The Foreign Intelligence Bureau was responsible for forging the transfer of these land deeds, and among the scribes of the state and county government offices retained for it, there were many masters of forging documents and fake title deeds. After the forgery, it was sent to Guangdong, and Lin Baiguang's personnel arranged for a number of fake "original land owners" to go to the county government one by one to go through the formal transfer procedures. The local government roughly knows what's going on, and most of them turn a blind eye, anyway, these lands are already ownerless, and if you want to swallow it, you can't do it when you are a big man, so it's better to transfer it to Australians and collect some taxes and personal benefits.

Although there are proposals to make local agents "landlords" and then come forward to collect rents. However, the Foreign Intelligence Service believes that it is not easy to arrange these local agents, and it is not appropriate to let them make a high-profile appearance too early. In addition, this matter is bound to cause a certain civil conflict, causing some adverse effects, it is better to use a cover mask that can be discarded at any time.

The appearance of the Wan/Sheng/Hao shattered the dreams of many local peasants to take possession of land -- for almost a year after the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, these fields were planted with grain as ownerless land, and when the autumn harvest was approaching, the temporary "owners" of these lands suddenly appeared and caught the temporary "owners" of these lands by surprise.

The absence of a title deed means that there is no ownership of the land, and it also means that there is no formal tenant relationship, and it is "illegal" for the peasants to cultivate land on it, and the landlords can unceremoniously drive them away and monopolize the harvest, and their hard work and investment for a year will be in vain -- even if it is useless to sue the government.

However, the "rent stack" that suddenly appeared was not too ugly after all—after all, the land still had to be planted, and the Heaven and Earth Society had not yet managed to come to Guangdong; And the fame of Australians can't be nòng stinky either. So their request is very simple, the two parties sign a supplementary lease contract, and divide it in half. The tax on the land is borne by the landlord.

Such conditions are not superior, but they are not bad results for farmers who might otherwise work for nothing. Reluctantly, I accepted it.

But on the whole. Whether it is a reasonable burden or a rent collection of 10,000 / sheng rent stacks, the food that can be obtained is quite limited.

In the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, out of consideration for buying people's hearts, the reasonable burden of extortion was relatively light, and except for a few towns and villages that resisted more jī fierce, many of them were symbolic. Even those townships that are burdened with a greater burden. Also out of the idea of "not harming the poor", the quota is still low.

“…… We have calculated that the total amount of these two revenues can be accumulated around 20,000 stones, and there are about 20,000 taels of cash crops and silver. Guo Yi said, "It hasn't been collected yet, but the numbers won't be very different." ”

"Not enough." Skade commented.

"Of course it's not enough, so does the Planning Institute for the purchase of grain have an accurate idea?"

There is food on the market. Figures provided by Lin Baiguang: If the purchase is open, there is no problem with three or four hundred thousand stone of grain in Nòng. Of course, the ultimate question is to have silver.

Even if 200,000 stone is purchased, according to the current market, it will be 150,000 taels of silver, and as the acquisition is carried out, the price of rice will continue to rise. Despite the fact that the summer grain is replenished and the price reduction of the autumn grain is about to be launched, the overall price will still rise. The eventual average purchase price may reach one tael per stone.

It is obviously impossible for the Department of the Treasurer to come up with such a large sum of money. So at first, the Planning Institute was hesitant to buy grain in cash - hoping that cheaper grain would be brought from Southeast Asia by the Dutch. But the Dutch were affected by a typhoon before the end of the summer. Ships are generally not sent to the coastal areas of China.

As for the merchant groups sent to Southeast Asia, they were completely explored. Purchase large quantities of grain. It is necessary to have a well-established local business network in the reproduction area. Whether there is such a business network in Southeast Asia that can be cooperated with is unclear to everyone - although the researchers of the great library of historical materials insist that there is a yes.

If you want to wait until after the end of summer, the engine action begins. The time seems to be quite rushed. The engine of the Joint Logistics Headquarters in Hong Kong pointed out that the food supply forecast for the next 12 months was forward, pointing out that the current food reserves in Hong Kong are still at the warning level.

"So Ade has made up his mind this time, and he still wants to buy grain locally." Skade said, "Jihua is 100,000 stone of food. ”

The instructions issued by the Planning Institute to the Guangdong Grain Working Group are to "small quantities and multiple batches" to avoid buying too much grain in large quantities at a time, so as not to cause the market price to rise too quickly.

"Where's the payment? Where to get there? Guo Yi is very concerned about this, and the various enterprises under the Guangzhou Station and the Guangzhou Station itself have accounts in Delong. The accounts are not small - but most of the money is to be paid quickly. It is not easy to get 100,000 taels of silver out.

