The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 484 The Weaving Bureau Was Burned
Among them, there is naturally a coincidence.

"Thank you, brother. Since you think highly of Pei, just say what you want. If Pei says no, he's not a man."

Pei Yan patted her chest in defense.

Xie Shen was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately said: "Actually, this matter is easy for Brother Pei. The court wants to recruit troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and the first one to bear the brunt is the Hangzhou government."

"conscription?"

Like everyone else's reaction, Pei Qianhu was also astonished.

This is to do something!
"Brother Xie, what is this conscription?"

Xie Shen had no choice but to tell Pei Qianhu about the conscription plan again. Of course, many details were skipped, because Pei Qianhu didn't need to know these things for the time being.

Thinking that Pei Yan was born in a family of military households, he has been influenced by his ears and eyes since he was a child, and has already formed a fixed mindset.

It is indeed difficult to ask him to accept the recruitment system all at once.

Fortunately, Pei Yan is a very good person, he asks what should be asked, and doesn't ask what should not be asked.

"Since that's the case, Pei won't ask any more questions. Brother Xie pointed east, Pei will never go west!"

Xie Shen patted Pei Yan's shoulder in relief, and sighed: "Good brother."

The matter of conscription is related to the fate of Ming Dynasty, Xie Shen naturally dare not be careless.

After discussing with Pei Yan and Wu Zhen for a long time, he came up with a detailed plan.

Recruiting soldiers is an extensive and continuous matter, but the first stop naturally starts from Hangzhou.

According to Xie Shen's request, the preparations for recruiting troops have been completed, and the rest is to select suitable candidates from among the young and strong with ordinary citizenship.

On the fourth day of July, rush to the south of the tiger.It is advisable to pray for blessings, ask for heirs, accept lottery, and marry.Avoid going to office, traveling, fasting, and consecration.

Judging from the almanac, it seems that he is not suitable for conscription.

But Xie Shen doesn't care about these.

There is no need to procrastinate since the decision to conscript is made.

This thing is not about weddings and funerals, so there is no need to pay too much attention to taboos.

According to the plan, there are four conscription points in Hangzhou Mansion, each of which is in charge of a thousand households.

Three out of thousands of households in Hangzhou Mansion were transferred, and the remaining one was temporarily transferred to Pei Yan in Hangzhou.

At the beginning, there were not many people who applied for the recruitment, which was expected by Xie Shen, and he was not in a hurry.

As time went by, the people of Hangzhou Mansion gradually became curious and came to ask the soldiers of Qianhusuo about the whole story of the conscription.

After learning that the purpose of recruiting soldiers this time is to create a new army, the benefits are favorable and the children and grandchildren do not have to join the army, many people are moved.

You know, even in the affluent Hangzhou, not everyone can live a comfortable life.

Many people can only barely eat and wear, and they have to work day and night from dawn to dusk.

The recruited new army has a monthly salary of two taels of silver, and does not need to farm and farm, and is not considered a military household, so they will not be imprisoned by this system.

After a fierce ideological struggle, some people finally decided to sign up to join the army.

Of course, more people are still watching.

Three days later, the number of people from Hangzhou Mansion who signed up to join the army was 510, which was far lower than Xie Shen's expectations.

Xie Shen asked several responsible thousand households to inquire, and the answer he got was that the people who came to inquire finally gave up because of their inherent prejudice against soldiers in the army.

Xie Shen frowned: "What does this mean?"

Pei Yan smiled wryly and said: "It should be some bad habits of the army. On weekdays, whenever soldiers in the guards have conflicts with the common people, the people who suffer are always the losers. Because state and county officials have no right to deal with the soldiers in the guards. What they can deal with is only the civilians." native people."

Xie Shen nodded and said, "I see."

In the final analysis, it was the somewhat deformed system of military households that caused the trouble.

In the more than one hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military household system has long been deeply ingrained, and its bad habits have continued.

Ordinary soldiers were oppressed by the officers, so they turned their anger on the common people. During the fight, the common people had to report to the officials, but because the state and county officials had no authority over the soldiers in the guards, they had to suffer from being dumb.

In this way, they naturally do not have a good impression of soldiers, and it is really difficult to get them to join the army.

"Didn't you explain the difference in this new army?"

The biggest difference between the new army that Xie Shen wants to create and the officers and soldiers of the guard is that the soldiers of the new army do not break away from their citizenship and are still under the jurisdiction of local states and counties.

This point can be said to be decisive, and it will make many people who waver in their attitudes finally choose to join the army.

