Chapter 158: Dead, Throwaway, Unwanted
After Xia Wanchun listened to what the yamen servant said, for some reason, he jumped up and tied the thief to the pole. A big somersault.
The yamen servant quickly protected the thief and said: "My dear husband, our county does not allow you to beat criminals without reason."
Xia Wanchun glanced at the thief and said: "Not anymore "
As he spoke, he kicked the thief again. After he got up, he hugged the pole and howled like a pig.
"Look, the scholars are bullying others..."
Seeing that there was new excitement here, everyone gathered around and gave up on the clothes wrapped in linen sheets. Zhao Wanli.
Xia Wanchun came to Zhao Wanli's tattered body, leaned over and took a look, then covered it with a linen sheet and left.
This man really should commit suicide!
Because, he was really desperate.
As early as when the railway was being built, Xia Wanchun had called together people from the horse racing business in Lantian County for a meeting and told them that the opening of the railway would have a great impact on their business.
The other people in the carriage shop listened, but only Zhao Wanli thought it was nonsense.
Those who heard this immediately begged the government to give them a way to survive.
Then, the government gave...
Those with few horse-drawn carriages were given the right to pull people at the train station, and those with many horse-drawn carriages were given the right to travel outside the scope of railway transportation. Long distance power.
More carriage shops began to specialize in short-distance transportation between workshops, shops and train stations.
Only Zhao Wanli has not given up on short- and medium-distance transportation from Lantian to Chang'an, Chang'an to Yushan, Yushan to Fenghuang Mountain, and Fenghuang Mountain to Lantian.
When the railway was not built, he made a lot of money. Unfortunately, after the railway was built, his carriage immediately became a decoration.
By the time he thought about changing the mode of transportation, all the channels he could think of had already been occupied by other carriage companies.
Whether it is carrying passengers or cargo, whether it is long-distance freight out of the country and into Sichuan, or short-distance freight of only a few miles, there are people who do it very well, and he can't squeeze in.
What makes Zhao Wanli most desperate is that these people all have licenses issued by the government. Only carriage shops with these licenses and registered with the government can operate special roads.
After the railway was built, even on the roads from Lantian County Railway Station to various villages, there were already horse-drawn carriages specially designed to carry people and pull goods.
Zhao Wanli, who held the licenses for the most lucrative cargo-pulling lines at that time, looked down upon these trivial small businesses at all.
In the deepest part of his heart, he is extremely wary of the government.
It was not just that Yun Zhao had robbed him, but also because from the bottom of his heart he did not believe that the government would be kind enough to help merchants like them.
HeHe thought that the government was doing this to seize his family property...
Zhao Wanli's death caused almost no ripples in Lantian County, not even a single ripple.
Countless businesses open every day throughout Lantian County, and many businesses close every day. From the perspective of people in Lantian County, this is the most normal thing.
As long as Zhao Wanli had the slightest trust in the government, he should not have disbanded the car dealership first, but would have gone to the government to find a solution. After all, the government had given him several projects that were seriously related to the railway line. With overlapping license plates, after the advantages of the train are fully demonstrated, the government should make a new arrangement for him.
Otherwise, it would be to compete with the people for profit, which is not allowed by Lantian Law Firm...
In Xia Wanchun's view, a person who does not interpret government rules and regulations and does not understand universal laws Law, businessmen who do not understand what government is, will fail sooner or later.
Xia Wanchun sighed and forgot about Zhao Wanli.
Only the petty officials in the government deliberately recorded Zhao Wanli's events, and prepared to use Zhao Wanli's experience to warn those disobedient merchants when encountering the same incident.
Many years later, Zhao Wanli will be an indispensable presence for Lantian Business students when they study business cases.
He used his own experience and life to tragically explain to the younger generations how to be a businessman in the new era.
From then on, the relationship between the government and merchants was no longer one of exploitation and exploitation, but their relationship would become a symbiotic relationship. This is how Yun Zhao gave a new interpretation to the status of merchants in the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of interpretation cannot be stated clearly, otherwise it will be despised by readers. Therefore, we can only use subtle and silent means to slowly create a fait accompli.
Because of the railway station, the space from the city to the railway station soon became the best choice for people to build mansions. That is, because of these railway stations, wherever there is a train On the city map of the station, a bulge was pulled out by the train station consciously or unconsciously.
Although it is just a thin line now, it will not take long for this line segment connecting the station and the city to become thicker, and eventually it will become a piece, connected to the city, and become a new part of the city. part.
This is the urban change that Yun Zhao wants.
It took Xia Wanchun a long time to understand this truth.
From then on, he had a new view of his master, and he also discovered that politics was more profound than he thought.
