In a restaurant in Ningbo City.

"A gentleman? Of course, he is a gentleman when he does not have the ability to do evil.

Just like you think these gentlemen would not be so shameless in the past. In order to occupy a fourteen-year-old girl, they would deliberately harm her father.

Of course, they actually did this in the past.

But in the past they would do more secretly, such as asking him to compensate, but they would not make it public without any concealment. Instead, they sent a traitor to persuade him afterwards, selling his daughter to your brother Lu, and making up some lies. For example, his daughter will not have to worry about food and clothing after she arrives at the Lu family. If her brother Lu is played with one day, she may become a maid or even a concubine, and then their whole family will enjoy the happiness, which will be more tactful.

Instead of telling him directly and unscrupulously, he would send you to prison if he didn't give it to me.

So what makes you brother Lu…”

Yang Feng said.

"If you mention this name again, I will leave immediately!"

Fang Mengshi interrupted him angrily. She saw it clearly there. With her mind, she could guess it. It was obvious that the whole incident was that her brother Lu Shi met the coolie's daughter and sent her food and then targeted her. He deliberately threw the melon skin and made him slip and forced him to compensate her for the goods. The coolie would definitely not be able to pay it. Then he took the opportunity to intimidate him by arresting and sending her debt prison to the prison, forcing the coolie to give her daughter.

All this made her shudder.

Greedy, vicious, sinister, and domineering, all these words can be put on. This is a noble family of the Lu family in Ningbo. He is famous among young scholars. Even her grandfather praised her for her great future. In the past, she was also a gentleman, but now she saw her true face and really shuddered.

Of course, she also embarrassed her in front of Yang Feng and made this bastard see her joke.

"Okay, Lu Sanlang, then what made him change some things, or finally revealed his true face?

Very simple.

Debt Prison, Yin County Township Sage Association, Ningbo Militia Group.

The Lu family is the main member of the Yin County Township Sage Association. The former magistrate was from the north and was given away by them. The new magistrate was elected by the Yin County Township Sage Association. Then the Hongguang court appointed him. In fact, he served the local gentry. The first thing he did when he took office was to set up a debt prison for local gentry to deal with usury. The Lu family also included the main donors of the Ningbo militia.

These coolies will be arrested and thrown into debt prisons if they refuse to submit. If they dare to resist, the Ningbo militia will come to suppress them.

Lu Sanlang treats them as he wants.

Then why did he still hide it?

Why do you still pretend to be with these ants in his eyes? He doesn't need to hide his true face. He is as good as he wants to. He is the god in front of these people. If he wants to kill them, he will still wear a hypocritical mask in front of such people?

Not only them, don’t you see that there are many beggars everywhere in Ningbo City, and even begging with the elderly and the young, than in the past?”

Yang Feng said.

Fang Mengshi nodded silently.

It was not the first time she came to Ningbo, and of course she found that it was a little different.

At this time, beggars were everywhere in the city, and they were all old and young, not too far away. They just lived near Ningbo, begging for some food every day, and then left the city after dark.

"It's very simple. The prosperity of overseas trade has caused the demand for silk to rise sharply, but the original mulberry garden was not enough, so more fertile fields were needed to be converted into mulberry gardens. This is easy for those gentry, because most of the fields are in their hands. All they need is to take back the fields that were originally planted for tenants and then change them to mulberry gardens to hire workers to raise silkworms for them.

Just hire those tenants.

As for the issue of their need to eat food, can't they buy rice?

But the problem is, since I am a hired worker, of course the lower the wage, the better. What's more, I hire those who are able to work. Why do I have to bear the obligation to support their young and old? The wages I give are as long as the hired worker cannot starve to death. Why do I still have to ensure that their parents and children who are unable to work cannot starve to death? It doesn't make sense. I am not hiring their parents and children who are unable to work.

As for them having no food to eat?

Then beg for food?

What, still going to school?

Why should we let our children who are hired to go to school? Now we can go to the factory at the age of eight. What kind of school should we go to? Just beg for food until we are eight. Can we let them learn knowledge and threaten the gentry's children?

Beggars are the best.”

Yang Feng said.

In fact, the gentry of Zhejiang are using their practical actions to show the bloody and cruelty of the original accumulation of capitalism.

It's really already started to enter the factory at the age of eight.

In terms of child labor age, it is obvious that both the gentry of the East and the West have found common choices.

The gentry of the British Empire and the gentry of the Ming Empire have both discovered a completely squeezing age, and they have also found that hiring some jobs is even more cost-effective than hiring adults. Although an eight-year-old child certainly cannot afford an adult, two or three can do it, while an eight-year-old child’s wages are only one-fifth of that of an adult.

But I, the gentry of the Ming Dynasty, are still stronger.

