Chapter 260 After seeing the prosperity of Ming Dynasty’s industrial base, the Liao generals were shocked!

Xishan.

When the rows of blue bricks and black tiles here, as well as the Han people wearing silk gauze, came into He Kegang's eyes, He Kegang smiled knowingly as if he saw gold and silver all over the ground.

Dressed as a merchant from Liaodong, he came here to inquire about the true status of the imperial court on the orders of his ancestors. He did not expect that when he arrived at the outskirts of Xishan, he would find that the people here were living so well!

The key point is that He Kegang discovered that there are many wealthy and prosperous residential areas like this in the entire Xishan Mountains, stretching into a vast area with no end in sight, and there are also many people. Almost one residential area exceeds the population size of a big fortress outside his customs, and

There are also free medical clinics and social schools in these residential areas.

"I didn't expect that the people in Xishan are so rich and their clothes are better than those of my servants!"

He Kegang sighed and said to Wu Xiang: "Brother Wu, tell me, how did the imperial court manage to allow so many refugees to live and work in peace and contentment in just a few years, and return them to brick houses?

The windows are all made of glass, the streets are paved with terrazzo, the main roads have railway tracks, and there are large carriages, called buses, running on them. Many children go to and from school in such large carriages, so they are not afraid of wind or rain."

After He Kegang said this, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart: "It would be great if we, the people of Liaodi, could live like this in the future."

"We have seized all the benefits of weaving and smelting in the world, and now we are providing arms to the imperial court and the West Factory to help the Xilin people carry out reforms in Jiangnan, and have earned the wealth and national money of the Jiangnan officials and gentry over the ages to Xishan.

Do you think the people of Xishan could not be rich? In those days, the Shanxi merchants who made money from smuggling and plundering slaves were also as rich as the rest of the country. Not to mention Xishan!"

Wu Xiang laughed and said.

After hearing this, He Kegang said: "Even so, this also shows that the forces behind Xishan, such as His Majesty and Guojie, are different from Shanxi merchants. At least they did not monopolize the profits to make their lives more luxurious or even to squander it.

It is making more people live a prosperous life."

"It is precisely because they use the money they took from the powerful and powerful bureaucrats in the world to benefit the people instead of squandering it, that it is even more terrible!"

Wu Xiang said.

After hearing this, He Kegang couldn't accept this, so he asked, "What's the explanation for this?"

Wu Xiang said solemnly: "So many benefits, worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver, should not be used to squander it, but should be used to benefit the people, train and cultivate a large number of powerful soldiers belonging to the imperial court, and even Ning Ning."

Invest a lot of energy in the research and development of various skills, including firearms! For what purpose? For the future, we can win more profits!"

"It shows that they are not satisfied with the status quo and are not satisfied with taking advantage of the Jiangnan gentry!"

"They want to use this method to eliminate the riding and shooting advantages of our Guan Ning soldiers and even the Tatars outside the pass, and make it more difficult for the famous families to fight against the imperial court!"

"Because when the technology improves to the point where an ordinary peasant soldier can obtain a high-quality and low-priced firearm and can easily kill a general who has been familiar with riding and shooting since childhood, and even when the common people are so wealthy that any common person knows how to speak out for themselves,

Then what is the advantage of us, the generals and disciples of wealthy families? Why should people feel at ease being slaves and tenants of our family?"

"If the common people can be prosperous, peaceful and live a dignified life without first becoming a master, then it will be difficult for us, the children of aristocratic families who are above ordinary people, to be given preferential treatment by the court. You said, such uncle and majesty

Is it scary?”

When Wu Xiang said this, he said: "It is precisely because of this that in the past, powerful bureaucrats such as Yuan Zhongcheng and Jiangnan Xinchengbo desperately wanted to get rid of the uncle, and they did not even want the prince to become such an emperor in the future."

"So, it's because His Majesty and Uncle Guo care about the common people that they are not tolerated by the powerful in the world?"

He Kegang sneered.

