Chapter 267 Do you want to rebel?
Su Ze continued northward and met Huizhou salt merchants living in the Hexia area in Huai'an.
With Xu Guo's recommendation, Su Zeliang revealed his identity as Fang Wanghai's son-in-law and promised these salt merchants that this batch of newly released salt would be redeemed first.
When Su Ze returned to Nanjing in March, at his suggestion, Fang Wanghai established a Salt Institute in Nanjing.
The function of the Yanyin Office is to confirm the title of the Yanyin. All merchants who have Yanyin on hand can take the Yanyin to the Yanyin Office to register, and register according to the date of the Yanyin in order from the latest to the oldest.
Yanyin promises that the newly produced salt in the future will be redeemed in order from newer to older. That is to say, merchants holding Yuexin saltyin can give priority to salt, while merchants holding older saltyin will have to queue up later. Pick up the salt.
Not only is the new currency issued this time, but in the future, if someone exchanges warehouse notes for new salt currency, they will automatically be placed at the front of the exchange order, and salt can be mentioned first.
As soon as this order came out from the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs, the whole South Zhili was naturally indignant.
Especially the big families who had a lot of salt in their hands, the Xu family of Huating and the Li family of Linhuai Marquis protested one after another.
Suddenly, a large number of impeachment memorials flew to the capital. Nanjing officials impeached Fang Wanghai one after another, saying that he had colluded with salt merchants.
However, in order to be able to sell the newly released salt, the emperor still supported Fang Wanghai this time.
All the memorials to impeach Fang Wanghai were ignored. It is said that the emperor even summoned Xu Jie, the second minister of the cabinet, in a rare event.
After April, the Xu family of Huating and the Li family of Linhuai Marquis, who were causing the most trouble, stopped, and Fang Wanghai's salt inventory shipped from Shandong also arrived in Shanghai.
Su Ze also inspected the South Zhili Salt Farm and searched for the residual salt and original salt in the salt farm. Not only did he redeem all the newly released salt, he even redeemed some of the salt he owed.
This time also gave hope to those large households holding salt guides, and they immediately went to the salt guide office to register.
After finishing all this work, Su Ze immediately asked Fang Wanghai for leave to go back and take care of Fang Ruolan, and no longer asked about the affairs of the Nanjing Household Department.
Fang Wanghai was originally reluctant to let go of Su Ze, but he couldn't stand Mrs. Li's Hedong Lion Roar, so he finally let Su Ze go home to take care of Fang Ruolan.
In October of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Fang Ruolan gave birth to a baby boy. Thanks to Su Ze's medical skills at level 10, mother and baby were safe.
Su Ze picked up the baby in his arms and once again felt a flesh-and-blood connection with this world.
This time, Su Ze was a little shaken in his firm belief in rebellion.
Is it true that I have been so persistent in rebelling since time travel?
He saw Fang Ruolan holding her child, Fang Cuiping who was busy, and Fang Wanghai who was waiting for news in the front hall.
As long as he continues to improve his imperial examination skills, Su Ze can definitely be admitted to the Jinshi with his systematic ability. Even with his understanding of the court and the emperor, and writing articles that appeal to the emperor, there is absolutely no problem in getting a second-class Jinshi.
Nowadays, Su Ze's reputation is at its peak in Southern Zhili and Fujian. Not only major academies have invited him to give lectures, but also various literary conferences have invited him to participate. However, during this period, Su Ze turned down the invitation to take care of his wife.
The influence of "Jingshi Bao" is huge, covering the entire southern Zhili region. Gui Youguang, the editor-in-chief selected by Su Ze, changed his previous gentle writing style and wrote several articles in a row denouncing the current abuses!
The sharp criticism and Gui Youguang's plain writing style had a cold critical effect. Every time it was published, it aroused discussion among scholars in Jiangnan.
"Tongyan Shuo" has become the most popular literary magazine nowadays, with countless submissions for each issue. Xu Guo even feels that he is busier than before before the newspaper was split.
Throughout October, Su Ze took care of Fang Ruolan and his son at home, and he continued to receive letters from Changning Wei.
Lin Mojun bought land from the fishermen on Dayuang Island, rented a dock, and organized Japanese slaves, Quji and Fujian-Guangdong immigrants to open up wasteland on the island. Now there is a thousand-person colony on Dayuang Island. plantation.
Although Eunuch Hu’s artemisinin extraction work is still in progress, through epidemic prevention knowledge, clean water, and a large number of anti-mosquito measures, I don’t know whether it is luck or these measures are effective, but there has been no major outbreak among immigrants. Malaria on a scale.
At the same time, Lin Mojun also wrote a letter to Su Ze and talked about something.
Through interrogating Japanese prisoners, Lin Mojun learned that there are now a large number of Ming slaves on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
These are the common people that Japanese pirates plundered from the coastal areas of Ming Dynasty during several Japanese rebellions.
