"I heard that the government army sailor went to chase Pu Xingfeng again?" A Guangzhou merchant said with joy: "Now Guangzhou is ruled by His Royal Highness the King of Qin, reducing taxes, shabu new officials, the official scene is new, and Li Kaiming has been suppressed, and the two pirates of Luzon have been removed at sea, and the navigation is much safer, even if we are willing." Shicai listened to Li Kaiming's words, and he was also very happy in his heart, reducing taxes, protecting the waterway, ensuring the safety of one party, and then removing Pu Xingfeng, as if he had been ill for a long time, and suddenly healed one day, that feeling is really the joy of life, much happier than the title of the gold list, the flower candle in the cave room. ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

This maritime merchant is vulgar, but it is indeed said in people's hearts.

Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, what they want is to live a stable life, and the small people are too taxed, as if they have carried too heavy a burden, and their waists have been bent. Coupled with the bad officials and the oppression of the localities, people feel that the world has become more and more difficult over the years.

Regardless of what happened in the north, Xu Zixian reduced a lot of miscellaneous taxes, strengthened investment in people's livelihood, and reduced the national endowment by 30%, and the local burden was already light.

After the suppression of the two pirates in Luzon, Guangdong's trade to the sea has resumed significantly, and people no longer worry about being thrown alive in the sea to feed sharks when they encounter pirates going to sea, and the trade has naturally increased by a large margin.

In addition to security, Lanfang, Srivijaya, Luzon, Wa and other countries were already under the control of the shogunate, and a lot of trade was directly regulated and regulated, and the shogunate was of course inclined to the local merchants of the Wei state, followed by the Han merchants in various places, and finally the native countries.

Of course, we can't go too far, dumping must also have quotas, if there is a large amount of uncontrolled trade and dumping, the economy of the indigenous countries will be destroyed, that is to kill the chicken and take the egg, the wise man does not do it.

In the past two years, starting from the summer of the previous year, the government army and naval divisions began to be stationed in Lanfang and Sriwijaya and other countries, and started a series of small and medium-scale wars with the pirate forces of Pu Xingfeng.

By the end of the 16th century, many countries on both sides had reached a tacit understanding, and the countries of the South Seas helped build ships and provided a large number of excellent sailors, and the government army controlled the ships with the military attaché and the five commanders, and the officers and soldiers of the naval division were responsible for engaging the enemy.

At the beginning, the ships of the Navy Division of the Government Army were about the same as those of Pu Xingfeng, and the number of officers and soldiers of the Navy Division was not as many as the pirates of Pu Xingfeng, and in terms of experience, the officers and soldiers of the Government were far inferior to the pirates under Pu Xingfeng, but the naval battles of the government army officers and soldiers were more disciplined and more coordinated, and the pirates were pirates after all, and dozens of ships seemed to be a whole, and they really fought more like a mess of scattered sand, so at the beginning of the government army was weak, However, taking advantage of the geographical advantages of Lanfang and Sriwijaya, and the overall strength of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division was stronger than that of the pirates, the two sides also fought back and forth, and there was no disparity between victory and defeat.

Pu Xingfeng was about to take the Three Buddhas, and half of the coastal port cities of the Three Buddhas were conquered by him, but the Fu Army Sailor first entered Lanfang, which was very close to Pu Xingfeng, and he had to disperse his forces, at the beginning of Pu Xingfeng still wanted to take the Three Buddhas first, and then borrow the strength of the Three Buddhas and Manchu Plus to compete with the Fu Army Sailors, but the more the war fought, the more anxious the war became, a year later, Pu Xingfeng had to deal with the Fu Army Sailors from one-third of the force, to half, to more than half, and now it has been powerless to attack the Three Buddhas, The army of Manchu was extremely poor and had no offensive, and after the three Buddhas recovered many cities one after another, they invested their strength in the naval division of the government army, and by the seventeenth year, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before the government army defeated and eliminated the strong enemy of Pu Xingfeng.

"As far as I know." Qin Dongyang faced everyone and said in a deep voice: "The naval division of the government army has been successively transferring troops from all over the place, hoping that in the spring of the seventeenth year, the pirate Pu Xingfeng Department entrenched in Malacca will be eliminated, and the shipping channel to Taixi will be completely opened, and the naval division will continue to go west to exterminate the remnants of the pirates, so that no bandit will dare or threaten the smooth passage of the waterway!" ”

On the side of Guangzhou, when it comes to the heat of foreign trade, there is also the undisguised pursuit of wealth, and the atmosphere is still above Mingzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangning, that is, Fuzhou is not much different from it, but Fuzhou still has a clan and a large number of nobles, and the aristocratic atmosphere has infected the people, so when it comes to pragmatism and the pursuit of wealth, Fuzhou is slightly inferior to Guangzhou.

