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"Is this going to...Guangdong?" Xu Nianzu asked in surprise.

"It should be to Guangdong." Li Feng said.

After the Jiangxi navy fleet arrived in Nanjing, it actually docked at the pier and did not leave.

The Nanjing officials were shocked. Zhang Guowei, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, immediately ordered the defense of the city and ordered the officials to prepare things for the defense.

A man with a sword on his back suddenly appeared in the city, and went straight to see him.

"How dare you show yourself in the city, catch and behead you!" Zhang Guowei was furious.

A man with a sword on his back said, "Don't be angry with Zhang Bingbu. I'm waiting to show up at this moment because I have something to say to the Bingbu."

Zhang Guowei sneered: "Is it impossible to persuade the old man to become a thief?"

The man with the sword on his back said: "No. King Zhao knew that there was a famine in the south, and although there was not much grain left in Jiangxi, summer grain would be harvested in one month. Therefore, King Zhao ordered to buy grain in Jiangxi, brought a lot of it, and sold it at a low price. Relief to the Nanjing government. Please Zhang Bingbu send people on board to inspect the grain to ensure that the price of grain is far below the market price. Don’t sell directly to merchants in Jiangnan, because they are afraid that these merchants will hoard and live in strange places.”

Zhang Guowei was silent for a while, he didn't believe that thief Zhao was so kind, but it seemed that there was no need to cheat.

By the way, it must be an invitation to buy people's hearts!

Zhang Guowei sent more than [-] people to inspect the goods in hanging baskets out of the city.Half a day later, these people came back and reported: "Except for the sailors, there were no soldiers hidden in the ships. Some ships contained food, and some ships contained porcelain."

Are you really here to sell food?

For a while, officials from the six ministries in Nanjing stood on the tower and talked about it.

Most officials suggested buying grain, because the rice price in Nanzhili this year is too expensive.Famine has already occurred in many villages. The price of rice in Nanjing City has risen to 1.5 taels a stone, and if it continues, it must break through 2 taels a stone.

Gu Gao, Chen Zhenhui, Wu Yingji, Huang Zongxi and other scholars who were restored to the society, as many as dozens of people, came to the city wall together and bowed collectively: "If Jiangxi really wants to sell grain at a low price, please Zhang Bingbu will consider it for the people. "

Immediately afterwards, the people in Nanjing city heard that Jiangxi was transporting grain, and they also came to inquire about the situation.

Zhang Guowei was inexplicably horrified, if he stopped him from buying grain, the people in the city might rebel.

However, among the six departments in Nanjing, the Secretary of the Ministry of War is the boss. Once he buys food from the rebels, he will definitely be charged with collaborating with the enemy and treason!

This is putting him on fire, it's wrong to do anything, and he's not human inside and out.

Even if the grain is bought, how will it be distributed?

The nobles are like sharks, they must come smelling blood.If the food is not sold to the nobles, these nobles will definitely cause trouble; if the grain is sold to the nobles, it will inevitably lead to public resentment.

Zhang Guowei is going crazy!

Chapter 287 [Yuan Jun]

Zhang Guowei is a member of the Donglin Party. He just came to Nanjing this spring to serve as Minister of the Ministry of War.

The rise of Zhao Han in Jiangxi led to major changes in provincial officials.Moreover, the shortage of food in the south of the Yangtze River is even worse, and the famine is even more serious. The Minister of the Nanjing Household Department and the Superintendent of Grain have changed several times.

Those who have been replaced will either go back to their hometowns or go to prison for questioning.

At this moment, many cities in the south of the Yangtze River began to recruit soldiers to defend the city.Firstly, he was afraid that Zhang Xianzhong would attack the Yangtze River, and secondly, he was afraid that Zhao Han would send troops suddenly.

As for combat power, well...it's hard to say.

Let's tell a story first-

In the 34th year of Jiajing, about [-] Japanese pirates landed from the coast of Zhejiang, fought in three provinces within [-] days, killed and wounded thousands of people, and finally left.

During this period, two Japanese pirates were captured and more than ten people were beheaded.

It's a pity that this kind of record has nothing to do with officers and soldiers.It turned out to be ordinary people in Wuhu who stood on the roof and threw lime jars, beating the Japanese pirates and fleeing.

More than 50 surviving Japanese pirates went to attack Nanjing, which had a garrison of more than [-] troops.

Of course, not all of these more than [-] officers and soldiers are in Nanjing.Some are guarding the imperial tomb, and some are farming in the outskirts of the city. Anyway, the number of soldiers on paper is more than [-].

Commanded by Zhu Xiang and Jiang Sheng, the two Nanjing Guards, took the initiative to lead troops out of the city to crusade.Because the weather was too hot and the Japanese pirates did not come, the officers and soldiers disarmed one after another to enjoy the shade, and the officers were still drinking wine under the tree.

