The rise of the prince

Chapter 573 Chapter 550 Three, the gradual madness, the first victory
At the beginning of April, as a large number of businessmen came and went from Xia Guo and Jing Guo, a lot of information was sent to Qifang's desk.

After Fang Xin's sorting and screening, Xia Guo's side has already received news one after another.

Sure enough, someone made a fortune.

It is said that a barber in Xingqing Mansion bought a glazed vessel from Jingguo merchant for sixty taels, and sold it to a Xiaguo merchant. Xingqing Mansion bought Dazhaizi, bought maids and servants, and lived comfortably.

At first Xia Guo people just took it as an anecdote, and everyone just talked about it after dinner.

But slowly, things started to develop unexpectedly.

Only one day later, the next morning, I heard that someone in the west of the city used one tael of glazed wares bought from a begging, ragged Jingguo businessman, and sold them for 5000 taels!Get rich all of a sudden, from a worker in a big family to a big family.

Now someone was acting up and began to inquire about these things in private, but he still didn't believe it in his heart.

As a result, it was reported at noon that a small official outside the city went to the city to go to the market, and gave the glazed wares bought from Jingguo merchants for five taels of silver to Xiangguo Zhang Jie, and he was promoted to Quan Zhizhou Affairs!

Now, people became agitated, and as a result, the news continued to spread. All kinds of legends of getting rich overnight came from the streets and alleys of Xingqing Mansion, people of various religions and nine streams.

At first, some people still didn't believe it, until they gradually saw the parties who bought one tael and sold it for 5000 taels, and they confessed it face to face. For a while, the whole Xingqing Mansion was completely agitated.

These things are all true, it is true to get rich overnight and to be in the top position overnight!

From ordinary people to officials, big and small, all became restless.

The news spread very quickly, and the influence of the fanaticism was also very wide, because the Xingqing Mansion was not very big in the first place.

In other words, ancient cities were far from being as big as people imagined.

The population density of ancient cities was much smaller than people imagined, and there were only a handful of cities with a population of more than one million. Unlike now, any second- and third-tier cities can have a population of several million.

Rome claims to have a population of one million, but if you convert it according to the area of ​​the city of Lokma, you will find that the population density of Rome will be five times higher than that of Mumbai (India), the most densely populated city in the world!
In addition to the removal of various public washing places and statues in the city of Rome, unless the Romans live in elevator rooms starting from the [-]th floor, they simply cannot accommodate so many people.

In ancient China, before the Qing Dynasty, the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty had the potential to have a population of one million. Chang'an could indeed accommodate a million people because it was very large. It is only the current medium (ranked in the world) density level.

But even so, a city with a population of one million is nothing in the eyes of later generations, but it was rarely seen in ancient dynasties.

There are about 50 households in Xingqing Mansion, with a population of about [-]. If there is any disturbance in such a place, everyone will know about it immediately.

things are still getting worse
48 pieces of glassware are enough to shape many stories about getting rich overnight. Various stories of different situations and different versions are still being circulated, which makes many people completely red-eyed.

One person who becomes rich overnight will become a topic of conversation, ten people will be jealous, and one hundred people will definitely start to act!
These stories are different, but there is one thing in common, that is, the Jingguo merchant who sells colored glaze!

Someone soon found out about it.

All of a sudden, the whole city was looking for Jingguo merchants who sold colored glaze. The big families sent out guards and servants; they didn’t do any farm work or workers. Playing, not reading, looking for glass merchants everywhere.
Talking about teahouses and restaurants, daily chatting with neighbors, and talking about the food cost of every household, the topics are all keywords such as "Jingguo", "Liu Li" and "Get rich overnight".

But the initial fanaticism was still tinged with reason. Only about one tenth of these people put down what they were doing and frantically went to Jingguo merchants who sold glazed wares, and more people pointed, watched and laughed at their whimsical ideas and daydreams.

On the other side, Qifang was staring at the plan that the guy gave her in the candlelight, and on the left was the latest information on the Xingqing Mansion that Fang Xin had sorted out for him.

Wei Yubai held the sword and sat on the other side to watch over her.

"Go to bed early, you haven't slept well for several days." Wei Yubai said.

Qi Fang shook his head: "No, at this moment, you can't relax for a while. That guy said that this battle is different from what you fought. The battle on the battlefield is protracted. The war does not last for several years. The market is different. , the outcome is only within a short month, or even within a few days, once the opportunity is missed, the whole game will be lost."

Wei Yubai shook his head: "I don't understand
I only understand the principles of the battlefield, but since you say so, the prince will give you full power to deal with it, so I will believe you.I can't help you with these things, but you can concentrate on dealing with them, and I will take care of other things. "

"Thank you." Qi Fang said sincerely, if it wasn't for Wei Yubai, not to mention the many deserters who had just gone through the war and turned into bandits near Yan'an Mansion, but to say that a large group of troops suddenly landed in Yan'an Mansion, the local government was uneasy, and they would only be troublesome if they needed to be dealt with. , but with Wei Yubai around, nothing happened at all.

Guanbei Jiedushi, the daughter of the great general of Fuguo, plus her five ranks and five sense organs, has a deterrent power in her words and deeds, and she will settle all these things by acting vigorously and resolutely.

"That guy, King Ping Nan, said that after the first batch of people go out, the frenzy caused by 'getting rich overnight' will be like waves. We must seize the opportunity and push the waves to fuel the flames." Well, the best time is to wait until the wave reaches its peak.”

Li Xingzhou has more things to do now, besides dealing with the affairs of the Privy Council, he also has to watch the secret information of Qifang following the big ship down the river every day.

Now the big river has not started to divert and flood regularly, and it is still the main transportation channel in the north. This is very lucky. In addition, the Grand Canal is connected to the Dajiang waterway, and the north, south, east, and west are completely connected.

From now on, the ship of Wangfu can go wherever he wants.

At the beginning of April, the first battle report from the north came back, and it was a good news. The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the whole city were very encouraged.

At the end of March, 3000 vanguards of the Right Route Army, that is, the vanguard of the East Route Army Wei Chaoren, led by Zheng Yu, the commander of the Guanbei Army, left Bazhou and entered the territory of Yizhou, Liao State.

After marching for a day, they were ambushed by local armed groups of more than 5000 Liao people. These Liao people were composed of young and middle-aged local herdsmen, local defenders, and elite subordinates of local governors.

In the face of the sudden attack, Zheng Xi ordered the heavy infantry to resist, and at the same time let the horse army back and turn around to contain them. They defeated the enemy in a ravine about [-] miles south of Yizhoucheng, and then chased them all the way for more than ten miles before withdrawing their troops.

In this battle, more than a thousand people were beheaded, and the leader of the local nomadic tribe was captured, and the enemy was defeated.

The emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and on the spot ordered Zheng Yu to be named General Mingwei, and Zhaowu Colonel Wei Xingping to be named General Guerrilla.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were also very happy. After all, the Northern Expedition was the first to win the battle, which is a good sign.

Even Degong and He Zhao proposed to go to his Tingyu Tower to eat and drink for free after they retired from the court. They drank so much that they blushed and said something to give him face. It’s no wonder that there are so many excuses for eating and drinking for nothing.

(End of this chapter)