Chapter 10: Attend the Meeting Part 3 "Really?"
Ding Dexing immediately turned from anger to joy and loudly asked for confirmation.
Liu Bowen smoothed his short beard under his chin and smiled without saying a word.
"Then Ding is willing to fight for the general manager."
Ding Dexing clasped his fists with both hands and bowed his head to the ground.
"The general did not say anything before, so please don't blame Liu Canjun.
When you turn around and kill the Tuotuo dog thief, whether it is beating or punishment, , as long as joining the army is proposed, all generals will be happy to do so."
"General Ding is joking.
This official is here for the first time, so I would like to ask General Ding to take care of me."
Liu Bowen quickly bowed and responded with a smile.
There was no conflict between the two at first, but once the misunderstanding was revealed, their relationship actually became a lot closer.
Immediately, Ding Dexing took the general order from Liu Bowen and went to prepare for departure.
Early the next morning, together with Fu Youde, Chen De, Feng Guoyong's brother Feng Sheng and others, they boarded Zhu Chongjiu's ship and headed for Xuzhou along the canal.
The wind in early spring is a bit chilly, but along both sides of the canal, there is already full of vitality.
The revived wheat seedlings spread out in all directions like brocade, boundless.
The scattered rapeseed fields have become embroidery dotted on the brocade, shining brightly and dazzlingly in the morning sun.
The land in the Huaihe River is precious, so the fields are never empty and are filled with tall mulberry trees.
Occasionally, a mulberry-picking girl carrying a basket passed through the shadows of the trees, causing countless men working in the fields to straighten up and look at her.
They would make a few jokes or respond with slang, and their voices would rise and fall, leaving a lingering aftertaste.
The protracted war that just ended in the twelfth lunar month of last year had put tremendous pressure on the three places in Huaiyang.
But at the same time, people in the three places quickly united.
When the Tatars come, everyone will lose everything they currently own and become precarious fourth-class slaves again.
This is the common understanding of all villagers, villagers, and ordinary people in the market.
Although the gentry still missed their increasingly lost privileges, they also clearly realized that Zhu Butcher only caused everyone to lose a little property and face, but the Mongolian court was directly killed.
When comparing the two, there is no need to think about whose side to take.
Therefore, the spring of the 14th year of Zhizheng was the most stable spring since the founding of Huaiyang.
The number of gentry secretly causing trouble for the Grand Controller's Mansion has significantly decreased, while more and more people have settled down and see hope of survival.
The craftsmen, apprentices, small merchants and hawkers who were the first to benefit from the New Deal, as well as workshop owners, shareholders and employees of Huaiyang companies at all levels, devoted themselves to their respective jobs with a more positive attitude.
More closely, his future is linked to the General Manager's Mansion, sharing weal and woe.
When everyone's strength is unknowingly used in a common direction, the changes brought about can be said to be rapid.
A large number of new-style workshops are rising along the east bank of the Huaihe River at a rate of almost every two or three days.
The towering waterwheels have become the most obvious symbol of these workshops.
In this time and space, the water of the Huaihe River is far more abundant than in Zhu Dapeng's time and space.
It drives the water wheel and provides a steady stream of free labor to various workshops.
The large and small ditches between the Huaihe River and the canal have become waterways flowing with real gold and silver.
The finished and semi-finished products from the workshops are pulled out by boat and sent to the big cities along the canal for sale.
The profits and various raw materials are then sent to the Huaihe River by boat and sent to various workshops, becoming the starting point of a new round of wealth.
The increase in new workshops naturally requires more labor.
As batch after batch of laborers entered the workshops and relied on their own hands to support their families, the number of disaster victims that caused headaches for governments at all levels also decreased rapidly.
As the floods in Xuzhou, Suzhou and other places receded and unowned land was redistributed, some people who were nostalgic for their hometowns began to return home in droves.
When they sow the seeds again with the full support of the government at all levels and retired wounded soldiers, it can be predicted that when the summer grain is put into the warehouse, the food shortage problem that has plagued Huaiyang for two years will also be greatly improved. of relief.
Except for a few guys who have sworn hatred against the Huai'an Army, almost everyone on both sides of the canal is busy in the spring breeze, and almost everyone is full of hope.
And the people in this time and space are much simpler than the people in Zhu Dapeng's time and space.
They don't care about doing anything that the whole world owes me, and they can't do the disgusting things of picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the bowl to curse.
Most of them clearly knew who brought this rare peace in front of them.
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Who allowed him to see hope again after falling into a desperate situation.
So when Zhu Chongjiu's ship and four other warships serving as escorts galloped past the canal, all the people who were working near the river bank automatically stopped what they were doing and bowed to the warships. of bowing.
There were even some brave teenagers who ran along the river and waved to the ship, cheering loudly, "General Manager, General Manager, mighty General Manager, may you have good luck and longevity, may you win every battle" "Grand Steward, Grand Steward, mighty Grand Steward, may you be blessed and live long, may you be victorious in every battle."
Someone took the lead, and naturally others responded at the top of their voices.
Soon, the blessings came in succession.
The common people don't understand any fancy words, but they know who they should bet their future on.
May the general manager be blessed with good fortune and longevity, and he will be able to control the country squires and prevent them from getting carried away.
And the general manager's victory in every battle means that the army and officials of the imperial court will never come back, and their good days will never be taken away again.
