Chapter 132 Yao Guangxiao arrives at Songjiang Mansion
On a private pier in Songjiang Prefecture.
Ji Gang and Gu Wangsun were waiting here, but they saw a lone light on the sea getting brighter and brighter, and a large ship slowly docked. When Yao Guangxiao got off the boat, Ji Gang immediately stepped forward to salute and introduced Gu Wangsun to him. .
Yao Guangxiao said: "How is the situation in Jiangnan recently?"
When Yao Guangxiao was in Beijing, he had already heard about the chaos in Jiangnan. But I don’t know how the chaos broke out. After all, it still takes a lot of effort to transmit information between the north and the south.
Ji Gang immediately told Yao Guangxiao exactly what they had done.
He told Yao Guangxiao the current situation and said: "Now a hundred thousand people from the Nanjing camp have entered the Jiangnan area. Jiangnan has become a river of blood. Tens of thousands of people have died in Suzhou City. I estimate that Suzhou City will not be destroyed in the next ten years." It is possible to recover. As for other prefectures and counties, there are damages. In Taihu, people have gathered as bandits, numbering tens of thousands. As for all the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, there are fallen soldiers and horses. In short, it will take a few years to clean up the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. As for this matter, Ding Xian is still levying violent taxes in Jiangnan. The official estimates that under such circumstances, the next riot is not far away."
This time, there are reservations in many aspects.
Many people have illusions. The so-called riot itself is an intention to negotiate. Let the higher-ups see that you have to restrain yourself, otherwise we will really start a riot. Most of the mutinies in the Ming Dynasty were like this. The soldiers mutinied, and the officers only killed the culprits and then paid everyone. Then they dispersed in a rush.
Both sides achieved their goals, and only a few people died, which was considered the price of the negotiation.
This is why everyone wants to make trouble, but no one wants to be the one in the spotlight. And when there was a riot, there were many slogans, such as demands to kill Ding Xian, exempt from taxes, and fight unjust, false and wrongly convicted cases. But most of them are not required. This itself is an attitude towards negotiation and communication.
If the imperial court agrees to these attitudes, the chaos will be settled quickly, and even the people who caused the trouble will be betrayed to the imperial court by some people behind the scenes.
However, the imperial court's decisive attitude resulted in rivers of bloodshed and destroyed many people's illusions. Naturally, we must persist in the struggle to the end. When everyone is wearing shoes, they don’t dare to work hard. Now that you are barefoot, why don’t you dare to go all out?
Scholars who dare to work hard are the most terrifying.
Yao Guangxiao said: "That's right. I never thought that you could do this."
Ji Gang immediately said: "This is all the result of Gu Wangsun."
Yao Guangxiao looked over and said, "Gu Wangsun, is he really Gu Wangsun?"
Yao Guangxiao was even more perceptive than Ji Gang. He saw many things from Gu Wangsun. Just from Gu Wangsun's demeanor and slender hands that looked like a woman's, he knew that he was not from an ordinary family. Yao Guangxiao can also see the exquisiteness in the name Gu Wangsun.
What's more, Ji Gang is from Shandong. He didn't know much about Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats, but Yao Guangxiao was different. He has met members of the Gu family in Jiangnan, and he dare not say that the current heroes of the Gu family in Jiangnan are greater than those he has met face to face. But I’ve seen most of them.
The feeling and bearing that Gu Wangsun gave him was that his surname was not Gu. After all, a family or a clan should have some similarities in appearance or temperament. Although it's not absolute, it's just Yao Guangxiao's feeling.
Gu Wangsun coughed and said, "The grass-roots characters can be left alone."
Gu Wangsun had an estimate of the outcome of the Jiangnan Rebellion, but he never expected that Nanjing's response would be so simple and crude, and they would directly send troops to suppress it. This seems like a simple thing. But in fact, it was the scholar-officials who hurt Jiangnan.
As mentioned before, the gentry was an important cornerstone of the imperial court's rule. The court and the gentry needed each other. Now this relationship is torn apart abruptly. The result was a defeat for both sides.
Not only did many famous families disappear in this chaos, but it is unknown how many people died under the swords and guns of the Nanjing camp. After all, the military discipline of the Southern Army was not very good. As for those who put down the chaos, there are many problems in itself.
