"In this way, does the head of the Shen case know the identity of someone Ye?"

"I've heard a little."

"Then does the head of the Shen case still know that we are wanted by the government?"

"Of course I know."

Ye Zong stayed in the orthodox ninth year before the official uprising began in July, but before that, there had been many skirmishes with officers and soldiers, and he had long been a wanted person.

"Okay, then it seems that I'm someone Ye who is wrong, and I have the courage!"

Seeing that the misunderstanding was solved, the Canghuo head next to him responded: "Boss Ye, I just said that with Shen's actions last night, how can he be a person who is afraid of things?" ”

"That's right, people who can do righteous deeds are by no means ordinary cowardly scholars."

The strong men next to him responded one after another, and Shen Yichen's action of helping the homeless children last night won a high favor in their hearts.

You must know that Shen Yichen belongs to the scholar class, and the homeless people belong to the lowest level, in the past, those powerful people would not look at them squarely, and even when they approached, they were full of disgust and disdain.

Only Shen Yichen ignored the distinction between high and low and was willing to help, which was deeply moved in the hearts of the low-level miners.

It's just that this group of people said what happened last night, but it made Shen Yichen feel a little puzzled, so it seems that their appearance was not accidental, and it had been planned a long time ago?

No matter how hard Shen Yichen racked his brains, he couldn't figure out why the miners in Zhejiang would pay attention to him.

"Leader Ye, there is a question in my contemptible heart, and I hope to seek an answer."

The doubts were too deep, Shen Yichen couldn't hold back, and was ready to ask the other party.

"What the head of the Shen case wants to know is why we would help, right?"

"That's true."

"I don't know if the head of the Shen case still remembers Ying Tianfu Yin's staff Bian He."

Bian He?

Hearing this name, Shen Yichen was extremely surprised, why did a staff member of Yin Li Min of Ying Tianfu have contact with Zhejiang miners?

However, he suddenly remembered that at the celebration banquet in the small courtyard, Bian He had said something inexplicable. said that what he had committed, at least Shen Yichen had to reach the level of Chengguo Gong in order to help.

At that time, Shen Yichen thought that Bian He was drinking too much and talking nonsense, but now that he thinks about it, I'm afraid it's not nonsense, he is a "thief"!

"Mr. Bian has a relationship with you?"

"That's right, Mr. Bian and I are fellow villagers in Qingyuan and have known each other since childhood. Later, he was wanted by the government because of the mine, so he changed his face and went to Yingtianfu as a staff member, trying to find a way out of reconciliation. ”

"So Mr. Bian chose me?"

"It's not that the head of the Shen case was chosen, but that the head of the Shen case is one of the many candidates."

After Ye Zongliu finished saying this, he glanced into the distance, and then said, "Case Chief Shen, I will talk to you about this matter in detail, but now we have to clean up and leave quickly." It's not far from Zhenjiang Mansion, and it's easy to spot if the blood flows downstream. ”

The canal is no wider than the Yangtze River, and if the bodies of a dozen people are not disposed of, they will soon be discovered by passing ships. At that time, no matter what the reason is, Shen Yichen will not be able to get rid of these dozen lives.

Therefore, before being discovered, these clippers and corpses must be disposed of, otherwise it will be more difficult to attract officers and soldiers to try to get out again.

"Okay, then I'll bother Leader Ye."

"You're polite, in addition, Shen's case is a literati, which really impresses Ye someone."

Ye Zongliu praised it, and from Shen Yichen's pale face and slightly trembling arms, he could feel that it was the first time that the other party had seen such a bloody scene.

But even so, Shen Yichen was unusually calm from beginning to end, and his thinking was clear. And when he said that he wanted to dispose of the corpse, he agreed without hesitation.

If you meet some pedantic literati, I am afraid that you will still want to report to the official to deal with the relationship, and you have no ambition and courage to do big things.

Shen Yichen, who is not yet a weak crown in his teens, can do this step, which is quite a kind of heroic among people. No wonder he became the head of the little Sanyuan case, and was valued by Master Bian, which was really different.

Regarding Ye Zongliu's praise, Shen Yichen just smiled and didn't reply, but there was a kind of helplessness in his heart.

After being a member of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the small Sanyuan case, a scholar and a literati, should theoretically be the "hardcore faction" of the government.

Now he has inexplicably become a person in the same boat as the "anti-thief", and has reached a consensus on the matter of destroying corpses and destroying traces. Even the other party appreciates it, what kind of bizarre story is this.

Ye Zongliu's group of people was very efficient, and they dealt with the scene of the "crime" in a short period of time. The corpses of the Jingkou Gang were salvaged and placed on the clipper, and then several people were separated to sail the clipper to a remote river bay.

As for whether the follow-up action was a fire or something else, Shen Yichen couldn't guess, after all, he didn't do it professionally.

However, the cooperation and discipline of Ye Zongliu's group of miners also made Shen Yichen a little impressed.

Not to mention anything else, the execution shown in the process of processing, and even Shen Yichen's feeling that the military service of some guards in Tianfu was inferior to them, which did not conform to the stereotype of the peasant army as a "rabble".

