Chapter 87: New Year's Planning and Prospects

Those friends who said 60,000,000 related topics, please take a closer look at the tone of the context. There is a saying about 60,000,000, which is from the famous fantasy overhead work Qing History, and it is used to spoof it below.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in the firecrackers of the sacrificial stove in the city, the courtyard of the general's mansion is also a festive and peaceful atmosphere, the maids and servants keep going in and out, a set of sterling silver tableware is placed on the dining table, the chairs embroidered with gold thread are draped on the chairs of rosewood and rosewood, the master of the kitchen, the red case, the white case, the chopping vegetables and cutting the meat and the dunky work, the person who is responsible for brushing the dishes and washing the dishes and the dry oil work, are busy with the work in their hands, preparing for the evening banquet.

In the back garden, on a surface of water, several waterfowl are enjoying the winter afternoon sun, and in the water not far from them, there are bursts of laughter in a pavilion.

"Brother Zong, that's the way it is decided, out of the New Year, I will ask Fu Bo, as the matchmaker of the man, to go to your house to pay the gift."

In the pavilion, Shouhan, Fubo, Li Peilin, Li Peiting brothers and other four people sat together, discussing the marriage of Shouhan and Xiuxiu.

In a blink of an eye, it has been a few years since the Li family brothers and sisters came to Shouhan, not to mention the changes of others, Xiuxiu has gradually grown from a childish little girl to a big girl with a breathtaking appearance. According to the Li family's brothers' idea, they wanted to marry their young sister to Li Shouhan, so that they could have a closer connection with Shouhan.

"If the six ceremonies such as Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Najib, asking for appointments, and welcoming are down one by one, it will be delayed for a long time! The lord has to involve energy, and Pei Lin is worried that it will affect the lord's northern expedition. "Although my heart is happy, as a subordinate of my subordinates, I still have to remind me that I can't abolish the public for personal reasons.

"Hey! Could it be that because of official business, Shouhan can't marry a daughter-in-law? Anyway! Let the results of the Northern Expedition and the happy event of welcoming relatives come to the door! "As Li Xiuxiu's father, Fu Bo, who is a veteran of the General's Mansion, has a lot to say.

"Well, if these procedures and etiquette are completed, I am afraid that it will not take half a year, that is, by then, it is estimated that the affairs of the north will be decided."

"Is it time to discuss the matchmaking between men and women?" Li Peiting deliberately asked a very mentally retarded question, trying to express his own savings.

The other three people in the pavilion didn't answer his topic, but Li Shouhan waved his hand to signal, and at the end of the long bridge connecting the pavilion and the land, the two brothers Mojin and Mo Yu immediately turned around and supervised the soldiers to disperse in all directions, and be on guard.

Seeing this, Li Peilin knew that when it was time to get down to business, he took the leather book on the chair next to him and took out a thick stack of documents from it. Li Peiting had to use chopsticks to stir the charcoal fire in the brazier, and occasionally fiddle with a few sweet potatoes on the side of the brazier.

"Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, according to the rules of the trading merchants, to start the inventory and checkout, we might as well use this half day today to calculate our belongings, so as to know how big things we can do."

When he said this, Shouhan also had a lot of emotion in his heart, from the forty-fifth year of Wanli to the fourth year of the Apocalypse, he experienced the three years of Wanli, Taichang and Tianqi, and seven years, in these seven years, Li Shouhan has grown from a weak crown boy who is precarious to a local overlord with tens of thousands of soldiers, thousands of miles of places, and millions of household registrations, and can compete with many cattle in this era.

"Lord, lord." Li Peilin looked at Shouhan and seemed to be a little out of the world, so he called in a low voice, "Isn't it too hard to work lately?" ”

Li Peilin's words are not sycophants, since entering Layue, Shouhan is using this period of winter leisure to recruit people, and go crazy to build roads and mine.

"We must complete the trunk road from Ha Tinh to Hue before the spring planting next year, complete the construction of some important roads in Tun Pu, from Hue to the Kowloon River, and the road to Pingba Port, but also complete the survey, alignment, treading and many other links, if there are conditions, it is also possible to complete the foundation and hardening of the road surface." This is Shouhan's speech in front of many tunpu chiefs.

But in this way, many security chiefs couldn't help frowning secretly.

