A great victory in Wenxian County!
A document with gorgeous rhetoric, beautiful language and eulogies was sent to him. Guo Youyi was looking forward to the letter of appointment from the imperial court.
It's just because of his "greed for merit" that the once-rising immigration craze in Shanxi began to cool down.
Ru Yu looked at this copy of the "Report of Merit Document" and always wanted to slap Guo Youyi. The court had planned for so long, mobilized so many manpower and material resources, and spent so much effort, only to be beaten up by this unknown person. It went into the water!
Wang Jingangnu died, and his head was hung out. Southern Shaanxi disappeared into smoke. Alas, the sky cleared up...
The people of Shanxi looked at it and thought, there is no war anymore and they can have a good sleep.
migrant?
What kind of immigration was discussed with you yesterday?
no?
That's probably because I drank too much. I'm sorry.
If you want to leave, I will see you off.
Guarding one-third of an acre of land and holding my wife is no better than going to Beizhili or Henan.
Whoever wants to immigrate can go, I won’t leave.
There are even some people who have been included in the yellow list and are openly repenting again, crying and shouting that they want to stay in Shanxi.
Just when Ru Yun was at a loss what to do, nearly five hundred Shanxi merchants reached an agreement at Fengyuan Manor in Taiyuan after more than ten days of discussions and announced the establishment of the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce.
The Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce is large in scale, with not only the eight major Shanxi merchants, but also more than 200 wealthy merchants, large and small, covering all business fields.
With the strong support of the Chang family, the Hou family and other big Shanxi merchants, Chang Baiye became the first president of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, taking charge of all matters of the chamber of commerce. Made up of people.
At Hou Qianqian's suggestion, and in order to reassure the court, when Chang Baiye compiled the regulations of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, the first article was determined as follows:
Anyone in the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce must violate the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" in any form and do things that endanger the people, the court and the Ming Dynasty.
There are many provisions and the content is complex, but the basic framework has been set.
Shanxi merchants will unite the strength of businessmen, do business together, make money together, and handle difficulties together.
After the establishment of the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce, countless merchants began to change their plaques and prepare to give away railway coupons. At the same time, they mobilized countless clerks and began to integrate business with immigration policies.
The appearance of the Ranghui Railway Coupon has indeed touched many people. For them, one penny or two penny is important. If they can spend a penny less on weekdays, they will never spend more. If they can walk, they will never take a ride. , I can sleep in a haystack, I will never go to a hotel, I can wear rags, I will never buy new clothes casually.
Now as long as you immigrate, you can save a lot of money, and the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce has also promised that you can enjoy this benefit no matter you move to Beizhili or Henan, because the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce will also follow the immigration army - move business.
Chang Baiye knew very well that this was a great opportunity to build a century-old foundation. As long as he won the hearts and minds of these people, what if he gave up some profits? What a good deal it is to exchange a small profit for the Shanxi market and the right to speak.
As for helping the court persuade people to immigrate, it is just investing in the future.
Shanxi merchants cannot only do business for twenty years. In thirty years, half a million people will immigrate from Shanxi. After thirty years, they will probably have a population of two to three million. How much goods will such a huge population need?
Now Shanxi merchants start early, which can not only benefit them, but also comfort them from the pain of leaving their hometown. After a few decades, when they want to buy goods, the first thing they think of will be the stores owned by the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce.
People still need to look further ahead.
The energy bursting out from the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce is huge. With the help of businessmen, the propaganda of Buddhism and Taoism, the guidance of Jianwen Newspaper, the unified deployment of the Chief Envoy Yamen, and the drive of interests, The people of Shanxi finally returned to rationality and began to think about a fundamental question:
Does immigration have many advantages or disadvantages?
After they figured out this problem, the immigrant dilemma was finally broken. This time, it was no longer the panic of external forces, but the inner desire for a better life.
Under Hu Hui's control, Jianwen News began to shine with dazzling light, and one of the rays of light was golden...
The establishment of the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce was such a major event that could be recorded in the annals of history. It would be unjustifiable if it was not reported, so Chang Baiye found Hu Hui personally and even the manuscript had been written.
As a result, Hu Hui made an offer: five hundred taels of silver.
Chang Baiye could hardly believe his ears. He just wanted to publish a newspaper to promote the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce and spread the news. No matter how evil you are, you can't steal so much money from me, right?
Hu Hui didn't care, and simply told Chang Baiye that whatever the Propaganda Department wanted to write and who to write it were all the Propaganda Department's own business, and they would never ask for money, nor would they accept your money.
However, those who take the initiative to come to the Propaganda Department and publish information to "spread the word to the public" and advertise will be charged, and there will be heavy charges.
Hu Xi's logic is very simple. The Propaganda Department's newspaper costs five cents a piece, and if it sells a thousand copies a day, it only costs five taels of silver. Five taels of silver, not to mention the two hundred or so craftsmen who have arrived in the Propaganda Department one after another. This ink, paper, inkstone, and printing equipment also cost money.
These people came to Shanxi with him, and they also need to eat and pay them. These people also have wives and children, and they also have personal needs. If they don't give them money, who will do the work?
