the world is at stake

This kind of person, let alone Shanghai County, can't be seen in the whole Songjiang Mansion.His tower-like body is like an ancient evil, majestic and majestic.

Behind the big man there are a few bluffing, half-boys who are pretending to be tigers, and they look like they are recruited stunned youths.They followed behind, holding sticks and yelling, "Queue up. Are you deaf or blind? The urban management uncle asked you to line up."

Scared by the thunderous roar, the head catcher backed up a few steps, relying on the support of the accompanying yamen servants to stabilize his feet.He looked carefully again, and thought to himself frightened:

"Possession of armor is a serious crime of beheading! The one who can wear this armor is the general of the rebels, how can he be so fierce? When encountering such a 'Meng Zhang Fei' on the battlefield, who would not go around?"

He just backed away, but the tower-like 'Meng Zhang Fei' took a few steps forward, looked down, and shouted in a low voice: "What are you guys doing here?"

On weekdays, when the head-hunters question others, they always use a condescending tone.But today they faced the real ruthless person, and each one of them could not speak.

It took a long time for the headhunter to put on a smiling face, and said, "Master, we are here for small business. I heard that in this village..."

"Business? What are you buying and selling? What about your goods?" 'Meng Zhang Fei' sneered and said, "You guys are not good people because you are sneaky. Be honest, what are you doing?"

The one-meter-long swinging stick pierced the catcher's head, and he felt his life was threatened, so he couldn't help shouting, "I am the head catcher He of the county. You are so bold that you dare to despise the government."

"Catch the head?" 'Meng Zhang Fei' froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Another live specimen."

When the bystanders heard that they were from the government, they were frightened and moved away.Even the half-sized boys behind 'Meng Zhang Fei' lost their anger and dared not speak.

'Meng Zhang Fei' grabbed a whistle on his arm and blew several long and short whistles.The whistle was piercing and spread far away.

Not long after, a man in his fifties ran out of the village, dressed pedantically, holding a robe, shouting as he ran, "What special person has been caught again? Be gentle with your hands and feet, don't beat him half to death." "

The pedant came up, followed by three other strong men in black armor and iron helmets. They were all tall and mighty, no one less than 1.8 meters tall.Behind each strong man were followed by five stunned young men who looked like little soldiers, panting as they ran.

"Who was caught again?" The pedant ran forward and asked.

"He pretended to be a businessman, and when I forced him, he said that he was a county arrester." 'Meng Zhang Fei' pointed his stick, "The next few came after him, they should be government servants or something."

The pedant was overjoyed, "Good headhunting, I'm just about to study the real situation of the grassroots management in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, Ming Dynasty. There is a lack of living specimens that can provide first-hand information. Please invite them in."

The other three strong men straightened up their wooden shields and surrounded Catcher and the others. At the same time, they shook their sticks and pressed the spring, and a foot-long steel blade popped out from the head of the sticks.

The steel blade is shining brightly, shining with cold light.Chilling.

This is also called please?

The headhunters in the county were frightened and frightened, so they plopped and knelt down and kowtowed: "Good fellows, please forgive me! I have an [-]-year-old mother and a child learning language. I am willing to surrender, willing to surrender! You want to fight Shanghai County, I will be the internal response."

Chapter 08 Breaking the Mold

Liu Fuyang walked out of the water mill, exhausted and exhausted.He looked back at the farmers who were queuing up to mill the rice, and his footsteps were almost staggering.

The 'Secretary General' Cai Xuebin next to him had bloodshot eyes, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Fuyang, go and rest quickly, don't get tired. Our journey is still very long."

Liu Fuyang was too tired to speak, so he just nodded.With the support of two apprentices, he was sent to the green area of ​​the village, fell asleep on the bed and closed his eyes.

It has been seven days since the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the team members wake up every day, often still unable to believe that they have traveled through time and space.But looking at the scene in the village is full of motivation.

Liu Fuyang is one of them.He originally came here for the 500 million settling fee.Two to three thousand outstanding comrades finally screened out a mere 90 people, which is really the best of the best.

