Because of the large number of people, even if the tables, chairs and benches in the entire mountain village are a little insufficient, the villagers can only take turns to eat, but it is also the source of the name of the flowing water feast......

Because it is a rare feast in the mountain village, everyone eats very happily, this pleasure is bound to lengthen the time to eat, from the beginning of the evening to the fall of night, there are still many people at the dinner table, but the night did not interfere with everyone's appetite and eating, for this feast, Deng Shifeng specially pulled up the active wire line near Luo Dan's new home, and several car headlights illuminated the dining venue on the road.

In the distance, the feast was still under the light of the lights, and some of them left early to go on more important things, such as the soldiers, who were the first to leave the table after the salute and the show of their armed forces and the dinner, some of them returned to the barracks to replace the soldiers on duty, and the other part went to replace the comrades on the perimeter guard, although these people did not participate in the wedding ceremony, but the second half could not be missed.

In a newly built dormitory in the mountain village school, Deng Shifeng closed the doors and windows, although this will make the room stuffy, but it also isolates the interference of external sounds and the penetration of internal sounds.

"Let's get started, I'm still in the habit of listening to the good news first and then the bad news."

Deng Shifeng handed everyone a fan, Qin Er poured hot water from the thermos pot to make such a cup of tea in four glasses, Deng Shifeng took his tea and reminded him of his habits. Ordinary people are accustomed to listening to bad news first and then listening to good news, so that their battered little hearts can be soothed in the back, but Deng Shifeng now likes to listen to good news first and then listen to bad news, because so far, few news from the outside world is good.

"Huh...... Good news...... There is really no good news this time......" Huang Zhangshi smiled bitterly, unbuttoned his long shirt, and after being in contact with these people in the mountains for a long time, he didn't need to pay too much attention to etiquette and image. "But I know that Brother Deng can find good news in all kinds of bad news, so I will talk about the good news and bad news together."

Huang Zhangshi told the news of the outside world from the beginning of the national situation, since the Chinese New Year to Liuzhou City and a night talk, Huang Zhangshi here in the collection and trafficking of various materials at the same time also has an extra job, that is, to collect various intelligence resources from the outside world; These information from the Ming Dynasty political axe official report information and Liuzhou Prefecture current affairs information, down to Liuzhou Mansion and Guangxi's local customs, local official forces, ethnic minority population distribution, all kinds of information content is complex and huge, at the beginning Huang Zhangshi did these things, no head and no brain, I don't know what information is important and what is not important, I belong to what to remember the eyebrows and mustaches to grasp, until Deng Shifeng sent a student who received emergency training to the outside to station, specializing in the collection, sorting and classification of various materials, Huang Zhangshi can gradually learn how to classify intelligence from this student.

After studying for a few days, Huang Zhangshi became a little interested in intelligence, because he found that after these materials were sorted out, the official newspaper part could learn about the current political events of the imperial court as Deng Shifeng said, and the local information and events were like a miscellaneous journal with rich experience, but more importantly, after comparison and inference, his sense of smell as a businessman could detect a trace of business opportunities from it! The business opportunities that can be brought by such intelligence analysis are normal in the business era of later generations, but the biggest reason why Huang Zhangshi has not used it before is a summary and analysis of all information...... Huang Zhangshi really hasn't done this kind of thing.

With learning and understanding, Huang Zhangshi now also knows what the priority of intelligence analysis is, starting with major national events and Dafu Daily, he told the three people in the house about the big and small events that happened outside during this time.

There were not too many major events in the Ming Dynasty in 1639, but the first one was a major event that happened in Jinan, Shandong Province in the first year. On the second day of the first lunar month, since the fourth expedition of the Qing Dynasty last year, Dolgon was the general, leading his men and horses to conquer the Ming Dynasty, the purpose of which was to rob the population and wealth, and by the way, the slaughter of the Ming Dynasty army would consume the living force of the Ming Dynasty. From the perspective of the Qing army, Dolgon did a good job of leading the troops out this time, not only robbing and harvesting a large number of people and various material wealth, but also defeating tens of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty in Hebei in December, and killing the famous general Lu Xiangsheng of the Ming army. But that's not all......

