Chapter 338: Connecting Branches with the Same Qi
Ruan Ci is a child of a family who wanders in this copper mountain set.
Speaking of his identity, many Annan people are afraid to show awe.
A hundred years ago, Annam rebelled, the Can Tho Nguyen family recruited troops and horses, and made great contributions to the Annam court to quell the rebellion, and at that time, the so-called centralization of power in Annam has collapsed, although it is the Song system, but it has begun to have the chaos of the late Tang Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty to make their own affairs, and the Annam court in view of the strength of the Ruan family, it will entitle the Ruan family in Can Tho County many fiefs, enough to have a radius of 10,000 acres, 10,000 acres of grain fields, which in the Central Plains, although there are many, but it is not considered a huge rich, but in Annam, it is one of the best.
In the past 100 years of operation, the children of the Nguyen family in Can Tho have spread out, and there have been many famous figures in Annam, and there are more and more land, which has not only developed in Can Tho, but also in the eastern part of Annam.
Nguyen Ci Nai is the brother of the current head of the Nguyen family, he arrived here as early as a month ago, and since then he has taken root here, he likes this place, this place is much more lively than Can Tho, every day there are all kinds of new things, contact with all kinds of fresh people, bustling during the day, at night it is a group of new acquaintances inviting each other, drunk and dreaming of death, here, as long as there is silver, you can buy everything, the tribute tea of the Ming Dynasty, the sake of the Wa Kingdom, the sandalwood of Sulu, and all kinds of women, From different places, with different customs.
Ruan Ci has already set up another courtyard here, covering an area of dozens of acres, although it is not big, but it is readily available. It's not like Can Tho can be compared, even Thang Long can't compare to here.
He now deals with all kinds of businessmen every day, and from time to time he has to visit Wu Xiong, the chief historian of the Marquis of Luzhou.
Now the whole of Annam and even the whole of Guangxi. Who doesn't know the power of this Wu Xiong Wu Changshi, who bears countless silver items every day, determines the flow of mountains of goods, he stomps his feet, and the land of Tongshan Ji will tremble, as long as he nods, he is willing to give you a steady stream of goods. Then even if you are penniless, you are guaranteed to have a lot of money on the second day.
That's the charm of silver, here. Whether you are a prince of the Ming Dynasty or a dignitary of Annam, everyone will only look at your net worth, as long as you have silver. You are the prince.
Ruan Ci's task here is actually simple. Contact the Ruan family's cotton sales at any time, since last year, the Ruan family began to plant a large amount of cotton, almost all the land has been changed to cotton, such a rash approach is also a last resort, Annan has undergone earth-shaking changes, due to the large number of manpower attracted by Lang Son, plus the income of cotton planting is higher. The manpower required was also expensive, so the treatment of the tenants in Annam was greatly improved. The wage has been raised, and the tenants are naturally not stupid, it is impossible for the king of the next door to have enough to eat, but I grow grain in your house but drink gruel, so continue to grow grain at this time, not only the income will be reduced, but the cost will also increase greatly.
Almost all the grain households have become unsustainable, and many small landlords have even reached the point of bankruptcy, and no one is willing to cultivate the land, raising the wages of long-term and short-term laborers, and there is no profit, and finally they have to be bought by the big households.
And planting cotton can avoid such a tragedy, the Ruan family planted grain, and the result was ...... Hao Fenglou was convicted.
There is no mistake, it is a crime, this guy who once promised to buy their cotton everywhere was suddenly arrested by the Ming court, and the whole Annan was in chaos.
This is definitely not a joke, so much cotton, are people still willing to harvest it? What happens if you don't?
After all, the landlords and big farmers have paid a huge amount of money, and if the cotton produced in countless fields is worthless, what does it mean?
It means that after a year, there is no gain, not only no gain, but also a heavy loss.
In addition, many families, they have a lot of mountains and forests in Annam, and the same is true for the Nguyen family, they own a whole Qin Mountain in Can Tho, and they heard that Lang Son needs iron ore and wood, and the Nguyen family has already organized people to go up the mountain to mine, so many minerals and wood are piled up in their newly built warehouses, just waiting for people to transport them to Lang Son and get the silver for white flowers.
Outcome...... But there is such bad news, although the Ruan family is a big family, maybe gritting their teeth can support this year, but the family's savings over the decades still have old capital, I am afraid that they will have to lose it.
At this time, Annan, like Daming, planted in everyone, is always the concept of the family, for everyone, the interests of the family are above all else, because every benefit of the family is closely related to themselves, as for Annan, it is not actually the key to their consideration.
