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According to folklore, Fang Guoan is "the only egg in the anus", so he is the fate of wealth and honor as a "non-public prince".Watermark Advertisement Test Watermark Advertisement Test Zhu Cihong learned from Zhang Dai's prose in his previous life that Fang Guoan was granted the title of Duke of the Southern Ming court. It seems that the folklore also has a certain perspective.It's just that this kind of prophecy about physical disability, I really don't know whether to fan him or hate him.

When seeing Fang Guoan himself, Zhu Cihong didn't see any appearance of a prince.This warlord, who was born in a poor family and lost his parents since childhood, has been completely corrupted by southern fans. He doesn't look like a self-struggling official generation at all, but like those descendants of those depraved wealthy families.Even Wu Sangui, the real second generation of power, is more heroic than him.

——This is not a person who can get things done.

Zhu Cihong secretly labeled him.

"Your Highness, there are not many troops stationed in Hangzhou by the ministers. There are slave rebellions and banditry in many places, so the armies are scattered in various places in Zhejiang, including Zhuji and Yuyao..." Fang Guoan had heard that the crown prince was smart, so he lied to his face He was a little timid, but he had carefully inquired about the crown prince's itinerary and his important staff and advisers, so he should not have been able to collect his criminal evidence so quickly.

His crimes are nothing more than drinking the blood of soldiers, eating empty wages, occupying some fields, and hollowing out guards.

As long as he does not rebel, Zhu Cihong has no intention of pursuing it in detail.

"How many troops did he report?" Zhu Cihong asked the staff around him.

The adjutant staff sent by the General Staff quickly replied: "460 people, [-] horses, [-] pack horses, donkeys and mules of various colors. There are some ordnance."

"All of them are admitted." Zhu Cihong said: "Let Xiao Mo hand over the troops according to this amount. Let him take his belongings today, leave the barracks, and make a living by himself. All the land and houses under his name will be confiscated. If there is no He can go anywhere, give him a post ticket, and let him go to Beijing to live in a dormitory."

The staff officer retreated in response.

The guards on the left and right went out together, Fang Guoan, who was stunned and forgot to beg for mercy.

Zhu Cihong looked at Min Ziruo beside him.Said: "You have been with me for so long, and now the situation is stable, do you think about going to the army to earn a future?"

Zhejiang Town will definitely not have a scale of more than [-] people, if it can accommodate [-] qualified soldiers.Plus the newly trained southern soldiers.The first division can also be expanded into an army.Min Ziruo has been Zhu Cihong's personal bodyguard since he joined the army, if he is willing to lead the army.Now is an opportunity.

Min Ziruo thought for a while, and said: "Your Highness, I am still willing to follow His Highness in a humble position."

"Oh?"

"I only want to practice boxing like my master, and I really don't have the energy to focus on training and fighting." Min Ziruo said self-consciously: "And with a humble job, it is still useful to protect His Highness, but it is really useful to enter the army. I can't use my strength."

In the army, they also practice boxing, and they also have to stand on the ground, and they also have the art of close combat.However, on the battlefield, the artillery fires first, followed by the firecrackers.Now the only army that can stand up to the field elite with swords and guns is Donglu.And Donglu is also getting weaker and weaker. The battles mentioned in the recent Liaodong battle report were all initiated by Xiao Donglou and Chen De.

In this case, the force of individual soldiers is indeed useless.

Zhu Cihong nodded.Don't mention the troops anymore.In fact, he was more happy to see the experienced Min Ziruo always by his side, just worried about his future.

Once Fang Guoan fell, some of his family members were willing to follow, and some hoped to stay in Zhejiang to continue serving as soldiers and eat food, but no one was willing to disarm and return to farming.The Ming Dynasty was an important period of agricultural specialization, coupled with the difficult climatic conditions of the late Ming Dynasty, it was no longer possible for anyone to be a farmer.

Xiao Mo naturally welcomed this very much.The Zhejiang soldiers chosen by Qi Jiguang made the Qi family army famous, and even in the battle of Hunhe, the Zhejiang soldiers also made Jiannu flee.Xiao Mo came to Zhejiang this time, and he was on the threshold of expanding his army, so he naturally wanted to get a chance to pick a batch of elite soldiers first.

Compared with the devastation in the north, Zhejiang is indeed a paradise-like place.Even if the country is in turmoil caused by the national change, the market can still be kept clean.Zhu Cihong only made a tour of Hangzhou city, re-appointed important officials of the Zhejiang chief envoy and the procuratorate, and went out of the city to live in the barracks.

Song Yingxing was also very curious about the crown prince's refusal to enter the city, and soon he knew the reason.

The crown prince began to take a large group of people to "tour around the mountains and rivers", and sometimes he didn't even return to the military camp, and camped directly on the spot.If it weren't for the warmer weather, he would really be unable to handle it with his physical fitness.

Zhu Cihong went south to Zhejiang this time, but he wanted to use Song Yingxing's mind to vigorously develop the sericulture industry.

From a national perspective, farming in the south of the Yangtze River is obviously not as profitable as raising silkworms to harvest silk.

Mulberry trees are not picky about the soil and can survive whether it is poor, fertile, or too dry or wet.Just the income from mulberry leaves can make three or six dollars per mu per year, which is comparable to a good field.Moreover, there are various risks in planting crops in the field, but the risks of mulberry leaves are negligible.

