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Several passenger boats waddled along the Nanjing-Hangzhou Canal, flanked by rice paddies that had just finished harvesting.

Since General Pingyu recovered Jiangnan, the number of boats in this river has increased dramatically.

Merchant ships carried goods such as crude iron, silk, and porcelain, and ships returned to carry all kinds of armor, firearms, and military rations. Less than a month after the recovery of Jiangnan, all parts of the country are in ruins, and some county towns have not yet determined the county order, which is not as stable as the Ningshao boundary.

A few years ago, Ningbo and Shaoxing could not be compared with places like Hangzhou and Songjiang. However, in recent years, the maritime trade centered on Zhoushan Island has gradually flourished, and every year, more than a dozen batches of sea ships will be shipped to Japan, bringing back silk and cotton cloth, and bringing back grain and silver.

In addition to the increasingly prosperous maritime trade, there is also the largest military and ordnance production base in the Ming Dynasty. A month ago, General Pinglu issued an order to remove all the craftsmen who had been left in Ningshao from their craftsmanship and divide the craftsmen who made the firearms into three parts and divide them into three merchants.

Hu Caihou, a merchant from Huizhou Mansion, brought 300,000 taels of silver raised and listed Dingrui in Ningbo Mansion;

Jixi businessman Zhu Zhanyun listed Dingyun in Shaoxing Mansion,

Shangmengliu newly established the Broken Prisoner,

Zongmao, the head of the Pinglu General's Mansion, announced that from now on, all the armor and firearms needed by the army would be produced by these three firms, and the Pingyu General's Mansion would use silver to purchase military equipment from these three firms. The craftsmen still work as before, but the overseers have changed from the guards of the Pingyu General's Mansion to the guards of the three firms.

This is something that has never happened in the Ming Dynasty, and even in the past dynasties. In the past, the Ming Dynasty strictly controlled craftsmen, and Mo said that if a firm was allowed to operate a soldier's armor, even if someone gathered craftsmen without permission, it would be regarded as a crime of treason.

Some people think it's novel, some people don't think so, and some people think that the ambition of General Zhai Zhe is obvious.

But this was Zhai Zhe's order, and even if Zong Mao raised his objection at the beginning, it couldn't change his mind.

The three firms didn't think that they could take this opportunity to make money at the beginning, Hu Caihou and Zhu Zhanyun wanted to take this opportunity to climb the relationship with General Pingyu, and Liu Quan was Zhai Zhe's own family, so of course he didn't dare to say anything about Zhai Zhe's orders.

The three passenger ships are not like transporting cargo, but rather like a tour.

There were no obvious signs on the ships, only the guards who looked like poplars standing on the bow of the ships indicated that the ships were not ordinary.

The passing cargo ships obediently got out of the way, and the people who often ran this route knew every ship here, and these ships were originally the warships of the Ningshao Navy. The cabins of the three ships were all ajar, and when you passed by, you could hear the voices of the ladies coming from inside, none of which were local accents.

Van and Ulan sat down at a table, their views out of the canal through the cracks in the windows.

In one corner of the cabin, a young man was holding a book, sitting upright without squinting, ignoring the scenery on both sides of the river, while another little boy circled around the boy's seat, making all sorts of grimaces to get his brother's attention.

Ulan showed a sad look and said, "Tianjian is so studious, he will definitely become a great weapon in the future, Tianxing didn't get his brother to be well-behaved." ”

"Tianxing is still young!" Fan Yiyan smiled, "When you grow up, you will be sensible." ”

She was still very proud when she spoke like this. After sleeping in the same bed for more than ten years, Fan Yi can understand Zhai Zhe's mind and know that he is not as good as Wulan next to him in his heart.

But so what? She is the appointed lady of Yipin, and her son can already write thousand-character characters and 100 family names by the age of six. And Ulan can only live in her shadow forever, and the son she gives birth to can only play, and in the first month of his arrival at the school, he beats a few of his companions and screams. Let Fang Yizhi thunder and beat him seven or eight times.