Then, the Qing army continued to penetrate deep into the south of Hebei, and then pointed the spearhead of the attack to Shandong, in the first month, Dolgon bypassed Dezhou, which was heavily armed, and took advantage of its strong mobility to cross the canal from Dongchang and Linqingzhou to raid Jinan, which was empty, and it took less than a day for Jinan, the first metropolis known as the Central Plains, to fall into the hands of the Qing army. Song Xuezhu failed to run and was killed by the Qing soldiers, and more than a dozen officials under Zhang Bingwen, the political envoy, were killed, along with the kings of the clan, and even Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, was captured alive and sent to Qingshengjing. The victorious Qing soldiers burned, killed and looted, and after the battle, they cleaned up 130,000 corpses inside and outside the city, and looted the entire city's property! In February, Dolgon led a large army to Tianjinwei, crossed the canal and returned to the east, and in March he went out of the pass through Qingshankou and returned to Liaodong with a large amount of property and captured population.

The impact of this incident on the political axe of the Ming Dynasty was powerful, not only losing a large number of soldiers, but also the people and wealth at the bottom, and more importantly, a hole was stabbed out of the already turbulent Ming Dynasty shipwreck, so that the big ship that was no longer able to sail and support it sank into the abyss again......

There is another thing that the government's copy of the newspaper does not have much space, but considering that Deng Shifeng's request for military collection of large and small equipment has not been missed, in February, Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners soldiers to attack Songshan, trying to capture the city, in order to destroy the barrier of Jinzhou, but was frustrated by the unanimous resistance of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and after paying a large number of casualties for more than a month of continuous attacks, Huang Taiji finally withdrew in mid-April.

This battle seems to inject a trace of vitality and joy into the low morale of the Ming Dynasty that has just been defeated, but hearing the victory of this battle, others may not understand, but Deng Shifeng understands that the Songjin War with the final decision of the Ming and Qing dynasties kicked off the first stage, and the impact of this battle for more than three years on both sides is the change of strategic surname, it can be said that after this battle, the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty was almost the last straw that sank it; The Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, will move towards a peak of its prosperity.

After talking about the overall situation of the country, Huang Zhangshi told about some big and small events that happened in Guangxi. Compared with the war in the north, the movement in the south seems to be much calmer, but these calms are only superficial, at the end of last year, the situation of Guangxi local officials making trouble for the flow of officials has not improved this year, but the local officials seem to have learned a degree of relaxation in the process of making trouble for so many years, neither too fierce will cause the Ming Dynasty political axe to have an excuse to directly send troops to suppress the most fierce local officials, nor will it make the officials of the Ming Dynasty comfortable, everyone is fighting wits and courage to contain each other awkwardly.

It's just that after more than half a year, the officials of the Ming Dynasty still obviously have rich experience and means of dealing with the wit, and the local officials who made trouble in western Guizhou seem to have been gradually divided and co-opted a group, and the noise is much quieter, and the local officials in the east seem to have received some rumors, and the voice of shouting is also disappearing. The local officials who solved these troubles, the officials of Liuzhou Mansion happened to receive some rumors and talks, and some people's eyes and attention have begun to turn to the mountain village where Deng Shifeng is located......

As early as last year, the mountain village was coveted by some officials and big families because of the appearance of the iron ore and iron factory, but the strength of these people was limited, and after Deng Shifeng went out and stabbed them in the soft underbelly of their buttocks, these people had no time to take care of themselves to fight the fire, but now as the economic benefits of the mountain village are becoming more and more huge, some high-level officials in Liuzhou Mansion have begun to notice this mountain village; Among them, Liu Mazi and Smiling Li play the biggest role in it.

Although it was privately built and sold to sell smuggled iron, it was completely possible to send troops to collect it, but at that time, the mountain village used to sell some knives and iron tools or something, which could only be regarded as a small fight to earn some living expenses, and this small profit was not eye-catching to those high-level officials; However, with the production of glass last year, those glasses and vanity mirrors and other small areas of luxury goods flowed out, after the estimation of Smiling Li, the sales of these luxury goods on the market is a jaw-dropping and astonishing number, it is said that some time ago, a three-foot square dressing mirror was fried by several large families to a five-figure amount!!

And with the in-depth research on product research and the expansion of the number of products in the mountain village this year, more and more such luxury goods have flowed into Guangdong through Huang Zhangshi's sales channels, such as glass thermos pots that can magically keep the temperature of boiling water for up to a day and night, and soaps sold to Qinglou, each of these seemingly inconspicuous small items can create a lot of money. And the sales of these products are counted and accumulated by Smiling Li through his own information channels...... The total amount of up to 100,000 taels of silver is enough to make many people excited! And don't forget, these figures are just the statistics of the smiling Li from the numbers that are revealed, if you count the unknown figures of sales to other provinces...... That's enough to drive people crazy!!

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