What's more, mulberry trees don't need to occupy good fields, they can be planted on slopes or corner waste land, and can also provide mulberries and firewood.

Moreover, sericulture and silk reeling in the south of the Yangtze River have quite a folk foundation, and every household in many places is a silk household.From mother-in-law to young daughter, they all raise silkworms and reel silk.The income from raw silk and silk is naturally greater than the income from grain.What's more, raw silk was an important commodity in exchange for Japanese copper, silver, and sulfur.

When Zhu Cihong was in elementary school in her previous life, she raised a set of silkworms, but she didn't care much about them. In the end, three or four cocoons formed and eventually became silkworm moths.So asking him to guide silkworm rearing is tantamount to nonsense.But this is not a problem, because although Zhu Cihong doesn't know how to do it, he has the right to attract enough silkworm farmers.

From Huzhou to Suzhou, every village had sericulture households who had raised silkworms for more than eight years and were conscripted to Hangzhou.Without these main force of silkworm raising, the family may not be able to harvest enough silkworm flowers this year, so the government gave the family a "buyout fee" of ten taels of silver, even if they worked hard in previous years, they might not be able to earn so much.

Given enough money, it is natural that some people will fight for this beautiful job.In terms of basic conditions, he doesn't dare anyone to cheat, for fear of being seen through in the past and committing a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.Of course, those who are more courageous still dare to stand up to relatives who are three or five years old, since they are not newbies anyway.

This is the case with Mrs. Sun's family.She is also 23 or [-] years old this year, and is the mother of three children.Because the cousin of my family married Dian Shi of the county as a concubine, she got this good job and got a "buyout fee" of four taels of silver.There is a mother-in-law at home who is also an expert at raising silkworms, so the family still has to raise silkworms this year, and the buyout fee is purely for nothing.

At the beginning of March, the Sun family's wife and sisters from nearby villages gathered in the county, boarded a four-wheeled Taiping car, and then changed boats. Three days later, they arrived outside the city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang.

Seeing the big cart running to the countryside without even entering the city, the wives in the cart were scared to think they were being sold.

Before they could panic, a villa with white walls and black tiles appeared in front of them.Judging from the white paint on the wall, it is obvious that it has not been repaired for a long time.

There are large bungalows in this villa, and I don't know how many people will live there.The construction is exquisite, not only the doors and windows have screen covers, but even the ground is made of blue bricks instead of simple rammed earth.The lady of the Sun family followed the team into the village, but saw that these bungalows were not built of wood and bricks, and the bottom was actually covered with stones. She didn't know why such a large capital was paid.

"These are silkworm houses, which will be used to raise silkworms in the future. Your dormitory is at the other end." The eunuch who came to meet the silkworm women in Zhuangzi had a high-pitched voice.He has been raising silkworms in Da Nei for decades, of course not for the real purpose of getting silk, but for the common sense education of princes and princesses.

This time he was transferred here as a foreman. Even if his skills were not good, he finally knew the rules of the crown prince.

The residence of silkworm women is like a temporary barracks. The house is not as elegant as the silkworm house, and there is no treatment for paving the floor with stones or blue bricks.A room for eight people is only one foot long and wide, with four high and low beds, wooden straw mats, and two thin quilts, which is their accommodation treatment.

Even with such a simple treatment, there is no way to pick on it.The silkworm women are already very happy to see that food and shelter are included here.What's more, there may not be such a brand-new straw mat to sleep in at home.

Early the next morning, the Sun family's wife was woken up by a shrill whistle. Seeing that the sky was getting dark outside, she couldn't help blushing: she must have been too tired on the road and overslept.It seems that the master is a little angry this time.

After the whistle, someone knocked on the door of the room and shouted loudly: "Get up, get up, there will be no breakfast after six o'clock."

The man knocked on the door and left without coming in, beating him with a big stick.

The lady of the Sun family asked cautiously: "What time is six o'clock?"

None of the silkworm women in the same room knew about it, but everyone knew the meaning of "breakfast", so they hurriedly got dressed and came out in fear of being late, looking for a place to eat.

Four or five square tables were set up in each dormitory area, with big pots of rice porridge on them, and buckets of dried radish and salted fish.Every silkworm woman who came over was ordered by the eunuch and female officer to line up with a small flag, and took the dinner plate, wooden bowl, wooden plate, chopsticks and other tableware one by one.Then they walked past the dining table one by one, and someone scooped up a spoonful of porridge—just a bowl, a plate of dried radish, a piece of salted fish, and finally two pancakes.

This is already the standard of food during the busy season.

The lady of the Sun family ordered a meal, found a step to sit down and ate, while looking at the surrounding situation.She soon saw a big Western restaurant behind the dining area.On it was a disc with numbers one to twelve written in cursive codes, and a short needle had just pointed to "five", probably related to the "six o'clock" mentioned by the foreman in charge.

After eating, the expected heavy work did not come.The lady of the Sun family gathered together with other silkworm women, and a female official came forward and lined them up according to their height, forming a square formation, and asked them to remember their positions, front, back, left, and right, and handed out bamboo cards one by one. After counting the numbers in a rough manner, they led them to walk behind Zhuangzi.

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