Chapter 174: Drive fish down into the abyss "There is no more trouble now.
Brother Mi has just reached an agreement with the leader of the Kun bandits, Zhao Yingong.
Within a month, the Kun bandits will use sea ships to transport 300,000 yuan of rice, wheat and grains to Shanghai County and Chongming Island.
Stone, four thousand stones of salt, and several swords, guns, and firearms to meet our urgent needs."
Seeing that everyone was there, Zhang Pu found a chair and sat down.
While ordering the boy to make tea, he said calmly, "In order to obtain these weapons and grain, the imperial court must pay 800,000 taels, cash on delivery.
Right now.
Naturally, the imperial treasury in Shanghai did not have that much money.
However, a descendant of Xu Jie, the famous Prime Minister of the Jiajing Dynasty of the Xu family in Songjiang, and the largest wealthy man in Songjiang in the late Ming Dynasty, had nothing to do with Xu Guangqi.
He was willing to donate 400,000 taels of silver and raise some from other Jin gentry families, which was probably not enough.
If so, we can use the refugee population to offset the price.”
"Hey, the situation is difficult.
I'm afraid we will have to become human traffickers for a time."
Fang Yizhi lowered his head and considered the family fortune of the Shanghai court for a while, then couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "Brother Tianru, you and that Zhao Yingong are still fighting You might as well tell us what has been agreed upon."
"After a lot of hard work for my brother, the Kun thieves also agreed to withdraw the Hainingwei rebels who had surrendered to them from Jiaxing Prefecture and retreat to Hangzhou Prefecture for resettlement.
In this case, the imperial court could occupy Songjiang, Jiaxing, Suzhou, Hu The four prefectures in the state can barely deal with the Qing barbarians entrenched in Jinling."
Zhang Pu continued, looking around the room and found that someone seemed to be missing, "Hey, where is the eldest son, Zhang Dai?
Isn't he here?"
"He is accompanying Miss Yu in the backyard.
I just heard the sound of a piano coming from there."
Fang Yizhi replied casually.
The girl Yu mentioned by Fang Yizhi was Yu Xiaoyu, a famous prostitute in Hangzhou.
She was also an old sweetheart that Zhang Dai, a dandy, met by the West Lake when he lived in Hangzhou.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of this mission, Zhang Dai also returned to Hangzhou. arrive After a year's absence from Hangzhou, he discovered that this city where he had lived for many years had become very different and strange.
The brothels and casinos where he used to hang out, and other gold-selling dens, were basically closed now.
Go out of business.
Zhang Dai's hometown in Shaoxing, the Zhang Family Villa in Hangzhou, was also set on fire and turned into ruins during the riots on the eve of the city's fall.
The acquaintances from the past were almost all gone now.
While Zhang Dai was wandering around the familiar yet unfamiliar streets of Hangzhou, he recognized the haggard-looking girl Yu Xiaoyu at the fish selling bridge.
It turned out that just last spring, when Australian thieves attacked the city of Hangzhou, the brothel where Yu Xiaoyu lived was also ransacked by thugs and gangsters in the city.
In the end, it was set on fire and burned to the ground, and even the madam was beaten alive. die.
Fortunately, when Yu Xiaoyu saw that the situation was not good, she rolled up her parcel and hid in a secret cave.
She stayed like this for a few days until the Australian thieves entered the city to suppress the riot and calmed the market, and then she quietly slipped away.
I came out, took the little money I had saved, and temporarily rented a house to settle down.
Although she escaped the military disaster, most of the Jin gentry in Hangzhou City had been frightened by the Kun thieves and fled, and no one could sing or sing with her.
Even though Yu Xiaoyu was excellent in both sex and art, she knew all the poems, lyrics, music, playing, playing, and singing. , and his livelihood is cut off, he can only sit back and have nothing.
As for the talented and famous people who had been in contact with her, after Hangzhou changed hands, they basically either escaped or died.
For a while, there was no one who could take refuge.
There was a gangster who once wanted to take her in, but how could the arrogant Yu Xiaoyu think highly of a vulgar martial artist?
