Zhu Cai is 62 years old this year. In the Ming Dynasty, where the average life expectancy was between 30 and 40 years old, it was absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to live to be 60 years old. Therefore, Zhu Cai is not an ordinary person.

Speaking of a relatively backward place in the society of the Ming Dynasty, we have to talk about the slavery system of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this is not a problem of one dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. As long as it is a feudal society, as long as the relations of production are the relations of production of the feudal system, in such a society, personal dependence without individual freedom will inevitably exist.

Zhu Cai was originally not surnamed Zhu, and as for what his surname was, he didn't know it himself. When Zhu Cai was five years old, the Yuyao Zhu family bought the child servant for three taels of silver. As the personal scholar of the eldest young master, he naturally does not have the right to explore or decide what his surname is.

The eldest young master's surname is Zhu, and he is naturally surnamed Zhu.

The eldest young master of the Zhu family served by Zhu Cai is not very bright in reading. But the eldest young master seems to be a little particularly sensitive in terms of economy. Therefore, since the age of twelve, Zhu Cai has become an assistant by the eldest young master's side to help the eldest young master run the family business.

Zhu Caihe's eldest young master is Zhu Zhiyu's father, Zhu Zheng.

As the assistant of the head of the Zhu family in the economy, Zhu Cai's status in the Zhu family is relatively high. Even Zhu Zheng's three sons had to call Zhu Cai Uncle Cai.

However, the reason why Zhu Cai was able to stand out among hundreds of Zhu family servants and achieve today's status is that his own economic talent is certainly on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also because he can correct his position. No matter how much the old masters and young masters of the Zhu family gave him face on the surface, Zhu Cai knew his identity very well, that is, he had a son and grandson, and his beard was white, and he always remembered that he was just a servant bought by the Zhu family for three taels of silver.

Therefore, on the way from Nanjing to Wuchang, Zhu Cai's attitude towards Zhu Zhiyu, the third young master of the Zhu family, who had not had much contact, was very respectful.

Zhu Zhiyu and his captain Wei Liu waited in the waiting area of Wuchang Wharf for about three hours before a tugboat under the Wuchang Wharf Administration was idle and dragged the Zhu family's cargo ship, which had been shut down, to an idle berth next to a trestle.

Unlike most people who came to Wuchangwu Wharf for the first time, because Zhu Zhiyu had been thinking about what Wei Liu had just said to him, he didn't pay special attention to the strange phenomenon that the trestle was made of reinforced concrete. However, the steam cranes on the dock made Zhu Zhiyu breathtaking.

The dock area of Wuchang Province is now divided into three parts. The largest area is the industrial zone of the Baath Party in the Wuchang area. At present, this specially designated industrial zone contains not only Baath-owned factories, but also collective enterprises formed by local small handicraft producers in various industries in Wuchang Province under the leadership and support of the Baath Party, as well as joint ventures between the Baath Party and some "enlightened" landlords in the Wuchang area who have accepted the Ba'ath Party's land "exchange" policy.

The area with the second largest area in the Wuchang Wharf area is the family area of various enterprises and units of the Baath Party. The staff of the factories, organs, and units under the Baath Party basically live in this family area.

The industrial zone and family area of Wuchang Wharf are closed to the public.

The only area in the Wuchang Wharf area that is open to the public is the commercial district. The commercial district is closest to the marina, with only a wall of barbed wire between the two. There are also three or four rows of warehouses between the fence and the pier.

Although the commercial area is the smallest area in the Wuchang Wharf area. However, this place is made up of eight streets made of cement and concrete that are 18 meters wide and 800 meters long.

In business districts, less than one-fifth of Baath-affiliated businesses are owned. Moreover, these stores are aimed at small and medium-sized businessmen who come to Wuchang from other places to purchase. In the living quarters of the Baath Party's own enterprises, there are service units dedicated to the workers. The shops, hotels, restaurants, banks, and other establishments here are dedicated to the business of non-local merchants and non-Renaissance affiliated enterprises.

Except for a few specialized shops, most of the merchants who occupy other shops in the business district are merchants from Sichuan, Henan, Jiangxi and other places. On the one hand, they rented shops in the business district and did business with the Baath Party's commercial sector, and on the other hand, they also used the prosperous Wuchang wharf and merchants in other areas to do business.

Of course, because the identity background of some foreign businessmen is more complicated, the intelligence department of the Baath Party has also placed a certain number of intelligence personnel in these shops. Among them, the shops of merchants in Shanxi and Shaanxi are the mainstay.

The vast majority of the land in Wuchang Province is owned by the Ba'ath Party. The land at Wuchang Wharf belongs to the Baath Party, and naturally in addition to the industrial area and the family area, the land in the commercial area is also owned by the Baath Party. Unlike the traditional land sales followed by businessmen who build their own shops, the houses in the Wuchang Wharf business district are all built by construction units affiliated with the Baath Party. These shops are only rented and not sold. The rent and property income for just one year is very impressive.

Zhu Zhiyu followed Zhu Cai, who often came to Wuchang, to the business district, and was surprised by the prosperity of the business district. Zhu Zhiyu, who was attentive, found that the streets of the busy business district were not only orderly but also very clean. In particular, the two-story buildings with red bricks and red tiles on both sides of the street and the brick mixed ridge structure make the order in the busy and the cleanliness in the busy business district more prominent.

Zhu Zhiyu was a very perceptive person, and he soon discovered that people and vehicles walking on the street followed the rule of keeping to the right. So the people and vehicles on both streets are moving in one direction.

In addition to the orderliness of vehicles and pedestrians, Zhu Zhiyu also found that there were two main reasons why there was no garbage on the road. On the one hand, there have always been people in their forties and fifties on the side of the street, wearing the same style of orange clothes, who have been carrying cleaning tools and constantly cleaning up the garbage on the street.

On the other hand, many older people wear a red armband on their arms and constantly scan the crowd. As soon as they find out that someone has thrown or dropped garbage on the street, they will surround the person and ask for money.

Zhu Zhiyu also wondered why these old men and women dared to block the road and ask for money, and saw a young coachman pushing an old man, and then several old men and old ladies blew a shrill whistle.

In less than a few breaths, he saw several people dressed in uniformly strange black clothes rushing out of a strangely patterned pavilion on the corner of the street. According to the identification of the old man and the old lady, they immediately caught the young coachman with a sharp martial arts technique. Subsequently, the driver and the owner of the car were put into a large wooden cage in the middle of the street.

Zhu Zhiyu also went to the vicinity of the big wooden cage to take a look. He found a horizontal plank on the outside of the cage, on which were written four large characters in a type of writing with many missing strokes: "I am a bad person!" "Time Gate 1619

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