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Chapter 174: Driving Fish for the Abyss (Part II)

“…… No trouble now, Brother Mi! Within a month, the thieves would use sea boats to transport 300,000 stone of rice, wheat grains, 4,000 stones of salt, and a number of knives, guns, and firearms to Shanghai County and Chongming Island, so as to solve the urgent needs of our dynasty. ”

Seeing that everyone was there, Zhang Pu found a chair and sat down, and said lightly while instructing the little girl to make tea, "...... In order to obtain these ordnance and grain, the imperial court had to pay 800,000 taels, and the goods were paid on delivery. At present, there is naturally not so much silver in the imperial treasury of Shanghai, but the Songjiang Xu family (the descendant of Xu Jie, the famous minister of the Jiajing Dynasty, the first local tyrant in Songjiang in the late Ming Dynasty, but has nothing to do with Xu Guangqi) is willing to donate 400,000 taels of silver, and then raise some from other gentry, which is probably about the same. If you really can't do it, you can use the displaced population to offset the price......"

“…… Hey, it's a tough time, and I'm afraid I'll have to be a human trafficker again. Fang Yizhi lowered his head and pondered the family background of the Shanghai Imperial Court for a while, and then couldn't help but shake his head and sigh and said, "...... Brother Tianru, what else did you negotiate with that Zhao Yinggong? Let's talk about it together! ”

“…… After some hard work for his brother, the thieves also agreed to withdraw the Hainingwei rebels who had taken refuge in them from Jiaxing Mansion and retreat into Hangzhou Prefecture for resettlement, so that the imperial court could possess the four prefectures of Songjiang, Jiaxing, Suzhou, and Huzhou, and could barely deal with the Qing captives entrenched in Jinling. Zhang Pu continued, and at the same time looked around the room, and now there seemed to be no one missing, "...... Huh? What about Zongzi (Zhang Dai)? Isn't he there? ”

“…… He is accompanying Miss Yu in the backyard! The younger brother heard the sound of a piano coming from there just now. Fang Yizhi replied casually.

The Yu girl that Fang Yizhi said in his mouth is Yu Xiaoyu, a famous prostitute in Hangzhou, and it is also an old friend whom Zhang Dai, a gentleman, met on the shore of West Lake when he lived in Hangzhou before: taking advantage of the opportunity of this mission, Zhang Dai also returned to Hangzhou City after a year's absence, and then now this city where he has lived for many years has become a strange thing, and the gold caves such as Qinglou casinos that he often lingered in the past have basically closed down. And the Zhangjia Courtyard in Hangzhou (Zhang Dai's hometown is in Shaoxing) was also set on fire to a ruin in the riot on the eve of the city break. Those former acquaintances are also almost all gone at this time.

Just as Zhang Dai was wandering around the familiar and unfamiliar streets of Hangzhou, he recognized the haggard girl Yu Xiaoyu at the head of the fish selling bridge......

It turned out that in the spring of last year, in the chaos of the Australian thieves attacking Hangzhou, the Qinglou courtyard where Yu Xiaoyu was located was also ransacked by the mobs and hooligans in the city, and finally it was set on fire and burned, and even the bustard was beaten to death. Fortunately, Yu Xiaoyu saw that the situation was not good, so she rolled up her package and hid in a secret cave, and stayed up like this for a few days, until the Australian thieves entered the city to suppress the riots and restore calm in the market, she quietly slipped out, took the little money she had accumulated, and temporarily rented a room to settle down.

Although she escaped the military disaster, but because most of the gentlemen in Hangzhou City have been frightened by the thieves and fled, no one can sing and make peace with her poetry and wine. And those talented people who had dealings with her, after Hangzhou changed hands, basically either fled or died, and for a while there was no one who could take refuge. There is a little leader of thieves who once wanted to take her into the house, but how could the arrogant Yu Xiaoyu look down on a vulgar martial artist? What's more, this guy is black and thick, and he has no talent at all, Yu Xiaoyu scolded him a few words according to the scriptures, and he didn't hear it. In the end, Miss Yu had no choice but to take out scissors and scold her chest, saying that as long as the leader took another step forward, he would kill himself immediately, so as to force back the thief who wanted to eat swan meat.

After this, Yu Xiaoyu was panicked for a few days, but the little leader of the thieves seemed to have a good stomach, and he didn't retaliate against her afterwards. However, Yu Xiaoyu has never been able to find a new benefactor who is willing to pay a lot of money to buy laughter, I heard that there has been chaos outside, and she is a weak woman who does not dare to go out of the city After a year of sitting and eating empty mountains, Yu Xiaoyu's past savings have been exhausted, and the dresses have been pawned out...... In the end, he couldn't even pay the rent, was kicked out by the landlord, lived on the streets, and was desperate to be a talented woman, Yu Xiaoyu, who refused to go to the inferior brothels in Hangzhou that were still operating miserably, and served those peddlers and pawns with a tender body, and refused to enter the "purification camp" of those Australian thieves, and shaved his head and moved to those overseas states that were said to be infested with cannibals...... So he wandered around the bridge of selling fish in Hangzhou all day long, wanting to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river.

However, at this time, she met Zhang Dai...... Zhang Dai, who finally saw an acquaintance, was immediately excited, and hurriedly stepped forward to rescue, dispelling Yu Xiaoyu's idea of throwing water with a sentence of "the water is too cold", and then took him back to the residence of the Ming Dynasty mission, and found a few servants to serve her diet and daily life. In a short time, the two of them were reunited again, like glue and paint, and the poems and sorrows of spring and autumn all day long, recalling the charm and wealth of the past together, sighing that the prosperity of today is deserted and dilapidated......

