In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the green returned to the spring of March on the earth.

Daming, Sichuan, Shizhu Xuanfu Division.

Qingcaoba City, an industrial city with a population of 300,000, has now become the most core textile industrial base in Sichuan, with a large number of factory facilities, hydropower facilities, and a high-grade cross-river highway, connecting the city, and then can transport a large number of goods in and out, forming an extremely busy business scene.

Especially more than a year ago, directly connected to the territory of Sichuan, the 'Haixi heavy-haul railway' was completed and opened to traffic, and now it has become an extremely busy transportation line, with a daily cargo transportation volume of millions of tons, bringing trade exchanges worth more than one billion silver dollars every year, which is to make the development of Sichuan land embark on the fast track of take-off, and the annual economic growth is more than 50%, which can be described as extremely exaggerated.

With the help of the "Haixi Railway", the Shizhu Xuanfu Division was renamed from the "Shizhu Garment Company" to the "Shizhu Textile Group", in recent years, the development speed is also exaggerated, the number of clothes produced, accounting for about two percent of the Ming Dynasty, almost monopolizing the local market in Sichuan, because of the reliable quality, price conscience, so it is very popular in the market, has become the preferred clothing brand of hundreds of people, and is proud of this local brand.

Ma Santie, 19 years old this year, is an ordinary young man in Shizhu.

There are two older brothers above him, both of whom successfully joined the White Pole Army, and because he was relatively thin and weak, he failed to meet the physical examination standards, so he regrettably failed to join the White Pole Army, failed to serve this golden rice bowl, and was depressed for a period of time, and was in a very bad mood, so his parents comforted him for a long time and let him get out of the downturn.

Ay~

Times have really changed.

In the past, the white pole army was those young people who were really poor and had no choice, and wanted to get food to eat and seek a way to live, and they didn't want to die of poverty and starvation, so they considered choosing this path, and as long as their physical fitness was acceptable, they could successfully join, and it was not difficult to serve this bowl of rice.

What now?

Ma Santie's height of 1.66 meters, his ability to lift 30 catties of stone locks 50 times, and his physical fitness to run for 10 miles in 18 minutes were actually brushed down in the assessment of recruit recruitment, and he lost to those muscular men whose physical fitness was stronger than him, so he could only swallow the results that he could not pass.

I can't get a high salary of at least eight silver dollars a month.

The free room is gone.

The good thing which is targeted for lapping set is gone, too.

Plus all sorts of miscellaneous benefits.

If there is a war, the heart-pounding reward regulations, a reward of fifty silver dollars per head, and a thirty percent of the capture will be returned to oneself, as well as fields, big houses, beautiful women, and other rewards, just hearing the introduction of these regulations, so that a young man like Ma Santie can't help but boil his blood boiling, and has a strong yearning, eager to go to the battlefield immediately, and then kill a large number of enemy heads, so as to get everything he wants.

But there are too many young people who have similar dreams, and because of the sought-after, the number of recruits for the white pole soldiers has decreased in recent years, the difficulty of entering has increased, and the treatment has also increased rapidly with the economic development of the Shizhu area, and they belong to the first group to get rich.

The weapons equipped with it have also undergone several upgrades, and have achieved 100% firearms, and even equipped with mountain mortars purchased from Xujiazhuang, when they participated in the pacification of the Tusi rebellion in Yunnan last year, they exerted unimaginable power, so that the rebels heard the special screams of mortar shells, and they raised their hands to surrender, morale collapsed, and became a killer weapon, often eliminating thousands of rebels, their own losses did not exceed ten people, and they could also get the credit of beheading, and they received a lot of silver, so every time they sent troops to fight, All of them make more money than they lose, so that the white pole army is happy when they hear the war, and everyone is looking forward to making meritorious contributions to the war, but what they are most afraid of is that they are peaceful and have no chance to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield.

