Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 324 Liu's Workshop belongs to the world, not only to Daming

As we all know, human beings are social creatures with a strong sense of seriousness--Liu Dashan's family is making a lot of money by running tabloids secretly, how can Mr. Qian, Mr. Zhang and other sages and gentry from the countryside remain indifferent?
It just so happened that Liu Dashan also knew what he was doing and what the consequences would be if this matter was exposed, so Liu Dashan was also hoping that someone would follow him.

If people in Liu Dashan want to do it alone, they have to kill a large group of people. This is called supervising the court. If all the sages and gentry in the world do this, it means that the court is really unpopular.

In particular, Master Qian’s ancestor is Qian Qianyi, a senior scholar, Master Zhang’s ancestor is Pu, the leader of Fushe, and Master Li’s ancestor is Li Sancai, a famous Donglin gentleman in the Ming Dynasty. Any of these people are close friends. There are a lot of old stories, and the strength of the net can't be said to be compared with Liu Dashan in the Qing Dynasty, but no matter what, it is three points stronger than Liu Dashan who fell into the hands of Daming.

Then, Liu Dashan, who has always been more stingy than Liu Huaiwen, who would even want to wash a soybean and eat it back, took the initiative to send people to help Mr. Qian, Mr. Zhang and other villagers The sages and gentlemen set up tabloids.

All in all, these lace tabloids in Jiangnan have been wrong in three views and wicked in five elements since the day they were born.

What's even more frustrating is that the Ming court at that time was busy, not only busy building Daming railways and roads, dredging rivers, persuading farmers and mulberry, etc. A group of countries are digging holes, and most of the intelligence agencies such as Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and even Tiandihui are focusing on other places, and they don't care about these messy tabloids at all.

Even the local government didn't bother to pay attention to them.

In the minds of the officials, since tabloids are not included in the examination of the imperial court's four-frame and eight-method test, and the inspectors and censors don't care too much about it, why do they care about their lives?
With that time and effort, it is better to think about how to make the life of the people under the rule better, how to make the people under the rule have more children and build more roads.

This is a basic operation in the officialdom - under normal circumstances, these officials don't care too much about things that the court and upper officials don't care much about.

For example, the great Emperor Qianlong didn't care about the life and death of ordinary people, and the officials and lords of the Qing Dynasty naturally didn't care too much, and He Zhongtang even put forward the famous theory of saving the people first and saving the government first and that grain mixed with sand can save more people. .

This is because the upper officials don't care, so the people below naturally don't care.

The local government didn't pay much attention to these tabloids. As a result, Liu Dashan and other sages and gentry suddenly found another way to make money.

After finding this way to get rich, Liu Dashan was even a little grateful to Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of the Tianzi brand—if Zhu Jinsong hadn't spared no effort to eliminate illiteracy and promote social studies since the beginning of the rebellion, what would happen in the world? So many literate people here?

With fewer literate people, the demand for tabloids naturally ceased to exist. It’s like the prevalence of novels in the Ming Dynasty, because the literacy rate in Ming Dynasty reached a certain level, and there were more literate people. There was such a demand. In the Qing Dynasty, only Chinese operas were popular, because Chinese operas were watched by listening and did not require literacy.

Of course, this kind of gratitude does not mean that Liu Dashan is sincerely grateful to Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzizi. Zhu Jinsong is an anti-thief leader.

If it weren't for Zhu Jinsong, how could Liu Dashan be tossing about such untechnical things as lace tabloids?

It's just that I have to admit that Liu Dashan is indeed capable, otherwise it would be impossible to have a relationship with Fukang'an, let alone flourish in the Qing Dynasty.

These lace tabloids produced by Liu Dashan have always been on the surface to talk about issues from the perspective of the common people, and there are also derogations and praises for the achievements and losses of the Ming Dynasty court-more derogations, less praises, big derogations and small exaggerations, Heavy derogation and light exaggeration, overt exaggeration and undertones.

The truth is to understand the trick of anti-faking loyalty.

Even Master Qian, who is the descendant of Qian Qianyi and Qian University, has to admire these routines played by Mr. Liu Dashan.