A lot of people with better skills than Liu Fuyang were dismissed. He was able to stay because of his more than 20 years of experience in the industry.Because the team does not require any particularly sophisticated level, it has high requirements for solving complex situations, and the psychological quality must be excellent.

Liu Fuyang graduated from a technical secondary school. He struggled all the way, stumbled and stumbled. He has both theory, practice and management, and has strong hands-on ability.In this way, he only entered the candidate group, not a full member.

Before departure, Xiao Jinlang and other team leaders attended the final mobilization meeting and solemnly stated that the task would be very life-threatening. Those who are not determined can leave. The organization does not record or criticize, but only requires confidentiality.

Liu Fuyang thought he was hopeless.But someone backed down at the last moment, and he stepped up and appeared 400 years ago, at the end of the Ming Dynasty when the building was about to collapse, in the 44th year of Wanli.

Determined that he had come to the most critical moment for the Chinese nation, the entire team screamed—especially the seven members of the military team, including the army commander from the field army, beating their chests and screaming, and their fighting spirit broke out.

The head of the regiment looked very gentle and elegant, and he spoke very peacefully on weekdays, not hard-spoken, without the aura of iron and blood, war and fire.

Knowing that his mission was to reverse Saarhu, he ran to Xiao Jinlang with his military team, stood at attention and saluted, thanked the party and organization for their trust, and swore on the spot that he would complete the mission and live up to the great trust of the people of the motherland.

Judging from the vigor exuding from his body, he turned into a war madman on the spot, wishing he could lead the team to kill Hetuala and single-handedly pick the 'wild boar skin'.

Only then did the military team understand why Zhou Qingfeng led a team to inspect the mountains and rivers in the Northeast, and personally conducted two long-distance field raids—to kill Jiannu.

Peace is the greatest glory of a soldier, but peace is the most boring thing for a soldier.Being able to fight wars and expelling the Tartars, defending China, and reversing history kept the military team awake at night.

Liu Fuyang was also excited and excited.He thanked the old man who withdrew before the battle, and really thanked his eight generations of ancestors—the other party actually gave up such a rare opportunity.

Can this be bought for 500 million?Not even [-] million yuan!

So what if you lose your life, what better highlight moment than traveling through time and space?

After the excitement, the whole team worked immediately.Everyone really thought about starting from scratch, but now not only are the tools and materials prepared, but there is also a small village, which is really a lot easier.

There are a total of 370 people in Xinhua Village, all of whom are young adults aged 30 to 99.All the villagers obeyed Zhou Qingfeng instinctively, and were assigned to be apprentices to [-] traversers.

The selected ones first renovate the mill in the village, exchanging animal power for water power.This is not only a small practice, but also makes the village famous, and also obtains a stable financial income.

For long-term preservation, the harvested grains are often kept in the state of grain, and only milled into rice when needed.The price of stone mills is not cheap, and stonemasons who can make mills are skilled workers.The big animals that pull the roller are even more precious.

It is not that the ancients did not know the benefits of hydraulic power, but such things as bearings and gears are not easy to solve.Metal parts are easy to rust, and wooden parts are easy to rot. Large investment may not be able to obtain large returns.

It seems that movable type printing is a revolutionary breakthrough, and it seems to be of a high level and should be fully promoted.But it has not been able to replace woodblock printing for thousands of years.Technological progress also needs to consider practicality.

The hydraulic mill promoted by Xinhua Village has broken through the shackles of practicality.

Teak bearings have high strength, sufficient toughness, do not expand when soaked in water, do not rust, and can replace steel balls in the absence of stainless steel.Quenched and carburized wrought iron gears can replace alloy steel for long-term work in low-load environments.

In addition, it is not easy to use water power. How to transmit the force of water scour to the stone roller as much as possible requires mechanical and hydraulic engineering calculations.

The small water mill looks simple, but similar technological breakthroughs are not one or two, but the progress of the whole system.It immediately brought a lot of income to Xinhua Village.

