Laibin County Ya, the county magistrate Ning Zhichen sent away an uninvited guest who he couldn't afford to offend with a respectful smile. But I didn't feel any sallow in my heart. "Something big is going to happen, something big is going to happen!" Foer Guochun wanted to find trouble with the Qin army, found evidence and found the guest, and Ning Zhichen's head was about to explode.

The master on the side didn't say a word. He knew that although his family Dongweng had reservations about foreign affairs, he was very supportive of the benefits brought by Liu Xian in the past two years.

Laibin County has a population of about 100,000, and more than ninety percent of them are people working in the countryside who are farming, and their income from planting sugarcane and tobacco leaves in the past two years is more than one or two times that of three years ago. The people sent by Nafer Guochun only knew that the eggs were picky and the rice grain output continued to decrease, but they did not look at all how the people of Binxian County had lived in the past two years, nor did they seem that although the total output of rice and grain in Binxian County had decreased for two consecutive years, the price of rice on the market had not increased in the slightest, but had dropped by three or four cents of silver compared with the price of rice three years ago, one stone of rice.

In addition, a large number of homespun cloth flooded the market, although the impact on the homespun cloth is full, but the price of cloth is three or four percent lower than three years ago.

The Qin army's handling of foreign affairs is certainly harmful, but it must also be beneficial in addition to harm. And the benefits far outweigh the harm!

Because the people of the county have been making profits in the past two years, the money in their hands has increased, so that the annual tax revenue of Laibin County is much stronger than in previous years.

Ning Zhichen's master is a master with many specialties, in addition to the supplementary sentences, he also manages money and food, and he has the most profound experience of this.

"Liu Junmen played the opening of the railway, which was too criticized. Now the legal person is committing suicide in Vietnam, and most of the Qin army has entered northern Vietnam. The battle situation is still good, but if it is unfavorable, it is not only the Lord Zhentai who will attack it in groups. ”

Ning Zhichen smiled coldly when he heard this. Isn't officialdom such a urine? Na Fuer Guochun has also invested in Nanyang Shipping Company, which can be said to be a partner of Qin Jun. Now, when it's time to fall into the ground, there will be no mercy.

In the entire Guangxi Province, more than 10 prefectures, hundreds of prefectures and counties, various provinces, and even the governors and political envoys at the top, there is definitely not only one envoy who wants to participate in Liu Xianam with the general trend. It's just that other family members don't have the confidence of Foer Guochun, they are Zhenghuangqi, even if Liu Xian doesn't fall, why can't he be!

Even Ning Zhichen could guess that those people would immediately move with Fu Guochun's movements. This uncle has been an official in Guangxi for ten years, and he has been an envoy for seven years, why don't his subordinates have some henchmen?

Guo Tai walked out of the Laibin County Ya with a relaxed face, followed by his entourage and holding a burden, which was full of the exact number of rice harvests in the towns and villages under the jurisdiction of Bin County in the past two years. As a minion, he can't read too complicated material. But with such a stinky level as Guotai, it can also be clearly seen that the rice output in Bin County has been plummeting in the past two years. All the farmland was seized by sugar cane! This is easily an article, huh? Moreover, Guotai's master is Foer Guochun, as a procurator and sentenced to prison in Guangxi Province, Foer Guochun has already grasped another trick of the Qin army -- the disputes in the counties of Liuzhou in the past two years have been far better than in previous years. Many cases can also involve factories, or the reasons are alluded to factories.

A very simple example, Guangxi has made great profits from planting sugarcane in the past two years, and a set of sayings called 'plantation' has been circulated, and it is Qin Jun who started it. The landlord of Li Zhuang looked very greedy, so he was ready to change his family's land from rice to sugarcane. However, his family's land had already been contracted to the tenants, but the landlord did not care about this, regardless of the tenants' lease period before it expired, so he forcibly took back the land. There will inevitably be entanglements in between. The sugarcane plantation didn't need too many people at all, at least compared to the original number of tenants, so that many tenants who could have rented land to farm became literally nothing. In this way, people are cornered, and it is inevitable that something unpleasant will happen......

This is the sin of the factory!

From the Laibin County Ya to these documents, Guotai's task is completed. But the others did not return to Guilin immediately, but stayed in Laibin County.

I finally got an errand from my master, how can I do it without a little luck? The document of the county government was only taken by him at the behest of Fuer Guochun, and without any self-subjective credit, Guotai was unwilling. In addition to getting the documents, he also wanted to find some evidence of Qin Jun's crimes when the guests were in Liuzhou Mansion, so as to show his ability as a minion.

After resting at an inn in Laibin County, putting down his things, Guotai took his entourage to the street. There is really nothing worth his amazement in a small county town, but after walking from east to west, after walking around the east and west of Laibin County, the surprise on his face is that he can't hide it.

He never expected that Laibin County, Laibin County in Liuzhou Prefecture, was only separated from Guilin, and the gap between the streets on both sides was so huge.

Yes, the scale of Laibin County is much smaller than that of Guilin, and the prosperity of the market is much inferior to that of Guilin. However, some things, some things that Guotai has only seen in Guangzhou, and things that are not even available in Guilin, can be seen and bought here.