Nearly 600 miles from Ha Tranh to Hue, there is also the Ling River in the middle, although the main road section is in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are also more than 300 li, to complete the ash road that can drive three carriages side by side, from Ha Tranh to Jiulong River, the land route is almost 3,000 li, if they are all built into ash roads, the cost is not cheap. In addition, a post station should be set up every 40 miles, and the Tunpu village near the main north-south road should also build a road connecting with the main road.

How much does it cost? It's a big head to think about.

"I calculated that the standard wage of the main road should be more than 100 taels of silver per mile, and this part of the cost has been unified by the General's Mansion. As for the food at the wages of the branches, according to the principle of distribution of four or six, the government paid sixty percent of the wages and silver, and the rest, such as artificial rations, was raised by each guarantee itself. Labor, in addition to the more than 10,000 people in Fengshun Lian, who is the shopkeeper of Ruanda, is the hundreds of thousands of people who are requisitioned and hired from Jiangnan, and they must complete this road this winter! ”

As a result, hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River began to work in the reclamation areas built by many people in Hejing, such as Long An, Xining, Xiaohe, Jiading, Binh Duong, Houyi, Dong Nai, An Jiang, Dong Ta, Vinh Ngang, Ben Tre, Can Tho, Chu Zhen, An Jiang, Jianjiang, Cha Vinh, and many other resettlement areas in Ha Tinh. However, it seems that such a move of wasting money and people also has an advantage, that is, the remnants of the former Ruan family who are wandering around the country, as well as those careerists with bad intentions, cannot find young and middle-aged soldiers. Relying solely on some old, weak, sick and disabled people in various localities can only brush up the combat experience of the armed task forces scattered around the country and accumulate combat exploits.

"Oh, it's okay! I thought that our biggest gain this year was to pacify the Ruan family, a fierce rival in the south, and then open the passage to the south, so that our strategic development space is unprecedentedly huge, rather than just being confined to a corner of the river. Shouhan woke up suddenly and found that he was actually distracted!

Indeed, now on the map, from Hejing to the south, a wide avenue, like a tree trunk, extends to the south, constantly radiating branch lines to the periphery, connecting countless Tunpu villages together.

"This galloping road nowadays, oh, according to the lord, the highway. The construction of a post station can be completed almost every seven days, which is not satisfactory. Although it was such a humble tone, the smug look was full of Li Peilin's face.

The general contract for the construction of this highway to Nguyen Phuc Anh's Phong Thuan Lian was the result of Shou Hanli's arbitrary decision to discourage the public opinion of the cadres, and in the Jiangnan New Area, the people were requisitioned on a large scale, giving rations and silver, and letting them carry out the foundation construction such as the hardening of the roadbed.

"In the past six months of construction, we have almost eaten up the grain of more than 40 Tunpu villages near the south of the Yangtze River for two years, and it costs tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, and we have to pay more than 100,000 catties of refined salt to the people as wages. The total price is about three or four million taels of silver, which is almost the same as the cost of Hongji Port and Pingba Port! Fubo, who was in charge of the household, twisted his beard and sighed.

"It can't be counted like this, Fu Bo, if we don't build this road, then the road to the south will be difficult, not to mention, the remnants of the Ruan family will inevitably gather the people to fight against us, and in this way, our army will inevitably be consumed with this generation for a long time, and the amount of money and military rations spent may be several times more than tenfold times more than these. However, when I built this road, hundreds of thousands of people in the south, whether they were Jing, Miao, Tai, Wa, or Jingpo, all went out of the villages and forests to earn wages and rations. Moreover, they used our refined salt and cloth, which invisibly opened up a market for us. ”

"Having said that, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, two major expenses were to levy the salary and ordnance of Nan Ruan, and the other was to build this north-south road."

"Yes! The ancestor of my family, the three major expeditions of the Divine Sect have experienced two, which battle did not defeat the treasury brilliantly? Li Peiting handed the roasted sweet potato to Shouhan and took advantage of the situation to take over the conversation, "But we destroyed the Ruan family, and it seems that the business on the streets of Ha Tinh Mansion is still thriving?" ”

The two hands kept turning the roasted brown and sweet sweet potatoes upside down, and the guards who kept burning in their mouths ate a few bites of sweet potatoes beautifully, and then answered Li Peiting's puzzlement head-on.

"Second brother, then you can only see the trees and not the forest. The three major expeditions of the Wanli Emperor were still the family background left by the Xianggong of Jiangling, and they were all based on the field endowment, but all kinds of nobles, officials, students, eunuchs, imperial villages, and clans did not pay grain and did not pay taxes, but if you look at it in Hajing and Nanzhong, from you and me, who dares not to pay grain and not pay taxes? Honestly, I pay more taxes than anyone else! Shouhan couldn't help but frown when he talked about his governance.

