As time entered the New Year's Day of 1643, the situation in the Ming Dynasty had become more and more chaotic and out of control.

Whether it is Houjin outside the gate or Li Zicheng, the king of the gate, they are completely beyond the scope of the perception of the crossing.

Huang Taiji, the ambitious Khan King, was not willing to continue to be the master of his Houjin in the bitter cold land outside the pass, but kept detaining the border and constantly plundering the wealth of the Ming Dynasty to the outside of the pass.

In particular, Australia's 26-pounder cannon, which was purchased from the Zheng family in Fujian, was unbelievably powerful in the battlefield, and with a strong attack by artillery, followed by a cavalry charge, almost a city was completely breached.

The Ming army guarding the border did not have a coffee mill machine gun, and it was simply impossible to fight against the cavalry of the Houjin, and even waited for the fate of being slaughtered on the spot.

The Zheng family has clearly stated their resale of artillery as the Australians, but surprisingly, the Australians don't have much opinion, they just raised each artillery by about 100 yuan, such a small fee is not an increase in price for the Zheng family at all, and they can even get it directly from the ancestral family.

The ancestral family was responsible for procurement, and after buying a brand new ten 26-pound cannons and going back, he naturally received a reward from Huang Taiji.

The Houjin army, which obtained a 26-pounder cannon, launched another attack on the Ming Dynasty on New Year's Day in 1643, and the extent of the captivity was no less than the previous one, according to incomplete statistics, the entire Shandong was captive at least more than 200,000 people.

It can be said that this is the largest large-scale captivity, which includes countless local gentry and wealthy people, which also sounded a warning bell for the gentry and rich people in Shandong to either return to Houjin directly with their families, or flee to Liangguang. I heard that now the entire Ming Dynasty is quite calm.

As for the Jingshi and Hebei generation, they can't go, maybe they will be caught by the peasant army on the road and clicked directly, so the most ideal location is still in the south, of course, Fujian is also a good choice.

Seeing the business opportunity, the Zheng family knew that the gentry and wealthy people in Shandong were eager to leave their homeland, so they sent dozens of large and small sea ships to solicit business at the coastal ports in Shandong.

The Zheng family's power on the sea is obvious to all, not to mention that the sailors of the imperial court dare not easily compete with it. Ordinary little pirates don't dare to provoke this behemoth easily, for fear that one accidentally will lead to burning.

Shandong Zhao family is a famous dyeing workshop in Zhangdian generation, although they successfully escaped the Houjin thieves, but they don't dare to stay in the territory of Shandong.

Even if you can use money to eliminate disasters, but there are a few rich people who can withstand such a toss, and the accumulation of several generations will be completely gone.

Therefore, the head of the Zhao family decided to move his family south. As for where to go, I heard that the land of Liangguang is relatively stable, but it is probably not easy to take root in Liangguang. Outsiders like the Zhao family will definitely be squeezed out by the local tyrants, and this kind of thing is possible anywhere.

So Liangguang is not an ideal place, and it may be a good place to go to Naxiang Island, which is currently leased by Australians. It is rumored that Australians have always been very well-behaved, and the law is orderly, and officials will not arbitrarily collect harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the degree of protection for merchants is quite high. The main reason is that Australia is a business country.

What is the establishment of a country by merchants means that merchants have a high status in the country, and they are not divided into such ranks as farmers, industrialists, and industrialists.

Businessmen can participate in the management of the country, and the formulation of regulations, as for believe it or not, then Hong Kong is a good example, it is said that the wealthy businessmen who moved to Hong Kong in the early days had a lot of power in the management of Hong Kong, and many of their suggestions were adopted.

The Zhao family sold their property and took the silver taels on the Zheng family's ship, and first settled the whole family in Guangzhou, the old man of the Zhao family is a cautious person, he can't just rely on what others say to determine whether it is true, he needs to verify it in person.

Therefore, the third son of the Zhao family, who has always been mainly about eating, drinking and having fun, came in handy, and was sent to Hong Kong by the old man to investigate whether it was worth moving in with his family.

Zhao Laosan left in a hurry, and when he arrived in Hong Kong, he realized how many dirty buns he had, many things that he had never seen, and the windows of the shops on the street were made of glass, which was unbelievable.

This Australian is also extravagant, the Zhao family is also a well-known wealthy family, but the windows at home are also pasted with paper, and they dare not use glass at all, so the Australian businessman is not afraid that others will steal this window at night.

Zhao Laosan's question was quickly solved by another soil bun, this soil bun is not as good as him, I don't know if I don't ask, but directly ask the shopkeeper this question.

The shopkeeper looked at the dumpling with some amusement, and glanced at Zhao Laosan with his spare eyes.

"Guest officer, do you think someone will steal this window, even if someone steals it, he can't transport it, even if it's valuable, it's useless, it's saying that we don't close the door here at night, and this kind of thing will never happen at night, not to mention the shame of doing this kind of thing, even if it is caught, it will be tortured, that is not something that people can bear."

The shopkeeper's explanation made Zhao Laosan finally understand the reason why no one stole the window, but whether the others were true, just when he wanted to ask, the soil bun was like a little angel, and once again helped him ask the question he wanted to ask.

"I heard that Australia is based on business, and there is no hierarchy for businessmen, little second brother, is this true?"

"Guest officer, you can ask this right, in the past, our old man, just a small street vendor, and finally opened this restaurant because of the help of Australians, you see how this business is, you should know whether it is true based on this alone, and in the next two years, I will be able to apply for a loan to do a small business after I get a formal residence permit."

When it comes to business, the shopkeeper has been immersed in his own dreams, if someone hadn't called for Xiao Er to serve, it is estimated that he would have been able to do this for an afternoon's dream, although he didn't get much information, but it was already very enough for Zhao Laosan, this is definitely a happy land for businessmen, and the most important thing is that there are a lot of new things here, which he likes the most. (To be continued......)