Volume 3 Chapter 79
The city of San Salvador was finally taken, but the Spanish defenders ran away, and as expected, all the gold, silver, treasures, books and materials were taken away by them, but there were many goods in the chicken coop harbor that they had not had time to carry away.
Zhang Bin didn't think too much about this, people have already run away, you don't think about them anymore, they won't come back, it's useless to think about it.
Now, the most important question is how to completely bring the entire Dongban under his control.
This question is not a simple question, Zhang Bin specially found a clean and tidy study in Jilong Harbor, took out the latest map of Dongfan, and then fell into deep thought on the map.
How can you completely put the whole of Dongfan under your control?
As long as the imperial court casually sends a group of prefects, prefectures, and counties over, Dongfan basically has little to do with itself.
If you don't set up a management agency, you won't be able to recruit refugees in the future, and besides, you also need people to collect the land endowment.
What if you can't set up a local administrative body, or if you don't set up a management body?
Soon, he thought of the cantonment system.
The tunwei management system is completely different from the local management system, generally as long as the guard commander or the thousands of households are set up, there will be no change in the basics, because people will build a family and start a business, marry a wife and have children, farm and eat grain, and live there.
However, it is okay to establish a guard in Dongfan, but it is not possible to build a capital division yamen, because the capital division yamen is a pure management organization, and the officials at all levels in it are not farming, so they can be transferred around at will.
In the end, Zhang Bin decided to establish a guard in Dongban and promote his cronies to the commander of the capital and Qianhu to ensure that Dongban was always under his control.
Of course, he decided that it was useless to establish a guard, he had to nod his head, this was not as simple as promoting a few officials, but a major matter involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, and he didn't have so much power as a governor.
So, how to persuade Chongzhen to agree to set up a guard in Dongfan instead of establishing a state capital?
Zhang Bin thought about it seriously for a while, and then picked up the pen and began to write the recital.
First of all, he gave Chongzhen a series of good news.
The pirates entrenched in Dongfan were finally wiped out, and there were no pirate attacks around Fujian.
The Hongmao Fan who invaded Dongfan was also defeated by him, and he also captured more than 400 Hongmao Fan.
In several battles, he found more than 1 million taels of silver in the pirate Li Kuiqi's lair and the Hongmao Fan stronghold!
Immediately afterwards, he gave Chongzhen a problem, that is, what to do with the pirates who were recruited.
He started with 20,000 pirates under Zheng Zhilong, and the total number of pirates he recruited before and after reached more than 40,000 people, if he continued to gather them together and act as the regular army of the imperial court, the military expenditure alone would be more than 100,000 taels a month!
Of course, Zhang Bin can find a way to earn this money, but he said that the military expenses raised earlier are already the limit, and he can no longer do anything about the military expenses of the more than 40,000 pirates.
If they can't be brought together, then they must be dismissed.
Now that the pirates have been basically wiped out, and the red haired fan has also been driven away, these more than 40,000 people can be dismissed.
But where to settle?
It was impossible to resettle them in the provincial capitals of Fujian, because there was no land to distribute to them.
In order for them to survive, everyone must be divided into at least ten acres of land, and more than 40,000 people are more than 400,000 acres of land.
Immediately afterward, he began to analyze the situation in Dongfan.
It is not a safe harbor, on the contrary, it faces many threats, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the pirates, and even the pirates from other places want to take it for themselves, so it must be defended by troops, otherwise, it will not be long before it becomes a pirate lair, a paradise for the pirates, or a stronghold for the red hair.
So, where did the garrison come from, and if they sent troops, they would have to spend money?
Summarizing the above two problems, he proposed to set up a guard post in Dongfan and adapt the recruited pirates into a garrison.
In this way, the problem of the placement of the recruited pirates has been solved, and the problem of the defense of the east has also been solved, and the most important thing is that both things do not cost a penny!
He then went on to list the many advantages of setting up a guard in Dongfan.
For example, if there is a guard station, Dongfan is safe, and the matter of resettlement of displaced people can begin, as long as enough displaced people are settled, there will be more land endowments, and it will be hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.
For another example, with the deterrence of these guards and the coastal guards of Fujian, pirates basically do not dare to operate around Fujian, so that Yuegang is safer, and the business of Yuegang will definitely become more and more prosperous, so that there will be more taxes and silver.
In the end, he racked his brains and presented a super sycophant:
The Ming Dynasty has been more than 200 years since the year of Taizu Hongwu and the year of Chengzu Yongle, the capital of the guard has never been increased, and for various reasons, the number of guards has been decreasing, if you can add a guard in the east, this is simply an unprecedented feat for more than 200 years, the emperor's move is comparable to the two ancestors of Taicheng!
After writing the recital, Zhang Bin carefully checked it again.
He believed that with so many benefits and another million taels of silver, Chongzhen would definitely agree.
