Webster looked at the note, and after taking it, he couldn't help but look at it carefully.

This note is the book of Xuzhou Thorn History, Xuzhou is Xuchang in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, not far from Henan Mansion, but two hundred miles away, who is Wang Ying of Xuzhou Thorn History, Wei is not impressed.

However, the content of the recital is a bit appalling.

Wang Ying mainly said three things in the recital.

One of them is the outflow of population, Xuzhou is a big state, after all, relying on the anointed land of Kanto, there are 90,000 households, and the population is about 400,000, such a scale is not small.

However, recently, there are a large number of young and strong people who have abandoned the wasteland, and have gone to Henan Mansion, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Wang Ying has made a rough count, and the outflow of young and strong people is as many as more than 3,000 people, although these 3,000 are not much, but for a state, after all, it is not a minority, and the women and children who stayed, but they relied on the help of the young people who were far away in Henan Mansion, and their lives were actually good, and they even began to buy some land and buy some cattle.

As a result, more and more people are thinking of going to Henan Mansion.

Wang Ying said in the song: "Although the outflow of young and strong, but the introduction of a lot of cattle, ploughing horses, grain production is barely maintained, but the outflow of young and strong, the government soldiers are difficult to recruit, conscription is even more difficult to recruit, women and children are unbearable, the minister thinks that in the long run, the solid grain can be satisfied, but Xuzhou has no available strong people, which is a disadvantage." ”

Merriam-Webster frowned and continued to look down.

This second question, apparently exaggerated, is that a large number of goods arrived at the Xuzhou ferry along the Luokou canal, and these cargo ships can be described as this cloud, and countless merchants gathered here, so that many merchants built and built warehouses near the Xuzhou ferry. There are also countless goods, passing through the wharf of Xuzhou, flowing to Xuzhou City and subordinate counties.

Countless cheap and beautiful cloths, countless iron farm tools, countless pottery and porcelain, countless tea and wood tools, and even some strange gadgets, and even rattles played by children, all poured into Xuzhou like crazy.

It's hard to imagine such a cheap thing. It's unimaginable. Obviously, the cloth of Mengjin is of high quality, but the price is low, and the people of this era must not understand the concept of large-scale production leading to a drastic reduction in costs, let alone the price difference between the production of a piece of cloth and the production of 100,000 pieces of cloth. Soon the entire Xuzhou was impacted.

As a result, countless blacksmith shops were closed one after another, and the idyllic scenery of men and women weaving was instantly wiped out. The women no longer weaved, and it was not an option to be idle at home, and they had no money to buy the rare things of the bazaar, and they heard that many merchants collected ore and timber from all over the country. So the men went to work in the mines and went up to the mountains to cut wood. The women simply held up half the sky, and the people up and down Xuzhou were making money, making money to buy Mengjin's cattle, Mengjin's cloth, Mengjin's ironware, wood, pottery, porcelain, countless timber and ore, in exchange for countless money, all of which were converted into ready-to-wear and leather goods.

Wang Ying, the assassin of Xuzhou, was obviously worried, because he saw the problem, so he said in the song: "Previously, the merchants were just communicating with each other, and most of the local affairs were decided by the local gentlemen, and the government depended on the scholars, but now, the merchants are above the scholars, and they have to look at the eyes of the merchants. ”

When Wang Ying said this helpless sentence, the doubts in her heart can be imagined. At the beginning, the government relied on Haoqiang, and now, the local Haoqiang, because the economic structure has suffered great damage, it is difficult to maintain it by farming alone, since it cannot be maintained, then as a last resort, Haoqiang is also transforming, for example, the merchants need raw silk, so they raise mulberry in their own mountains and forests, for example, the merchants need ore, they will explore whether they need the ore in their own mountains and forests, and then they will raw silk, ore, flax, and countless raw materials to those merchants who receive the goods.

In this way, the income of the powerful landlords is no longer the same as before relying on God, God rains, there will be a good harvest, and now, all rely on those merchants, if the merchants join forces to lower the price, they can only accept it, if the merchants do not receive the goods one day, they have invested so much cost, and the things grown and dug out are very likely to be worthless.

Originally, in the eyes of the powerful landlords, those businessmen were really not as good as dogs, as long as they didn't go well, what if they cleaned you up?

And now, these once high-ranking old men, the lifeblood of all the people has fallen into the hands of others, and all the honor and disgrace are pinned on the businessman's body.

