Yangzhou.

This is the second time Zhu Youxiao has been here.

However, due to the rise of sea transportation and the opening of the railway between the two Beijingshu Railways, the status of canal transportation began to decline, so Yangzhou's economic status was gradually declining, so its wealth in Jiangnan was far less than that in Suzhou, Songjiang, Nanjing and other places.

But with the background brought by the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, it is still a place of wealth.

Zhu Youxiao came to Yangzhou this time naturally no longer turned away.

Because the salt merchants in Yangzhou had obviously learned their lessons, they dared not try to stop the emperor from going south.

They all know that the current Ming emperor is soft but not hard, and he dares to overturn the table if he is too anxious.

Therefore, after Zhu Youxiao arrived in Yangzhou, he could freely wander around the city and outside the city without having to declare his imperial power first, just like last time. The people here need to know that the emperor was the one who kept his word.

Zhu Youxiao is now carefully examining the Yangzhou City in front of him.

The pedestrians who came and went from north to south, and the slow pace, and the picky and picking in front of the shelves of the shop made him feel very satisfied.

Dangdang!

Dangdang!

Dangdang!

Especially when Zhu Youzhai wandered around a school, after hearing the sound of knocking iron that said after school, many children ran towards him with their feet open and carrying their schoolbags.

"It's time to go home!"

"It's time to go home!"

...

"One five gets five!"

“Twenty-five-one!”

...

The children's shouts made Zhu Youxiao laugh instinctively.

If he remembered correctly, in history, Yangzhou City should have just experienced a massacre.

None of the 800,000 Yangzhou people were spared.

Unlike now, because of his appearance, the people here still do not know the swords and weapons, so that their lives are still quiet and peaceful.

Even walking is not too fast or slow. Only naughty children will run wildly after school, and laughter will resound brightly in the streets and alleys.

Of course, what made Zhu Youxiao even more happy was that these children could not help but recite things related to mathematics, rather than just voices like "At the beginning of man, one is good in nature."

Zhu Youxiao thus knew that the new education he promoted had really dropped into the people and was beginning to influence the next generation in China.

"The old friend left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and fireworks came to Yangzhou in March."

"The lonely sail is in the distant shadow of the blue sky, but only the Yangtze River flows in the sky."

On the streets of bluestone, a peddler was writing Tang poetry with a mop instead of pen.

Zhu Youxiao stopped and took a look at Wen Tiren and Lu Xiangsheng, who were accompanying him, said, "Why is the culture in Yangzhou so prosperous that he loves writing when he picks up peddlers?"

"Of course it was caused by Your Majesty's achievements in governing the world. There were too many scholars. In addition, Your Majesty encouraged scholars to organize literacy classes and teach teaching activities to improve the cultural level of the people. This is naturally more obvious in Yangzhou."

Wen Tiren flattered him.

Lu Xiangsheng said, "Using mops as a pen shows that Yangzhou is rich nowadays. The fabric is so much used as mops and floors, but not as patches. No wonder there are no beggars here."

Zhu Youxiao asked Yangzhou prefect Wang Wending: "Prince Wang, you won't drive away all the beggars in Yangzhou just because I'm coming to Yangzhou, right?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not deceive Your Majesty like this. There are indeed no beggars in Yangzhou. When I took office, there were indeed beggars, but they were all professional beggars. The beggars who abducted children and then made them vulnerable to beg and earned money from the people have disappeared after being severely beaten."

Wang Wending replied quickly.

Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this.

"Collection of old clothes, old furniture, old shoes, old pots, old cars."

At this moment, there were shouts in the streets and alleys.

Zhu Youxiao didn't pay attention at first, but soon after, he heard the same shouting and asked Wang Wending: "There are many merchants who collect old things in Yangzhou City?"