The Li brothers were silent, the officials and gentry paid taxes after completing the grain in one piece, because Ha Tinh and even the entire Nanzhong region were not afraid of war, and even liked this kind of large-scale consumption of money and grain, for no other reason, from various workshops to farmers, they would get a large number of orders and purchases, and the money they got was returned to the government treasury in the form of taxes. "It's endless."

"This year," Pei Lin talked eloquently with a few documents taken out of the book in his hand, although he didn't need to look at the papers at all, the numbers on them had long been in his mind, but he was still used to holding these papers in his hands. "According to the report of the port and customs, the bulk goods we import are mainly raw silk, silk, cotton, wheat, and tea, among which, raw silk and cotton are mainly raw materials supplied to various workshops, and wheat, according to the price of one stone of rice for one stone of wheat, we have suffered a lot, but it has supplemented our demand for flour. Between 60 and 70 percent of the silk and tea were used for entrepot trade, and were sold to JosΓ©'s group of Spaniards, as well as to the Shimazu family and the English people. ”

"The bulk of exports, the first to promote rice, for Guangxi's rice exports, maintained at around 200,000 stone per month, after the New Year, we plan to promote to Guangdong, the export volume will become at least 400,000 stone per month, so that the military and civilians in Huguang, Jiangnan, Fujian and so on can eat our rice."

"Second brother, now you know why you were transferred back from Songjiang, right? In the past few years, we have had bumper harvests year after year, and the Kowloon River reclamation area has also begun to produce rice in large quantities. Shouhan smiled and handed over a cup of hot tea, telling Li Peiting about his importance.

Pei Ting's heart was hot, and he was about to speak, when Pei Lin continued to speak, "In addition to rice, there are many products of my Nanzhong, refined salt, white sugar, dyed cloth, and steel products, these four major items are the pillars of my Nanzhong's source of wealth, and they are also the major taxpayers of the main government. He teased Li Shouhan, who deliberately made a crying face, and then motioned for him to continue. Refined salt has been sold to the Central Plains through the channels of Yangzhou Fangjia, especially the Yangtze River and the canal as the main sales scope. White sugar, the sales object and scope are more complex than refined salt. In the past few months, his Shimazu family has transported almost four or five thousand bales of sugar, as well as thousands of iron pots, countless needles, thousands of cotton cloths, and thousands of stone rice, and thousands of women. To the north, white sugar, like refined salt, has become an important commodity in the southeastern wealthy region, and our two white goods have earned us a whole shipload of silver. ”

"And those red-haired people! Almost every day, they waited there with gold and silver in the business, sugar, raw silk, cotton cloth, tea, nothing they didn't want! Now they're also interested in steel. Fu Bo put down the sweet potato that he had eaten a few bites, and took a sip of tea, with a good financial income, he was naturally much better as a housekeeper.

"Nope! A few days ago, Charlie, the English merchant, negotiated with Huang Qiying and wanted to exclusively possess our porcelain, that is, the exclusive right of Europa to lily porcelain and holy porcelain named by the lord. The price given was very attractive, and Huang Qiying was a little moved, but the shares of the two of them were not enough to make such a decision, and they planned to explain the matter to the lord and other shareholders when they had New Year's tea after the year, and it was up to everyone to decide. ”

"Let Huang Qiying tell that English man, he can't eat a fat man in one bite, he will deal with the affairs of the British Isles first, and then tell me what about Europa!" The decisive decision to defend the Han and kill the English Charlie was decisively negated.

After crossing the river, the first thing Shouhan did was to order Ye Qi to control the main production areas of kaolin, and at the same time order Huang Qiying to speed up the construction of porcelain kilns. How could he lay the groundwork for his next cornucopia, which was about to become another money-sucking weapon for the Shouhan, how could he allow an Englishman to have exclusive monopoly over the entire Western world?

"Let Lao Tzu work for you? There are no doors either! He cursed in his heart.