What a ridiculous thing this is, although at the moment, Haoqiang and the landlords will not be crushed to death, after all, they have the government as a support, but in the long run, the result can be imagined.

The government relies on powerful landlords to govern the locality, but the landlords and powerful need to rely on merchants, so if this continues, wouldn't this businessman want to control the entire Xuzhou?

Wang Ying, the assassin of Xuzhou, had a helpless tone, wrote the matter on the note, and even said bluntly: "If the imperial court has nothing to do, it will be more than ten years, less than three or five years, the state and county of the world, the merchants are above the gentry, the government has nothing to do, and even depends on it to act, the place is like this, sooner or later the court will be like this, and the country is not a country, and it is only on the same day." ”

When Wei saw this, she couldn't help but take a deep breath, she didn't understand local things, but she knew that the local government had limited capacity, and everything had to bother the gentry, which is why, the gate valve of Guanlong, the scholar clan in Kanto and Jiangnan was the most important reason for the imperial court, because the scholar clan and the gate valve are in the world, if one day, such a salary from the bottom of the kettle, wouldn't it be the future to win the world of merchants?

Once this is the case, Wei is really going to die and have no place to be buried, the businessmen in the world, who doesn't know, are all towards the Shence Mansion and Qin Shaoyou, what will Wei or the imperial court do to compete with Qin Shaoyou to buy the hearts of the merchants.

As for the third problem, it is the hearts of the people, many people went to Henan Mansion to engage in business, and became rich overnight, so the rumors are very widespread, and the people's hearts are more floating, this business, has become the road that many people envy, all businessmen, have become synonymous with family wealth, everyone yearns for, everyone admires.

As for the Taiping School in Henan Prefecture, it has also become a holy place for scholars, where there are many great Confucians, and there are opportunities to be recruited by the Shence Mansion, and they can lay an extremely important network foundation in Taiping Studies.

Wang Ying's words are a bit alarmist, he wrote in the recital: "At the beginning, Emperor Taizong vigorously promoted the imperial examination, and even released it. The world's heroes are all in my words, and now, the world's talents, but may not be willing to be officials, especially the children of the poor family, but in the Taiping study, if you study the scriptures or law, and have a lot of classmates, whether in business or study or politics, there are great benefits, the children of the scholars, more school and study, in order to accumulate contacts, and the children of the poor family, also flocking to it, in a vain attempt to change their origins overnight, the world's 'heroes', and no longer enter the court. ”

"The prosperity of Taiping learning, so that the children inside and outside Xuzhou, all those who read the history of the scriptures, are able to enter their studies, and all those who study law and arithmetic scholars are also envious of Taiping scholars. The articles and discussions on various subjects of Taiping Studies published in the market were sold out overnight, and the articles of the Great Confucians of Taiping Studies were regarded as classics and praised by everyone. Its popularity is so widespread that it is astonishing. ”

This third point is even more painful for Wang Ying, because he knows very well that the first two can still be reversed through other measures, but this third point, it is not easy to change people's hearts.

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Webster looked at this note, for a long time, for a long time, and never said a word. Of course, this is only the situation in Xuzhou, and even because Xuzhou is far away from Henan, it has a greater impact, and other states and counties may not be like Xuzhou, but this Wang Ying's 'alarmism' did give Wei's an indelible impression.

She raised her eyes and looked at Wei Hongmin, who had a sad look on his face.

No one else saw the horror of this note, but Wei Hongmin saw it, which is why Wei Hongmin stood out.

With a quiet sigh, Wei no longer paid attention to Wei Xuanzhen, the Wei family's children, she just looked at Wei Hongmin and said, "Hongmin thinks that this Xuzhou assassin's words are exaggerated?" ”

Wei Hongmin smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid that this is the truth, this matter, the minister has secretly ordered people to verify in nearby states and counties, some states and counties, it is indeed less affected by it, but there are some states and counties, even more serious than Xuzhou, the minister thinks, this is not alarmist, but it is a heartfelt word, Xuzhou assassin Wang Ying, is a real loyal minister, if the court can not curb this trend in time, sooner or later, one day, don't say that it is our Wei family, that is, the court, I am afraid that it will be replaced." ”

Wei's face fell, she didn't have the heart to care about any court now, but since it was related to Wei's, it was enough to make her unpleasant, so she had to face it.

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The first chapter is delivered. (To be continued.) )