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Wu Tong asked about Wu Er, Zhang Shiqiang replied, and the exchange was silent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhang Shiqiang stood aside with his hands down, hesitated, but still lowered his voice and said:

"This time in Puzhou, Wu Er is very attentive, if it weren't for him, if we wanted to go in at night to assassinate, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to find the way, and he was also careful ......on the way back."

Listen to Zhang Shiqiang's words" Wang Tong frowned, and said solemnly:

"I have a plan for this, no need to say more!"

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There are so many things happening in the middle of the month, but it has no impact on the people, everyone is busy preparing for the New Year, and this year is lively.

Today is already the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, but all parts of Tianjin Wei are very lively, the shops in Beijing are closed around the twentieth day of the lunar month, go home for the New Year, most of the Tianjin Wei side will be open until the twenty-ninth of the lunar month.

In the past, the shops and firms of Tianjin Wei, the main important things were to communicate on the sea road, as well as to transport back and forth, but the loud voice had nothing to do with the local area of Tianjin Wei.

But after a few years of exhibition, the population of Tianjin Wei has skyrocketed, the number of shops has skyrocketed, the number of wealthy people has skyrocketed, and the population of Tianjin Wei has increased very little, and the farmers have worked hard for a year, and after laying down the grain and paying taxes, there is no money left, and there is no ability to visit the fee.

But Tianjin Wei, these new population, most of them are in the workshop, workshop, business shop work guys, they are paid for the wages "all food and clothing are to spend money to buy, Tianjin Wei everywhere and the rest of the world is different, because skilled craftsmen are difficult to recruit, the salary is higher than elsewhere, there is a dividend at the end of the year, not to mention the name of Sanjiang those commercial shops and auxiliaries, there are many people with spare money in their hands." These people with sufficient purchasing power, plus those shopkeepers, foremen, "small shareholders who sell everywhere", etc., as well as errand servants who work as errands in various yamen of Tianjin Wei, not to mention those rich people, this rather large group of people holds up the market of Tianjin Wei.

People have money and are just rich, always want to live a decent life for the New Year, rice, noodles, wine and meat, needless to say, silk and porcelain, all kinds of utensils are also to be purchased, they have needs, Tianjin Wei merchants gathered, can also provide sufficient goods, supply and marketing are prosperous, everywhere business is a lot of benefits.

Even if you don't count the income from hoarding and selling goods for Jingshi and Beizhili in one month, just doing local business can catch up with eighty percent of the income in July.

When is July of the year, "it is the most prosperous month of Jinwei shops today, as long as it can be sold and sold", the silver is simply flowing towards the store, and it can catch up with eighty percent of July, and this business has naturally been done.

The shops process money for the guys, and purchase various goods in advance, just to do a good job in the business of Layue, the Ming Dynasty has been in rule for so many years, and there are no shops before the twentieth day of Layue.

"In the past, when I was in Jinan, there were few shops open on the street at this time, there were firecrackers, but the street was deserted, at that time, I felt that the New Year was over, and now I look at the lively and lively, if it wasn't for the cold weather, I thought it was in July and August!"

Wang Tong and the others rode slowly through the streets, and behind them, Wu Da said to Bao Erxiao in Mandarin with a strong Shandong accent, and Bao Erxiao replied proudly there:

"Listening to the boat owners from the south, Hangzhou and Suzhou, the most prosperous cities in the south of the Yangtze River, have such a scene as us, and we can't see them anywhere else. Wang Tong has been staying in his mansion for a few months, and the guards around him are also very depressed, and they are very excited to come out this time, as for this Wu Da, recruiting shipwrights and pirates in Shandong, there are fewer and fewer people who can be recruited, as early as the beginning of the month, he returned to Tianjin Wei, and now his whole family is in Tianjin Wei, and the New Year is naturally here.

There were more than a dozen cavalry guards in front, and more than a dozen people behind him, far away from where Wu Da was, and Sun Dahai and Zhang Shiqiang rode horses around Wang Tong.

"After Wu Da came back from Shandong, he was not quite right, he laughed as usual outside, but he always had a face at home, that is, on the day his subordinates came back, the stakes arranged in their house were still rewarded, saying that Wu Da cried in the middle of the night."

Zhang Shiqiang said in a low voice, Wang Tong shook his head and smiled, but did not answer, Sun Dahai said on the side:

"My lord, the person who gave His Majesty a New Year's gift has returned, and several fathers-in-law and adults' New Year's gifts have also been delivered, Your Majesty's gift is still waiting for the adults to return to the house according to the etiquette system, we have sent a few gifts, there are return gifts, and the gift list will also be inspected by adults, in addition, Qinguan Song girl, Shandong Jinyi Wei Dong Qianhu, Liaozhen Sun Shen General, Xuanfu Li Deputy General have gifts, Tianjin Wei New Year's gifts, please also ask adults to check the ......"

