It was only three days after the Lantern Festival, and the beacon was fired in the sky under Yangzhou city, and smoke filled the smoke. Li Rutai brought his 80,000 elite troops in the Zhenglan Banner of the Han army and the Green Camp in Jingji, Shandong. The total number of newly recruited Han soldiers was 150,000. He raised a large flag and wrote the four big words "Avenge Revenge" on it.

Li Ruitai led the way and was the first to fight. Before leaving, he even wrote a letter to Dorgon, saying that he could not take over Yangzhou and was willing to engage in military law. Dorgon was greatly moved. Although Li Ruitai was a Han Chinese, he was more loyal to his master than the Manchus. Dorgon specially appointed him as the second-class Adahahafan, and was hereditary.

All counties and counties north of Yangzhou were all lost, and only one city was left in the entire Yangzhou Prefecture.

The Huozi Camp stationed in Zhenjiang Prefecture received a letter of help, and the entire army set out to fight across the river, and the situation in Jiangbei became tense instantly.

Although Hou Xuanyan was preparing for the wedding in Suzhou, he actually had someone to do it for him in every detail, but he just started to standardize the formulation of commercial taxes and mingled with a group of wealthy merchants every day.

The news of the emergency in Yangzhou reached Suzhou, and Hou Xuanyan was experiencing the spinning wheel and the stirrup of the foot.

Although Gu Shouye was slow in other aspects, he was very polite when it comes to the workshop industry. He smiled proudly and said: "In the past, one person had a maximum of three pieces of cloth a day. Now, our Gu family is ten pieces of cloth a day."

Next to it is Wu Jikun's second son Wu Shouyu. He looked angry when he heard this, and he was obviously angry. His family is a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, and his main industries are concentrated in Jinling. It is really more profound than the Gu family. Wu Shouyu has been in a rich and elegant manner since he was a child. Today, because he wanted to accompany Hou Xuanyan, he didn't know where to find an ordinary piece of clothing. It didn't fit very well on his body. He was always awkward, like a monkey, and lost his usual style.

After hearing what his father-in-law said, Hou Xuanyan smiled even more and said, "Why don't you promote such a good thing?"

Wu Shouyu finally couldn't help it, twisted his shoulders and interrupted, "This thing was originally used by our Wu family, but later it was sued to the yamen. Zhao Zhilong, who was guarding Nanjing at that time, insisted that our workshop used automatic looms, which was unfair to the people and workshops who weaved. So the government took back our spinning wheel and asked everyone to continue weaving cloth by hand."

Hou Xuanyan understood as soon as he heard this. Since this technology has appeared, there must be people who can make spinning wheels. The Wu family did not allow it to be used, but the Gu family dared to use it because under the protection of Suzhou itself, no one dared to cause trouble for the Gu family.

Hou Xuanyan understood the joints, so naturally refused to let such a pedantic and ridiculous thing continue to happen. He laughed and said, "It will be changed to this in the future. If anyone can improve it more, he will have a lot of rewards. Now it is not a one-person market per day. Someone can create a reward of twenty horses per person a day, and a reward of a thousand taels."

Wu Shouyu was overjoyed and bent down and said, "Thank you, the governor, for making decisions for the people."

When Gu Shouye heard this, his face darkened and said, "I'm afraid that those retail investors will not want to do so, it's hard to suppress the crowd."

Hou Xuanyan disagreed and said, "If they want fairness, they can use them. If anyone is advanced than them, they will be punished, then we should still eat raw meat and drink blood. I am not used to these bad habits. Anyone who dares to make trouble has its own laws. If the law does not punish the public, it will not work here. If a troublemaker comes, I will beat one. If ten thousand comes, I will beat ten thousand."

Wu Shouyu didn't expect that Hou Xuanyan didn't think about making money at all, and he respected him three more. Hou Xuanyan continued: "The north fell, and countless people fled through the river. These people did not have their own industries and lost their ancestors' land. You families recruited more refugees to work. You can pay seven in their wages and three in the yamen. In this way, I will save some relief money, and you can save some wages, and the refugees will live a good life. Why not do it if you kill three birds with one stone?"

Wu Shouyu took the lead in expressing his opinion, saying: "Don't worry, our Wu family voluntarily gave up the wages of the yamen, and paying the money by itself can be regarded as doing some effort for the compatriots in the north."

Hou Xuanyan waved his hand and smiled, "It is already very rare for Mr. Wu to say this, but there is no rule. You Wu family doesn't want it, and other merchants dare not take it in order to please me. In this way, this kind of benevolent policy that benefits the people will be difficult to implement. As long as you don't deliberately lower your wages and exploit refugees, you don't have to save money for me." Everyone hurriedly agreed, and Hou Xuanyan said seriously: "I'm right in front of you. Who dares to make money from the country with evil hands? I will never be ruthless."

Wu Shouyu bent down and said, "Don't worry, it's like this. Our Wu family will donate 300,000 taels of silver to help provide relief to the refugees."

Hou Xuanyan nodded and said, "Let the yamen make a banner and send it to the Wu family."

Suzhou magistrate Xia Yunyi hurried to the Gu family's weaving workshop with the expedited documents.

Hou Xuanyan's personal soldiers recognized him as the prefect of our mansion and hurriedly led him to the workshop.

Xia Yunyi ran too fast and his official hat was crooked. He raised his hand and shouted: "Wenyuan, Yangzhou is in urgent need!"

When the workshop heard it, they were immediately panicked. They had seen the speed of Qing soldiers moving south once. The merchants whispered to each other, and the workshop was in chaos. Hou Xuanyan said in a deep voice: "What are you panic? Give me the documents."

He reached out to take the document handed over by Xia Yunyi, which read: Li Shutai's army of 150,000 has already plowed the three prefectures and seven counties of Yangzhou, and his troops are at the foot of Yangzhou. The Shui-Cai is in charge of the city and guards it. He is unable to meet his strength, so he asks to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

Seeing that people were in chaos, Hou Xuanyan chuckled and said, "I was lucky enough to fight Yangzhou City. There were still 100,000 soldiers in the city. Zhu Dadian invited me to send troops to attack the Qing army, but I was afraid that I would send troops too late and be escaped by Li Shutai. Then I used the expedited document. Xia Magistrate, you are the master of a mansion, and you look like you are in a panic."

Xia Yunyi had read the documents, so he naturally knew that Hou Xuanyan was talking nonsense, but when he thought about it, he did something wrong. Jiangnan was settled for a while, and people's hearts might not be stable. If someone had a strange intention, it would be too dangerous. He hurriedly said, "What Wenyuan said is that I was too anxious and sent it to you without reading the documents."

Hou Xuanyan kept hiding the document in his sleeves, stood up and said, "Follow me to go back to the yamen. Li Shutai has been attacking this time. Shenzong said: Yiwu is strong, even if the person who jumps on the beam is strong, he will be killed. This time, he will kill this thief, chop off his head, and spread it all over the south of the Yangtze River."
Chapter completed!