Chapter 235 to Suzhou

The night breeze blows, and the boat rocks on the surface of the water. It was already hot in late May, and Chen Xie was very unscrupulous and only wore a pair of big pants, and a fierce man plunged into the water and swam freely. Fortunately, it was now completely dark, and a lantern was hanging on the penny, and Chen Xie in the river could see it clearly.

Chen Xie, who has been wrong since he was a child, was interested, and swam for a while before returning to the boat. When Gu Xi brought the clothes to change into, Chen Xie found out that she had also washed them. The hair was wet and smelled good with the scent of shampoo.

"Hurry up and dry it, and I'm not afraid of the wind blowing and catching a cold." Chen Xie pushed her back and went ashore to find a place to change her clothes. I went to the big boat to take a look, Cui Xin was arranging a night sentry, and the personal guards of 12 people were divided into six groups of two, taking turns to be on duty at night.

When I got back to the boat, there was a candle in a glass cover on the small table, and on the table was a plate of fried broad bean curd, a plate of pickled ham slices, a plate of jerky, a plate of ginger, and a pot of wine.

Seeing Chen Xie come in, Jin Lian, who had changed into eighty percent of her new clothes, greeted: "Son, it's still early, drink some wine to pass the time." Gu Xi was wiping his hair while smiling ambiguously. She is dressed as a small girl, which will naturally be unqualified to serve at the wine table.

"It's okay, let's have a drink together, chat, and the time will pass." Chen Xie is not hypocritical, he will realize some things. However, he didn't plan to push the boat down the river, there was still a Gu Xi on the boat. She is trouble-free, her chest is tightly wrapped, and she is not afraid of covering the prickly heat. The boat lady Ah Yue's sister-in-law will also come, and the two sisters will sit opposite. When Chen Xie sat down, he looked up and saw that they were all thin short clothes, revealing white and tender arms, which were obviously different from the skin color on his face. It was probably hot, it was empty, and there were two bumps on the top. You don't have to guess what kind of rhythm this is.

Picking up the wine glass, Chen Xie drank it and said with a smile: "Tell me." Who has more looms in Suzhou? How many? ”

"Speaking of looms. The Shen family still has the most, with more than 500 sheets, and his family's mulberry fields are also the most. There is also the Zhang family, I heard that there are 300 sheets. Busy time of year. Boatloads of silk were shipped to Songjiang Prefecture. Said it was sold to red-haired and green-eyed ghosts. That's how you can make a lot of money. Over there in Matsue Prefecture. There are also many weavers, and the slaves have only heard about it, so they can't talk about it in detail. Probably because Chen Xie's eyes paused slightly when he swept over. Ah Yue's sister-in-law also relaxed. Whether it's me or my sister, which one people fancy is which, there's nothing to say. It's supposed to eat this meal, and it's not those red girls who stay in the building and can play the piano and sing songs. The fare of three taels of silver is worth the sisters together.

Chen Xie rummaged through his bag, found a model of a loom, handed it over, and said, "Look at the appearance of this loom, what's the difference?" Ah Yue's sister-in-law took it, looked at it carefully and said: "This is a cotton weaving machine, the slave family used it when I was a child, first spinning thread, and then getting on the machine, sleeping a little later every night, I can weave half a piece of cloth a month." In Suzhou, half of the weaving machinery is used, and merchants from the north come to collect and sell it every year. ”

Chen Xie's purpose in going to Suzhou was to find a reliable partner. The textile industry should be industrialized, and only the Jiangnan area can achieve it. The big ship behind brought antique looms and spinning equipment from modern society. Although it is also manual, the efficiency is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Industrial development is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, and the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy is fundamentally destroyed when it meets industrial production. But Chen Xie can't help but promote the development of this matter, because this is the trend of historical development.

Chen Xie put away the model and chatted with the two boat girls, they were all talking about things in Suzhou City, Chen Xie listened quietly, occasionally asked a question, and then continued to listen to all his thoughts. Suzhou, a place that has always been on the front line of the anti-eunuch party raid. The story of resisting taxes, resisting prisons, and later writing into middle school textbooks "The Tombstone of Five People" took place in Suzhou. The author Zhang Pu is not simple, the initiator of the Restoration Society, and the promoter of Zhou Yanru's re-entry into the cabinet later.

Thinking of Zhang Pu, Chen Xie couldn't help but sneer. A Shilin leader who can bribe a eunuch is really ridiculous. What he said before was completely subverted in the process of operating Zhou Yanru to return to the position of first assistant.

The dispute between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party is not about good and evil, but about interests. What the princes of Donglin want to maintain is precisely the most needed financial source of the Ming Dynasty. Commercial taxes and mine supervisors, these were basically gone in the early years of Chongzhen, after the fall of Wei Zhongxian.

Since it is not enough to contend with these people, or even hit them, it is better to cooperate with the interests they represent. Dig into your corner first, and when you're almost done, just raise your foot and kick it hard. When the time comes, teach them how to behave.

Drinking and chatting, listening to the soft Wu Yin, the wine entered the stomach, and the body gradually became hot. Seeing that the time was not early, Chen Xie said: "Take it, go to bed early, and go on the road tomorrow." After Chen Xie finished speaking, when he went ashore to come back, he had already packed up. The mats in the cabin were wiped clean and the curtains were lowered. Gu Xi leaned against the wall, smiled at him, and opened his mouth to say silently: "I'll go to sleep?" ”

On this side of the curtain, the two sisters were restlessly lying opposite each other, and the daughter was already asleep, and the two looked at each other, waiting for the call from there. Both of them fell asleep in a daze, and they were really tired during the day, and they drank again.