At this time, Shen Yichen suddenly remembered that the Qi family army in the late Ming Dynasty, which swept away the Japanese and won all battles, was formed by recruiting miners from Yiwu, Chuzhou, Taizhou and other places as the backbone.

Among them, Chuzhou is Ye Zongliu's hometown!

In a sense, this group of miners is the predecessor of the famous Qi Army, and it can also be called one of the best sources of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

After the matter was dealt with, the bird boat continued to set sail, and Ye Zongliu and a few people still stayed on the bird boat and began to talk to Shen Yichen about Bian He.

Bian He, who also came from a family of miners in Chuzhou, was gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he was very good at reading, so the village worked together to provide him with schooling, hoping to cultivate a literati.

Bian He also lived up to expectations, at the age of twenty-six, he successfully obtained the title of lifter, and if he continues to develop according to this trend, not to mention how big an official he can become, at least there is no problem in giving back to the same village for the benefit of one party.

It's just that all this was interrupted by the mining tax in the early years of the Orthodox Dynasty, and the miners' class, which was already extremely burdened, was once again faced with layers of heavy taxes. And the imperial court also vigorously cracked down on private mines, and the extra income was blocked, so there was no way to live.

The miners themselves were able-bodied and began to take on the rudimentary form of militarized organizations. In addition, the extremely frequent clan fights in Zhejiang and Fujian have created the fierce and bloody nature of the locals, so various small-scale rebellions and riots continued.

In later generations, Qi Dashuai chose the miners in Chuzhou as the source of soldiers, and it was precisely because of these characteristics that they all took a fancy to.

Faced with this situation, Bian He began to have a literati plot, looking forward to negotiating with the government to reduce the mining tax and give the people a way to live.

The result of this naïve thinking is obvious, the government does not accept this at all, and even takes the opportunity to hunt down the leading miners in the negotiation process, and lists the leading miners as wanted targets, even Bian He, who is no exception.

Seeing that there was no way to negotiate, Ye Zongliu simply stopped talking, and sent people to various places to buy iron tools to "cast and smelt armor", and then occupy the mountain as the king to fight against the government by force.

That's why they will appear in Zhenjiang Mansion among the homeless people.

After all, Bian He has read a book, and knows the power of the Ming Dynasty, and the road of occupying the mountain as the king will not work, and he will inevitably be encircled and suppressed in the end.

At that time, these childhood friends, miners and villagers, were all killed in the name of anti-thieves.

wanted to change this ending, Bian He chose a completely different path from Ye Zongliu. I want to get to know the high-ranking officials and magnates through the way of the staff master, and find a way to live for the clan folks from the decision-making power.

In this way, a pair of childhood miner partners are working two different paths in order to survive.

Without the God's perspective of history, they don't know who is right and who is wrong in the end.

But instead of waiting for death, at least this group of miners chose to fight in order to survive!

Sitting on the bow of the boat, Shen Yichen quietly listened to Ye Zongliu's story, which was once a short sentence in the history books. At this moment, it has become a portrayal of everyone's survival, and the feelings are completely different.

Shen Yichen did not comment on the right or wrong choice between Bian He and Ye Zongliu, because he knew very well that the path of these two people would not work.

The increase in taxes from silver mines was not only the exploitation and greed of the government, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, silver, as the base currency, was seriously insufficient in production, and in layman's terms, it was insufficient.

In later generations, because of the epidemic, many people knew that the ugly Guokai nuclear-powered money printing machine was crazy about printing money, which caused inflation in many countries and prices began to skyrocket.

However, inflation also has an economic antonym, and the harm is no less: deflation.

The so-called deflation is a situation in which the amount of money circulating in the market is less than the amount of money required for commodity circulation, which causes the currency to appreciate and prices generally continue to fall.

Many people may think that falling prices are a good thing, so it is cheaper to buy things, and people shouldn't live better?

But in fact, once the currency appreciates and prices fall by more than a certain extent, there will be a situation where goods are too cheap and there is no money to be made by selling.

Since I don't make any money, then I'm still tired of producing a fart, so I don't sell it at all. After this step is achieved, the unemployment rate will skyrocket and the overall wealth of society will shrink if no one produces.

If there is no way to solve deflation, we will enter a vicious circle, and the end result will naturally be economic collapse.

Therefore, modern economics is a discipline with very rigorous logic, and it is not as simple as the price of goods is more expensive or cheaper as ordinary people understand.

In the post-modern society, money is insufficient, and money printing machines can still work overtime to print money. In a feudal society like the Ming Dynasty, paper money did not have enough credit endorsement from the central government, and would only become a piece of waste paper.

Even if there is such a thing as a silver ticket, it is based on precious metal reserves, which is fundamentally different from the paper money issued by later generations.

For the Ming Dynasty, if the silver is insufficient, it can only be exploited by the miners, and the fundamental contradiction of the currency gap is not solved, and the road between Ye Zongliu and Bian He will not work, which is a dead end for the miners.