The green pu, the shallow water is clear, the waves are rushing and the rain is rushing.
The painting stunned the geese far and near, and stayed in a chaotic high and low mountains.
It is better to lose half of the tent, and the number of short cables to be broken is delayed.
Xiweng was sitting on a whistle among the mists of smoke, scratching his head in the vastness of this day.
"Rain Passing Linping Lake" Song Dynasty: Shen Kuo
—I am the dividing line —
The territory of Suzhou, which has been re-settled, is full of landscapes and lakes.
Wang Poxian, one of the chief executives of the Tonghai Society, who was a major merchant in the Guannai, is also inspecting and inspecting the local tea mountain and other characteristic industries, and making corresponding evaluation opinions on output, quality and investment cycle.
This can be regarded as his old line. His ancestors sold tea and goods all the way along the Western Regions, and then gradually made a fortune and found a place in the East City of Chang'an. But now his achievements are clearly even less so.
And now he is not only one of the founding members of the semi-official Tonghai Society under the rule of the Taiping Army, he also has the status of a special tea commissioner in the Shangshi Bureau; at the same time, he is also the businessmen who migrated from the North to help each other. The initiator of one of the groups.
Therefore, at this time, he took the initiative to come to some of the frontier areas that were still in full force, not only for official tasks, but also for some private demands and goals.
This is also a normal and associated model of many local merchant groups and trade associations that are related to the Taiping Army;
They are so active in following and active in every place where the Taiping Army fought, and they spared no effort to provide all kinds of help and convenience for the measures and methods they implemented. In the final analysis, it is a profit.
Of course, it is not the short-term benefits that can make them value, hoarding a few lows, buying high and selling a few pens is good, but when the Taiping army has occupied and cleaned up a place of old forces, the market gap and preconceived long-term benefits left behind Benefit.
At least even after the Taiping Army's local supply and marketing system is established, it cannot cover and be compatible with the types and needs of all fields. This is the meaning of their existence as merchants who move along with the army.
As for Wang Poxian, the merchants in the pass or the Northland Business Association behind him are undoubtedly the latest existence to appear and take effect under the rule of the Taiping Army.
It is incomparable to the Lingdong business group, which is from outside the Ling, with Cantonese merchants as its core, strong wealth and deep foundation, or the Annan business group, which focuses on overseas trade; but the relatively non-climatic Hunan, Jingnan, Jiangxi and other regional characteristics Merchant groups, consciously, can still be longer and shorter.
Especially in this new pioneering land that Jiangdong is known as prosperous, who can get the first hand as much as possible means more room and room for development, and the possibility of overwhelming the other side in the subsequent internal competition.
Therefore, they not only actively seek to underwrite various service items and properties with the army, but also almost lose money and invest in the subsequent work of rebuilding order and restoring production in the place.
Therefore, now Wang Po is walking in Suzhou first, although the scars and traces left by the military fire are still there, but above the tea mountain orchard, in the paddy fields and rivers, there have been gradually gathered many figures who have been concentrated and managed.
Among them, the young seedlings in the rice fields have begun to be planted, and the new sprouts that grew on the tea mountain in the cold and steep weather in early spring are beginning to approach the first crop of the new year that can be picked.
Therefore, according to Wang Poxian's preliminary assessment, although there are problems of war ravaged and unattended and abandoned for a period of time, the tea hills that have been inspected in Suzhou alone can provide at least three to four hundred thousand quintals of leaves.
If it is used to grind to make durable tea cakes or to fry into canned dried leaves, it can also produce seven or eighty thousand quintals. Whether it is going south to sell outside the territory through Canton, or loading ships on the nearby coasts north to Silla and Wa, it is a huge gain.
"Labor creates value, labor makes people free, and labor creates a happy life."
At this moment, Wang Poxian couldn't help but think of these big-character slogans erected in the fields. Suddenly, the Shuqi messenger flew over again on the distant road.
Not long afterwards, someone pasted up a brand new notice on the erected wooden board at the intersection and read it aloud:
"Good news, good news... The teacher of Taiping has taken all of Haiyan County (Suzhou), and the Xilu People and Horse Club heading for Wukang County is on the bank of Linping Lake (Hangzhou)..."
—I am the dividing line —
Inside the military office in Lin'an city, Hangzhou.
"Why, why?"
Dong Chang, the former Hangzhou Badu regiment trainer and Hangzhou governor, also sat down on the rope with a full face and roared loudly:
"I still have at least four counties with tens of thousands of warriors... Taiping thief is really deceiving people so much that they don't want to give people a way to survive... Then just try to kill the fish and break the net..."
"There is also Jiang Huan's ignorant and kind bastard. This is a matter of life and death. Once the Taiping thief can cross the Linping Waterway, it is not to say that it is the Yanguan County that bears the brunt; it is his Qiantang and Yuhang. Can you protect it alone... how dare you?"
