The state city is close to the three key development zones in Jiangsu, the Chidao network has been built, the south and east of Taihu Lake and Yingtianfu are connected, and the surrounding Changshu, Zhenjiang, Changshu, Songjiang and other prefectures are closely intertwined, extending in all directions.

In the Jiangnan generation, although the development zone was established late, but its development is much more rapid than the Haidu, southwest provinces, although the Haidu Development Zone has convenient transportation, but when the establishment of the development zone was proposed, there are still many people with an attitude, after all, the Haidu Development Zone was built when it was a new thing that has not been heard of for thousands of years, so attracting investment is very slow in the early stage, but Jiangnan is different, here is commonly known as the land of fish and rice, the people's minds are lively, and there are lessons from the Haidu Development Zone, so the investment attracted is very rapid, The local squires and wealthy families in the city enthusiastically built workshops and factories, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, like mushrooms after a rain, and factories rose from the ground.

Suzhou is the location of the three divisions of the yamen of Jiangsu Province, the surrounding counties have already built more than 700 workshops and factories, attracting craftsmen and laborers as high as more than 100,000 people, more than 100,000 people have a fixed monthly salary, and the consumption power has naturally grown rapidly, some of the original luxury goods due to mass production, the price has also begun to plummet, the same silk, three years ago the price was three taels of silver, but now it is only one or two dollars, prices have plummeted, but the income is rising, a large number of tenants have gone to the city to work, As a result, the price of manpower is getting higher and higher, and some rural gentry originally rented a mu of grain for tenants and needed to take half of the tenants' harvest, but as long as they have some strength, who wants to be tenants? To be a man in a factory in the city, or to be a worker in the development zone, or to go to the port to find some work to do a monthly income of two or three taels of silver, naturally no one is willing to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky for the landlords to work all year round, all of a sudden, the peasants in the countryside began to pour into the city, and the landlords' land has no one to cultivate, the landlords have no capital to bargain with the tenants, the original year's harvest contributed to the landlord half, but now, even if you only receive two percent of the rent a year, no one is willing to work for you, The landlords and old fortunes wept bitterly, so they had to offer a rent price for jumping off the building, which also raised the income of the rural tenants by a grade, and the landlord class was unprofitable, so in the end they could only save money and invest in the development zone.

Suzhou people have gradually accepted the way of life of Haidu people, the morning fog has not yet dissipated, the shops along the street began to open, dim sum, steamed buns, rice noodles shop is fragrant, early workers began to get up early to go out, Suzhou Development Zone is only seven or eight miles away from the city, the carriage carriage that has been parked on the side of the road is very large, it can be loaded with twenty people at a time, one person a copper coin, two pillars of incense can be reached, someone spent a copper plate on the street to buy a newspaper, sat in the carriage, the dull carriage, accompanied by the rotation of the wheel, The literate people in the interior of the carriage began to read the newspaper, and the illiterate ones began to chat.

"Huh?" The person reading the newspaper raised his head, his face full of surprise, followed by indignation, which quickly attracted the attention of the people around him and attracted everyone's attention.

The headline of each newspaper is a standard, explaining in detail the catastrophe in the three northern provinces, followed by an accusation that the Tartars drove the victims south to cross the river in order to save surplus food, and countless people did not have enough to eat, countless people were displaced, and countless people fell down on the way and never woke up. Countless people have mixed blood and tears, finally arrived on the south bank, but still plagued by lack of food and clothing, disease, the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River mobilized all manpower and material resources, but the displaced people are too much, now the entire south bank of the Yangtze River is still a hellish scene, in order to save food, the displaced people can only drink a bowl of gruel a day, the body has a serious epidemic but because of the lack of medical treatment can not get the due treatment, the autumn breeze is cool, for these unclothed victims is tantamount to a great disaster, after the children of the land fall asleep, Under the cool breeze, I couldn't open my eyes on the second day, and the fresh lives were so fragile, the writer of the article wrote extremely sensational, the text was not only an accusation against the Tartars, but also mixed with the powerlessness of the imperial court, and the blood and tears of the displaced people were infiltrated vividly between the lines.

