Three hundred and twentieth chapters enlightenment
Zhang Shou just helped Zhu Tingfang in first, leaving Zhu Ying in a daze, just to let the eldest lady calm down; but now that the uncle's situation is almost understood, he also found that there is nothing wrong with him.
This legitimate brother of the same mother was there to take care of Zhu Tingfang, so of course he had to turn around and go back to find Zhu Ying.
Otherwise, even if you look back and confirm that your uncle is really safe and sound... what should you do if your fiancée flies away?
Sure enough, when he hurried back to the front yard, he saw Zhu Ying lifting her sleeves and wiping her eyes, then suddenly turned around and walked towards the county government gate. He was secretly lucky that he had chased her out quickly, so he called Yingying quickly.
Seeing that the eldest lady stopped for a moment, then continued to walk out as if she was angry, even walking a little faster, so he could only stride after her.
"Yingying, where are you going?"
"Didn't you ignore me just now and help your elder brother to leave?" After Zhi Xingzi replied, Zhu Ying glanced at Zhang Shou's face that calmed down at the first sight. After all, she couldn't say bad words. After a while, she
He said in a low voice, "I'm going to find a place to vent my anger and calm down, so that I don't have to be called willful by my elder brother again! Maybe I'll be called willful by you again!"
"How could I say you are willful? I know you are angry that your elder brother does not cherish yourself."
Hearing what Zhang Shou said, Zhu Ying could only snort bitterly: "That's right! Even if you say that my eldest brother thinks that I am getting married, so he thinks that I am willful, naive and immature all day long, and if I am disliked by you in the future, there is nothing he can do about it.
He vents his anger on me all the time, worrying about gains and losses all day long...but he shouldn't hide everything from me, I'm not that big of a mouth, let alone ruin his affairs!"
"Your eldest brother came to Cangzhou with me to fulfill the Holy Order. He didn't even say a word to me. Even Du Heng notified me at the last minute and forced people to come. How could he reveal the secret to you? Are you angry that he kept it secret?
You work hard...but you have to know that many men in the world are like this. At home, they may be calm or lazy, and outside they may be desperate or decisive."
Hearing Zhang Shou praising her eldest brother so highly, the anger on Zhu Ying's face finally faded away a little, but she was still a little unhappy: "Why do you have to fight like this when you can obviously be safer? Just let Du Heng take action and put that
Just help them take it down... Besides, Uncle Hua is so elusive that if he goes out alone, he might be able to take them all down."
"If they don't take action, even if they are all arrested, what charges will be given? To put it bluntly, I think your eldest brother is just planning to kill people, and what he wants is the deterrent effect of killing them in one fell swoop. Anyway, it is definitely not the emperor's.
Man, then, no matter which side it is, if it loses such a group of dead soldiers, it can only knock out its teeth and swallow it in the stomach, or at most draw a circle and curse your elder brother."
"Pfft... draw a circle and curse... Ah Shou, you are so funny!"
Knowing that this was just sarcasm, Zhu Ying still tilted her head and imagined the joyful scene of the mastermind drawing circles and cursing people, and couldn't help laughing. With Zhang Shou's explanation and gag, she couldn't help but feel how she felt.
My sleep gradually improved.
But when she wanted to go see her eldest brother immediately to greet him, she couldn't keep his face off, so she simply grabbed Zhang Shou.
"Ignore brother, let's go see Zhang Chen and Jiang Da. Anyway, this time, brother is in charge of long-term peace and order, and you are in charge of people's livelihood."
Zhang Shou couldn't defeat the eldest lady, so he had to let it go. As for whether Zhu Tingfang would be sulky because Zhu Ying ignored his brother, he couldn't care about it. Even if he was the eldest brother, he worked so hard that he made his sister angry.
, then you have to pay the price? But even so, he still called Zhu Yi who did not step back.
There are some things that you can't just ask Zhu Tingfang directly. Why don't you ask Zhu Yi who is sending a letter to Du Heng?
Fortunately, Young Master Jiang knew his identity and always sat there honestly. However, Zhang Chen couldn't help but pace back and forth. He stopped abruptly when he came to the door several times. Sitting in the room waiting for news was not the way to go.
Zhang Chen's style. However, he was about to go out to inquire for information, but Ah Liu was outside guarding the door. He just glanced at him, and he obediently stepped back and continued to wait.
Therefore, when he heard the voices of Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying coming from outside, he was so relieved that he quickly opened the door and went forward. Before he could ask, Zhang Shou pointed at Zhu Yi behind him and said: "
You don’t need to ask, I just heard a little bit about it from Brother Zhu, so I called Zhu Yi over and let him tell me what’s going on.”
