Section XX

With the advancement of the work schedule, the spring ploughing work was carried out step by step in an orderly manner, because the number of displaced people who needed to be resettled was too terrible, this huge workload was obviously oppressed by the Han military government, and the administrative framework of the hastily structured structure at first was simply a little shaky in the impact of this work, it can be said that in order to do a good job in this project, Li Guangdi sent almost all his subordinates, whether they were officials, masters or other officials, so that for a period of time he became the commander of the light pole in Beijing.

At this time, a very special institution unexpectedly stepped onto the stage of history. When the Han government was tired and about to fall apart, the "Han Commercial Tax Law Revision Committee" appeared, obviously, this organization is a bit like a clear proof of the collusion between Lin Feng and illegal traders, in thousands of years to "agriculture and mulberry-based" China is particularly eye-catching, if it is placed in ordinary times its birth will be strongly condemned by Shilin, but at this moment of crisis, most people have temporarily suppressed the academic righteousness, because it has played a huge role in this spring ploughing.

Under the instruction of Lin Feng, the general leader of the Jinhui Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Xu Danyang called on all colleagues of the Chamber of Commerce to launch a charity campaign of "relief of people's livelihood", but this activity is a bit like the later "agricultural cooperatives" or "mutual aid groups" or something from Lin Feng's point of view, but of course there is still a big difference, and the comprehensive measures are probably like this, first of all, the Jin merchant ticket number moved out of the silver, and the Hui merchant grocery merchants bought a large number of artichoke and golden potato seeds, Then he purchased tens of thousands of horses, mules and the like from the Han military government, and finally issued these materials to the displaced people in the form of low-interest loans, and agreed to pay them in installments within a number of years - because the Han military government adopted the management method of the clan patriarch responsibility system for the displaced people, so the Jin merchants signed contracts with the patriarchs of each surname when they made this investment, and when this batch of materials was implemented in the specific production process, there was such a situation: in addition to seeds, These tools and livestock of course became the common property of a clan, which was shared by several peasant households, and when the crops were harvested, the elders of the clan were responsible for repaying them to each family.

In this production process, Lin Feng's Han government can be said to be basically unable to intervene - in fact, whether it is a farmer or a businessman, they absolutely do not want those bureaucrats to reach out to this, because as long as people with a little business vision, they can see gold in this transaction, and Lin Feng Dashuai of course responded to this request in response to the people's request, and issued a strict order not to interfere with the contract between merchants and farmers, but there is one exception: Lin Dashuai strictly stipulates that the interest on this loan shall not exceed 15 percent. If there is a violation, the minor case will be jointly sanctioned by the chamber of commerce and expelled from the business community, and the worst will be copied and beheaded for "treason".

Of course, this financial policy made many businessmen dissatisfied, in fact, these businessmen were ready to do this according to the old habit - in the thousand-year-old tradition, it is a natural thing for usury merchants and government yamen to unite to exploit the peasants, but Lin Feng Dashuai does not seem to intend to take this stubble, in short, the attitude is surprisingly tough, so that the businessmen bribed many Han army officials and failed to do so, and later this incident caused a little gossip news in the society, However, in the end, it was very terrible to turn to the private life of Lin Feng - after these businessmen hit the wall with the important ministers of the Han army, they spent a lot of silver to bribe the housekeepers, personal soldiers and even servant mothers of the marshal's mansion, hoping that they could blow the wind to the marshal and be considerate of the "people's suffering", the result can be imagined, of course, these people have no opportunity to discuss national affairs with Lin Shuai, so basically the money is thrown into the water, so these businessmen are angry and accuse the marshal of not marrying his wife and concubine's bad habits, in their opinion, if the handsome man has one or two confidantes who can blow the pillow wind, then this matter should also be negotiable.

Because Lin Dashuai's attitude is too tough, this seventeenth-century financial or futures trading in the toss and turn gradually came to an end, although the Jin merchants have a great influence on the Chinese market, but in this matter has not been able to turn the table, of course, there are many reasons, in addition to the Jin merchants but resolutely implement the Lin Feng policy of the Chamber of Commerce President Xu Danyang used his own qualifications and prestige to exert influence, the lack of support from other businessmen is also an important reason, because as far as the current situation is concerned, The industrial and commercial policy of the Han army can be described as unprecedentedly beautiful and splendid, and the merchants and factory owners have no reason to oppose the marshal for this unauthentic matter, so the more and more desperate Jin merchants have to end up in the end, because in any case, for merchants, business always has to be done, even if the interest rate is low, but as long as there is a profit, it is worth doing.