More than 50 Japanese pirates came suddenly, and the officers and soldiers fled immediately in fright, falling into the ditch trap they had dug in advance.

In this battle, the Ming army suffered more than 300 casualties.

The two leading generals, Zhu Xiang, were killed and Jiang Sheng was seriously injured.

The whole city of Nanjing was under martial law, and soldiers were recruited to resist the Japanese pirates.Until more than 50 Japanese pirates left for a few days, Nanjing was still under martial law, for fear of being killed by the enemy.

After the Jiajing Japanese Insurrection subsided, decades passed, and Jiangnan was even more emptied of military equipment.

It is said that the prefectures, states and counties recruit soldiers to defend the city, but where do the local governments have money?

Even if there is money to recruit soldiers, there is no food to support them.

All the money and food in the south of the Yangtze River have been shipped to Beijing!

For example, in the city of Nanjing, tens of thousands of new troops were temporarily trained.Most of them are civilian husbands recruited forcibly, and some of them are civilians in the city on rotation. Anyway, they can make up the number with a bite of food.

A few men with swords on their backs were standing there, but the Minister of Nanjing War Department dared not catch them.

After arresting these people, what will Zhao thief do if he doesn't sell food?

The anger of the people in the whole city had to be burned on Zhang Guowei.

Zhang Guowei thought about it, and anyway, the Nanjing government treasury had no money, so he went to invite nobles and gentry to buy food, and let the rehabilitated scholars in the city be witnesses.

As long as the nobles and gentry bought food, Zhang Guowei was not afraid of being impeached as a traitor.

As long as the scholars of Fushe testify, Zhang Guowei will not be afraid of causing public resentment if these honorable gentry who buy grain dare to hoard it and sell it at a high price.

Moreover, you can also use public grievances to force honorable gentry to open warehouses to release food!

Two days later, nobles, gentry, and tyrants from around Nanjing City all came here with their money after hearing the news.

Nanjing Pier.

Liu Shunyi, the general of the anti-thief navy, stood at the pier and shouted: "Today, there are fifteen boats of grain, six qian for each shi of rice, and [-] qian for each shi of corn."

so cheap?

A man in brocade suddenly asked his attendants to beat the gong, and then shouted: "Shut up, shut up, don't snatch, my family will buy five big boats of rice first!"

Everyone dared not speak, they were both afraid and angry.

The speaker is a servant of Duke Wei's family.

Liu Shunyi smiled and said, "Each family can buy at most one boat."

Wei Guogong's servant immediately said: "I will pay you one tael of silver for every stone of rice!"

Liu Shunyi shook his head: "I don't sell it for one tael, but only for six dollars."

There was an uproar.

The servant smiled and said, "Hey, I've never seen such a business. It's not sold for a tael of silver per stone, but it's only sold for six dollars. Is it too shallow to be hot?"

Liu Shunyi bowed his hands to everyone: "My friends, there is not much food in Jiangxi. The more than ten boats of food at present are all collected by the people in Jiangxi. King Zhao Tianwang can't bear the hunger of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, so he specially asked me to transport them. That’s all for the grain. The rice costs only six qian ren per stone, and the grain merchants sell it to make white rice, and you can figure out how much you should sell it for!”

"it is good!"

"Zhao Tianwang is righteous!"

Liu Shunyi turned around again, and said to Wei Guogong's servant: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, you can only buy one boat!"

The house slave looked at the guns on the ship, looked at the fully armed sailors, gritted his teeth and said, "One ship is one ship, the biggest one!"

The gates of Nanjing are closed tightly, and the rebels are on the river.

However, there are many coolies on the wharf who are hired to carry food on board the ship, and the rehabilitated scholars and the people outside the city watch the nobles and tyrants doing business with the rebels all the time.

The scene was a bit weird, and it was particularly outrageous.

Officers, soldiers and sailors also came, as well as many tank boats and tank troops.They obviously have a large number of ships, but they dare not attack the anti-thief navy, and even hide far away for fear of being beaten.

Liu Shunyi sneered with disdain, and would write down how much grain he bought in a small notebook.

Whoever sells food at an outrageous price will definitely be liquidated in the future!

Huang Zongxi shook his head and said with emotion: "The world has collapsed, the universe has been turned upside down, it is really..."

"Hey, I don't want the price of food to fall, I just want the price of food to stop rising." Gu Gao sighed.

Gu Gao is the son of Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party. Gu Xiancheng's family only has a few hundred acres of land.If the landlord can keep 20 mu of land, the Gu family is really not afraid of being divided.

When the Donglin Party was founded, its purpose was very simple, which was to save the country, and most of its members were small and medium-sized landlords.

