Chapter 1034 Early 17th year of Wanli

Nowadays, the Zheng family can be described as "prejudice". Moreover, they are rampant everywhere, and everyone really wants to sell their face. They are used to being arrogant. Once there is a setback, they will feel particularly uncomfortable and must find the place to give up.

After the news of Songjiang Prefecture was sent to the capital with 6 routes, the Zheng family was furious. In their opinion, you, a loss of power, dare to fight our Zheng family. This is not a matter of life or death. If you do not fight back, wouldn’t it be weaker the prestige of our Zheng family, lose face of the Zheng family, and even more so that the Empress could lose face.

The crowd below clamored, and Zheng Guotai himself understood the degree of measure, but he was not old. After all, he was young and energetic, and he was not many years old. He was instigated by others, so he was inevitably restless and impatient.

Zheng Guotai himself had no foundation in the capital. When the Zheng family was competing for the foundation of the country, they were very irritated with civil officials and the old nobles of the capital. He had to count on Empress Zheng what he wanted to do.

Compared with the domineering and arrogant tribe members outside and the restless younger brother, Empress Zheng understood very well, she just said:

"Now you are familiar with in the capital, who are the people you can use?"

Zheng Guotai then realized that the officials and nobles who could help the Zheng family in the capital had similar relationships with Wang Tong, and they were all involved in fighting for the foundation of the country.

"If Wang Tong beat our family in the capital, it would be domineering, but if he does this in Songjiang, it would be like a person who remains unchanged. Long lively will also be praised by Emperor Long live."

After speaking, Empress Zheng had a serious expression and said coldly:

"Our Zheng family has finally survived to this day. The emperor has a heavy grace. Our family must cherish blessings. Those people outside rely on the name of Ai's family to do whatever they want. Do you really think no one dares to take care of it? Dongchang and Jinyiwei are watching. This time, they stole the son and colluded with pirates to sell human beings. Such people are raising them but don't know how to be grateful, which is a disaster."

"Who is your sister and Chang Luo rely on today? Are they our relatives, not the emperor's kindness, and Wang Tong's kindness? Although Wang Tong is in Songjiang Mansion now, his confidants are in their place, and you have to think about the future."

The letter from the Jinyiwei actually arrived in the capital earlier than the news from the Zheng family. Zheng Guotai was scolded by his sister and returned to the mansion. After a little investigation, the matter was found out.

It was very convenient for him to investigate the servants of his master's family. Then several of the well-known servants and clans in the family were broken and they were reborn. Some were even sent to Shuntian Mansion to question.

Zheng Guotai thought about it again, not to be distracted by a servant. Songjiang is so prosperous now, and it is no harm to send people to run it. So his confidant went to Songjiang Mansion with a large sum of money.

Such seemingly surrendered actions shocked Jiangnan's wealth and officialdom, and even the Zheng family had to bow their heads. Wang Tong was indeed Wang Tong.

When things come so, there is no need to say anything. With Wang Tong's protection, the opening of Songjiang port is not a matter of good or bad, but a matter of how good it can be. Everyone should keep up quickly. Don't be too late. The example of Tianjin Wei is there, and Songjiang will soon be a gold medal.

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Yang Sichen and his family arrived in Songjiang, which was also considered the county magistrate. At Wang Tong's welcome banquet, Yang Sichen praised with a smile:

"Young Master is really smart when he takes advantage of the situation and establishes his authority in Jiangnan at once."

The idea I gave Wang Tong was to find an opportunity to make decisions for the people in Songjiang Prefecture and to clean up a blind character on the street. However, I didn't expect that the Zheng family came to him, but Wang Tong took this opportunity to shock the world, and determined the situation in Songjiang Prefecture in one fell swoop, and everything went smoothly.

Tianjin Pacific institutions, including money shops, insurance banks, shipyards and factories, all arrange personnel to come to Songjiang for preparation. They set up branch factories and other branches, which all need to be transported by water. Now Tianjin Pacific is closed to the sea and cannot pass.

The fur and alkaline banks that the Li family and the Ma family shareholding all want to set up stations in Tianjin Wei. Not to mention this, Sun Shoulian and Li Rubai from Liao Town also want to set up a branch here to transport specialties from Liao Town and outside the wall from the sea. Even the Portuguese merchants from Tianjin Wei came to inspect.

There are not many things that Wang Tong needs to do by himself. Many of the people below are familiar with each other, not to mention that the officials from the Songjiang Office and the Kaipu General Office are also from Tianjin Wei, and are familiar with the road.

