The affairs of the volunteers on the Leizhou Peninsula could not be concealed from the officials in Yuezhou, but they could not do anything.

If it could, the prefect of Yuezhou would like to send troops to exterminate the anti-thieves of the volunteers, catch the anti-thief leader and cut off his head, and hang the head of the anti-thief leader on the city wall.

It is a pity that the civilian clique has died, abolished its martial arts, treated military households as pigs and dogs, and raised soldiers for a thousand days and used them for a while, or it can be said that if you want to use a good soldier for a while, you need long-term training.

Now that the military households have been abandoned for a long time, it is impossible to let them use force for a while to exterminate the anti-thieves.

The volunteers captured the Leizhou Peninsula, and the prefect without military strength could only knock out his teeth and swallow it, the key is that he didn't dare to play the affairs of the volunteers to the court.

Even if the imperial court is not necessarily useful, now that the new imperial court has been established in Nanjing, it is stubbornly defending the Yangtze River to confront Li Zicheng's army, and the imperial court in Guangdong cannot manage the affairs of Guangdong, and it is powerless.

The anti-thief affairs in eastern Guangdong Province can only be supported by the prefect.

In the face of the aggressiveness of the volunteers and the inability to encircle and suppress, the prefect could only Zhao'an against Zhangjiacheng again.

Chen Zijian is even the lord of a small city, compared to cities with a population of one million like Beiping and Nanjing, Zhangjiacheng can only be regarded as a small city.

Even so, Chen Zijian realized the power of power.

Under his orders, the volunteers launched a crazy operation on the Leizhou Peninsula, well, of course, it was not crazy killing, but a crazy plundering of the people to Zhangjiacheng.

In this way, the resources and population resources of Maoming County and the Leizhou Peninsula were forcibly concentrated.

According to preliminary statistics, the city centered on Zhangjiacheng has a population of more than 600,000.

In later generations, the population of any random coastal city exceeded one million, and now the population of seven or eight county towns is now concentrated to more than 600,000. It's a little.

However, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was between 1500 million and 200 million in later generations.

Moreover, with the Yangtze River as the boundary, the population in the north accounts for sixty percent or more of the population of the Ming Dynasty, and the population of such a wild place as Maoming County is even more touching.

In the surrounding areas of Maoming County, if Chen Zijian develops agriculture with peace of mind, he can completely feed these 600,000 people, and the degree of development in Maoming County in the past is far less than that of later generations, and if Chen Zijian organizes the people to develop farmland, it will not be a problem to feed millions of people.

Two weeks after Chen Zijian's order was issued, the entire Zhangjiacheng was mobilized with the Volunteer Army as the center, and a large amount of logistics ensured that the people were relocated without too many casualties.

Don't look at the people who began to migrate to find death and life, after eating a few meals from the volunteers, they all obediently followed, on the one hand, the volunteers guaranteed their safety, and had a better future in Zhangjiacheng, on the other hand, they were attracted by the food, after all, if the volunteers had any intentions for the people, they wanted to kill the people, do they need to give such good food!

There is no restriction on food, so that the people can rest assured.

Of course, the people will get benefits when they go to Zhangjiacheng, the world is fair, some people get benefits, then some people are unlucky.

The unlucky ones are naturally the landlords and gentry who have a lot of wealth in their families, and they belong to the category of those who have been raided.

Chen Zijian thought about giving those strata a way, after all, they are all Chinese, there is no need to kill too much, but those strata have too much wealth, because there is no protection of the government, the landlords, the gentry class has the wealth of children holding gold ingots.

How could it not be tempting to let Chen Zijian's heart move, you must know that his identity is a thief, and those poor people are certainly not worth his robbery, so he has to take the knife to the class that has a lot of wealth.

There is always an object for the Volunteers as a target, otherwise what would Chen Zijian say to give the Volunteers a chance to be promoted and make a fortune!

It's okay to be promoted, but to get rich, you need to rob the object, otherwise Chen Zijian will have what to feed the 100,000 volunteers.