Pei Qianhu smiled shyly and said, "Of course I said it, but there are still very few people who are willing to join the army."

Now Xie Shen was a little confused.

Did the people of Ming Dynasty reject the army to such an extent?

"I see."

Xie Shen pondered for a moment, then ordered: "From tomorrow onwards, the conscription points will be set up in the villages outside the city."

"I'm afraid there will be no recruits in the village, right?"

Pei Yan looked distressed and explained: "Unless it is a tenant farmer without land, who is willing to abandon his wife and join the army. Although the new army will not change their citizenship, they will also be trained in closed doors."

"What I want to recruit are tenant farmers. I'm afraid Pei Qianhu doesn't know that the land in all the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River is basically in the hands of aristocratic families, and the land that really belongs to the common people is very little."

"Is that so?"

The Qianhusuo under Pei Yan's command is basically a small closed world, and he has only heard about the land conditions outside, and has no real experience.

Under such circumstances, it is reasonable for him to be ignorant of the land ownership in various prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Well, tomorrow I will arrange for people to go to the village to recruit soldiers."

In Xie Shen's view, farmers are more suitable to join the army than urban people.

One is that the peasant households are more honest, less thoughtful, and less able to calculate and calculate to make it easier to manage.

Second, farmers can endure more hardships.

It doesn't matter whether it's the guards' army or the new army, as long as you serve as a soldier, you will inevitably have a lot of training, and hard work is inevitable.

Without a strong physique and no mental preparation for hardship, even if you go to be drafted into the army, you will have to cry and cry to go home within a few days.

Of course, this does not mean that there must be more people recruited from rural households than urban residents, but you have to try to know.

After arranging all the matters properly, Xie Shen withdrew and left.

But just as he got into the sedan chair and was about to leave, a familiar figure appeared in front of him.

"Master Xiaoge, something is wrong!"

Eunuch Zhang Yong had a sad expression on his face, as if he had been greatly wronged.

Xie Shen lifted the car curtain, frowned and asked, "Eunuch Zhang, speak slowly, what happened?"

Zhang Yong sighed and said: "It's not our worry-free younger brother. He had a dispute with people from the chamber of commerce and was beaten in the end."

I rely on!

Xie Shen was startled, and quickly asked, "How is the situation now?"

Zhang Yong said angrily: "They not only beat our younger brother, but also set fire to the weaving bureau. This is a rebellion!"

Hearing this, Xie Shen finally understood that Zhang Yong was not joking when he said something big happened.

If it was just Zhang Yong's younger brother who was beaten, it would be no big deal. The most he could do would be to take the assailant to the Yamen to beat him up.

But now these mobs actually burned the weaving bureau, and the matter couldn't be suppressed even if they wanted to.

This is what Xie Shen is most worried about.

If it were on a normal day, this would be insignificant at all, but now that the holy driver is here, no matter how he handles it, it will alarm the emperor.

"How does Eunuch Zhang think this matter should be handled?"

In desperation, Xie Shen had no choice but to throw the problem to Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong originally thought that Xie Shen would take care of everything and take this matter to himself, but Xie Shen turned to ask him, and Zhang Yong was stunned.

"Old Xiaoge, what does this mean? If our family could handle it, it would have been handled long ago."

Xie Shen quickly waved his hands and explained: "Eunuch Zhang misunderstood, Xie didn't mean that."

After coughing, Xie Shen continued, "Xie is saying whether Eunuch Zhang wants to be treated cold or heat."

"Cold treatment or heat treatment?"

Apparently Zhang Yong didn't understand these two terms very well, so he repeated them mutteringly.

"Uh, it's my fault that Xie didn't make it clear." Xie Shen had no choice but to explain patiently: "The so-called cold treatment is to suppress the matter first and not deal with it, and wait until the turmoil has subsided, and then stand up to deal with it. The heat treatment is to deal with it with Thunder's wrist made a decisive decision."

After listening to Xie Shen's explanation, Zhang Yong finally understood these two terms, and immediately said: "Of course it's better to heat treatment. If you wait until the turmoil subsides, what's the use of disposing of it!"

Seeing that Xie Shen remained silent after he finished speaking, his heart beat for a moment.

Uh, did our family say something wrong?
He thought about it for a second, if this incident becomes a big one, it will definitely reach the ears of the emperor, and the emperor will definitely call him to ask him what happened.

Don't care who took advantage of this matter, in the heart of the emperor, he will definitely think that he, a slave, is ignorant.

This is not difficult to understand, the emperor had to waste all his strength to escape from the capital and come to this prosperous Jiangnan.