It was precisely because he had seen all these routines of Liu Dashan that he was very worried that Master Qian, who wanted to stab Liu Dashan, was worried that Liu Dashan would suddenly stab him in the back.

It's just that Steward Qian, who has been undercover in the Qian family for more than ten years, doesn't take it seriously: "Master, how can Liu Dashan's reputation be compared with our family's?"

"Don't forget, although our family's ancestors also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, our family's ancestors also supported the rebels against the Qing Dynasty. This is for money, food and intelligence. It is true that they are in Cao Ying's heart." Han."

"If it wasn't for this, I'm afraid the imperial court would have liquidated us long ago."

"More importantly, our family has always been a farming and studying heirloom. Apart from the extra few acres of land, we don't have anything else, right?"

"His Liu family is different. Mr. Liu Dashan once set up a nursery hall and a smoke house in Songjiang Mansion. Liu Chuanshan gave his daughter to Fukang'an to play with. Their family has long been tied to Jianyi. If it weren't for the common people, they would think that he Xin is a kind person and protects him, I am afraid that the government will liquidate their family long ago."

Speaking of this, Steward Qian laughed again, and said in a low voice: "Also, when this old slave went to the government today, he revealed everything about his Liu Family's Nursing Hall and the smokehouse, and the other old slaves knew about it." I also roughly talked to Master Futai, and now..."

Qian Zhili Master Qian was taken aback for a moment, then said: "Did you say something?"

Steward Qian nodded, and replied: "That's for sure. Anyway, the responsibility belongs to his Liu family. If the old slave doesn't put the shit bowl on his Liu family first, why should he wait for his Liu family to take the shit bowl to his Liu family first?" On our heads?"

Master Qian frowned and said, "What kind of shit is not shit, how decent is it!"

After reprimanding Steward Qian, Master Qian went on to order: "Anyway, you can make the Ten Thousand Years Ship if you are careful, and you should send people to watch, not only the houses of the few of them. At the same time, we have to send people to watch the gate of the yamen, in case they also send people to the magistrate's yamen, we can also deal with it in advance."

Butler Qian thought to himself that you are still dealing with a fart, so just stay at home honestly. When the magistrate finishes cleaning up Mr. Liu Dashan, it will naturally be your turn, Mr. Qian. None of you bastards can escape Lose!

After thinking about it, Steward Qian still bowed obediently and replied: "Since the master said so, then the old slave will send someone over now?"

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Facts have proved that Master Qian's worries were not superfluous.

Who once said that fish look for fish, shrimp look for shrimp, turtles look for bastards—the Liu Dashan who can mix with Qian Zhili, Master Qian, is naturally not a good bird.

After the ancestral grave of Mr. Qian's family was dug up in Qian Zhili, Mr. Liu Dashan summoned Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li and others to discuss it at Mr. Qian's house. Although Mr. Liu Dashan did not speak much during the process, Regarding the fact that the ancestral graves of Master Qian and others had been dug up, Liu Dashan instinctively felt something was wrong.

After returning home in a hurry, Mr. Liu Dashan summoned Liu Chuanshan and his confidants together.

Liu Dashan was the first to say: "Recently the limelight is not right, the old man suspects that the imperial court may have to deal with this matter heavily."

Liu Chuanshan was startled and asked, "Did Father hear something?"

Mr. Liu Dashan squinted his eyes slightly, and said: "Master Qian's family's ancestral graves have been dug up, and so have the ancestral graves of Mr. Li's and Mr. Zhang's families. Act cautiously and not be caught."

"It's just that today is different from the past. During the Qing Dynasty, even if something went wrong, our family would be safe. But now, our family's biggest backer is no longer reliable, and Mr. Zhang and the others know the reason behind it." Things, if they are the first to make the first report, I'm afraid..."

After a slight pause, Mr. Liu Dashan went on to say: "We can't afford to gamble, and we can't gamble. Once we lose, we will lose everything. Our family can't afford it now."

After some consideration, Liu Chuanshan said: "What if we make the first report?"

Mr. Liu Dashan shook his head and said: "Others can be the first to report, but our family can't - don't forget about the nursery hall and the smokehouse, although the government didn't pursue anything, it's hard to guarantee that the government won't write down the account .”

