It is another year of autumn harvest season, the eternal flood of thousands of years of Heilongjiang black soil fertile field, now showing a piece of golden yellow, heavy wheat bent head, the new rice exudes fragrance, no matter how the world is changing, the people take food as the sky This point can not be changed in any way, the tragedy of the rapid commercialization of the Ming Dynasty is vivid, when Jiangnan engaged in the maritime trade of the East India Company, the northern granary, he has not relaxed at any time.

And with Mao Jue entered the customs, there was also a wave of rapid development here, first of all, Li Zicheng's subordinates, one hundred acres, and then in Beijing was confiscated by Mao Jue a lot of land nobles, eunuch families heard that there is cheap land in the north, and there is no restriction on annexation, they also took their belongings and child servants on the train from Beijing to Acheng, and Henan, unfortunately, last year was still a great famine year, the Ming government's long-term neglect of the government has made this overdeveloped Zhongzhou land water conservancy disrepair, floods and droughts come together, The investment in water conservancy is too large.

For this part of the displaced people, Mao Jue is also lazy, the local government directly encourages them to go out to work, and even the train tickets are reimbursed, but also want to work to make extra money, and come back when there is money, even if it is a Chinese peasant whose homeland is difficult to give up, there are still hundreds of thousands of aspiring young people "actively" engaged in the construction of the Great Northern Wilderness.

It's just that after there is a house and land there, whether they will come back to cultivate those few acres of thin fields to barely survive, or come back to visit relatives and leave, it is uncertain.

The "Holy Monarch" in history, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and a series of Qing Dynasty emperors stupidly sealed with wicker edges, prohibiting the Central Plains peasants from going north to reclaim, so that this fertile land was empty for more than 200 years, and also let the tsarist Russia, the woolly bear, pick up a big bargain, almost the same latitude as Canada, God gave China a large area of uncultivated virgin land and finally the surname Russia, finally had this opportunity, Mao Jue will not let it lose again.

Along with a bumper harvest there is also a consistent agricultural and populous province of Shandong, anti-normal years of war, even if the densely populated Lianghuai is taken into the hands, the population under the control of Mao Jue in the north is only more than 50 million, the agricultural products of the two provinces are enough to ensure the normal food supply of the ten northern provinces, and even take the grain, Wen Meng in the garrison Han also started a slave business with Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Sichuan, two stone grain for a man in the prime of life, one stone and a half for a young woman or child, and an old man over fifty years old for half a stone, Those with special talents, such as craftsmen, scholars, or women with outstanding appearances, were given silver directly.

Anyway, this king of Daxi saw that the people under his command were not pleasing to the eye, and they were killed at every turn, Mao Jue's business gave him a new way out, and he could still earn military salaries and military rations if he sold people, how good!

Under this trade, the tense military confrontation between Hanzhong and China also became relaxed, and the dense population of Sichuan was like cattle and was strung into a string by the old Shaanxi's Daxi military rope, and was driven out of Sichuan in grief and weeping, and handed over to Wen Meng's Ganshan Corps.

"It's a pleasure to work together!"

Wen Meng and Bai Wenxuan, the highest sergeants of the two regimes in Hanzhong, shook hands with each other heavily, but with a smile on their faces, the two senior officers burst out two words in their hearts at the same time.

Silly fork!

Zhang Xianzhong's rule in Sichuan has always been unstable, the Sichuan people can't stop resisting, and the Sichuan people also don't recognize the displaced people, which is also one of the reasons why he killed indiscriminately in Sichuan, sold them in exchange for valuable military food and military salaries, and the vacated land was just cultivated by the old Shaanxi army refugees, as for the Sichuan people's family property was divided by the generals of the Great Western Army, killing three birds with one stone.

As for the Beiming Dynasty, the historical Shaanxi Lake Guang filled Sichuan just the opposite, these short Sichuan people came to Shaanxi crying, and were immediately packed and divided, part of it was filled into the land abandoned by the war in the Guanzhong Plain near Xi'an, and most of the remaining were all put into the construction of the third railway in Xu, Zheng, Luo, Tong, Xi'an, and Gansu.

Moreover, Wen Meng also reported to the Ministry of Households, and asked for a separate line from Xi'an to go straight to Hanzhong.

There is also a part, was absorbed into the border troops of the Northern Ming Dynasty, don't underestimate the short Sichuan people, in the cruel war of resistance in later generations, the Sichuan army almost played the role of the mainstay, 12 years of the war of resistance, 3.5 million Sichuan children set foot on the battlefield, killed as high as 640,000, almost all over the country have their blood soaked in the place, every five or six soldiers, there must be a Sichuan people.