Zhu Yi was not a storyteller, and he was afraid that Zhu Ying would be even more angry after hearing about the dangerous situation at that time, so he tried to speak as briefly and concisely as possible. Moreover, in order to please the eldest lady and his uncle-to-be, he also deliberately made Zhu Tingfang laugh at her.
The other party roughly repeated what he said.
Realizing that it was when Ding Hai was facing Ding Hai in Qingfeng Xu Laitang, he casually brought up the irritating allusion about the villain dying from talking too much when he was sarcastic. Zhu Ying actually told Zhu Tingfang so quickly that Zhang Shou couldn't help but laugh and cry.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect that Mr. Zhu, who has always been serious, can also be quite vicious when teasing people!"
Zhang Chen also experienced the night when the rebels attacked, so he naturally felt the same background as Zhang Shou when he said this, and couldn't help laughing at this moment.
On the side, Mr. Jiang was also smiling with joy when he saw Zhu Ying, but he was a little frightened. He deeply regretted that he didn't look enough and didn't see the opportunity to leave quickly.
This kind of thing is likely to involve infighting within the royal family or even a deeper conspiracy. What did he, a young master from a wealthy family in Cangzhou, do after hearing this? Zhu Tingfang ruthlessly killed everyone today. When he turned around, the mastermind behind the scenes was furious, but he couldn't move what was in front of him.
Will these wealthy nobles with rich backgrounds come to him to vent their anger?
Zhang Shou saw that Young Master Jiang had a look of despair on his face. After Zhu Ying smiled, she finally seemed to have lost all her grudge against Zhu Tingfang. She said with a smile that she wanted to see how her elder brother was doing. Zhu Yi hurriedly escorted the young lady away. Waiting until
The door closed again and Zhang Shou changed the subject.
"Jiang Da, since you have visited every house today and everyone is willing to take out the stored cotton, let's make plans for resuming work. But so many machines have been destroyed, and it will be impossible to do it for a while.
, before resuming work, each family first compiles a list of former employees and gives them a ration according to the list to avoid famine."
When Zhu Tingfang first arrived, although he first captured Xian Yunhe, and then captured Changlu County Magistrate Xu Cheng and the eldest prince to establish his power, the real key that allowed him to suppress the chaos... was that he directly sealed up the eldest prince's "small treasury"
", took a sum of money from it, and bought a batch of grain at a low price on the grounds that the eldest prince regretted his previous obsession, to appease the homeless people who had lost their land and lost their jobs.
Of course, the rations were only distributed for five days... It was not that the eldest prince did not have enough money, but because Zhu Tingfang had to have a limit on his generosity to others. Moreover, before, he had used small means of lowering prices or not accepting cotton yarn, and the eldest prince had
As well as a certain Suzhou businessman who was colluding with the big families, he had already fled long ago and was no longer in Cangzhou. He was afraid that the grain merchants would also try this trick.
After all, grain merchants are also pursuing profits, and they have nothing to do with radical change of good people. Zhu Tingfang cannot always force "peace buying".
Hearing Zhang Shou's words, Young Master Jiang hesitated for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "It's not that I don't want to, but how much does a hundred shi of grain cost? After I went to those houses, I felt that people were panicked. There were people who were not at odds with the leader.
And, some people are not close to their brothers, uncles and nephews who were accused and sent by General Mingwei to arrest and imprison them. Feeling that they are innocent, they want to separate the family or sell their property and leave."
"Although there is really not much money for a hundred stones of food, if they call out to Chong Tian Qu, it will not be easy to deal with... Moreover, not everyone is as cowardly and incompetent as the boss of the Qi family, and some people actually have
I have ideas, but I am suppressed and neglected too much. Everyone has their own ideas, and it is difficult to work together as one..."
When Zhang Chen saw Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying looking at him, he said helplessly: "There are people like this everywhere. Today I accompanied Jiang Da to visit the five families. The Liu family and the Wang family are like this. Although they are hoarding
The cotton is willing to be sold at a fair price, and we have promised to resume work, but we are afraid that the court will pursue the good people who have radically changed. Even if we are willing to pay this ration, I am afraid that the subsequent resumption of work will be unreasonable."
"Oh. You don't have to force it. Just let them spit out the cotton they have hoarded." Zhang Shou smiled, looked at Zhang Chen and said bluntly, "The ones put into use in Cangzhou before were just new spinning machines. There are also
New looms with higher efficiency. If they don’t want to do it..."
Glancing at the dumbfounded Young Master Jiang, he smiled and said, "Then Jiang Dalang, you might as well take over their hired workers."