Zhang Hongying and Lu Ruomei are both pregnant and show that the whole family has done this for them. The news of the nobles in Nanjing is very well-informed. Their aristocratic families naturally have their own abilities in this regard. They are all here, including talents, famous doctors, and women who know how to maintain their care.

Another thing is that although Wang Tong's son Wang Xia is young, it is time to enlightenment. According to Han Xia's intention, it is not too late to let Wang Xia study for a few years, but Wang Tong's matter is not vague.

However, there were no strict requirements. It was just asked Yang Sichen to teach the child to recognize words, and then Sha Dongning took the child to practice his body. Of course, a child just learned a few words, gestured a few times, and became familiar with the meaning first, but the meaning of this matter was not only that.

At least Yang Sichen and Sha Dongning were both serious and even more serious than when they were given official positions. In their opinion, Wang Tong trusted and valued them with the knowledge of civil and military education of his eldest son, which was much closer to others.

After this incident was spread, Li Hutou and Lu Wancai wrote to complain, saying that this matter is more suitable for them.

Soon it entered the 17th year of Wanli, Songjiang got on the right track step by step, and Wang Tong also had a comfortable and leisurely life. His wives and concubines were very satisfied with such days because Wang Tong spent the most time with them in these years, and his family was also in a peaceful atmosphere.

Since the Hongzhi period, even earlier, residents on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty began to migrate to the South Ocean. For Chinese farmers, leaving their hometowns and going to a foreign country to survive is an extremely difficult choice, but the exploitation of the powerful and disasters of all sizes have left these farmers homeless and unemployed and even nowhere to survive in the Ming Dynasty, and they can only travel across the ocean to survive.

During the Zhengde period, sea trade was prosperous and sea roads were smooth. Naturally, a large number of farmers went to Southeast Asian countries. Some became pirates at sea, and more people went to Southeast Asian countries to continue farming, mining and doing business.

In this era, the colonization of white Europeans in Southeast Asia has begun for many years and has entered a period of great exhibitions. If you want to exhibit, you want to have more spices, more minerals, and more wealth, you must have more labor, and you need hard work and serious labor.

Moreover, the local indigenous people were actually in a very primitive state and could not provide all the materials needed by the white Europeans. These materials could only be provided by the Ming Dynasty and the Han people could sell and produce them.

There are quite a lot of natives in Southeast Asia, but these people do not have the ability to become good laborers. They have long been slaughtered by the tropical climate and rich natural environment.

In the warm tropical climate, you don’t need too much clothes to keep warm, and you don’t need to work, so you can collect fruit trees. They would rather be poor than work, or even starve to death. Moreover, these people are often subordinates, all slaves or conquerors of local chiefs and nobles. The white colonists in Europe also need them to maintain their local rule, so it’s not easy to make a fuss. In addition, these natives are lazy wastes themselves and are not willing to spend too much effort on them.

In this case, there is actually not much room for choice. In Macau, there are actually some Japanese Catholics working, but the number is very small. Japan is too far from the South China Sea, so the residents of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty became the best choice.

Compared with other provinces in the Ming Dynasty, the arable land of Fujian and Guangdong is very sparse, and the coastal people are not so resistant to going abroad, so they account for more than 90% of the Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia.

In order to solicit these immigrants, whites and local indigenous nobles have offered good conditions. For example, those who come can get a piece of land to cultivate, there will be a short period of tax exemption, and even free supply of rice and salt.

Under such conditions, the poor people along the coast of Ming Dynasty were naturally willing to go there. As more people went there, clans and rich merchants began to appear, but more were hardworking and sincere people.

Because they, the tin, silver and gold mines in Southeast Asia have opened up, and grain production has also expanded, not to mention that the trade between Southeast Asia and the Ming Dynasty has almost increased significantly, and the white colonists have made great profits, and the indigenous nobles and leaders have also made great profits.

But there is an old saying that the hearts of non-my races will be different. The hard work and development of the Han people did not receive the gratitude and gratitude of the white colonists and the local indigenous people, but their guardianship and jealousy.

When Han people go to foreign lands, they naturally get close to their own tribes and fellow villagers, communicate with each other, help each other, and live together.

Such groups are getting bigger and bigger, which will inevitably make the local white colonists and indigenous people afraid. The Han people are diligent and smart, which shocks the innate pride of the white people. Originally, they were completely superior to the indigenous people in Southeast Asia and thought they were superior to the monkeys. But after contacting the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, they even felt that the Han people were truly civilized people, and in comparison, they were so barbaric.

The white colonists were afraid that the Han people would drive them away, and the natives were jealous and hated the Han people for being rich, believing that they had taken away their wealth, while the Han people took the attitude of causing trouble as little as possible, swallowing their anger and being kind-hearted.
Chapter completed!