Wang Quan walked towards the secret contact point of the Jinyiwei Guard in Qufu City - Kangshantang Business. However, when he walked to the door of the business, he saw a seal on the door, and the plaque "Kangshantang" above the door frame was also taken down by the Qing soldiers.

"Brothers, what are you doing? I came here to buy some salt, why did this business be sealed?" Wang Quan asked the two Qing soldiers who had just taken off the plaque.

A Qing soldier from the green camp saw a strong man dressed in Mongolian man standing in front of him, and quickly replied respectfully: "This man, the business here is suspected of bandits, and the court has confiscated the business."

"Then who should I buy salt in the future?" Wang Quan asked.

The Green Camp soldiers replied: "The court transferred the business name to the Shanxi merchants and handed it over to the old westerners to operate. The thieves retreated to Shanxi before, and Shanxi merchants suffered heavy disasters. Their hometown was raided by the thieves, and the losses were heavy. In order to compensate them, the court searched various places, and the merchants suspected of thieves were sold to Shanxi merchants at a low price."

"Oh?" Wang Quan replied.

The green camp soldier replied again: "This Mongolian grandfather, you want to buy salt. I just wait for two or three days. After the Shanxi merchants come to take over, you can buy salt."

Wang Quan replied in a pretentious manner: "Okay, then I'll stay here for a few days."

After saying that, Wang Quan found an opportunity to sneak out of Qufu City, went to the jujube forest where he hid his horse, and led two horses, one by three horses, and rushed towards the direction of his team's evacuation. Although he was also very worried about the safety of the brothers in the Jinyiwei Contact Station in Qufu City, he did not choose to take the risk to rescue them. It was not that simple to save people from the Qing soldiers. What's more, he also knew that those people had received special training, and as long as they did not reveal their identities, they would not be in danger of their lives.

The Qing court made excuses to seize other businesses just to make up for the losses of the Shanxi merchants. The merchants caught may be released after a while. The worst result is to be sentenced to the bannermen as slaves. Anyway, as long as the identity of the Jinyiwei is not exposed, there will be no disaster of killing.

Wang Quan, one man and three horses, caught up with his team before the evening.

Seeing that his lover returned safely, Qingzhu, who had been worried, walked forward excitedly, holding Wang Quan's arm tightly and not letting go, as if he was afraid that he would lose his lover once he let go.

"Qingzhu, stop making trouble, I still have the situation to report to the boss." Wang Quandao.

Qingzhu shyly let go of her hand, and the two walked shoulder to shoulder toward Zhao Peng's central army tent.

When he saw Zhao Peng, Wang Quan knelt on one knee and reported what he saw: "The boss, Jiannu Yanzhou Green Camp has arrived in Qufu. We were seized by Jiannu at the Qufu contact point, and several brothers were all taken away by them."

"Old Liu and the others have not exposed their identities, right?" Zhao Peng asked with concern.

Wang Quan shook his head: "Didn't reveal his identity? Jiannu also used the excuse of tying thieves to seize our business and confiscated our business. I heard that it was sold to Shanxi merchants at a low price. It was said that it was to make up for the losses caused by Shanxi merchants' disaster."

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"Hmph!" Zhao Peng snorted coldly, "The Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants, are really good slaves of the Qing Dynasty! Dorgon still thinks about them so much, he is really considerate! If it weren't for the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants, Jiannu would not have survived after the Later Jin Dynasty!"

After the Qing Dynasty entered the capital, the eight great merchants of Shanxi had become eight royal merchants. They wore tops and flirted, and did business in the name of officials and merchants, making a fortune. Thinking of Shanxi merchants, Zhao Peng suddenly remembered something: "At present, among the salt merchants in the two Huai Rivers, there are still some Shanxi merchants? Let's go back this time to find Jiang Guomao to find out the situation. When we go to Yangzhou, we will seal all the salt merchants of Shanxi merchants!"

"A good idea for the boss!" Wang Quan smiled, "In this way, our losses will not only be compensated, but also have surplus."

Zhao Peng estimated that his company in the north and the company that had a joint stock with the Jiang family had suffered a considerable loss. There must be quite a few that were seized by the Qing court, and there were definitely a lot of money. But how could he, who never suffered losses, swallow this anger? Since he suffered losses, he had to make up for it. Where should he make up for it? The Shanxi merchants are the best fat pigs. After slaughtering them, not only can they make up for the losses, but they can also make up for the losses.

Then, Wang Quan reported on what he saw in Qufu: "Boss, the food and land we distributed to the people were all in vain and were taken back by Jiannu."

Zhao Peng nodded: "What is expected is that as long as the feudal system is not completely eliminated, the old exploiting class will be defeated and a new exploiting class will emerge again! To fundamentally improve the lives of the people, this corrupt system must be overturned. With the development of the times, the feudal landlord system has fundamentally developed the times, and it must be replaced by a new industrial and commercial capital system!"

The capitalist system is of course also an exploitation system, but for a long time, the capitalist system was still a relatively advanced social system. Even Marx said that the socialist revolution should be born first in the developed Western capitalist countries. But in fact, the first proletarian socialist revolution was the backward semi-capitalist and semi-serflying Russia. Therefore, the powerful Soviet Union only lasted for only seventy years and was deceived and closed down by Western imperialism.

However, in terms of state mobilization and the ability to deal with natural disasters, the socialist system is far superior to capitalism. The essence of capital is profit-oriented. Capitalists will not spend a lot of money to do things that are of no benefit to themselves, while socialist countries can spend a lot of money to help the affected people.

Some people may say that how many Ukrainians starved to death during the Soviet Union, which led to the later Ukrainians' disgust towards the Russians. In fact, the industrialization of a country must sacrifice the interests of the agricultural population. If the Soviet Union starved to death, would Western countries be clean? If there were sheep in the UK, the United States would be even more excessive. Not only did it massacre and plunder the Indians, but it also had the bloody Civil War.

In fact, the Civil War was also a contradiction between American industrialization and planting industry, because southern planters wanted to reduce import tariffs so that they could buy cheap British and French industrial products themselves. In order to avoid the impact of American industry by British and French industrial products, the industrial owners in the northern region needed to raise tariffs, which created an irreconcilable contradiction, and the Civil War broke out.

During the Civil War, the northern industrialists' army carried out bloody massacres against the southern planters.

Similarly, Zhao Peng guided the Donglin Party to develop industry and commerce. Sooner or later, the Ming Dynasty would have a phenomenon similar to that of sheep eating people in the British Empire. The difference is that in Jiangnan, what will happen in the future will not be sheep eating people, but silkworm eating people.

The sky gradually became dark. After dinner, Zhao Peng sat by the river, thinking about future problems in his mind. Suddenly, he saw Wang Quan and Qingzhu sitting under a tree by the river, and the two of them snuggled intimately. Seeing others showing off their food, he could only pick the jade Buddha given to him by Princess Kunxing from his neck and play with it back and forth in his hands.

Although he got married to the princess many times in his dreams, Zhao Peng could not find the princess when he had physical needs. After all, he was the eldest princess of the royal family. Once the incident of getting pregnant before marriage, it would be a big deal that would make the royal family lose all their faces. You can't take this risk. Similarly, he didn't dare to find Wu Xiaomei when he needed it. Although the princess did not object to taking a concubine, but if the wife had her concubine before she had her, wouldn't it be a slap in the face? Can she bear it? So when Zhao Peng needed it, he could only find Kou Bai's family. After all, he was a woman in the world and knew all kinds of protection methods. If she didn't want children, there would never be any problems.

Another thing is the problem of women's status in the future. With the development of the textile industry and the emergence of machines, women are no longer bound to take care of their husbands and children at home, but go to work and make money like men. Their economic status determines their social status. Therefore, in the future, women's status will definitely improve.

But Zhao Peng still opposes monogamy. He believes that monogamy and multiple concubines are the most reasonable. A capable man must not have only one woman. This is the law of nature. If he defeats the old lion king and becomes the new lion king, he is qualified to have a group of female lions, while the loser is not worthy of having a spouse.
Chapter completed!