With the retreat of the Susongjiahu and Hangzhou regiments and the official army, Jiangsu and Zhejiang completely became Yang Xin's territory, and in the next nearly a month, the various departments of the Jingnan Army quickly took over the defense of various places......

There was no resistance.

Jiangxi's officers and regiments withdrew from Anqing and re-fortified Hukou.

The Huguang army crossed the river and headed north.

They set up defenses at various passes in Huangmei and Dabie Mountain.

Secretary Wang's family consciously evacuated Huangmei and then went to Nanjing, but no one will move her family's industry, although she is still Secretary Wang, but she is hot under the king of Zhennan, and no one dares to provoke such a person.

The northern line ends in Huai'an.

Because Xuzhou was wanted to go by the apocalypse, it was included in the Shandong Political Envoy Division.

This place is too important.

If Yang Xin controls Xuzhou, then the canal and the Yellow River will be open to him, so the imperial court must control Xuzhou, since Yang Xin is too lazy to fight with the apocalypse, Xuzhou becomes Lu Xiangsheng's station, and the Jingnan army stops at Pizhou, Suzhou, and Bozhou. In fact, in the future, except for a very small number of places that can be irrigated by water conservancy construction, Huaibei will have to move south one after another and find ways to throw it to Taiwan, which will be the safest place in the future.

Huaibei is definitely not good.

As for the territory of Zhejiang, it still stops at Jiangshan, just blocking Xianxia Pass to the south and blocking Jiangxi to the west.

And Wen, everywhere, although the gentry of the three states of Taiwan looked up to the sky with grief and indignation, they couldn't resist the general trend of the world that Yang Xin said after all, the apocalypse had abandoned them, and they had no ability to protect themselves, except to surrender to Yang Xin aggrievedly, what other choice was there there?

In the end, the gentry of these three places also surrendered honestly.

Yang Xin, who took a month to complete the control of his own territory, immediately began to divide the land.

Nine thousand years old only left at this time.

It's just that he left with all the summer taxes and grains paid by Yang Xin......

"There is food in the warehouse, don't panic!"

Standing on the Jingkou wharf, Jiu Chitose looked at the grain ships passing by him and sighed.

He's telling the truth.

After experiencing a severe drought that swept most of Fuzhou counties last year, Beizhili began the flood pattern again this year, and after the Xishan flood swept through the capital, the floods continued to spread in various places, and even Henan began to join the flood mode. And the locust plague in the eastern Hebei region broke out again, coupled with the earthquakes everywhere that still did not stop, it was really difficult to be 9,000 years old, and I saw that my hair was almost gray.

"After this, it's really like you said, we have a few decades of natural disasters in the Ming Dynasty?"

He said.

"Uncle, do I need to lie to you?"

Yang Xin said.

"Also, in the past two years, these natural disasters have indeed sprung out like rushing to the market, although they have been plagued every year in the past, but they are not like the past two years, all kinds of natural disasters are crowded together, earthquakes, floods, droughts, locust plagues, and there are actually strong winds, this day is indeed going to change!"

Nine thousand years old said.

He was talking about the typhoon in Changzhou not long ago.

The typhoon landed in southern Jiangsu, and then swept across all places, the most severe disaster is Jingjiang and Jiangyin and other places, this kind of thing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year, but the nine thousand years old from the north is still the first time to see, saying that the power of the typhoon transit, for him is too shocking. However, as the earliest militia area, he was also shocked by the disaster prevention and relief capabilities in this area, and he was even more impressed by the magistrates who led the militia to rush around in the face of violent storms and rains.

"You go back and tell Your Majesty that one day he will know that I have done all this for Your Majesty's country.

Up to the year after that.

He'll know I'm right.

As for you, the best way to go back is to continue to promote sweet potatoes, although this thing is not a good thing, but it can really help us survive natural disasters, not to say that we all plant, at least let every household plant a little bit to prepare for famine. Even if the gentry didn't want to plant it, it was a big deal for the court to fold a part of the land with potatoes, or simply by His Majesty's decree to ban wine other than sweet potatoes and sorghum within the scope of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially rice wine.

I'm going to put a ban on alcohol next.

Except for sorghum wine and sweet potato wine, all other grain wines are banned.

You can collect sweet potatoes and sorghum in the north and sell them here, and I will give them tax-free, which can be regarded as a little gift for you. ”

Yang Xin said.

A ban on rice wine is ready to be issued.

However, it will definitely be deliberately sabotaged by local officials, even if this ban is issued by him, the habit of drinking rice wine in Jiangsu and Zhejiang cannot be changed, and it cannot be changed in modern times, not to mention at this time, but there is a ban coupled with a certain degree of ban, which will always make the number of rice wine decline, especially in public, there will definitely not be too much to drink.

In the past, the consumption of rice wine was the gentry, and at that time they had grain, and they could drink millions of stone a year.

But now the gentry have no food to drink.