"The southerners and the northerners are all in the same vein, blood and qi are connected, and the same qi is connected to the branches. The suffering of the northerners is not only a shame for our generation, but also a time when the Han people in the world save the burning and drowning, how can the seven-foot husband sit idly by? ”

The literate man read aloud in the shaking carriage until the last sentence, and there was a dead silence in the whole carriage, and the carriage came to a sudden halt, apparently even the coachman heard the impassioned text.

The literate man put down the newspaper with a heavy heart, and swept the faces of the carriage full of indignation and sympathy, his eyes and teeth gnashing in anger, his hands clenched into fists, and his nails sinking into the flesh of his palms.

"Beasts." A man in his forties waved his fist: "It's a pity that I'm too old to join the army, otherwise I will have to cut a few Tartars." ”

The middle-aged man's eyes were about to bleed. This kind of look. If it's in normal times, it will definitely make people feel cold. But today. In this otherwise peaceful early morning. In this dreary carriage. But it resonated with everyone. The sound of breathing in the interior of the carriage was heavy. There was silence again. Everyone is imagining. Imagine the long river a hundred miles away. How much suffering is happening.

The curtain was lifted. The coachman burrowed in angrily: "I'm sorry guys. I can only send you to the gates of the city. The wagons can also be loaded with some grain. I'll go to the Constant Mansion later. ”

No one in the carriage was scolding. No one is dissatisfied. There is land just admiration. Many even envy this coachman. At least he still has a carriage. You can do your part for the people of the riverside land.

The coachman hung up the curtain. The wheels began to spin again. There was silence outside the car. If it were the old days. I'm afraid it's already been a lot of noise. Today is clearly different. Many people should have heard the news. The whole city of Suzhou seems to be overpowered by dark clouds. It's so stuffy that everyone can't breathe.

"I don't know if the imperial court is short of food assistance. I still have a jar of rice at home. I don't know if I can send it over. ”

"The homeless people have no clothes. When I went back, I asked my mother to find some extra clothes to come out. It would be good if the coachman sent it with him. ”

"My workshop is mainly for processing herbs, and although my employer is a very petty philistine, when I go and talk about it, I may be able to get some medicinal herbs."

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As the city gate got closer and closer, there was a sudden noise, the carriage stopped again, and the coachman lifted the curtain again, with an apologetic face: "Everyone, the city gate can't be crossed, so it can only be sent here, everyone, please get off the car, today's car money will be free." ”

The people in the carriage didn't know what was going on, only heard a deafening sound outside the carriage, and they also talked more, and they got off the carriage with solemn expressions, and they knew that the east gate leading to the development zone had already been surrounded by people, and people dressed as talented scholars stood on a high place piled up with piles of debris, and roared impassionedly with their sleeves.

"The emperor has a clear Zhao, and the people of the north are also subjects of the Ming Dynasty, all the blood is Yanhuang, and the food is all grains, even if the brothers and sisters of ours are our brothers and sisters, if anyone sits idly by, what is the difference between them and beasts?"

"The Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette and a royal paradise, how can you let your compatriots of the same race be unclothed and hungry, but the Han people have the money to contribute and make a strong contribution."

The scholars stood on the stage and spoke angrily, and the people in the audience seemed to have found an outlet, and they all waved their fists and shouted in unison: "Destroy the Jiannu, have money to contribute, and have the power to contribute." ”

"Go, go to the Sansi Yamen to donate food and clothing, Suzhou people have a bite to eat, and the displaced people must not be allowed to starve, but the Suzhou people have clothes to wear, and the displaced people must not be allowed to be cold."

The people scattered in a hurry, no longer going to work, and ran to their homes in the city, and another group of people who had rushed to the city gate gathered around them.

