The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Chapter 123 Going to Suzhou, making trouble as soon as you come [5]

"I have to say goodbye to you when I send you thousands of miles away. Everyone, please stop."

At the Water Transport Wharf outside Jinan City, tens of thousands of people stood there in darkness, looking at the old Yan Ge who was wearing it.

Just today, Yan Ge is going south.

Yan Ge has been in Shandong for two months, and has brought earth-shaking changes to Shandong. The original Shandong was lifeless, full of disasters, countless bones, and countless officials in the corpses. Today, most people in Shandong are full of smiles and look forward to the future. Full of hope, the officialdom is cleared up, and Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian, who was dragged over by Yan Ge's old force, has become the highest ruler in Shandong. This provides a guarantee for the smooth progress of Shandong's construction program in the future.

The people were grateful, so they couldn't help but come to see Yan Song off.

Set sail, seven or eight water transport ships headed south, carrying 100 million shi of grain collected from the Confucian mansion.

"Congratulations to Elder Yan Ge!"

The farewell sound of tens of thousands of people made the scene extremely grand.

The next day, "Apple News" sang praises for Yan Song, listing a series of great achievements. The sales volume of this issue of "Apple News" directly soared to 6 copies. People in Shandong rushed to buy them for home collection, and some even I feel that this issue of the newspaper can prevent 113 pregnancy... um no, it is to ward off evil spirits.

Later, outside the city of Jinan, a tall stone statue was built for Yan Song, engraved with a bunch of praises... Well, this was written by Bao Zheng. Although he didn't want to write this kind of 'disgusting' flattery, he was People are forced to write.

(Bao Zheng tearfully: Am I easy? I...)

This stone statue has lasted until the modern times more than 1000 years later. It has been immortal in the past dynasties. Countless high officials in Shandong, the first thing to do is to worship this stone statue of Yan Song. If you don’t worship, you will be rejected by Shandong people. This has gradually formed a practice. , and finally became a festival for the Nian Shandong people... These are things to come.

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April.

Yan Song left Shandong and entered Suzhou along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

At this time, Jiangsu is in the rainy season.

There is a poem "Yueke/Yueyue": It rains in every house during the Huangmei season, and frogs are everywhere in the grass pond.If you have an appointment and don't come to stay in the middle of the night, you can knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns.

After Yan Song entered Suzhou, he felt that the weather was getting cloudy, and in the next few days, there was even some light rain.

Originally, Yan Song's goal was to go south along the canal, Xuzhou, Suqian, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi... all the way to see and repair all the way, but halfway received an urgent message from Suzhou that Japanese pirates had invaded.

Therefore, Yan Song directly gave up the place ahead and took the boat directly to the south.

The local officials along the way were naturally relieved. If Yan Song didn't come, their black hats would be saved. There is no way, this fierce old Yan Ge has the ability to get rid of a chief envoy as soon as he arrived in Shandong. 'Sturdy record.

But what makes them feel pity is that the food on the old Yange ship was not given to them, which is really a pity. It would be great if some food could be left behind.

After five or six days, Yan Song's water transport fleet finally arrived in Suzhou.

When it comes to Suzhou, it has a lot of grievances and enmities with the Ming Dynasty, which is far more complicated than other provinces and prefectures of the daimyo.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng VS Zhu Yuanzhang, Suzhou people don't like Zhu Yuanzhang, they prefer Zhang Shicheng.At that time, after the Ming army conquered Hangzhou, they completed the siege of Suzhou City. The commander was Xu Da, one of the most powerful generals in Ming Dynasty.

Suzhou was besieged, Xu Da was the one who attacked the city, and Zhang Shicheng was the one who defended the city. Zhang Shicheng was the leader of the underground economy in the late Yuan Dynasty. He made huge profits from selling private salt. He was like a drug lord. , Relying on the guidance and assistance of his brother Zhang Shide, he entered Suzhou City.

This attack and defense lasted for ten months, which is as slow as giving birth to a child.

It is precisely because Suzhou people "do not know how to flatter" that Zhu Yuanzhang dislikes Suzhou people very much. (ajdh)

Therefore, in the following hundreds of years, Suzhou people paid a high price for their position: the Ming Dynasty founded, and Suzhou people began to bear heavy taxes. In the 26th year after the conquest, Suzhou was the most populous prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. The taxes on Suzhou are particularly high, with 281 million shi grains and rice paid throughout the year, which is equivalent to 2940% of the total taxation of the empire of 9.5 million shi.The arable land in Suzhou is only 1.1% of the registered land in the vast territory.

However, although Suzhou has heavy taxes, it is still a hub for merchants and merchants because of the gathering of department stores from all over the world. There are many, and the culture is developed. It has been leading the cultural trend of the whole country in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Japanese pirates, they like this kind of place.

As a result, Suzhou Prefecture became one of the key areas where Japanese pirates ravaged.

Yan Song's fleet came to the wharf of Suzhou Mansion. At a glance, only seven or eight officials came to greet them. Compared with the tens of thousands of people in Shandong, it was quite bleak.

From this, it can be seen how much the local officials in Suzhou reject court officials like Yan Song.

The corner of Yan Song's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but think of a governor with the surname Mao who served as the governor of Suzhou. He was scolded by Suzhou people for hundreds of years because he chopped off the head of a Suzhou man.

"Suzhou people with a temper, it seems that they want to give me a blow." Yan Song thought so.

"See Elder Yan Ge!" The leader was Shang Wei, the magistrate of Suzhou Prefecture, and he brought other officials together to pay respects to Yan Song.

"Get up, find a place to rest for me, I'm exhausted." Yan Song said, the water condition of the canal in this section of Suzhou is not very good, it is very bumpy, which made Yan Song sleep uncomfortable.

Shang maintained a wry smile, and he also prepared good wine and good food for the elder Yan Ge. He didn't expect to say that he wanted to sleep, but he didn't dare to disobey, after all, the gap between the two sides is not so big.

Shang Weiwei had already arranged a very beautiful garden for Yan Song. The gardens in Suzhou are the best in the world, similar to the Grand View Garden described in Dream of the Red Chamber.

Yan Song stayed and rested for a night, and he recovered the next day.

Putting on ordinary clothes and bringing a few plainclothes brocade guards, Yan Song prepared to go to the street for a private visit.

Walking halfway, I saw a family having a wedding. Yan Song was curious and wanted to see and see, but the other party invited Yan Song to go in for a wedding wine very boldly.Yan Song smiled, this experience is really novel.

However, before the wedding started, a group of eunuchs and fanzi broke in.

"Everyone present, arrest them all, don't let me let go of any of them!"

The eunuch in the lead had a cold eyebrow and was very aggressive. He wanted to arrest people and all of them without saying anything.

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Chapter 124 The Domineering Weaving Bureau [1]

A group of eunuchs broke into the wedding banquet, causing the wedding banquet to be overwhelmed.