The minimum monthly expenditure of the volunteers is more than 500,000 silver coins, which is calculated according to the lowest position of the volunteers.

As for saying that it is unfair to the landlords and the gentry class, then there is nothing to say, Chen Zijian is a thief, his fist is big, he has the final say, and it is useless for the object of the robbery to disobey.

Unless the landlords are willing to take the initiative to give up all their wealth and go to Zhangjiacheng to do honest work, if they can earn more wealth in Zhangjiacheng empty-handed than before, Chen Zijian will not say anything, and he will not attack them.

But no such thing is that person is willing to let go of the wealth accumulated over generations, and that can only wait for the volunteers to come to the door to chat.

Chen Zijian didn't dare to guarantee anything else, but under Zhangjiacheng's rule, everyone would get a fair result, and that was to pay taxes.

The people can have as much land as they want, there is no problem, but they must pay taxes according to the size of the land, and no one has any privileges, even if the land obtained by the volunteers still needs to be paid according to the security regulations.

Otherwise, there is a loophole that is different from paying taxes, and with the cleverness of the Chinese people, in the end the loophole becomes a nest of embankment ants.

The Ming Dynasty was because of the merchants, and the scholar class did not have to pay taxes, which became the main reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

After noon, Chen Zijian took a family of women to the warehouse in Zhangjiacheng, accompanied by the families of Li Shi, Li Hu, Zhang Youde, and Zhang Sanyi.

The reason for coming to the warehouse is very simple, that is, to divide the money, uh, say that it is okay to share the spoils.

The two-week raid on the Leizhou Peninsula not only "invited" more than 300,000 people, but also a lot of wealth.

Don't look at the Leizhou Peninsula in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to a wild land, but here, a large number of sea treasures are produced.

What treasures?

Have you ever seen a one-meter-tall red coral, have you ever seen a pearl the size of a pigeon's egg, this is not a pearl cultured in later generations, but a super pearl in the South China Sea.

Since the Qin Dynasty, the Leizhou Peninsula has been the main source of pearls

In the twelfth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1499), Zhu Yiyou, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict to collect 8,000 ships from Leizhou, Qiongzhou, Lianzhou, etc., and collected 8,000 people for large-scale pearl diving.

Here on the Leizhou Peninsula, I dare not say anything else, but when it comes to pearls, they were calculated according to the box at that time.

In addition to pearls, all kinds of coral treasures, and processed jewelry, this harvest is not too much.

Chen Zijian brought everyone over, and naturally selected the treasures of his habits.

Konishi is the most active, and he laughs the happiest among the sisters all the way.

"Sister, I heard from my husband that there are a lot of pearls, do you think it's good for me to take a few as earrings."

Chen Zijian came back yesterday with a few blue pearls the size of pigeon eggs, and when he showed them to a group of women, he attracted the eyes of all the women.

The luster and roundness exuded from the surface of the blue pearl fascinated even the youngest little Qiao sisters when they saw the pearl for the first time. Women are sensual and cannot resist gemstones such as jewelry.

The pearls that Chen Zijian took back to play with naturally belonged to the top of the pearls, but he didn't feel anything about this thing, just used it to play, but he didn't expect a few women in the family to like it so much, so they had today's trip.

And in order to envelop his subordinates, he took several army commanders who went out of the door, Zhang Youde and other high-level women and daughters of Zhangjiacheng to the warehouse to select jewelry.

Don't think that this is extravagant, if the high-level officials of Zhangjiacheng are reluctant to wear these jewelry, then it is needless to say that the people.

Chen Zijian and his entourage will select a small part of the jewelry at most, and the rest of the jewelry will open a store to sell the jewelry to the people, with the high-level woman in Zhangjiacheng as an example, Chen Zijian can recover a large amount of silver coins through jewelry.

The current people of Zhangjiacheng can be said to be very rich, and Chen Zijian will naturally not rob it, so there will be no problem through this method.

The people were given jewels, and he collected the silver coins.