The momentum of industrial and commercial development in the Han Army's territory was surprisingly violent, and after reading the reports of Xu Danyang and Li Guangdi of the Chamber of Commerce, Lin Feng was really a little incredulous. Because in his own opinion, he really did not invest too much energy in the field of industry and commerce, and the policies promulgated were simply not on the same page as he understood the "development of the economy", so far, the Han military government has never engaged in any "investment promotion" and other transactions, if it is said to protect industry and commerce, it is only to regulate its own government behavior, absolutely prohibit the bureaucratic administrative system from doing evil to industry and commerce, in addition, it is to order the local government officials and garrisons to issue "orders to protect business". Order all the armed forces of the Han army group to provide security guarantees to merchants registered with the Han military government.

And Lin Feng himself in addition to supporting an arms and steel enterprise, also did not engage in any "five-year plan, spark mission" and the like - this is Lin Feng often complacent one of the advantages, coming to this era for so long, the career can also be called a prosperous water, and now he is a leader, but he is not self-inflated - this is a common problem of almost all leaders, the so-called a person can not be too successful, if too successful then will be too confident, too confident will inevitably mess around, There are too many bosses in history who have ruined their reputations because of this, such as what agricultural Dazhai or bouncing forward is proof. In Lin Feng's view, engaging in production, doing business and even developing the economy is a very, very professional activity, and it is obvious that he himself does lack the talent in this area, so why not let go of these professionals to do it?

In fact, this theory is not Lin Feng's originality, although the homework was not good, but some of the general trends are still remembered, in fact, in Lin Feng's impression, at the moment of the budding of capital is the period when the free economy is in vogue, so as long as his Han military government does not cross the line, let these industrial and commercial owners toss, the most important role of the government in this era is to act as a thug, such as a businessman who oppresses the Han army in a certain place or refuses to open the market, etc., If this kind of phenomenon is very serious, Lin Feng will of course have to drag the cannon and run it over.

Of course, in addition to these relaxed policy environments, the Han Army's recent government procurement plan has injected a shot in the arm for the development of local industry and commerce, and during this time, the young staff officers of the Han Army's General Staff Department visited the army up and down, referred to the opinions of the veteran generals in the army, and worked out a new set of equipment plans in accordance with the instructions of Marshal Lin Feng. In this new armament plan, the equipment of the soldiers and officers of the Han army has been qualitatively improved, in addition to weapons and equipment, many other baggage or daily necessities have also been greatly improved, for example, according to the new regulations, in addition to weapons, a Han soldier must also be issued military uniforms, military shoes, armed belts, leggings, reed mats, gunpowder bags, drinking gourds, etc., covering all aspects of life. Gold sore medicine and other medicines to treat epidemic diseases.

In the past, this kind of activity was not a kind of "business" for merchants, because in these war-torn years. The imperial court is basically done in the way of "robbery", and if you do not cooperate with this kind of banditry, you have to be killed in the name of "traitor", but under the new economic framework of the Han military government, these acts must be completed in accordance with normal business channels, of course, when the procurement was first started, the officials of the Han army also planned to do it according to the old way, but this conspiracy was quickly stabbed by the "Han Commercial Tax Law Revision Committee", and several officials who tried to cause the accident were immediately killed by the supreme leader as quickly as possible. As a result, this incident served as a warning in the officialdom of the Han military government, and these officials had to pinch their noses and sit down with businessmen to negotiate on an equal footing.

The final direct effect of this policy is that all kinds of handicraft workshops in Zhili have sprung up everywhere, and this prosperous scene is simply amazing to the old people, and always reminds Lin Feng of the myth of Shenzhen, because at this time the Zhili generation is also everywhere a certain "wealth phenomenon", and even spread to Lin Feng's ears, the more impressive is the story of a certain Baoding person, this person was originally a poor cuo big in Baiyangdian duck and fishing, Later, because the Han army purchased a large number of reed mats and military baggage baskets, this person took the lead in organizing the township party to engage in the weaving industry, and made a lot of money this winter, and finally became a huge rich man with a net worth of 2,000 taels of silver.

Although Marshal Lin Feng is so businessmen, several traditional Confucian ministers of the Han army, such as Li Guangdi, Chen Menglei, Tang Bin, etc., have turned their faces and pretended not to see it, this phenomenon is not accidental, because now everyone in the Han military government knows about the "secret deals" between the marshal and these merchants.

