Beiyang new warlord

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"As for this Jiangnan, I will send it to my hands in a few years!"

That said, Mao Jue was full of confidence.

People in this era may think that Nanming has taken advantage of this contract, but after more than 200 years, no one thinks so. What did Mao Jue get through the negotiation?From the Nanjing Treaty of the first Opium War in the late Qing Dynasty to the later Xin Chou Treaty, Mao Jue can be said to have obtained all the consular jurisdiction and leased land. The port circled around Nanming and firmly blocked them in the mainland. , how the powers of later generations dealt with the Manchu Qing, he used how to deal with Jiangnan, and more generally, he directly plundered Jiangnan as a colony.

Indeed, the modern history of China is an extremely painful and humiliating period, which is enough for every descendant of China to remember deeply. However, to a certain extent, China still has to thank those catastrophes and sacrifices!If it wasn't for the Western powers to wake us up!Perhaps in the era when Mao Jue traveled, Huaxia was still enslaved by the Qing Dynasty in the dream of the heavenly kingdom.

After this contract is signed, there will be two ways out for Jiangnan's future!

If it is similar to history, the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats whose economic lifeline has been pinched in the hands of Mao Jue may be able to wake up and initiate the road of saving the country through industry, and then the sprouts of capitalism that have sprouted for decades will grow vigorously without Mao Jue taking the initiative Go, the more and more like-minded Jiangnan family will have to rely on it.

If this pot of boiling water has not awakened the bud, this Nanming still cannot escape the fate of subjugation. The current situation of the entire Ming Dynasty in the early years of Chongzhen in Nanming River is exactly the same, and it has the same effect as the Liao pay. Little by little, the social wealth of Jiangnan is being emptied, and the tax exemption of Beishang is a fatal blow to the industrial and commercial system of Jiangnan. The same piece of cloth costs me 13 yuan, and you cost [-] yuan. You are destined to be unable to sell it to me!

With the development of the south of the Yangtze River to the present, if the developed industrial and commercial towns degenerate to the era of big family and manors in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, social turmoil will be imagined. Finally, there are some free handicraftsmen and small bourgeois residents in towns. It would be better to kill them than to drive them back to the farm to live a life of slavery.

The Jiangnan gentry is terrible because of their influence on society and their control over public opinion. Without these, aristocratic families with a mere percentage of the total population are nothing. Once their economic foundation is destroyed, Mao Jue wants to clean it up. These people are no more difficult than picking a peach from a tree.

Besides these, Jiangnan itself is not peaceful. Li Zicheng's remnant troops are now fighting with Zuo Liangyu in Huguang, and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime is eyeing them in Sichuan. Soldiers have no silver, this Nanming is always crying.

All he needs to do is to collect money and wait for a few years until he collapses on his own. This is another way Mao Jue came up with after seeing the Jiangnan family's powerful drilling methods and stubborn unspoken rules.

Looking back, the corner of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help evoking a profiteer-like smile. Unfortunately, none of the animals under his command felt the pride of his lord's IQ crushing his opponent. The words are brooding.

"General, you are a poor general! As long as you wave the flag, the king of heaven, I will be able to kill you!"

"The end of this life will be the life of fighting! How can it be impossible to kill!"

"Yes! Yes! You are all animals! Please let me move the oars faster. The aunts and grandmas of the Wang family will come to Yangzhou to watch the moon tonight."

"The last will obey!"

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In the next few days, the Nanming and Beiming, which had been divided into two, began to show amazing changes in a very short period of time.

The ones who suffered the most were the ceded lands of Shanghai County and Hangzhou City. Anyway, Yue Mojue's fleet was about to expropriate them. Nanming no longer regarded these places as his own people, and what he wanted was to grab a fortune and make a fortune. thoughts!

Songjiang, Shanghai County, Wuzhuang.

He is an old acquaintance of Mao Jue. In the sixth year of Chongzhen, when he first came to Jiangnan, he was about to perform a scene of burying a large living person. It was this Wu family. Even in Hangzhou, this Mr. Wu almost killed Mao Jue. But after so many years, Chen Jiao, one of the protagonists involved in the past, is no longer the ignorant little girl back then, and the two have also reached the step of knowing each other from strangers, and this Wu family is related to the Ming Dynasty. The luck of the country is average, and it has declined sharply.

Today, even if it is their last day, this early in the morning, suddenly countless soldiers in fiery red armor broke in, and they didn't even want to save the last face. Open the door, grab something when you see it.

Food, spinning wheels, half-woven cloth, and even the younger women and children in the family are like goods, directly carried on the shoulders of these defenders of the empire, turning around and walking away.

The golden plaque of the Wu Mansion was also ticked off with a click. The brother of the Wu Yun family who was buried by Mao Jue, the current master of the Wu family is also in his thirties at this time, and he is stroking his beard. He is horrified Standing in front of him, he screamed loudly: "What are you doing? I am also a scholar with a reputation! How can you allow such nonsense, get out, or force people to go to Nanjing to sue you!"

The former power is now completely shattered. His obstruction annoyed the imperial army who came to loot, and a heavy-handed soldier chief kicked him hard on his chest, causing him to stagger and collapse on the ground.

"Sue me? I came from Nanjing and was ordered by the Secretary of the Ministry of War to search you all those thieves who colluded with the Northern Dynasty. Hurry up and sue me!"

"Simply! It's unreasonable!"

Clutching his chest, the young master of Wu's family was trembling with anger. Just when he was too suffocated to speak, there were bursts of crying again from the door.

"Mom, save me!!!"

