Win the Ding 1617

A Huangpu River connects the county seat of Shanghai and the Nanzhong Business District. The two places are close at hand, but far apart.

After more than three years of construction, this leased land built on the reed beach beside the Huangpu River has begun to take shape, and it looks like a prosperous place.Although the opposite Shanghai county is large in scale and built early, it is full of beggars, refugees, and starving people everywhere.Rubbish is everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the city is full of vegetable leaves and dust, but here is full of vitality, vitality and vitality, and everywhere you look, there are energetic people with ruddy faces coming and going in a hurry.

The road outside the business district and the riverside wharf is paved with cinders and gravel, and the wide road surface is very smooth. In order to make it stronger, the careful craftsmen also mixed some lime burnt ash inside. whetstone.Although the road is wide enough for several horse-drawn carriages to walk side by side, it implements a driving method called "traffic rules" by the locals. No matter how many carriages and horses there are, there is no need to give way, and it will not be crowded. in Apple pie order.

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Different from the potholes and uneven streets in Shanghai County, the streets in the commercial area are all smooth paved with ashes, clean and free of any sludge and feces. Bamboo baskets are used to hold garbage and other things. There is a special environmental sanitation bureau in the city to recruit those old and poor people, especially the elderly, to clean them regularly every day and collect garbage. profit.Every morning, there are people who specialize in collecting night incense to push the vehicles to collect the excrement of each household and sell it in various places outside the district.these feces.Not to mention ordinary farmers, even landlords and gentry, they are all treasures. Children in the countryside have nothing to do, they just go out to pick up dung.It's just that with the slack in farming, the fleeing of households, the abandonment of wasteland, and the excrement from all over the place, no one has collected it for a long time.

On the Shanghai side, because of the existence of this business district.The connection and transshipment of a large number of materials presents a rather prosperous scene.

From the 14th year of Chongzhen.Due to the continuous occurrence of natural disasters and locust plagues in several prosperous and prosperous places nearby, countless fields were abandoned and refugees were everywhere.

From April to August 14, in Wujiang area.Severe drought and no rain.Locusts cover the sky.The official ordered him to be arrested.more and more.The price of rice is four taels of silver per stone, and the beggars are full of roads, and many people die on their pillows.The folks regard bad food and rotten residue as a delicacy.Or eat elm bark.There are factories all over the place to distribute porridge, and tens of millions of people eat it every day.

In the spring of the 15th year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought, and there were 110 coins for Doumi, and the people had food for their children.Yihui Temple and Longfu Temple gathered more than a thousand hungry people, who died every day without stalks, and taxes and food were urgent.The winter rice was four taels per stone, starved to death, and corpses rolled in the river.Hundreds of children abandoned at the city gates and alleys formed a group, or were lured away by someone, or those who were regarded as dead were abandoned in clusters, gathered and burned, or dug and buried.For those who survived, the elm bark was peeled to make cakes, and the chaff to make porridge. Looking at the village, the bark was peeled off, which was a famine that had not been experienced in decades.In the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), there was a severe drought in Gui'an, and locusts covered the sky. Wherever they gathered, the seedlings and reeds stood up. pink.The place on the left side of Hanshan Mountain is called Liangcun. Hundreds of gangsters gathered to rebel. Fortunately, they were wiped out in a few days.However, the price of rice in Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture is as high as three taels of silver per stone, and two taels of silver per stone.The people are struggling to eat, wandering and fleeing, the old and childish abandon the roadside, the urban and rural houses are dumped in mid-empty, and the dead bodies are lying on the pillow.

Natural disasters and high prices have made the business district more prosperous.Every day, boats of all sizes on the Huangpu River unload boatloads of grain, rice, oil, and salt, and businessmen from all over the place rush to pick up the goods from the warehouse with the delivery certificate, and transport them to various places to make a lot of money.

Since the fall of Luoyang and the death of King Fu, in addition to the import of agricultural products on the surface and the trading of weapons, gunpowder and other items in the dark, this business district has more transactions in large quantities of cotton cloth.