Liu Yuanqing, the second son of Liu Dashan, frowned and said, "Father, is he worrying too much? You must know that our Liu family not only has workshops here in Songjiang Prefecture, but also in Jiaozhi, Burma, Ryukyu, Wa, and even Lanfang and Jiugang. In our workshop, to put it bluntly, there are nearly a hundred thousand workers who rely on our family for food alone, even if the imperial court wants to move our family, it may not be so easy, right?"

"Confused!" Liu Dashan slammed the crutch in his hand, and shouted: "Nearly a hundred thousand? How about a million water workers back then? Didn't the court just say that the water transportation was abolished? There were almost a hundred thousand people in the district, What can it be considered in the eyes of the current imperial court?"

Liu Yuanqing said unconvinced: "Our Liu family, how can we be like those water workers? How many goods have our workshop produced? How many countries have they exported to Europe?"

"If you really think about it, our Liujia Workshop can be regarded as a small broken ball, not only his Daming, but we can also be regarded as a face of Daming in Europa, how can the court talk about it? Just move?"

"Also, the tax that our Liu family pays to the national treasury every year is more than one million or ten million. The imperial court moved our Liu family. Where should he go to make up for this million or ten million tax?"

Liu Dashan looked at Liu Yuanqing as if he was looking at a fool: "The world? Who? Our Liu family?"

After shaking his head in disappointment, Liu Dashan couldn't help but ask back: "Then I'm asking you, how does our Liu family compare to the original Lanfang Company?"

Liu Yuanqing was taken aback by the question, and when he came back to his senses, he answered honestly: "After all, Lanfang Company occupies the entire Lanfang. Although our Liu family has workshops in many places, it is still better than Lanfang Company." How much worse."

Liu Dashan snorted coldly and said, "Then why didn't my father hear Luo Fangbo say that Lanfang Company is a small broken ball?"

Seeing Liu Yuanqing's choked face flushed red, Liu Chuanshan immediately stood up and smoothed things over: "Father calmed down, and the second brother was also impatient for a while, so he spoke recklessly."

Liu Dashan snorted coldly, and instead of reprimanding Liu Yuanqing, he told Liu Chuanshan, "Go and clean up the gold and silver in the house, pick up some good ones, and then bring those of our family to have children. Find a way to go to the old port by sea, and then transfer to Europa from the old port."

Liu Chuanshan was startled and asked, "Father, is this a little..."

Liu Dashan snorted coldly, and asked back: "Is it a bit of a big deal?"

Without waiting for Liu Chuanshan's answer, Liu Dashan began to ask and answer himself: "As the so-called three caves of cunning rabbits, if the imperial court really wants to deal with them severely, and Master Zhang and Master Li are the first to report, our Liu family will inevitably be in danger of extinction. Letting you go to Europa with your gold and silver treasures is also a plan for a rainy day, it’s best if nothing happens, but if something happens, you won’t be caught by the net.”

Liu Chuanshan shook his head and said, "England and France on Europa are all allies of Ming. If the Ming court wants to arrest our Liu family, I'm afraid England and France won't protect us, right?"

Liu Dashan said humanely: "England and France certainly won't, but the Holy Roman Empire and Ottomans will protect us."

Hearing what Liu Dashan said, Liu Chuanshan's brows immediately frowned even tighter: "However, the Holy Roman Empire and Ottoman are in danger now, even if they can protect us for a while, when England and France join hands with Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid... ..."

Liu Dashan sighed helplessly, "Then what can we do?"

"In the current situation, I really can't blame others. If I want to blame, I can only blame that surname Zhu for not leaving room for things."

"If we don't stand up and resist, I'm afraid that sooner or later it will be a situation where blunt knives will cut our flesh. If we rebel immediately, we will fall right into the arms of the Zhu family's child."

"The only solution now is to procrastinate for a while."

Speaking of this, Liu Dashan cheered up again, and said: "In addition to our family's children, you should bring more master craftsmen, especially those who can read and write."

"After you arrive in Europa, find a way to buy some books such as "Heavenly Creation"—since the Holy Roman Empire and Ottoman's national power is weak, let's find a way to make their national power stronger!"

(End of this chapter)