In terms of overseas immigration, Guangzhou is more to Lanfang, Siam, Chenla and other countries, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, is to Luzon, Lanfang, Sriwijaya and other countries, originally Manchujia is also a place where Quanzhou people immigrate, in the past 20 years, the original Han merchants have been driven away or persecuted, so the people in the past are gradually decreasing.

In the coastal areas, Guangnan East Road and Fujian Road are considered to be the first to open the trend, and since the Tang Dynasty, they have begun to move overseas, and gradually form maritime families, if the situation is no longer turbulent, the merchants in these places will go to sea more and create more wealth.

Hearing Qin Dongyang's words, many gentry and businessmen present were bright-eyed, after the government army and sailors eliminated the two thieves in Luzon, the shipping routes to the Luzon countries were unblocked again, and their wealth was also constantly growing, coupled with the stimulation of tax reductions and exemptions, all walks of life related to maritime trade on the market were full of energy, and they should seize this God-given opportunity to make more money.

If you hit the channel to Taixi again, tea, raw silk, porcelain, just these three sharp weapons, I don't know how much you can earn in a year!

"His Royal Highness King Qin really has a heart!" A merchant said excitedly: "It's really for us!" ”

"You're thinking too much." Qin Dongyang said with a smile: "Trade is prosperous, the country can increase taxes without hurting the people, and use it for people's livelihood, raising soldiers, and schools. Maritime trade is booming, related shipbuilding, logging, cast iron are the first to benefit, and then make porcelain, silkworm raising, tea planting, can make money, people make more money, selling cloth clothes, hats and shoes, opening restaurants and restaurants, and even teahouse storytelling, all walks of life will have benefits, a prosperous industry, a hundred industries, a hundred industries, the government and the court are also prosperous, a good court, is to resist the strong enemy outside, and the people are soothed inside, rather than fishing with all their might, and one mind is thinking about making money on the people. The heavier the tax, the more greedy the officials will be, the more bitter the people will be, and in the long run, it will be difficult to return. I, His Royal Highness the King of Qin, pay attention not only to trade, but also to the vast market brought by overseas trade, and it is also overseas trade that has promoted the prosperity of all industries in my Great Wei Dynasty. Build a strong sailor, go to sea to escort, so that the goods produced by my Great Wei can be sold all over the world, make money from the people of the world, hundreds of years are prosperous, and even after a thousand years, they will not lose their stamina, I will change the dynasty in China for hundreds of years, that is, after the accumulation of hardship, the people of the world have to rebel in order to have enough to eat, and millions of people have died, and many people have died, the fields and acres are enough, and all industries are waiting to be prosperous, and a new son of heaven has appeared, and everyone can eat a stable meal, so they will be stable again. His Royal Highness said, such a situation is really a matter of great compassion, my civilization in China has far surpassed that of foreign countries for thousands of years, but because I can't eat enough, I will be in chaos every few hundred years, shouldn't I feel ashamed? Today's changes, is thousands of years without the beginning of the great changes, more and more foreign countries, trade is more and more prosperous, the sea is more and more important, His Royal Highness the King of Qin to seize this opportunity, of course, not only for the sea, but for the whole world, but also for the prosperity of China for a thousand years, this is the first class of big mind, big pattern, my generation of government soldiers, as long as it is His Royal Highness's general flag, even if the predecessors and successors, they must die without regrets, only to move forward! ”

When Qin Dongyang spoke, countless people listened, and many people silently recorded, and then many newspapers published and countless newspapers transcribed, which also caused an uproar in the north.

If a few years ago, the imperial court and the Son of Heaven could not help but be angry, because the King of Qin said such a thing as the prince of the clan, he had already faintly regarded himself as the guide of the Great Wei, and even laid out a thousand years, such a mind-setting pattern was indeed extremely large, and all the clear-headed officials and gentry were moved and even excited. And the Son of Heaven and the officials in the center of the imperial court, who were already stuck in the quagmire and couldn't extricate themselves, saw such a record and Xu Zixian's ambition, and there was no other reaction than a wry smile.

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"It's cold, it's so cold......" Chen Daojian was dressed in a fur coat and a hat made of bear skin on his head, wrapping his head and face tightly, only exposing his nose and eyes.

The boots are also made of animal fur, and they are unusually thick and warm at first glance.

Even so, it was quite cold to walk in the ice and snow, his eyelashes were covered with frost, and his fur shirt was also covered with a thin layer of frost.

