New Shun 1730

These salt fryers are not good people. I felt aggrieved. Why did I work for the market for many years, but I didn’t get any compensation in the end? Even the house was required to be demolished by the reclamation company within a time limit.

At first, he didn’t think of committing a crime, so he went to the reclamation company to ask.

The reclamation company said that they prefer people from Haimen and Songjiang who have cotton planting experience and farming experience, and they don’t like these salt workers.

And the reclamation company said it was very clear that they hired people to make money. These salt workers don’t know how to farm at all. Isn’t it like raising a group of fathers to hire you? If you really want to work, it’s not impossible, just pay the minimum wage.

This group of people was already holding back a lot of anger. In a fit of anger, a few leaders instigated them, and they felt that the injustice had its perpetrators and the debt had its creditors, and what the reclamation company said seemed to be right.

This group of people worked so hard for the market for so long, and even if they wanted compensation, the market had to give it. Now they just walked away without a word, is that fair?

So a group of people went to ask for justice, and the situation became a big mess. Not only did they beat people, but they also burned some houses and sheds in anger.

The government naturally favors the rich, and the gate of the government building faces south. If you have a reason but no money, don't come in. Moreover, the policy of abolishing salt and reclaiming wasteland must be resolutely implemented. For such rebels, it is necessary to kill the chicken to scare the monkey and crack down on them.

Fortunately, the hitchhiker ran away overnight.

He ran to Songjiang Prefecture, just in time for the city expansion and reconstruction there, saying that they would also have to implement a social status system in the future.

The hitchhiker knew that he still had a lawsuit and was the kind of leader of the criminals, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and went to the ship that recruited workers to the northeast.

It was said that he was going to dig for gold, which was a bit hard, but the monthly salary was not small.

He almost vomited his gall, but finally arrived in Yingkou. From Yingkou, he went up the river, turned to land, and arrived at the Jilin Shipyard, which was considered to be the place.

But when he really arrived at the place where gold was panning, he realized that it was a place where people were eaten alive. If you go there, don't even think about running away.

Just like the story of the Xishan Coal Mine in the capital of Dashun, after being deceived into entering, those who wanted to escape were killed with a huge stick.

Fortunately, he had a lot of skills and had participated in the salt workers' struggle. He actually organized an escape riot in this place.

Not only did he escape, but he also secretly brought out a piece of dog-head gold.

He was really lucky. After escaping, he caught up with the queen's illness and the emperor's amnesty. After changing his appearance and enduring for a while, he thought about going back to see.

To see if his two younger brothers were still alive; whether his wife and children were still alive.

Both of his younger brothers were engaged in salt-related work. They were salt workers on the original salt transport river, responsible for loading and unloading.

He thought that the piece of gold he stole could also be exchanged for a lot of money. When he returned to his hometown, if his younger brother was still there, if his wife and children were still there, he would take them with him to buy a piece of land in the Northeast.

The family started from scratch, got a few big animals, worked hard for a few years, and when the harvest was good, life would be better.

When he fled from there, the salt policy reform had just begun. He didn't know what his hometown was like now.

He didn't know how much his hometown had changed. But one day later, he knew that his hometown must have changed greatly.

Because of the horse sled, he arrived at Tongjiangkou, where the Liaohe River and the Zhaosutai River meet.

He was deeply impressed by this place. He got off the river boat here and took the old post road to the Shangouzi gold mine near the Jilin Shipyard.

After a few years, this Tongjiangkou was completely different from when he came here.

After all, before going to the gold mine, the fellow villagers who recruited workers were still amiable and promised many benefits and beautiful visions. At that time, he stayed in Tongjiangkou for a while and recruited some talents to go together.

At that time, there were already many people in Tongjiangkou, but it was definitely different from now. The main street has been replaced by a road paved with bluestone bricks, with shops everywhere and many large grain stacks.

Seeing the hitchhiker sighing, the boss of the car said, "Tongjiangkou has been developed in recent years. In summer, ships sail, and in winter, ice is used. Beans from the East and West Liaohe Rivers are all piled here. It is said that the large granary built last year can hold 700,000 to 800,000 shi of beans."

"Many families store goods here. They harvest in autumn and transport them here in winter. Some goods can only be shipped in summer when navigation is open."

"The Liaohe River further down here can accommodate large ships. Further up, such large ships cannot pass..."

The hitchhiker really couldn't imagine the power of capital. In just a few years, Tongjiangkou has been turned into a big town with an annual soybean storage of more than one million shi.

After waiting to pass Shenyang, saying goodbye to fellow villagers, and taking someone else's sled to Yingkou, I felt as if I had spent hundreds of years in a gold mine.

It is still in the ice period, and ships are not open to navigation. It will take until mid-March after the Chinese New Year before the ship can sail.

The good thing is that this paper bill can also be spent here; people here can fully understand what I say.

With money in hand, you can do anything.

I asked around at the dock and learned that there are passenger ships that depart from Yingkou regularly. They are all large ships that specialize in picking up passengers, and you need to buy tickets in advance.

Of course, there are also small boats that are cheaper.

But those who take the boats are also considered to have saved their lives in the gold mine, but who knows if those small boats will kill people and rob money halfway, and throw people into the sea, and you can't catch them.