As we all know, the power of the Han army has swelled very much, and both the army and the government administration are expanding day by day, but the financial situation has been very bad, and the deficit phenomenon is very serious, and this problem cannot be solved at all at present. One is because it is not yet the harvest season, and the agricultural tax cannot be collected at the moment, and the new industrial and commercial policy is not high, so it is difficult for Li Guangdi to get home during this time, except for the crazy stretching out his hand towards the **, he really can't think of any tricks for a while, but even so, the tax revenue obtained is also very limited, it can be said that the Han army has been eating Kangxi's old book now.

At this time, the omnipotent Lin Dashuai certainly made another strange move.

In this long winter, Shi Lang and ** Sheng, who were stuck in the port of Tianjin, faced the face-to-face competition, and went crazy to the shipbuilders - although both of them knew that this was the conspiracy of the handsome, and this simple agitation method was even more inhibitable, but neither of the two people was willing to give in, and the reason was simple: if you let the "thing" on the opposite side be your boss and give orders to yourself vividly, it is really better to hit your head and die.

Of course, the emergence of this phenomenon has played a very good effect in terms of efficiency, and in this naval investment, the Han army has indeed really done the elimination of corruption, and the two admirals were surprisingly stingy at this time, in addition to pinching the weight of every penny of funds, they were also very fanatical to smash their own military salaries into it, so the shipbuilders of the port of Tianjin fell into great luck, because the two generals brought in the covers, and stared at them to build ships - of course, no one could expect a general to have a good temper.

In addition to these benefits, the negative effects of this phenomenon are also very huge, and many disputes often get into trouble where Lin Feng is, which makes Dashuai also have a headache. Because of the contradictions between the generals, the sailors of the two fleets naturally will not give each other a good look, at this time, the establishment of the navy is relatively small, and all the people who can be selected by Shi Lang and **Sheng are the ones who can be brought by themselves, so the officers and soldiers are also very intimate with each other. So when the sailors of the First Fleet go to the teahouse to drink tea, the sailors of the Second Fleet must choose to leave and go to the tavern to drink, in short, there will definitely be no unity, party and other phenomena here, and even walking on the road Both sides are angry, Rao is so, fights and brawls are still indispensable, but for the sake of wearing the same kind of military uniform, everyone is embarrassed to dance knives and guns, so smashing bricks and knocking sticks has naturally become a traditional project, so although there are no dead people, broken arms and legs are always indispensable, Moreover, this kind of vicious public order incident also brought great trouble to the Tianjin magistrates of the Han military government, because every time after smashing the tavern and teahouse, the parents always went out to wipe the butts of the military masters.

Under the desperate supervision, ** Sheng and Shi Lang even made and bought, and finally each had a few sea boats, and the two of them also showed a worse temper than the army generals in terms of weapons and equipment.

When the winter had passed, the two small fleets were basically armed, and the "economic plan" of the commander began to be implemented.

After Lin Feng put forward this plan, after the secret discussion of several important ministers, the comprehensive opinions are a bit contradictory, in general, the advantage is that the feasibility is high, the turnover is fast, and the input cost is not large, but the consensus is that the commander is required to act secretly, and it is best to pretend that we did not do it. It is said that several ministers attending the meeting were full of shame at the time, but Lin Feng was the only one who shamelessly enlightened one by one: What do you say In the comparison of historical events, in terms of character, we are not as good as the sages, but we are definitely better than Cao Cao.

In fact, Xu Danyang, the president of this plan chamber of commerce, already knew about it, and began to make various preparations a long time ago, so after Lin Feng informed the important ministers, an inconspicuous small caravan entered the port of Tianjin under the protection of Lin Feng's elite guards, and then the two generals Shi and Yang immediately tacitly loaded the ship, Lin Feng did a fairly fair account in this matter, at least in terms of the value of the goods, there will definitely be no bias towards anyone, for example, if Shi Lang's fleet escorted a Wu Daozi's "Heavenly King Sending a Son", then** The living fleet definitely has a thin gold post of Song Huizong or a "Hundred Birds and a Phoenix", in short, the marshal is absolutely fair and just, and will definitely not be biased to that side.

Of course, it is naturally impossible for Sheng and Shi Lang to get direct profits from this batch of goods, although the order issued by Lin Feng is to let them expand on their own, but in any case, they are still the armed forces of the Han government, not robbers or mercenaries, and this activity is also a military order for them rather than a transaction, the reason why they value the value of the goods, in addition to the fear that the other party will gain an impression in the heart of the marshal, is also because of the promise of the merchant - this is human nature, if the goods are very valuable, the merchant is very nervous, Then they will give some benefits to the escort fleet, and these benefits are also within the scope of Lin Feng's permission.