The whole city of Suzhou immediately jumped up, messed into a pot of porridge, a man carried out a rice bag from the door of the house, and a fierce woman behind him hurriedly chased out of the threshold: "Dead things, the whole family is counting on eating, you give the rice to others, and the whole family drinks the northwest wind." ”

"What does a woman's family know?" The man put down the rice bag and slapped the woman without hesitation.

"Huh? You beat the old lady, you are a thing that has lost all your conscience, the old lady has been with you for eight lifetimes, ah, yes, you don't live. The woman sat on the ground with a splash, and the man had already picked up the rice bag and ran like a fly.

Naturally, it is not a discordant scene at all, the woman of this family is still sprinkling, the man of the other family is also carrying a rice bag, and the half-eldest son of a school on the side is carrying a few old clothes, and the woman of this family also chased out, waving and shouting: "Qiusheng, wait." ”

The man who called Qiusheng turned around, and the half-grown man on the side snorted hard, and the man asked, "Yue, what's wrong?" You are pregnant, my baby and I will come to the Sansi Yamen, you can rest at home. ”

Yue'e blushed, completely shy as a small jasper, and stuffed a pair of new shoes into the man's arms: "This was originally made for you, you can send it to the homeless people together, it looks like winter is about to begin, the weather is cold, and it will be evil." ”

Qiusheng smiled and kissed Yue'e while no one was paying attention to the side, and promised that he might as well be seen by the half-grown child on the side, and blushed and shaved his face towards his parents: "No shame, no shame." ”

The rich family is different, the carriage is set at the door, and three or four family members are loading things back and forth, what eggs, meat, rice, quilts, and the herbs that are always available at home are all moved to the car, and the king of Dongjie led the two sons who have been divided into houses with crutches and began to teach awe: "The Son of Heaven governs the country and talks about etiquette, and we should also govern the family with etiquette, so that the family and everything can prosper. Look at this street, even the small people know that they have taken out their rations to help the homeless, our Wang family's scholarly heirloom can't be left behind, money is something outside the body, don't take it too seriously.

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The eldest son smiled: "The old man is right. ”

The youngest son scratched his head: "Dad, let's go back and rest, here is me and my eldest brother watching." ”

Master Wang stubbornly shook his head, at this time, the housekeeper trotted over from the street, Master Wang's eyes lit up, and beckoned the housekeeper to come over: "How much did Zhao Jingui donate on the street?" ”

The housekeeper lowered his head and replied: "There are three cars in total, and there are hundreds of catties of noodles in a single meter, Master Zhao is really beautiful, and he is still shooting firecrackers in front of the door, saying that he is praying for the safety of the homeless." ”

Master Wang was heartbroken and used his crutches to warp the cement floor, snorted, beat his chest and said: "This Zhao Jingui, he has to fight with the old man for everything, how can it be unreasonable, how can it be unreasonable." Go, go and set a few more carriages, and pick up more than a dozen loads of grain for this year's harvest, the Wang family is a wealthy family in Suzhou, and he Zhao Jingui is so willing to open a ready-to-wear shop, if you let the people on the street know, don't poke the backbone of the old man? Well, my emperor pays attention to benevolence and righteousness, go to the study to get some books, and send them together, so that the homeless people can read some books. ”

The housekeeper responded, and the youngest son was very favored by the old man, and he spoke a little unscrupulously, saying: "Dad, the homeless people can't eat, what are you doing with the books?" Isn't that a mess? ”

Master Wang blew his beard and glanced at his youngest son: "What do you know?" There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book, do you understand? ”

The youngest son grunted and stopped talking, and at this time, a team of carriages on the street walked on the street, with the banner of the Liu family in Dongcheng, seven or eight carts, all of which were full, and even the wheels of the carriage were crunched and creaky, which suddenly attracted the attention of Master Wang, and he lifted his crutches and pointed to the convoy and asked, "Whose car is this?" ”

The eldest son glanced at it and said with envy: "Master Liu, a rice merchant in Dongcheng, built a winery in the development zone last year and made a fortune. Dad, although we are scholarly, there is no shame in building a workshop to do business, my son recently met a businessman from Haidu, and wanted to find someone to set up a steel mill with shares............ "The eldest son swallowed his saliva and didn't talk anymore, the old man looked down on business the most, so he was not allowed to do business, he fought a few times, scolded the old man for a few months, and this time he brought it up again, it was also a swallow.