These people of the country of abundance have a strange love for life at the same time, and they are also exceptionally strong and stubborn in their bones, shouldering the entire northwest frontier defense, Mao Jue under the command of Wen Meng specially approved the establishment of 20 corps, guarding the northwest of the Ming Dynasty's consistent source of soldiers, Wen Meng still approved the establishment of six corps of the Sichuan Army, and in the future, these troops will be the mainstay.

What's more important is that Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know that he also helped Mao Jue eliminate his henchmen, and the Sichuan people who occupy the top of the society have all been sold by Zhang Xianzhong, so naturally they can't form the "underworld forces" and the local government of Mao Jue in the future.

Zhang Xianzhong is winning and losing the future now, so if you really count it, Wen Meng is right, he is a stupid fork!

Mao Jue's development of the black soil granary of Heilongjiang not only changed the agricultural trend of the north and the south, but also had a particularly great impact on the politics of several countries in Northeast Asia.

There is no harvester in this year, cultivation can take extensive farming, but harvesting needs to bend down to cut with a knife, two or three million hectares of cultivated land so that at this time there are only more than four million people, and there are many in the army in Liaodong to harvest by themselves, but absolutely can not harvest, so Fan Wenju who guarded the north and Li Korea, the Japanese State signed an agreement, every year the two countries open the border, allowing the Li Dynasty to produce 100,000 Ding, the Japanese State to produce 200,000, and specially come to the north by boat to harvest.

Not to mention, in the fields, a little devil warrior does not take a sickle and a sword, and chopping wheat is also brushed piece by piece, and the efficiency is not low, and even many people have comprehended the way of the knife when cutting wheat, and created their own school, known as the Wheat Sword Saint.

Every year, as a switch fee, the household department pays 200,000 taels of silver and 400,000 taels of silver to the daimyo of the Li dynasty and the daimyo of the Japanese kingdom respectively, and the labor force of the two countries involved in the labor can earn almost four taels of silver per person in two months, and those who do more can earn six taels.

On the one hand, it is a good thing to have silver in the account, and on the other hand, there are many local residents who take the opportunity to smuggle in Beiming, so that the population of the two countries has lost dramatically, and they dare not offend Mao Jue, a cautious monarch, and the two countries can only knock out their front teeth and swallow it.

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Even with the addition of this finished product, plus the expenditure on transportation, the grain price of the vast and sparsely populated Beidacang is still lower than the grain price in the densely populated, relatively scarce land resources, and productivity-intensive Jiangnan.

With the surrender of Zheng Zhilong and the patrol of the Ming Royal Navy in the East China Sea, the maritime trade was almost cut off, and a large number of handicraft people had to return to the towns and towns to pick up their hoes again, and then, this cheap grain slapped the faces of the big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River several times.

Mao Jue did not prohibit the merchants of the Southern Ming Dynasty from entering the Hangzhou area, but in the autumn of the first year of enlightenment, they undoubtedly hit a big nail.

"What? Not entered? ”

The autumn grain store in Hangzhou City, shouting loudly can be seen even a few streets away, full of shock, wearing a blue Taoist robe, a long beard, and the personable Jiangzuo family merchant Gong Zi exclaimed in disbelief.

"Why, Yang someone, Qiu Shiliang has been selling grain to the Gong family for more than a hundred years, and it's only been a year, are you going to betray your lord and be ungrateful? Have you forgotten the Gong family's care for you? ”

This is also one of the reasons why Jiangnan industry and commerce cannot develop, the feudal personal dependency relationship is too strong, but at this time, in Hangzhou, this feudal dependency relationship has been obviously broken, and the same is full of anger, and Yang Xingchong, the shopkeeper of the grain store, is also full of anger and roars: "The Gong family takes care of my Yang family? That year, my Yang family didn't pay tribute with real money and silver to reciprocate, but this time, the official dog even plundered my Yang someone's daughter, did the Gong family make a sound? Besides, this autumn grain store is no longer run by the Yang family, it belongs to the East India Company industry of the regent! If you can't enter the grain in Jiangnan, your own company is in charge! ”

"I think you're a traitor, an ungrateful dog minion!"

