1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 881
September 1673, 9, Songjiang Prefecture, Shanghai County.

Shanghai is located in the south of the Yangtze River, facing the river and the sea, and has an indissoluble bond with water. The urban layout is basically similar to that of a town in the south of the Yangtze River.It not only "overlooks Huangpu in the south, and rests on Wusong in the north", but also at the beginning of the construction of the city, the city was also crossed by rivers and ports, and the water flows vertically and horizontally. The larger rivers include Zhaojiabang, Xuejiabang, Houjiabang, Fangbang, Zhongxin River, etc. Among them, Zhaojiabang also runs through the urban area, so Shanghai can also be described as a typical water city.

During this period, the waterway from Shanghai Yicheng to Songjiang Fucheng was reached by boat from Zhaojiabang via Puhuitang, and cotton, rice and other agricultural and sideline products from the four townships in Shanghai were also continuously imported into Shanghai Yicheng from Puhuitang via Zhaojiabang or from the Huangpu River.

"Inside and outside the east gate and south gate, due to the proximity to Huangpu, the transportation is convenient, and the trade is developed, so there are many merchants and department stores in this area." Bi Shaode, Shaoqing of Lusi, introduced the geographical customs of Shanghai.

"Shanghai is not only not far from Suzhou and Hangzhou, the two most important cities in the south of the Yangtze River, but also a large number of towns in the south of the Yangtze River. The whole city of Shanghai is located on the west bank of the Huangpu River, with a vast hinterland, convenient water and land transportation, and a superior geographical environment. The city connects The inland river shipping in the Jiangnan area extends in all directions, and the ships on the river come and go like ants, and it is rapidly becoming a big port in the south of the Yangtze River."

"In addition, Shanghai is also the most important cotton textile center in the Jiangnan region. Since the Ming Dynasty restored Jiangnan more than [-] years ago, the cotton textile industry in the entire region has been slowly recovering after a short period of dormancy. Up to now, the preliminary estimate of the production scale of Jiangnan cotton cloth And production has reached the level before Jiashen Tianchang.”

"In Shanghai County during the Wanli period, cotton has become the most important crop in the area. There are millions of acres of land reclaimed by the government and the people's army, and most of them are cotton fields. As for the cotton cloth produced, there are millions of pieces. Weaving is not only in villages, but also in cities. It is also the same, and they are sleepless all night, and there is almost no moment of leisure. Taking Shanghai County as a whole, looking at the entire Jiangnan, the total cotton production is probably similar to that in Hanzhou."

"How much does the cotton cloth produced in Ming Dynasty cost?" Bi Shaode frowned and said, "Can it be compared with our local cotton cloth in Hanzhou?"

"The cost and efficiency of the cotton cloth woven by hand in the Ming Dynasty is naturally incomparable with that of our local machine cotton cloth." Shen Peide said: "But the cotton cloth produced in the Ming Dynasty has geographical advantages, and most of them are hand-woven by the villagers. As for the cost...it is nothing but the farmers' spare time. A piece of homespun cloth can be sold for two or three renminbi, or hundreds of thousands of cash, and it only needs to be slightly higher than the cotton raw material obtained. "

"According to Shopkeeper Shen, wouldn't it be difficult for the cotton cloth of the Qi State to compete with the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Exactly." Shen Peide smiled wryly, "We shipped the cotton cloth from Qi State to Daming, and it was almost impossible to sell it. We can only sigh in anticipation of such a huge market."

"What about Japan and North Korea?" Bi Shaode asked again.

"Because of the cost increase in distance, the cotton cloth of our Qi country is also gradually giving way to the cotton cloth produced in Daming." Shen Peide said: "Although, our Qi country can spin fine gauze cloth with exquisite machines, no matter how soft it is or whether it is soft or not. The air permeability is far better than that of the cotton cloth produced in the Ming Dynasty. But the biggest advantage of the homemade cloth produced in the Ming Dynasty is that besides the very low cost, it also has the characteristics of wear resistance. The homemade cloth is thick, three times the weight of Hanzhou cotton cloth of the same area, and more It is suitable for the traditional laundry method of stick knocking and hand rubbing."

