Chapter 896: Double Happiness Comes to the Door
Mother and child are safe!
That's enough!
As for whether it is a boy or a girl, Guo Dan doesn't care about these at all.
This good news also allows Guo Dan to devote himself more to his work.
In terms of the system, it has been determined.
Similar to Weihui Mansion, the three-house system plus the contract system.
Then the next step is taxes and spending.
This is not only about Guo Dan's profits, but also about the livelihood of the people.
This tax is actually the economy, and without the economy there is no tax.
Guo Dan did not plan to engage in large-scale production in Ningxia, first of all, the population here is not very large, and there is not enough labor; secondly, the raw materials are also insufficient; Finally, this is a border city, and security is also a hidden danger.
He intends to thrive in the service industry here.
For example, financial services, transportation services, sales services, and education services.
Among them, financial services are the most important.
It sounds a little incredible, after all, Ningxia's economy is far less developed than Jiangnan, but Ningxia is a border town, and Guo Dan takes a fancy to his special position.
Although silver is the main currency of both Tatar and Ming, the problem is that both sides are relatively scarce, and everyone wants to earn silver, but they don't want to spend it.
In many cases, bartering is a result.
As we all know, once there is a lack of money, the volume of trade will definitely not go up.
Therefore, Yinuoya Bank will launch a financial product called a bill of exchange, but this bill of exchange is not related to the exchange rate, because everyone uses silver, so there is no exchange rate, the bill of exchange is a credit currency, a guarantee currency.
Don't you all want money?
Yes.
I will give you a guarantee for two pieces of silver.
In the bill of exchange contract, the first clause is to ensure that the bill of exchange can be exchanged for silver taels from the bank.
However, if silver must be used to exchange bills of exchange, it is actually just for convenience, which means that merchants are still using silver taels to buy goods.
Therefore, Guo Dan stipulated that whether it was a Tatar merchant or a merchant of the Ming Dynasty, he could use oil, grain, livestock, and other necessary materials needed by the army to exchange a bill of exchange from a Nuoya Bank, which could buy any commodity in Ningxia, and when you left, you could exchange it for silver taels from a Nuoya Bank.
Because of the scarcity of silver, this will inevitably prompt the merchants to transport more grain and livestock here and exchange them for bills of exchange, so that Guo Dan can use this to ensure the logistics of the military.
Because in the past, the imperial court gave support, whether it was livestock or grain, but now the imperial court will definitely not support Ningxia, and he must find a way to attract everyone to transport the grain over.
Of course, this is just the beginning, and once the bill of exchange is successful, it can lead to the development of more financial services.
This is different from the financial system that Guo Dan will build in the southwest, Guo Dan in the southwest region, just intends to promote credit currency, that is, paper money, to promote the prosperity of the local economy, and Ningxia, because it is a border town, there is a lot of trade, so Guo Dan intends to build this place into a financial service town.
The number of people employed in finance itself is very limited, and even Ningxia can't recruit a few people, so it has to send people from Weihui Mansion, but finance can promote economic activities, and economic activities are bound to promote employment.
For example, if the volume of trade increases, then transport services will inevitably rise, which can solve many employment problems.
In fact, Guo Dan originally planned to put this system in Tianjin Wei, here he is just a small test, after all, the amount of trade with Tatar is limited, no matter what he thinks, in short, the era of the mainland is gone, and the ocean age is coming.
Then as long as the economy is active, the contract will be paid more.
In addition to tax revenue, there is also expenditure.
The three courtyards didn't cost much, and the border towns were mainly spent on the army.
Guo Dan has promulgated a military service system.
Whether you are a child of a poor family or a child of a rich family, as soon as you reach the age of sixteen, you must enlist in the army for one year, and the number of people rotated each year is 2,000.
Because Dong Yiyuan's side finally determined that there was a standing army of 5,000 people, which was 1,000 less than the number given by Guo Dan, in fact, it was only 3,000 people, and these 3,000 people were mainly cavalry, all of them were the elite of Ningxia, plus 2,000 service recruits, and this recruit was mainly firearms.