Not to mention that this guy was dark and thick, and had no talent at all.
Yu Xiaoyu scolded him several times, citing classics.
He didn't even catch it.
In the end, Miss Yu had no choice but to take out the scissors, pointed them at her chest and scolded her harshly, saying that if the leader took another step forward, he would kill himself immediately.
Only then could he drive away this toad who wanted to eat the swan meat.
After that, Yu Xiaoyu was in panic for a few days.
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However, the young thief leader seemed to have a good mind and did not take revenge on her afterwards.
However, Yu Xiaoyu has never been able to find a new benefactor who is willing to pay a lot of money to buy a smile.
I heard that there has been a war outside, and she, a weak woman, dare not leave the city.
After a year of sitting on nothing, Yu Xiaoyu's previous savings have been exhausted. , all the jewelry and clothes were pawned, and finally couldn't even pay the rent.
He was kicked out by the landlord and lived on the streets, with no way out.
Yu Xiaoyu, who was considered a talented girl, neither wanted to go to the low-class brothels in Hangzhou that were still running poorly, and serve those traffickers and vulgar warriors with her soft body, nor would she enter the "purification camp" of those Australian thieves. ", shaved his hair and moved to those overseas countries where cannibals were said to be infested.
So he spent the whole day wandering around the fish-selling bridge in Hangzhou, wanting to commit suicide by drowning in the river.
However, at this moment, she met Zhang Dai who finally saw an acquaintance.
She was immediately excited and rushed to rescue her.
She said "the water is too cold" to dispel Yu Xiaoyu's desire to throw herself into the water, and then took her back.
In the residence of the Ming Dynasty mission, several servants were hired to serve her food and daily life.
Such a timely offer of help immediately moved Miss Yu's heart.
Not long after, the two reunited again, and they were like glue.
They sang poems together all day long, sad for spring and autumn, recalling the charm, wealth and hustle and bustle of the past, and sighing at today's prosperity.
Scattered, deserted and dilapidated Just when Fang Yizhi mentioned this matter to Zhang Pu, the sound of Yu Xiaoyu playing the piano came from the backyard.
Zhang Pu could only hear the sad and mournful sound of the piano, full of sadness and decline, and couldn't help but sigh.
Xu Fuyuan, who had a stronger temperament, clenched his fists and said angrily: "Now that the northern barbarians are fighting against the southern barbarians, and the four villages south of the Yangtze River are in ruins, how can we pretend to be gentlemen?
The Jianzhou Tartars are racing to enclose the land in the south of the Yangtze River, slaughtering Suzhou, and killing and plundering the people in the south of the Yangtze River.
It is certainly extremely cruel.
But this is The overseas thieves who stole Hangzhou are trying to poison the people this time.
When I went south to Hangzhou, I met old friends of the same age along the way.
They all shed tears when they talked about how the thieves had harmed the Jin gentry, corrupted the morals, and lured good people to the sea to be slaves.
But we, with the emperor's orders, not only could not expel the thieves, but also had to grovel and beg for mercy.
This is truly a shame and a disgrace.”
"Brother An Gong, the Kun thieves have sharp weapons and the situation is difficult to control.
We can only plan for it slowly and cannot act rashly."
Hearing that Xu Fuyuan seemed to be opposed to this peace negotiation, Zhang Pu was afraid that he would get angry and really mess up the matter.
He was so upset that he had to jump up quickly and comfort him, saying, "This thief is so confused."
He wants to occupy the land of our ancestors with his ingenuity and skill, but he does not respect Confucius and Mencius and does not hold imperial examinations.
As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty are in good hands, the king and the people will be united.
But the ants want to shake up the big tree.
Even if they are rampant for a while, they will definitely be wiped out in the future."
While Zhang Pu was saying things that he didn't even believe, he couldn't help but think back to all the things he had seen and heard in the past few days that frightened him.
After many days of observation, he found that although the thieves entrenched in Hangzhou were said to be just a side force that was not taken seriously, they were also well-organized and managed in a very orderly manner.
