In the past, the population that had been brought in, including disaster victims, mountain people, bankrupt farmers, and Tan households, had never been exposed to such a group of people as "floating waves".

After Wang Jiang's inquiry, she learned that these "floating waves" are the so-called fugitives and displaced people, and she does not know much about the composition of this kind of population.

According to Yang Wu, floating waves are people who can't get by and flee to the mountains to live, and they are scattered in the mountains and forests to reclaim some arable land to live.

They are attached to Yang Wu's "water business", providing them with food and hiding places, and they will also collect some mountain and forest specialties in exchange for some salt and other things with Yang Wu and them.

Wang Jiang's family understands that these so-called floating waves are also the helpers of the bandits when they rob.

It's just that she's also in contact with this kind of people for the first time, so she shouldn't be rashly boasting.

"If the master of the Wang class is in trouble, you can send someone to us to have a look! Actually, I know your worries, we are all from grass! ”

"But if it weren't for the fact that life couldn't go on, who would want to be this thief? These floating waves are often substitute ghosts when the government suppresses bandits, and they are not bad people!

The vast majority of water bandits are not big traitors, we also want to live in peace and stability, and we also want to have a head! I hope that the king class master will be fulfilled! Yang Wu said with tears in his eyes, and silently handed over a burden.

Wang Jiang's instinctively dodged, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop: "We have discipline and rules, this can't be done!"

Yang Wu sighed: "Wang Class Master, please have mercy on us!"

"We can call the shots in this matter, but you have to make it clear what kind of people are in this floating wave!"

"This ...... Some are indeed good people, but there are also some who have committed crimes and run away, and there are also some military households, artisan households, and the most common are homeless people, that is, peasants who have evaded taxes and have no land! ”

Wang Jiangshi thought for a while, looked at Yang Wu and said, "You didn't get through the trick, but chose to tell us, this is very good!" Since you are honest with each other, we in Dongqin will also have considerations! ”

Yang Wu nodded, and said again: "Please also ask the Wang class master to work more on this matter!"

Wang Jiang snorted and asked, "How did you know about our Eastern Qin?"

Yang Wu said with a smile: "It's not a secret, some of the family members below have entered the visiting group!"

"I see!" Wang Jiang said: "Then you leave the address of the contact, and we will notify you if there is news!"

Yang Wu thanked him for his kindness, and after leaving the burden, he was ready to retreat.

But he was stopped by Wang Jiang's shout, and after letting him take away the burden in disgust, he returned to the shed.

There were several short guns in it, and they were being held in their hands, and Wang Jiang smiled and said, "Put down the guns, it's not a big deal!"

Lu Xiaoju shook her head and said, "Water bandits and floating waves, but the group we have come into contact with for the first time, we should be careful!"

Wang Jiang nodded and said, "You should be careful, but don't forget, there must be a lot of people in the mouth of Dongqin who are not innocent."

Long Ping was silent for a while and said, "It's better to go and see, know what kind of life they live, and you will know the bottom of your heart!"

"Who's going?"

Long Ping glanced at it: "It's naturally not appropriate for women to go, then only a few of us gay men will go!"

"No!" Chen Ximei interrupted: "In my opinion, I can only accept all the orders this time!"

"Why?"

"Imagine if we treat them differently, how much impact will it have on our work if these bandits cooperate with us in the future?

And aren't these floating waves about the same as the life of the mountain people? It's just that their composition is more complicated, and those merchants, who transported the population to Eastern Qin, can ensure that everyone is a good people?

Our primary purpose now is to gather more people, we can't control everything these people in the Ming Kingdom, and we have to take care of it when we get to Eastern Qin! Since fugitive military households can become new-style officers in Eastern Qin, I don't believe that we can't transform a few homeless bandits! ”

Chen Ximei was full of confidence when she said this, and everyone was stunned when she heard it.

Oh, yes! Isn't it the same when it comes to Dongqin and then transformed? Anyway, it is not enough to divide a person, no matter what kind of person he is, and then to eradicate literacy and educate and shape some common consciousness.

Anyway, they are all farming and paying for food, and they are all working for the sake of giving birth to babies anyway, even if they are still restless in Eastern Qin, can they still be worthy of the iron fist of the Law Academy of Huaxia Kingdom?

Wang Jiang's clan immediately made a decision and classified the floating waves as a column of bandits for processing, that is, scattered and distributed, so that these people could no longer be related.

What they don't know is that these waves are mainly homeless, or one of the so-called millions of displaced people.

By the late Ming Dynasty, this group of people had mastered terraced farming, not only repeatedly robbed the Yao people's fields and forests, but also never organized households to gather the people, and treated the imperial court with contempt.

It is these displaced people who have reclaimed all the mountainous areas in the south one by one. It was also a key factor contributing to the population explosion of the Qing Dynasty, and many people used the rice sowing area recorded in the Qing Dynasty to deny the prosperity of sweet potatoes, in essence, they did not understand that almost all the mountains at that time were sweet potatoes and corn.