Young Master Jiang swallowed hard and said incredulously: "New...new loom? Can it be as...as fast as that spinning machine? God, if one person can weave, seven or eight people can weave this."
of cloth..."
He twirled his fingers desperately, trying to calculate efficiency and profit, but he was not such a smart person at all. After struggling for a long time, he finally became confused. The only thing that was certain was that when the new textile machine encountered the new
With the loom, the end link that originally restricted the production of cotton cloth has been completely broken.
If this is the case, this change is not a blow to the Jiang family at all, but a huge opportunity!
Young Master Jiang pinched his palms again to make sure that he was not dreaming, and then said cautiously: "Dr. Zhang, do you really mean what you just said?" Seeing Zhang Shou slightly nodding, Zhang Chen on the side sneered, looking like you don't believe it.
With a look on his face, he hurriedly shouted, "If this is the case, I will spend all my money to appease those former employees!"
Just as he said this, another thought suddenly appeared in his mind. After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but shudder.
Although he knew that he probably shouldn't say this, now that he thought about it, he still had to bite the bullet and said: "If the efficiency of spinning machines and looms were so many times higher at the same time, then I'm afraid there really wouldn't be as many people using them. Even so.
Now if we hire and support all the people, we won’t be able to last long... After all, cotton is limited, and cotton fields are even more limited!”
Seeing that Zhang Shou not only did not stop him, but instead nodded slightly and motioned for him to continue speaking, Young Master Jiang suddenly felt a little more confident.
Young Master Jiang took a deep breath and summoned up the courage to say: "Furthermore, even if Dr. Zhang wants to hide this new loom from outsiders, if the cotton is shipped too fast, someone will definitely find out about it.
And those who work in the workshop will definitely not keep secrets. It is inevitable that some people will be tempted by personal interests and sell the key to those businessmen who are eager to pursue it. "
"But by that time, I'm afraid there will be many more unemployed workers in the world. Unrest like this in Cangzhou will continue to happen."
"Hey, you kid, don't be alarmist! There was an incentive for the incident in Cangzhou. If it weren't for me, I would be in Xingtai..."
Zhang Chen almost revealed his hidden secret of "selling cotton at a high price", but it was too late to stop him at this time. He hesitated and didn't know what to say next. But at this moment, he heard Zhang Shou speak.
"Now that the matter is over, Zhang Chen, please tell Mr. Jiang about the good things you did in Xingtai. Let him know how the eldest prince and his family ended up in this situation because of a moment of greed."
Now that Zhang Shou opened his mouth, Zhang Chen suddenly became energetic. This time he hid his head and tail and pretended to be injured and escaped from the capital. First he hid his identity, and then he played with a lot of people, but he still couldn't tell anyone, that kind of thing
The feeling of itching in the heart was like walking in brocade clothes at night, blinding oneself in vain. Therefore, he smiled and immediately began to brag about his great achievements.
When Young Master Jiang heard that Zhang Chen came to Xingtai and pretended to be the second prince's subordinate, his eyes were straightened. When he heard that the eldest prince was sent to join Zong and Lianheng's confidants, he could not even close his mouth.
When I heard that Zhang Chen was using the financial support from his family, he used the new loom together and sold the cotton at a high price. Then he exchanged cash with Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu for cotton yarn, which was then woven into cotton cloth, and then sold to Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu.
The cloth merchant...for the first time in his life, he felt that his father, whom he had always admired, and the old fox Qi Yuanwai and others were really stupid, so stupid that they were carried away by such a simple trick.
As a series of events unfolded, ordinary people only saw the high price of cotton sold earlier, so they thought that Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu were stupid and had too much money, so they desperately hoarded cotton. This trend even spread from Xingtai to Cangzhou, so that everyone
The prince, his father, Mr. Jiang, and several others were greedy and eventually led to the Cangzhou civil uprising.
What a real reason...
The more Young Master Jiang thought about it, the more frustrated he became, and the more he thought about it, the more powerless he became, but suddenly he heard a few words that shocked him.
"You just said that if such efficient textile machines and looms are promoted all over the world at the same time, rich households will definitely use less hired labor, and then civil uprisings like the one in Cangzhou will inevitably occur in many places. This is indeed not an alarmist statement. When I went to see Xian Yunhe today
, he also said that after discovering that cotton fields are so profitable, wouldn't it mean that countless rice fields and wheat fields from Jiangnan to Jiangbei will be transformed into cotton fields? Where will the food come from then? "
Seeing Young Master Jiang looking at him in horror, Zhang Shougang said word for word: "On the one hand, the number of unemployed people may increase, and on the other hand, the grain fields may decrease. If these two things are combined, the result will be