Daming Yinghua

Chapter 188

After the Battle of Fushun, Wu Bangde always wandered between Liaodong and Shandong.

In the circle of civil servants and generals, Wu Bangde's public appearance is Qi Jin's adopted son, but since Congwen and Congjun have no skills, he does business with Zheng Haizhu and helps her run errands.

When Qi Jin, as the commander of the Zhejiang army, led his troops to withdraw from Liaodong where the war subsided, Zhang Chengyin, Zou Chuxian and other Liao generals even joked with Qi Jin: "Old Qi, Wu Weizhong, the grandson of the only seedling, is afraid that he is going to be an intruder for Miss Zheng. Uncle."

Qi Jin responded with a haha ​​at that time: "If the door is inserted backwards, the door is inserted backwards. Isn't that the first child's surname is Zheng? As long as there is one of the first few males with the surname Wu, it will be enough. I hope you are lucky, if this boy is really like Miss Zheng When a woman of character has flesh and blood, Old Wu will wake up laughing in his coffin."

It is a pity that the good stories that these older generation of bourgeois military strategists expected did not come true.

As the shopkeeper of Haoming Trading Co., Miss Zheng promised the supply of Songjiang cotton cloth, Hangsun Lake Brocade and Fujian-Taiwan black tea to several Liao generals who defended the important border trade town, and then the wind blew to the south.A few months after the Luowan Naval Battle in Heliao in the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong General Zhang Chengyin and others saw Zheng Haizhu's name from the court's pond newspaper. Together with Taiwan's Xuanfu chieftain Yan Siqi, it was hung on a string of Fujian Navy generals. behind.

Looking at Wu Bangde again, in the past two years, he either received goods in Liaodong, or he and Mao Wenlong's adopted son, Kong Youde, who is simple on the surface but better than a monkey, transported young men abroad.

The first few batches in Zhuang Dingli were fellow villagers from Kong Youde's hometown Tieling, who went to the Lu Fan in Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province to dig coal.Liaodong, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, has faded out of the court's vision of forcing taxation, and Tieling is even more poor.

By the spring of this year, Wu Bangde brought out Liaodong no longer to the ordinary hoarders in Tieling, but the Liaodong Han people who had a blood feud with the Jianzhou Jurchen.The destination of transporting people is no longer the coal mine of King Lu's Mansion in Shandong, but the base that Zheng Haizhu plans to build himself in South Zhili.

At this moment, Mao Wenlong's eldest son, Mao Chengbei, and Mao's confidant Xu San, by the wharf at Wusongkou, Shanghai County, counted the northern specialties such as mink fur, ginseng, deer antler, mountain mushroom medicinal materials, sea fish and shellfish sticks, etc. The tax collectors of the Customs Supervision and Paying Office gave filial silver, and after paying about 20 taels of tax silver such as ship introduction fees and cargo tax, they dared to call the shopkeepers who had orders with Haoming Trading Co., and took away [-] to [-] percent of the goods.

The rest will be transported by the trading company to the headquarters in Hangzhou, where they will continue to be sold.

"Miss Zheng, this boat will probably bring in a net profit of nearly 3000 taels of silver." Mao Chengbei reckoned.

Zheng Haizhu was overjoyed.

The sea trade between Liaodong and Zhezhi is not comparable to that of transocean sea trade, which can earn three to five times or even ten times the profit for one trip, but in terms of time cost, the profit is still considerable.

It takes only one or two days from Lushun to Dengzhou, and only ten days from Dengzhou to Songjiang, which is much faster than traveling by land.

After unloading the northern cargo of the ship in front of me, the silk and rice from Hangzhou will arrive at Wusong Port in two days, and they will be transported on board together with Songjiang cotton cloth.

Zheng Haizhu finished staring at the section on cargo ships paying taxes, and suddenly heard "Master Huang" shouted from behind him.

When he turned his head, Huang Zunsu had already walked up.

