Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 413 Fake Taoism

Is the Donglin Party patriotic?

Indeed, during the struggle with Wei Zhongxian, people from Donglin went on and on. The famous six gentlemen of Donglin, such as Zuo Guangdou, were tortured in prison. It was iron nails piercing their ears, and the soil bag crushed them to death. When they restrained themselves, the whole person died. Wei Zhongxian still couldn't let go of his hatred. He ordered people to remove all their throat bones and swallow them with wine before giving up. It can be seen that these clear resistance Crack!

But are they really patriotic?
Xiong Tingbi is the pillar of Liaodong, the backbone of mountains and seas, and even has an old relationship with the six gentlemen of Donglin. Well, there is no one in Donglin who speaks for him. The one who really rehabilitated Xiong Tingbi was Emperor Qianlong, the descendant of his enemy.

Just because Xiong Tingbi is a member of the Chu Party!
Let's look at what the Donglin Party has done. First, it fought against Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the Zhejiang Party, and defeated Shi Jikai and other cabinet ministers. Another deadly fight with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian fell, Wen Tiren took office, and had a great time with Wen Tiren, the leader of Donglin, Zhou Yanru, all relied on one sentence to cloud Yuan Chonghuan's position.

Even until the end, the capital was lost, the Ming Dynasty was dead, and these so-called honest and gentlemen of the Donglin Party were still fighting in the nest, just because of the old grievances with King Fu during the Wanli period, when they were racing against time to defend against the enemy in the north, They also wanted to make a noise in support of King Dailu, and even colluded with Zuo Liangyu to plan to attack Nanjing. In the end, they even surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Apart from impeaching this and impeaching that, the Donglin Party has never seen them do anything real. The justice that Donglin pursues may not be the world. At this time, the lives of hundreds of thousands of disaster victims are naturally not in their eyes!
"Opening a granary to release food? Heh heh, wealthy people like Song Dadong's family are so stingy that they don't even have a dime, yet they still want poor scholars like us to provide food. Isn't it a big joke in the world?"

The meeting was still at Gu Mei's Meilou, but the situation of the meeting was quite like a boss of the underworld. Qian Qianyi, the Zhang brothers, the fourth son of Jiangnan, and Chen Zilong and other Fushe leaders sat messily on the right. But Song Qingshu, Ruan Dacheng, Zhang Huangyan, and other leaders of the begging army sat on the left side, clearly distinguishing themselves from each other.

As the intelligence secretary, Li Xiangjun also followed behind and stood behind. Hou Fangyu's eyes secretly glanced at him from time to time, but Li Xiangjun, who was dressed in professional attire and neatly combed a bun behind his head, kept his head down and didn't look at her.

The negotiation came to an impasse from the very beginning, Zhang Pu was the first to laugh arrogantly, full of ridicule, and looked at Song Qingshu sarcastically.

"There is already a famine this year, and you are still driving up food prices. Where is no one displaced in South Zhili now? Is this the Neo-Confucianism taught by your Donglin Academy? Is this what the saints taught you?"

Originally, Zhang Huangyan had a good impression of Donglin. If he hadn't met Song Qingshu, he would probably have joined the Fushe Society. But at this moment, seeing his idol Zhang Pu's virtuous behavior, Zhang Huangyan felt nauseous and couldn't help it. Annoyed, he knocked on the table first, but Zhang Cai snorted even more arrogantly.

"It seems that your master who is full of money and those salt merchants in Yangzhou who are driving up food prices have nothing to do with us?"

"And this time the displacement of the people was all caused by you, Song! If you hadn't extorted violently in the south of the Yangtze River and acted against the law, how could there be such a natural and man-made disaster?" Zhang Pu roared angrily again. Hearing his tone, he called on the landlords and gentry Gouging up food prices seems to have nothing to do with them at all, and this little ice age was caused by Song Qingshu.

Really had nothing to say to the Zhang brothers, Zhang Huangyan turned around and cupped his fists at Qian Qianyi, and said calmly: "Mr. Well, the people who starved to death are all Jiangdong’s children, so you don’t have any troubles in your heart?”

As expected of an old fox, Qian Qianyi is not as extreme as the two Zhang brothers, and he stroked his handsome beard with a smile: "Zhang Sheng is too flattering to the old man, if the old man had that ability, the world would have been at peace long ago, you are asking for a mistake It’s over, why don’t you beg the person next to you, he is the richest man in the world, a well-known Jiangnan hero, haha.”

Qian Qianyi kicked the ball back, but Song Qingshu didn't catch it. Instead, he had a gloomy face and lightly tapped his fingers on the table.

"This time the firm did receive millions of dans of grain, but due to the chaos in the Huaihe River, 40 tans have been transported to the capital as grain, 20 tans have been given away as charity, and the remaining 40 tans are military rations, which cannot be moved. It will not be good for you if you go on down, Donglin emphasizes loyalty and repaying the world, at this time, the gentlemen can't show a little bit of loyalty?"

"Hmph, the only way to be loyal to the imperial court is to get rid of you, a villain, and return the Jiangnan Shilin to peace!" Zhang Pu shouted gloomyly again.