Wu Xiang also sneered and said, "That's exactly the truth! If Zhang Guojiu, relying on his holy favor, commits lawlessness, oppresses the people, and annexes land wantonly, no matter how your majesty protects him, except for a few corrupt readers, he will be dissatisfied.

No one will really do anything to him, or even rush to fawn over him! Even if he is ten times better than the relatives of the Xiaomiao Dynasty in the past, no one will really do anything to him."

"But a relative of his still cares about his people and the common people of the country! And as the emperor today, he should be the emperor of the people of the world, not the emperor of the world's powerful scholars and officials! Who can tolerate such a disaster?"

He Kegang smiled helplessly, but he disagreed in his heart. He did not expect that Wu Xiang would see it this way, that he would think that a relative who cares about the country and the common people is abnormal, and even think that an emperor who cares about the people of the world is abnormal.

But He Kegang was not in a hurry to refute, because he had to admit that Wu Xiang's reasoning was not unreasonable. From the perspective of aristocratic families, the people were indeed rich, but the wealth of powerful officials like himself was no longer meaningful.

However, He Kegang didn't know why. Maybe it was because he had lived a life of fine clothing and fine food for a long time, and after being satisfied with the luxurious life of drunkenness, dreams, and hordes of wives and concubines, he lost his pleasure, and he unconsciously thought of becoming the ancestral family.

The servants, and even relied on their ancestral connections and their own efforts to reach their current miserable life before becoming a high-ranking military minister of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, He Kegang is unconsciously thinking that if the Liao people are as wealthy as they are now, there will be no more Liao teenagers like him who will have to go to the edge of a knife in order to survive.

In the days when he was licking blood, he had to live like a dog in front of his master's family even before he became famous. Even now, he has no choice but to dare not speak upright in front of his benefactor who has supported him for some favors and interests.

How to say?

He Kegang suddenly wanted to save other descendants of ordinary people in Liaodong from having to live like him.

Because he knows that although if he lives like this, he will be very prosperous when he comes out, but in fact there are very few people who come out, and it is harder than picking one out of a hundred.

Wu Xiang, who was born in a general family, had no such idea. He kept frowning, especially after seeing that the Xishan militiamen seemed to have better military discipline than his Guan Ning soldiers and even looked more well-trained, and said: "

Today's imperial court has indeed become terrible due to the disasters of today's emperor and the emperor's uncle! Even if the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, such a Ming Dynasty cannot be allowed to exist!"

He Kegang looked back at Wu Xiang in astonishment, his eyes like fire.

But he finally suppressed his hatred.

Wu Xiang came over and asked an old man in a robe who was selling candied haws with a piece of silver to his grandson: "Please forgive me for making this mistake. I wonder where the old man is from?"

"From Liaoyang, Liaodong."

The old man replied.

He Kegang was surprised after hearing this: "Since you are from Liaoyang, how did you come to the pass?"

The old man smiled and said: "The Tatars in Jianzhou rebelled, and our family originally ran to Ningyuan. However, the Liao army men did not give us a way to survive. They took away my second daughter-in-law without saying a word, and even took away my granddaughter. They also treated us like this.

The outsiders charged 20% more rent and forced us to build the city wall, so we had no choice but to flee inside the pass, so we fled here."

After hearing this, He Kegang felt a little heavy and asked, "I must be living a good life here."

"Of course! Here, the court still cares about our life and death and has allowed our family to settle down. Several sons are now married to wives. The eldest son has become a senior technician and has started to take care of apprentices. My grandsons have already started to go to school here.

I learned.”

The old man continued: "It's just that the military men and Tatars outside the Pass don't want us to live a good life. They recently entered the Pass, which has made us really worried for a while! Fortunately, Uncle Guo and Lu Shangshu commanded it well.

, killed all the Tatars, and scared back bandits like Guan Ningbing! Now I heard that even Mr. Li Sanye in Liaodong was suppressed because he wanted to rebel and was implicated in the nine tribes. It’s really satisfying!”

When He Kegang heard the old man saying that these Guan Ning soldiers were bandits, He Kegang's face was a little confused. After hearing that Li Ruzhen had been chopped, he looked at Wu Xiang in shock.
Chapter completed!