Seeing that it is almost the summer solar term, it will take about ten days to get out of the plum.

The locals in Zhenjiang are okay, but the strangers from the north, whether they are delicate officials and businessmen in splendid robes or poor men in ragged clothes, they can't stand the stuffiness of this stuffiness like a wet cloth covering their faces.

Among the slender men by the canal, there are many Shandong men, who are not afraid of the scorching sun, but they are afraid of Huangmeitian, so they will inevitably complain and scold.

At this time, although the local slender man was silent, he wished that there would be a few more outsiders to be suffocated to death, and there would be fewer people who robbed the children.

However, this time, the Shandong men not only did not have the risk of heat stroke, but also handed over shit luck.

Su Song came to a big family, recruited a family and a Ding Nursing Home, and named the young and strong homeless people who fled from Shandong.

Fancied, each person was given two new clothes, a pair of new shoes, after arriving in Songjiang, one tael of silver per month, eating and living in the master's house. If you don't like it, give a reward of a penny of silver, which will be counted as a reward for delaying the pulling of fiber.

After the news spread, Qingzhou and Yanzhou slender men from several wharves flocked to the recruitment point, and there were more than 200 people in Wuyang.

When the local burden-carrying merchant passed by, he was surprised that there were so many Shandong people in Zhenjiang's slender man, and he couldn't help but talk to the tea stall guy curiously.

"This little brother, I heard that there have been floods and locust plagues in Shandong in recent years, but didn't the top say it, long live the benevolence and righteousness, and the tax will either be reduced or exempted, how can there still be so many displaced people who have escaped?"

The tea stall guy said: "I asked them, and they said that it was because of the rent and tax reduction of the imperial court that they had no way to live." ”

The merchant was surprised: "Huh? Why? ”

The tea stall guy was accustomed to welcoming people with a smile, and explained patiently: "For example, in the same place, five noble and rich households have a total of 8,000 acres of land, and a hundred poor households have a total of 8,000 acres of land. In the previous dynasty, ten taxes were one, and one bucket tax was drawn per acre of land, and the rich households paid a total of 800 stones, and the poor households also paid 800 stones. Now, the horn chirps, the benevolent government is coming, and it is changed to thirty taxes and one. Dude, do you calculate, how much tax do five rich families and a hundred poor families pay? ”

The merchant blurted out: "It's simple, five rich households will pay 270 stones, and a hundred poor households will also pay 270 stones." ”

The man sneered: "However, this place has to support so many officials, and the cost of sending it to the state capital is also very high, and the imperial court often has various assessments, and the tax of 1,600 stone is still indispensable." However, the rich often either have someone in the family who is an official, or they usually respect the officials and tax collectors, so the lack of 1,000 and 60 stone of tax still has to force the poor to make up. Brother, do the math, how many buckets do the poor pay per household? ”

The seller of goods, when was he afraid of mental arithmetic, and quickly gave an answer: "What? Each household pays an extra ten stones and five or six buckets, and each household has to pay a total of thirteen stones and three buckets? This, this is twice as fast as when you didn't cut taxes! ”

The guy nodded, shook his head again, and sighed: "The famine year is more than the arrears, in exchange for you and me, do you have to run?" ”

The merchant and the man, all the same, stopped talking, and squinted at the slender men on the riverbank.

I saw a junior kneeling down and kowtowing to a man and a woman in front of him.

……

"Don't kowtow, just take this sweat towel well. Three days later, with my family's sweat towel, I can get on my family's boat. ”

Zheng Haizhu motioned for the young slender man to stand up, then stopped looking at him, and stared at the man in the blue cloth shirt behind him: "You, come." ”

The blue cloth shirt hurriedly stepped forward, and said: "Hello girl, the little one is twenty years old, and he came to pull the fiber at the beginning of the year, a single dingkou, the mother and son of the family are starving to death, and the villain has no daughter-in-law, our village, in the past few years, I can't say that the daughter-in-law, which family's daughter is willing to marry and starve to death?" ”

This blue cloth shirt, always with his ears on the edges, listened to the previous fellow answer Zheng Haizhu's question, and saw that he was hit by the photo after answering, and when it was his turn, he was smart and directly repaid him.

Zheng Haizhu turned her head sideways and gave Wu Bangde a look.

Wu Bangde understood, walked up to the blue cloth shirt, and suddenly pulled his clothes gently.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing?"

Blue Cloth Shirt struggled.

Zheng Haizhu walked up and pointed to his shoulder: "This brother, are you a copper-headed iron arm?" After pulling the fiber for half a year, not only is there no calluse on the shoulder, but even the skin is not broken. ”

The blue cloth shirt was silent for a moment, and his eyes were complicated.

Wu Bangde let go of him and said coldly, "Let's go."

The blue cloth shirt is indeed not a slender man, but a rat who was abducted and deceived in the Zhenjiang pit, because he thought that he was also from Yanzhou, and his face was black, so he wanted to try to see if he could get in.