The mill in the village is already working 24 hours a day.However, there is still an endless stream of farmers queuing up to mill rice—for the poor, it is worth running a few more steps to save a copper coin.

Some merchants were keen to spot business opportunities and trafficked grain to Xinhua Village by water, taking advantage of the low price of rice milling here to earn interest.Even a small fishing boat can carry one or two tons, which is cheaper than land transportation.

Although Songjiang Prefecture is not as good as Suzhou Prefecture, it is also a land of fish and rice, and the amount of grain stored by the people is very high.

The 'Sacred Light' team also adjusted their strategy after investigating and finding that there were a lot of grains in the surrounding villages.A grain store was opened in the village to buy grain from surrounding farmers at high prices, sell milled rice, and provide supporting logistics services.

There was a small problem in the mill just now, and Liu Fuyang came to solve it by the way after he got off work from the hydraulic woodworking machine tool project.Cai Xuebin, who greeted him, was in charge of the grain store.

This guy graduated from a prestigious university with a bachelor's degree and has been a college student village official for two years.He later passed the civil servant examination and entered the system. He worked in the county government for five or six years, and then took the postgraduate entrance examination out of work, and entered the city as the secretary general.

Cai Xuebin, in his forties, is young, vigorous and experienced. He was supposed to be transferred to the province to take up a real position in a certain department.But 'Holy Light' selected people from all over the country, and brought the secretary-general who had the same experience as him to the imperial capital for training.

Xiao Jinlang knew very well that the 'Holy Light' team could not only have technical advantages, but must also have organizational advantages.Cai Xuebin's civil affairs team has nine people, who are responsible for providing high-quality management work.

The grain store is controlled by Cai Xuebin, which determines whether the 'Holy Light' team has the ability to maintain it for a long time, and gain the hearts of the people if they are not hungry and full.

At present, it seems that the work is not difficult, but there is too little manpower, so I have to do everything myself, which is very tiring.Xinhua Village has two counting rooms, which were assigned to Cai Xuebin.Every day is non-stop grain storage and storage, account records.

When Liu Fuyang left, a farmer came to kowtow to Cai Xuebin.Because rice milling costs less than half a penny, he said 'thank you, Mr. Cai, for your kindness', and he was very grateful.

Cai Xuebin put his hands up empty-handed and asked the farmers to stand up.The kowtowing peasants pulled over another half-big boy, expressing their wish to become an apprentice under the name of 'Master Cai'.

The half-sized boy looked fourteen and five years old, but he was only 1.5 meters tall, very thin, his face was numb, and he was not very clever.He knelt on the ground and kept kowtow, but Cai Xuebin didn't dare to get up if he didn't accept him.

There are other farmers around the mill staring, wanting to know something about it.From their point of view, the masters of Xinhua Village have plump faces, tall statures, loud voices, and are somewhat more noble than the masters in the county town.

Especially when they entered the village, the vicious masters who looked like evil stars were somewhat more powerful than the strongmen blocking the way.Farmers usually like to make noise when they do things. When they come to Xinhua Village, they unconsciously hold their breath, look more and talk less.

"I don't accept apprentices here, you go to the recruitment office at the entrance of the village, there will be recruitment." Cai Xuebin shook his head and refused.

The kneeling farmer said with a bitter face: "But the master who is recruiting will not accept it. I beg you to be merciful. I will just give my child food. If he is disobedient, the master will punish him at will. I will not say much."

The half-child was still kowtowing, the ground was pounding, and his forehead was already bleeding.

Cai Xuebin looked distressed, and said cruelly: "Stop knocking, only the recruitment office in the village will accept people. If your family can't make it through, you can't make it through, and it's useless to beg me. Just leave after you've milled the rice."

The kneeling peasants kept begging, until several 'assistant police' came and bombarded them before they left.Cai Xuebin sighed secretly as he watched the father and son stumbling away pushing the scooter.

In order to give as much profit as possible to the public, the profit of the grain store is stuck at 5.00%.Farmers sent grain, and after unpacking and inspecting the goods, they either exchanged them into cash or gave them directly to white rice.No need to wait.