Why don't I ask you for five hundred taels? If the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce wants to publish it in the newspaper in the future, it will go at this price. If you don't accept it, you will leave. I will post the news about the opening of Yihong Building on the front page. Let's see what you think.
Chang Baiye felt that Hu Hui was a gangster, but Hou Qianqian couldn't stand it and felt that Hu Hui was really outrageous, so he raised the price to one thousand taels...
Since then, the newspaper seller has become a courier boy, responsible for delivering the printed Jianwen newspapers to several stores designated by the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce. The Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce will then be responsible for selling the Jianwen newspapers...
Hu Hui thought that she had benefited from it. She made a thousand taels of silver in vain and saved herself from selling newspapers.
Chang Baiye lamented that his wife was such a genius. She had given the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce a good start and monopolized the right to sell Jianwen Newspaper. Anyone who wanted to read the newspaper in the future would have to go to the store of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce. suffered.
As long as you enter the store, it's easy to say whether you want to buy or not, you're a customer, and you'll be treated well. Maybe you'll buy a newspaper someday, and a few pieces of cloth by the way.
Rujun finally received documents from various places, and the number of immigrants registered gradually increased, totaling more than 60,000 people. Although the number was far less than 500,000, they had passed the most difficult period.
The renovation of post stations is also progressing intensively. Some post houses that had been in disrepair have been renovated, and the vacant staff have been replenished. Post stations began to travel from Taiyuan and other places, through the Taihang Mountains, and into the Henan and North Zhili regions.
Considering that there are still some petty thieves in the Taihang Mountains who are willing to collect tolls, Beizhili, Henan and Shanxi jointly dispatched a group of elites who are good at mountaineering and eliminated dozens of kings in the mountains. Young tiger and leopard go back.
The roads were cleared, the inns were built, and the food was in place, it was time for immigration to begin.
At the end of June, Rujun announced that he would organize immigrants every half month and set out early to allocate fields and build houses as soon as possible. The first batch of immigrants numbered as many as 20,000.
The vast team walked along the winding mountain road, with no end or end in sight.
Compared with the immigrants during the Hongwu period, this large-scale immigration did not have ropes to tie them up, and there were no soldiers to escort them, and there was no crying and screaming to survive.
These people left their hometowns and said goodbye to their relatives and friends in order to flourish, to live a better life, and for their children and future.
The clappers are ringing, the camel bells are jingling, and we will go straight to the east without leaving the Western Regions...
Qingzhou, Shandong.
Song Zhengchen chewed on the hard steamed bun and felt that his teeth were about to break. He took the steamed bun and smashed it on a stone, and it made a banging sound. Looking at the iron-like steamed bun, Song Zhengchen wanted to know why the noodles were so chewy. So hard...
How long has it been? I have sent out more than a dozen messages. Judging from the looks of the sergeants and guards, they have not found any problems, but why hasn't the court sent anyone here yet?
"Wang Jiangtou, have you seen the Tomb of Clothes?"
Song Zhengchen asked, looking at the big man eating steamed buns at the side.
Wang Jiangtou raised his head and glanced at Song Zhengchen, and said with a cold face: "When I am beaten to death, my family will naturally take away my clothes and build a tomb. As for other people's, haha, if I have a chance to see you, I will stay there here?"
“How do you know your family will take the clothes away, what if they don’t?”
Song Zhengchen walked over and handed over the steamed bun in his hand.
Wang Jiangtou did not take the steamed buns, but said: "You'd better eat some. Without this little steamed buns, your current weak body won't be able to last for half a month. I heard the sergeant say that if you lose anything today, The corpse, the clothes on the corpse will be gone tomorrow. Do you think if it wasn't the family, who would be so unlucky to go to the mass grave? It must be these soldiers who notified the family of the deceased and made another payment."
Song Zhengchen squinted his eyes and became even more confused.
It stands to reason that, whether it is family members or others, as long as they get the clothes, they should see the message they left. Such big words should not be invisible.
As long as they report the news to the court, they will definitely be rewarded. Why is it that Qingzhou is still Qingzhou and has not changed at all?
where is the problem?
At night, someone was dying again.
Song Zhengchen secretly bit his palm, dipped it in blood, and wrote another message in the dead man's inner garment, then went back to rest.
After doing this all the time, Song Zhengchen was already a little anemic.
The next night, Wang Caogen and Wang Caotou continued to take off their clothes. When Wang Caogen saw another bloody undershirt, he almost jumped up and cursed. What is going on? If you die, you will die. What kind of clothes are you wasting? I don’t know how difficult it is to wash!
"Brother, did you lose it? We will sell clothes tomorrow. We don't need this one."
Wang Caotou said depressedly.
Wang Caogen threw his clothes on the ground, stepped on it, yelled at the corpse, and left.
A strong gust of wind came, like a whirlwind, and the thin inner clothes on the ground flew up half a meter, rolled and floated to the distant river, and landed on the river bank. I don’t know how long it took, but a jade hand picked up the clothes and saw the words on it:
The King of Qi rebels, report to the court quickly!
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