In fact, at the beginning of the Han army, Zhili, Gyeonggi and even other places broke out a large-scale economic panic because of the severance of Caoyun, in the end, the Ming and Qing dynasties for so many years Beijing relied on Caoyun to eat, and now Caoyun is cut off like the end of the world. Therefore, the financial situation in the Han army's territory fell from the silver standard to the grain standard in one day, which dealt a heavy blow to Li Guangdi's government, and except for a few cities, the people in the vast rural areas refused to use silver or copper coins, and regarded millet, corn and other grains as hard currency, and in such a situation, the government almost completely lost its ability to intervene in the economy, at least in the administrative means were ineffective. At this critical moment, the Chamber of Commerce stepped in to immediately reverse this difficult situation, and in terms of logistical means, the efficiency of the merchants was truly a shame for any government agency.

In addition, the loan campaign launched by the Chamber of Commerce during this period for displaced people has also greatly alleviated the dilemma of the Lee Kong Di government, and these things have been one of the dirtiest and most difficult projects in the officialdom before, because in terms of the greedy and shameless nature of the bureaucracy, it is undoubtedly a rather helpless thing to force a tiger to relieve a rabbit, and no matter how abundant the funds and materials, the officials have the ability to eat them away in the allocation layer by layer. But the merchants can alleviate this to a great extent, and although these loan sharks are full of shit, it is still much more beneficial for the peasants than the relief of government officials. After handing over this kind of work, the Lee Guangdi government will be able to concentrate its efforts on village organization, administrative control, and many other public projects related to water conservancy, land planning, and negotiation with local indigenous peoples, which is also very beneficial to the rational use of administrative resources.

After the observation of this incident, those important ministers of the Han army also began to doubt the traditional policies of the past, because as far as the current situation is concerned, the set of scriptures and national arts handed down by the sages seems to be a little breathless, watching the big marshal and the businessmen play around, whether it is Li Guangdi or Tang Bin Chen Menglei, they still secretly feel very faceless - what is this called? For thousands of years, our China has ruled the world with kings and scholars, but who has ever heard of "ruling the world with businessmen"?!

Out of doubts and reflections on this kind of social reality, in the spring of 1685, a few unknown madmen in Beijing set up a thing called the "Industrial and Commercial Poetry Society" in a dirty and smelly inn, which was neither a political party nor an academic institution, and this "Industrial and Commercial Poetry Society" with only a few members finally dispersed after 20 days due to economic reasons, and all its works were only a dozen or so long poems in seven rhymes on current affairs. However, in the following hundreds of years, all Chinese remembered this brief historical moment because of history textbooks.

Lin Feng is actually not unaware of the turbulent undercurrent, but at this time he is also powerless, because Qingliu has mastered China's public opinion for thousands of years, and no one has the ability to change it for a while, and at this time, because it is in troubled times, all the princes have their own strange tricks in order to dominate the world, and it is not for nothing that Lin Feng has played more outrageously, so the Shilin people did not feel very strange about this mercantile policy, although a few ultra-conservatives were very dissatisfied, but as far as the entire Shilin was concerned, more people were holding a look of surprise, scrutiny, Looking at this matter with a playful attitude, the local Confucian scholars in Zhili were very understanding because they were personally affected by the economic panic, and at this time they had already recognized the rule of the Han military government in their hearts, so when they passed on this situation, it was obviously untrue, and this political situation had already gone through a Confucian interpretation when it fell into the ears of Confucian scholars in other places: they linked Lin Dashuai's desperate efforts to save millions of Li people with the conditions of "forced" acceptance of merchants, through unilateral imagination, Of course, this businessman is taking advantage of Lin Dashuai's weakness of loving the people like a son to defraud in every way, and in the end, although Lin Dashuai has gone through some struggle, but for the sake of this million displaced people, he also had to temporarily succumb to the obscenity of the businessman, so there is today's era - for the choice of the handsome, the Confucian scholars expressed a certain tolerance and understanding, because this regulation can quote the sage's quotation "Uncle Sister-in-law Comes to the Rescue", the so-called urgent follower, that is to say, Lin Feng Dashuai basically did not deviate from the big framework in terms of governance.