In the Hangjiahu Susongtai area, which was known as the paradise on earth in the past, there are also a large number of refugees who are called by the huge attraction emanating from the business district. Consciously or unconsciously, they vote with their feet. Find a way to survive for yourself and your family in a magical place.

For a time, Shanghai County and several nearby counties and Acropolis were overcrowded with such refugees.There are refugees with numb, humble, fearful and pitiful expressions everywhere.It is in stark contrast to the people here.

Moreover, the people here always give people a strange feeling, or they have a unique aura, which is a mixture of self-confidence and high spirits, and they all walk with their heads held high and their strides .It seems that the people waiting here, up and down, all have a hope, or a dream.

These people are all secretly thankful for their luck. They decided to invest here at the beginning of the establishment of the business district, and some even brought their own land to join.The bustling scene of the business district at this time made those who benefited from it ecstatic: there were rows of shops of all kinds, and businessmen kept coming and going.Compared with places such as Shanghai County, Jinshanwei, Fengxian, Chuansha, and even Huzhou in Suzhou not far away, this place is simply not a place of Ming Dynasty, but another beautiful country without disasters and wars.

At this time, it was just the beginning of the lights, and many trading shops took advantage of the last business opportunity of the day to do business hard.When the streets are bustling with people, although autumn is already strong, there are occasional autumn rains in the sky, and the river breeze blowing from the river is also slightly cool, but it does not affect the bustling pedestrians on the street at all.

On the side near the Huangpu River, because there are a large number of warehouses and shops engaged in various transactions and service activities with Nanzhong Trading Co., countless people are looking for places to rest and play, so a large number of Teahouses, restaurants and restaurants.In some quiet alleys, there are quite a few places for fireworks and moonlight. Unlike the Qinhuai River, which also does business by the water, this place is not so secretive. Talking about poetry and painting, as long as the price is right, Even the porter carrying the big man on the pier can have a fling with the oiran in the yard.

"This is the real yard here, we worship Guan Zhong as the patriarch! How can it be like those whores in Nanqu by the Qinhuai River, who don't do their jobs every day. They only think about how to catch a rich man and become a rich man's concubine?! A bitch is a bitch, whether it's milk tea or green tea!"

It was the dinner season, and on several streets, all the teahouses and restaurants were running at full capacity, all kinds of sounds of knives and spoons, and shouts from the waiters rang out, and bursts of fleshy aroma of wine radiated from the restaurants.The large and small restaurants and food and noodle stalls on the street are also shouting desperately, calling for those coolies who have just finished a hard day's work to come to the store to fill their stomachs.Try to do your own business.

The newly opened "Zhengxing Pavilion" near the river is considered a comprehensive eating place.It advertises itself as an authentic local dish, including Caotou circle, braised purse fin, big black ginseng with shrimp, herring chin paddle, herring bald lung, deep-fried shrimp and other dishes that can be entertained by wealthy businessmen.There are also things that ordinary people eat, such as bad pot head, bald lung, big meat bun, crab shell yellow, big row of noodles, etc.In order to attract business.Increase popularity.The shrewd boss even opened a teahouse, and invited the gentleman who came to sing Pingtan to tell books and read newspapers, so that the business was even more full.Upstairs and downstairs were crowded with people, all kinds of voices were noisy, and there were bursts of excited discussions, and even the tea-filling guy couldn't help but stop, listening and forgetting his work.

In the teahouse in the lobby on the first floor, diners are chatting about the latest business opportunities while enjoying a rich dinner. There are all kinds of people in Zhengxing Hall. Maybe your worries happen to be someone else’s. The way to make money, so it is more lively and attracts more people to come.

"Don't have the skills of Master Lu Ban? It doesn't matter. Don't have the skills of master craftsmen such as riveting tenons and dovetail grooves? Don't panic. The trumpet has recently bought [-] catties of high-quality iron nails, beams and wooden frames purchased from Hejing Manufacturing. Ordinary people, women and children, can be done with one hammer, nailed with one nail..."

