Chapter 127: Doing Evil
Fujian Jianzhou Mansion
Fujian has been an indisputable place for soldiers since ancient times, and even Zheng Ge'er suffered a big loss when he conquered Baiyue in the south.
This place and the Central Plains directly lie across a Wuyi Mountain, plus there are four water canals in it,
Although close to the Central Plains, its climate is inclined to a subtropical climate, with many jungles, poisonous insects, and very little arable land.
Basically, this area is the last stop in the conquest of the world.
Although Fujian is coastal, its economy has always been extremely backward, unless it is a very mercantile dynasty.
For example, in the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, Fujian's advantages will be infinitely expanded.
The world's largest port in the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou, held the world's largest import and export at that time, even ordinary people, as long as you live in Quanzhou, you can make money every day.
However, in dynasties that do not value commerce, such as the Ming Dynasty, Fujian is a land of chicken ribs, even if it is foreign trade, it does not go to the coastal areas here.
Coupled with Lao Zhu's most confused sea ban after that, it directly made the people in this area extremely poor.
Except for the Yuan Dynasty, few dynasties will do business in Quanzhou, because these are completely two different forms of foreign trade, and the import and export in Quanzhou are directly distributed in situ.
And if you want to send foreign goods into the Central Plains, and the goods from the Central Plains are sold abroad, although Fujian is coastal, it is not a good choice.
The key is that there is not even a big road in the Wuyi Mountain, and if you want to transport goods back and forth, you need to go over the mountains and mountains.
This was the biggest cost problem for merchants in ancient times.
Since you have to bear such a large freight, why not find individual coastal cities for import and export?
Therefore, the development of Fujian during the Ming and Qing dynasties, compared with the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, can be said to have fallen to the extreme.
This area is too much of a policy for the imperial court.
Because of the protection of the mountains, the floods in the south of the Yangtze River did not cause a major disaster to Jianning Mansion, but there were still floods.
Now Jianning Mansion is in an embarrassing situation,
It was a disaster, but it was not as big as the disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, so the priority of the imperial court's rescue was also lower.
A young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old, sitting on the edge of a tea stall with a newspaper in his hand, saying that it is a tea stall, but in fact it is a place to spend money to drink a big bowl of water.
The clothes on the boy's body are patched in the hidden place, and if you don't lie on him and look at it, you will definitely not be able to see it.
And the most impressive thing is that he has a little white head,
At a young age, his hair has turned white.
Half of his hair, with his young facial features, looks particularly weird.
The young man flipped through the newspaper, and there was a contemplative look in his eyes,
The front page of the newspaper was the imperial court's disaster relief in Jiangnan.
"Good Samaritan, okay, okay, okay..."
The young man's ears sounded a pitiful begging sound, but he didn't even raise his eyelids, the world that suffered natural disasters, this scene was too common,
Maybe there was a little reaction at first glance, but after watching too much, it became numb.
I saw a woman like a rag, holding a baby in her arms, begging everywhere, hoping for a mouthful of water and food.
However, now the people are too busy to take care of themselves.
How can you manage others?
Even if the imperial court rescues, there are not infinite people in the imperial court, and dozens of state capitals south of the Yangtze River have all been affected, and it will take time for the imperial court to rescue them.
The woman walked to the tea stall with the baby in her arms, and the woman looked at the tea stall owner with pleading eyes.
"Big brother, it's okay, let's give saliva to drink."
The tea stall owner's eyes flashed unbearable, and he was about to scoop out a large bowl of water and hand it to the woman.
The woman's eyes flashed with emotion, like a dead wood's hand trembling and stretched out,
The boy put the newspaper on the table and looked at the tea stall owner,
Opening,
"Now the land is starving, this one is coming, and the other is begging.
You give one, and you don't give it later,
If everyone knows that you can drink tea for free, will you still be able to do this business?
You still don't understand the truth that the dead friend is not dead and the poor is not understood? ”
The young man's words made the tea stall owner's hand shake violently, and he poured the water into the bucket again.
The tea stall owner looked apologetically at the begging woman,
"Big sister, I'm sorry, I, I have to do business too."
The owner of the tea stall said this, and his body took a step sideways, blocking the bucket tightly,
Obviously, even if the woman said the flowers, the bowl of water would not be able to be taken out.
The begging woman lowered her head, she no longer had the energy to resent the talkative teenager, she was exhausted to the extreme,
If there's one thing she's been holding on to until now, it's this baby in her arms.
The baby's face is very clean, and this mother, even if she no longer looks human, will still help the child wipe her face from time to time.
Women are weak, but mothers are strong.
This woman burst out with infinite power.
The begging woman staggered out of the tea stall, and she didn't know where to go next, so she could only walk all the way.
But when is this a head?
When I pass by the boy,
The boy stopped the woman,
Opening,
"Eldest sister, now here, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, who can control you?
If you have the kung fu to walk back and forth, you might as well find a place to sit and wait for death.
Maybe you will see you starving to death, and there will be kind people who will help you adopt your child. ”
The beggar woman looked at the young man with a little white head, and did not know for a moment what he meant.
Is it entertaining me?
The woman turned her head and bowed down, it doesn't matter what happens, pastime is pastime, insult is insult, she has no dignity for a long time,
As long as it is a mouthful of food and a mouthful of water, she can pay any price.
The boy continued,
"Look at you pathetic, it might as well be like this.
You climb down into the street from here, on your knees, and I'll give you two dollars. ”
When the tea stall owner heard this, he glanced at the young man with disgust, not only him, but even the tea customers who drank water around him cast hateful glances.
If you don't give money and don't give alms, you still have to tease the pair of orphans and widows?!
As soon as the begging woman heard that there were two pieces of money to take, her eyes suddenly burst into light,
The eyes pierced the people around him,
Exclaimed,
"Really?"
The boy nodded,
Seriously,
"As long as you crawl from here, on your knees to the streets."
The begging woman immediately put the baby on the quilt with her backhand, knelt down, and made a gesture to climb into the street.
The woman is also desperate, and she doesn't even look at whether this young man really has two dollars, and she doesn't care if what this person says is true.
Just like a dog, you have to crawl from the tea stall to the street.
Tea stalls are also on the streets, that is, women have to crawl out of the whole street on their knees!
The owner of the tea stall couldn't stand it anymore, and came over to pull the woman up,
"Big sister, don't be like this, this person is teasing you."
The begging woman couldn't listen to any other words, and her mind was full of money, and she flicked her messy hair and put her hands on the ground,
Suddenly, one by one, he crawled forward.