Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"Heaven is like brother, treasure and see you again!"

"My son, you and I will never be able to return to the old friendship, what a pity!"

"Life is unsatisfactory, and it is nothing more than that. After a hundred years, leave it to the world to comment."

"That's right, I'm acting like a woman, haha!"

Outside Jiaozhou City, Chen Zilong, Zhang Pu and the others bid farewell to each other, but the expression of cherishing the goodbye was no longer visible on each other's faces. [

For more than ten days, we all understand each other very well, and we have already walked on different paths.

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After entertaining Zhang Pu, Hou Fangyu, and Wu Yingji for more than ten days, apart from Wu Yingji who planned to visit Dengzhou again, and then went northward on a sea-seeking ship, landed at Tianjin Wei, and entered the capital from Tianjin, Hou Fangyu and Zhang Pu were I plan to go to Jinan. After visiting Jinan to see the local scenery, I will board a boat in Dezhou and return to Jiangnan by water boat.

On the trip to the north, Hou Fangyu is absolutely necessary. He has the temperament of a son-in-law, and everything is too big, with an attitude of indifference. There are more than a hundred Qinlou Chuguan in Linqing, and the north also has beautiful scenery, and Jinan has a lot of business houses, and when the fans are also very outstanding, Hou Dagongzi left those boring things behind and became interested in these things. Strong interest.

He later married Li Xiangjun, a famous Qinhuai prostitute, as his concubine, Mao Xiang married Dong Xiaowan, Donglin leader Qian Qianyi married Liu Rushi, and the other famous courtesans such as Kou Baimen and Gu Mei all sang with the poems of these celebrities. Marry a famous prostitute, linger in the scenery of the Qinhuai River, and make a lot of poetry and wine in the river house, otherwise, it is not enough to be a celebrity.

Even Chen Zilong knew in his heart that Zhang Shouren would not be interested in such a famous person. As for Zhang Pu, he had too many contacts and ambitions, and Zhang Pu had been expelled from the local prefectures and counties. A military official like Zhang Shouren, even if he reaches the position of a general, a celebrity like Zhang Pu is not something he can recruit.

On the other hand, Wu Yingji, Chen Zilong hoped that this deep and melancholy friend with real skills would stay and make a real career out of it. However, although Wu Yingji was interested in everything about Fushan and had many words of appreciation, in the end he couldn't stay. Come down, take the way to Dengzhou, and you must go north.

For more than ten days, he led these few people who were well-known in the south of the Yangtze River and even in the entire Ming Dynasty to tour around Fushan, almost seeing all the places outside the non-military restricted area.

The most spectacular is of course the Fushan Salt Field!

At that time, the sun-dried salt method had its rudiments in many places, but it was very scattered. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that the large-scale and systematic method of sun-dried salt was developed. The popularization of technology in the Ming Dynasty was such a big empire with poor information and very difficult transportation. unimaginable.Well salt and Huai salt have many salt drying methods. Here in Shandong, Fushan salt field is the first, and then Lingshan salt field. The sea area of ​​nearly [-] miles is from deep to shallow, surrounded by layers. saltworks.

When Chen Zilong took Zhang Pu, Hou Fangyu and others to watch, he really felt that it was magnificent and amazing.

Zhang Pu and others are also well-informed. They have also observed the saltworks in Taizhou, but they only felt the beauty of the most simple labor when they were in the Fushan Saltworks.

At that time, it was the time when the salt fields were mixing pools to push salt, and Fushan Field was the largest one preserved. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, the crowds were like swarms of ants of various sizes, and swarms of ants were everywhere. Everyone is holding all kinds of putters or other tools in their hands, which is very ingenious.

Looking in the salt field, there are salt workers blowing trumpets everywhere, their bodies are black and red in the sun, and their shouts resound through the sky, very loud and beautiful, the most moving few Jiangnan celebrities are the salt workers. Produced, those fine white salt grains are of course much worse than the fine salt of later generations, but in this world, it is enough to amaze this group of well-informed intellectuals □□ and feel the beauty of nature Ingenious workmanship.

Looking at the salt ponds planned by Zhang Shouren, the mystery is very simple to say, but who can think of it before someone pierce this piece of paper?

At that time, the transmission of technology was very slow, mainly because the scholar-officials did not like these things other than Confucian classics. People like Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, although they were the governors of Shangshu, because they dabbled in geometry and Western learning of guns and firearms, they did not like it. The scholar-bureaucrats at the time regarded Xu Guangqi as a heresy outside of the mainstream academics, and believed that Xu Guangqi’s academic life was only a Confucian master with the word “miscellaneous”. It doesn't help his reputation either.

As for Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creation of Things" which was exhausted and compiled by a small teaching, it was an epoch-making product at that time. Many methods of making utensils were selected and recorded. Unfortunately, no one paid attention to it, and it was not circulated at all. In the Qing Dynasty, the forbidden biography was simply burned, and the manuscript was not found in Japan until the end of the Qing Dynasty. What a ridiculous thing this is.

