In May of the third year of Shaofeng, Song Linger returned to Beijing.
She went to Luzon in the first year of Shaofeng's reign. She stayed there for nearly two years, and her skin became much tanned.
Wang Yuan came home from get off work and went to Huang'e. He was very surprised to see Song Ling'er. He immediately smiled and said: "Why didn't you tell me in advance? I will send someone to pick you up at Tianjin Port."
Song Ling'er said sarcastically with some resentment: "Scholar Wang, I haven't seen you for a long time. Your romantic affair has spread all over the capital."
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Wang Yuan coughed awkwardly and asked, "Are you and Ce'er okay in Luzon?"
Song Ling'er snorted coldly: "My daughter-in-law is pregnant, so just let Ce'er go to Nanyang. I'm coming back this time to see my grandson!"
"It's the granddaughter." Huang E reminded.
"It's all the same." Song Ling'er said.
"I didn't think it through properly." Wang Yuan didn't dare to argue. Today, it was obvious that the two real wives had joined forces to show off their temper.
After being beaten, he had to stand upright, Wang Yuan was ridiculed, and Song Ling'er finally got back to business.
"The coastal areas of Luzon Island have been occupied except for the east side," Song Ling'er said. "The east and central areas are full of headhunters, and they can only expand slowly step by step. There are several islands (peninsulas) extending out to the southeast of Luzon Island, and there are three
The small countries have formed an alliance, and Ce'er plans to send troops to occupy it this year, because there are gold sands and silver mines there. In the mountains in the west not far from the sea, we killed several headhunters, occupied a gold mine, and discovered a
It's like a paradise. The homophonic pronunciation in the local dialect is a bit like "Baguio". The whole Luzon Island is very hot, but Baguio is warm in winter and cool in summer. If you really want to move to Luzon in the future, why don't you stay in Baguio?
Yao builds a city and I want to go there to retire."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Okay, I will build Baguio City specifically for you. From now on, you will be the city lord."
Song Ling'er asked Huang E: "Amei, do you want to come with me? From now on, we sisters will live together without this heartless bastard."
"Okay." Huang E pursed his lips and smiled.
Wang Yuan asked: "How many Han people are there in Luzon?"
Song Ling'er said: "Including the Han people who have settled in Luzon for generations, as well as the new immigrants in recent years, the total number of Han people in Luzon should be more than 100,000. By the way, I also asked people to do a good thing."
"What's the matter?" Wang Yuan asked curiously.
Song Ling'er said: "Several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River like to drown baby girls. Our Huier is an abandoned baby adopted in Zhejiang. There happened to be a shortage of girls in Luzon, so I sent people to major ports in Fujian, Zhejiang and South Zhili.
Let people set up a kindergarten next to the Mazu Temple and spread the word that they are willing to adopt baby girls. After these baby girls are raised until they are fourteen or fifteen years old, they will be sent to Luzon to work and husbands will be selected for them to settle down."
Huang E praised: "This is a great merit, sister has done a good job."
Wang Yuan asked: "After I left, the phenomenon of drowning of baby girls in Zhejiang returned to its original state?"
Song Ling'er said: "I heard from my Zhejiang people that what you do is quite effective. There are fewer and fewer baby girls drowned in wealthy families, because they are afraid of accidentally drowning the reincarnation of Mazu. But in poor families, baby girls are drowned.
The situation is getting more and more serious. Zhejiang's large-scale businesses have not had enough cotton in recent years. As a result, more and more cotton is planted in Zhejiang, and food prices are getting higher and higher. Poor families cannot feed too many children, and some even
Even baby boys are drowned!”
Wang Yuan was silent, this is what he is doing.
With the boom in commerce in the south of the Yangtze River and the large inflow of silver, the incomes of citizens, farmers and workers are also increasing. However, they cannot keep up with the rate of rising prices. Especially for farmers, life is more difficult than before. Perhaps after the implementation of the whip method, they can have some relief.
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Workers are the most prosperous, especially those skilled workers, whose monthly salary is almost as high as that of a seventh-rank official, and it is the seventh-rank official after Wang Yuan's salary increase.
Working in a factory is very tiring and stresses the body. Over time, you will get occupational diseases.
However, people in the south of the Yangtze River rush to enter the factory. If the girl or boy is a skilled worker, the doorstep of the family will be trampled by the matchmaker.