"Brother Gong said this, and Yang had nothing to say! Brother Gong, if you don't have anything else to do, then please! Yang still has official business to do! ”

The company is semi-official, and the security guards are all veterans of the Dongjiang Army, seeing that the two tall northerner security guards leaned over with unkind faces, and their hearts were weak, but Gong Zi still couldn't stand his face, and he was still angry and scolded while walking.

"A dog slave who sells his master for glory, a bastard who is not a son of man!"

It's a pity that even if he scolds no matter how happy he is, it has no effect in front of business, and only makes the next few Beishang who came in look at him with surprised eyes, and then his eyes show a wave of contempt and disdain.

Of course, not everyone is as high-minded as Gong Zi, the Ruan family on the other end obviously judged the situation a lot, and on the other Daxin grain store, the best hair tips were put on the table, and the chubby Ruan family grain merchant smiled and clenched his fists and arched his hands: "Shopkeeper Shi, even if it is the North and South Ming now, isn't it also the Ming Dynasty, our Ruan family has also cooperated for so many years, you say, you can give some face, go in a little more, the old brother is in front of the head of the family, so you have an explanation, right?" ”

It's a pity that this family card doesn't work, and the embarrassment is extreme, and the shopkeeper is extremely helpless and folds his hands: "Brother Ruan, we have known each other for many years, brother, I and you dig out my heart, I really can't help it!" First, this grain store is not my brother's mine, it belongs to the regent East India Company, these 500 stones are already the bottom line that my brother can lose, otherwise someone will check me! And I'll give you a bottom, the grain ship from the north, the price of grain is this number! ”

The traditional method of Chinese merchants, with their big sleeves closed together and their hands pulling each other, Ruan Doumo's face suddenly changed, he was full of shock, and shouted incredibly: "So cheap? ”

"Isn't it? I heard that although the north is cold, but there are many livestock, less people and more land, dozens of horses in the spring ploughing, more than 100 acres of land will be ploughed and walked, during the autumn harvest, there are people and livestock from the country to harvest in the autumn, where is it like us, four or five people plough an acre of land? ”

"If you don't believe it, I'll take you around the granary behind!"

"Don't mind, I don't need it, brother, I still can't believe it?"

What kind of master and what kind of clansman, Ruan Dacheng is not so much a traitor, but a flexible, so when his official position was robbed by others, he did not hesitate to take refuge in Wei Zhongxian, this Ruan Doumo also has this courage, and after a moment of silence, he lowered his voice and asked: "If the Ruan family is also this number, can this grain be harvested?" ”

"But isn't that a loss? Originally, there was a threshold tax to enter Hangzhou, and then ....."

"This year, the grain harvest in the south of the Yangtze River is abundant, and the big ports in Hangzhou do not accept it, and the left Liangyuguang on the side of Huguang will play white strips and throw them in the ground to rot directly, and it is better to lose than to have no harvest, brother, right? Can you make this convenient? ”

"Brother, you said so, what's not to do? Even if we offend a few company shareholders, we will accept this Ruan Weng's grain, old man, take the bills! ”

Ten orders of business were negotiated into this order, or sold at a loss, Yangchun River, Qiantang River near the grain ships piled up, one by one Jiangnan clan businessmen anxiously bubbling up, but they were at a loss.

Now his mouth is not clean, looking at the West Lake in the night, Gong Zi is sitting on the bow of the boat and roaring indignantly.

"Forget the eight-end things, lowly and muddy merchants!"

"Drive the boat and go back to Changzhou, the old man doesn't believe that these bastards can still eat food, and some of them cry and beg us."

"But master, the young master hasn't come back yet!"

"Where did that unfinished thing go?"

was already angry, patting and penetrating, Gong Zi roared angrily.

"Go back, go back to the master!" His voice stumbled, and the little butler replied tremblingly: "Master, I heard that the Regent's Imperial Plaza was opened today, and the young master and a few of the same year went to visit and criticize!" ”

"It's been a day, can something happen?"

To say that this guy is really a crow's mouth, before Gong Zi roared, on the other side of the shore, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came suddenly, and more than a dozen Beiming knights were kicking their horses to the edge of the dock with some impatience.

"Which is the Jiang Zuo Gong family?"

"Old decay is, I don't know what happened to the military master?"

With a chuckle in his heart, Gong Zi hurriedly poked his head out of the grain ship, but the words of the leading knight almost made him faint in the dark.

"There is a man named Gong Zimian in your family, who owes a debt in the Imperial Plaza, and wants the Gong family to redeem it! If you don't want to redeem people, you can do it, if you don't want it, the company will sell people to Nanyang! ”

(End of chapter)