The youngest son didn't have many scruples, and also said: "The eldest brother is right, when is it now, even the emperor says that industry rejuvenates the country, commerce and trade enrich the people, you often say that businessmen seek profits, and they are the most lowly, but if you look at Zhao Jingui on the street and Master Liu of Dongchengdi, aren't they also businessmen?" The things donated by others are not less than those of our Wang family, where can I see that there is a copper smell on people's bodies? The teachings of Yangming Academy also say this, if you want to cover the world

If you are poor, how can you help the world? Dad, you're gone. ”

Master Wang did not beat people with crutches this time, but fell into deep thought, and said after a while: "What you said is not reasonable, hey, my son can't help it, if you see what kind of livelihood you can do, if you need money to go to the account room to pay some, but you must remember, don't care about self-interest in everything, be loyal to the minister, be honest for people, and pay attention to a letter for business. ”

The eldest son grinned and said: "My son has also studied, and he has listened to his father's teachings since he was a child, and he will never come nonsense." ”

"Hmm." Mr. Wang nodded helplessly, this world has become too fast, he has found that the original set does not seem to be very practical, and now this is also very good, Mr. Wang thought in his heart, it is said that people's hearts are not ancient, and the court is too heavy on commerce so that all the people only know the smell of copper, but now it seems that this is not the case, there are merchants with workshops and factories, businessmen have made money, and the people seem to have the opportunity to work, and the wages are rising more and more month by month, and it is not a bad thing for people to have money, and many people are studying after work. Who says they forgot to educate? Do you only know the smell of copper? Nowadays, who in Suzhou City did not send his son to study in the school, if in the past, adults could not even eat, who would care about reading and reading? Look at today, people all over the street are pouring to the yamen, with grain and food, and they have the strength to contribute, isn't this the same as described in the book during the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors? Who says these people don't know how to educate? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Jiangsu political envoy Wang Mingchuan is a person in the Longwu period, it stands to reason, a small person can be a county or a warden in the county is good, to the top is at most a seven-grade county order, like Wang Mingchuan is born to rush to the political envoy is really rare.

In that year, Beijing was attacked by Li Zicheng, and Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa and other Fengming Fu Wang Zhu were imprisoned in Nanjing. Then the Manchurian people entered the customs, invincible, King Fu hastily inherited the emperor under the support of the ministers, the year name Hongguang, the Manchurians have hit the Yangtze River, Wang Mingchuan was originally a native of Jiangsu, because there were more people in the late Ming Dynasty than dogs, so there was no official title, Wang Mingchuan formed a township in his hometown, scattered all his wealth, recruited more than 300 warriors, set up an ambush outside Suzhou City, eliminated a hundred people of the Eight Banners scout, and then led the troops to rescue Taicang City, after fighting for a few days and nights, Taicang was broken, Wang Mingchuan did not commit suicide like others Xu Guo, after escaping from Taicang, he went south alone, but he bumped into a peasant army, at that time Jiangnan was full of all kinds of soldiers and horses, both the Nanming army, and the Zheng Navy who landed from Fujian, and the peasant army with various banners, Wang Mingchuan was very good at fooling, those peasant troops who originally planned to go to Sichuan were generously spoken by him, so they pushed him as the leader, gathered 5,000 people, and killed back to Taicang, as a result, because the equipment of the peasant army was really backward, the department was completely annihilated, Wang Mingchuan ran out with dozens of people, and then heard that Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, said that he was in charge of Fuzhou, so he fled into Fujian.