Hearing this, Bi Shaode couldn't help but wryly smiled.Most of the cotton cloth produced in the Ming Dynasty was spun by rural women in their spare time, so the labor cost was naturally extremely low.

As for the laundry method of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty, they must not be willing to buy the soap produced in Qi State, and they all clean their clothes by knocking with sticks and rubbing their hands.As far as the fine, light, soft cotton cloth produced in Qi State is concerned, if you use a washboard or some laundry sticks to beat or rub the clothes, the clothes will be ruined in just a few times.

As far as ordinary people are concerned, it is natural that the durable Daming Homecloth is much more economical and affordable.You know, in many poor people's homes, they don't even have an extra pair of clothes and trousers. If they need to go out, they have to wear a pair of trousers in turn to hide their shame.

Bi Shaode arrived in Shanghai County a week ago. After a short stay, he took a boat on the Yangtze River and headed for Nanjing to meet King Qin Kewang.But the black-clothed guard officer stationed there told him that Sun Kewang had led all the civil and military officials to go to the capital via the Grand Canal last month to patrol the north. Assistant Governor Ma Bao.

Therefore, Bi Shaode stopped in Shanghai, planning to go to Japan first after a period of rest, to visit the Tokugawa shogunate and discuss the expansion of the treaty ports between the two countries.

Now, after hearing what our merchants from Qi state said, Daming cotton cloth is gradually seizing the market space previously occupied by Qi state cotton cloth in Japan due to its economic advantages. What about Qi's monopoly on the commodity market?

You said that Japan, a large country with a population of nearly 2000 million, has only opened one official trading port in Nagasaki, and the place for trading is strictly limited to Dejima, an artificial island built by the shogunate outside Nagasaki Port.

Although the merchants of the Qi State also brought a large amount of goods from the Qi State into Japan through the smuggling trade of the Satsuma Domain and the Changzhou Domain, but after all, they were sneaky and the scale could not be too large.

Under such severe trade restrictive measures, several trading companies and many businessmen in Qi State have long been dissatisfied with this.Damn, the trade volume of a country with a population of 2000 million is actually not as good as that of North Korea, a small country like North Korea.It can be described as a strange thing!
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September 9, Xuanfu (now Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou).

Xuanfu occupies the land of Jizhou, the capital of Nanping, and then controls the desert. It controls the danger of the mediocrity on the left, and embraces the solidity in the cloud on the right.

Since a few years ago, the Qing captives retreated to Monan from this point, hibernating in Guisui, Jining, Yunnei and other places, rectifying the interior of Manchuria, mobilizing troops and horses, intending to seize the opportunity to go south again.This made the importance of the Xuan Mansion even more prominent, and the Ming Dynasty stationed heavy troops here to face the Qing captives' southern plundering front.

"Your Highness, more than [-] miles northwest of Xuanfu, there are several fortified cities such as Wanquan, Zhangjiakou, Huai'an, etc., all of which were rebuilt under the guidance of Qi's staff officers, and a large number of artillery were added to them. If the Qing captives want to If you go south, you will inevitably meet with a broken head and let it return home with a broken feather."

Xingguo Gong Feng Shuangli saw Sun Kewang standing on the tower, frowned, and looked up to the north, thinking that he was worried about the safety of the northern border, so he quickly introduced the outer defense situation of Xuanfu.

"The Qing captives were hit repeatedly a few years ago. In addition, their internal divisions caused several Eight Banners to go far away to Liaodong, and even went north to the Bohai Sea. In the short term, I am afraid that they will not be able to go south and threaten the northern border." Sun Kewang smiled bluntly. , Then he said proudly: "After a few years of recuperation, tens of thousands of cavalry will be organized and trained. At that time, it is time for us to send troops into the desert and use the momentum of thunder to completely eliminate the threat from the north."

"Destroy the Qing captives, cleanse the desert, and completely eliminate the threat of the northern border. At that time, His Highness's achievements will be comparable to the achievements of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!" The stallion of Syria, Weixing, immediately praised him.

"What kind of virtue and ability can you be compared with Han Wu?" Sun Kewang smiled and shook his head, "I have devoted myself to the Ming Dynasty, and I can leave some lucky names in the history books, and I know enough to be alone!"