"Second brother, I know you have a good relationship with Jose's group of Spaniards. If you talk to Jose and tell them that I plan to sell this porcelain to Spain, Turks, France, etc., and ask them if they think their wallets are full. ”

Shouhan's words, Pei Ting's back broke out in a cold sweat, "Does he know that I plan to sell the goods to Jose's group without paying taxes that day?" Or, is it Jose, a group of red-haired red guys, who reported the news in order to curry favor with the lord? ”

"My lord, why is that? Charlie himself came to the door to buy our goods, and the price he used to give was very high. A gold sentence and a box of cutlery! Why bother? ”

"Second brother, the cunning rabbit is still three caves, let alone me? When talking to them, by the way, talk about Charlie's profits. I'm sure JosΓ©'s men will serve you as their God! ”

Li Peilin glanced at his younger brother's smug look on his face, couldn't help but shake his head, and sighed secretly.

"My lord, the number of acres of land we have counted in the north and south now, as of October 20, is 14,217,063 mu and 4 mu of paddy fields, and 8,031,340 mu of dry and mountainous fields. About one-third of the water and dry mountainous areas were newly seized from Ruanjia, Xialiao and other places. According to our judging criteria, most of them belong to land that can be increased in production. Because these lands, paddy fields, can only be harvested with one stone and five buckets per season, if they can meet the standards of the old Jiangbei area, then these paddy fields alone can feed us and the population of Liangguang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places. In addition, Ye Qi wrote that after the beginning of spring, we will find a way to transport a batch of tea seedlings to try planting, and if we can really grow tea on our land, we can reduce imports from the mainland and export our tea in large quantities. ”

"Send a clipper to tell Ye Qi, not only tea saplings, but also soybeans. I need a lot of soybean seeds, tell him, at least get me enough to plant 10,000 acres of soybean seeds! Shouhan roared with some excitement. In those dry fields, mountainous areas, consider growing corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tea, and tobacco brought by the Spaniards! ”

"Also, in addition to Ha Jing Yi'an and other places, Cotton Island and Luzon also need to grow special sugarcane. At least it will reach about 500,000 mu next year, otherwise, a few mills will not be able to eat! They don't have enough to eat, and we make a lot of less money! The sugar of the white flowers is the white silver! In addition to the Ryukyus, our sugarcane sources must be added to the local production and Luzon, and only with a stable source of raw materials can we ensure stable and high yields! ”

The three people in the pavilion glanced at each other, and a complicated expression appeared on their faces, containing helplessness, disdain for the lack of greed for Shouhan, and relief for having such a lord and relatives, and many other expressions.

"So, how much is the right amount to plant?" These things, except for corn and wheat, seem to be inedible, and Fu Bo, who is in charge of the money and food population and is an elder of the Han Dynasty, naturally needs to ask clearly.

"Soybeans, at least one million acres for me, corn, according to two million acres, tea, is also the standard of one million acres, peanuts, in Qinghua, Yi'an, and Hejing and other coastal areas of dry land planting, the standard is at least one million acres! And tobacco ......"

The three of them looked at each other, exchanged glances with each other, got up from their seats and knelt down, "Lord, don't be like this!" ”

"Lord, be cautious!"

"That's right! This kind of method, I'm afraid something will happen, brother-in-law! ”

Shouhan was excited about his future powerful cash crop planting plan, and when he saw the three people in front of him kneeling down one by one, he tried hard to admonish, and suddenly poured a basin of cold water down, "Damn! He was impatient again. You still have to eat the rice one bite at a time! Shouhan laughed at himself in his heart.

"Fu Bo, sect brother, second brother, why bother." Shouhan helped the three of them up one by one, "Under the root of the big year, don't be so relatable, and ask me to give me a reward?" ”

"Lord, the matter of farming and mulberry is not as good as using soldiers, once this is lost, countless people have no food and clothing!"

"Yes! Lord, although the corn potatoes and sweet potatoes are high yield, and can be used to make wine as feed, but soybeans and peanuts, in addition to making some tofu, squeezing oil, it seems to be useless, the tea tobacco, although the value is high, but it is hungry and cold can not be clothed, I am in the south and central region, after a long war, the people need to be warm first, and then seek a well-off. ”

"That's right! We don't have that many people growing these things?! ”

Shouhan's face couldn't help but turn red, but fortunately, the sky had gradually darkened, and the light in the pavilion was not so clear, and the three of them couldn't see it clearly.

"I didn't say that I would plant so much every year?" He defended himself there, "This is the master plan for the future." Just like the target I set for the Hu family, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, give me 3,000 horses, and 2,000 horses per year in the future. ”

The caretaker no longer mentioned that he would immediately complete such an agricultural planting plan, and the three of them were relieved and continued to sit down to drink tea and eat roasted sweet potatoes. However, the conversation began in the Xialiao area mentioned by Fang Shouhan.