Although the soldiers killed and looted terribly in wartime, they never plundered people's property on weekdays.
They looked more like official soldiers than the current Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses.
I really don't know how they were trained.
What is even more ominous is that according to some of the proclamations and rumors that Zhang Pu collected privately, it seems that these thieves have all kinds of governance methods, but they do not have the Confucian sect.
What does this mean?
It means that the thief Kun doesn't think much about it at all.
It is unbearable to use these Confucian scholars, at least not to allow them to occupy high positions in the court of the thief Kun.
We, the scholars, are born to be high officials.
How can you, the thief, not give us high-ranking officials and generous salaries that have never been seen in all dynasties?
Such a ridiculous thing What's more, the words used by these Australian thieves in daily life are all in popular style, and their articles and announcements are all in vernacular.
It is really outrageous and vulgar.
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No matter how many times the great scholars have denounced them, these shameless thieves still refuse to change.
The scribes employed had neither literary talent nor dignity.
Even though there were a few scholars who surrendered to Kun, they seemed to be possessed and had forgotten all the teachings of the saints.
This was simply turning Yiyi into Xia.
In the past few years, watching the turmoil and disintegration of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Pu had some vague premonitions about the future destiny of the Ming Dynasty.
He even wrote such a quatrain in his notes: "Mountains and rivers are eternally beautiful, Zhou Ding is always changing.
Man.
Zhu Ming lost his deer, let’s see who gets it.”
However, if the Jiannu Tatars conquer the world, everyone will just stay in pigtails and become slaves.
After civilizing those barbarian chiefs who admire sacred learning and allowing them to hold imperial examinations and promote literature and education, the scholars in the world may still have a chance to turn around. .
But if the world is conquered by these thieves who have no respect for scholars, I am afraid that the Chinese heritage and the orthodoxy of saints will be destroyed.
Unfortunately, these thieves are short-sighted, have a small structure, and have little strength.
They will be satisfied with Hangzhou and stop moving forward.
Otherwise, facing the attack from the two thieves from the north and the south, the entire Jiangnan Shilin would probably be destroyed.
Hey, where can I find a courteous corporal who treats the Jin gentry favorably, who neither collects taxes nor conscripts troops, but also has an unparalleled martial arts master, just like the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, who single-handedly wiped out the thieves, the Tartars, and the Tatars in this dirty and troubled world?
The treacherous warrior made the world's literati feel proud.
While Zhang Pu was thinking about it, several of his accompanying staff members hurried over and whispered something to him.
Zhang Pu's face immediately showed an expression of disbelief.
Fang Yizhi saw this and asked, "Brother Tianru, what happened?"
The next moment, Zhang Pu gave him an earth-shattering answer: "Just now, a Ming army entered the city from Fengshan Gate."
"Is it possible that our court has defeated the thieves and recovered Hangzhou?"
Xu Fuyuan immediately looked happy, but then he thought that it was impossible to have the military strength of the one in Shanghai.
They knew better than anyone else that if they really had the ability to recover Hangzhou, how could they ask for it?
They are on a mission
As a result, everyone's faces immediately became solemn, and the explanation Zhang Pu gave next made their thinking even more confusing, "The people who entered the city were indeed the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, but they were from the side of the deposed Emperor Chongzhen."
The officers and soldiers didn't come in by attack, they came in just like me and others.
The banner of the envoy.
I heard that after the deposed emperor Chongzhen died of illness in Chizhou, the deposed empress Zhou family and the rebel minister Wen Tiren moved to Huizhou with the deposed prince Zhu Cixiang and established a new puppet dynasty.
Now they sent envoys to Hangzhou and suffered a disaster.
Could it be the Huizhou puppet dynasty?
He actually disregarded his dignity and wanted to unite with the thieves to plot against our government."
Hearing Zhang Pu's speculation, all the Jiangnan celebrities in the room turned pale in an instant, but in fact they were just scaring themselves.
In fact, this is just a time-traveler who has been wandering for a long time and is exhausted.
He is returning to the organization and returning to his roots oshow7: