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“Shua shua shua”

The classroom was full of students, but no one made a sound, only the sound of pages turning.

This is Jiujiang Prefecture School, Wei Guangde is sitting inside and flipping through the book "Da Ming Law" borrowed from the library of the prefecture.

During this period, Wei Guangde has read all the annotations of the Four Books and Five Classics in the library. With his strong memory, learning is really twice the result with half the effort.

Now he has begun to study the history of the Ming Dynasty. Well, who said that history is a mirror?

Understanding the history of the Ming Dynasty, "Da Ming Law", the Ming Constitution formulated by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, is inevitable.

In fact, Wei Guangde also understood it in the past, but he did not fully understand it. Many places were just memorized by heart. This time, he re-read the Ming Law, and naturally he had to read it completely and understand it thoroughly.

In fact, almost all scholars of this era who are interested in officialdom must have a detailed understanding of the Ming Dynasty Law, at least before entering the officialdom, otherwise you will not even be qualified to be an official, and a simple assessment will stop you.

The sun sets in the west, and the wild geese fly south. It is already November, and it gets dark early, so the time for the prefectural school to finish school is much earlier.

When Wei Guangde walked out of the gate of the prefectural school, there were also several students such as Lao Kan and Shen Liangdong beside him.

Only those who know the business can see at a glance that although these students have different looks and temperaments, they all have a significant feature, that is, they are all wearing clothes made of the best Songjiang cloth.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Songjiang Prefecture and its surrounding areas had already planted a large amount of cotton, which also promoted the prosperity of the textile industry in Songjiang Prefecture and surrounding prefectures and counties.

"You can't buy all the Songjiang cloth, and you can't collect all the Weitang yarn." From this old saying, we can also hear the large output of cotton cloth in Songjiang Prefecture.

During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, a decree was issued to encourage cotton planting, and it was stipulated that Songjiang Prefecture could "pay the government with cloth" and "exchange one catty of cotton for two dou of rice".

Because of the official encouragement, its development can be seen.

Cotton cloth was hard currency in the Ming Dynasty. Clothing was the first priority in food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Although the status of clothing has declined a lot in the later period, the clothing stores on the streets can also explain a lot.

Songjiang cotton cloth has excellent texture and is praised by the world as Songjiang beautiful cloth. It is not only soft, but also has good water absorption. It is much more expensive than cotton cloth in other places and has become a local specialty. Among them, high-quality cotton cloth is shipped to Beijing as a tribute.

The so-called "Susong's financial tax accounts for half of the world", and the prosperity of the cotton textile industry has played a huge role in it.

Songjiang cloth is good, so it is naturally loved by various aristocratic families.

After Wei Guangde lived in Jiujiang Prefecture, he soon changed his outfit completely and made several sets of clothes with fine silk and cotton cloth.

As for these expenses, they were not sent from Pengze, but Zhang's house allocated a sum of money in advance for him to use first.

Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar year, and Wei Guangde and Lao Kan are going to Cuixiu Hall to watch a performance together.

It's not that Wei Guangde has been fascinated by Miss Xiangning, but the entertainment industry in ancient times was limited, and there were not so many types in later generations.

Forget about listening to operas. How many Chinese people in later generations can watch operas and understand operas.

Going to a brothel is different. Drinking, watching beautiful dancers singing and dancing, and playing a few money, this is the nightlife in ancient times.

The so-called hanging the head on the beam and piercing the thigh with a needle, and the three-night lamp and five-night rooster, those are only played by poor students. There is no condition at home, so they can only get up early and study late.

Wei Guangde's family was not well off to begin with, but this time, Old Man Wei and his men seemed to have robbed a lot of money in Zhejiang. Although Zhang Hongfu told him that he could get tens of thousands of taels of silver, Wei Guangde still didn't believe it, because Zhang Hongfu's spending had increased recently, and it was obvious that the family had increased a lot of income, so the money was much looser.

A few people went out and walked across a street and ran into Zhang Hongfu's group, which was also agreed before.

Originally, these prefectural school students didn't look down on those hereditary military families, and it can be said that they had never had any contact with them before.

But now there has been a change. With the existence of Wei Guangde, Lao Kan and others have had more contact with Zhang Hongfu's group, and gradually became friends.

Lao Kan and others, who are rich and powerful, don't care about the people in the garrison, but it is inevitable that something will happen when they go out, and sometimes relying on words may not work.

Last time, when Lao Kan’s classmate was involved, Zhang Hongfu dispatched a team of soldiers from the garrison to stop him, and Lao Kan and others finally reached a settlement with the loan shark.

There was no way, because he had the loan agreement signed in black and white by the student, and he was still right no matter where he went.

The person died, but the debt was not paid off, and the family had to continue to pay the debt. If that didn’t work, they would be forced to sell the house and the person to pay off the debt.

Of course, the loan agreement would not say loan sharking, but the usury part was directly included in the principal. The loan of 10 taels and 30 taels became a loan agreement of 20 taels and 30 taels in the hands of the loan shark.

Although everyone on the street knew who that guy was, there was no evidence.

These people had a small background, but they also had people in the government, and Lao Kan and other scholars could not solve it. Only Zhang Hongfu could deal with it.

The two groups gathered together and soon entered Cuixiu Hall, occupied three tables on the second floor and waited for today’s show to start.

"My grandpa and his family will be back in two days. Then you can take a leave and go to the dock together."

While eating and drinking, Zhang Hongfu said to Wei Guangde.

"I have already talked to the instructor before. He knows about this and has agreed to it."

The news that the Jiujiang Guard army went to Zhejiang to suppress the Japanese was not spread on the streets at first. Many people did not know about it before. It was only after they won the battle that the news gradually spread.

As for the army's triumphant return, not many people in Jiujiang City knew about it at that time, but as a prefectural school, it was also a department of the government, and the news was better than outside.

A few days later, the already busy Jiujiang Wharf was suddenly blocked by a large group of Jiujiang Guard soldiers. All the merchant ships that needed to be loaded and unloaded were driven out and could only be temporarily moored far away from the wharf. The goods that were loaded and unloaded near the wharf were also forced to be transported to the side by the official army.

Not long after, as the sedan chairs of various officials of Jiujiang Prefecture were carried out of the Jiujiang Prefecture gate in a long line and appeared on the wharf, more than a dozen officials in the sedan chairs also got off the sedan chairs one after another and gathered together to chat about something.

At this time, the Jiujiangfu Pier was already crowded with people, and everyone was looking out, and the whole pier was noisy.

Until a fleet appeared on the distant skyline, coming against the river, and immediately the drummers waiting on the side began to play, and the soldiers deployed around also took action, with countless flags raised high, instantly turning this place into a sea of ​​joy.