Therefore, several famous people in the salt field were strongly shaken. As for whether they will return to the south with the method of drying salt, it is not important. When they first hit the market, they may rely on the goods themselves. It is a market monopoly. [

Fighting openly and covertly for the market, and even wars, are normal things.

It is quite normal for the current situation in Shandong to be followed by salt merchants.

What amazed Zhang Pu and others the most was the spirit of the salt workers.

During the sound of the chant, everyone was full of energy, their bodies were full of muscles and muscles, and they looked very strong.Their bodies were shiny and their faces were rosy. After chanting, they sang songs together. Everyone looked happy. Although they were doing heavy work from morning to night, no one complained about being tired. They all look like they are happy.

It would not be surprising if the leader or the big guys of the saltworks were like this, but it would surprise Zhang Pu and others if all the saltworkers were like this.

They had already seen the prosperity of commercial trade in Jiaozhou and Fushan Qianhusuo. After arriving in Fushan, they saw the grand occasion of salt production from the salt farms. These salt farms produced 60 million shi of salt a year. There are thousands of strong salt workers. There are dozens of salt fields controlled by Fushan. The annual output has already exceeded 400 million, and there will only be more. There must be tens of thousands of workers. If everyone is so strong and optimistic, it is really It's an incredible miracle.

Faced with these doubts and worries, Chen Zilong's answer was also very simple: "There is nothing else, the bank is settled monthly, the children go to school for free, and the sick are free of charge. You only need to bring your own money for herbs. In addition to providing meals and cloth, if someone Those who make trouble in their early days are rare and strange men, if there is such a person, I would like to meet him."

Hundreds of years later, it is not difficult to master the labor of tens of thousands of people. At this time, tens of thousands of strong and strong men gather in one place, but there is a kind of power and feeling that makes people tremble. After this dynasty won the world, the literati and bureaucrats all had a secret agreement...to do as little work as possible, even if it was something like repairing rivers and roads, it was okay not to do it.

The low tax rate of the Ming Dynasty led to the inefficiency of the government. In the early years of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River. Southern officials asked to rebuild the water conservancy. When Chongzhen heard that many people would be mobilized and huge sums of money would be spent, the Chongzhen government immediately stopped talking, using "disturbing the people" as an excuse , Turn this matter up.

The emperor is always like this, one can imagine what kind of virtue the officials are. The officials of the Ming Dynasty embezzled all the money for the construction of the Yellow River. The Yellow River has accidents every year, and the emperor doesn’t care. Rare in the world.

In front of Zhang Pu and others, so many shirtless strong men are a very dangerous existence. Although Daming can't help mining, he is better than my Daqing, but there is always the worry of mining accidents. Several states and counties are stretching, open and scattered, and the supervision is very strict, which is not comparable to Fushan.

But Fushan's various benefits are not comparable to other places. After Chen Zilong made such a big move, Zhang Pu and the others all looked frozen and had nothing to say.

None of the hundreds of salt merchants can do what Fushan does, and only the Fushan family can do it successfully. Even if others want to follow suit, they must have a corresponding set of systems.

At this time, the so-called great generals have their own hills and valleys in their chests, and even Chen Zilong became suspicious. Is this Shouren really so powerful?

"In my opinion, he is only good at leading troops, and he also knows a little about economics, but he has never read too many books. It is really hard to imagine how he can get to this day..."

After watching the salt field, there are a large number of schools. At this time, Zhang Pu and others realized that Chen Zilong's professors are not the kind of miscellaneous officials of the prefectural and county schools, but really like lecturing in an academy. Similarly, hundreds of students sit from low to high, and the teacher lectures in front of them. This kind of situation is not uncommon in the Jiangnan area of ​​Daming, but the scale is definitely far smaller than that in Fushan. With the knowledge of Zhang Pu and others, it is indeed true. Unexpectedly, there are also schools for finance and taxation, as well as the technical college of Jiangzuo, the lecture hall, etc. There are more than a dozen schools of various kinds, with more than 5 students. The meals and accommodation for so many people are all provided by Zhang Shouren Well, studying in medical colleges and technical colleges can also go out for internships and earn petty money. Such a good salary is something that many poor people dare not even think about, and it is inevitable that they flock to it.

Fushan College is a comprehensive university with many disciplines such as agriculture and mathematics, as well as the School of Administration, which teaches people, government affairs, etc. Chen Zilong is teaching in this college, which surprised Zhang Pu and others. Disapproval.

How can academics be made so miscellaneous and openly taught? This is already like Li Zhi's feeling of betraying the holy way.

For Chen Zilong, it is nothing more than teaching people the basics of economics. Few of these young children are really smart, and even fewer are from wealthy families. Learning miscellaneous knowledge is much better than being a blind man at home.

"I'm afraid it's what your general said again."

"It's what he said is good, but it still makes sense." Facing Zhang Pu's ashen complexion, Chen Zilong looked calm and at ease.