little embarrassed on his face, because he had refuted Qian Qianyi's face. When Gu Yanwu executed the servant Lu En in prison, his friend Guizhuang begged Qian Qianyi to rescue him, but Qian Qianyi proposed that Gu Yanwu worship him. Guizhuang didn't want to lose the Qian family's support, although he knew that Gu Yanwu would not agree, he still worshiped Qianyi as a teacher on behalf of Gu Yanwu. After Gu Yanwu found out, he hurriedly asked someone to ask for the protégé post of returning to Zhuang Daishu, but Qian Qianyi refused to give it. As a result, Gu Yanwu wrote a confession by himself, stating that he had never been listed on the Qian family's gate wall, and asked someone to post it everywhere on Tongqu Avenue. made Qian Qianyi very embarrassed, and ridiculed: "Yan Wu is too impatient!" ”

"Ning people don't come for a few years, don't come unharmed!" Qian Qianyi had long regarded the things of his early years, and stepped forward to hold Gu Yanwu up. Ningren is Gu Yanwu's word, but his original word was "Zhongqing", but this "Ningren" was later changed to show his attitude towards the Qing Dynasty.

"Buddhism is pure, you can't drink alcohol, and please sit down with Mr. Taifu and Mr. Gu for a cup of tea!"

Gui Yongzhi's eyes motioned for his entourage to go to the monk to make tea. After the tea was brewed, Gu Yanwu and Qian Qianyi faced each other, and they were full of emotion. Soon, the two of them let go, but because Gui Yongzhi was the king of Qi's person, Qian Qianyi was inconvenient to talk to Gu Yanwu in front of him about Jiangnan Qingyao and other things, so he said: "Ning people are known for their strategy, and their knowledge is also superhuman, this time King Qi sent troops to attack Guizhou and rescue Li Dingguo outside the border, do you think Wu Sangui will abandon the Manchu Qing Dynasty and wave his army to fight the king of Qi?" ”

Gu Yanwu shook his head and said categorically: "It shouldn't be, Yungui is just a chicken rib to Wu Sangui now, Henan must be, he can wave his army to the north to recover the north." Jing, at this juncture, he fought with the King of Qi, and the wise man did not do it. After speaking, he glanced at Gui Yongzhi, and said to Qian Qianyi quietly: "Looking at Wu Sangui's actions in the past 20 years, he is a person who is unwilling to suffer. Jing, I'm afraid that it will definitely go south, and then it will inevitably be another civil war. Did the old uncle ever think about trying to reconcile the two and join the Ming Dynasty together? ”

"This..."

Qian Qianyi was stunned, he never seemed to have considered this matter.

.......

Since the restoration of Jiangnan, Zhou Shixiang came to Shanghai for the first time in later generations, and now Songjiang Mansion. Songjiang Mansion was only established in the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties, so in terms of history and reputation, it is definitely not as good as Suzhou Mansion. However, although it is not as famous as Suzhou, Songjiang Mansion is also very important in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is stronger than Yingtianfu in Nanjing, and the output of population and money and grain taxes is not inferior to Suzhou.

Taking the population as an example, although Songjiang has experienced the "three massacres in Jiading", the existing population is more than 1.2 million, of which more than half is Dingkou, which is almost about to catch up with the population of Guangdong Province, and the population of Guangxi and Yunnan-Guizhou provinces combined, I am afraid that there is not much more than Songjiang, and there is no need to mention Sichuan and other provinces that were slaughtered by the Qing army.

Only when there are people who have production can there be taxes and money. During the Wanli period, the handicraft workshops of Songjiang Mansion almost accounted for more than seventy percent of the Jiangnan, and the Jiangnan Mansion accounted for ninety percent of the country. These workshops are mainly in the textile industry, mainly producing fabrics such as cotton cloth and silk satin. These textiles were so profitable that they were sold overseas through the maritime trade, making the owners rich and obtaining large quantities of gold and silver. However, the development of commerce inevitably harmed agriculture, because the textile industry needed a large amount of cotton and silk, which constantly turned the original cultivated land into an economic field for planting cotton and mulberry trees. The main source of grain in the Ming Dynasty changed from Jiangnan to Huguang, so there is a saying that "Huguang is ripe, and the world is full".

If there were no natural disasters after the apocalypse, if there were no displaced people in the northwest, and if there was no Manchu Qing Dynasty, no one knows to what extent the commerce in Jiangnan would have developed, and whether there would have been the germ of capitalism.

History has no assumptions, and Zhou Shixiang will not assume that the purpose of his visit to Songjiang is to "build villages and townships", not to promote the development of the local textile industry and promote the capitalist process, because at present, what the Ming Dynasty lacks is not money, but food.

It's just that after visiting those workshops on the spot and listening to the reports of Wang Shirong, Tang Xiaoxian and others, who presided over Songjiang Qingyao, he changed his original intention slightly.

...............

The bones' treatment of Zhu Youlang has made many readers abandon the book, and I can't keep you. I only firm up my opinion, Zhu Youlang does not represent the Ming Dynasty, nor does he admire being a great tomorrow.