Because the British gentry is for adults.

But that was when they had a steam engine. If the Ming gentry had a steam engine, it might have become.

Fang Mengshi was silent.

"You are all calling me a demon, but I just want to give everyone a bottom line to live. You are all saying that I have ruined everything about you, but I just want to make this country as fair as possible. When you scold those troublemakers, please see how shameless and greedy it is when the gentry is out of constraints."

Yang Feng continued.

"You are just those who are eager for quick success and instant benefits. Why do you have to summarize it? You are all reading the books of sages. You will never forget the four words of benevolence, righteousness and morality."

Song Yingchang's voice sounded.

Then Governor Song walked up the stairs with a smile on his face.

He is here. The governor of Zhejiang is actually two permanent garrisons, Hangzhou and Dinghai. Of course, Dinghai was Zhenhai at this time. When the foreign soldiers arrived, the governor of course would come to pick him up. And the next batch of foreign soldiers was to station in Dinghai. The real purpose of the gentry of Zhejiang in Susong was to be a surprise soldier, that is, when they use sea to control land in the future, they would follow the navy as landings...

Well, this is the Marine Corps.

They really know how to play.

As for the rebuilt Changsheng Army and Changjie Army on land, Portuguese instructors and local recruits, but if these foreign soldiers are easy to use, they will definitely continue to recruit in the future.

Especially the cheap and sufficient Ah San, the military pay for these foreign soldiers is actually very low.

Of course, Portuguese mercenaries are expensive, but they are officers. Black slaves are the thugs of the Portuguese mercenaries. They have no military pay, and their masters take care of them. Ah San and Malay soldiers are the main cannon fodder. Their military pay is even far lower than the recruitment of soldiers by the Changsheng Army. According to the information obtained by Yang Feng, the military pay of one San was only one and a half, while the Changsheng Army had recruited soldiers.

This cannon fodder is very cost-effective.

I just don’t know how powerful I am, so I dare not buy too many at once.

Fang Mengshi quickly stood up to salute, Song Yingchang greeted her grandfather with a smile,

"Morality?"

Yang Feng sneered without looking back.

"If morality is really useful, what else should the law do? Facts have proved that after losing the constraints of the law, you gentry who are kind and righteous will only continue to break through the lower limit driven by interests, but this is not harmful to me. Next time I come, all I need is to raise my arms and shout, and you will collapse like a decayed loft.

It’s the turn of the poor on the street to hang you through the tree branches.”

He continued.

"Your Excellency is so serious. I admit that some gentry have been too much recently, but not all of them. Most gentry still know how to behave properly. I am also strictly investigating the gentry invasion of fishing people in various places."

Song Yingchang said.

"Do you have the final say?"

Yang Feng said.

"Well, since I am publicly recommended by the people of Zhejiang, I will naturally be sure of my words."

Song Yingchang said quickly.

In fact, he and some Zhejiang officials were indeed very troubled by what happened. They did not expect that when the tyrants of imperial power that they had dreamed of were lifted, the gentry everywhere would be so crazy, and they were completely at the point of being able to use any means to seek money and disregard for shame. Although it was inevitable that the gentry invaded the people of fishing, they all knew that there were tyrants in the past, and whether the imperial power was not included in the county or not, they were still a little worried. After all, it would be terrible if they met Haigangfeng.

Moreover, the local officials are from other places, and they also demand wealth. If the gentry is too much to seize the handle by them, they will still take the opportunity to blackmail.

The Ming Dynasty was ultimately a unified empire.

Local officials serve the imperial power, not the local gentry. Although collusion between officials and gentry is inevitable, there is still a bottom line after all.

A gentry cannot do whatever he wants.

But now the imperial power has almost become a decoration, local officials have become elected by the local genius, and the gentry suddenly found that they could do whatever they wanted.

Then they really did whatever they wanted.

Now, there are really too shameless gentry. The tenant should take a look at the first look at the tenant's wife. The one who looks charming is really good at taking action first.

Not to mention that they would do anything for the sake of interests. Because of the strong export of sugar, local gentry even directly destroyed wheat fields to plant sugarcane for tenants, and caused civil unrest, but they were suppressed by militia, not to mention that there are more and more beggars on the streets now. In the eyes of old-school officials like him, they really don’t want any face and are almost crazy for money.

However……

"You have the final say, then this is what you transferred?"

Yang Feng stood in front of the window and pointed at the bottom and said.

Song Yingchang was stunned for a moment. He hurried to the window and looked at the large number of foreign soldiers rushing towards this side not far away.

In front of these foreign soldiers was the prefect of Ningbo at that time, Tao Wangling, Tanhua in the 13th year of Wanli, and his junior brother, who was also his aide Liu Zongzhou.
Chapter completed!