The better land is naturally planted with rice, but for the mountainous land, it has always been difficult for the local government to include it in the formal endowment. At the time of the record, there would also be a situation where the area planted with sweet potatoes was less than 5% of rice.

If you think about it, you can understand that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they still ate sweet potatoes for decades, how could the peasants during the Qing Dynasty plant so little?

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Daming Jingshi, Qianqing Palace.

Since the beginning of autumn, the weather has gradually cooled, and Emperor Hongzhi suddenly felt a chill and felt a dull pain in his abdomen.

After taking the medicine, he saw that he was getting better, and the imperial doctor asked him to work less recently, and Emperor Hongzhi also had a rare few days to spare.

He was lying on the bed, Empress Zhang was on the side, and Zhu Houzhao was also playing on the side.

Looking at the prince, the husband and wife were full of smiles.

"Your Majesty, Lord Liu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, asks to see you!" The chamberlain suddenly made a bow.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said, "Let him in!"

Empress Zhang just wanted to retire, but was beckoned by Hongzhi to stay.

After Liu Daxia entered the door, he kowtowed.

Emperor Hongzhi stretched out his hand and said, "Liu Qing, hurry up!" Come, come closer. ”

Liu Daxia saw that the emperor's complexion was not bad, so he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the first batch of ordnance sent by Dongqin has arrived, and the Qiantang Naval Division is responsible for the delivery, and it is also the ship of the imperial tribute, and there is no one to check on the road!"

"Good!" Emperor Hongzhi was satisfied: "I know that Elder Liu has always done things safely."

Liu Daxia bowed slightly and said: "In this ordnance, Dongqin gave us a new firearm, called arquebus, after the minister tried it, I felt that it was a hundred times better than our army's three-eyed gun!"

"Oh!" Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "The ingenuity of this Eastern Qin people's utensils seems to be really not to be underestimated!"

Liu Daxia nodded: "The minister has already ordered the imitation, according to the meaning of Dong Qin, this time he is willing to sell us 3,000 arquebuses, 50 cannons, 100 pairs of telescopes, and 1,000 pieces of plate armor!"

"Well, you did this well, you only spent some salt leads, and you got so many sharp weapons! Alas, it's just that if Dong Qin can sell it so easily, it must not be difficult to build! ”

Liu Daxia said: "Actually, this time, the people of Eastern Qin didn't ask for silver!"

"What?" Emperor Hongji was shocked.

"According to the report from the house slaves sent out by Weichen, the people of the Eastern Qin Dynasty only made one request, that is, not to interfere with their actions in Guangdong, and they have recently been at the mouth of the Pearl River to collect the Tanhu!"

Hongji's brows furrowed even tighter, and after thinking about it, he became excited, and coughed again.

Empress Zhang hurriedly gave him a good breath, and brought him tea to drink.

"What are they doing to gather the stumpers?"

Liu Daxia said solemnly: "It's not just the Tan households, the intelligence collected from all over the country, the minister found that Dongqin has been abducting the population of Fujian and Zhejiang and other places, and this year it has become even more unscrupulous, and even faintly penetrated into the interior!"

"This ...... It's disgusting! "Emperor Hongzhi was unhappy, at first he thought that the people of the Ming Dynasty among the people of the Eastern Qin were all traitors who crossed the sea, but now that it looks like this, the Eastern Qin has been abducting people in the Ming Dynasty!

Liu Daxia arched his hand and said: "This matter is difficult to control locally, I am afraid that Fujian and Zhejiang, there are already a lot of businessmen and officials in the confluence!" So there is only one way to defeat the Tyrants! ”

"What's the method?"

Liu Daxia smiled contemptuously: "Although this black man has a strong momentum, he is a greedy person, according to the spies planted by the ministers in the merchants, the black people have already issued an order, requiring those smuggling profiteers in the Ming Dynasty to transport grain to Eastern Qin every time before they can be allowed to trade!"

"Oh!" Emperor Hongzhi was overjoyed: "So, the people have no food?"

"Highly likely!" Liu Daxia secretly poked and said: "It seems that the people don't know how to operate, and they are blindly greedy, but they don't know that the more people they gather, the more food they consume!" This time, they gathered the Tan households at the mouth of the Pearl River, and there seem to be a lot of people who have been deceived and abducted. ”

Emperor Hongzhi thought for a while, nodded and said, "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, grain should not go to sea!" This time, we can be regarded as reasonable and responsible, and if we are ready, we can draft a decree and send officials and officials to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, so that they can ruthlessly investigate grain smuggling, and it is not impossible to make an example of them! ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... Go out......... There's an accident up ahead! Just when Hongzhi and Liu Daxia were happy to finally find Dong Qin's handle, a hurried eunuch voice suddenly came from outside the door.

Emperor Hongzhi was a little angry: "What's the matter?"

The eunuch knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, there is a man named Zheng Wang who said something rebellious at the noon gate!"

"This matter will be handed over to the guards to ......," Emperor Hongzhi said to his lips and stopped reluctantly.

Empress Zhang looked at Hongzhi with a pale face, only Zhu Houzhao was still playing happily.

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