"Your Highness, the country of Ming Dynasty is supported by you. The Qing captive who stole the land of China also fled back to the desert under the wise command of His Highness." Cao Fude, the general soldier, said loudly: In the future, His Highness should sit down in this world. Daming should have died more than 20 years ago!"

"Bold!" Sun Kewang stared at Cao Fude, and snapped, "You bastard, what do you want to do to His Majesty by saying these words!"

"Your Highness, our officers and soldiers fought with the Qing captives, lay on the ice and tasted the snow, and experienced life and death before we drove them out of the pass. But the Emperor Guangde only had a banquet in the palace and had no sympathy for us. If such an emperor, What's the use? It's better to abolish the emperor, and His Highness will directly ascend the throne and proclaim the emperor, and establish our own new dynasty!" Cao Fude said generously.

"Fork it down!" Sun Kewang said angrily, "You rebellious man, you are talking nonsense!... Fork it down, and hit twenty army sticks to make a warning to others!"

All the generals hurried forward and pleaded for Cao Fude.

Sun Kewang pondered for a moment, changed the general staff from twenty to ten, and fined his salary for three months at the same time, to see the effect.

"Weiyang (characterized by Feng Shuangli), King Gan (Li Dingguo) is seriously ill and it is difficult to govern. But Datong is an important town in the north, facing the barbarians on the grassland, it should not be ignored." Sun Kewang tightened his cloak, and said softly: "I want to entrust you Conquer the General of the Peking University and go to Datong to replace the King of Gan and preside over various military affairs in the northern border. Would you like to go?"

"Your Highness, King Gan is only suffering from the cold occasionally, and his body is a little ill, but he can still support himself." Feng Shuangli said with some embarrassment: "Besides, the sudden change of the position of General Zhengbei may have a slight impact on the morale of the army....Please check carefully, Your Highness. "

"Huh!" Sun Kewang snorted coldly, "Datong is only three hundred miles away from Xuanfu, and it takes only two or three days to run on a fast horse. His Majesty the Gu Dai visited the north and summoned King Gan here to discuss matters, but he refused to come due to illness. , claiming that he was seriously ill and unable to travel far. In this case, I am afraid that he will not be able to fulfill the post of general of the Peking University."

"Your Highness..." Feng Shuangli hesitated to speak.

"Do you think I'm doing the same thing?" Sun Kewang glanced at Feng Shuangli, "For decades, the King of Gan misunderstood me, slandered me, and hated me. I didn't take it seriously, and even disdain to argue with him. Since the 20th Many years ago, I was alone in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangnan, rewarding farming, promoting industry and commerce, suppressing tyrants, reducing agricultural taxes, and vigorously restoring people's livelihood. Only then has the situation of Zhongxing in Guangde today. Make your own comment."

"However, King Gan was instigated by the gentry's sourness and Confucianism, and was bewitched by the powerful and evil gentry. He thought of being loyal to the emperor and serving the country, and he insisted on being alone as a powerful minister and a traitor to the country. As a result, rifts gradually arose. If it weren't for the years of brotherhood, and he had a little bit of love. Taking the overall situation into consideration, Gu Ding will definitely not tolerate him!"

"Your Highness, King Gan...he just wants...to be loyal to Daming."

"Haha..., to be loyal to Ming Dynasty?" Sun Kewang sneered and said, "When we followed the Great King (Zhang Xianzhong) against the Ming Dynasty more than 30 years ago, did he have the heart to be loyal to Ming Dynasty? Back then we captured Fengyang and excavated the tomb of the Great Ming Emperor." At that time, does he have any sense of loyalty to the emperor?"

"..." Feng Shuangli didn't dare to speak.

The king of Qin was right. Back then, everyone was a traitor of Ming Dynasty, a rebellion that the imperial court wanted to get rid of quickly!Now, as a vassal of Daming, it seems that he shouldn't work for it like this, let alone be loyal to it to the end.

However, what are we doing now?

