The place is dirty, crowded, and damp. There are low shanties and narrow alleys everywhere. Feces and garbage can be seen everywhere. The air is filled with a stench mixed with the smell of feces and garbage.

Two heavily polluted creeks pass through this fenced-off area full of filth and shantytowns, and finally flow into the Guanzha River.

Because the water of the Guanzha River is bitter and salty, almost the same as sea water, you can't drink it at all. And the grazing fields in the north of the Guanzha River are surrounded by wooden fences, and you can't go in and out at will. So these two rivers are dirtier than the water of the Ganges.

The countless streams have become the only source of drinking water for the tens of thousands of people gathered here.

During this period of time, the weather here in Macau has been sunny and it hasn’t rained much. Therefore, the heavily polluted dirty water cannot be washed away, so it has all been drunk into the bellies of the coolies who gather here to work and make money. The outbreak of epidemic diarrhea is not at all a problem.

Strange......

In fact, this is not the first time that dysentery has broken out in the Guanzha River Food Market. Dysentery here has never disappeared, and every year when there is drought and little rain, there will be a big outbreak. The only difference is how many people die?

This year, because the Macau-Xiangshan smuggling trade was particularly busy, and the merchants offered high wages to the coolies, more people than in previous years were attracted to the Guanzhahe Grand Forgery Market, so the scale of the dysentery outbreak was also large.

It's even bigger.

Of course, neither the officials sent by Shang Kexi to manage the Guanzha River forage market nor the Portuguese on the other side of the Guanzha River care about the lives of these working people in Guangdong.

Not only would they not treat patients in the market, they would even send troops to guard the exits on both sides of the market to prevent sick patients from leaving.

There are some Catholic missionaries in Macau who will go into the market to care for the patients there...but they don't know how to treat them, and they just blindly ask those patients to convert to God.

They also call it euphemistically: save souls!

If the body cannot be saved, then just save the soul. If those patients are not treated, they will most likely die soon, and their souls will go to the West. If Jesus takes away the soul, he will naturally give credit to those missionaries.

It's just that this good deal of exchanging souls for merit cannot be done this time.

Because Sage Zhu Hezhu, who loves his people like a son, has come...he will save those sick bodies and souls.

Moreover, we have to save in front of tens of thousands of strong men, and we have to save the most seriously ill people who are about to die!

Only in this way will the tens of thousands of strong men here regard Zhu Heji as the destined savior... and then they will follow him wholeheartedly to kill the demon and restore the Ming Dynasty!

There are also relatively spacious places in this smelly, very crowded, and shantytown-filled market. This place is in the center of the market. There is a wide street that leads from the north gate of the market.

Go to the south gate.

On both sides of the street, there are trading markets surrounded by wooden fences. The goods shipped from Macau are not necessarily imported goods, most of them are goods shipped from Jiangnan, Fujian, Chaozhou and other places.

Commodities produced in Guangfu, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and other places are traded in these markets.

In addition, a general administrative office of Pingnan Prince's Mansion is also located on this street.

Of course, this yamen is illegal! It did not exist in the establishment of the Qing court and government.

But this illegal yamen can earn one to two million taels of illegal tax revenue for the Pingnan Palace every year.

However, this good thing of illegal yamen managing illegal trade and collecting illegal tariffs has now come to an end.

Now all the "fence-shield markets" are guarded by Zhu Heji or Qiu Hui's men. The merchants either ran away, or were locked up in the fence markets with sad faces.

The situation was even worse for the non-judges in the illegal yamen. They had all been hacked to death. When Zhu Heji led Da Bo Ling, Zhuge Sanhe, Qiu Rong, Luo Wenzao and others to the illegal yamen,

The heads of these slaves of the Shang family have been thrust into the yamen on both sides of the yamen with spears for public display.

The street outside the Yamen, in addition to dead people, was also crowded with strong men from various shantytowns. At first glance, the shantytowns in the market looked like one large area crowded together, but in fact they were divided into areas.

, and each shantytown is inhabited by fellow villagers from the same county.

Nowadays, we rely on our parents at home, and when we go out, we have to rely on friends from the same hometown to support each other. Therefore, when fellow villagers get together, they often automatically form a group. Of course, in Guangdong, most areas are divided into indigenous and Hakka, which are two groups.

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However, the strong indigenous and Hakka men gathered in the market now have little thought for fighting, because they are now "misfortunes never come singly"!

On the one hand, we encountered an epidemic of diarrhea, and many of our companions had already fallen ill. Those who had not fallen ill yet had no idea when they would get sick.

On the other hand, they also encountered a confusing war - the reason why it is said to be confusing is because they still haven't figured out who is fighting whom?

Oh, it is certain that the Chinese are fighting against Westerners. But who are those Chinese? At first it was said that they were the people who fought against the Western King Wu Sangui.

Everyone also believed it... The news that Wu Sangui was coming to Guangdong had already spread throughout Macau! Without this news, those profiteers engaged in "tax smuggling" would not have offered them such high wages.

Work hard!

Isn't this just to get the deal done before Wu Sangui takes office?

But it didn’t take long for everyone to realize that the situation had changed!

Those generals who have firmly controlled the battle field are no longer said to be members of King Pingxi, but instead said they are fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty!

what 's wrong?

Did Wu Sangui want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, or did the rebels from Chaozhou invade Macau, and then took control of the market under Wu Sangui's banner?

But why did the anti-Qing and Ming dynasties end up in Macau? The Portuguese in Macau didn’t seem to have provoked the Ming Dynasty very much!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! And this morning, even more incredible news came. It was said that the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, the grandson of Zhu San, came to Macau, and would come again.

The big market...comes to rescue the poor and help everyone cure the epidemic.

What does it mean?

Is this Zhu's third grandson going to invite a god to come to his body, and then chant a spell and cast a spell to invite everyone to drink the talisman water? The old Zhu family is doing this now? Does it work?

Just when a group of feudal and superstitious Guangdong workers were thinking wildly, Zhu Heji, who was dressed in commoners and wore a scarf and wielded a sword called Tianlei, had already arrived at the Yamen of Daqiang on a Lusitano Ocean horse, surrounded by a group of subordinates.

forward.

Seeing the costumes of Zhu Heji and the original Confucian knights who followed him, the strong workers below were also surprised - they were not pretending to be gods, but pretending to be Confucian saints!

"The prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old..."

When Zhu Heji reined in his war horse outside the Yamen, the Jinyi soldiers and Qiu family officers and soldiers who were standing in front of the Yamen and outside the wooden fence markets to maintain order cheered loudly together.

Zhu Heji raised his right hand and waved it lightly, and the cheers suddenly stopped.

Then Zhu Heji gave a speech on horseback without dismounting.

"Everyone, I have heard that I am the grandson of Emperor Weizong of the Ming Dynasty and the crown prince of the Kingdom of Ming Dynasty. Now I have won the support of all the righteous people in Chaozhou and reopened the Ming Dynasty court in Jieyang. Now I led five thousand tigers across the sea to Macau, one to capture Guangzhou

I think it is the foundation of revival; the second thing is to save the people of Guangfu from fire and water. This is my destiny!

Yesterday, I heard that the epidemic was rampant in the Daqian Market, so I led everyone to come for treatment. If God is my destiny, the epidemic will be alleviated in a few days and end within ten days... Okay, no more empty words! Now,

Gujia announces three ways to fight the epidemic.

First, the disease is transmitted through the mouth, so from now on, all the drinking water and food in the Da Ke Market will be provided by Macau Island, and no more restaurants are allowed in the Da Ke Market to prevent more people from getting sick!

Second, all the patients will be concentrated in the East India Company's warehouses on the south bank of the Guanzha River. The Gu family will treat them with special medicines, and most of them should recover within ten days.

In addition, each patient must be taken care of by a dedicated person. The people who take care of the patients will be recruited from the market, and each person will be given a hundred coins per day!

Third, two days later, thousands of strong men who are not sick and have not been recruited to take care of the sick will be sent to the Qianshanzhai area north of the Guanzha River Daqing Field to be placed and practice formation... Food included
Chapter completed!