"There is endless Hengtang yarn to buy, and Songjiang cloth to collect. But, man, now that Nanzhong fine cloth is being shipped in by boat, and shipped away by boat, you still plan to rely on spinning Weaving to make money? Let me say, simply buy cotton yarn in Hengtang on the spot, buy white cloth in various places in Songjiang, sell it to Nanzhong Trading Co., Ltd. to replace it with finished dyed fine cloth, and sell it in various places. "

"Are you still planning to keep those hundreds of bales of raw silk? Let me tell you, even if your goods are Qili silk from Nanxun, the raw silk will turn yellow from spring to autumn. If you put it down again, it will be the beginning of spring next year." But it’s completely sold for money! How are you going to pay back the money that should be in the bank? What? Your raw silk is the best quality of the Bajia standard? My brother, don’t even think about it. Can I get married?".

"Boss Lin, I got this loom from Nanzhong. If it wasn't for my wife's sworn sisters following Ms. Li's mother-in-law in Nanjing, she went through Ms. Li's door and begged with kind words. We have brought twenty looms here, all important parts are made of nine-turn steel! Much better than the looms made of wood at home! I don’t intend to kill you with a single stick, one machine costs 1000 yuan ! If you let my younger brother become a shareholder of your weaving factory, one machine is worth three shares!"

In the lobby, people listened to the storyteller reading newspaper commentary, interspersed with commentary, drinking and talking about business.

And in some darker corners, there are also people who are talking about business that is not very bright.

"Master He, among my 2000 people, there are seven or eight hundred weaving households from various places. If it weren't for the constant disasters everywhere, Nanjing weaving would not need so many people, and the business of the weaving workshops everywhere is not good. Dozens of The wealthy owners of the weaving workshops have all changed their careers to sell Nanzhong cloth for merchants in Nanzhong. How can I get these people to sell to you? Can you raise the price? I do it every day. A meal has fed them for more than half a month, so they can't even get back their capital, right? A lot of words"

"Fatty Huang, don't cry poor with me here. Who doesn't know that you weavers were originally the slaves of each family. The owner didn't want it and gave it to you? You feed them with dry and thin? Who doesn't know that in this Huangpu On the riverside, all the people who are favored by Long Shengxing are kept alive every day? Eat meat on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, and those who perform well and are elected as the leader are rewarded with a salted egg every day? You guys Ren Laozi bought it back and sold it to the elders of Long Shengxing, wouldn’t it take time and favors? Wouldn’t it also have to feed them with food?”

"Master He, what kind of person are you?! Who on the Huangpu River doesn't know that you and Long Shengxing's shopkeeper Lei are sworn brothers. He can delay your business? I dare to write a guarantee, if these weavers fail to verify Come on, if I can’t pass the test of Long Shengxing, you put me in a jar and drag me to plant lotus outside Wusongkou!”

"Forget that you can talk! Come on! I want someone! However, I don't have any cash to give you! I happen to have a batch of colored makeup, five poisonous red yarn, which is made by the authentic Jiulongjiang weaving workshop! I will pay you four yuan a piece." If I give it to you, it's worth the price of these people!"...

The human trafficker known as Huang Fatty has been selling leaves and moving stones for many years. He has always paid first-hand money and goods. Today, he is asked to barter for goods by this surname, so he can't help but hesitate.

It's not that this deal is unprofitable, on the contrary, it seems that the profit is still very good.During the Wanli period, the cost of a piece of colored makeup and five poison red yarn was 15 taels, but the imperial court only paid six taels and five taels of wages.However, the retail price of the five-drug scarlet gauze sold in the market is directly [-] yuan a piece, and it can be lowered if purchased in large quantities.But no matter what, it must be more than five yuan.He shook his head.With a mournful face.He took over the business with a lot of complaints.

(Actually, for Long Shengxing, the cost of this kind of makeup (including transportation costs) is only three yuan and five or six yuan. Even if it is dumped at a "low price", it is definitely a huge profit.)

Downstairs in the shadowy corners are dark business deals.In the private room upstairs.Several are strong and burly.The man with a rough expression and demeanor, with a cold light flashing in his eyes and a murderous intent, was negotiating a business in the dark.

I am happy to say it.Suddenly there was commotion downstairs, and a group of voices said: "The police are here." "There are also urban management!"

"People from the Urban Management Bureau are here, be careful not to spit and throw rubbish! Also, Xiao Er, tell our guys to take a closer look at our stall, is it out of bounds! Be careful of those urban management, it's all oil Salt-free hob meat! Thirteen o'clock!"

The people in the private room stopped talking immediately, and opened the window to look around. They saw some people wearing black helmets and short blue armor wandering around the street. Some of them clasped their hands, some With their hands behind their backs and short sticks hanging around their waists, all of them had their chests out and their bellies protruding, and their eyes were as sharp as eagles of prey, and they only shot at the crowd.

Someone nearby said in a low voice: "These urban management are really tight. They are in charge of the city appearance and sanitation, small businesses and hawkers. Can you see that this business district is clean and tidy? A lot of words are all the actions of these urban management! Donkey balls! Spit out You will be fined a copper dollar for phlegm, and you will be fined a silver dollar for standing in the corner to untie your hand, or you will help them catch two urinating everywhere! Many of those peddlers who set up stalls have been beaten by them, yes They even complained and scolded all over the place, all because of throwing away garbage everywhere, food residues and sewage all over the floor, after being caught by the urban management, they were first beaten with sticks, and then fined, and they had to hang the words "unsanitary hygiene, eating at your own risk" on the stalls In this way, who would dare to eat it? All the small businesses in the city are afraid and hate the city management, but after visiting the county town, they feel that there is no city management!"

The man told his companion one thing and he knew how powerful the city management was: In spring, a group of scholars came to visit the business district, and bought some underwear, stockings, high heels, and other boudoirs for the wives, concubines, and maids at home. Clear playthings.As a result, he was very shameless about Uncle Ningyuan's actions in his speech, and he scolded Uncle Ningyuan for fighting for the interests of the people and not paying attention to scholars and so on.Originally, they scolded Ning Yuanbo a lot in the commercial area, and the merchants and ordinary people didn't bother to police them, so one of them would piss and spit in the street to express his anger.

Unexpectedly, this move was seen by a group of urban management officers, who immediately went up and demanded that the scholar pay a fine of ten copper coins. The reason was that the plague was rampant in spring, and the person was suspected of maliciously spreading the disease.Not wanting to refuse to pay the fine because of the bad attitude of those scholars, the urban management simply imposed a fine of one silver dollar on each of them.

"This is a hornet's nest. At that time, someone went to Shanghai County to report to the officials. It happened that Jiangsu Xuezheng and Yushi were here. Hearing this, he was furious, and immediately issued an official document, ordering Haosheng from the business district to send these students out. Insulting Sven. As a result, guess what happened to this matter?"...

"Donkey ball! Let me see, I'm afraid the urban management here will be unlucky!"

"Wrong! Wrong!"

"Grandma's! Could it be that those birth workers are still unlucky?"

"Even if it's not in the middle, it's not far away!"

The one who was negotiating business with this group of rough-mannered men was exactly one of the many people in this business district, a scalper, or a broker.

"The shopkeeper Huang here directly threw out the official documents of Jiangsu Xuezheng, saying that Lao Tzu's urban management was right! Then he ordered that the gates of the business district be closed tightly, and the papers were ready to be sent to Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, etc. The grain, rice, oil, salt and cloth at the place. There were also all the weapons and armors that were going to be delivered to various places along the Yangtze River. Then, the cannons on the wall were pushed up, and all the young and old people in the business district were wearing armor. Dao, this strike has frightened the officials in the south of the Yangtze River and the left-behind elders in Nanjing!"

Several men held the cups in their hands and stopped talking. After a while, a man with a Shaanxi accent asked in a low voice: "Then, what do these gentlemen of the Ming court do?"

