Although the winter in Yangzhou is not as cold as that in Liaodong, because of geographical reasons, it is also cold in winter.

The cold in Liaodong is the kind of dry cold, as long as you wear it thicker, in fact, it is not so cold.

But Yangzhou is different, this kind of cold is the kind of wet and cold, so it can be cold to the bone.

Therefore, in winter, ordinary Yangzhou people do not go out much, and would rather warm themselves at home around the charcoal fire than to go outside to suffer.

Of course, this is what the rich do.

For example, those who are promoted to fight small people, but they don't have such a life.

When you open your eyes every morning, the first thing you do is to make money.

If you don't have money, don't you use firewood, rice, oil and salt?

Therefore, even in this kind of wet winter, those ordinary Shengdou villagers have to get up and get out of the house and go outside to find some work to earn some money.

Fortunately, as long as you are diligent and have vision in Yangzhou, it is not a problem to make some money.

As the so-called waist wraps 100,000 yuan, riding a crane down to Yangzhou.

This poem is not nonsense.

The prosperity of Yangzhou is also very famous in all dynasties.

Countless literati also like to come to Yangzhou to travel here, taste the snacks here, and take a look at the green buildings here in Yangzhou.

On the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Yangzhou is most famous for its 'thin horse'.

The Datong girl in Liaodong, the thin horse in Yangzhou, and the Wenqing girl in Jinling were talked about even in the Internet forums of later generations.

Because Yangzhou's 'thin horse' is more famous, it has extended a lot of related industries at once, and the breadth of these industries is staggering.

At the same time, it has also attracted many wealthy people to come here to spend money.

In addition, Yangzhou is also an important shipping transit place, and the rice and salt in the south and some materials must be loaded and unloaded in Yangzhou, so it is inevitable that Yangzhou will be prosperous here.

Where there are interests, there are rivers and lakes, which is also an inevitable thing.

The stakes here in Yangzhou are huge. It's even so big that you can't think about getting through it first.

The pawns of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China have fallen on the side of Yangzhou one after another, acting as puppets for them to loot wealth.

The bigwigs make a lot of money, and the rest of the 'small money' the bigwigs won't care. But there is a lot of this 'little money', so the gangsters here in Yangzhou have risen.

People come and go every day on the Caoyun wharf, and countless laborers who are doing things on the Caoyun wharf, everyone has the shadow of the Ming gang behind them.

Of course, in this era, there is no such thing as a triad, which is a saying that only exists in modern times.

In this era, it is called the Cao Gang and the Green Gang.

Basically, the labor loading and unloading on the Yangzhou Caoyun wharf. are all controlled by these two gangs, and even the 'thin horse' sales and contact in Yangzhou City are actually controlled by these two gangs.

These whining and things, but anyone with some status will not touch them.

Therefore, those bigwigs and powerful people in the DPRK and China will not touch these things. Therefore, it was cheaper for these two groups of people to take advantage of them.

In general, things here in Yangzhou are actually no different from those in Manhattan in the Americas.

There are also gangsters at Manhattan's port docks. and took control of the European laborers, uniting them all together to form a so-called 'guild'.

However, the gangsters in Manhattan are actually controlled by the Imperial Intelligence Department. And the reason why those European laborers who were originally scattered like sand were organized. It is also to reduce the rush and stabilize the order.

At that time, there were several firefights on the Manhattan pier several times a day, and there were dozens or hundreds of people each time, which seriously affected the safety of Manhattan residents.

Know the way. The loading and unloading interests here at the wharf are simply unimaginable to ordinary people.

However, those who make money are high-level. The laborers at the bottom don't make much money at all.

Moreover, the laborers who work at the Yangzhou Caoyun Wharf make less money than the European laborers who work on the Manhattan Wharf.

Yangzhou Caoyun Wharf resisted a big bag, not to mention a sack of more than 100 catties, and received a bamboo stick. With this bamboo stick, you can get three copper coins, and at the same time, the small leaders of the Cao Gang and the Green Gang here on the dock also have a three-ten-draw pump, so the laborers here are just making hard money.

In a month, you can only earn the minimum living standard of a family, and you will not starve to death.

If you want to be well-off, it is simply impossible.

On the other hand, the Europeans who worked on the Manhattan docks were much better off than the Ming people here at the Daimyo Yangzhou Caoyun Terminal.

European laborers can earn at least more than ten yuan of dragon ocean in a month, that is, more than a dozen taels of silver. Although they also have to pay dues to the guild, the remaining money is enough for them to have a good standard of living, at least there is no problem in eating meat every day.