"Can the messengers who go south to contact the other groups of people pay back? Don't sit and wait stupidly, and then send someone to the place. As long as you are willing to send troops to support and fight back the foreign peace thief, things in the local area will be natural. Everything is negotiable"
As the old eight capitals of Hangzhou, the only remaining capitals were Rao Jing, the capital of Tangshan, and Wu Wenju, the capital of Yuqian, as well as the subordinates of General Wenyu of Fuchun Town and General Du Leng of Xindeng Town; they were silent and solemn. Listening status.
It wasn't until the military discussion dissipated that they gathered together again in small groups and whispered:
"This peace thief came too fast. The five people in Suzhou were killed in one night! Three families destroyed one family, and one family fled to sea."
"Now even Xu Ji, who occupies Yanguan Town, has left his foundation and retreated to Zhoucheng... Dong Tuanlian is afraid that there is still a lingering fear..."
"Chen Sheng from Yuhang County has sent a letter... He has already led the troops to the Zhoucheng round... Said that this Hangzhou has many lakes and fields and there are few dangers. Only by refusing to defend against the city can we continue negotiations at the time. Conditions."
"It seems that whether it is Jiang Huan or Dong Tuan's training here, they are determined to do a good job in order to determine their own future and experience..."
"In fact, if the Taiping thieves are really unstoppable, let us fall; but those Taiping thieves still want to seize the fields under our name and dismiss the tenant slaves, it would be too much..."
"At the beginning, we broke the family and raised up the rebels for what? Isn't it to preserve this hard-working family property... Which piece of land, which mountain and forest, is not our ancestors for generations? It's hard to manage the house."
"Why are these grass thief just arguing for the poor guys when they come here, so they just use it to invite people to buy people's hearts... Isn't this determined to force all good people to have no way out... "
At this time, they saw a sweaty messenger galloping in, fell from the horse and fell into the dust, got up again and rushed into the inner office, still shouting the latest news:
"The boat division of the Taiping Pirates raided Baoguan Town in the south of Linping Lake and burned three water villages in a row. The Qiantang navy rushed out to rescue, but was ambushed by the thieves on the shore and intercepted the Dongcaotou waterway with firearms."
"Hundreds of boats were sunk and more than half of them were captured. Now the Caohe River is completely empty. The governor of the state city Jiang has promised all the conditions, and Xu Fuyang, Xincheng, and Xiling have been asked to practice and send troops to respond quickly to meet the enemy's city. ..."
And not long afterwards, in the small courtyard where several merchants in Lin'an city stayed, the pigeons flew away, and the news that Dong Chang's department had begun to dispatch troops went north.
At the same time, it was at Chi'ankou (the town) at the intersection of the waterway near the Qiantang in Hangzhou Prefecture; the Yezhong Gate was opened wide with cases piled with fragrant flowers and colorful tables, and the crowds kneeled to greet them. Enshrine on the side of the road.
And among the few pedestrians with the most decent clothes in the front, there is also a slight noise.
"Why did Aye want to surrender... Since the peace thief, we have taken away all the Tianze Mountain forests we have, and let go of all the slaves and tenants..."
A young man in Tsing Yi Lunjin also asked sadly and inexplicably
"What can I do if I don't drop it... Do you know that you can't stop it, and you have to take the life of the tribe..."
In the middle, a thin old man who was the patriarch and father, but Routan carried a bundle of Jingchai on his back, he said in a deep voice without raising his head.
"The peace thief is of course harsh and cruel to the big family and the gentry, but is Jiang Huan in Zhoucheng better. Just because he and Dong Chang attacked and slaughtered the factions and support under the seesaw, so many orphans were left in the clan Widows, how many people have to suffer from labor..."
"At least according to the transcripts from the north and the knowledge of the returning tribe, the Taiping thief acted strictly with its own regulations and laws; perhaps after seizing our land slaves, there will be no more unwarranted killings and inflicts, at least they can let people There is a life left..."
"Even if you and my father and my son are eventually moved elsewhere, everything is still possible. At least my family still has some shipping and colonial operations, and it won't be nothing. The big deal is that after the clan is broken up and the family business is divided, at least there are people who can pass on the lineage. Go down..."
"But continue to fall under the command of Jiang Huan or Dong Chang, and continue to do everything else, I am afraid that many people will never see the future of the next year... In time, I am afraid that you and my father and son will inevitably fill the gap... What's the use of the name of this poetry heirloom!"
I saw that in their words, the clearing armies holding the Taiping Qingqi in the distance had slowly arrived in front of them. However, the old man pushed away the left and right support, and tremblingly got up and went forward and shouted with all his strength:
"Xixiang sinner Cao, welcome the teacher of peace..." (End of this chapter)