After the big commotion, all parties joined in one after another, resulting in mixed fish and dragons, and became political tools of big landlords and big businessmen.

Fushe is just the opposite.

At the beginning of the establishment of Fushe, most of them were big landlords and big businessmen.After the organization expanded, countless poor scholars joined, and the number of small landlords and small businessmen increased rapidly.

Wu Yingji suddenly said: "Before the summer harvest, it must rise to two taels of silver per stone!"

Chen Zhenhui said, "Indeed."

"I want to join the bandits in Jiangxi, can you go with me?" Wu Yingji asked.

Gu Gao said: "I also want to go to Jiangxi, not to follow the bandits, but to observe their governance."

Huang Zongxi said: "Then let's go together."

Wu Yingji had already made up his mind and advised Zhao Han to take Nanzhili and Zhejiang immediately.

This gentleman came from a wealthy family, not only did he get along well in Fushe, but he also liked to make friends with knight-errants.

Based on my years of experience in the rivers and lakes, I wrote "The Discussion on Eliminating Bandits in the South of the Yangtze River", discussing and summarizing how to eliminate bandits.He also wrote "Jiangnan Affordability Discussion" to discuss how to stabilize prices. Anyway, many of them are very practical articles.

Wu Yingji swaggered over and said to Liu Shunyi, "I want to follow the thief."

Liu Shunyi corrected him, "It's for the rebel army."

"It's all the same," Wu Yingji said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to find a boat, so let me use a military boat to take me for a ride."

Liu Shunyi cupped his hands and said, "Sir, please get on board."

Seeing Wu Yingji go on board, Gu Gao and Huang Zongxi also ran to follow.

Zhang Guowei, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, was standing on the city tower at the moment, watching the three Fushe soldiers board the pirate ship from a distance, his facial expressions were incomparably wonderful.

The food on board, as well as porcelain and other goods, were transported for two days and sold to Nanjing gentry and merchants.

After the warship unloaded, it immediately dragged the huge log to Shanghai, where Zheng Zhilong's ship helped transport it to Guangdong.

Zhang Guowei watched the anti-thief fleet leave, and sat down weakly.

He looked at the sky, which was covered with dark clouds, and it seemed that it was going to rain.

It would be great if it rains, which means that the drought is not serious this year.

In history, Zhang Guowei was widely known as a martyr against the Qing Dynasty, but his real identity was a water conservancy expert.How much he wants to subdue the war and build water conservancy in a down-to-earth manner, even if he works hard, he enjoys it.

Shanghai.

Seeing the Jiangxi navy handing over the giant wood to the Zheng family's ship, Wu Yingji said: "Zheng Zhilong has colluded with Jiangxi, and the whole province of Fujian may be taken within ten months."

"It would be best to take Jiangnan down!" Huang Zongxi said angrily.

Although Huang Zongxi's resentment towards Chongzhen had not accumulated to its peak, he had already scolded him countless times.

In the midst of this grievance, his thinking gradually changed, but it has not yet been systematically written into an article.He feels that the evaluation of the order and chaos of the world is not based on the rise and fall of a single family name, but on the joy and sorrow of all people.

As long as the people are happy, it doesn't matter if the dynasty changes!

Zhao Han's "Family, Country and Tianxia Theory" almost touched Huang Zongxi's heart.Moreover, there are many contents that Huang Zongxi did not expect. After reading the article, he suddenly felt enlightened.

Back in the cabin, Huang Zongxi read "Family, Country and World" again, and suddenly began to write the manuscript.

"Original Lord"!

"At the beginning of life, each person is selfish, and each person has his own interests. There are public interests in the world, and it is impossible to promote them..."

Since the beginning of human society, people have been selfish.

No one initiates a cause that is beneficial to the public; no one rejects a thing that is harmful to the public.

If there is such a person, he does not seek personal benefit, but only seeks the benefit of the world, and does not seek personal avoidance of harm, but makes the world avoid harm.Then he must have worked a million times harder and paid a million times harder, but he does not enjoy the benefits. Ordinary people would not do it... This has been the case throughout the ages, and the three generations of saints are not exempt.

After three generations, the monarchs regarded themselves as the masters of others, attributed the benefits of the world to themselves, and attributed the harm of the world to others.It also makes people in the world dare not be selfish, and regard their own self-interest as the public interest of the world.Maybe you will feel ashamed at first, but after a long time, you will feel at ease.

Huang Zongxi's "Yuan Jun" was influenced by Zhao Han's "Family, Country and Tianxia", which is much more in-depth than the original history.

He compared the country to a big business, the emperor is the general manager of the company, the officials are the second, third and semicolon managers, and all the people in the world are shareholders of the company.

A company name is the name of the shareholders, and the world is the world of the people in the world.