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Just to avoid the suspicion of the imperial court, the white pole army, which is responsible for most of the military defense of Sichuan, has a total number of only 30,000 personnel, and it is not allowed to recruit again, even if it is now the income of the Shizhu Tusima family, there is not much pressure to feed the 100,000 army, after all, the 'Haixi Railway', which brings hundreds of millions of silver dollars in profits a year, the Ma family has nearly 1% of the dividend equity, and can also participate in the operation of the railway, and get a variety of benefits, such as shops, warehousing, logistics, labor intermediary companies, etc., relying on the railway, the Shizhu Ma family, at least two or three million a year, coupled with the operating income of the textile industry, a total profit of 10 million a year, it is estimated that there is no problem, and it has become one of the richest families in Sichuan.

And the Ma family's development has been booming over the years, and then the first rich have driven the later rich, and under the hard work of the respected old lady Qin, the current Shizhu area has undergone earth-shaking changes, compared with two or three years ago, it seems that twenty or thirty years have passed, and it has developed to a point beyond the imagination of hundreds of people.

One of the most important indicators: to achieve a moderately prosperous life, the 500,000 people in the Shizhu area, except for a very few, have basically entered the well-off living standard.

Each of them had twenty or thirty pieces of clothing to wear.

I lived in a sturdier and warmer concrete building.

Not only can I eat enough, but the amount of meat eaten per capita has exceeded 20 catties, and even approached 30 catties, and it is still increasing.

Take Ma Santie's family as an example, his family was a very typical poor family four or five years ago, because he had two older brothers above and two younger sisters below, and there were five children, but the family's land was only seven or eight acres, and the food rations planted were not enough for the family to eat.

But the two elder brothers, after joining the White Pole Army, immediately reduced the burden on the family a lot, and the two elder brothers often sent their salaries home to subsidize the family, which was enough for Ma Santie and his two younger sisters to eat enough, and their bodies were nourished and developed, and even the illness was much less.

Then, the factory recruited a large number of workers, Ma Santie's father went to the construction site to repair the railway, his mother went to the tailor factory as a tailor, and the income was not bad, and Ma Santie was responsible for taking care of his two younger sisters, and occasionally took his younger sister to do some odd jobs on the construction site to earn one or two meals on the construction site.

year.

The whole family struggled for a time, and it lasted only a year.

He saved a huge sum of 300 silver dollars, which was basically enough to build a two-and-a-half-story cement brick house.

Then it took a year to build the brick house at home - only the interior decoration, not the exterior decoration, and then make up for it when there is money, in short, do the basic living functions first.

And after living in a two-and-a-half-story cement brick house.

Ma Santie suddenly felt that the world had become much better, and the happiness index had increased by a level.

Because he has a side that belongs to him, with an area of 16 square meters, a single bed with a width of one meter and three widths, as well as a desk, wardrobe, and a chair - he has a small private space of his own, he can do whatever he wants, and there will be no leakage on rainy days, no rats and all kinds of mosquitoes, very strong and strong, no need to worry about quality problems, lying on the bed, you can enter an extremely sweet dream, and live a very comfortable life every day.

Even the two younger sisters, because of the nutrition to keep up, no longer have to do those rough work, so they are very beautiful, often matchmakers come to the door to say goodbye, just because they are still young, their parents want them to help earn a few more years of money, so they did not marry early, otherwise they would have married out a long time ago.

As for Ma Santie's two elder brothers, they participated in the battle to quell the rebellion in Yunnan last year, and they all made a lot of achievements, each of them took a reward of hundreds of silver dollars, and each married a female family member of the rebels, all of whom are ethnic minorities, very young and beautiful, which makes Ma Santie extremely envious, and the main motivation for him to sign up for the White Pole Army is to get the reward of the beauty and solve the problem of singleness.

However, the selection criteria were too high, and he was not selected, and the extremely promising road of joining the army was cut off.

However, his desire to marry a beautiful wife was not broken, but became more and more determined, because the two sisters-in-law are both beauties, if his wife is obviously inferior to the two sisters-in-law, wouldn't it prove that he can't do it, how to raise his head and be a man in the future, how to live a very decent life.

In short, he must find a beautiful wife, even if she is clumsy and not so virtuous.