At the whole time, the Ming army has approached Zhejiang, although Wang Mingchuan has been defeated repeatedly, but the will to resist the Qing is still as strong as a small strong, to the imperial court to ask for orders to go north to resist the Qing, the military power at that time was monopolized by Zheng Jing, Zheng Jing in order to preserve his strength, resolutely not allowed, Wang Mingchuan wrote a letter to scold Zheng Jing, knowing that Zheng Jing was going to retaliate, he actually ran to a military camp to fool a Ming army to go north with him to Zhejiang to resist the Qing, the result was another big defeat, Wang Mingchuan did not dare to return to Fuzhou, so he ran to Guangdong, a few years later, Zheng Jing surrendered to the Manchu Qing, Longwu was captured and killed by the Manchurians, Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangzhou, Qu Shi, the governor of Guangxi~ and other people supported Guiwang Zhu Youlang in Zhaoqing to call the emperor, Wang Mingchuan is also a member of the support, Zhu Youlang is Yongli, he was named the head of the military department, after Zhu Jun gained a foothold in Nanyang, Wang Mingchuan was promoted to the military department, after the Jiangnan was recovered, because this guy was familiar with the Qing people in Jiangsu, he was promoted to Jiangsu political envoy.

Wang Mingchuan is now busy with his feet not touching the ground, only the last breath is left between his snorts, and the entire political secretary has been surrounded by the people who have paid the donations, and there is not even a gap between the needles, and the soap subordinates of the political envoy are not busy at all, so they can only call the garrison of Suzhou Mansion to help.

"My lord, the donated rice, noodles, and clothes have been piled up in the warehouse, but there are still too few carriages, and now almost all the carriages in the entire Suzhou City have been requisitioned, but they are still not enough." A profuse profuse profuse profuse of the magistrate.

Wang Mingchuan just sat on the chair for a while, and before he could take a sip of tea, he stood up again, paced back and forth, and said with a tired face: "Go, there are carriages transporting goods in the development zone, and they will be requisitioned and transferred together, the important thing now is to collect doctors, even Songjiang Mansion has transferred more than 400 doctors to rush to Changshu, Suzhou is a big mansion, and now it has only been recruited to more than 500 people, if this is spread out, the Suzhou prefect is not ashamed, how can I, the chief minister, raise my head?" ”

The magistrate said with a bitter face: "The doctors in Suzhou have all registered, and there is no one left, there is really no one." ”

Wang Mingchuan waved his hand: "Ask someone to go to the countryside to call, and the local langzhong in the township will also use it first, now is the very time." No, Lord Ben still has to go to the countryside in person, collect the Tulang Zhong or second, and raise some food from some squires, the squires are different from the rich families in the city, these people have been in the ravines for a long time, and their minds are full of thoughts of keeping money, and Lord Ben will go down, not afraid that they will not sell this face.

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Wang Mingchuan said, while putting the blistered feet into the official boots, took a step, staggered and almost fell to the ground, and an errand officer on the side hurriedly came over to help, and said with some complaint on his face: "My lord, soak your feet in hot water first before leaving, and the big thing is not in a hurry at this time." ”

Wang Mingchuan waved his hand: "I'm old, I think when the Tartars crossed the Yangtze River, Lord Ben took people to rush to the road for a hundred miles in a day and a night, hey, let's go, if this thing is late, it's bigger than the sky, haven't you read the edict issued by the emperor?" The death of an exile emperor is like the death of a son and nephew, how expensive are the emperor's sons and nephews? Hurry up, prepare a sedan chair and go. ”

The messenger answered, and went out with the officer, Wang Mingchuan walked out of the yatang slowly with his feet on his feet, but there was a smile on his face. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to diancomm, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )