"It seems that the chief of the Chen Chou knows Ye's identity?"

"A little heard."

"Does the leader of the case still know that we are being wanted by the government?"

"Of course I know."

Ye Zong stayed in July of the ninth year of Zhengtong and began the formal uprising, but before that, he had had many small-scale battles with officers and soldiers, and he had long been wanted.

"Okay, then it seems that I, Mr. Ye, were wrong and had the courage to do it!"

Seeing the misunderstanding resolved, Cang Huotou next to him responded: "Boss Ye, I said that with the actions of the head of the case last night, how could it be a person who was afraid of trouble?"

"Yes, those who can do righteous deeds are definitely not ordinary cowardly scholars."

The strong men next to them responded one after another. Chen Yichen's actions of helping refugee children last night won a high favor in their hearts.

You should know that Chen Yichen belongs to the literati class, while refugees belong to the lowest class. In the past, the powerful and powerful would not look at them directly, and even faced disdain and contempt when approaching.

Only Chen Yichen ignored the distinction between high and low, and was willing to help. This behavior was deeply moved by the hearts of the lower-level miners.

But this group of people told about what happened last night, which made Chen Yichen feel a little confused. It seems that their appearance was not accidental, and it had been planned long ago?

No matter how hard Chen Yichen racked his brains, he couldn't figure out why the miners far away in Zhejiang paid attention to him.

"Captain Ye, I have a question in my heart, and I hope I can find an answer."

The doubts were too deep, and Chen Yichen couldn't help but prepare to ask the other party.

"What the Chen Chou wants to know is why we helped, right?"

“It’s true.”

"I don't know if the head of the case still remembers Bian He, the aide of Yingtian Prefecture."

Bian He?

Hearing this name made Chen Yichen feel extremely surprised. Why did an aide, Li Min, the prefect of Yingtian, contact Zhejiang miners again?

However, he suddenly remembered that Bian He had said something inexplicable at the celebration banquet in the courtyard. He said that what he had committed was at least the level of Chen Yichen's title of Duke Cheng to help.

At that time, Chen Yichen thought that Bian He was drunk and talking nonsense. Looking back now, he was probably not nonsense, he was just a "rebel"!

"Mr. Bian has something to do with you?"

"That's right, Mr. Bian and I are fellow Qingyuan townsmen and have met since childhood. Later, they were wanted by the government for mining, so they changed their faces and went to Yingtian Mansion to be an aide, hoping to find a way out of reconciliation."

"So Mr. Bian chose me?"

"It's not that the leader of the case was chosen, but that the leader of the case was one of the many candidates."

After Ye Zongliu said this, he looked at the distance and said, "The head of the desk is here, I will tell you in detail, but now we have to clean up and leave quickly. This place is not far from Zhenjiang Prefecture, and if the blood flows down, it will be easy to be discovered."

The canal is not as vast as the Yangtze River. If the bodies of more than a dozen people are not processed, they will be discovered by the passing ships soon. No matter what the reason is, these more than a dozen lives will not be related.

So before someone discovers, these fast ships and corpses have to be disposed of, otherwise the difficulty will be doubled if the officers and soldiers want to escape.

"Okay, then I'll bother Leader Ye."

"You're welcome, in addition, Chen Chen is a literati, which really makes Ye look at him with admiration."

Ye Zongliu praised him. From Chen Yichen's pale face and slightly trembling arms, he could feel that it was the first time that the other party had seen such a bloody scene.

But even so, Chen Yichen was extremely calm from beginning to end and his thinking was clear. And when he said he wanted to deal with the corpse, he agreed without hesitation.

If you meet some pedantic literati, you may still want to report to the officials to deal with the matter and have no ambition or courage to do big things.

Chen Yichen, who is still in his teenage years old, has a very good taste of a hero among men. No wonder he became the leader of the Little Sanyuan case and was valued by Master Bian, and it is really unique.

Chen Yichen just smiled and didn't reply to Ye Zongliu's praise, but felt helpless in his heart.

He was a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the Little Sanyuan case, a literati and literati, and in theory, he should be the "iron-core" of the government.

Now, he has inexplicably become a person on the same boat as the "rebels" and has reached a consensus on destroying corpses and traces. The other party even appreciates them quite well. What kind of bizarre stories are they?

Ye Zongliu and his group of people were very efficient in their work. They handled the "campaign" site in a short time. The capital of the Jingkou Gang was salvaged and placed on the Clippers, and then several people were separated to drive the Clippers to the remote river berth.

As for whether the subsequent action was burned or something else, Chen Yichen couldn't guess, after all, he was not a professional in this industry.

However, the cooperation and discipline of Ye Zongliu, the group of miners, also made Chen Yichen look at him with admiration.

Not to mention anything else, the execution ability shown during the process, even Chen Yichen felt that the military service of some garrisons in Yingtian Prefecture was not as good as them, and it was completely in line with the stereotype of the peasant army's "mob" people.

At this time, Chen Yichen suddenly remembered that the Qi family army, which swept the Japanese pirates in the late Ming Dynasty, was formed by recruiting miners from Yiwu, Chuzhou, Taizhou and other places as backbone.

Among them, Chuzhou is Ye Zongliu’s hometown!

In a sense, this group of miners was the predecessor of the famous Qi family army and could also be regarded as one of the best military sources in the Ming Dynasty.

After the matter was handled, the Crimson continued to set sail. Ye Zongliu left a few people on the Crimson and began to tell Chen Yichen about Bian He.

Bian He also came from a miner's family in Chuzhou. He has been talented since childhood and is very good at studying. So the village worked together to support him in school, hoping to cultivate a scholar.

Bian He did not disappoint everyone's expectations. At the age of 26, he successfully passed the exam for the juren title. If he continues to develop according to this trend, not to mention how old he can become, at least he will give back to the same village to benefit the people.

However, all this was interrupted by the mining tax in the early years of the Orthodox Dynasty. The miner class, which was already extremely burdened, once again faced heavy taxes. In addition, the court also vigorously cracked down on private mines, and the extra income was blocked, and now there was no last way to survive.

The miners themselves are strong and have begun to take shape as militarized organizations. In addition, the frequent clan fights in Zhejiang and Fujian have created the locals' toughness and bloodiness, so various small-scale resistance and riots continue.

Later generations, General Qi chose Chuzhou miners as his source of troops, and he also took a fancy to these characteristics of them.

Faced with this situation, Bian He had a literati plot at first, hoping to negotiate with the government to reduce the mining tax and give the people a way out.

The result of this naive idea is obvious. The government does not take this trick at all. It even took the opportunity to pursue the leading miners during the negotiations, and even Bian He, a juren, was no exception.

Seeing that there was no way to negotiate, Ye Zongliu simply stopped talking and sent people to various places to purchase iron tools to "cast and smelter the army", and then occupied the mountain and served as the king to fight against the government.

This is why they appear in Zhenjiang Prefecture among refugees.

After all, Bian He has read books and knows that the Ming Dynasty is powerful and the road to occupying mountains and becoming kings cannot be understood, and he will eventually be surrounded and defeated.

By then, all these childhood friends and miners and fellow villagers would be killed in the name of rebels.

To change this ending, Bian He chose a completely different path from Ye Zongliu. He wanted to get to know high-ranking officials and powerful people through his aides and mentors, and find a way out for the clan villagers from the perspective of decision-making power.

In this way, a pair of childhood miners worked hard on two different paths to survive.

Without the perspective of God from history, they do not know whose choice is right and who is wrong in the end.

But instead of waiting for death, at least these miners chose to fight to survive!

Sitting at the bow of the boat, Chen Yichen listened quietly to Ye Zongliu's stories, the short words in history books used to be. At this moment, it became a portrayal of everyone's survival, and the feelings were completely different.

Chen Yichen did not comment on who Bian He and Ye Zongliu’s choice was right or wrong, because he knew very well that neither of these two people’s paths could be understood.

The increase in silver mine taxation was not only the exploitation and greed of the government, but in the middle and late Ming dynasties, silver as the benchmark currency was seriously insufficient, and in layman's terms, it was not enough.

Many people in later generations learned that because of the epidemic, the Chou Guo launched a nuclear-powered printing machine to print money frantically, causing inflation in many countries and prices to soar.

However, inflation also has an economic antisense, which is also quite harmful, that is deflation.

The so-called deflation means that the amount of money circulating in the market is less than the amount of money required for commodity circulation, which causes currency appreciation and generally continue to fall.

Many people may think that falling prices are a good thing. If buying things is cheaper, shouldn’t people live better?

But in fact, once the currency appreciates and prices fall by more than a certain extent, the commodity will be too cheap and selling things will not make money.

Since I don’t make money, I’m still exhausted and I’m just going to stop selling. After this step, no one will produce a sudden increase in unemployment rate and overall social wealth shrinks.

If there is no way to solve deflation, it will enter a vicious cycle, and the final result will naturally be an economic collapse.

Therefore, modern economics is a discipline with very rigorous logic, and it is not as simple as ordinary people understand that prices are more expensive or cheaper.

In postmodern society, there was insufficient currency and the printing machine could still print money. In feudal society like the Ming Dynasty, paper currency did not have enough credit endorsement from the central government and would only become a piece of waste paper.

Even if there are silver notes, they are based on precious metal reserves and are essentially different from the issuance of paper currency in later generations.
Chapter completed!