Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 407 Young Master Zhang, I advise you to accept your fate!
Although Ma He felt a little slanderous in his heart, he still honestly told what he remembered.

"The maidservant just remembers that her family is from Zhizhidai Village, Baoshan Township, Kunyang Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Shemei should be 15 years old this year..."

"This half of the mace is a token..."

When Ma He said this, he immediately took off the wolf teeth on his neck.Zhu Yunxi looked at it, and then ordered the horse and himself to draw it as a sign of missing people.

"Any other relatives?"

"Have!"

"The servant and the elder brother, who got lost in the chaos of the war, probably even if they survived, they would have become eunuchs just like the servant..."

Seeing Ma He's complexion dimming, Zhu Yunxi felt worthless for him when he thought about Ma He's future achievements.

Simply based on Zheng He's achievements, it doesn't matter if he is named a duke!
"Don't worry, Gu will order someone to search for it. No matter who is in your family, Gu will find it for you!"

Hearing this, Ma He immediately kowtowed to Zhu Yunxi with a "bang bang bang".

"My servant thank you, Your Highness Long En!"

"Your Highness, I don't know something, I don't know if I should ask..."

Zhu Yunxi had already guessed what he wanted to ask.

"Just ask!"

"Your Highness, this servant has never done anything for you, why do you help this servant to find his family?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled lightly when he heard the words.

"Because I want you to work for me!"

"Sell your life!"

Zhu Yunxi's outspokenness made it impossible for Ma He to rectify it directly.

But it was Zhu Yunxi's directness that made Ma He's heart tremble, and he developed an endless affection for Zhu Yunxi.

It's good to follow this kind of person, at least you can die to understand!
"It's a slave's blessing to serve His Highness for several lifetimes!"

Zhu Yunxi instructed Jin Yiwei to search for Ma and his family, and then continued to immerse himself in reviewing the memorial.

As his stall got bigger and bigger, more and more things needed him to deal with.

The textile workshops in Suzhou are short of looms and need to be allocated from the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

Then, the gang of profiteers in Suzhou, seeing the lack of machines in the textile workshop, laid off a large number of workers, forcing the weavers in Suzhou city to gather together to make trouble.

Although Zhang Qinglai, the prefect of Suzhou, helped to hide it, he was reported to the court by officials from neighboring states and put on Lao Zhu's desk.

After Lao Zhu saw the civil uprising in Suzhou, he called Ni Sun over and scolded him on the spot.

"We told you a long time ago that governing the country should be done gradually, and you can't do it according to your temper!"

"Do you think that if you have a steam workshop and can tinker with some novelties, you can govern the country well?"

"fart!"

"Governing the country is governing people's hearts, and governing is governing food, clothing, housing and transportation!"

"Now there are so many weavers idle in Suzhou City, how do you let them make a living?"

This is also the reason why old Zhu Ming knew that he was cheated by the maritime merchant group and civil officials, but still chose to turn a blind eye to the smuggling trade of the maritime merchants.

Because there are too many people in the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River who rely on sea trade for a living.

Whether it is planting mulberry and raising silkworms, or spinning and weaving, or even peddlers on the street, they are all closely related to maritime merchants.

Therefore, Lao Zhu didn't support Zhu Yunxi's opposition to the Maritime Group from the very beginning. Even if he wanted to deal with them, he had to wait for Daming to get rid of the foreign troubles before freeing up his hands to deal with the internal troubles of this group.

Old Zhu scolded long-windedly, seeing that Dasun was uncharacteristically honest and didn't even say a word of rebuttal, he was a little out of breath.

"You talk, your usual ability!"

"Grandson wait until Grandpa Huang finishes talking!"

"We're done talking, if you have anything to say, just let it go!"

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson is sure to suppress the civil uprising, so I won't bother you about it."

Lao Zhu never expected that he was only waiting for such a sentence.

"What pressure are you using?"

"Jinyiwei or Xingwuwei, or your untrained Jing Haijun?"

"Grandfather, what the weavers are looking for is just a job. Grandson hurry up and produce more looms and send them over, won't it be a perfect solution?"

Old Zhu snorted coldly when he heard this.

"It's easy for you to say, but the loom is so easy to make..."

Generally speaking, if an ordinary family wants to build a loom, it will cost dozens of taels of silver, or two or three months.

Because this thing is quite troublesome to build, it is no less troublesome than making a sedan chair.

But Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly thought that there was a steam workshop under Dasun, so he stopped talking.

"Even if you can tinker with so many looms, do you have so much raw silk?"

"Have!"

"Last time, my grandson collected a lot of raw silk in Suzhou, and sent people to Hunan, Hubei and other places to buy it..."

"Oh……"

Seeing that the grandson was really prepared, Lao Zhu immediately waved to him.

"get out!"

"Pay attention to the method and method, and don't cause a big civil uprising!"

"In addition, the person who leads the organization must be strictly dealt with!"

"promise!"

Suzhou Mansion, the magistrate's yamen.

Thousands of people gathered in the magistrate's yamen, and the front row of people held a huge banner in their hands and wrote a few big characters.

"Severely punish profiteers!"

The people behind them shouted in unison.

"We want to eat!"

"We have to work!"

Such neat slogans and unified movements, if no one ordered them, they would be damned.

Zhang Qinglai hid in the yamen, looked through the crack of the door, and saw that there were only a few thousand people, he felt relieved immediately.

He clearly remembered that there were tens of thousands of people yesterday, but today there are only a few thousand left, which seems to be a good sign.

Now Zhang Qinglai also has a lot of opinions on Zhu Yunxi, the emperor's grandson is too greedy.

If it weren't for the fact that the emperor's grandson had made such a big commotion from the very beginning, it wouldn't have caused Suzhou merchants to join hands to boycott him.

The banner said to overthrow profiteers, but it was actually about overthrowing the emperor!

It's just that they didn't dare to say it clearly, for fear of ruining the taboo of the court.

But even now, it's enough to set them up for treason.

It's just that there are thousands of people outside, and the yamen servants in his hand are really not enough.If a civil uprising is provoked, it will be even more harmful than the gain.

Now he only hopes for one thing, that is, the emperor's grandson will come quickly.As long as the grandson of the emperor comes with an army, the city of Suzhou will be so quiet that the doors will not be closed at night!
The rioters outside the magistrate's yamen are very regular and self-disciplined. They report at the hour of the day every day, and they will disperse on their own after the afternoon of the afternoon.

Zhang Qinglai managed to make it to Shenshi, and only after everyone had dispersed, did he dare to sneak out of the yamen to complain to his lover in Suzhou City.

However, as soon as he slipped out of the mansion today, he was held back by someone.

This man was wearing ordinary civilian clothes, but the waist badge in his hand was very conspicuous.

"Jinyiwei?"

"Yes!"

"The grandson of the emperor has an order to hand over the humble position to Mr. Zhang himself!"

When Zhang Qinglai heard this, he was so happy that he patted his thigh.

"Hey, I finally waited for the order from the emperor's grandson. Hurry up and show it to me. What can the emperor's grandson do..."

Jin Yiwei handed Zhang Qing a bamboo tube. Zhang Qing looked at the street and saw that there were still many pedestrians on the street. He immediately returned to the yamen and hid in a place where no one was there to open the bamboo tube.

When the bamboo tube was opened, Zhang Qinglai's eyes lit up when he saw the letter inside.

"Wonderful!"

"The emperor's grandson's move can be said to be a plan to draw salary from the bottom of the pot!"

"It's just that the emperor's grandson can get so many looms. Even if there are many craftsmen in the capital, they can't make so many looms in a short time, right?"

Although Zhang Qinglai had doubts in his heart, he still decided to follow the emperor's grandson's order.

Didn't the reason why the emperor's grandson took a fancy to him was that he was obedient and sensible?

Zangxiang Pavilion in Suzhou City was originally a favorite place for fireworks among literati, but recently it put up a closed sign and refused to entertain any customers.

There is no other reason, but because they were hired by a wealthy businessman.

Ever since his girlfriend was targeted by the government, Zhang Tianyou redeveloped this non-virgin land.

Leaning against the red and nestling in the green all day long to enjoy life, by the way, you can stand on the top floor of the Cangxiang Pavilion and watch the jokes of the magistrate's yamen.

"Master, Lai Ba from the street came to ask today, will it be the same tomorrow?"

"As usual!"

"But the number must be much larger. If there are only three to 2000 people like today, then he won't even think about coming to me for a reward!"

"promise!"

Zhang Tianyou sent his subordinates away, entertained a few confidantes, and discussed the future plans.

"Everyone, if we continue laying off employees tomorrow, we must make everyone in Suzhou City panic!"

"It's easy to talk about layoffs, but the loss of downtime is too great..."

"I'm the one to make up for the loss, and I'll make it up for you!"

"Then it's fine!"

In fact, there was no shortage of jobs in Suzhou City. Zhu Yunxi hired [-] weavers, which greatly eased the unemployment rate in Suzhou City.It's just that Zhang Tianyou was determined to oppose Zhu Yunxi and deliberately created a man-made disaster.

Under his instigation, the textile workshops shut down one after another, fired a large number of people, and artificially raised the unemployment rate in Suzhou City.

Then he spent money to hire a group of local ruffians and asked them to take people to the magistrate's yamen to make trouble and make noise about the civil uprising.

As long as the movement of the civil uprising is produced, someone will naturally report the matter of Suzhou to His Majesty the Emperor.As long as His Majesty the Emperor knows about the turmoil in Suzhou, a certain grandson of the Emperor will naturally want to eat melons.

Maybe, if His Majesty the Emperor happily abolished the grandson of the Emperor, wouldn't their Maritime Group be able to happily smuggle again?

It's just that this matter has been handled by himself, and other maritime merchants have not helped at all. If Zhu Yunxi is really successful, then the future share of maritime merchants will have to be re-divided.

He, Zhang Tianyou, must account for at least half of it!
After Zhang Tianyou dismissed several merchants, he found an uncle of his clan and asked him to go to Beijing to open up the joints.

The so-called opening up the joints is to let the censors, or officials in the capital who are qualified to write a letter, plead for the people, saying that the people of Suzhou will not be able to survive under the tyranny of the emperor's grandson, and they will sell their sons and daughters.

Although Suzhou City is far from reaching this level, as long as the money is in place, what can they say, dare not say?

After Zhang Tianyou finished all this, he went to rest complacently.

The next day, Zhang Tianyou once again stood on the top floor of the Zangxiang Pavilion, watching the riots in front of the Yamen of the prefect of Suzhou.

Sure enough, after adding money, the number of people today has doubled significantly.

It's just that it's a lot less interesting than the empty alley some time ago, but that time, several workshop owners resigned from their jobs if they didn't go, which fooled so many people.

This method cannot be used frequently, and it will not work if it is used too much.

While Zhang Tianyou was admiring the beautiful scenery, a gong sounded.

"It's all scattered!"

"The magistrate's yamen has issued a new notice!"

More than a dozen yamen servants came out of the yamen and posted a few notices in front of the gate of the magistrate's yamen.

Although many of the rioting people around were coerced by local hooligans, many of them were really unemployed and wanted the yamen to preside over justice and punish those profiteers who resigned indiscriminately.

Therefore, when they saw the new notice, they immediately gathered around, even if they couldn't read, they read it with gusto.

"Whoever can read, read to us what is written on it!"

"I... I know a few..."

"Tch, how many do I know..."

At this time, the yamen servant beat the gong again and scolded everyone.

"Shut up!"

"I asked the book office in the yamen to give you a lecture!"

When everyone heard this, they quickly shut their mouths wisely.

"Following the decree of the emperor's grandson, I decided to establish the second and third Suzhou Textile Factory and recruit 6 craftsmen..."

"Oh!"

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard the announcement from the book office.

"Did I hear you right, the grandson of the emperor wants to recruit 6 people?"

"Let's not talk about whether there are 6 people in Suzhou City. Even if there are 6 people in Suzhou City, can the emperor's grandson support so many people?"

"The grandson of the emperor is the future emperor, so what the future emperor said should be right?"

Lai Ba, who was the leader of the trouble, was stunned when he saw this, and didn't know what to do for a while.

The reason why he took the lead in making troubles was that the government did not act, which made the people unable to find work and food.

Now the government threw out [-] meal tickets at once, blocking his way out.

Lai Ba stayed in the crowd for a while, then hurried to the Cangxiang Pavilion to talk to his master about it.

Not long after, Zhang Tianyou also learned about the content of the announcement from the Suzhou Mansion, and he was so shocked that he didn't say anything for a while.

Is the emperor's grandson crazy? Where does he have the courage to recruit [-] workers all at once?

Counting the weavers he recruited before, that's 9 people!
There are only so many weavers in Suzhou City, and it is worth [-] to the sky. He recruited [-] by himself. Will he let other workshops work?

Besides, what does he use to support so many people?

Even if each person is only given two taels of silver per month, that would be 18 taels a month, or 200 million taels a year.

The grandson of the emperor takes 200 million taels of silver every year just to buy people's hearts?