At most, they buy wine in the market, as long as the cost of rice wine is maintained at a consistently high price by strictly prohibiting rice wine, and at the same time using low-cost sweet potato wine and sorghum wine in the market, after all, some people who are used to drinking low-end wine will gradually become accustomed to sorghum wine and sweet potato wine. It's a big deal that Yang Dudu personally took the lead, and then forced those officials under him to drink it too, and those who dared to drink rice wine were directly removed from their posts and fined, so that they could import these low-priced wines from the north, and at the same time coax the north to increase the planting area of sweet potatoes and sorghum.

The gentry certainly did not support this.

As long as they collect rent and don't collect this, then the farmers have to consider whether it is cost-effective to plant, but it is different if they can turn this into silver.

"And then there's cotton.

In the future, the militia here will pay grain, the cultivation of cotton and mulberry will definitely decrease, and the silk and cotton needed by those weavers will definitely increase their purchases, and the banks of the canal have become cotton-producing areas before, and the gentry will definitely increase cotton production in the future.

But cotton can't be eaten after all.

You can tell them that I have assembled a large enough fleet of merchant ships that will not just buy rice from outside, but also bring in cotton from outside, and Indian cotton is better than at home, and even Egyptian long-staple cotton, which is more than any kind of cotton in the country. It is estimated that the first merchant ships loaded with cotton from India will return this year, when the price of cotton plummets, and they don't scold me. ”

Yang Xin said.

This is the only way he can solve the problem of local cotton spinning raw materials.

Buy a lot of cotton from abroad.

Like buying grain, all merchant ships that transport cotton and grain are tax-free, anyway, cotton is not expensive in India and the Middle East, not to mention entering the steam age, first of all, new water-powered spinning machines, new water-powered looms have to be promoted.

The labor cost of cotton cloth decreased, offsetting the purchase cost of purchased cotton.

In addition, the export of Daming cotton cloth has enough profit margins, in the past, limited by the transportation cost of overseas trade, now with the full opening of the sea and the number of merchant ships skyrocketing, transportation is no longer a problem. Daming is not Britain, selling cotton cloth to India has to go around half the world, here is loaded with goods in two months to Goa, while importing cotton from India while using labor costs, and then dumping cotton cloth to India......

This business is good.

If the price of cotton rises in India......

Send a fleet to find a stubble and beat them, force them to pay compensation, and take the compensation back to subsidize or reduce taxes for textile mills.

Playing this Zhennan King understands.

Even encourage businessmen to grow cotton in overseas colonies, otherwise how to encourage outward, one is to grow grain and the other is to grow cotton, at this time mineral resources do not need to be plundered, and industrialization has not yet reached the level of needing to plunder ores abroad. In addition to commerce, the key to supporting Europeans to run around the world is planting, and cotton is always the most important, followed by cane sugar, and then coffee.

Yang Xin wanted people to colonize, but he could only use the planting industry to promote it.

But first, we have to limit the cultivation of cotton in the country.

Otherwise, it will be enough to grow cotton in the country alone, and who will run out to grow cotton?

Silkworms are secondary.

Because at this time, Europe also has it, Daming's silk fabrics are only more high-end, and there is another problem that it is too cheap, and the price of raw silk is too low.

This tax increase will do.

In recent years, after the tax increase on silk fabrics, the export has not only not declined, but has increased, which shows that the tax increase is still less, and it is no problem to increase it to 50%. However, the mulberry silkworm does not have a big impact on the grain, because most of the mulberry trees are planted in the polder, mulberry is planted on the polder, rice is planted in the polder, and fish are raised in the ditch next to it, which is the standard model of the water network area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the real damage to agriculture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is cotton.

"Uncle is not like you, you have a knife to force them to do what you want, uncle does too much, the knife has to fall on the uncle's head!"

Nine thousand years old sighed.

"Jin Yiwei is a good knife, you have to sharpen it well.

When it's time to move the knife, move the knife.

If you really can't do it, you can still call people from me, Lao Huang is still there, you are all old brothers, he will help you, who you want to kill can also do it secretly, Xiaozu did a good job, and no matter how people died, the dead person will eventually make the living heart tremble, and if it is inconvenient to catch him, let him die violently.

What does Jinyiwei do?

Isn't it just doing those inconvenient things for His Majesty?

If someone dares to resist, the soldiers and horses on the nine sides are still there, which of Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and Zhang Shenwu can't use them? You go back and transfer Man Gui back as the chief soldier of Jizhen, what's the big trouble, just let him take the cavalry into Beijing, make trouble? I don't believe that they can still make trouble with the Iron Cavalry if they make trouble again? With me watching from the south, there are still people who want to do Datong again, and I won't need His Majesty to take action, I'll go and destroy it, so what are you afraid of?

Don't be afraid of who should be moved! ”

Yang Xin said.

His wives definitely can't stay in the north, they all have to move to Nanjing, but the territory in the north can't be lost, so Huangzhen will continue to stay in the new castle, and the Yang family has already started the reclamation of eastern Hebei before, and even the channel to Luan is about to be built, and this new grain-producing area can't be given up either.

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