"What should I do? Master Liu, do you know who owns many of the boats in this river? Sixty-seven out of ten belong to these gentlemen. The grain, rice, oil, salt, and cloth in the Shanghai business district and Ningbo business district are one day late. How much money do they have to lose? And now in the various state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River, how many ordinary people in Shengdou have to rely on the grain and rice from Nanzhong to survive? And those scholars also rely on the tuition and food sent by Miss Li in Nanjing to survive. Not to mention that the gentlemen of the military towns along the Yangtze River just had a reason to lose the battle, we don’t have weapons and gunpowder in our hands, how can we fight?!”

"So. Xuezheng and Yushi offended the big guy?"

"That's not true! One was so angry that he returned home and handed over the title book, resigned from office, and went home to eat old rice. The other is said to have died of illness within a few days!"

The expressions on the faces of those people changed even more when they heard this.The scalper hurriedly enlightened everyone, "Master Liu, Master Luo. Actually, Master Li, this is also a good thing. The law of Nanzhong is practiced in this business district. One advantage is that the law of Ming Dynasty does not work here. There is no crime here, and it doesn't matter if there are big things outside. Even if you rob the emperor's bar and fuck your empress, it doesn't matter at all!"

After hearing this, several people couldn't help but looked at each other, and then burst out laughing as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

"It doesn't matter if you rob the emperor's bar day or not, so what if we burn the emperor's ancestral grave and kill his two uncles?"

"Although I am not as arrogant as these few, I still make the emperor very unhappy. I don't know what to do?"

"That's right! Let's see that a lot of gunboats have come to the river in the past few days, and a lot of troops have landed on the shore. I don't know what to do?"

"My lords, those warships and troop transport ships have been rumored on the street for the past few days to transport troops north to fight the Tartars in Liaodong. What do you have to do with them?"

Seeing the buffalo's face flushed and beads of sweat rolling down his forehead after being ridiculed by several people, several men couldn't help laughing out loud.

Amidst the laughter, footsteps, stairs, and a series of greetings sounded.

"But it belongs to Shopkeeper Huang."

"Brother Huang, I haven't seen you for a long time. You've been doing well."

"I saw Master Huang again. I learned a lot from listening to Gao Lun that day, and I will definitely listen to it again today."

"Treasurer Huang! If you have any good business, you have to take care of my little brother!"

Amidst the greetings, a gentle voice with a Nanzhong Mandarin accent sounded: "You brothers and sisters, Huang really dare not take it for granted! I have something to do today, and I will discuss it with you in detail some other day."

Then a typical businessman in his forties, a little bit fat, wearing an official uniform, with a smile in his eyes, walked into the private room with a smile on his face. Although he entered, he still kept saying hello to the diners who greeted him outside. To be polite, this middle-aged man is none other than Huang Yiwei, the big shopkeeper of Long Shengxing stationed in Shanghai and the head of the business district.

After greeting everyone present, Shopkeeper Huang stopped the scalper from introducing him one by one.

"Let me come down to guess and see if my guess is accurate."

"This little brother, you are the youngest among these few. You are a handsome man, and you have a Shaanxi accent. I think you are Li Ye, the adopted son of the eighth master of Ansai, who is traveling between the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty?"

"Brother, you have the thickest book in front of you, but your clothes are the most plain among these few. You are still wearing a coarse cloth jacket in this weather. You should be doing business in the Bianliang area right now. Master Liu of the Mizhi Hongji."

"The one sitting next to Mr. Liu, presumably is Mr. Shi, brother of Master Luo of Yan'an, who has recently joined forces with Mizhi Hongji to do business."

"And this one, who wears a pair of thick-soled official boots and speaks with a Liaodong accent from time to time, should be the general of the Kunshan ship that has been doing business with Master Liu, Master Shi, and little brother Li?"

Huang Yiwei pointed out the backgrounds of these people in front of them, but they didn't think it was strange. On the family's one-acre three-point land, what is this little secret of mine?

Yes, these people who came were Li Zicheng's subordinate Liu Tichun, Luo Rucai's tenth cousin Luo Ruxiang, Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son Zhang Dingguo whose original surname was Li, and Zuo Liangyu's confidant general on the opposite side.

Chapter [-]? What I saw in Shanghai.

Chapter [-]? What I saw in Shanghai,