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly led Mao Chengbei and Xu San to salute, and said with a smile on his face: "Master Huang, as soon as February comes, the Beichuan will be able to come. Judging by this posture, Shanghai's tariff money will definitely exceed Yuegang this year. "

Huang Zunsu was promoted to general judge last year, and the prefect Zhuang Yumin relied on him more and more because of the excellent management of the waterway leading to the sea.

But Huang Zunsu appeared at the customs today, half to inspect customs affairs, and half to think about Zheng Haizhu's affairs.

So he didn't go to meet Zheng Haizhu's flattery, he just looked around and asked, "Where is the person you pretended to be from Liaodong?"

Zheng Haizhu immediately understood, pointed to Wu Bangde's large group of strong men who were eating dry food not far away, and said with gratitude: "Master is thinking about it, and they all got off the boat, a total of 130 and nine people."

Huang Zunsu said "hmm" and glanced at Mao Chengbei.Mao Chengbei understood, bowed and retreated.

Only then did Huang Zunsu whisper to Zheng Haizhu: "After Yao Zongwen returned to the capital, he read a book, saying that he was a gentry in Southern Zhili, and the number of domesticated householders was shocking, especially in the Second Mansion of Su and Song."

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, the smile on his face faded away.

When she was in Fujian, she heard from the well-informed Zhang Yanke that the chief assistant Fang Congzhe sent his fellow villager Yao Zongwen to patrol Nanzhili, and everyone in the court was waiting to eat melons and watch the show.

Of course Zheng Haizhu understood the deep meaning of these words.

Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the court and the "single minister" of the cabinet, is the leader of the Zhejiang Party. Yao Zongwen, the speaker, has always been the most vicious in impeaching officials of the Donglin faction.Yao Zongwen visited Nanzhili, how could he not dig up more "black material" and go back to claim credit for the chief assistant?
Therefore, Zheng Haizhu, who returned to Songjiang after the Minghe sea battle, was really relieved to hear that Huang Zunsu of the Donglin faction had excellent grades and was promoted smoothly.

Listening to what Huang Zunsu said today, it turned out that Yao Zongwen still bit it.

Historically, in the year that just passed, that is, in 1619 AD, the Saerhu Battle between the Ming army and the Later Jin army would take place. After the Ming army was defeated, the imperial court used Xiong Tingbi, who was at home, to enter the Liao Dynasty and organize the army.Yao Zongwen, who used to be the same speech officer as Xiong Tingbi, was negligent because he begged for support, and angrily impeached Xiong Tingbi for neglecting the frontier preparations, so Xiong Tingbi was dismissed from office, and Yuan Yingtai, an official from the Ministry of Industry who did not understand the military at all, took over as governor of Liaodong. After the Liaoshen fall and other major losses.

In this time and space, due to the victory in the defense of Fushun, Zhang Chengyin, Zou Chuxian and other generals in Liaodong are still alive and well. The Battle of Saerhu did not come as scheduled. Later, the Jin army turned to gather strength to attack the old enemy Yehe Jurchen. Xiong Tingbi is still unemployed in the countryside.

But a mouse feces of perfect color will never let go of the opportunity to disturb the porridge wherever it goes.

Yao Zongwen's role changed from impeaching Xiong Tingbi to impeaching officials from the Donglin faction in Southern Zhili.

In the sea breeze at Wusongkou, Zheng Haizhu thought for a moment, and said bluntly to Huang Zunsu: "I heard that Yao Zongwen is from Ningbo just like you, sir. Could it be that this time is not only a dispute between Qi Chuzhe and Donglin, but also It's the gentry over there in Ningbo, who are not upset about the opening and closing of Songjiang?"

Huang Zunsu also made this guess.

Shuangyu Port near Ningbo was successively controlled by Chinese pirates who hired Japanese, and Spaniards who could not get Macau like the Portuguese, and became a stronghold for sea smuggling.

Many officials in the DPRK and China are well aware that the gentry and wealthy households in the Ningbo area, as far as Hangzhou in the north, and Wenzhou in the south, may not be all involved in smuggling sea trade in Shuangyu Port. Bowl full.