Just as Fang Yizhi mentioned this matter to Zhang Pu, Yu Xiaoyu's sound of stroking the piano came from the backyard, and Zhang Pu only heard the mournful sound of the piano, full of sadness and sadness, and couldn't help sighing. And Xu Fuyuan, who has a stronger temperament, clenched his fists when he heard this, and said angrily:

“…… Now that the north and the south are attacking, and the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River are in misery, what face do we have to call ourselves gentlemen again? The Jianzhou Tartars stook a stake in the south of the Yangtze River, slaughtered Suzhou, and killed and plundered the people in the south of the Yangtze River, which was of course extremely cruel. But this overseas thief who stole Hangzhou is not poisoning the people? This time I went south to Hangzhou, and I met old friends of the same year along the way, talking about the thieves who killed the gentry, corrupted the atmosphere, and abducted good people to go to sea as slaves, all of whom burst into tears. And we, who have the emperor's order, not only cannot expel the thieves, but also grovel to this generation, wag our tails and beg for mercy...... That's a ...... What a shame! ”

“…… Brother Yan, the thief's firearms are sharp, and the situation is very difficult to control, we can only plan it slowly, and we must not act recklessly! Hearing that Xu Fuyuan seemed to oppose the peace and trade conference, Zhang Pu was afraid that his donkey temper would come up and really mess things up, so he had to jump up and comfort him, "...... This thief confuses the people's hearts, spares no effort in the people, and uses his ingenious skills to occupy the land of my ancestors. However, if he does not respect Confucius and Mencius, and does not open the imperial examination, he will inevitably not be supported by the Ming scholars. As long as I am in the Ming Dynasty, the monarch and the people are united. The thief is just an ant trying to shake the tree, and even if it is rampant for a while, it will surely be wiped out in the future......"

Zhang Pu said something that he didn't even believe, but he couldn't help but think back to all kinds of things he had seen and heard in the past few days.

After many days of observation, he is now entrenched in Hangzhou's bandits, although it is said that they are only a partial division that is not very valued all the way, but they are also well-organized and well managed, both in government and in order to raise the people, and although the thieves and soldiers are extremely miserable in wartime, they never plunder the people's property on weekdays, and they are more like officials and soldiers than the current Ming soldiers and horses, and I really don't know how to train them.

What is worse is that according to some proclamations and rumors collected by Zhang Pu in private, it seems that the various governance methods of these thieves have everything, but there is no shadow of Confucianism and holy religion! What does this mean? It shows that the thieves don't really want to use them at all, at least they don't plan to let them occupy a high position in the court of the thieves! It's really unbearable! My generation of scholars is born to be a big official! How can you thieves not give us high-ranking officials? There has never been such a ridiculous thing in all dynasties!

What's more, the words used by these Australian thieves in their daily lives are all vulgar, and the articles and notices are all in the vernacular, which is really vulgar! No matter how many times those great Confucians denounced it, these brazen thieves still refused to change their ways. The scribes used were neither literary nor humble, and even a few scholars who were cast into the book were like demons, and all the teachings of the saints were forgotten! This is simply changing summer with Yiyi!

In the past few years, watching the ups and downs of the Great Tomorrow, Zhang Pu has a vague premonition about the future fate of the Ming Dynasty, and even wrote such a quatrain in his notes: "...... The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and Zhou Ding often changes people. Zhu Ming lost his deer, try to see who gets it? ”

However, if the Jiannu Tartars are allowed to win the world, everyone is just keeping braids together as slaves, and after educating those barbarian chieftains who admire sacred learning, and letting them open the imperial examination to promote literature and education, the world's scholars may still have a chance to turn over. But if these thieves who don't respect scholars at all win the world, I'm afraid that this Chinese inheritance saint will sink 6 times! Thanks to these thieves and rats, the pattern is very small, and the strength is not good, so Hangzhou is satisfied and stops. Otherwise, in the face of the attack of the two thieves from the north and the south, the entire Jiangnan Shilin is afraid that the jade will be burned......

Hey, where can I find a corporal who treats the gentry well, does not collect taxes or levy soldiers, and has great martial arts, just like Zhao Kuangyin, the original Song Taizu, who single-handedly swept away the thieves and traitors in this dirty and chaotic world, so that the heavenly scholars can raise their eyebrows? !

Just when Zhang Pu was thinking about it like this, several accompanying staff members came in a hurry and whispered something to him. Zhang Pu's face suddenly showed an expression of disbelief, and Fang Yizhi asked when he saw this, "...... Brother Tianru, what's going on? ”

The next moment, Zhang Pu gave him an earth-shattering answer: "...... Just now, a Ming official army entered the city from Fengshan Gate! ”

“…… What the? Could it be that our dynasty has already defeated the thieves and recovered Hangzhou? Xu Fuyuan immediately looked happy, but then he thought that it was impossible for the military strength of the small court in Shanghai, and they knew better than anyone that if they really had the ability to recover Hangzhou, where would they be asked to send an envoy?

As a result, everyone's faces immediately became solemn, and the explanation Zhang Pu gave next made their thinking more and more confused, "...... It is true that it is the official army of the Ming Dynasty who entered the city, but it is the official army of the Emperor Chongzhen! They didn't come in, but they did the same as I did with them. I heard that after the abolition of Emperor Chongzhen died of illness in Chizhou, Wen Tiren, a rebel minister of the Zhou family, moved to Huizhou with the abolished prince Zhu Cihong, set up another puppet dynasty, and now sent an envoy to Hangzhou...... suffered, could it be that the Huizhou puppet dynasty actually disregarded decency and wanted to unite with thieves to plot against our dynasty? ”

Hearing Zhang Pu's speculation, all the Jiangnan celebrities in the room also turned pale in an instant...... But in fact, it's just scaring yourself.

In fact, this is just a time-traveler who has been drifting for a long time, returning to the organization, and returning to his roots......