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However, Ulan Yihuang's ideals are very full, but the reality is quite far away.

If Ulan had known that Zhenjin's management style was a fusion of economy and military, and that the transition between farming and fighting was as natural as putting down a sickle and picking up a hoe, perhaps he would have changed his mind.

In the process of using and managing land, the management level and institutions such as Zhen Jin are very important organizational tools, and they are also ready-made command organs in military operations.

Some of the more prosperous calves often benefit from having a good management organization, such as Zhen Jin's northern calf has Zhao Gui to manage the Yihe Canal, Mi Shou is in charge of bookkeeping and finance, Liu Qi is responsible for the overall affairs of the calf, known as Qi shopkeeper, that is, the general manager, Liu Fu is in charge of the cultivation and management of the land, and is responsible for the management of long-term workers and short-term men.

These managers were all well-known and capable people in Hetao, and they made the northern calf unprecedentedly prosperous, and the northern calf employed workers to cultivate more than 10,000 acres of land at that time, and employed six or seven hundred long-term and short-term workers.

In this way, once there is a military operation, this Liu Qi is a centurion, leading six or seven hundred people into battle together.

"Gongzhong" and "calves" generally manage themselves in normal times, and the canal owner does not directly control zhì. Only "before the Spring Festival every year, each calf shopkeeper lists the income and expenditure" and reports it to the canal owner. The canal owners did not have a specific understanding of the management situation, and more often used various methods to supervise the money and grain, and punished the treasurers who dared to embezzle the money and grain.

For example, once Zhen Jin found out that someone had embezzled his money and food, he would be deported from the country at least and drowned in a ditch at worst.

This also led him to use military law as a way to manage the economy. Anyone who violates military law is punished with a heavy sentence.

In the internal management of each "public school" and "calf", it is also relatively strict, just like a military camp.

Or take the northern calf as an example, for the hired workers, "call it a day, go to work, rest, eat, and listen to the bell as a signal to act in unison".

Compare it to the corruption of the regular troops of the Qing army. The odds in these economic institutions are more disciplined.

Moreover, the "public middle school" is not only the main institution of water conservancy development, but even undertakes general social functions.

In the past, the qiē incident, regardless of civil or criminal law, was resolved by the 'gongzhong', which was simply a complete government yamen.

And it's definitely more efficient than those yamen, they don't have the time to make these people not work!

The cost of opening the canal is huge, and after the channel is completed. The land benefited is not limited to the land leased by the landlords themselves.

Therefore, the local merchants are not completely independent, but also adopt a mutually beneficial and cooperative development model in a certain process. Moreover, there are special board of directors, and these public high school premises are local businessmen raising funds to establish public discussion places, which are magnificent in scale, and need special public middle school directors as deliberative bodies. This is enough to explain the in-depth process of their cooperation.

On the issue of the management of the Yongji Canal, the largest trunk canal in the Hetao, the cooperation of the local merchants has reached an unprecedented height. On the occasion of Xian, there were forty-eight public managers of land merchants.

At that time, merchants from all over the country leased the land outside the Mongolian Banner and connected the ridges, and the water was all relied on to the canal, and the channel was repaired and temporary work was carried out on a regular basis, and the local merchants contributed according to the centi, as if there were groups with the same interests and harms.

And so it goes. The economic system here has been upgraded to a higher level, with various independent companies becoming joint companies, and Zhen Kim has served as the chairman of the general association, taking charge of the economic power of the roots.

What's more. He can use this position to unify and command the military forces of each family, that is, all the labor force, to achieve his military goals.

Of course, this military goal is mainly to protect the land management here and the safety of the lives and property of these local merchants.

This is also the main reason why the Ulan family has repeatedly failed in the previous hostile struggle with the Ulan family.

As long as the two families fight together, all the local merchants will support in groups, and no matter how powerful the Ulan family is, it is still a tiger that is invincible to a pack of wolves.

Zhen Jin not only has a strict organization and management of agriculture, but also has made great efforts in business operations.

The main source of the Hetao merchants was the early Mongolian merchants, and after the transformation into local merchants, they were not satisfied with just controlling the agricultural production in the Hetao area, and most of them continued to operate the merchants while investing in the development of channels, or even directly excavated the channels in the name of the merchants.

This is typical of the traditional Chinese idea of making a fortune -- when you have money, you will increase your real estate.

The business scope of this type of firm includes two aspects, the first is to take advantage of the real estate advantages of the Hetao and sell it to Outer Mongolia or the mainland. The trade between Inner and Inner Mongolia made the local merchants very profitable.

After the land was opened by the local merchants, they also began to trade with the inhabitants of the mainland, and the grain abundant in the Hetao was imported into the mainland as the most important commodity.

The harvested grain was transported by the Yellow River to some large cities along the coast of the interior for marketing, and they refused to save a little, and made a quick profit.

In addition, the local merchants also used a large number of hired workers to sell various goods.

That is to say, the necessities of those hired workers are all monopolized by the firms set up by the local merchants.

At that time, the largest business in the Hetao, Longxingchang, obviously had this characteristic.

The basis for the establishment of the firm is that Zhen Jin will use the profits from the processing of grain and raw materials obtained from the land of each public high school as commercial capital and invest it in Longxing Chang Firm.

After a certain period of development, Longxing bought and sold for a long time, not only mills, oil and wine tanks, but also sold daily necessities and agricultural and animal husbandry production and daily necessities in major cities, and also manufactured wooden boats, and its production and business scope included almost all important commodities.

Of course, most of these daily necessities were sold to tenants who rented his land and to the drains who dug ditches for him.

At the same time, when paying the wages of the canal workers, Zhen Jin also pioneered a kind of "goods silver".

The so-called 'goods and silver' means to increase the price of tea, cloth, hookah, sugar, salt and other commodities and pay the workers the top wages, and this means to achieve his purpose of using tenants and drainmen to expand the business scope of the business.

The strength of the business has also become stronger with the continuous growth of the power of the local merchants.

At its peak, Longxing Chang and the big merchants in Baotou issued money posts, which were equivalent to large denomination currencies.

The total face value is 200,000 taels. The firm supported and promised to pay.

Due to the strength of the firm, Zhen Jin's money post was unimpeded in many inland cities, and it was more affordable than the dragon ticket of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In this way, the development of commerce also provided the necessary military supplies for Zhenjin's armed forces.

With wealth. With military supplies, and in the face of the life-and-death attacks of the Ulan family, and without the necessary protection of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhen Jin certainly can't sit idly by, and his next step is of course to build his own armed forces.

If you want to survive, if you want to keep your wealth, if you want to make more money, you must use force to protect yourself as the basis for the implementation of these matters.

If there is no own armed forces. Since the set is beyond the reach of the official forces, the people ignore the national law, the tyrannical can recklessly commit lawlessness, and the cunning can help others to abuse.

In this environment, Zhen Kim clearly realized that non-samurai could not survive if they defended themselves.

At the same time, it is not all about cooperation. The competition for channels between each other has also become increasingly fierce, so that they dominate the canal. led the crowd to fight, heard from time to time, killed together, and did not hesitate to destroy the family.

Therefore, on the one hand, Zhen Jin recruited homeless people and boxers as armed forces, and then combined them with other economic forces. Forming a greater force for martial arts.

At the same time, he is also committed to training all the hired workers at his disposal to be warriors who can farm in peacetime and kill the enemy in wartime!

In this way, the private soldiers accumulated by the local merchants increased day by day. This made the armed forces of the landlords reach an astonishing level.

On the eve of Wulan Yihuang's arrival in the Hetao to confront Zhen Jin, the Zhen Jin family was often 10,000 soldiers and 40,000 part-time warriors!

The other merchants united with Zhen Jin have a total of 30,000 standing troops and 120,000 part-time warriors!

In the event of a big battle, all the combat power commanded by Zhen Jin reached 200,000!

And this time, Ulan brought out all the elites of the family, only 40,000 cavalry, which is equal to the number of standing troops of these local merchants.

And Ulan Yihuang didn't know that he was at an absolute disadvantage!

In order to build a disciplined army and to protect his "public school" and "calf", Zhen Jin developed his own private armed forces and set up all kinds of cruel punishments to punish those who violated discipline and violated his own interests. Zhen Jin laid down four cruel criminal laws.

When it is called "dumplings", it means putting the "prisoner" in his pocket and throwing it into the river.

The second is to "live on the roof", that is, in winter, the river is frozen, open a hole, catch people who "do not keep their duty", and throw them into the ice cave.

The third is to "eat twist flowers", that is, to dry the cowhide band, twist it into a twisted "cowhide whip", and whip and blood to beat the prisoner. Fourth, "feeding mosquitoes" means that at summer nights, the captured "prisoners" are tied hand and foot and thrown into the wilderness for mosquitoes to bite.

Since the establishment of the four criminal laws, so far, more than 3,000 people have been executed by him.

Through these cruel punishments, Zhen Jin firmly maintained his jurisdiction in the Hetao area, and at the same time, prepared a strong and disciplined army for himself.

He is not afraid of the force of the Ulan family at all, and even has a eager mentality, eager to fight with Ulan Yihuang!

Just when the enemy was fully prepared materially and spiritually, Ulan Yihuang led an army of 40,000 to arrive, a water of cavalry!

The army marched unhindered until it reached the place where Donnie lived, a place of residence and public school, still in a peaceful atmosphere.

A few children were playing there, a few poultry were leisurely digging in the soil, and a dog was lying under a large tree.

The house has gates, both of which are half-hidden and half-open.

Looking around, many people are busy in the fields, probably preparing the land for spring planting.

There was silence everywhere.

Although Ulan Yihuang had doubts in his heart, he was determined and the goal he set must be achieved!

So he shouted: "The whole army is on board! Defend the manor! The Chinese army and I will rush into the gate!"

When the army heard this, they roared and surrounded the manor!

These are all very smooth, but when you look inside, there is no one!

"Fooled!" Ulan Yihuang was shocked!

Just as he was about to give the order to retreat, there was a cannon fire outside, and then a thunderous cry came!

"Mr. Zhen's clever plan to calm the world and kill 40,000 soldiers in Ulan with a smile!".

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