The eldest miss of the Wu family, who was dressed in colorful flowers, is usually a luxury for men to look at from a distance, but this time she was directly touched by a few rude soldiers one by one, pressed in the yard, and pinched her arm with a bundle of hemp rope , tied up on the spot, and while being humiliated, she cried bitterly to the house.

It was almost the same as the scene back then, except that the Wu family's minions had kidnapped Qin Niang and made the old lady of the Liu family mad, this time it was the old lady of the Wu family to bear the karma herself!Seeing his youngest daughter being taken away, she angrily got down from the bed, and within two steps, was grabbed by the hair by a forbidden soldier, snatched the jewelry hairpin from her head, and sat down on the ground, panting violently After a few strokes, the old lady of the Wu family simply rolled her eyes and died of anger on the spot.

After taking over for a long time, just like the Tartars in the north, bringing money and silk women, these Nanjing Imperial Army walked away satisfied.

Sitting at the dilapidated gate, looking at the mess in the mansion, Wu's parents, who used to be aloof, slapped their thighs and wailed uncontrollably.

"Injustice! Heaven has no eyes!"

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Compared with Shanghai County, Hangzhou is a bit better. After all, it is also a place where rich families gather, and they are inextricably linked with hundreds of officials in the Yingtian court. The money was loaded into the car, and the family property was sadly abandoned, and fled to the inland.

But scholars with fame and reputation can escape, while merchants, weavers and ordinary citizens living in Hangzhou City are completely in trouble.

Xiliu Street in the ancient city of Yuhang almost opened with the Ming Dynasty. The time-honored Shengyi Yushengzhai, which has been in business for more than 200 years, has also come to its last day. Then the house was so soft that even the medicinal materials in the medicine cabinet were pulled away drawer by drawer. The young men watched these soldiers walk through with trepidation. The owner of Yushengzhai, the famous doctor in Hangzhou City, Zhao Youde, was also full of mournful and angry roars. with.

"I have been practicing medicine all my life, and I have never done anything wrong. If there is a sickness, the family is in a hurry, and the old man will donate medicines to the doctors and don't take a cent! Why are there quarrels like this?"

"Doctor Zhao, I also know that your medical ethics are noble, but this is the meaning of the above! The little one is helpless! The imperial court lost tens of millions of taels of silver to the Northern Dynasty. These scholars are crazy It’s the same as arresting money! You’re still doing well, do you know the shame of Jingkang? Now the young and beautiful girls and daughters-in-law in the city are all captured by the officers and soldiers as Jiangnan beauties, and they have to pay the Jin Wushu in the north to pay off the debt Woolen cloth!"

The Hangzhou native who came here to plunder always had a bit of conscience. He aimed his eyes outward and said to Zhao Youde hurriedly: "You should always be optimistic about your old daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law! Our old Li has received your favor, and he only I can help you like this!"

Trembling cleverly, Dr. Zhao hurriedly bowed gratefully, turned around and rushed to the stove, grabbed two handfuls of ashes, and went upstairs again with a thud.

On the opposite side of Yushengzhai is a place where weavers live. At this time, the place is already wailing, and the last trace of civilized face has been torn away. Groups of young women from Xiaojiabiyu are tied up, with red hands behind their backs. With a noose tied around his neck, he turned his head and cried three times a step, but the officers and soldiers carrying things mercilessly pulled them out as if they were leading animals. It was nothing more than this scene when Japanese pirates washed the city decades ago.

Hangzhou, Luo Family Manor, servants also kept on streaming, sending back bad news.

"Miss, our yarn workshop in the city was robbed!"

"Our Luo family's sugar shop has been stolen!"

"Something has happened, miss! Our birth aunt was robbed by those dog officers and soldiers!"

She really didn't expect that the hundreds of years of the Ming Dynasty on her head could act like this, and Luo Ning's pretty melon-seeded face also became rigid with the bad news. For a long time, looking at those panicked clansmen, she was helpless Sighed.

"Forget it, go steal the money! Send people to bring all the clansmen to Zhuangzi, and don't want any of that stuff! Wait for the regent to come, as long as he is here, he can earn back any amount of money!"

But just as he was talking, the old housekeeper burst in sweating profusely.

"Miss, it's not good! A team of officers and soldiers came from Hangzhou, rushing to our Zhuangzi!"

"what?"

Full of confidence, Luo Ning couldn't help standing up abruptly, clenching her silver teeth for a moment, she hurried into the boudoir, and after a while, she took out a beautiful small box and stuffed it into the arms of the old housekeeper .

"Go! Hang this at the gate of our Luo family manor, and I will see who has the guts to break in!"

Opening the box and taking a look at the beautiful golden border, the old butler immediately became confident.

In the sound of clattering, with the strong wind blowing, a black flag with hair characters was surrounded by two red dragons. It opened its teeth and claws majestically, just like a savior came. Dozens of Luo family members carried big wooden sticks, He also stood at the entrance of the village full of arrogance. Underneath, more than a dozen officers and soldiers went straight to Zhuangzi halfway up the mountain with a murderous look. A dozen or so big-eared melon seeds were captured by the officers, and a group of bandit soldiers fled as desperately as if they had lost a battle.

Standing on the boudoir, looking at the floating flag, and the cries from several Zhuangzi nearby, Luo Ning couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the stairs behind him, accompanied by the sound of hard wood hitting the ground, Luo Ning was completely stunned, and Luo Ning turned around in surprise.

"Brother, why are you here?"

"Our Zhuangzi, why are you hanging the banner of that thief?"