This kind of profit sharing stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers to sell grain and greatly accelerated the circulation of grain.Even the grain stores in Qinglong Town found it profitable, so they transported the stored grains to grind them into white rice to speed up sales.

Relying on the fast circulation speed, the 5.00% profit has also rapidly increased the grain stock in Xinhua Village.The two granaries, which can hold about [-] tons, have used up more than half of their space in the past week.

If this continues, the granary in the village will be full in seven days.

It is good to have food, Xiao Jinlang approved the construction of a large granary with a storage capacity of [-] tons, and started more construction projects at the same time.Also because of the smooth purchase and storage of grain, Xinhua Village decided to recruit people.

As soon as the news came out, towns and villages from all over the world were moved by the wind, and many peasant families brought their children to find a way to survive. They all said that life in the south of the Yangtze River was good, but in fact, bankruptcies abounded.

The local gentry refused to pay taxes and cried poorly to the court, thinking that the official tax burden was too heavy, and they competed with the people for profit.But their methods of exploiting the low-level tenants are full of tricks, which can be called vicious.

Some gentry are too lazy to bother, just bullying the poor and illiterate, scribbling on usury orders, withholding food, issuing corvee, and putting all the burden on the most powerless groups to resist.

Xinhua Village intends to recruit 200 people to enrich its own labor resources, and the conditions offered are excellent for the local area - a three-month trial period, including food and lodging; money.

These benefits have attracted thousands of people to join him.Many people don't want money at all, just give stuttering.There were even prostitutes, both men and women.

It's just that Xinhua Village has high requirements for recruiting people, as long as they are around 15 years old, male or female, and healthy people - this alone rejects 90.00% of the population.

The half-child who was shunned by Cai Xuebin should be too thin, so the recruitment office would not accept him.The village does not run charitable halls, and unlimited relief will only drag him down.

However, because too many people came, Xiao Jinlang approved to increase the number of recruits to [-], and he could be more lenient towards women.Those who can be recruited into the village are like stepping back from hell and returning to the world. After eating two full meals, their complexion will be much better.

There are 300 more people, and there are not enough houses in the village.After the medical team checked their bodies, they arranged to build a new house outside the village.But this involves another thing - building materials.

At present, Xinhua Village is short of all kinds of materials, and even the wood has to be entrusted to merchants to transport it from the upper reaches of the Wusong River, and the quantity is far from being satisfied.

On the current construction project schedule, the highest priority is a water-powered sawmill-wood processing cannot be done by manpower, but by water power.

The problem of building materials has become the first barrier to the development of Xinhua Village.Without enough building materials, the development of the 'Holy Light' team is also a castle in the air.

At the enlarged meeting of the standing committee of the team every night, Xiao Jinlang reported to everyone by lighting an oil lamp: "The construction team has rammed earth as much as possible for walls, built bungalows with more than two floors, and reduced the use of wood.

But no matter what kind of construction method, the beams and floor slabs must still use wood, and they must be high-quality large wood.If we can't solve the problem of timber supply, we may not even be able to expand the toilets. "

Everyone discussed in low voices, Zhou Qingfeng raised his hand and said, "I have a simple solution."

"What?" Xiao Jinlang knew that Zhou Qingfeng had a solution, but this kid's method was always simple and rude.

"The military team I lead is cleaning up the reactionaries in Qinglong Town. In the past week, more than 30 people have been killed. Except for some rogues, many of them are big local families, and their houses are all good.

In addition, burials are popular in the south of the Yangtze River at present, and the family tombs of many rich and powerful families use high-quality blue bricks and steles, which are very good building materials.I propose a complete liquidation of the reactionaries and their families.

Grilling houses and demolishing houses, clearing graves and clearing tombs can not only obtain enough building materials, but also obtain a large number of fields, population, production tools and materials.

I initially estimated that the local reactionary family in Qinglong Town alone could provide more than one million bricks and one hundred thousand pieces of high-quality wood.In addition, there are huge floating wealth. "

wow!