This is Ezo, and if there is a thermometer in the later generations, you should be able to see that the temperature is about minus 20 degrees Celsius, which should be the coldest time of the year in Ezo.

After acquiring Ezo, the Wajin withdrew the only Banner Authority, followed by the Ezo Military Division and a large number of administrators sent by the shogunate.

The largest number of them were horse administration personnel, a large number of officials and horse herding personnel, management personnel and logistics personnel, as well as the government army of an entire army responsible for security protection, and more than 1,000 guards.

In Ezo land, the shogunate also plans to do some immigration over, mainly because there are a large number of plains that exceed the territory of the Eastern Domain, the quality and quantity of cultivated land is not low, for many people who are willing to farm, the vast land here is also a blessed land, in many places, it is quite difficult for the people to have an acre of land for their own private property, and to Ezo land, the minimum standard for land division is 100 acres per household, in fact, if there are more than two strong men in the family, plus there are sufficient livestock animals, the division of 100 acres of land is the start.

Compared with the area of Ezo and Fujian Road, it is just one less Eastern Domain, in addition, although there are large areas of mountainous land, but Fujian Road is also a high mountain stretch, even so, Fujian Road also has a population of 15 million, Ezo is only about 100,000 people, its vast and sparsely populated area is much more powerful than the Eastern Domain, although it has a large number of volcanic landforms, there are also quite a lot of plains, it is also an important grain production base in later generations, it can be seen that there is also considerable development potential.

Although this will be the most important horse breeding ground, several large plains have begun to graze a large number of horses, but can still accommodate at least 100,000 households of immigrants, but the immigrants here will come slowly, and mainly voluntary, the shogunate's plan is to the north chaos, displaced people, once Shandong is in chaos, Hebei will also be chaotic, when the time can be used to go to the north to accept northern immigrants, after all, Shandong, Hebei's winter is also full of land, the same ice and snow, northerners are more adaptable than Fujianese.

Just like Chen Daojian, he will stay in Ezo for more than half a year every year, his main job is to manage the affairs of the Japanese country, in fact, he is in charge of the Ezo land, the Kang family has become famous, and there are helpers of the Ouchi family, and the internal chaos of the Japanese country has also returned to calm after half a year. Because the high-ranking officials of the Wa Kingdom found that the Qin Shogunate did not have any idea about the territory of the Wa Kingdom except for raising horses in a wild place like Ezo, and all they wanted was to continue trade.

In this way, although it was found that trade caused the outflow of silver and gold from the Japanese country, and the people would gradually lack heavy metals, the same Great Wei was also importing copper coins, and the speed of wealth outflow was not so amazing under the control of the shogunate...... After all, dumping that hurts too much vitality is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs. As long as the current pattern was maintained, it was enough for the Wajin to be able to stand on their own feet and transfer a large amount of wealth to the shogunate in trade.

Chen Daojian was on the side of the Wa Kingdom, and at most he traveled back and forth to the Kang family, the Ouchi family, and Kyoto for a month or two, meeting the emperor and the Wa Guo Guanbai, listening to some reports, and also breaking some trade dispute cases, but the main focus was still on Ezo.

"Let's figure out the experience...... Zhang Bofu, who even has a snow-white beard, said with a smile: "From January to April, the snow melts and the ice disappears, and it does not freeze, from May to August, it is about the same as the autumn of our Fujian Road, and there is no need to be shirtless when it is hottest, after September, it gradually freezes down, and it is ice and snow for three consecutive months, and the deepest part of the snow is deeper than two adults stacked together." However, that's the case, in the ancestral hometown of Shandong Road, except that it is hotter in summer, in spring and winter, it is similar to our Shandong Road. ”

"Just keep the war horse alive." is still a guard, but the official position is already the head of Qian Shude said with a smile: "Our cavalry is said to be organized into several armies, forty or fifty thousand people, in fact, more than half of the war horses used in the army are miscellaneous horses, in the words of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, it is mounted infantry, miscellaneous horses, can only be used to practice horsemanship, it is impossible to really go to the battlefield." ”

Everyone present nodded, and Chen Daojian said with emotion: "My Great Wei has poured the strength of the whole country, and the cavalry is formed into two compartments, plus the Tang horse sentinel of each army, the war horses have never exceeded 100,000, where can we get 50,000 or 60,000 war horses for the cavalry in the past few years?" Miscellaneous horses are enough, but the horses ridden by the soldiers, the lowest southwest horses can land on the horse, and such a war horse is a joke to say. ”

"Speaking of which, it still depends on us here."

"Yes, if you can ride against the Donghu cavalry and win the battle, the important thing is that we are here."