In the dead of night, Xu Guangqi stood in front of the window and looked up at the starry sky. During the day, he was forcibly dragged to the Marshal's Mansion by Zhou Qingfeng, but he was extremely stiff without speculation. But in the end, Lao Li Tou came out to kneel and worship, but he was deeply shocked - the people compared themselves to their children, looked at the 'revolutionary army' like parents, and were willing to work for it. And they looked at the Ming Court like a hate, and hated it all the time.

"Chuyang, can I still be ZTE in Daming?" Xu Guangqi has studied both China and the West, but he has always hoped to climb up in the Ming court system. But the current Ming Court is really indescribable, he was so frightened in his heart that he couldn't help but ask his students.

Sun Yuanhua sat in the dark room, shook his head decadently and sighed: "It's powerless to return to the sky." ”

"Why not?" Xu Guangqi asked knowingly.

"Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat. The people can rejuvenate the country or overthrow the country. The students have been in Tianjin for several months, and in fact, they have long wanted to say that this disaster of the Ming Dynasty is not in the court, not in the ordnance, not in the money and food, but in the hatred of the people. The elders of the DPRK and China knew the people's livelihood and suffering, and the splendid articles they wrote all said that they would reduce taxes and taxes. But the DPRK and China have run out of money and food, but the gentry are getting richer and richer. ”

Sun Yuanhua's tone was smooth and long, as if he was saying something unrelated, "And what about this 'revolutionary army'? They were heavily taxed and looted. If there is tax evasion, you will be blamed at every turn, and the killing will be heavy, and there will be no mercy. But the people's lives are not only not bitter, but are getting better and better. That week, Qingfeng wrote a lot of articles in the newspaper, and the students read them one by one, and they realized that the disaster of the gentry was the root of the national turmoil. ”

At the end of the last sentence, Sun Yuanhua sighed in a low voice: "The student is also an official gentry, and if you think about it carefully, you are indeed harmful." The court is full of moths like students, how can Daming prosper? Thinking about it now, this 'revolutionary army' is so cruel and ruthless to the gentry, but it treats the craftsmen and farmers well, which is really the only way to break the situation. ”

The teacher and student lived in the government guest house in Tianjin. There was a feast during the day, and they didn't eat much. However, Zhou Qingfeng took the initiative to pull Lao Li Tou into the seat, chatting while eating - the dignified 'revolutionary army' marshal, commanding millions of people, and ordering the world's disobedience, actually had a very happy conversation with an old farmer who came from the countryside.

When asked about trivial matters in the field, Zhou Qingfeng is also like a treasure, and it is by no means empty words. Lao Li Tou cowered at first, but after drinking two or two wines, he also opened the conversation box and kept talking. The joys and sorrows of the people are all unashamed, and they come together. Zhou Qingfeng personally took a pen and paper and wrote it down, and discussed it repeatedly, and gained a lot.

Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua were originally the host and guest, but they could only be the last seat in the blink of an eye. Occasionally, Zhou Qingfeng would ask them a few words about specific issues, but what they could say was not as good as Marco Shi, who was despised by them—after a table, Zhou Qingfeng and Lao Li were drunk. Marcos also continued to advise. Only the two of them were ashamed.

Who in the Ming Dynasty can pull an old farmer with mud legs to the table.

No, no one does......

"The Marshal Meets Li Laohan", this sketch made the headlines of several newspapers the next day. Lao Litou's origins, appeals, and the whole story are told one by one in the newspaper. Marcos even wrote a column detailing the details of the meeting. He downplayed Xu and Sun as 'people from the Ming Court', and told the story of the arrogance and embarrassment of the teachers and students when they faced the handsome.

Xu Guangqi was under house arrest for two days in a guest house and also saw the news in the newspaper. On the headline sketch, he and Sun Yuanhua have become two blurred figures. But he knew that a painter named Cai Zhiwei came to the banquet hall on the spot, and he drew all the details on the spot.

"Chu Yang, do you say that my teacher and student will be stinking for 10,000 years?" Xu Guangqi asked again.

