Chapter 249 Returning to hometown to get married and go on strike


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  Chapter 249: Returning to his hometown to get married,

  he thought about it for a while, but finally Su Ze chose [Purple Passive—Looking, Hearing, Inquiring, and Understanding: Medical skills +3 when diagnosing, medical skills +3 when writing pulse judgments and symptom prescriptions.

  The reason is also very simple. For Su Ze, a time traveler, prevention is considered a built-in skill. There is no need to put precious purple talents on it.

  For example, the great epidemic in Jiangbei was quickly extinguished under the leadership of Su Ze. Xu Shixing and others compiled Su Ze's epidemic prevention requirements into a jingle, and printed the therapeutic soup recipes into a pamphlet, which was quickly obtained Pretty good results.

  Including Taizhou, the number of new patients has been greatly reduced, and other types of epidemics have basically disappeared.

  But when treating diseases, Su Ze also discovered that his diagnostic skills were indeed not high.

  Before Li Shizhen joined, Su Ze could only treat common illnesses and had no way to deal with difficult and complicated diseases. There were even misdiagnosis accidents.

  In fact, in this era, the prescriptions for symptomatic treatment are very mature, but the difficulty is still how to treat the symptoms.

  After selecting skills, Su Ze allocated a few free points to charm.

  The remaining free attributes from last time were all added to the charm by Su Ze.

  Whether leading troops in combat or giving lectures, Su Ze discovered the important role of charm attributes.

  Attractiveness is not about appearance, but a series of things including temperament.

  When your charisma is high, your words will be more convincing and your orders will be more likely to be carried out.

  However, reality is not a game. It does not mean that those with high charm attributes can naturally lead troops into battle. The role of charm is often the stage of first contact with people, which can be regarded as leaving a good first impression on the other party.

  In the end, when we really have to lead troops to fight, the main thing is to look at the daily drills of the army and the implementation of military discipline and rules.

  But this first impression alone is very useful. People themselves are preconception creatures. As long as you can leave a good first impression on the other party, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

  His attribute value changed to:

  Su Ze, male, 25 years old.

  Intelligence: 13
  Strength: 11
  Agility: 7
  Charm: 11
  Remaining free points: 0
  Just after allocating attribute points and Su Ze was about to continue heading north, his lecture plan was interrupted.

  It was not that Su Ze's teachings were banned by the government, but that Fang Wanghai sent a servant to call Su Ze to return to Nanzhili, and then they went back to Fujian together to get married.

  Officials of the Ming Dynasty had fake weddings and funerals.

  The longest leave is bereavement leave, and it is mandatory.

  Taking leave for the death of parents is called Dingyou. No matter what status you are in, once your parents die, you must immediately take compulsory leave and go home to observe filial piety.

  However, when encountering major national events, such as leading troops on the front line to fight, there are also special methods of handling it, that is, the emperor issues an order to "seize love."

  Many officials in the Ming Dynasty met Ding You when their official career was at its peak, and they had no choice but to go back and observe their filial piety.

  The most famous Ding You incident was Zhang Juzheng. In the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng's father, who was already the chief minister of the cabinet, passed away. As a rule, he should have returned to his hometown to observe filial piety, but the emperor took away his love because he was the chief minister.

  Because the emperor was still young at that time, all the ministers believed that Zhang Juzheng directed and acted the love affair, and they all began to attack Zhang Juzheng based on this.

  The reputation he had cultivated over the years was destroyed in one fell swoop. After more than half a year of carrying it on, Zhang Juzheng could only go home in despair to observe his filial piety.

  The court also had regulations for marrying a wife and marrying a daughter, and there were holidays of varying lengths.

  Fang Wanghai was marrying a daughter. He just wanted to report to the Nanjing Sixth Department, so he sealed the seal, packed his things, and waited for Su Ze to return to Fujian together.

  When they arrived at Nanzhili, Fang Wanghai was already ready, and Su Ze could only say goodbye to Xu Shixing and others.

  Su Ze first said to Xu Guo:
  "Brother Wei Zhen, I have already written the manuscript of "Nan Ke Meng", and I will leave it to you to write "Warning Words" for these days."

  Xu Guo nodded quickly and agreed. Su Ze He left a big stall in Jiangnan, so he naturally had to arrange it properly.

  He then said to Wang Xijue:
  "Please let Yuan Yu worry more about the Shanghai wharf." The Shanghai wharf

  can already dock ships, which is similar to what Su Ze expected. Businessmen in Fujian heard that Nanzhili is short of food. After the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing allowed domestic ships to dock in Shanghai, they began to sail northward to transport grain from the south to the Shanghai terminal.

  While Su Ze was fighting the disaster in northern Jiangsu, a large amount of food from the south entered Shanghai, which suddenly brought down the high food prices in southern Jiangsu.