Skade said: "Take a loan from Delong. ”

Specifically, the acquisition funds were loaned to Delong Guangzhou Branch in the name of DCH. Dachang used the purchased grain as collateral to borrow 100,000 taels of silver from Delong's Guangzhou branch. For a period of six months.

Now that Delong's branch in Guangzhou is fully operational, it is only natural that it can use the deposits it has absorbed to turn around - if it is all funded by the Department of the Treasurer, it will be difficult to sustain itself with the current extremely tight cash system. At this time, Delong's credit role is reflected.

This is tantamount to borrowing money from the wealthy families in Guangdong to buy grain. However, this is different from general credit. The grain bought was actually consumed by the Senate itself: Dachang was actually only a name, and it was impossible for Dachang to make profits from the grain trade itself to repay the principal and interest. As the ultimate debtor, the Planning Institute will use Lingao's industrial products or entrepot products to repay the loan.

This arrangement is based on the premise that the sale of manufactured goods in Lingao can meet this additional demand. It is equivalent to that in the next six months, Lingao will provide additional industrial products worth 100,000 taels of silver, and Guangzhou Station will sell an additional 100,000 taels of silver. Therefore, Guo Yi is very worried about the future restitution: although Delong and Dachang have a left-handed and right-handed relationship, the deposits absorbed by Delong are actually from Guangzhou. Once there is a little problem in the production and sales links, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction.

Guo Yi knew very well that the Planning Institute could not pin its hopes on the manpower that Nòng had returned—the more than 100,000 people could not be turned into output value at once, and at most they could be used to build roads or other physical work first. They made calculations, and they were nothing more than the spoils of war from Shandong and Jeju. Especially the booty of Dengzhou. It is said that the annual salary in Dengzhou costs 800,000 taels. Over the years, the army's salaries, public fortunes, and merchant trafficking have not been small in the amount of public wealth accumulated in the local area. Back then, Kong Youde plundered a large amount of loot. As for Jeju Island, it should be able to squeeze out some oil and water - there are many cattle and horses in the area, and it is also a very good wealth.

Two large ships flying the morning star flag and with a slightly strange appearance are sailing on the surface of the sea in the wind. It is strange because the ship's mast is fitted with a diagonal sail that was not found on Chinese sailing boats - such sails did not exist on European ships at the time, and it did not appear until the 18th century. Retrofitting this system to traditional Chinese-style hard sails is the latest improvement in the Senate shipyards.

These two Canton ships with a displacement of more than 200 tons are all made of iron power wood and are very strong. They were originally pirate ships under the old hand of Zhu Cai, but after defecting to Lingao, because the original owner wanted to keep the ship, they were incorporated into the fleet of the Southeast Asian company as an investment.

It is said that the merchant fleet of Southeast Asian companies is in fact used as transport ships under the command of the navy in the coastal waters for most of the time, and there are only a handful of times when they run ocean-going trade -- for the sake of safety, good fortune, and money, the Southeast Asian companies formed by the Senate sail to the Philippines, the Moluccas, Siam, and other places only once a year. Its main purpose is not so much to trade as to maintain trade networks and to obtain commercial information.

Because it is a merchant ship, the Lingao shipyard has relatively simple modifications to the ships of the Southeast Asian company, and the main improvement is the installation of a steering wheel system, which has not changed much in structure, and has not installed too many guns and weapons. Only two mén 68-pounder Caron guns were installed for self-defense. Although it was a merchant ship of the company, according to the relevant laws of the Senate, the sailors of all ships at sea were under the jurisdiction of the navy and could be requisitioned to join the war at any time.

On the stern of one of the larger ships, next to the helmsman stood a senator in civilian clothes. He was talking to a European next to him. Standing next to John Quark is Ping Qiusheng, a medical graduate, a veteran of municipal administration, mechanical and electrical professional first-class construction engineer qualifications and accountant practice. Since D-Day, he has been working at the Planning Institute, using his knowledge of East Asian history to carry out a series of projects, and this is his first real time in the mountains.

He had always wanted to get a taste of Japan - and this was his own initiative: he could speak Japanese, he had studied Japanese history and culture, and sometimes he even half-truthed that he was a descendant of the Heike family. However, Japan is not the main target of the Planning Institute. However, the staff officer of Southeast Asia asked him to go by name. But he didn't want to go to Southeast Asia: it was too hot. However, he had no choice, for there was no better person for this expedition, for he was to understand the form of Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, and to know how to do medicine, drawing, and marketing, whether it was from the safety of the south, or to survey or expand the market. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to register for the member list, your support is my biggest motivation. )