"Ten thousand years of stench?" Sun Yuanhua was surprised, "It shouldn't be." That Zhou Qingfeng did have the intention of soliciting, otherwise he would have been killed directly if he didn't talk nonsense with us. The teacher only needs to ....... He paused and felt that something was wrong, and changed his words: "If the student stays, let him let the teacher go." If one day Zhou Qingfeng really becomes a treasure, the teacher bows his head and admits his mistake is ....... ”

Xu Guangqi was stunned for a long time and didn't speak, stood in front of the window and sighed all night, and fell asleep late at night.

The next day, Sun Yuanhua went out to see Zhou Qingfeng. It didn't take long for someone to come to inform Xu Guangqi that he could go. Xu Guangqi looked distressed and took the car to the dock and returned to Tongzhou against the current. When he arrived at the Tongzhou camp, he replied to Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Jiliao. He only said that the military situation had been clearly detected, but he also said that his student had missed his whereabouts and was arrested by the 'revolutionary army'.

Xu Guangqi originally thought that Xiong Tingbi was going to ask what the military situation was this time, but this short-tempered Xiong Du scolded in front of him, scolding Huazhen, the king of Liaodong Economic Strategy who took office not long ago, "This surnamed Wang openly wrote to negotiate peace with Jiannu, and also said that he would borrow troops to enter the customs to suppress the 'revolutionary army' anti-thieves." This man is really dizzy, and he dares to think of such an idea. ”

This is really the death of the country, and there will be demons!

Xu Guangqi was shocked when he heard this, and asked what happened?

After Yang Hao was imprisoned, Liaodong Jingluo became a hot potato, and no one refused to take over. In the end, Ting Tui insisted on putting Wang Huazhen on the shelf. Wang Huazhen didn't want to do it, but after becoming the governor of Liaodong, he broke the jar and broke it, and simply said that he wanted to negotiate peace with foreign enemies. Later, he felt that the negotiation of peace was not enough, and he said wildly that he could borrow troops to suppress it.

This not only violates the general interests of the nation, but also directly interferes with Xiong Tingbi's position. In the past few days, Lao Xiong has also written a book one after another, and he has a verbal fight with Wang Huazhen, and he is arguing - at this juncture, who cares about the military situation in Tianjin?

The weirdness of this thing is that the more low-level officials are, the more they oppose it, either talking about the allusion of 'Dong Zhuo's sleeping sable cicada', or the bad thing of 'An Lushan playing Yuhuan'. In short, public opinion is one-sided - the Han regime introduced foreign races to suppress civil strife, and all of them did not end well.

But no matter how noisy the bottom is, the more high-level officials in the Ming court have an ambiguous attitude. Emperor Taichang was quite moved by Wang Huazhen's idea of 'saving trouble and money'. Because Mao Wenlong, who was under Wang Huazhen, secretly went to Zhenjiang in the direction of Dandong and contacted the king of North Korea, Li Hui, to send troops - since the soldiers of North Korea can be borrowed, why can't the soldiers of Jiannu be borrowed?

For this kind of bastard argument, Xiong Tingbi was so angry that he was angry. He even wrote a book to scold Emperor Taichang. But the more he scolded, the more Emperor Taichang didn't like him. He wanted to go to Beijing to see His Majesty, but the emperor Lao'er directly refused to allow it. Zhu Changluo asked him to stay in Tongzhou and not run around.

Xu Guangqi was about to cry when he saw Xiong Tingbi being so angry and sad, and he couldn't help but think of what Zhou Qingfeng said - Zhu Hongwu was to expel the Tartars and restore my China. Now the descendants of the Zhu family are actually going to invite Tartar in. Such a Ming Dynasty, to ensure that it still has a bird?

"It's too painful to worry about it, and Xiong Du is more relieved. This country is difficult, Xiong Du is already a rare pillar of my Ming Dynasty. Let it go with the affairs of the DPRK and China, this Tongzhou land still needs a lot of work from Xiong Du. Xu Guangqi could only persuade like this.

"What else do I have to worry about in Tongzhou?" It's okay not to mention Tongzhou, but mentioning it makes Xiong Tingbi even more annoyed, "The tens of thousands of troops here are about to disobey my orders." Earlier, I ordered that the merchants of the North be allowed to trade goods with the thieves in the south to replenish their military resources. Do you know who is the biggest merchant right now? ”

The biggest merchant?

What Xu Guangqi thought of was the emperor's relatives, high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but Xiong Tingbi followed closely and shouted: "It's the soldiers in Tongzhou." Tens of thousands of people, all of them have gone to business in just two months. They fought more than a dozen times in order to grab the wharf, and finally asked me to mediate and divide the sections for them to load and unload. ”

Tens of thousands of soldiers ran to do business?