The reason why they talk about Annan everywhere is nothing more than to prevent the big foreign clans from eroding their interests. Just as if the Ming Dynasty had ruled in Annam, what would have happened next? It is nothing more than that the officials of the Han people began to take root in Annam, and many people used the name of the imperial court to snatch food from Annan's family here, which the Annamite people could not bear.
For them, anti-Han is in a sense an important means of defending the interests of the family, because as long as Annan is still around, their children and grandchildren can enter Annan's officialdom through their own rules, and their interests can continue from generation to generation, and once the Han rule here, there are too many uncertainties.
It's just that at that time, everyone was in a hurry, and no one could let Snowflake's tattooed silver meet with him again from now on, and he would never allow the family to be hit hard.
Immediately afterwards, some people began to secretly write their statements, began to move around, and jointly wrote a book, their purpose was very simple, to keep Hao Fenglou in order to maintain their own interests and let themselves get benefits.
As a result, this huge campaign began to spread in Annam, and the snowflakes of the grievances were sent to the Luzhou Hou Mansion, and the Luzhou Hou Hao Zheng sent these grievances directly to the Beijing division at a very fast speed.
Although Chen Qing sent it, but things always carry a lot of uncertainties, Ruan Ci's heart is still up and down, although Langshan is still harvesting cotton intermittently, but he knows that once the Hao family is convicted, then the Ming court will definitely take Langshan here to open the knife, one person is convicted, and the whole family suffers, this is the tradition of Annan and the tradition of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, what will the Ruan family do?
This is not fun, my brother has written a letter, and I have repeatedly asked about the news of Jinling, obviously my brother has already jumped his feet, because at this time, even if it is too late to change to grow food, this means that within a year, the Ruan family will not have any income on the land, and it can be predicted that Annan will start to lack food on a large scale by the middle of the year. The original plan was that everyone planted cotton, and everyone bought grain from Zhenla or Daming, and the grain merchants in Daming, Zhenla, Sulu and other places had already sharpened their knives, and waited for the Annan people to sell cotton, and then used silver to buy their grain.
Outcome......
It can almost be predicted that once it reaches that point, it will not only be a fatal blow to all the clans, but also under the food shortage, coupled with the leaderless group of dragons in the Annan court, there will be flames at this time, and this time the beacon smoke is by no means like before, the nobles of Annan rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, or the nobles of the Hu family and the nobles of the Chen family competed for profit, this is a war in which the hungry and crazy people destroy everything. And this kind of war happened a hundred years ago, which is enough to make everyone reap the horror of that war from the ancient books, how many once prosperous wealthy families were broken through the high courtyard walls by crazy people, removed all their belongings, humiliated their wives and daughters, and killed their men. How many once illustrious families have been ruined, and even disappeared forever in Annam. As for those wealthy clans that have collapsed, there are countless people, even if the Ruan family takes advantage of the chaos like this, they don't know how much they have paid a heavy price and how many people's lives have been paid.
The root of everyone's fear lies in this, in their opinion, Hao Fenglou must not finish playing, once the game is finished, everyone will be buried together.
So whether they hate Hao Fenglou or love Hao Fenglou, they have to be full of emotion and write to express their feelings. Whether they liked the Ming court or not, they would rather accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty than suffer the stormy plunder.
Although Ruan Ci lingered in the song and dance of the Yingyan every day, and drank and talked with countless people, he still couldn't let go of this big stone in his heart, and every morning, he would appear in the trading house in Annan, sit there to eat tea, and wait for news.
But day by day, the news of the Ming court always disappeared.
The same is true this morning, he arrived leisurely after the hour, after arriving here, many people are familiar with him, and they have come to see him, Ruan Ci returned the gift one by one, and laughed with them, mostly some of the last night's fun and happiness, or where there is a new Qingqi.
Some people are interested in saying that a new round of iron sales has begun in the workshop recently, and this time, more than 900 carts have been supplied, and those Han merchants are rushing to compete for Yunyun.
Some people also whispered that the price of deerskin has risen a lot.
Ruan Ci was not worried about these, he was a family member, and the things that the merchants of Annam were concerned about were different, so he just tasted the tea slowly, smelled the fragrance of the tea, and waited for the news silently.
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Today, I saw a lot of classmates leave messages saying that they don't like Xiao Xiangxiang's paragraph, and the tiger said sorry again, but now it has been written, and the tiger can only leave the mood in the next new copy, please stop scolding the tiger, the tiger has reviewed, and I will pay more attention in the future! By the way, at the end of the month, don't hide if you have a monthly pass, and support a guy called Shangshan to fight the tiger. (To be continued......)