For example, it is difficult to distinguish between ordinary people and chaotic people.
It is also difficult for the Southern Army to do such work.
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Wherever there is, there is naturally a lot of blood.
The most direct feeling is Suzhou City.
Yao Guangxiao said that it will take more than ten years for Suzhou City to return to its former prosperity, which is about one generation. But he was wrong.
Because he ignored the development of the times.
In fact, Suzhou City can never return to its original position.
Because of the chaos in Suzhou, he missed the opportunity for industrial development.
After Zhu Xiongying took control of Nanjing, in order to balance the north and the south and find a way out for Jiangnan, He Xi naturally planned an industrial zone in Jiangnan. At this time, Suzhou and Songjiang actually have their own advantages. There are many problems in Shanghai today. For example, a large piece of land in Shanghai is still in the sea. Not to mention, poor drainage. Once there is heavy rain, many places in Songjiang Prefecture will be flooded.
etc.
Suzhou also has direct access to the Yangtze River via a canal. Today, Liujiagang, a good port on the Yangtze River, where Zheng He's fleet started, is also in Suzhou. But because of this chaos, when choosing an industrial base, He Xi weighed the pros and cons, coupled with his impression of Shanghai in his previous life, and finally chose Songjiang.
In fact, if Suzhou was in its heyday, He Xi would most likely choose Suzhou because there are many things that he would not have to worry about. But Suzhou looked extremely bleak. It will take time to recover from the sequelae of the Suzhou Rebellion.
Construction in Songjiang Prefecture also has to start from scratch.
He Xi naturally chose Songjiang.
What happens next will be a matter of course.
Many years later, Suzhou can only be the back garden of Songjiang Prefecture. Instead of Suzhou Development annexing Songjiang Prefecture.
Gu Wangsun did not know that the Suzhou Rebellion had such an influence on the history of Suzhou, and even had a considerable influence on the history of the Ming Dynasty. This represents the first violent movement caused by the impact of industrialization on the people.
It's just that he saw too much blood.
He really felt guilty in his heart. If I didn't kill Boren, Boren would die because of me. That's when I actually decided to change my name. I don’t want to bring shame to my ancestors. The ancestors and sects all left their virtues to the world, but he just did something like this that brought disaster to the world. He didn't know how to see his ancestors again.
The so-called words can be left behind.
From the poem "Kings and grandsons can stay here." Although there are many people who use Tang poetry as characters. But this sentence is obviously wrong. He was obviously asking Yao Guangxiao if he could take him in.
Yao Guangxiao said: "If the king and grandson are willing, there will be no place in the world where they can stay, let alone me."
After some pleasantries, we finally understood the situation in Jiangnan and Nanjing.
Ji Gang asked: "Sir, where are you going?"
Yao Guangxiao said: "Of course it is Nanjing, and the long-prepared plan is about to be implemented. If I don't go to Nanjing to keep an eye on it, where would I go?"
Ji Gang naturally knew what Yao Guangxiao's plan was? Isn't it just a plan prepared to attack Nanjing's new banknotes? It has been in the works for several years. Now is a good opportunity. Without him, the Jiangnan Rebellion will have a huge blow to Nanjing's credibility. Even without He Xi taking action, the new banknotes were already a little unstable.
It was Ding Xian who used many means to barely keep it from collapsing.
If you take action at this time, you will definitely hit with one hit.
Ji Gang said: "Your Excellency, you don't know. The Nanjing court has noticed that you are in Nanjing, and now the entire city of Nanjing is a dragnet. Just waiting for you. Especially Nanjing's Jin Yiwei, who has dug three feet into the ground in Nanjing City. Cao Guogong's Mansion The people above clearly told us that you must not go to Nanjing, otherwise they will not be able to protect you."
Yao Guangxiao laughed and said, "It doesn't matter, they are looking for them. I have my own way. Don't worry, I won't use my name as a joke."
Ji Gang said: "Sir------"
He wanted to persuade again.
Nanjing's intelligence network is all in his hands. It has encountered many problems during this period, and I don't know how many people have been damaged by it. He's just struggling to stay afloat. He really had no confidence that Yao Guangxiao could escape unscathed after entering Nanjing.
It’s just that Yao Guangxiao is not here
I mean, it's not that Yao Guangxiao doesn't care about his own life, but he has a backup plan.