Although Xu Guangqi helped Xiong Tingbi train his troops, he really didn't know much about doing business. He only knew that there were people in the army who were doing it, but he didn't know how big it was. Now I hear what Xiong Tingbi means......, all of them are in full swing to make money in business.

"Those generals are usually dead, but in order to do business with the thieves, they actually paid for the new wharf by themselves. They also bought crane cranes and freight wagons from the south, just to make a lot of money by loading goods faster. They even hired people to pave the roads, just so that the goods from the ten miles and eight towns could be transported quickly.

They started out in the brick and stone business, and now they have built a brick kiln that is larger than the government-run one. In order to make the brick kiln produce more and better, they also sent hundreds of people to Tianjin to learn how to burn bricks. It was too expensive to burn wood, and they also opened their own coal mines. Nowadays, many farmers in the north who have lost their land have been recruited to work, because burning bricks and stones is more profitable than farming. ”

If Zhou Qingfeng was here, he would have laughed and said that this was the beginning of the national bourgeoisie!

But Xiong Tingbi was heartbroken, beating his chest, hating the chaotic situation of this soldier not soldiering, not generalizing, and the country having no dry city. He continued: "In order to make money, these soldiers are not even afraid of those nobles in the capital. They can't fight against thieves, but the people who fight in Beijing are extremely fierce. If the people in Beijing want to do business, they have to beg them to give way, otherwise it won't work at all.

Nowadays, the bricks, stones and timber used to build houses in Tianjin are basically produced near Tongzhou. What kind of business department of the anti-thief dares to set up an office in my Tongzhou City, which is dedicated to planning the acquisition and freight transportation of merchants in various places in the Northland. Merchants all over the Northland still listen to them, because if they don't listen, they will face some 'sanctions'.

When I heard about this, I wanted to investigate the office, but I ordered that no one should do it for three days. In the end, I personally led the standard camp to the camp, but the people in the standard camp were clamoring that they could not cut off their financial routes. In the end, I couldn't even clean up a few thieves under my nose. Tens of thousands of horses were actually bluffed by some kind of 'office', is there anything more ridiculous in the world? ”

Xiong Tingbi cried blood, and finally he took out a few silver and copper coins issued by the 'Revolutionary Army' from his sleeve, and said even more angrily: "Nowadays, all the 'flower coins' circulating in the market are this kind of anti-thief 'flower coins', and I am disgusted to pay the soldiers with silver, saying that the silver is inconvenient to use." said that the silver of the household was filled with lead for two miles, and also said that the silver dollar of the thief was the real silver.

These are all the silver that the governor of Pontus painstakingly asked for from the household department, and it is obviously full of snowflake silver, but those soldiers just don't recognize it. The anti-thief's 'flower coin' is also mixed with copper, but the market just likes it. The soldiers and the common people all said that it was convenient to use, the currency value was high, and it was not easy to fake. ”

Xiong Tingbi has always had a stinky temper, but the more he talks, the more angry he becomes, and he actually bursts into tears. Xu Guangqi is also sympathetic to this, but he is now accustomed to using the 'flower coin' of the thief, because it is indeed convenient to use, and the value of the currency is clear at a glance, and there is no need to cut the silver and weigh it as in the past. Merchants save a lot of operating costs and time, and the people also benefit, and no one likes it.

The manufacturing process used for 'flower coins' is so high that no one can imitate the delicate patterns stamped on the surface of the coin. This is simply a great blessing for the Ming Dynasty where rotten money circulates everywhere - in the past, it was 'bad money chasing good money', and now the 'revolutionary army' keeps putting 'flower coins' into the market day and night, and specifies that 'flower coins' must be used for transactions with themselves. If you make a bad coin, you will be expelled.

Xiong Tingbi held a few silver dollars with trembling palms, and said sadly: "This kind of thief is not contained in the history books, and it is not seen in ancient and modern times. It seems that they live in Tianjin and do not want to make progress, but their goods and coins pass in all directions. The foundation of the imperial court has been hollowed out by them, and in time they will march north, but they are afraid that they will fall from the wind everywhere. Xiong, as the governor of Jiliao, is already an empty shelf. ”

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