Sun Dahai was originally a housekeeper, he reported one by one, Wang Tong raised his hand and interrupted with a wry smile, and said:

"I'll take a look at the gifts of Your Majesty, a few fathers-in-law, and a few adults, and you can directly give them to the people in the house and the people who are on errands everywhere, and the shipyard and the Huwei Army have more...... What's going on with these people? ”

Wang Tong said a few words, but saw that there were many people wearing thin clothes in front of him, Tianjin Wei is not allowed to have idlers here, everyone has an income, and they always have to wrap a few thick clothes in winter, as soon as they see so many people wearing thin clothes and tattered cotton jackets, they know that they are not local people. The front is a bazaar, but it is a big vegetable market in Tianjin Wei, the reason why it is said to be big, is because the meat and vegetables of the four miles and eight towns are gathered here first, and then distributed to all parts of Tianjin Wei.

In winter, the Sanjiang Commercial Bank had a sale, that is, in Xuanfu and Jizhen, it sold salt goods, cloth and various miscellaneous goods to the outside of the Saiwai in exchange for cattle and sheep outside the Saiwai.

Every winter on the grassland is hell, a severe cold and heavy snow "There will be many small tribes on the grassland to perish, and the usual years are also difficult to pass, in winter, the weather is bitter cold, the forage is scarce, in order to ensure that the healthy livestock survive the winter, some sick and weak livestock must be slaughtered.

These slaughtered livestock breeders could not eat for themselves, and there was not enough salt to make the lungs at the beginning of the next spring, so they had to throw them away in vain.

Every year when it comes to the New Year's Festival, several officials in charge of people's livelihood have to worry about not having enough meat, and this large number of slaughtered cattle and sheep on the grassland just make up for this gap.

The proprietors of the Sanjiang Trading House received permission from the border generals of Jizhen to exchange salt and cloth for these slaughtered cattle and sheep and their accompanying furs, and the price of these slaughtered cattle and sheep was very low, but the nearly five months of winter became very poor for the tribes on the grassland, and it was extremely important to maintain sufficient reserves of salt.

"The Sanjiang Trading Company has made a lot of money here, but the small tribes on the grassland have exchanged things that will not be of any use for precious salt and cloth, and they are also happy.

Many small tribes rushed to herds of cattle and sheep to slaughter and sell, Ji Town to the north, the winter is cold early, cattle and sheep freeze, a winter will not rot, wait for a few heavy snowfall, then use the ox to pull the heavy snow mast to Tianjin Wei side.

This business is very big, even the whole town of Ji this year to eat more meat than in the past, the sheep are transported to Tianjin Wei, the price is two cents lower than the current price, but the profit is several times higher than the butcher selling meat.

Sheep have a lot of meat, Tianjin Wei has a little money in his hands There are also many people, a little decent people, who don't buy a few pieces of bare sheep and go back to eat until February, peel and go into the water, a piece is half cut from it, and there are dozens of catties of weight, to buy sheep will naturally not carry it back.

Outside, these people in tattered clothes were carrying for people, and every time someone passed by, these people would rush up to ask, and the sheep buyers would pick a few and leave, and they would leave with the food they had bought in the vegetable market.

"It's all bankrupt people from Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion, they are looking for some chores to do everywhere to make some money to make a living, Jinyi Wei and the security army drove them a few times at first, and then approached the New Year, it looks really pitiful, so they just let them go, they are the shacks built on the south side of the Triangle Lake and Haihe, come over during the day, and pick up something at night to go back......"

Sun Dahai explained here that these things do not need to be written into the daily report, Wang Tong lived in a simple place during this time, and occasionally went out to gallop on a fast horse, and he really didn't notice it.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Wang Tong's brows furrowed, and he said in a solemn voice:

"On such a cold day, they are trying to survive like this, won't they freeze to death and starve to death?"

"Since the beginning of winter, fifteen people have frozen to death, but no one has starved to death."

Wang Tong is strange again, only fifteen people froze to death, look at the fact that there are so many in front of this vegetable market, presumably there are more Jinwei today, and only fifteen people froze to death, which is too little.

"Isn't the adult usually advised, let the subordinates stare at those temples and Taoist temples, don't let them be too rich, this time there are many displaced people, and the subordinates arrange for the people of Jinyi Wei to go over to ventilate, let them go to set up a porridge factory, collect old clothes, and go everywhere for relief, monks and Taoists are also interesting, and they are diligent, which has maintained this situation until today."

Doing business, running boats at sea, believing in God and worshiping Buddha are not a few, these people may not take money to do good deeds, but like to donate to the temple monks to make incense for peace of mind, several temples and Taoist temples in Tianjin Wei are rich in flowing oil, they do not have to pay taxes, and the days are even more comfortable.

But Wang Tong stared closely, these monks and Taoists also knew who gave them this comfortable day, and they have always been very obedient, and it is not difficult to figure out this joint, but Wang Tong wondered one thing:

"It's a good year, so many homeless people are there?"

Farming farmers, as long as they have a bite to eat, they will not be displaced, so many displaced people, or from Hejian Province, where there is a lot of fertile land, Wang Tong is really strange.

"It's not like you've been whipped up......"

Hearing this answer, Wang Tong was stunned. "There are updates to the latest chapters in a timely manner