I didn't expect it to be worn so quickly.

The blue cloth shirt was annoyed and angry, and after retreating four or five feet, he shouted at Zheng Haizhu at the top of his voice: "Stinky girl, shameless fox, look at your dress, you are a widow, right?" The commotion is coming, the sky is blue, in front of your concubine, you have to look at the man's body! ”

Wu Bangde is very low-key in Zhenjiang on weekdays, except for the staff in the military camp and the prefect, the merchants and people in the city do not recognize him as Qi Jin's righteous son, let alone a foreigner like Lan Bushan.

At this moment, Wu Bangde, who had already walked back to Zheng Haizhu's side, heard such foul language, how could he turn a deaf ear, and was about to turn around to beat the blue cloth shirt, but Zheng Haizhu grabbed him and whispered, "A good opportunity to know people."

I saw that in a moment, in the queue waiting for the interview, six or seven slender men jumped out.

After the blue cloth shirt was addicted, he still spared his life and fled in the direction of the state city like a mouse.

But in order to take credit for Zheng Haizhu, the gold master, the slender men were more energetic, and soon caught up with the blue cloth shirt and pressed it to the ground.

Zheng Haizhu quickly glanced at the slender men who didn't chase in front of him, there were a lot of them, his face was full of excitement to watch the play, and he coaxed: "Beat, kill him." ”

Some people also came to persuade Zheng Haizhu: "Girl, don't take your life, it's not worth it to cause a lawsuit for this kind of person." ”

After Zheng Haizhu looked at the person who behaved differently, he walked over quickly and scolded: "Don't hit him, let him go." ”

Some people obediently withdrew their hands, while others were unwilling to throw a few punches and scold, "Lao Tzu can't wait to kill you eight lambs" before letting go of the blue cloth shirt.

For the latter, Zheng Haizhu silently crossed them out of the list of candidates in his heart.

Ci does not hold the power of the army, but only deserves to be practiced by the commander.

The soldiers don't listen to the command and blindly get angry, how can they be accepted into the team.

……

This interview by the canal is actually the highlight of Zheng Haizhu's trip to Zhenjiang that he has planned for a long time.

After Shen's suicide, the eldest lord of the Gu Mansion received a letter from home and rushed back to Songjiang, although he said that he supported Miao Atai's mother's righteous killing of relatives, and thanked her for cleaning the back house of the Gu Mansion, in fact, he was quite cold to the second brother-in-law Lu Shi, and then to his nephew Gu Shouqian, and he didn't even wait for the second brother to come back to see him, and he didn't bother to participate in the wedding of Gu Shouqian and Han Ximeng, so he used the excuse of being busy with official business, and was served by the concubine, and went back to office.

And the three-room daughter-in-law Li, who was originally good friends with the Shen family in the inner house, has always been jealous that the Lu family gave birth to the Gu family's first grandson, and she is even more broken-mouthed, talking about this strange case with the people in the family, and hinting that if it weren't for the old lady's refusal to pass on her art to the Shen family, why would she cause such an uproar and make the dignified Gu Mansion a joke in Songjiang, so that the female rolls of the Gu Mansion will not be able to raise their heads at the elegant collection of celebrities for a long time.

Miao Atai saw the situation in the family clearly, and one day put on the clothes of the command, went to see the patriarch of the Gu family, and brought back the patriarch's permission: divide the other property of the Gu family, Wenzhe Academy, in half, and open another gate as an independent courtyard for the grandson of the second house. Gu Shouqian and Han Ximeng, with their mother-in-law Lu, moved out of the Gu family's current Luxiangyuan mansion and lived in Wenzhe Academy.

This decision not only made the Gu couple feel the joy of being free, but also made Zheng Haizhu excited.

Wenzhe Academy and his own Shoukuan School are not far away. Poor students from the three counties of Songjiang often come to Wenzhe Academy to exchange experience in the imperial examination, and there is no shortage of open-minded and non-ancient talents.

If the Shoukuan School is a compulsory basic education for children and teenagers, then the Wenzhe Academy can help Zheng Haizhu get closer to the future civil servants of Songjiang's hometown.

What's more, Wenzhe Academy is close to Shanghai County and is surrounded by many abandoned fields. If several batches of young people are brought in from other places one after another on the pretext of recruiting nursing homes, Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu can gradually have their own weapons.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, public funds were greedy, and there was little left of the military budget to the place, so many of the guards raised by the imperial court were waste, even if the later national regular army "Guanning Iron Cavalry" belonged to the buyer and was sorry for the seller.

Looking at the teams that can really fight, the warlords all eat the empty salaries of the imperial court, and then add some of their own belongings to support the elite of their families as their own military capital.

Even if the Sichuan Baipole soldiers, Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin do not eat empty salaries and rely on the internal economic support of their own stone toasts, they are essentially the same family model.

Zheng Haizhu's philosophy is different.