The reason why Dong Yiyuan gave such a low number was mainly because Guo Dan promised to provide Ningxia with a large number of artillery, which could reduce many defensive forces, and only one mobile force needed to be retained to deal with sudden wars.
And this service not only includes food and housing, but also a small salary, and also includes education.
This is actually a good experience, and after coming out, it is easier to find a job than ordinary people, and it is very attractive to the people.
At the same time, Guo Dan cut the rest of the army's business.
There is not even a ranch for horses, and the horses of the army are also raised in other people's pastures, because Guo Dan contracts out all the pastures and farmland, and the price is that you do something for the army.
In this way, even if the cost of firearms and ammunition is added, the cost of feeding the army in Ningxia has been directly reduced to one-twentieth of the previous one.
This number is very exaggerated.
But that's just the way it is.
In the past, the expenditure was high, because the cost of transporting grain and salt was too high, there were all kinds of corruption, and there were a large number of empty salaries in Ningxia, resulting in the high salaries of the military.
Now it is only necessary to support 3,500 men, and although it is a standing army of 5,000 men, the cost of serving 2,000 men is only a quarter of that of the 3,000 soldiers, and it is only 3,500 when it is calculated.
Ningxia's own grain, combined with the livestock trade, was enough to feed the local army.
This results in an instantaneous reduction in costs.
Without financial pressure, everyone is relaxed, not just Guo Dan.
First of all, labor naturally does not exist, cleaning, maintenance of public facilities, that is the responsibility of Yinuo Yaxing, and the people do not have to worry about the government chasing them every day to ask for money, it is nothing more than a military service, military service and money to earn, but also to learn to read and count.
Beautiful! sweet potato
As for saying that once there is a war, everyone must take up arms to fight, which everyone is willing, after all, this is to protect their homeland, and no one likes to be slaughtered every day.
With the promulgation of these systems, Ningxia immediately began its own counterattack.
Of course, all the credit for this at the beginning was Guo Dan's, because the war here had just been calmed down, so there were relatively few caravans, and the jobs were not provided by Guo Dan, and they also had a close relationship with Guo Dan.
When there is more employment and less pressure, consumption will naturally increase, the economy will be more active, and then it will enter a virtuous circle.
Especially compared to the surrounding cities that have also been ravaged by war, those cities are still falling, not to mention recovering, they must wait for the appropriation of the imperial court, which has to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, a large number of people migrated to Ningxia.
And Guo Dan also spent the last money of this expedition.
It is a bill of exchange worth 200,000 taels.
The Ningxia side will jointly send troops with the Tumut Ministry to expel the Tuman and Huoluochi forces near Ningxia to ensure that the trade between the two sides will not be harassed, but the main force will be sent by the Tumut Ministry, and Guo Dan will provide some artillery support in addition to paying a military fee of 200,000 taels.
Tu Wenxiu served as the commander of the troops.
However, what Guo Dan did not expect was that the Ningxia Rebellion was closely related to the Western Xia War.
Originally, Yang Yinglong had already planned to resign and truce, after all, he did not rebel, so it could not be said that he surrendered, it was precisely because of the sudden chaos in Ningxia that they felt that there was still a chance to turn defeat into victory, so he mobilized everyone to strengthen the sea dragon hoard, and moved all the grain into the sea dragon hoard, but he also missed the last opportunity.
After months of hard fighting, the Ming army from all walks of life finally assembled in the sea dragon hoard, surrounded the sea dragon hoard, and bombarded it day and night.
Boom Boom!
Outside, the sound of cannons shook the sky, and inside the big tent was also deafening.
"What a shame!"
Li Rusong pounded the table and roared: "Over there, Guo Dandu has already pacified the Ningxia Rebellion, and our side has not ended the war, if this spreads, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth, what soldiers do we bring, take children to play games." ”
You just know it, why say it. Ye Mengxiong gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Guo Dan is really a god. ”
Li Rusong said unhappily: "He is a man of God, are we stupid?" ”
Ye Mengxiong said angrily: "If he is a god, we will not be stupid, if he is an ordinary person, then we are stupid." ”
Li Rusong thought about it, it seems to be such a truth.