"The Grand Steward, the Grand Steward is mighty, the Grand Steward may have long life and may he be victorious in every battle."
"The Grand Steward, the Grand Steward is mighty, the Grand Steward may have long life and may he be victorious in every battle."
Wave after wave of cheers penetrated the cut-glass windows on the ship and reached the ears of everyone inside.
At this moment, even those who were most skeptical of the New Deal, such as Liu Bowen, who joined the army, heard the continuous cheers, and their faces were filled with excitement and pride.
As the old saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world.
Liu Bowen still can't see clearly how far Mr.
Zhu can go in the future.
But at least in the three places of Huaiyang, the image of General Manager Zhu and the new policies he implemented have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
If he can maintain this momentum, at least in his lifetime, the New Deal will not bring disaster to China.
As for what will happen next to Manager Zhu, Liu Bowen is no longer willing to speculate.
For one thing, he discovered that his previous conclusion may not be entirely correct.
Secondly, he is much older than Zhu Chongjiu.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, at least he will not be behind Zhu Zhongjiu.
That means that he will never see those calculated disaster scenarios in his life.
There is no need to worry about children and grandchildren as much as they should With this idea in mind, Liu Bowen's mentality was completely clear.
Creating peace for all eternity is just an ideal.
It's impossible for anyone but a great sage or great sage to do it.
Liu Bowen didn't dare to set his goals so high now.
He just wanted to assist Zhu Chongjiu as much as possible to end the troubled times in front of him and let the people of Li take a breather.
Perhaps the new policies implemented by Zhu Chongjiu after he unified the world would make many people, including Liu Bowen's own relatives and friends, feel uncomfortable.
It also runs counter to the rule of the Five Dynasties advocated by ancient sages and sages.
But it is a kind of order after all, which is better than endless continuous chaos.
Therefore, when he assisted Zhu Chongjiu to meet with Tuotuo this time, Liu Bowen secretly wanted to earn the maximum benefit for the Huai'an army and his own lord.
Zhu Chongjiu is by far the most promising of all the heroes he has ever seen to regroup.
Liu Bowen believes that with his full assistance, this hope will be greatly strengthened and the process of restructuring the country will be accelerated.
And every time you win a benefit for the Huai'an Army and your own lord now, it will become ten shares, a hundred shares, or even a thousand shares in the future.
You and your descendants can also get a steady stream of rewards from it.
As for whether doing so is fair to Tuotuo and others, who cares whether the two armies are fighting each other and will do whatever they can.
The more disastrous the enemy's defeat is, the more glorious your victory will be.
The spring breeze is proud of the sound of the waves, and the shadow of the sail is like a wing flying into the sky.
In just one day and one night, the three places of Huaiyang were left behind.
The fleet entered the Yellow River from Huai'an City, then sailed upstream and anchored at night.
After walking for a little more than three and a half days, we arrived at the dock in the north of Xuzhou.
Compared with Gaoyou and Huai'an that we passed through before, Xuzhou City belongs to a completely different world.
It was only the afternoon when the time came, and in the area near the Yellow River in the north of the city, it was already difficult to see people.
The farmers who had just returned home instinctively moved their land reclamation sites away from the river bank.
Even the most valuable suburban areas in the west and east of the city were rarely visited.
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It was not until four or five miles south of the city that traces of reclamation appeared on the land again.
However, the hastily replanted wheat fields are not even in one piece.
They are stuck in the wilderness like plaster, looking increasingly desolate.
Since the city has just returned to order, there are no special outputs at all, and passing ships rarely stop at the Yellow River pier in the north of the city.
Instead, they entered the canal directly and continued north at full speed.
Taking advantage of the fact that Tuotuo had just been defeated and the local officials of Meng Yuan did not have the courage to set up Lika near Xuzhou, they made as many trips as they could.
Otherwise, when the court and local officials calm down, there will be nothing to take advantage of.
The imperial court is not like Huaiyang, which only collects taxes once.
The hair is plucked once after passing a liqa.
If there is no big backer covering the head, I am afraid that after three or four liqa pass, the goods on the ship will have no profit at all.
The only place that still seemed to have some human atmosphere was near the city wall.
Because the old city wall was once flooded, many places are already crumbling.
After the Huai'an Army took over, they had to use cement and masonry to repair and reinforce it.
Therefore, near the city wall in the afternoon, there was no shortage of civilians selling their physical strength in exchange for food for their families.
But most civilians are so poor that they can't even bear to wear clothes.
He only wore a piece of Gebu whose color had long been invisible around his waist, and then he staggered and picked up the burden.
The early spring breeze blew from the river and blew on their clearly visible ribs, making their steps even more difficult.
It seemed like he might fall down at any moment and be unable to sleep for a long time.
But even though the retired wounded soldiers of the Huai'an Army who were responsible for organizing the construction loudly dissuaded some of them who were extremely weak from leaving, no one was willing to put down their burden.
On the contrary, they work harder for fear that they will be eliminated as "waste".
That means that they and their wives and children behind them have to rely on the government's porridge shack today to barely have a mouthful of hot rice soup.
For a man, it would be better to just let them die of exhaustion on the construction site "What a fool!"
Ding Dexing punched the side of the ship, his whole body trembling slightly.
Looking at Fu Youde again, his originally rosy face had already turned gray.
The palm of his hand tightly grasped the saber at his waist, and the veins on the back of his hand were stretched and pulsing
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