Based in Shanghai County, she wants to try not only to establish an international shipping and trade center, not only a modern financial and insurance headquarters, but also a modern armed force that does not simply stay at the level of tuntian soldiers or mercenaries.

In the future, you can follow the trend and fix it at any time.

At present, since Zheng Haizhu proposed that the reason for the head is the Nursing Yuan, the Gu family naturally agrees that the first batch of posts of 50 people costs about 1,000 taels a year, and the taxes exempted by the imperial court to officials and gentry like the Gu Mansion and the Han Mansion are more than that.

Miu Ah Tai is even more supportive.

Jiang is still old and spicy, and Mrs. Miao told Zheng Haizhu to be sure to pick a bachelor back, marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to a child in Songjiang, and gradually localize the bloodline offspring.

So, after the Gu couple and Fan Polu returned to Songjiang, Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Haizhu who stayed behind, the former went to Danyang to look for craftsmen related to the casting of bronze and ironware, and the latter took the information of these days of investigation and secret visits, accompanied by Wu Bangde, interviewed and selected.

Picking people from the slender man is a plan that Zheng Haizhu set from the beginning.

The group of slender men is very similar to the miners in Qi Jiguang's photo back then, with good physical fitness, more prominent collaboration, weak personal expression, obedience to commands, and hard-working like worker ants in the collective.

And the choice of the Shandong refugees in the slender man team was the idea that Wu Bangde gave Zheng Haizhu after a conversation at the riverside tea stall that day.

Wu Bangde told Zheng Haizhu that the intensity of natural disasters in the eastern coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty and Shandong was far greater than that of Nanzhili and Zhejiang Fujian.

There are three main ways out for the Shandong people who were affected by the disaster: one is to go to Denglai to go to relatives and friends to do business, or even go to sea to smuggle and sell goods, the second is to go south and come to Jiangnan to sell coolies, and the third is to learn from Shaanxi to rebel.

Therefore, with a high probability, the Shandong people who work as slender men in Zhenjiang have neither the active mind of doing business for profit, nor the backbone of the back of their heads, which will not bring danger to their masters. Moreover, the fact that these people were able to survive all the way to Jiangnan despite extreme hunger and fatigue also shows that their bodies are very solid, and they will not eat the food of the Lord's family and be unable to work in vain due to illness.

Zheng Haizhu feels that Wu Bangde's analysis is very reasonable, in short, this is a group that is very suitable for entering the system and discipline.

After three days of interviews, 50 sturdy and honest young slender men were finally selected.

After paying the lost pay to the unsuccessful candidates, Zheng Haizhu looked at the backs of the slender men who were going away one after another, turned his head to look at Wu Bangde, and smiled meaningfully.

"Wu Gongzi, have you written down the other ten people?"

"Don't worry, girl, if there are a lot of people, I'm not good at bragging, but with only ten faces, I can still do it without forgetting."

The two are talking about ten slender men with daughters-in-law and dolls.

Unlike the fifty singles who were paid by the Gu and Han families to be used as nursing homes, Zheng Haizhu was ready to let his shipping insurance company pay for these ten people and raise them in Zhenjiang.

They did not have the performance indicators of insurance, and their task, except to see if the shipowner and the ship boss who were in danger had colluded to cheat the insurance money, were mainly trained by Wu Bond as a spy officer.

"Wu Gongzi, spying on all kinds of information in the lair of the Jurchens, and even killing people, it is not enough to rely on scouts with hard bows and horses, or absent-minded caravans. Since Mr. Qi and you both feel that they will be transferred to Liaodong by the imperial court in a few years, it is worth spending some money to support our own intelligence brothers. More than 100 taels of silver a year, I sell silk goods, cotton clothes and pants, and insurance, and I will definitely be able to afford it. ”

This is the bottom of what Zheng Haizhu gave to Wu Bangde when he was drinking mung bean soup by the river that day.

The people selected by Wu Bangde are different from those selected by Zheng Haizhu, they all have families in Zhenjiang, just like the small countries in the Western Regions in the past had hostages in Chang'an.

"When I was fleeing, I was able to take my wife and children with me, and I didn't ask other homeless people to catch them and eat them, which shows that my ability is quite big, not waste. The small family is their weakness, and Wu Gongzi is easy to control. ”

Zheng Haizhu said.

Wu Bond glanced at her.

This woman is very strange, even her father-in-law Qi Jin can say that she has a bodhisattva heart, but sometimes, the words she spits out are ruthless.

The two were about to leave the riverbank, but they heard a stack of calls behind them.

"Girl, childe, stay, stay."

Looking back, there were five or six women.

Their faces are dark, and the whites of their eyes are particularly noticeable.

His hair was dry and messy, and his clothes were so dirty that he couldn't see his original color.

Judging from the tight skin texture, they are all women of the same age as Zheng Haizhu.

The leading woman stepped forward and asked timidly: "Two nobles, we are also slender men, our strength is not smaller than that of men, and we don't eat much, we only need five coins of moon silver, and three coins are fine, can we go to Songjiang?" ”