But......

Again, the times have changed, and now is not the innocent and simple era before, but a very realistic money era, and now it is not so easy to find a better object.

It's all about money.

First of all, in terms of the ratio of men and women, the more poor and backward areas, the more men and women are less, resulting in more male singles, and it is not easy for men to find objects, the proportion of men and women in the Shizhu area, because there are more female workers who come to work, so the proportion of men and women is quite balanced, but in order to have a stable guarantee in the future, the bride price is rising every year, and in the past, you can find a good wife as long as one or twenty silver dollars, but now it is generally increased to one or two hundred silver dollars, which is equivalent to two years of wages for an ordinary labor force.

If it is those who are beautiful and in good condition, the requirements are even higher, and they may need a bride price of three or five hundred silver dollars before they are willing to marry, and some exaggerated prices have risen to thousands of silver dollars.

And today's rich people, for personal enjoyment, generally take concubines to raise outer rooms, there are more common three wives and four concubines, some extremely rich, even ten or eight women, living like an emperor, is really enviable.

It's just that these phenomena have exacerbated the phenomenon of gender imbalance, so that people who should not become singles have become singles and become unstable factors.

Fortunately, for the nineteen-year-old Ma Santie this year, it is not difficult for him to get married, his conditions are not bad, and he can even be said to be a high-quality man.

First of all, he is handsome, not short, he is a handsome guy with great spirit, within a radius of dozens of miles, he is handsome, there are not many girls who are eyeing his appearance, and there are some who have no bride price and are willing to marry him.

Secondly, his two elder brothers, both served as soldiers in the white pole army, served a golden rice bowl, and the Ming Dynasty has become more and more rich and powerful over the years, but in the ravines of Yunnan-Guizhou and other places, there are still a lot of unruly Tusi who do not obey, the Kingdom of Myanmar in the border area is not a peaceful lord, often harassed at the border, and many frictions broke outIf Burma can be destroyed and carved up, and then vigorously developed, it will definitely bring unimaginable benefits.

And this plan, the Shizhu Ma family and Mrs. Qin are also very interested, and they also have the idea of mixing together, and the white pole army is the best at mountain warfare, and it is the best mountain army in the Ming Dynasty, and it will definitely come in handy, so the great opportunity to make a fortune will definitely be able to seize it.

Can...... In other words, Qin Liangyu Old Madam Qin has always been a kind and kind person, why did she become interested in such a war of foreign expansion, and did not express opposing opinions, has Old Madam Qin also changed?

In fact, Qin Liangyu can't be said to have changed, he can only conform to the trend of this era, the so-called law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, this law is nakedly placed there, never transferred by human will, not to mention that the Burmese kingdom, too inflated and arrogant, repeatedly launched provocations, was at fault first, and sent a good excuse to beat, since it is, do you have to endure it, it has become a big joke, Qin Liangyu is not so pedantic.

Far from it.

The above introduction is just to prove that Ma Santie's two elder brothers have the opportunity to seize the opportunity to make a fortune in the conquest of Myanmar, so as to make a lot of money, and the future is very bright.

In the end, Ma Santie has two beautiful embryonic sisters.

And these two sisters, so to speak, are brought up by Ma Santie, the relationship between brothers and sisters is very good, if Ma Santie finds a problem in the future, his two sisters, must not stay out of the matter, will definitely help, and even in extreme cases, these two sisters, become a kind of bargaining chips, so as to exchange Ma Santie to find a suitable object, this kind of transaction, when needed, should be done, his two sisters, also have the consciousness of becoming a 'brother demon'.

So!

With the help of his parents, brother and sister, a family of six.

In addition, the external conditions of Ma Santie itself are good.

On the issue of finding a partner, he wants to find a fairy-like wife, which is not necessarily a fool's dream, but there is a high possibility.

But even so.

Ma Santie still plans to work hard for two years, improve his economic strength, and become a rich man first, so that he can better broaden his choices, so as not to run into walls everywhere and suffer rejection.

And he also has very perfect ideas and plans in his heart.