"Okay, since that's the case, Song has nothing to say!"

Zhang Pu, the son of affection, is still here jealous that Song Qingshu has usurped more than 100 positions in the Jiangnan officialdom. He even ignored the bloody battle between the imperial court in the north and the captives in the east. Clean up please.

"Thief, it won't be long before Hou Mou will see you like blood splattered in the market. When the time comes, Hou Mou will never forget to bring you a piece of "The Traitor and the Fu Fa Ji", which will make you stigmatized forever, hmph!"

At the end of the walk, he glanced at Li Xiangjun again, and Hou Fangyu said a harsh word with great momentum, Zhang Huangyan was so angry that he stood up directly, but Song Qingshu suddenly grabbed his hand and pulled him back After getting out of his seat, Zhang Huangyan couldn't bear it any longer and saw the honest gentlemen of Donglin Fushe leave.

"Qian Qianyi's family's property stretches across the fields of rice paddies and fields, straddling Suzhou, nothing is left out, and Hou Fangyu's family property is also very rich, but he asked the general to hand over 40 dans of grain and 20 tans as a gift. They really said it!"

"The old man just said that negotiating with these stubborn guys is like playing the piano to the cow. You have to do it too much!" of.

The new official took office three fires. In this period of Chunwei, more than 40 county magistrate-level official positions were given to the Jiangwu Hall under his name. Now the Emperor Chongzhen’s evaluation of his performance is money and grain. In the grain war, many landlords who did not pay their grain in the territory even seized the part of the grain that the tenant paid for the grain and sold it to the salt merchants in Yangzhou. Claw numb.

You can't let the whole army of cronies you cultivated with great difficulty be wiped out, right?Song Qingshu, the boss, had to supply the food.

Showing a complete disappointment towards Donglin, Song Qingshu simply waved his hand: "Forget it, this time is actually expected, and even if the Donglin Party is persuaded, they may not really have the ability to make the salt merchants lose money and make money." , it can be regarded as a smoke screen for them, and the real talk has not come yet!"

"Oh? The commander-in-chief is still ready?"

"Then it's up to us to take care of everyone! Gu everyone, can all the guests come?"

After speaking, stood up, Song Qingshu pushed open the door unexpectedly, and shouted downstairs, after a while, Gu Hengbo walked up with a swaying figure, and fell on Song Qingshu with a big white eye.

"The commander-in-chief is always so divided, which makes Hengbo very sad!"

"Song is guilty, and he apologized to Miss Gu like this!"

Now that he is not in the mood to flirt, Song Qingshu directly bowed bluntly, knowing that this is not the time to be coquettish, Gu Hengbo is also ready to stop, and very solemnly shouted at the door.

"Again, Mr. Bao, Mr. Wang!"

Following Gu Hengbo's cold voice, two middle-aged men in brocade robes, one fat and one thin, led more than a dozen businessmen, and walked in slowly. Ruan Dacheng was the one he knew best, and he couldn't help standing up suddenly.

"Salt merchants!"

It is really the deadly enemy of Jiaduobao Company. The Yangzhou salt merchants with Huizhou merchants as the main body, Bao Lu, Wang Zhenmeng and others, what are natural enemies? Hearing Ruan Dacheng exclaimed, Cao Sanxi, Zhang Mingxing and other bosses were on fire for a moment. The blunderbuss shot over as cold as ice, and how many sparks erupted from both sides in mid-air.

"Boss, what are you asking these fat-headed bastards for?" Zhang Mingxing was the first to stand up in dissatisfaction, and Bao Lu couldn't help but sneer.

"Boss Zhang, if your big boss didn't say that you have important business to discuss, I wouldn't come here except for the members! Dongjia Song, everyone is a businessman and is very busy. What business can you say, and these northern donkeys Time-consuming, I'm not in the mood for this!"

"you!"

Cao Sanxi and the Shanxi merchants were all furious, but Song Qingshu raised his hand upwards and pushed them all back. Under the hatred eyes of the Shanxi merchants, Song Qingshu leisurely raised three fingers.

"This year, our company will plant 300 million dans of grain, three or two for one dan!"

The import and export amounted to 900 million taels of silver, which was enough to call it a big business. The eyes of the salt merchants who heard it were also brightened, but immediately, Bao Lu shook his head greedily.

"The purpose of joining forces with Mr. Qian this time is to give your company a big gift. Why are we selling food to you?"

"Do you think it's a big blow to Jiaduobao to let hundreds of thousands of disaster victims starve to death around my company's factory, or is it a big blow to Jiaduobao to earn us tens of millions of taels of silver?"

"This one……"

Baolu was really at a loss for words for a moment, hesitated for a moment, turned his head away, and started discussing with several other big businessmen. After a while, his face was a bit solemn, and he also stretched out two fingers.

"Yangzhou Salt Industry, your company will refund [-]%! We want the ship from Longjiang Shipyard to transport the grain from Huguang to Yingtian!"

"make a deal!"

Song Qingshu nodded readily.

(End of this chapter)