“The country must be used for construction. Only a little bit of construction should not stop. Changes in quantity will always lead to changes in quality.
The emperor should put a lot of The money is invested in the construction of the country, instead of being hidden in the treasury and waiting for the money to go moldy.
Whether it is building water conservancy projects, leveling farmland, or digging rocks to build bridges and roads, dredging rivers, and connecting water transport capitals. It's a good investment for the country.
This is a good investment.You must persevere. ”
Yun Zhao stated this truth very plainly.
However, his courtiers had extremely rich associations.
Some of them thought of Dujiangyan. Some people think of Zheng Guo Canal, some think of the Grand Canal, and some think of the towering Great Wall... In short, each of these projects is indispensable to the Chinese nation.
Yunzhao’s intention is very good, but the current poverty of the Ming Dynasty cannot be changed overnight. Yunzhao spent fifteen years changing Lantian County, hoping to let the people of Ming Dynasty live the life of Lantian people. It has to be a generation.
Spring in Liaodong always comes later than in other places. Fortunately, it has arrived. For this reason, Liu Zongmin has no intention of complaining.
< p>What he complained about was that there were fewer and fewer women in his military tent.These women were so fragile that they were almost dead after just one winter.
He didn't understand that these women were well fed and warmly clothed, but they died simply.
The reason why he sighed like this was purely because his personal guard had passed away. A body was carried out of the tent into the woods.
What he didn't know was that the body would usually come back to life after it arrived in the woods. The bodyguards handed the woman over to a group of wrappers. The men wearing all kinds of warm clothes hurriedly left.
The ragged men would take turns carrying the woman straight to Beacon Mountain and Motian Ridge.
No one was there. Offending this woman, even though this woman looked very clean and beautiful, these people didn't even bother to look at this woman, they just carried her in a hurry through the spring forest.
Liu Zongmin now commands the rear army, which means that he is the one who faces Li Dingguo's army.
In many cases, Liu Zongmin hopes to fight with Li Dingguo with real swords and guns, regardless of victory or defeat. , he didn’t feel that he had any regrets.
However, after Li Dingguo captured Bijia Mountain and Motian Ridge, he stopped moving. He had commanded his men to attack this military fortress several times. It was a pity. , except for leaving a pile of corpses, it had no effect.
What made Liu Zongmin most angry was that this seemingly impregnable military fortress was once in his hands, but it was easily taken by Li Dingguo.
For this reason, Liu Zongmin could not enter Jinzhou with other rebels and could only stay in the mountains and forests to build wooden fortresses to guard against Li Dingguo's sudden attacks.
< p>Before coming to Liaodong, Liu Zongmin still had more than 60,000 people under his command. Just one year later, the number of people under his command was reduced by more than half.To this day, Liu Zongmin has not counted his troops for a long time. , it’s not that he didn’t count, but after each count, more people fled, which made Liu Zongmin feel depressed.
It’s not that there were no escapes before, but the army was in the Ming Dynasty., Just as many people as you need to flee, you can use as many people as you want. In Liaodong, apart from enough blind bears, it is difficult to find extra people.
Now, Liu Zongmin was standing on a high slope, watching the group of ragged guys carrying the woman to Motian Ridge.
After several gunshots, some people fell to the ground, and more people rushed into the narrow canyon carrying women...
Liu Zongmin looked back at his relatives. The guards seemed not to be afraid of the general's oppressive eyes. They all looked at the soil under their feet, not knowing what they were thinking.
In fact, you don’t need to ask Liu Zongmin to know what they are thinking.
These are the people who have followed him from Guanzhong to the present.
It is unreasonable to say that these people betrayed him. After all, if these people had betrayed him, he would not be alive now.
These are brothers of life and death who are willing to follow him through water and fire. They think they can die with Liu Zongmin, but they do not want their brothers, sons, or nephews to follow them. They died together, so there was a woman who took advantage of the boss to send her relatives out to gain a chance of survival.
"We may not die. King Chuang is thinking of a way. We can always have a way to survive. Brothers, think about it, is the difficulty now worse than what we had in Shanxi?" Is it harder when there are hundreds of people?
Since you believe in me, Liu Zongmin, then continue to believe in me, and you will definitely find a way out for everyone."
These dears. Weimen still lowered his head. They were numb to what Liu Zongmin said. The Ming Dynasty in Liu Zongmin's mouth was dead. The weak and failed Ming Dynasty had disappeared.
In its place is a brand-new Ming Dynasty, a Ming Dynasty that is even more like a bandit than them.
This Ming Dynasty has closed the door to them, and they can never go back...