"Sister To's auspicious words, his temperament is similar to when I was a child on the grassland!"

When Ulan said this, a cloud turned on his face, like the first rays of sunlight shining from the sky after a summer storm, and seemed to brighten up the entire cabin. She just talked casually, but she didn't really care. She will not force Zhai Tianxing to read and write all day long like Fan Yi did to Zhai Tianjian, she grew up in the grassland, where even the son of the Great Khan was free when he was a child.

The passenger ship departed from Ningbo in the early morning and did not arrive at Hangzhou until mid-afternoon.

The boatman was worried that he would disturb the general's family, and he walked all the way gently, choking Zhai Tianxing enough, and several times he rushed to the bow of the boat to look at the movement outside, but was blocked back by the guards. If you accidentally let the little boy fall into the water, no one can afford this responsibility. He pitifully begged his mother and Fan Yi, but he couldn't get permission.

The Hangzhou wharf has long been emptied.

Zong Mao was personally greeting, he was now the busiest person of General Pingyu, and he still took two hours of time to settle the general's family.

Zhai's house is on the east side of the West Lake, and there is a beautiful scenery when you go out. This was originally the property of the wealthy merchant Shen in Hangzhou, and after hearing that General Pingyu took a fancy to it, he gave the title deed with his eyes. Zhai Zhe instructed Liu Quan to give him silver, but he was afraid to accept it, and finally was forced to be helpless and symbolically accepted a thousand taels of silver.

Zong Mao followed a few people into Zhai's house, and when Ulan and the servants were busy settling down the house, he quietly visited Fan Yi.

"Madam, someone from the Fan family in the north is here, I want to see you!"

"Ahh Fan Yi's face flashed with excitement, and he asked, "Is the Fan family here?" How is my brother? ”

In the past two years, she has not received any news from Shanxi, and she did not ask Zhai Zhe, not that she did not care. In the era of war and chaos, it is normal to give birth to anything.

Zong Mao's wife Lu Ying was Fan Yi's dowry maid, and the Fan family came to find Lu Ying first, but Lu Ying didn't dare to call the shots, so he asked him to report to Fan Yi. Hearing Fan Yi's question, Zong Mao showed a somewhat embarrassed look and said, "The Fan family is in Hangzhou, I will let him come to see his wife tomorrow, and he will know as soon as he can." ”

Fan Yi calmed down and asked, "Does the master know?" ”

"The Fan family only arrived in Hangzhou the day before yesterday, and they haven't told the master yet."

At present, everything in Jiangnan is related to the fate of thousands of people, and Zong Mao will not deliberately tell Zhai Zhe such a trivial matter. Besides, this is the general's family matter, and if it weren't for Lu Ying's relationship, he wouldn't want to get involved.

Fan Yi thought for a moment, and finally missed his family more than years of caution, and said, "You bring him over to see me tomorrow." ”

Zong Mao hurriedly said goodbye and left.

He's really busy.

The prefectures in Jiangnan were ordered to count the names of the squires who had defected to the Qing Dynasty in the previous months and had been shaved as officials in the Qing court. At the moment, he is still in the stage of secret planning, and in less than a month, these squires will be ruined by his pen.

There are too many characters involved, including lords like Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi, Donglin masters like Qian Qianyi, and wealthy businessmen from all over the world. General Pingyu exempted the people from fifty percent of their land taxes this year, and if they don't find a way to find some money to come back, the army will be cut off. After the recovery of Jiangnan, there was no distinction between the righteous army and the regular soldiers, as long as it was the army of the imperial court, they had to receive military salaries. He carefully calculated the income of the fields in various places, and it was sad that the now rich Jiangnan could not raise an army of 150,000.

Most of the land was in the hands of the squires, and those people were not required to pay the field tax. In Jiangnan, slavery was also commonplace, and many people preferred to dedicate their fields to prestigious squires and were willing to be slaves to avoid paying taxes to the imperial court.