At this time, you must praise Guo Dan, and if you don't praise Guo Dan, you are belittling yourself.
Wu Weizhong on the side laughed and said, "Although we are not as fast as Guo Dan, I don't think Yang Yinglong will last long." ”
Before these words fell, Ma Gui ran into the account, "Governor Ye, Yang Yinglong sent a message to express his willingness to send a letter to Shi, in order to support the imperial court to implement the three-chamber system in Banzhou. ”
Ye Mengxiong sneered: "It seems that Yang Yinglong's news is also very well-informed. ”
Needless to say, he also knew that Yang Yinglong must have known about the battle situation in Ningxia, but he had just received the news, so it can be seen that many people were reporting to Yang Yinglong.
Yang Yinglong has been able to persist until now, all because of the Ningxia Rebellion hanging for him, Banzhou is internal and external troubles, coupled with the artillery of the Ming army, the time and place are favorable, and defeat is a matter of time.
Surrender quickly, and be able to save one of your dog's lives.
Li Rusong snorted: "Who is besieged now, he said that he would surrender if he surrendered, but it is really unreasonable, if this is the case, there will be bandits everywhere to make trouble, and if they can fight, they will take advantage, and if they can't support the imperial court, it is really whimsical." ”
Wu Weizhong frowned and said: "But this is indeed a troublesome matter, after all, until now, we have only been ordered to send to encircle and suppress the bandits, Yang Yinglong is still an official of the imperial court, if we kill Yang Yinglong, it is not easy to explain to the imperial court!" ”
Ye Mengxiong said: "But if you don't kill him, who can guarantee that he won't make a comeback, after all, their Yang family has been entrenched in Banzhou for thousands of years." ”
Li Rusong and Wu Weizhong looked at Ye Mengxiong at the same time.
......
Three days later, the earth-shattering artillery fire finally stopped, and early this morning, Ye Mengxiong, Li Rusong, and Wu Weizhong led a large army to the city.
The gate of Hailongtun, which had been closed for a month, finally opened slowly.
I saw that Yang Yinglong, his son Yang Chaodong, and his younger brother Yang Zhaolong had already taken off their armor and walked out of the city gate with the handsome seal.
It's better to surrender than to surrender!
Ye Mengxiong, Li Rusong, and Wu Weizhong rode forward.
At this moment, I could only hear an angry roar from the side, "Dog thief, return my father's life." ”
"Dog thief, take your life!"
I saw Mao Shoujue, Zhang Xi and other five divisions and seven surnames, holding spears, and jumped forward on horseback.
Yang Yinglong was shocked.
But it was too late, and Mao Shoujue pierced him in the chest with a single shot.
Yang Yinglong immediately knelt on the ground, as the spear was drawn, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and he looked up at Ye Mengxiong who slowly stepped forward, "You... You promised not to kill me. ”
Ye Mengxiong said with an innocent face: "I didn't kill you!" ”
"Humble... Humble...! ”
Before he could speak, Yang Yinglong fell in a pool of blood, his eyes widened, he thought that he could escape this catastrophe, after all, Ye Mengxiong and they did not have the right to dispose of themselves, the key is that Ye Mengxiong said it very beautifully, and told him, we must send your family to the capital.
Yang Yinglong felt that he was very stable.
Because there are still people in the DPRK who support him, and it is also the people in the DPRK who asked him to surrender quickly, as long as he goes to the capital, he will be able to survive, after all, he did not rebel, and he also asked to send troops to Ningxia to quell the rebellion in advance.
But he never expected that Ye Mengxiong really promised that he would not kill him.
His son and brother were also beheaded.
In fact, the fate of the Yang family has long been doomed.
Because only in this way can the hereditary rule of the Banju Yang clan be completely ended.