Chapter 110 Exile for 500 miles

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When this was said, not only did Shi Yanei stop him more clearly, but even Huang Yu also said: "That's right, Miss Chu will be misunderstood when she follows the little ladies. If a kidnapping attacks, Miss Chu is also on the scene. If the people spread, maybe she will say what's wrong with you being kidnapping... I think Miss Chu is better in Haizhou City."

Tofu Xishi also made a decision at this time, and she sighed: "Dalang will not be able to spend the Dragon Boat Festival in the city now. I am planning... Forget it, when will Dalang come back?"

Lu Yun received the greeting from Shideng and stepped forward and bowed: "Master just go and relax. We have already understood the design drawings of the cellar. When the master comes back, we will definitely dig the hole and then slowly build it..."

After listening to Lu Yun's plan, Shi Chuan clapped his hands without saying anything: "Then let's go, girls, pack up quickly."

The two yamen runners were a little embarrassed: "If Dalang leaves, this yard..."

Shi Chuan replied: "You don't have to leave, you still guard the yard. Since there is no one in the yard, your life will be easier. If someone comes to visit, you don't have to stop him. Let him check it around..."

Later, the girls hiding in the building took their bags and walked out. They had no luggage at all, but they had done too much needlework in the past few days, and they couldn't help but accumulate some needlework for themselves. Those things were simple and could be wrapped in one package. However, the things in the house were trivial. Just the fine jewelry in the Taohua Temple was packed with two carriages.

During this period, Huang Yu first said goodbye and went home to choose the right woman. Shi Yanei directed his military man to run around until he was sent to the passenger ship. Fang sighed with a relaxed tone and sighed to Chu Suzhen: "It's not easy for him. If he was alone, he would have to pat his butt and leave, but so many girls around him would be a little jealous. Once the kidnapped revenge, it would not be just for him.

Tigers always take a nap. As long as the kidnapper is willing and patiently seeks opportunities, they can always find loopholes to take revenge on the girls... Now, the kidnapper has suffered a loss. Even if they follow the clues and come to the door again, they know that Shi Dalang has moved, and maybe they will stop chasing them."

Chu Suzhen frowned: "Usually, if such a trafficking incident occurs, the government will find out that the kidnapping group usually cut off all clues and settle the matter from now on. But this time the kidnapping actually came to the door. I guess it was not because Shi Dalang was too ruthless. It must be that Shi Dalang eliminated some people, so that the kidnapping continued to entangle and intends to take revenge.

Now Shi Dalang has moved, and two yamen runners are left in the yard. If the kidnapper takes advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival and sees the yamen runners present, I am afraid he will avoid it anyway... I am not worried that the kidnapper will continue to be entangled. You are right. There are too many girls in the group. If you give Brother Changqing time to buffer, for example, if parents get news, they will probably come to them one after another.

As long as half of the girls have a place, Brother Changqing will definitely protect the rest. With his means and preparation, in another month, even if he really conflicts with monsters, he may suffer a loss - look at how much he has done this month."

"One month? Haha, Shi Yanei shook his head: "Suzhen, you think too simple. In another year, there will not be many parents coming to you. These girls are afraid they will be with Changqing for the rest of their lives.

Well, Suzhen rest assured. Although Yuzhou Island is big, it is my brother-in-law's world. When the young ladies go to Yuzhou Island, they don't have to hide in the house all day long. When they spend a while of going to the street to relax every day, they may have changed their fear of seeing strangers..."

Shi Yanei couldn't say the word "psychotherapy", but his meaning was very clear. It was probably because of this consideration that Shi Chuan planned to take all the girls on the boat to Yuzhou Island to relax.

Chu Suzhen glanced slightly and replied: "You always praise Yuzhou Island, but Yuzhou Island is still the place where the government exiled prisoners. Although that island is close to you and can be seen standing on the shore when the sky is clear, in the eyes of the government, it is still the same as the wilderness - exile for 500 miles, which is the same as exile for Yuzhou Island.