Just like in the gold mine, those dead people were thrown into the mountains and disappeared in a few days, and the court didn't seem to care.

So these days, it is safer to take a big ship.

The departure time was scheduled for early April. The passenger ship in mid-March had already sold out.

Nowadays, there are many ships from Yingkou to North Korea, Tianjin, Songjiang, and Weihai.

The ticket he bought was not a direct flight to Songjiang. Instead, he went to Weihai first, stopped in Weihai, transferred to Incheon in North Korea, and then went to Songjiang from Incheon.

This was the earliest ticket back to Jiangsu that he could buy. Those direct flights had already been sold out.

This kind of mid-trip transfer takes a little longer. Those who really do a slightly larger business will not choose to take this kind of passenger ship unless there are special circumstances.

There are still three months before the ship leaves, and those who take the bus can only stay in Yingkou first and wait for the ice and snow to melt.

In the remaining time, I strolled around here, and I felt more and more as if I had lived in the gold mine for hundreds of years.

For example, those coal-fired fire-mills with chimneys; some steam-powered sawmills; and some match factories that are inconvenient to transport from Songjiang Prefecture for sale, etc.

In fact, this is not something that has suddenly appeared in the past few years.

It is because when he fled to Songjiang Prefecture, he was so poor that he had nothing. No matter how big the city is, it has nothing to do with him.

He has neither money nor time to see the city that has developed in recent years.

Earlier, he only boiled salt in the Huainan Salt Field, and his living radius was only 30 miles.

When there was no anti-smuggling patrol, he was responsible for spreading ash, pouring brine, and boiling salt.

Or he went to the grass marsh to cut grass, dry, bundle, and transport.

Or he scraped salt.

And salt workers generally don’t even wear pants, and their food is almost the same as pig food, except that they are not short of salt.

Even though Huainan is so close to the birthplace of the Dashun Industrial Revolution, he hardly felt any changes during the years he worked as a salt worker, and it can even be said that there was no change in his eyes.

There is almost no difference from the stories told by his father and grandfather.

As for the original style of the city, it has nothing to do with people like him.

There is a poem that this person does not know. The ancients said that with 100,000 taels of silver, he would ride a crane to Yangzhou.

Only with 100,000 taels of silver can one appreciate the moon on the 24 bridges, the enchanting Ji, the gatherings of literati, and the poems in the brothels.

Otherwise, if he goes to Yangzhou Prefecture to work as a salt worker in Aoyan, he will be far away from these things.

Although he does not have 100,000 taels of silver now, he has a large piece of gold hidden in his cotton pants. With money and leisure, the mentality is very different. He can look at the city, and naturally feels that he can't understand it.

In fact, the development of the Liaohe River estuary has already begun.

When Dashun went to Liaodong to sweep the country and immigrated in large numbers, he must rely on water transportation if he wants to control the Northeast.

It's just that the previous development and immigration are basically the same as in the early Ming Dynasty.

It was not until these years that capital began to intervene that the development was different from the past.

First of all, this is the only valuable commercial channel in the entire Northeast region at that time.

If you want to transport things like soybeans, you have to rely on carts, horse carriages, etc., and you will lose your pants when you transport them to the interior. Besides, the capital can't eat so many beans.

The development outside the Great Wall after the intervention of capital is completely dependent on the Liaohe River water transportation.

Therefore, almost all soybean products are shipped from Yingkou to Jiangsu. The scale of millions of stones a year has developed naturally.

At the same time, the temperature here is relatively high, and there are more wheat plants.

The staple food in most parts of the Northeast is coarse grains, which is sorghum that appears as a by-product of soybean planting. It is necessary to adopt a model of one year of beans and one year of sorghum.

But for the lower-class people at that time.

Whether it is a businessman or a gentry, they definitely don't eat sorghum rice. That thing is coarse and hard to swallow. How can they eat it?

A group of old Shaanxi people in the capital also prefer to eat white flour.

Therefore, Yingkou still has a relatively developed flour industry, which follows the original strange path of the late Qing Dynasty in history - steam engine with improved stone mill.

Transporting soybeans is business.

Oil pressing, bean cake making, and flour grinding are industry.

As an economic vassal of Jiangsu, it is basically a simple industry developed around the needs of Jiangsu, and some of it, such as flour, is for supply to the capital.

Unless it is a light industry like a match workshop, it can only produce white phosphorus matches these days. Generally, it does not choose to ship and transport, which is easy to cause accidents and does not make much money.

For example, glass is not very lucky, but there is coal here.

So we choose to configure some light industries that are also available in Jiangsu here.

The rest are basically what Jiangsu needs.

Soybean processing.

Tussah silk reeling.

Wooden furniture making.

It can also be regarded as a preliminary establishment of a standard raw material production area economy that emerged around the Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital consortium.

There is a tussah silk reeling industry here, but there is no silk industry, and all of them must be transported to Jiangsu for further processing. Theoretically, cotton can be grown here, but Liu Yu did not allow the Academy of Sciences to improve long-staple cotton to adapt to the local climate. The little local cotton that was grown in Shenyang before was immediately extinguished by the financial capital under the command of Liu Yu.