"The key area of immigration next year, in addition to the Jiulong River and other places, is the Base area of Xialiao (Pakse Plain in Laos), where the place is thousands of miles, a good place for a horse and a flat river, the most suitable for planting rice, second brother, from next year, a large number of rice in the Jiulong River will be harvested like the sea, Bodhisattva bless, I plan to let them change to three seasons a year in the future, don't do two years and seven crops, too much grain, it's not a good thing."

"It doesn't matter, if I have a lot of food, I will work harder and continue to sell it to the mainland." Li Peiting chewed a piece of sweet potato in his mouth, and the taste as sweet as honey filled his mouth.

"The land in the rest of the country, especially in Xialiao and Jiangnan New Area, must find ways to increase production."

"This? But why? Fu Bo and Li Peiting were a little puzzled, but Li Peilin nodded frequently with his beard twisted.

"Brother Zong, Fu Bo is a little tired these days, can you tell him about the tricks inside?"

"This, I don't dare to speculate, but, with the principle of pacifying the south of the country's 'five political divisions, three economic divisions, and two military divisions' set by the lord, I want to come to Huimin Pharmacy to send Mr. Lang Zhong to various places to make medical rounds. When the place was initially decided, the people were confused and uneasy, and the lord sent people down to the village to inspect and deliver medicine to calm people's hearts. ”

"Then we will send people to guide these people to complete the upgrading of their own fields, collect more grain, eat more meaty things, and have surplus grain to buy some good things, so that the goods we produce can have a place to sell. These places can be regarded as truly owned by the lord, which is what the lord said, it is easy to control chaos, but it is difficult to govern peace. ”

Pei Lin was shaking his head in the pavilion to explain the benefits and disadvantages of Shou Han's method, and in the distance, the maid Xiuzhu beside Yan Mei'er hurriedly came to the water pavilion and said something to the Mo Jin brothers by the bridge.

"Let her come." Shouhan waved his hand and motioned for Mo Jin to come over with Xiuzhu to talk back.

"My lord, the slave and maid have come down to ask the lord for instructions from Mrs., the banquet has been prepared, and the guests are already waiting in the boat hall, and the lady asked the master when the banquet will start."

"Go back and tell my wife that I'll be right here right away, and the table will start in a moment."

Xiuzhu's fair skin suddenly swelled with a touch of red, "There is one more thing, the wife is not allowed to sue the master, but below Mother Cai, the slaves and maids feel that they should not hide the master." The wife has been vomiting for the past few days, happy and sour, the slaves and maids have counted, and the monthly letter has not come for two months, and the slaves and maids are worried, and the wife is happy. ”

"Mei'er has a baby?!" Shouhan jumped up and ran quickly to the shore, and Fu Bo also laughed, "Xiuzhu!" Good news! I went back to sue sΓΉ2, and said that my old man would be the master for his wife, and this month, the monthly money will be doubled and doubled! ”

"Slaves, thank you, Fauber! Thank you, Lord Changshi! Thank you, Mr. Li! Xiuzhu's face was filled with joy.

The two brothers of the Li family exchanged glances with each other, and they were all silent.

In the sky, fireworks and firecrackers exploded one after another, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and the smell of wine and meat.

Li Peiting, who had enjoyed a sumptuous banquet, got into the carriage with a sound wine, and a personal attendant served him comfortably on the splendid pillow.

"Hehe, such a stammer, is there something wrong?" Taking advantage of the wine, Li Peiting joked with his subordinates.

"Hey! Where did the second master come from? Is there something to stammer? There is nothing to do, and it is also the duty of the little ones to serve the second master. ”

"Good boy, can talk. No, you're still in trouble? "Although Pei Ting eats a lot of wine, his brain is quite clear.

"That's right, the little one has a friend who wants to do a business with the second master, a big business, if the second master can agree to him this business, the little one will also make a little errand money."

"You're also a useless person, talking about business, it's a good thing! Tell me, what friend, what kind of business are you going to do? ”

"It's a small fellow Fujian countryman, who has been doing business at sea for a long time, and I heard that our weapons in Nanzhong are sharp, and he plans to buy twenty artillery pieces and forty big Buddha machines!"

Hearing this, Pei Ting's wine at that time dispersed from the 36,000 pores!

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