How many prisoners have accumulated there in the past two hundred years of the Emperor Song Dynasty? Such a prisoner island, you only say it is prosperous, but you don’t see many wealthy businessmen in Haizhou willing to move there. Not to mention anything else, we have cut off contact with Yuzhou Island. Several magistrates from the past and later, I heard that they would rather lose their official position than land on the island when they work in Yuzhou Island. I just thought that your brother-in-law has been operating on the island for many years, and the girls are safe to hide.... If you want to land on the island, your brother-in-law will agree, right? "

At this moment, Shi Chuan was sending money to the girls one by one.

The comfort money given by the government, plus the money earned from investments these days, plus... it is also a considerable amount. Each girl can get at least 200 trump cards, plus a bunch of small gifts.

The small gifts that were worn on time include sachets, silk threads, round fans for holidays, silk fabrics for making new clothes, as well as piles of gold and silver jewelry, Buddha statues and other pendants. Although there were many things to be moved out of his house, twenty people were paid for each, and each person only had one more package.

Everyone was a little uncomfortable and frightened when they left the nest they ran in panic, but women were born to like freshness. As soon as the boats drove, thousands of sails passed by the sea, and the fish jumped out of the sea, and the passing fishing boats were rushing to catch them; the long and invisible formation of ships waiting to enter the Haizhou Maritime Bureau... These scenes distracted their attention. Now they were allocated money and jewelry... The girls' minds were already active.

Especially for jewelry, women have different feelings about jewelry. It may be the thing they are closest to and accompany them until they are old. After being washed away and stripped thousands of miles away, they suddenly have their own jewelry... Most girls suddenly feel that life is coming to them again, and they are no longer walking dead.

Immediately afterwards, the woman's topic came - the boat gradually sailed away from the busy dock area, and went further to Yuzhou Island in the distance. However, the boating on the sea, the distance that you can see at your eyes may run until sunset. The little girls in junior high school grades were looking forward for a while and immediately began to talk about the money they had just received. Well, will there be a street market on the island? Should they buy some gifts for their parents and younger sisters so that their parents can know that they can not eat idle meals even if they go home.

At this moment, they forgot whether they still have a chance to see their parents again.

Huan Niang, who doesn't eat idle food, gets the largest package. She is the youngest. Among the gifts she gets, there are many worthless things, such as small mud dolls, small head flowers, small fan gyros, etc. She couldn't carry the package herself, so she sat on the deck and worried about the big package. After a while, she remembered it and immediately became excited: "Brother, Huan Niang has an older brother. Well, let the brother keep Huan Niang's things. Brother, come and help Huan Niang carry the package... Brother, you say, Huan Niang is rich now, are there any buns sold on Yuzhou Island?"

This question is hard to answer. Because he has never been to Yuzhou Island, but in modern times, because of the accumulation of mud and sand along the coast, Yuzhou Island has become a piece of land and the entire island no longer exists. How could he know the current situation of Yuzhou Island?

As usual, Huang E replied: "Yuzhou Island is very big. Although it is an island, it is not a problem to raise hundreds of thousands of people. In the past, Sun En, a five-dou rice cultist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, gathered 200,000 bandits on Yuzhou Island and frequently crossed the sea to harass the people along the coast. The island that can survive 200,000 people should be as big as two or three counties. Nowadays, ordinary upper-class counties may not have a population of 200,000. So based on this, it is speculated that there should be a street market in Yuzhou Island."

Shi interspersed: "Sun En gathered 200,000-meter thieves, which should be a special situation. Yuzhou Island is an island after all, and it should lack enough water to feed too much population, so the rice thieves frequently attacked from the island and robbed the mainland..."

Huang E nodded: "My brother is right. Two hundred thousand people should be the peak of Yuzhou Island. Later, the turmoil in the late Tang Dynasty, and the people on the island disappeared and starved to death. In the past two hundred years of the Emperor and Song dying, the population on the island is only more than 30,000. Most of them do not farm because the island's water sources are insufficient and the sea water is backflowing has caused the land to be barren, and there is not much profit to grow food. I heard that most islanders now make a living by fishing, and by the way, they also help customers bring some goods..."