He now held a foreign pocket watch in his hand, a silver-shelled one, which was far less valuable than the gold-encrusted and gem-encrusted pocket watch of his master's son, Foer Guochun. But what Guo Tai dares to guarantee is that the utility of this pocket watch will definitely not be inferior to that of his master, and this pocket watch is cheap, only fifteen taels of silver! And Foer Guochun's pocket watch is worth a full three hundred taels.

There are also bird's nests from Suman waxing, claw digging, and gong-breaking, foreign table chairs, iron beds, slingshot beds, mirror cabinets, clever silverware, glass toys, various types of Citi oranges, top Citi, various colors of incense, tap fire, and so on. And kerosene, perfume, and toilet water that have only appeared in Guilin in the past year, these three kinds of things are all related to the Qin army, glass, Japanese knives, pictures, decorations, toys, candy, foreign medicine, stationery, candied fruit, jewelry, tinware, sewing machines and countless other goods, many of these things are newly bought in Guilin, and there are already such a small county town as guests. Moreover, in the foreign goods store in the center of the city, the number of clocks and watches is much more than that in the foreign goods store in Guilin, and there are many styles and prices.

The most expensive ones are the 'Red Hair Bead Mouth Exquisite Bottom Gold Shell Horse Character Tribute Watch', which costs 500 silver dollars per pair, while the cheaper ones can be bought for just a few silver dollars, such as the "Red Hair Sonnography Engraved Bell Bowl Tonghua Copper Case Watch", which costs only 14 silver dollars. Half the price of the pocket watch that Guotai bought!

Clocks and watches are precious things, and with the complexity of their machinery, most people will cherish a satisfactory watch after buying it. Even Foer Guochun, the master of Guotai, attaches great importance to the gold pocket watch. Guo Tai also had this opinion before entering the foreign goods store, but now, he really couldn't be 'precious' to the pocket watch of fifteen taels of silver in his hand. Whoever sees something he cherishes and can buy it for only a dozen taels or even less silver, it is not precious and cherished.

In addition, the most impressive thing about Guotai in Laibin County is the dress of the upper and lower people. It's really all homespun cloth, and it's rare to see the shadow of homespun cloth. Guo Tai noticed this when he visited the county government, because the officials of the county government wore the native cloth produced by the Qin Army Textile Factory. The uniform line footing, and the light texture, are immediately distinguishable from the homespun cloth.

If such a situation occurs in the two rivers of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it will be a big deal. China's weaving mills are the most prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, and the market in the south of the Yangtze River will be completely occupied by foreign cloth, which not only means that the native cloth will withdraw from the market, but also means that hundreds of thousands of weavers will be laid off, hundreds of thousands of families and even millions of people, unemployed, food and clothing are worried. If this situation really happens, there will be no peace in the Qing Dynasty.

The clothes worn by Guotai are all silk and satin, he is the steward of Fuer Guochun, according to the people around him, he may not be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, but five or six thousand taels of silver is definitely enough. Not only himself, but also his family, no one wore homespun clothes.

Guotai's impression of homespun cloth and foreign cloth is limited to: the homespun cloth is coarse, and the foreign cloth is thin; Homespun cloth is cheap, foreign cloth is expensive!

However, among the guests, the price of homespun and foreign cloth he saw in the cloth shop was almost the same. Compared with the bright colors of the pulp dyeing, or the snow-white and clean foreign cloth, the appearance of the homespun cloth is really bad.

The impact of the Qin Army Textile Factory on Guangxi's native cloth was very strong, but the Qin Army also absorbed a lot of labor in Guangxi. Such a decrease and an increase, coupled with the fact that Guangxi has just ended the war and is in the stage of development and recovery, does not obviously harm the people's livelihood.

If it were conservatives who saw this, they would only be heartbroken. But Guotai smiled, he didn't have any distinction between foreign affairs and conservatism, he just saw Qin Jun's 'criminal evidence'. When these things were shown to his master, Guotai was sure that Fuer Guochun would be happy.

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Fuer Guochun is an example, and Ning Zhichen, who immediately ordered his cronies to secretly report to the Admiral Yamen, is an example, and most of the officials in the world are still in a state of 'neutrality' towards the Qin army, but there are always some people who are special.

Among such special officials, people like Fuer Guochun who have no fear are an example, and Zhou Derun, a conservative with a clear reputation and a good reputation, is another example.

"As for the railway, Liu Xian advocated in the front, Zuo Zongtang and Yu in the back, and he wanted to destroy the law of the ancestors and the ancestors to disrupt the world." It is the consistent style of conservatives to pay tribute to the signboard of ancient sages, and Zhou Derun, a native of Guangxi, is no exception. It can even be said that a large part of the reason why he came out so early is that the place where Liu Xian wants to build the railway is his home.

"Since the past, the sage cut the wood for the boat, and the law bucket for the car, which is the power of the machine. So far, Zhou Gong made a guide, Kong Ming made wooden oxen and flowing horses, all imitated his meaning and used them sparingly, and those who refused to take advantage of the instrument were willing to leave this room to serve my people and raise my people. Wentai Western countries are still on the machine, such as weaving, digging rivers and other things, all of which are clearly replacing the work of hundreds of people with one instrument, and secretly taking the business of hundreds of people with one instrument. ”R1152