According to the Japanese warrior who was captured by Lin Mojun, in many areas of Kyushu, 30% of Ming slaves were working in the fields.
For these people of the Ming Dynasty who were abducted by Japanese pirates, the men were driven to work in the fields, the women were rewarded to nobles and warriors, and the craftsmen were organized into craftsman camps.
Some ordinary Japanese warriors who made money would also buy Ming slaves to help them farm. According to this Japanese warrior, tens of thousands of Ming people were imprisoned in the Japanese country and enslaved.
After hearing the news, Lin Mojun was naturally very angry, and even wanted to lead troops directly to rescue these Ming compatriots.
However, Su Ze still wrote a letter to persuade her. Now Changning Guard's maritime power is not bad, but there are still too few soldiers for landing operations.
However, he could not just watch these compatriots suffer. Su Ze asked Lin Mojun to contact Ryukyu merchants and try to redeem these Ming slaves with Ming silk.
Since the last defeat of the Shimadzu family, the Japanese daimyo of Kyushu have changed their attitude towards Ryukyu. In particular, the Otomo family of Bungo State, which has always been at odds with the Shimadzu family, has established commercial relations with Ryukyu.
The Shimazu family is worthy of being Japanese, capable of bending and stretching, and they actually trade with the Ryukyu people under the banner of the Otomo family.
When these Japanese lords heard that Ming slaves could be exchanged for silk, they all agreed. Lin Mojun exchanged a thousand Ming slaves from Japan for the first time. Unfortunately, most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. Lin Mojun temporarily placed them on Dong'ao Island, and waited until some of them were healthy before sending them to Damuan Island.
Su Ze's property is getting bigger and bigger. With his current situation, if he can't join the cabinet in the imperial examination, he can still become a rich man even if he doesn't continue the imperial examination.
If the historical line does not change, it is now the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, which is 1558 AD. There are still 87 years before the official demise of the Ming Dynasty in 1644. Su Ze can also arrange for his descendants to take refuge at sea. You must know that Zheng Chenggong separatist regime officials , and it lasted until the Kangxi period.
During the four years of the Ming Dynasty, Su Ze had teachers, classmates, friends, and now a wife and a son.
After these four years, he had a property, a reputation, and a future.
Why rebel?
Su Ze hugged his son and asked this question repeatedly. Couldn't he, like Zhang Juzheng, enter the cabinet and worship the prime minister to gradually improve the Ming Dynasty?
It is now the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, and the powerful Prime Minister Yan Song will fall in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing.
Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng began to come to power. If you start to work hard now, you might not be able to catch up with Zhang Juzheng's reform.
With this kind of thinking, in November of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Su Ze organized his child's full-moon ceremony at home.
Fang Ruolan carried her son and came to Su Ze's study. The two had been married for nearly a year and had given birth to a son. Fang Ruolan also felt that Su Ze's mood was abnormal.
In the days after their marriage, Su Ze loved herself very much and loved her children very much, but Fang Ruolan still felt that Su Ze was worried.
Fang Ruolan didn't know why Su Ze was worried. Today she handed her son over to the wet nurse and walked to Su Ze's study wearing a fox fur cloak.
"Ms. sir, the congratulatory gifts from Fujian have been put into storage. The longevity golden lock sent by Lin Baihu is too valuable. Should I return the gift immediately during the New Year, or should I remember to return the gift when Lin Baihu gets married in the future." Su Ze was writing hard. Writing quickly, he said without raising his head: "Lin Baihu and I are friends. Just remember these. There is no need to rush back." "Do you want your
husband to see the return gifts from the elders in the family?"
"It's up to the lady to make the decision. Yes. I can rest assured that you will take care of the family affairs."
"What are you thinking about, sir, these days?" Fang Ruolan asked straight to the point.
Su Ze then stopped writing and said, "Maybe he's too tired."
"What is my husband writing?"
Su Ze handed what he had written to Fang Ruolan and said, "The banknote tariff plan written to Governor Hu was published by Xu Wenchang a few days ago. I wrote a letter saying that this year the Zhejiang governor's office has paid off the customs duties on banknotes and said that it will issue more anti-Japanese coupons this year. My father-in-law asked me to see how much is appropriate." Fang Ruolan said: "I read in the "Jingshi Bao" that Zhejiang will issue more anti-Japanese coupons this year
. After winning several battles, have the Japanese pirates been driven out of Zhejiang?" "
The two generals Yu and Qi fought well, especially in the Battle of Pinghu. General Yu annihilated thousands of Japanese pirates, which was the great victory in Zhejiang." In the past
six months, Su Ze and Yu Dayou communicated frequently. It has to be said that Yu Dayou can be regarded as a famous general whose name is recorded in history books, and his learning ability is quite good.