  There are still some finishing touches to the terminal construction. Such a large terminal also needs someone to manage it. More importantly, the Shanghai terminal also needs to collect customs duties.

  Wang Xijue can also do all these various things in an orderly manner. As expected, those who can be the first assistant in the future will not be fuel-efficient.

  In the end, Su Ze entrusted Xu Shixing with the team training affairs in Shazhou and Jingjiang Island.

  "You can't relax about the group training. Although Xu Hai withdrew on time, northern Jiangsu is still in turmoil, and bandits are rampant on the rivers and Shanghai." Xu Shixing nodded quickly. Su Ze was telling

  the truth. Although Xu Hai retreated, many officers and soldiers escaped. Instead, it became a new bandit problem.

  Xu Hai was defeated by digging the Huaihe River dikes and flooding, but due to lack of money and food, the officers and soldiers in Jiangbei had no morale to pursue.

  After the Japanese pirates retreated to the sea, Wei Guogong Xu Pengju made another saucy operation. The reward he had promised to the Jiangbei officers and soldiers was not paid.

  This result naturally made the officers and soldiers fighting in Jiangbei very dissatisfied. When they needed to fight against the Japanese, Wei Guogong Xu Pengju and Linhuai Marquis Li Tingzhu made good promises. Not only would they make up for their previous debts, they would also receive rewards for fighting in Jiangbei.

  But in a blink of an eye, the Japanese pirates left, and Wei Guogong refused to admit his guilt.

  Seeing that the resentment below was getting bigger and bigger, Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, who had already embezzled military pay, was not a fool. He quickly came up with a very "smart" method.

  Although the imperial court had no money to pay rewards, it allowed officers and soldiers to "raise their own funds."

  With this order, the officers and soldiers in Jiangbei immediately transformed into wolves, tigers and leopards and began to plunder Jiangbei.

  Some areas that luckily escaped being robbed by Japanese pirates were robbed again by Japanese officers and soldiers.

  However, Jiangbei has always had strong folk customs.

  The regiments that were originally established to fight against Japanese invaders changed their functions and began to fight against these officers and soldiers who were looting everywhere.

  The nails that Su Ze laid in Jiangbei also began to provide mutual protection against the looting officers and soldiers.

  Just when Su Ze arrived in Nanjing, he heard another new news.

  The imperial court opened mines in Xuzhou and installed mine supervisors and eunuchs. As a result, the mine supervisors and eunuchs drove the miners to mine holes, forcing the miners in Xuzhou to rebel.

  This group of miners fled into the mountains, formed a banditry, began to mine privately, and then attacked official mines, and the scale became larger and larger.

  The eunuchs who were mining in Xuzhou asked the garrison eunuchs in Nanjing for help, and the garrison eunuchs in Nanjing asked the officers and soldiers from Jiangbei to go to Xuzhou to quell the rebellion.

  As the Japanese pirates retreated, water transport was also unsettled. After the water transportation had just been restored, the imperial court, which was almost at the end of the road because of the cutoff of water transportation, immediately ordered that the taxes detained in Jiangnan be transported to the capital as soon as possible.

  However, because the government troops dug up the Huaihe River, the water level of the entire Huaihe River dropped, and the water transport in the north section of the Grand Canal was immediately blocked.

  At this time, Yan Shifan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, jumped out. The Ministry of Industry was in charge of the construction of water transport ships and the dredging of river channels. Since the water transport was not smooth, it was naturally attacked by the Qingliu faction.

  Yan Shifan was scolded by Qingliu's officials for three days, and finally he came up with a trick.

  Order all the canal troops along the way to pull the boats, even if they pull the boats to the capital.

  After this order, these Cao troops naturally stopped working. They began to arrest nearby people to work for them. Some even used the name of pulling fibers to arrest people to work for them.

  As a result, the people along the water transport line also began to make trouble.

  Yancheng is the hub of Jiangbei Salt Industry and one of the most important cities along the Grand Canal.

  Because Yancheng is the hub for the transshipment of salt from the north to the south, there are a large number of salt workers responsible for loading and unloading salt at the Yancheng wharf.

  Salt work is a very hard job. The salt bags are very heavy, and when resisting the salt, the sweat will mix with the salt leaked from the salt bags. The salt workers often get sores on their shoulders and backs.

  But this is their job to make a living. Behind every salt worker there is a family waiting to eat.

  The salt workers on the Yancheng wharf are all under the management of the Caoyun Caoyun Yamen.

  At this time, these salt workers were surrounding the middle-aged man in coarse clothes, listening to him explaining some truths in vernacular.

  "The officers and soldiers are here again!"

  The middle-aged man raised his head and saw an officer leading the soldiers, walking fiercely toward the salt farm pier.