If you don't agree, no problem, I'm just suggesting, since you don't agree, you can find a way to settle the pirates who have been recruited, and you can send someone to garrison Dongfan, can Chongzhen do it?
Definitely not, it's not that he can't do it, the main problem is that if you don't follow his advice, it will cost you money to place pirates and send troops to garrison Dongfan, and Chongzhen, what is lacking is silver!
The proposal to establish a guard house was put forward, and the specific setting of the guard house naturally had to be presented, otherwise Chongzhen would take the old map from decades ago, be blind, and send some commanders and thousands of households to come over, and his previous efforts would be in vain.
Zhang Bin took the map and looked at it carefully, and soon planned out nine guards, namely the East Central Guard, the East Front Guard, the East Fan Defender, the East Left Guard, the East Right Guard, the East Central Guard, the East Central Defender, the East Fan Left Guard, and the East Fan Right Guard.
He also gave "suggestions" and made certain explanations for the specific settings of each health center.
He suggested that it be set up in Bengang, and the commander of the guard suggested that the guerrilla general Zheng Cai should be appointed.
This is the original place where Zheng Zhilong reclaimed the wasteland, and many of his family members live here, so it is more convenient to divide the tuntian.
Dongfan avant-garde, he suggested that it be set up in the position where Kaohsiung was located in the later generations, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Yang Geng should be appointed.
No forces have set foot here yet, but this is a plain that is very suitable for reclamation, so it is better to have a guard here.
The Eastern Guard, which he suggested was set up in a chicken coop, was ordered by the guard commander to suggest that the guerrilla general Chen Hui should be appointed.
This is the original Spanish station, with a port and a castle, which was used as a garrison.
Dongfan Left Guard, he suggested that it be set up in Penghu, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Zheng Xing should be appointed.
It is located on a sea artery, and troops must be stationed there.
Dongfan right guard, he suggested that it be set up in the location of Yilan in the later world, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Gan Hui should be appointed.
The main purpose of this place is to monitor the northeastern part of Dongfan and prevent the gathering of Japanese pirates here.
In the vanguard of the Eastern Fanzhong, he suggested that it be set up in the big officer, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Zhang Guan should be appointed.
This is the original Dutch station, with a port and a castle, which happened to be used as a garrison.
Dongfan central defender, he suggested that the position of Hsinchu in the later generations, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Shi Daxuan should be appointed.
This was originally Shi Daxuan's lair, and many of his family members lived here, so it was more convenient to divide the tuntian.
In the left guard of the Eastern Fanzhong, he suggested that the position of Changhua be set up in the later generations, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Hong Xu should be appointed.
Similarly, this was originally Hong Xu's lair, and many of his family members lived here, so it was more convenient to divide the tuntian.
He suggested that the position in Taitung be set up in the later generations, and the commander of the guard made him suggest that the guerrilla general Zheng Ming should be appointed.
The main purpose of this place is to monitor the southeast of Dongfan and prevent pirates from congregating here.
As for why he suggested that these people should be the commanders of the guards, Zhang Bin also explained at the end, because these people were originally the leaders of the pirates, and the pirates who were recruited were only suppressed by them, and if they sent other people as commanders, I am afraid they would not be able to suppress these pirates, and if they went back to their old business, it would be troublesome.
There is also the problem of Zheng Zhilong's brothers, he suggested retaining 10,000 elite sailors and about 200 warships, commanded by Yu Chenglong and Zheng Zhilong brothers respectively, in case the Netherlands, Spain and the pirate Liu Xiang counterattacked.
Zhang Bin is so sure that Chongzhen will agree to his suggestion, so will Chongzhen really agree to his suggestion?
To tell the truth, Chongzhen really has a little bit of a feeling that he really regards Zhang Bin as a cronie at this time, because of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, there are so many local officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, only Zhang Bin alone can keep getting silver for him, and the more than two million taels of silver that Zhang Bin sent him earlier have helped him a lot.
With this silver, the situation in Liaodong is not so tense, and there are not so many rebels in the northwest, and even, he still thinks that if Zhang Bin gets him another hundred thousand taels, he can start to quell the rebellion in the southwest.
As a result, he opened Zhang Bin's recital and saw that there were more than one million taels of silver, and Zhang Bin had already exterminated all the pirates around Fujian in advance, and all the Hongmao Fan were defeated by him, and even captured more than 400 Hongmao Fan.
This is simply the great news that can be used to sacrifice to heaven and earth and show the ancestors and ancestors!
Chongzhen was already so excited when he saw this, as for the later things about the placement of pirates and the establishment of a guard in the east, because he was in a good mood, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it made sense, especially the last sentence, "An unprecedented feat for more than two hundred years, the emperor's move is comparable to the second ancestor of Taicheng!" Chongzhen smiled when he saw it.
He was so happy, Zhang Bin's suggestion, he immediately adopted it all without hesitation!
In this way, the East Fan Jiuwei, which shocked the powers behind him, was born!