Speaking of this, Huang E smiled slightly: "In the past, the government had a salt office on the island, so there were three thousand imperial guards (Xuan Yi Army) on the island. Later, the island became the fief of a certain imperial concubine. The salt office was not under the management of the imperial court and gradually became dilapidated. Later, the imperial concubine died, and his children thought the island had little future and were remote and difficult to manage. In addition, the imperial court laid off redundant soldiers and redundant generals, Xuan Yi Army on the island was laid off. As a result, the island gradually became a little lawless.

Nowadays, more than 30,000 people on the island are mostly prisoners exiled over the years. Because Yuzhou is still a far-reaching military prison city, a natural place for slaughtering, so the food is self-sufficient, but most fishermen on the island make a living by smuggling, which cannot be prohibited by the government.

When I was with my father, I heard people talk about Yuzhou Island. Since I heard that my father was coming to Haizhou, I specifically inquire about the surrounding situation. I heard that some officials had known that the situation on the island was a bad one and wanted to investigate, but soon, they would send people to the island to secretly set up a cargo warehouse... So that island has many cargo warehouses, even more than the population on the island.

It is said that behind each warehouse above, some warehouse owners can directly access the capital and let officials from the three provinces and six ministries speak for him. How dare the ninth-rank official attack these people - just get a share of the pie.

Well, I also heard that the idle people on the island who do not fish or farm, mainly guard the goods warehouse. Because there are many guards on the island. Although it is a place where troops are exiled, the public security situation is better than that of Bianliang City. Any idle person goes to the island, and everyone on the island stares at it, for fear that some young official is coming to find trouble again, or pirates come to explore the way..."

Shi Chuan understood: "In order to guard his warehouse, the owners of the warehouse must hire servants to purchase weapons privately, so the island does not have to worry about weapons or armed personnel - Shi Dalang's brother-in-law, Mr. Hai, must have taken advantage of the characteristics of the island and decided to settle on the island."

Huang E thought for a while: "My father has never been in contact with maritime merchants, so my family is not clear about the situation of maritime trade. But I often hear people say that sea boats can load goods, and can transport cargo from two or three warehouses at a time. Merchants who often do maritime trade may have more than one ship at home. So, their cargo warehouses for storing goods should have twenty or thirty warehouses. How many guards are there in guarding these warehouse groups? I don't count...

I see that when Shi Yanei was traveling in Haizhou City, he often brought twenty or thirty followers around him. Shi Yanei was still so popular in the city. Based on this, it is estimated that his brother-in-law's guard should be at least ten times that of Yanei Changsu."

"Trading goods from twenty or thirty warehouses at a time is still a small business for marine merchants." Shi Chuan recalled the contents of the notes in the Song Dynasty and said slowly: "It is said that the Song merchants who monopolize Japanese business, such as Zhu (Zhu Rencong, the Zhu family of the Mingzhou), Zhou (Zhou family of the Taizhou, mainly Zhou Wende and Zhou Wenren), Chen (Chen Wenyou business group of the Chen family of the Fuzhou family), Sun (Sun Zhong business group of the Sun family of the Mingzhou), Li (Li Chong business group of the Li family of the Quanzhou), etc. The warehouses that store goods alone last for more than ten miles.

Of course, their warehouses will not be under the eyes of the government. I remember that the Zhou family has their own private port - Ninghai, Taizhou (Sanmenwan, Dongao Village, Ningbo today. However, the other families have not recorded it. Maybe they have their own private ports and warehouses on this Yuzhou Island... Humph, after all, this is the closest node from mainland China to Japan. The young master of the sea..."

Huang E thought about it and immediately looked at Shi Chuan in admiration: "It's still my brother who thinks far-reachingly. Yes, no matter where you sail, the sea boats to Japan have to replenish water and goods on Yuzhou Island. Such a place with loose control is really... Oh, how could the princess who has Yuzhou Island as her fiefdom is willing to give up this piece of fat? Is she unaware of it?"