"Your Majesty, there are indeed many. Because the Middle Earth is rich now, the people are well-fed and have no idea of ​​frugality, so they like to change new things, so they can exchange them for new things, so they can exchange them quickly. But now, overseas North Korea, Japan, and Nanyang are also increasingly more money, and they like to buy our old things. Basically, merchants buy many old things here at a low price. After a little processing, they can sell them overseas for a high price. Who made me, Ming Dynasty, the center of the world and the first of the world's customs."

Wang Wending replied.

"Go and have a look."

Zhu Youxiao came to the shop that collected old items, but saw that most of the old items collected here were new, so he smiled and said, "I am so rich that I don't know how to be frugal!"

After saying that, Zhu Youxiao turned around and took a look at the Yangzhou street where he was.

I saw the night falling, and the white walls and black tiles gradually disappeared in the sky.

But the voices in the downtown city still did not mean to be quiet.

Moreover, the lights of thousands of houses, like vast stars, suddenly appeared around, making Yangzhou city bright as daylight!

The soft sound of silk and bamboo also began to sound, coming from the slow-shaking boat.

I don’t know whose girl was playing the flute clumsyly, with her fair sky feet hanging from the edge of the boat, shaking with the kerosene lamp on the boat.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Youxiao did not want to hear the sound of horse hooves or see the appearance of barbarians with the tail of a money tree.

"Luckily, there isn't one! It won't happen again in the future."

Zhu Youxiao thought so in his heart.

Influenced by the commercial civilization of this era and the loss of power of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Youjiao even issued an order to set up a girl's school, and Han women also read and read, so in public, he could see a girl appearing in front of him.

As for seeing the girl's foot, he also knew that his foot binding order was effective.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that the emperor, as he, took the lead in not choosing a foot binding girl to enter the palace.

Da da!

Da da!

Da da!

"The Khan is here! You wait for the Han dog to quickly present his daughter to comfort the king's army!"

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came, followed by the sound of several men.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look in the sound and saw a few young men riding on horseback towards him, with their heads shining brightly, and a rat tail of money hanging behind their heads, with an excited expression on their faces.

This made Zhu Youxiao reminded him of the records of the Yangzhou Massacre he saw in his previous life.

"There are babies all over the ground, some of them are shining on horses' hooves, some of them are lying on their feet, and their livers and brains are covered with tears."

"The road accumulates corpses and the rain swells like a river. The hands and feet are sleeping together as walls, and the flesh and blood are corroded, causing the foul smell to force people. The qi becomes worse after the sun is burning."

"The front, back, left and right are burning everywhere. The room is filled with mist, forming like fog, and it smells like a hundred miles of fishy smell. Later, the monks collected 800,000 corpses."

...

For a moment, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shout: "Kill these robbers without any hesitation!"

"yes!"

The officers and soldiers who were also in the mini-dressed guards on the left and right sides of Zhu Youxiao immediately pulled out the handguns hidden on their bodies and attacked the young men on horseback.

"ah!"

For a moment, many teenagers fell to the ground because of this.

Some people even shouted in panic: "Bold! Who fired the gun? Dare to kill the young master of our salt merchant!"

But gunfire continues.

Therefore, people with rat-tailed pigtails kept falling off their horses.

Seeing this, Wang Wending hurriedly reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, please calm down! These are the princes of wealthy merchants in the city. They are pretending to be Tartars, not really wanting to stir up chaos! You also asked Your Majesty to order them to stop. These young princes were misled by some literati notes because they were young and ignorant, so they worshiped the Donglu, and took pride in wearing their hairstyle and dressing. They often compared themselves to Nurhaci, Huang Taiji and others. They did not really want the daughter of the Great Han Dynasty. You also asked Your Majesty to spare them."

Bang!

Zhu Youxiao slapped Wang Wending on the spot and asked, "Since you, the prefect, know, why don't you prohibit it?! They worship barbarism and robbers. Are they worthy of the Han warriors who fought bloody battles with the Eastern Barbarians for the peace of the Han family?!"
Chapter completed!