When Emperor Longqing allowed Fujian Yuegang to open and close, he still prohibited merchants in the Zhejiang Strait area from going to trade.Therefore, the Yuegang switch does not affect the smugglers in Zhejiang too much.However, last year Songjiang opened and closed smoothly. Because Hangzhou weaving is too close to Songjiang, and the output of silk and brocade is the richest, Emperor Wanli, who loves money to the bone, did not order to ban Zhejiang merchant ships from entering Wusongkou.

The gray area is gone, and the forces in the dark will naturally send a spokesperson to jump out.

Huang Zunsu then said to Zheng Haizhu: "Yao Zongwen is troubled, no matter what self-interest is out of it, you should be more careful in recruiting so many people to Chongming this time."

Zheng Haizhu pretended to be listening to the teachings, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, Mr. Huang. Although I have been ordered now, I still regard myself as a small grassroots. Just because Chongming Island is sparsely populated, it is not like firing artillery and training gunners in the suburbs of Songjiang." It disturbs the people like that, so I want to set up another gun factory there. After a close visit to Chongming Island, I didn’t expect that it was not full of water bubbles like Liaodong. This inspired the idea of ​​bringing the Han people who were about to starve to death in Liaodong to farm the fields."

Huang Zunsu saw that she was getting more and more nervous as she talked, so she turned to comfort her: "The act of farming in the fields is aboveboard, and you have the order of Mrs. 'Anyuan', so don't be too alarmed. Usually there are many things about farming. , group training is enough. The prefect of Suzhou is also my Donglin sect."

The implication is very clear, as long as the Qi Chuzhe Party in the DPRK does not come to frame you for raising private soldiers, the Donglin faction officials of my Su Song Second Mansion will cover you before it is too late.

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly expressed his thanks.

Later generations belonged to Chongming Island in Shanghai. At this time, Daming was under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture.

Zheng Haizhu has long set his sights on Chongming Island, but after returning last year and receiving the order of "Mrs. Anyuan" who was exchanged for two military exploits in Fushun and Fujian, she was free and qualified to give Chongming a place. Economical.

Chongming Island, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, was regarded as the gateway to the east coast, and the imperial court had a thousand households.When it came to the Japanese invasion in Jiajing, Chongming County became the forefront of anti-Japanese.

During the two dynasties of Wanli and Apocalypse, the military affairs of Chongming and other places were abolished, but after the Qing army entered the customs and went all the way south, some capable Ming officials in Nanjing immediately arrived at Chongming Island, and quickly formed a navy, gathered warships, and stockpiled military supplies. , and recruited Jiangnan warriors, preparing to use Chongming Island as an important military base for resisting the Qing Dynasty.Later, the Qing army did suffer a lot due to the combination of the naval forces of the Ming army and land forces on Chongming Island.

It can be seen that the status of Chongming cannot be underestimated.

Zheng Haizhu took a fancy to Chongming, also because it and Yan Siqi still kept the base in Daishan, Zhejiang, echoing from north to south, with Songjiang Customs in the middle, and very close to Qi's army in Zhenjiang.

In this era, it is necessary to have our own armed forces, even if we have more than a thousand people, it is good.

Last year, Wu Bangde returned to Jiangnan and reported with Zheng Haizhu the establishment of commercial companies in Fushun, Liaoyang, Dengzhou, and Yanzhou, which were actually intelligence agencies. Zheng Haizhu asked him to recruit people from Liaodong as soon as possible. Survivors under the knife.Those trackers from Shandong in those days have now been trained by Qi's army instructors to become skilled servants, who can relay and train Liaodong people.

At this moment, led by Zheng Haizhu, Huang Zunsu walked to the other side of the pier to see those Liaodong Han people who were about to board the small sand boats that are common in the Yangtze River and ferry them to Chongming Island.

Zheng Haizhu didn't know that there was a pair of eyes full of hatred staring at her not far away.

The owner of the eyes is also from Liaodong, but more precisely, he is also from Songjiang.

(End of this chapter)