Xiao Jinlang was taken aback by this proposal. He guessed that Zhou Qingfeng was going to attack the local tyrants and evil gentry, but he didn't expect that he would not only demolish their houses, but also loot their ancestral graves.

"Will this arouse too much public indignation and completely turn against the government?" Academician Li slightly disagreed, "If we isolate ourselves, it will not be conducive to our development."

But on the other hand, Chen Ding, the former head of the army, believed that Zhou Qingfeng's idea might not be unworkable, "First of all, we should carry out propaganda to distinguish the local tyrants and evil gentry from the poor farmers.

In addition, if we want to build a team of [-] soldiers, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and can sail to Liaodong, we must develop ahead of time.

In the agricultural era, at least ten households were required to raise a soldier.Even if our production efficiency is higher, we still need 5 people to support us.This is already one out of ten, which puts a lot of pressure on production.

This determines that we cannot complete primitive accumulation under the supervision of the Ming court.

If we can't break the stereotype and develop rapidly, we will bring at most 600 people in three years' time to make a desperate attack on Liaodong. "

No one likes to engage in deadly attacks. It is a small-probability game played by poor people like Little Japan. If there is a slight mistake, everything will be lost.

Academician Li pondered for a while, and then asked: "I agree to cleanse the local gentry, but how to deal with the government's retaliation? They must think that we are rebelling, and it is impossible to remain indifferent."

For this, Zhou Qingfeng said in a deep voice: "Then solve the government and get rid of their mobilization ability. Try to buy them first, and if it doesn't work, kill the key people."

Chapter 09: The Rebel Among the Rebels

"The military system of the Ming Dynasty was relatively complicated." The Ming history expert of the team wanted to teach Zhou Qingfeng and others a lesson, "There are quite a lot of guards around Qinglong Town.

Wusongjiang Qianhusuo is nearby.If the scene is made big, there are Suzhou Wei, Jinshanwei, Songjiang Zhongqianhusuo, Jiaxing Zhongzuo Qianhusuo and other guards in the surrounding area that may come to help. "

Ming history experts deliberately dressed as academics for the sake of immersion.He also found a ruler and patted his palm lightly, deeply involved in the scene.

Talking about his field, this man is in high spirits, "But we don't have to be afraid, this is only a theoretical possibility. According to my latest discovery, these guards are basically paralyzed.

There has been peace in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and half a century has passed since Qi Jiguang's era, and the ability to prepare Japanese to defend against the enemy has been completely lost.The difference in armaments at the end of the Ming Dynasty was appalling in the entire history of China.

Now even the Songjiang Mansion can't gather a thousand soldiers.As for Shanghai County, it would be a big move if it could send a hundred Yamen servants to suppress bandits.

Due to the failure to collect taxes, the local governance of Daming has been completely lost to the gentry.If there is a small case in the local area, the county will send arresters to investigate.But once a big case comes out, the government will turn a blind eye instead.

There is one thing that you can't think of. The surrounding area of ​​Songjiang Prefecture, including Jinshan and Jiaxing, is one of the concentrated places of pirates in Ming Dynasty, which is as famous as Quanzhou.

Many local tyrants are pirates behind their backs.For example, Jinshan has a special Japanese preparation department, but these institutions have long since become decorations, and even a family of soldiers and bandits. "

Talking about the joy, the Ming history expert laughed, "Two days ago, a Shanghai county arrester wanted to come to the village to investigate and was arrested. He provided a lot of first-hand information.

For example, the Wusongjiang Qianhu House has long since been abandoned. The family of the Qianhu Master moved to Songjiang Mansion 100 years ago, that is to say, his housekeeper would come down every spring and autumn to lend money and collect rent.

During the Hongwu period more than 200 years ago, the guards in the south of the Yangtze River began to flee.Now there are no soldiers in the local area at all, which can be confirmed by the battle of Hunhe after the 'Sarhu'.

At that time, the best fighters in Ming Dynasty were the white soldiers from Sichuan chieftains.The so-called elite soldiers of Liaodong were more than one waste, and they were slaughtered like chickens by "wild boar skin". "