Although Su Ze sometimes thought about rebellion, he couldn't bear the people along the coast being tortured by the Japanese pirates, and he knew everything Yu Dayou asked for advice.
The only good thing is that in the communication with Yu Dayou, Su Ze's [Art of War] skill is about to break through Level 10.
Su Ze's mandarin duck formation was learned by Yu Dayou, and within half a year he brought out an elite Zhejiang army to face off against the Japanese pirates in Pinghu, and they did not lose.
But Fang Ruolan is not an ordinary woman. She knows that Zhejiang's great victory is not only the result of Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang.
Without sufficient military pay, rewards, and adequate logistical supplies, there would not have been such a great victory.
"If this continues, the Japanese rebellion will be quelled next year."
Su Ze had mixed feelings. He would naturally be happy that the Japanese rebellion could be pacified, but as peace returned to the southeast, he would have fewer opportunities to fish in troubled waters.
Throughout the whole year, Su Ze was in this state of worrying about gains and losses. Fang Ruolan said with a smile:
"My husband and father are also responsible for this. If you hadn't organized the banknotes, Governor Hu would not have the money to pacify the Japanese." "
I heard from father . He said that there was also a battle in Haimen. General Lin fought bravely, and I am going to ask for credit from the Nanjing Military Department." General Lin
is Lin Deyang, Su Ze is the regimental training envoy, and Lin Deyang is the regimental training deputy envoy.
Last month, Japanese pirates appeared near Haimen County, Tongzhou Prefecture. Lin Deyang led a thousand soldiers of the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps to fight against the Japanese and achieved a great victory, preventing the Japanese pirates from entering Jiangbei again.
Fang Wanghai immediately asked the Nanjing Ministry of War for credit, hoping to let the imperial court set up a garrison in Shanghai and let Lin Deyang serve as a thousand households.
Su Ze shook his head and said: "This matter is not something that the Nanjing Military Department can decide. The Nanjing Military Department can only assess military achievements and report it to the Capital Military Department. Whether it can be approved depends on the court's wishes." Fang Ruolan said with a smile: "Listen to what dad said
. If the Ministry of War in the capital does not allow it, the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps will be incorporated under the name of the Chaoguan Department and the seeds of this elite soldier will be preserved." On the contrary,
Su Ze was willing to keep the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps as a regiment training. Now every time the soldiers issued a Su Ze personally paid for the military pay. He also often visited and talked with the soldiers in the barracks, keeping a tight grip on the army.
If it really becomes a guardhouse, it will be under the control of the imperial court.
Su Ze didn't know if his current obsession with team training was due to the insecurity of the time travellers. But sometimes Su Ze also wondered, even if he rebelled now, would people like the Shanghai Anti-Smuggling Corps follow him?
Maybe only officers like Lin Deyang from Changning Guard will support him?
Just when Su Ze was still trying to calm down these messy thoughts, Fang Aizhu suddenly walked in.
"Uncle, there is someone from Changning Guard waiting for you outside the house."
Fang Ruolan said, "Don't you invite people from Changning Guard into the house?"
Fang Aizhu touched his head and said, "Miss, I also want to invite that person into the house, but he Why don't you come in, saying you want to meet your uncle outside the mansion."
Fang Ruolan frowned and said, "Meeting my husband outside the mansion? Are you sure you are from Changning Guard?"
There is a special line for transmitting news between Changning Guard and Nanjing Su Palace. Now take a boat from Changning Guard north to Shanghai, and be sent to Nanjing by the soldiers from Changning Guard at Shanghai Pier.
Fang Aizhu said, "It's a strange face, but the token matches." "
I'll go see him. Is there anyone else pretending to be from Chang Ning Wei?"
Su Ze stood up, put the letter addressed to Hu Zongxian into the envelope, and added He stamped his seal, handed it to Fang Aizhu and said,
"Send someone to the Governor Hu's Mansion in Zhejiang."
"Yes, uncle."
Su Ze pushed open the study door and saw only snowflakes falling from the sky.
"Is it snowing?" Fang Ruolan, who has been living in the south, was a little surprised. Less than a year after she moved to Nanjing, this was the first time she saw snow.
Under the snowflakes, Su Ze walked to the door of Su Mansion alone, opened the door, and saw a familiar figure wearing a cloak.
"Hundred households?" Su Ze covered his mouth and pulled Lin Mojun to the concierge.
"Why are you here?"
Lin Mojun is a member of the 100th household in the guardhouse and cannot leave her guardhouse without permission. Moreover, she is still disguised as a man.
These days, Lin Mojun and Su Ze communicated frequently, but Lin Mojun had never been to Nanjing.
Lin Mojun raised his head and looked at Su Ze and said: "Yu Shibo has been imprisoned by the Jin Yiwei! As soon as I received the news, I came to you on a clipper ship!" I wrote it out and updated it
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