"In the past few years, if you hadn't been alone in the south of the Yangtze River, vigorously rectified the people's livelihood, and continued to reorganize the army and military, do you think that these sour gentry and talkative officials of the Ming Dynasty could take a direct blow to the Qing captives?" Sun Kewang said with disdain. "Jiashen Tianchang, Emperor Hongguang sits on half of the country, has millions of troops, and is supported by the rich and prosperous Jiangnan, but when the Qing captives went south, how did they behave?"

"Hongguang was destroyed and Yongchu ascended the throne. I thought it would inspire people and restore Shenzhou. However, when Jiangxi, Guangdong, Shanxi and other places returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, how did the general trend of the world appear and repeat in a short period of time? Back then, if we hadn't put all our eggs in one basket , enter Yunnan, and then occupy Guizhou, I am afraid that they will be wiped out in Sichuan and Hubei by the governor of Daming Huguang!"

"Daming has gone through more than 200 years. Whether it is the emperor's relatives or local officials and gentry, they have long been rotten. Therefore, they were attacked and destroyed by the Qing captives again and again, but hundreds of millions of people were buried with them for nothing. Huh..., this How unfortunate the world is, how innocent the people are!"

"Your Highness wants to... abolish the Ming Dynasty and establish a new dynasty?" Feng Shuangli asked in a low voice.

"What do you think?" Sun Kewang leaned his back against the city wall, looked at Feng Shuangli with a cautious expression, and asked with a half-smile.

"I..., I will follow His Highness King Qin's lead in everything!" Feng Shuangli said through gritted teeth.

"Haha..." Sun Kewang stretched out a hand, pointed at Feng Shuangli, and laughed loudly, attracting all the civil and military officials in the distance to look sideways.

This Duke Xingguo is really the confidant of the King of Qin, and in such a short period of time, he made the King of Qin, who was full of worries, laugh out loud.

"Wei Yang, even if I want to stand alone on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, how can it be at this moment?" Sun Kewang turned his head and supported the crenel of the city wall, looking at the green hills and boundless wilderness in the distance, "The Qing Dynasty in the north is still alive, and things are not peaceful in the northwest. There are still Bohai Sea and... Yunzhou Town in the east of Liaodong, and there are Mongolian, Tibetan and Tartar captives in the southwest. This world is not peaceful yet!"

Feng Shuangli couldn't help but feel relieved when he heard this, and then he comforted: "Your Highness, don't worry, I will cut through the thorns and thorns, and wipe out all the side troubles for Your Highness, and create a prosperous dynasty for Your Highness."

"Do you still have an impression of a map of the whole world presented by Qi State a few years ago?" Sun Kewang asked softly.

"I still have an impression."

"The world is so big and the world is so wide, it's far beyond Gu's imagination!" Sun Kewang said leisurely: "30 years ago, Qi State was only a few hundred fleeing pirates, but they lived in Hanzhou Continent. Ji, in less than 40 years, has swept across the entire Nanyang Sea, and his power has reached the Daming sea area. Three years ago, he even ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor without authorization. ... Now, when is it? Destiny?"

"Your Highness, Hanzhou is remote. There are only a few million people, and no more than ten thousand soldiers. What you rely on is the advantage of boats..." Feng Shuangli wanted to belittle the power of Qi to comfort Sun Kewang, but then he thought again, In the past few decades, the Qi State has defeated the Qing Dynasty several times, and the Ming Dynasty has been turned down several times. In the Nanyang region, it has even massacred cities and destroyed the country.

"The prestige of the Qi State is more than the strength of ships and cannons?" Sun Kewang shook his head and said, "Weiyang, I might as well tell you that since I saw the map of the world, I have made a great wish to expand the border of our Han territory to the north. To the extreme north of the desert, to the vast sea of ​​sand in the west, to the shore of the ocean in the south, conquer Korea and Japan in the east, and build a huge empire that has never been seen in all dynasties!"

"Your Highness..." Feng Shuangli looked at Sun Kewang who looked down on all sentient beings in astonishment, with an inconceivable expression in his eyes.

"If God gives me another 20 years, Gu believes that these grand wishes will be realized one by one in my hands!" Sun Kewang said proudly: "At that time, the emperor's crown will naturally fall on Gu's head." !"

(End of this chapter)