"I'm afraid it's known, but the water is too deep and too muddy. For example, the royal princess Da participated, and a prince only received a small amount of profits. So she thought: If something happened, I am the lord and I have to bear the disaster. When nothing happened, everyone will take advantage of the advantage. I don't want it, so..."

Huang E covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled softly: "Brother is always unreasonable, and the princess (princess) also uses it to make fun of..." Huang E's words did not have any tone of condemnation, so that she said it like acting coquettishly.

She is also the age to graduate from elementary school.

While speaking, the boat had already sailed into the waters of Yuzhou Island. At this time, it was two hours since Shi Chuan them left Haizhou Pier. Shi Chuan stood on the boat and looked at the closer Yuzhou Island. He casually recited the poem by Su Dongpo in the past and Yulongxing Temple, who had been writing: "I climbed Mount Qu, and watched the desolate sunrise. I wanted to Ji Donghai County, but I regretted the lack of stone bridges."

Yuzhou Island is an ancient place name from "Shan Hai Jing". In the Song Dynasty, Yuzhou established Donghai County, and the three major salt fields in Haizhou: Luoyao, Banpu and Huize. Among them, Huize Salt Field is in Yuzhou. However, Shen Kuo recorded in "Mengxi Bitan" that when he was the magistrate of Shuyang County, Haizhou, the then magistrate Sun Bochun was worried that the establishment of the salt field would form a convention and increase the taxes and service of the people, so he did not support the court's decision.

Sun Bochun's view was supported by the gentry of Haizhou, and the officials of the Song Dynasty were always weak to the people. Perhaps they knew that opening a salt farm in the local area violated local interests, so the three major salt farms were cautious in operating. The salt supervisors turned a blind eye to local private salt. As for private salt, according to Sun Bochun's view: "Although the official buys salt, there is a shortage of official salt, and there is no need to worry about insufficient salt." - As long as the private salt is legally paid salt tax, no matter how much they can produce, the salt farm will be fully covered.

Because of this, the salt field that had to be protected by heavy troops was cut off several times by the backbone of the new law, and the entire Donghai County had become the world of township soldiers. The obvious evidence is that the salt ships opened from Yuzhou Island could hardly see the shadow of the official army, all of them were rural soldiers, township chariots, and group training...

Since we are fellow villagers, it's easy to talk. The East China Sea inspector saw the flags flying on the ship from afar and lost the interest in checking. On the salt ship that was escorting him from time to time, the villagers greeted the sailors on the ship from time to time and teased each other. As for the goods on the ship, people were not interested at all.

The ship passed the "Official Ship Wharf" in Donghai County, which was opposite Haizhou, and did not make any efforts to dock. Instead, it continued to sail along the winding coastline and towards the northeast of the island. After a while, the Official Ship Wharf of Donghai County was left behind, and there were more private wharfs along the way. Such wharfs generally did not allow other ships to dock. When their own boats did not enter the port, there were very few people on the wharf, and those who walked back and forth were basically the soldiers. Of course, these soldiers still knew the flags of the Hai Gongzi flying on the boat. When the boat passed by, they greeted the boat one after another.

The soldiers, my family, saw the soldiers' intimacy, Shi Chuan waved his hand with a smile.

When Wang Anshi reformed, a large number of "redundant soldiers" were abolished. After the local regular army was disbanded, the government asked the countryside to organize the training to undertake the work that the country should have done. They did not pay any salary when they worked. This greatly reduced the burden on the country, but increased the burden of labor in the countryside. In the countryside, those who could have spare money to protect their neighbors or afford the training of the countryside were the old landlords and local tyrants in the countryside. These people naturally had to enjoy the corresponding rights after paying for their money. Therefore, with the implementation of the new law, the rural soldiers became the private armed forces of the landlords.

The Song Dynasty stipulated that the Tuanjian Township Department "five people are the A, the Five Armies are the Team, the Five Armies are the Team, the Five Terms are the Society, all have the Chiefs, and the Five Society is the One Capital Society". Generally, larger villages and towns can organize "one department" towns, and the "Tuanjian Society" formed by several townships, whose members are called "Social Soldiers".
Chapter completed!