After all, here in Manhattan, there are plenty of cheap supplies to sell.

Pork that has eaten clenbuterol from the virtual world, genetically modified chicken that can be slaughtered in less than a month, and all kinds of daily necessities from cottages, in short, these cottage things are really cheap.

Therefore, the standard of living in Manhattan is really not high.

Europeans who live in Manhattan, even if they do the lowest jobs, can earn a month's income to have wine and meat, and even spare money to go shopping and buy other small goods.

If several members of the family have jobs, then the living of the family is definitely very high.

The premise is that they don't know what they eat and what they use.

The Ming laborers here at Yangzhou Caoyun Terminal are different, some of them can't even earn a tael of silver a month, while the European laborers in Manhattan earn 12 times as much as the laborers in Yangzhou.

If this kind of income makes the laborers of Yangzhou Caoyun Wharf know, it is estimated that they will not be able to believe it.

Fortunately, although Yangzhou is a gold cave, the poor also have a poor way of living.

Of course, rich people can sing songs every night and use silver to pave the way for luxury. But the poor have no one in their hands, but they also have their way of life.

On the Yangzhou side, it is not too much for a rich person to eat dozens of taels or even a hundred taels of silver for a meal.

But the poor also have a bowl of Yangzhou somen noodles for five copper coins to eat.

It's just that this kind of somen noodle soup is watery, and it is not oily at all.

But who cares about that as a poor person? As long as you have something to eat.

Rich people can eat xiaolongbao for one or two pieces of silver, and poor people can also have eight copper coins a basket of xiaobao.

In short, on Yangzhou's side, the lives of the rich and the poor are polarized.

This is not the same as in the Americas.

Far away in the Song Empire in the Americas, on the surface, it seems that everyone's holy lake is almost the same.

There's meat for everyone!

The daily necessities are also similar.

However, there is a lot of knowledge in this.

Some of the food eaten by Chinese Americans is not genetically modified, and all kinds of daily necessities used are absolutely guaranteed by quality.

On the other hand, what do Europeans eat and use?

There is no difference at a cursory glance, but there will be a difference when you look at it carefully.

It's just that Europeans living in Manhattan don't know about it.

Of course, the Chinese and the government will not say anything about it.

Because it's almost the Spring Festival. Therefore, the Caoyun terminal is much more idle than before.

The big businessmen who used to always entrench themselves here have almost all left by this time. After all, everyone has to go back to their hometowns to spend the Spring Festival with their families, so now they still appear on the dock and walk around here with their families, basically all of them are local businessmen in Yangzhou.

Although there are many fewer goods near the Spring Festival, the cargo ships from the south have not stopped.

After all, in the capital in winter, a large supply of supplies from the south is needed.

If nothing else, food alone is the most important.

Liaodong because of the rise of the Jurchens. Basically, there is not much food production anymore.

Therefore, the grain needed by the capital can only be mobilized from the south.

Otherwise, wouldn't the more than a million people in the capital all starve to death?

The capital of the Ming Dynasty in this era. In fact, it is no different from the capital of the Celestial Empire in later generations.

Basically, it is also dependent on the stability of materials from other regions.

Although there were many lands around the capital of the Ming Dynasty, those lands were basically Huangzhuang, or they were the territory of a certain prince.

Land annexation in this era of the Ming Dynasty. It's already getting worse.

It's just that the people of Yangzhou, who are singing and dancing, can't see this problem.

They are all thinking about today's Spring Festival. How much money did you make. And during the Spring Festival, whether it is necessary to secretly give gifts to those yamen in Yangzhou, and how many gifts are appropriate.

As for the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty...... Is this something they worry about?

Even if there is a problem, there are big guys in the DPRK and the emperor who are resisting.

They just need to make money.

Yes, the Ming people of this era, especially the rich, powerful and high-ranking people, they don't care about this at all. What they care about is whether they have more money this year, and whether the land has also increased.

As for the rest, they didn't care about it at all.

Whether it is the Jurchens in the north or the Mongolian tribes, it is a headache for the imperial court.

It can be said that the reason why the Zhu Ming Dynasty collapsed so quickly at the end of the Ming Dynasty is also related to this kind of people's thinking.

For the general public, changing the court has little to do with them, after all, they are not vested interests.

Even if there is a new imperial court, they are not the same as what they should do or what they still do.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that changing a dynasty, the court and the emperor was a trivial matter, but changing the whips to rule the Central Plains was really a disaster for the Chinese descendants.

Because the whips broke the vertebrae of the Chinese descendants, there were no real 'people' in the future, and all of them became slaves...... (To be continued......)