Several important government officials were silent about the letters of some friends, especially Li Guangdi, because there was a phenomenon of merchants exercising traditional government functions on behalf of merchants in the places under his management, and he received a lot of criticism during this time, and many of them were still in the same year as officials in the Qing court, as the leaders of this era, of course, these people were not easy to deal with, and most of them saw through the subversive danger in this—this danger had nothing to do with which regime they were loyal to, for those who had been deeply influenced by Confucianism since childhood, which is far more terrible than a change of dynasty.

However, Li Guangdi can't answer this question at the moment, because at this time his government is counting the money - Lin Feng's reselling of treasures has received strong support from the merchants, and in order to show their loyalty to the marshal, a batch of Jin merchant ticket numbers represented by Xu Danyang are discounted even before the goods are shipped out - of course Lin Feng can't ask the merchants to give money unconditionally, because this is still a business in the end, and for these senior businessmen, although this transaction is not small in profit, but the risk is really very large, And they are willing to take the initiative to stand up and let Lin Feng calmly pass on the risk, which is already the limit of the businessmen's support.

The amount of this amount of money was so huge that the Shanxi ticket number, which had always been known for its strength, was unable to pay the cash for a while, but turned to its own silver ticket to deliver the accounts, which in addition to their allegiance to Lin Feng, another reason was that the merchants were very optimistic about the direction of this batch of goods.

In principle, this batch of goods was transported directly from the sea to the south of the Yangtze River, but it was not excluded that a small amount of land smuggling would be carried out by the guild using the network set up by its semicolon to carry out secret sales. Jiangnan is rich in goods and fashionable, so there are many rich and vassal elegant people, so the market potential of antiques is great, according to the winter business examples, a former Ming Tang Bohu's "spring tree and autumn fragrance map" was sold in Zhejiang for a full 120,000 taels of silver, here is still a secret sale hastily shot, it is said that buyers from other places who heard the news are even willing to make a higher acquisition, only this business, Xu Danyang earned 40,000 yuan - the price that Lin Feng handed over to him to operate is 80,000 silver, so other Jin merchants are all red, As soon as the business opportunity opened up, it immediately flocked to it.

This kind of business requires strong operational skills, also requires very deep interpersonal relationships, and needs to follow traditional business principles, so Lin Feng simply entrusted everything to the reputable Jin Shang ticket number, which is a very real way to play, because only these experts who are accustomed to opening silver pawnshops can squeeze the maximum value, such as how a piece of goods can cause a sensation, and how many pieces to be sold in a certain province within a certain period of time, if how much is sold, it will cause the price to fall, etc., this is the work that experts can do. So it can only be left to the experts.

Because of the destruction of countless princes and nobles, and the dismantling of the Forbidden City by the way, so Lin Feng's supply is quite sufficient, although Lin Feng's subordinates looted when he first marched into Beijing, but fortunately, the loss of these precious antiques is not very large, because those soldiers don't know what these fluttering pieces of paper, these tattered jade pendants and silver have to do with it, so Lin Feng organized the powerful personnel to collect them with all their might, and the treasures obtained were fully packed in two warehouses. In addition to rewarding a few civil officials under his command, the rest of these treasures are ready to be turned into food, muskets, cannons, and even war horses.

According to the market rules of the antique industry, if all these things are sold, even if the Jin merchants sell them at full power, they will have to sell them for at least ten years, and how much profit can be obtained in them is an astronomical figure, and aside from the long-term profits, just in terms of the current situation, the financial situation of the Han military government has also been greatly improved.

When the two small fleets of Tianjin Port sailed into the Bohai Sea loaded with national treasures and longings, Lin Feng had already packed his bags and was ready to go on a business trip. Some time ago, the words passed on to the Liaodong Ma Da Pole and the Cao family brothers have been answered, these Liaodong heroes are really very happy, since the Han army Lin Dashuai is so kind, then if they show weakness, I am afraid that they will have to mix in the crotch of the woman's pants in the future, among which Ma Da Pole behaved more boldly, and I don't know whether he was stimulated by Lin Feng's words "whether there is a kind" or wanted to deliberately provoke, he took the initiative to propose to the Han army envoy to meet at the Shili Pavilion outside Shanhaiguan - this location is within the range of Wang Dahai's army's Hongyi cannon.

After General Zhou Peigong's request, Lin Feng issued an order, and the four thousand cavalry of the two brigades of the Xuanhua garrison were originally going straight to Liaodong, but this time they were recovered by the later order, and they were rerouted to the Fengtai camp in Beijing, and together with the 3,000 guards, they temporarily served as bodyguards to escort the marshal to Shanhaiguan for tripartite talks on the Liaodong issue.