Others Chen Zijian didn't know that the first Zhang Laosi to do things for him, the former hunter in Zhangjia Village, if he hadn't earned more than 3,000 silver coins in the past half a year, Zhang Laosi had his surname.

That guy first fished in the river not far from Zhangjiacheng, and then bought a few days of modified Fu boats to go out to sea to fish, and some time ago I heard that soap production technology was purchased.

When the time comes, from grease to soap, an industry will make money, and it will not be a problem to make money every day. Of course, the more he earns, the more ruthless Chen Zijian's taxes are.

Chen Zijian made money through the fishing industry, and collected 70% of the tax.

With such a high amount of taxes, the fishing industry represented by Zhang Laosi still makes money at an astonishing rate.

Don't compare the fishing industry of the Ming Dynasty with the offshore fishing industry of later generations, the current fishing industry, as long as there are tools, you can catch 10,000 catties of fish for one or two hundred meters out of the sea, and the fishermen of later generations are crazy because of the abundance of fishery resources.

It can be said that the fishing industry is the first group of people in Zhangjiacheng to become rich, and if they are not levied high taxes, who will be charged?

Under the protection of the guards, the group went to the Zhangjiacheng warehouse.

The warehouses are divided into two main categories, one for the type of canned food and one for the type of gold, silver valuables.

Compared to the warehouse where canned food is stored, the warehouse for storing valuables is heavily guarded, guarded by 500 specially selected volunteers, and there are five police patrols set up outside, so if there is an alarm here, more than 2,000 police officers can be gathered at any time for protection.

The volunteers inside are equipped with the most advanced shotguns, and the shotguns run away, unless the six legions outside are completely broken, it is possible to forcibly occupy this place, and loot the gold, silver, jewelry and valuables inside.

Otherwise, even if there are thousands of thieves coming, don't want to take a gold coin.

On weekdays, the silver coins transferred here need to pass through layers of inspection before they can be passed.

There is a group of people led by Chen Zijian, so naturally they don't need to check anything, and they go directly into it.

An old man was already waiting at the door, and when he saw Chen Zijian coming, he hurriedly went over.

"Chief, I've got something ready, waiting for you to come and check it."

The old man's name is Zhang Qiu, who used to work as a bookkeeper in a shop in Maoming County, and now he is the person in charge of Chen Zijian's valuables warehouse.

Let Zhang Qiu be the person in charge, in addition to the reputation of this old man for so many years, the most important thing is that Chen Zijian does not have many capable people, so let the old man Zhang manage it first.

Chen Zijian is not afraid that Zhang Qiu will embezzle one of his silver coins, if something goes wrong, Chen Zijian will settle accounts with the old man Zhang's family, and the old man Zhang will work in Zhangjiacheng as a family, and the future is bright, and there is no need to ruin the future of the younger generations for a little thing. Otherwise, he would be a sinner in his family.

According to Chen Zijian's instructions, Zhang Qiu asked the volunteers to put all kinds of valuables on the table and wait for Chen Zijian to come.

Valuables are placed on fifty tables, each with a different item.

Chen Zijian's group of people followed, they had stopped talking, and followed quietly, except for less than ten people here, all of them entered here for the first time.

Don't talk about coming in here on weekdays, you have to be interrogated if you are close to a hundred meters, and slowly this has become a forbidden place in Zhangjiacheng, many people know that silver coins go out from here, but no one dares to come and peep.

Chen Zijian has already seen the things in front, as long as he is willing, no one will say anything about all these things when they are moved to the No. 1 courtyard, because this is the rule of this era.

Not long ago, Li Zicheng broke through Beiping and looted more than 40 million taels of silver from the royal family, nobles, and officials, how much of it was distributed to the soldiers below? They all belong to Li Zicheng!

Chen Zijian just took a small part of it, and sold the rest to raise silver coins, but it was different, of course, the effect of this was very good, the volunteers knew Chen Zijian's approach, that one didn't admire, as for taking a little to the harem woman, this is a thing? I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~