This cost is too great!

As soon as the notice from the magistrate's yamen came out, all the merchants in Suzhou City who were under Zhang Tianyou's orders panicked.

Once the emperor grandson recruits all the craftsmen, they will have no one to work.

Now they listened to Zhang Tianyou's bewitchment, so they dismissed the craftsmen during the busy season.Now that the emperor's grandson recruits so many people at once, where will they recruit craftsmen in the future?

Weavers are different from other craftsmen. They don't have a few years of experience in this thing, and the cloth weaves can't be seen at all!
After learning from the pain, a group of merchants immediately put aside Zhang Tianyou's words, secretly raised their salaries, improved their meals, and secretly recruited back those who had been dismissed before.

However, today is different from the past, those weavers in the past have no way out, they can only let them knead by these black-hearted workshops.

Now the emperor's grandson has issued an order to recruit people, which not only brings them new hope, but also gives them endless confidence.

"Xiao Zhang, the old man dismissed you because there were few jobs in the workshop before. Now the workshop has taken on a lot of jobs, so why don't you come back to work?"

"Master Wang, how do you calculate your wages?"

"How much it was before is still how much it is now!"

"It was only one or two taels of silver before, but now the emperor's grandson's recruitment starts at two taels..."

"Xiao Zhang, the emperor's grandson's salary is high, and the requirements are also high, isn't it..."

"What's wrong, you look down on me?"

"My cousin is working as a foreman over there, why can't I get in if he recommends me!"

"Then two or two..."

"Twenty taels is not enough, it's too little. If you want me to go, at least three taels a month, and you have to eat a full meal a day. There must be big pieces of fatty meat in the dishes..."

"Go, go, go..."

"As long as you come back to work, you will be paid according to what you said, and you will be able to eat and drink as much as you want, and there will be at least one piece of fat meat in the dish..."

The same recruitment drama was staged all over Suzhou City, and every workshop owner was troubled by this notice.

Originally, the wages of one tael or two would attract many weavers, but now everyone is willing to come for two taels of silver.

This made some people who heard Zhang Tianyou's nonsense very depressed, and complained to Zhang Tianyou regardless of the young master of the Zhang family.

"Young master Zhang, what kind of bad idea did you come up with? Now seeing the rising wages, we can't even recruit people. How can you let us live!"

Hearing the complaints of all the merchants, Zhang Tianyou was also very depressed.

Who would have thought that the first batch of weavers recruited by Zhu Yunxi would dare to recruit the second batch, or even the third batch, while they were idle.

"Everyone, listen to me."

"Do you think the emperor's grandson is really capable of supporting [-] weavers?"

"Young master Zhang, people have posted all the notices, and you still say they can't afford it?"

"In addition, the old man has to remind Young Master Zhang that standing behind the emperor's grandson is the emperor, the imperial court."

"You are a merchant, how can you have the confidence to fight against the court and the emperor!"

"If the emperor's grandson is really in a hurry and mobilizes an army to quell the chaos, the Suzhou city that your father risked his life and family to preserve will be destroyed in your hands!"

Zhang Shicheng's greatest achievement is that when facing Zhu Yuanzhang's persecution, he did not choose to burn everything, but fled Suzhou with his soldiers and horses, and returned Zhu Yuanzhang a complete Suzhou city.

Therefore, the people of Suzhou are grateful for Zhang Shicheng's achievements, take good care of Zhang's clan members scattered among the people, and respect Zhang Tianyou, a descendant of the Zhang family.

But there is a limit to this respect. Once they feel that their own interests are damaged, or the interests of Suzhou City are affected, they will still turn their backs.

As soon as Sun Kaishan said these words, Zhang Tianyou's face turned red and then turned pale.

Since he grew up so big, he has never heard such a heavy word.

Seeing that Sun Kaishan fired the cannon, the others also followed the broken drum, and accused Zhang Tianyou of his ignorance and naivety.

After everyone finished speaking, Zhang Tianyou held back his anger and said.

"Everyone, if you look down on me, Zhang, so much, then please go to the magistrate's office to sue the officials and hand me over to the imperial court!"

When everyone heard Zhang Tianyou's words, they immediately stopped talking to the child.

When Sun Kaishan heard this, he couldn't help firing again.

"Young Master Zhang, what are you talking about, you really look down on people!"

"I'm so blind, I'll betray you for a reward?"

"We just advise you to accept your fate!"

(End of this chapter)