Song Ling'er said: "At the beginning, there were not many baby girls adopted by Ji Kindergarten. But the news gradually spread, and some parents who were reluctant to abandon their babies traveled for days and nights to send their children. Now, there are more than 100 baby girls adopted from three provinces.
There are more than 2,000, and the number of baby boys is estimated to be hundreds."
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "Well done, don't feel bad about gold and silver."
Song Ling'er said proudly: "What I don't lack most is gold and silver."
Luzon was already rich in gold and silver, and the news even spread to China. In history, Emperor Wanli was sent as a mine and tax inspector.
To the southeast of Yanzhou City (Manila), there is gold sand in the rivers there. Wang Ce and Song Ling'er, mother and son, didn't even bother to dig for gold themselves, and encouraged civilian immigrants to mine for gold in order to quickly increase the number of Han people. The mother and son just took the gold and silver
If the mine is occupied, the natives can be captured to mine, and gold and silver can be obtained, and the natives can be distributed and consumed.
"By the way, look at this, I saw it when I was resting in Hangzhou." Song Ling'er took out a copy of "Shilin Monthly".
Wang Yuan took it and took a look and found that it was not the "Shilin Monthly" published in Nanjing, but the "Shilin Monthly" published in Hangzhou. It is estimated that the scholars in Hangzhou were imitating Nanjing and published a copy without changing the name.
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When Wang Yuan was the governor of Zhejiang, he caused great harm to the gentry in Hangzhou. In addition, Zhejiang has recently been clearing out farmland throughout the province. How could Shilin newspapers have anything good to say?
The newspaper that Song Linger brought back recorded two news events that happened in Deqing County, Huzhou Prefecture last winter.
The magistrate of Deqing County responded to the central government's call and ordered the entire county to complete the land clearing work at all costs. This guy is not a real reformist, but wants to curry favor with his superiors and improve his political performance. Anyway, he messes around in a mess. He does not personally control the land clearing work.
They were all thrown to their subordinates, and the miscellaneous officials and subordinates took the opportunity to collude with the powerful and harm the people under the guise of Qingtian.
One piece of news was that there was a small landowning family in Deqing County. Two-thirds of their land was inexplicably cleared away, and all of it was transferred to the names of powerful people from the same town. One of the family members was a scholar, so they went to the county government to file a complaint. Even the magistrate was not seen.
On the way home, he was beaten to death by gangsters.
The scholar's friends were filled with indignation, but feared that they would also be murdered, so they went to Hangzhou to tell their classmates. A group of scholars went to the Zhejiang Ancha Division to report the case. The Ancha Division officials were afraid of damaging Qingtian's enthusiasm, so they turned a blind eye to the incident.
Another news happened in Deqing County.
About 800 acres of official land caused a big mess. Wang Yuan stipulated the method of confirming the ownership of official land. When clearing the land, it must be redeemed by the landlord, and it can only be redeemed by the landowner who has owned the land for more than ten years.
The more than 800 acres of government land involved was actually owned by two families at the same time.
Both sides were powerful, and after an endless dispute, they went full-on martial arts, killing four people on the spot.
In order to save trouble, the magistrate of Deqing County went so far as to give each family fifty acres of land. Instead of checking whose land parcel documents were fake, they divided the eight hundred acres of official land into half for each family.
As a result, the bloodshed escalated. The powerful family with the authentic documents sent out with more than 3,000 clan members. The two families staged a clan fight, with nearly 7,000 people fighting in a melee. More than 200 people were killed, more than 100 were seriously injured, and countless others were slightly injured.
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This matter was also suppressed by the Inspector General, who only arrested a few scapegoats for participating in the fight, but did not investigate the culpability of the magistrate. Most likely, someone gave money, and at the same time, they were afraid that after the magistrate was dealt with, other magistrates in the province would not dare to use their full strength.
Qingtian.
Wang Yuan held the newspaper and was thoughtful.
Although it was a newspaper that opposed reforms, it was more useful in supervising local officials than the patrolling censors sent by the imperial court.
The two opposition party newspapers in Nanjing and Hangzhou cannot and do not need to be banned directly. They can serve as a supervisory force for reform. However, they must be strictly restricted, and they must be restricted by legislation.
Otherwise, in future newspapers, you can write whatever you want. If you are not careful, you will create the Donglin Party!