  This official is an official of the water transport yamen. These days, the water transport yamen has to force the salt workers at the dock to pull fiber because of the siltation of the water transport.

  The families of these salt workers all live in Yancheng. Once they leave their homes in Yancheng, they will go hungry.

  So the salt workers negotiated and asked the water transport yamen to pay wages first, and then they went to pull fiber.

  Naturally, they were arrogantly dismissed by the Caoyun Yamen, and the Yancheng Caoyun Yamen said that the recruitment of them for fiber pulling was an order from the court and they were not required to pay wages.

  This result naturally aroused the anger of the salt workers, who refused to set off. This time the official came with officers and soldiers to force the salt workers to set off.

  The middle-aged man who had just finished his lecture was Wang Gen's disciple Yan Jun. He was dressed in coarse cloth and was actually promoting the knowledge of the Taizhou School.

  When Yan Jun was lecturing in Jiangbei, he also heard Su Ze's theory on moral ethics.

  After hearing this theory, Yan Jun felt that many of the problems he encountered in teaching suddenly became clear, and he immediately began to delve into Su Ze's knowledge.

  And this time in the salt work, there is a part about making a covenant with the village and practicing common virtues together.

  Yan Jun studied under Wang Gen and taught in simple and profound terms, using vernacular slang and short stories that the common people could understand. He gained the trust of these salt workers.

  While the officials and soldiers were fighting with the salt workers, someone shouted "Strike!"

  This sentence was immediately echoed by all the salt workers. They all raised the sweat towels on their shoulders and shouted "Strike!" "The slogan comes.

  When all the salt workers shouted slogans in unison, it was the subordinate officials and officers and soldiers who were frightened.

  These salt workers were all doing hard work and were much stronger than the officers and soldiers who usually neglected training. When the subordinates and officers and soldiers saw that the situation was not good, they immediately rolled and crawled out of the dock.

  The salt workers won the victory, cheering and surrounding Yan Jun.

  "Sir! We are willing to form a local contract, and we would like to ask you to be our contract leader!"

  Yan Jun looked at these hard-working men, and finally nodded and said:
  "In that case, I will be your contract leader."

  Everyone cheered.

  But Yan Jun was the one who had many experiences of fighting with the government. He immediately said:

  "The Caoyun Yamen will not give up."

  Everyone looked at Yan Jun.

  Yan Jun began to say:
  "If the name is not correct, the words will not be correct. We have to explain the reasons for the strike to the people in the city and gain their support. Otherwise, the government will label it as a rebellion." "Workers have work ethics and work hard to support their families

  . It is a matter of course that we are not unwilling to work for the imperial court, but we are opposed to this kind of forced conscription, so we must create public opinion!" "

  Sir, what a great idea!"

  Yan Jun quickly nodded to a few salt dices that were barely literate and said:
  "Not just propaganda, we also need slogans."

  "Slogans?"

  Yan Jun nodded and said, "With slogans, our opinions can be spread well, and more people can know about Yanding's requirements. "

  I think we should use the slogan 'Work to work and eat food,' as a matter of course."

  Listening to this catchy slogan, the salt workers raised their fists in agreement.

  Yan Jun continued: "I'm afraid the government won't let it go. I think it's better to take the family over and occupy the salt farm dock. We must wait until the government meets everyone's demands before leaving." All the salt workers agreed, and they spent the

  night The family arrived at the salt farm pier and forcibly drove away the officers and soldiers on the pier. They shouted slogans and started a strike to protest.

  The Yancheng water transport yamen initially disapproved, but they soon discovered that these salt workers were very determined to protest, and their strike seriously affected Yancheng's water transport.

  Pressure from above and below gathered on the Cao Yun Yamen. Even the officials of the Yancheng Prefecture County Yamen could not understand the Cao Yun Yamen's actions.

  The salt workers' strike this time is not a rebellion, and the county officials are naturally happy to stand by and watch. Is this the result of excessive pressure from your water transportation yamen?

  Moreover, the demands of the salt workers are simple, that is, they require money to be paid first before going to work on fiber optics. Usually, Yancheng Prefecture and County officials have long been displeased with the fat water transportation yamen.

  The salt workers protested for five days, but the water transportation yamen finally gave in. After paying the fiber pulling fee, the salt workers stopped the strike.

  Yan Jun was thoughtful after seeing the results of this mass protest. He quietly left Yancheng. It turns out that the so-called public morality is still used in this way.

  The remaining Japanese pirates, the rebellious officers and soldiers, and bandits, plus the people from various places who practiced regiments and went on strike, turned the whole Jiangbei into a pot of chaos.

  Su Ze followed Fang Wanghai into the carriage and embarked on the road back to Fujian.

  (End of chapter)
 

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