This was originally a great happy event. If these trivial matters affect the mood, the emperor will definitely be furious.

When the emperor was angry, he buried a million corpses.

Although it is unlikely that the troublemakers will be executed today, it is still not a problem to ask Jin Yiwei to beat up these troublemakers.

Annoyed by the emperor, it is impossible to distinguish whose fault it is. The biggest possibility is that the two sides each played [-] big boards.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yong felt cold sweat running down his back.

In summer, he actually felt cold all over his body!

"Old Xiaoge, it's better to deal with it coldly."

Seeing that Zhang Yong made the correct judgment, Xie Shen finally let out a sigh of relief.

That's right.

"Since Eunuch Zhang has already made a fuss, he can inform the prefect of Hangzhou, I believe he will understand."

Whether this matter is big or small, as long as it is handled properly, it can still be resolved.

Even if eunuch Zhang went to trouble those members of the chamber of commerce, it would be better than messing around at this juncture.

It stands to reason that when the weaving bureau was burned, it would be best for the governor Wu Zhen to come forward to deal with it.But Governor Wu is now keeping his ears to the outside world and only pretending to be sick. I'm afraid he won't be able to invite this great god.

Then, the best thing to do is to call the magistrate to mediate.

"Okay, let's go to the magistrate's yamen now."

Zhang Yong turned to leave, but suddenly remembered something, turned around and cupped his hands at Xie Shen, and said, "Older Xiao Ge's reminder, we will keep it in our hearts, and we will definitely repay it in the future!"

"Eunuch Zhang is being polite."

Xie Shen nodded slightly and accepted the gift from Eunuch Zhang.

After Eunuch Zhang left, Xie Shen ordered in a deep voice, "Go to the Mogan Chamber of Commerce."

Xie Shen temporarily decided to go to the Mogan Chamber of Commerce, naturally because of the burning of the weaving bureau.

Regardless of whether members of Ning knew about this matter, it was always the people from the Mogan Chamber of Commerce who burned the Weaving Bureau.

Ning Yi, the president of the chamber of commerce, should bear some responsibility.

The sedan chair landed outside the gate of the chamber of commerce, Xie Shenshi hurriedly stepped out of the sedan chair, and saw two nurses approaching immediately.

"who are you?"

Their eyes were full of vigilance, as if they would draw their swords at each other if they disagreed.

Xie Shen smiled and said: "I am your friend of Chairman Ning, I wonder if Chairman Ning is here?"

"President Ning's friend?"

The burly and muscular nurse looked at Xie Shen suspiciously, as if he was judging the authenticity of this matter.

After a long time, he spit out a mouthful of dirty air.

"Forget it, come with someone."

After speaking, he turned around and walked inward first.

Xie Shen also walked in after him.

It has to be said that the combination of gardens and architecture in the south of the Yangtze River has reached perfection.

Let's just say that the Mogan Chamber of Commerce, just the pavilions and pavilions in front of the chamber of commerce, will make people think that this is the private residence of some wealthy businessman.

Xie Shen followed the nursing courtyard all the way through the halls and courtyards, and came to a courtyard named Zhuoshantang.

"This is where the business meeting is held, and Chairman Ning is inside."

Xie Shen nodded and said, "Thank you very much."

After speaking, he walked towards the hall.

Walking into the hall, I saw a group of black and white people arguing, looking like they were about to fight.

Seeing Ning Yi sitting on the official hat chair above, Xie Shen hurried forward to Ning Yi and cupped his hands and said, "Member Ning, don't come here and be safe."

Seeing that it was Xie Shen who came, Ning Yi was slightly surprised.

While stroking his beard, he said, "Siming is here."

"Let's talk inside."

Ning Yi gave a wry smile, got up first and walked to the inner room.

Xie Shen understood and followed in.

The two came to the inner room to sit down one after another, and Ning Yi sighed, "Siming must have come here because of the burning of the weaving bureau?"

Xie Shen nodded and said, "Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from Ning."

Although Xie Shen has pushed this matter to Zhang Yong, it doesn't mean he doesn't care.

This matter is really strange, Ning Yi has always been calm and sophisticated, and the members of the chamber of commerce he founded actually set fire to the weaving bureau, Xie Shen still wants to know the whole story.

"Si Ming has also seen it. Now they have turned the Chamber of Commerce into a mess. I really want to let go of it, little old man."

After Ning Yi complained, he told Xie Shen what happened again.

It turned out that Zhang Song, the eunuch's younger brother, was extremely arrogant and domineering because of his two backgrounds, the Weaving Bureau and Eunuch Zhang.

(End of this chapter)