Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 481 Ten What

In fact, regardless of the West India Company or Jiaduobao Company, the entire business entity has not changed much. This secret meeting is just Song Qingshu using the privilege of the Dutch East India Company to expose the ambitions of the directors in advance, and the company His business goal is to extend his tentacles to the depths of the ocean little by little, and what the Dutch East India Company needs, he and the directors will have to face it together sooner or later.

As for why this ambition should be exposed, it is very simple. People without ambition, such as Zheng Zhilong, have a huge fleet and powerful armaments, but when the Qing army went south, they surrendered easily and gave away tens of millions of taels of family property. Manchurians were slaughtered as pigs.

Rights are like drugs. Once they are seduced, people will gradually become addicted and addicted to it. When these big directors deliberately taste the taste of rights, let them serve as slaves to the Manchurians. It is even worse than killing them. Look at the British, in order to keep the democratic rights at hand, even the king can be beheaded. One day, what Song Qingshu wants is to realize this bourgeois revolution in China.

Of course, the meal still needs to be eaten bite by bite. What Song Qingshu has to do now is to stand firm in Taiwan.

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The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty was that the polarization was too severe. On this side, Shanghai County is becoming more and more prosperous, but Yingtian, Changzhou, the four corners of the city, and large areas of slums are shocking. These are all in the capital of Nanzhili In the midst of transformation, bankrupt peasants who lost their land, low-rise houses leaking everywhere, and the streets are full of stench. I don’t know how many poor people in rags are squatting on the corners of the streets, all of them are hungry and emaciated.

Every day, the soldiers and horses of the five cities would clean up dozens of starved corpses here.

But not far from here, there is the Qinhuai River full of songs and laughter, and even the sound of the zither on the flower boat can float here, and there is a thin line between heaven and hell.

This kind of time is indeed the best time to develop capitalism. The British bourgeois revolution succeeded because of the sheep cannibalism movement. In contrast, the Ming Dynasty had too many people and was too closed. The landlords were satisfied with the land. Output, the largest business group, Yangzhou Salt Merchant, is still an official business with the system. Just relying on the Jiaduobao company, it has absorbed a population of more than two million, but it is still difficult to cope with the entire Jiangnan, let alone the zombie-like Jiangbei. The tide of the crowd.

But on this day, the factory recruitment notice that these poor people had not seen for a long time was once again posted on the notice board at the entrance of the alley.

"Is Marshal Song going to recruit again?"

Before the paste was dry, the crowd gathered around at the other end, but looking at the densely packed text on it, they all looked at each other in blank dismay, the literacy rate was too low.

"Brother Li, read to us what is written on it!"

Here, the only person with literacy rate is Li Laobai who used to be a grain official. He was originally squeezed to the end, but now he is surrounded by a group of young people with messy hair. Front.

Little boy, what's the use of grabbing, you can't rely on me?

Full of pride, Li Laobai made a few gestures, shook his collar, and then put his dark face in front of the notice.

He also barely learned a few big characters in the government when he was paying the grain, and he could read a list vaguely. After a while, he said vaguely while those young people were scratching their ears and cheeks anxiously.

"It's said that Marshal Song is recruiting again. This time there is no restriction on skills, everyone is needed, but if he is going to some island to work for Marshal Song, he will be given a tael of money a month, and he can take care of food and housing."

"What island? Do you want to go to sea?"

Immediately someone yelled in surprise, and immediately more than a dozen people from Waiyan shook their heads and turned around, underestimating as they walked.

"My family has only one seedling, and my father still expects me to carry on the family line. If I leave, who will guard the ancestor's grave?"

"That's right! I heard that there are big man-eating fish in the sea, which are taller than the county government office. If they die in the sea, they will have to be a lonely ghost and never come back. It would be better to die poor here! "

"You won't lie to us to guard the border, and you won't be paid when you arrive, right?"

Others are acceptable, but Li Laobai doesn't like to hear these words. Back then, when the begging army collected food, he not only gave him extra money, but also helped him take a boat back. That year made him feel comfortable. Although in the second year, Mr. Li in their village not only did not allow a grain of grain to be sold, but also forcibly raised the price to rent, and took away all the grain that the big guy needed to survive, so that he had to take his idiot with him. The son left his hometown, but he was still very grateful to the beggar army, Marshal Song, and the old guy immediately scolded him annoyed.

"Don't you look at your virtues? Marshal Song's soldiers are all tall and burly, with strong bones. With your body and bones that are not much stronger than a chicken, the border guards don't want you! Who will be the last time? The soldiers were kicked back?"

The young man who really said these words blushed, hurriedly ran back with his head in his arms.

"Brother Li, there is another ten here. What does ten mean? Could it be ten taels instead of one tael?" Someone asked with sharp eyes, pointing at the word on it. Li Laobai who asked the question this time His face was red and his ears were red. He didn't know the passage just now, so he didn't say anything, but after all, Li Laobai still loved face after being a grain officer for a few days. With his dark face raised, he blushed and yelled thickly.

"Ding doesn't even know you, melon. What ten do you know? Ten taels of silver, you're thinking!"

"Brother Li, I really recognize this ten. When I went to the temple of a foreign monk to eat his mouthful of cakes, he said that the one hanging on the top of the temple was called a cross, which was exactly the same shape as this one, but I heard from him that their gods were tied to It was up, and I was so scared that I ran away.”

The young man was still unconvinced and called for change, and then someone asked again: "Brother Li, you don't know this paragraph, are you deliberately fooling us?"

"That's right! The ten must have other meanings!"

A large group of people followed the yelling and booing, which made Li Laobai feel even more unable to get off the stage, and forced a flushed face to yell: "Who, who said that I don't know each other anymore, this, this passage means , doesn’t it mean that the person who wants it must, must have ten fingers?”

"Ten fingers? Marshal Song is not a thief, is he?" Nine fingers next to him stretched out his hand aggrievedly and shouted, causing Li Laobai to slap him again. Next piece of dandruff to come.

"Fart, Marshal Song has a lot of money, how can he make such a small fortune? The Huai army soldiers are all gunners. If you want to use your fingers, how can you fight?"

"But nine fingers can also hit?"

"Affects accuracy!"

Not to mention, Li Laobai really fooled everyone one by one with this flicker, but after reading the notice, the group of people slowly dispersed after the excitement. After all, going to sea is still going to an island that I don’t know where. If you work, you may never come back. This is in great conflict with the traditional Chinese concept of returning to the roots of fallen leaves.

But Li Laobai still gritted his teeth, watching and pondering over there, there is one more thing about Chinese people, there are three kinds of unfilial piety, and having no descendants is the greatest!Now his stupid son is in his thirties, and he has no money to talk about a daughter-in-law. The three generations of the Li family are single-handed, which may be broken by him. When he dies, he will become a lonely ghost. Why not go for it, one The moon is only one tael of silver, and he can't earn it for half a year. If he saves up the money and tells his son a daughter-in-law, at least there will be some incense to pass on!Even if he is a lonely ghost, he is worthy of his ancestors.

But when Li Laobai was tangled up there, Fatty Zhang, the shopkeeper of Ju Biliu next to him, trotted out angrily, and went up to give Li Laobai a big slap on the back of the head.

"You bastard, what are you spreading nonsense about? The ten above is about signing a contract. You must work for the commander-in-chief for ten years! If you are dissatisfied, you will be fined! After the ten-year period expires, you can continue to renew the contract if you want to do it. If you don’t do it, come back by boat and get the hell out! I’ll let you bluff, if no one comes, the commander will be the first to throw you into the Huangpu River!”

Li Laobai was shocked when he heard these words, but his eyes lit up again, it turns out he can come back!He hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed, and coaxed him with a smile and said: "Look at my bad mouth, I like to bluff. Your lord has a lot, so don't tell the commander! I, my old man took my family with me!" Son, go and work for the commander-in-chief together, and make amends!"

"As long as your old model's eyes are cracking, and your stupid son, the handsome man may not really like it!" Fatty Zhang immediately tilted his head and curled his lips in disdain, but he was still kind-hearted, and he was completely contemptuous. This old guy, he still said: "The registration place is at the Longjiang Shipyard, the cannery, so go early! I heard that the number of places is limited!"

Hearing this, Li Laobai's heart tightened again. He turned his head and took a sneaky look at those poor guys. It seemed that few of them heard him talking, so he was anxious, and he quickly punched Fatty Zhang.

"Fatty Lord, Lao Bai remembers your great kindness and virtue, if you really want to go, I will set up a plaque for you when you come back to Lao Bai, offering three sticks of incense a day!"

"Go away, I'm not dead, what kind of archway should I set up?"

Fatty Zhang scolded, Li Laobai was not annoyed, he trotted home with a smile, and kicked his stupid son who was still sleeping soundly in the grass nest, on the back of his son, this old man who laughed at everyone The guy immediately turned into a strict father's face, and cursed with hatred: "Sleep sleep sleep, sooner or later someone will be slaughtered as a pig, a worthless thing."

"When a pig is slaughtered, it must be fed first, right?"

Getting up in a daze, Li Xiaohe muttered unwillingly: "Father, what are you doing?"

"Don't ask why, hurry up and go with me!"

"Could it be to pick up old man's water again? Then you old man will go by yourself, I'd rather be hungry than eat that thing, diarrhea!"

"fart!"

This made Li Laobai so angry that he went up and slapped him again, grabbed his stupid son by the neck, and ran out staggeringly without even doing anything about that crap.

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Outside the Longjiang Shipyard, the originally empty river beach in the twelfth lunar month of winter suddenly became like a train station during the Spring Festival travel season. I am afraid that no fewer than tens of thousands of people were dispatched from the factory gate to the outside. In the cold winter wind, there were people He was also ready to fight a long battle, and unexpectedly, all the bedrolls came.

Looking at the army of "buying train tickets" with dizzy eyes, Li Laobai was so angry and impatient that he couldn't help but slap his silly son on the face.

"Just you dawdling dog daddy, one or two silver a month, if the chance of being able to eat rice is gone! I'll beat you to death!"

He was slapped for no reason, and Li Xiaohei became depressed. Who is he scolding for raising a dog?
(End of this chapter)