Chen Xie on the side of the curtain also slept, not tired, but unable to do anything else. Through a curtain, you can't hide anything.

The cabin is not big, and Gu Xi, who does not sleep honestly, soon becomes a koala all the time. Chen Xie, who was not very sleepy, opened his eyes, quietly got rid of it and walked out of the cabin, don't get me wrong, I drank a lot at night, and I need to solve it. Smear returned to the cabin, a restless little hand came over, and the fiery body also pressed up.

The conditions did not allow, and after a short entanglement, Gu Xi, who had eaten the marrow and knew the taste, turned around, and the oily and slippery damp and hot .......

When she got up in the morning, the boatlady Ah Yue's spirit was not very good, and her eyes were a little strange, and she was patrolling back and forth on the two "men". When I got up last night, I heard the wrong movement, the wheezing sound was very heavy, and after the light-hearted sister-in-law came back and lay down, the sound in my ears kept coming, just like ants drilling in the bone marrow.

Jin Lian, who was about to fetch water for cooking, did not look very good. They're all here and know what's going on.

I didn't have the consciousness of being a small guy at all, and I kept pestering my son not to return to the big ship, and I slept in the cabin. Ah Yue's sister-in-law regretted that such a good guest was rare to meet once. Why is he a good man? When I was swimming in the water last night, I peeked a few times, and the approximate size is known. Ay.......

endured the desire to seize power, and breakfast was ready. The princess and the little girl were still sleeping, and Ah Yue's sister-in-law gave Jin Lian a color, and Jin Lian went listlessly to lift the curtain and called, and quickly put the curtain down again. With a flushed face, he said to his sister, "Don't tell Fluttershy to get up." ”

Sister-in-law sends Fluttershy to the back to watch the fire, quietly lifts a corner of the curtain, glances at it quickly, and gasps for air as she lowers the curtain. The little guy is not a little girl, she is a daughter, and she doesn't touch her honest hands when she falls asleep. A thin blanket can't cover anything.

I finally solved the mystery in my heart, and I felt better. On the other side of the ship came a young man, with fierce eyes and a steady walk. Standing on the shore and calling, "Is the master up?" ”

Xindao turned out to be an old man, and Ah Yue's sister-in-law hurriedly replied: "Light, I haven't gotten up yet." ”

At this time, Chen Xie's voice came: "You don't have to wait for me for breakfast, you have to sleep for a while, let's go on the road first." ”

The winding waterways stretch all the way and seem to have no end. Chen Xie, a modern person, feels like he is walking a maze when facing this geographical environment. With such terrain, people from outside can't find the north at all.

With such a favorable location and a rich world, the national policy formulated by Nanming Hongguang for one year turned out to be "borrowing Pingkou". Moreover, this strategy has been recognized by almost all decision-makers in the Southern Ming Dynasty, including Shi Kefa and Liu Zongzhou.

Aside from the collapse of the Ming dynasty faced by the Southern Ming Dynasty, the situation that urgently needs to be revived. It is not difficult to see that when it was the Southern Ming Dynasty, the perception of the Manchu Qing was basically a joke.

Chen Xie's thoughts flew thousands of miles away, this anointed land, since it fell into the hands of some waste, he might as well scrape a few layers of oil and water by himself. As for the chaos that may be caused, it will not appear for a while.

Suzhou is in sight, Chen Xie comes out of the cabin, and the bow of the boat replies to Gu Xi and Fluttershy, who are dressed as daughters, sitting side by side, playing barefoot in the water. Unlike Zheng Toniang and Liu Ruyi, they wear embroidered shoes when they sleep. In the Ming Dynasty, this was an outlier.

When the boat entered the water gate, there were already people waiting here, and the old man called out from afar: "It's Master Chen who came from the boat?" ”

Chen Xie fixed his eyes and saw a short man, standing on the pier and waving, seemingly a little confused. This trip, the plan is to come quietly and go quietly, so I hired a small boat.

Chen Xie, who was on the boat, crossed over to the dock and arched his hand: "The surname is Chen, dare to ask Brother Taifu?" ”

"Little Shen Gaolin, I've seen Master Chen. In the next Zeng to Dengzhou to buy goods, I can see Mr. Chen from afar. The letter from the old money, the little one has already seen it, and the counting day is that the old man Chen can arrive in these two days. "This person's face is slightly yellow, which is because he has been running outside for a long time, and his eyes are bright, giving people a sense of shrewdness.

In this way, Shen is the shopkeeper of Lao Qian and Lao Shen, a partner in Suzhou. Chen's intention to come here, and the shopkeeper Shen also knows? Chen Xie put away his attitude of equal treatment, and put on the posture of a superior person in his tone.

"Back to Master Chen, Lao Qian does have an explanation, but the small one is just an errand runner of the Shen family, and he can't make too many ideas." Shen Gaolin's posture was very low, but in terms of words, it was not the same thing. It seems that the implementation of Suzhou this time may not be able to achieve a smooth and smooth success. (To be continued......)