The second Spring Festival in Yulin Bay is more lively than the first Spring Festival, and now the entire Qiongzhou Mansion knows that there is such a group of Great Song Dynasty relics in Yulin Bay, and the key is that these Great Song Dynasty relics and the Ming Dynasty locals they hired have silver in their hands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoYulin Bay settled all the arrears at the end of the year, and the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver made Yulin Bay's spending power jump up several steps. Not only Yazhou, Wanzhou, Qiongzhou, but even mainland businessmen, opera troupes, including JI women, gamblers, and people from all three religions and nine streams poured into Yulin Bay at once, and everyone wanted to make a lot of money during the Chinese New Year.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, all the restaurants in Yulin Bay were all contracted by Li Fuqiang, and even Chen Mincheng, Zhou Chongde, Zhao Qianzong, and Li Shuang also rushed over from Yazhou to attend Li Fuqiang's wedding.

He Chaoyong looked at the guests coming and going enviously: "Look, look, it's still Chief Li who has a brain, and he waited until there was no shortage of silver before getting married, this pomp." ”

"What do you envy?" Wang Qianxiang said, "Chief Li is marrying a main house, and Ming Media is marrying, of course it has to be done." At the beginning, you were a concubine, just carry it home. Don't worry, you will have the opportunity to do it in the future. ”

"Forget it, don't think I don't know." He Chaoyong smiled, "You didn't take a concubine, but that little maid in your family has already been corrected." ”

The bustling Spring Festival is over. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Chongzhen's first crossing conference in four years was held in Yulin Bay as scheduled. Because there were more than 700,000 taels of silver at once, and there were still more than 600,000 taels left after paying off the arrears, all parties came up with plans for the new year, and strive to get an extra piece of the pie at this crossing conference.

The congress lasted five days and a series of resolutions were adopted.

As the first bill of the conference, it was passed by almost 100% unanimous vote, starting from the fourth year of Chongzhen, each traverser, including the direct descendants of the traverser, the monthly living expenses increased to five taels of silver, and in a few months, the first traverser and the descendants of the Ming Dynasty will be born.

Sun Dalei's proposal was passed, and the remaining 600,000 taels of silver will not be distributed as a year-end dividend of the crossing group, but as a reserve, establish a bank, and issue metal substitute currency. The reason why banknotes were not issued was because the conference found that it was not possible to make anti-counterfeiting marks yet, and if someone made a counterfeit, it would have a great impact on the economy of Yulin Bay. Metal coins were developed by the Industrial Bureau, and the value of the currency was divided into 7 types from 10 taels of silver to 1 cent of silver, and the more than one tael of silver was cast into silver dollars with silver, and the less than one tael of silver was minted with steel and copper-lead alloy. After careful calculation, Sun Dalei decided to temporarily set the issuance of metal coins at the scale of 100,000 taels of silver, which would be circulated in Yulin Bay first, and then determine whether to expand the circulation scope according to the situation in the future. At the same time, the congress passed a resolution that Sun Dalei concurrently served as the president of the newly established Yulin Bay Bank.

Because of the money, Lu Tianxiang submitted a proposal twice "Yulin Bay Compulsory Education Law" was finally passed, regardless of the permanent or temporary population of Yulin Bay, but all children between the ages of 7 and 16 must go to Yulin Bay School to receive six to nine years of free compulsory education. All food, clothing, housing and transportation during the study period are all borne by Yulin Bay, and I don't need to spend a penny.

The Vietnam operation was officially launched. Jiang Beiming's title was added to the post of commander of the mixed battalion stationed in Annan after the top military commander of Yazhou Qianhu and Yulin Bay, and the military rank was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. The mixed battalion has two infantry companies, an artillery company, a marine platoon of 50 people, a guard platoon directly under its command, a 50-person baggage medical team, and Wang Zhaoxing's God gunboat, with a total of 540 personnel. Xu Lang was appointed chief of staff of the mixed battalion major and also joined the army.

Shen Daxing and Zhang Xin finally came up with a three-pounder bronze cannon for the army, weighing 400 catties and having a range of 500 meters. The artillery battery of the mixed battalion stationed in Annam was armed with six three-pounder guns and two 30 naval guns.

Sun Tianhao was appointed as the head of the Annan Pioneer Group, Cheng Yiyi was the representative of the committee, and Gu Yunkun was the representative of the Industrial Bureau and concurrently served as the deputy head of the Annan Pioneer Regiment. After propaganda and mobilization, the committee formed a pioneer group of about 300 people composed of Ming Dynasty people to enter Annam as the first batch of immigrants. Chiang Beiming, Sun Tianhao, and Cheng Yiyi were instructed to form a three-member group of the highest decision-makers in Annam, which had the power to decide on all issues related to Vietnam's actions.

The army will continue to expand in Yulin Bay, and there are only 3 years left before the seventh year of Chongzhen, and time is running out. It was decided that one more battalion would be expanded within half a year to establish the Yulin Bay Army Regiment, and Han Wantao was appointed lieutenant colonel. Qiu Peng's shipyard's first newly developed 500-ton 30-gunboat improved warship was about to be launched in a few months, and Zeng Guangxian was ordered to form the First Fleet in Yulin Bay, and like Jiang Beiming, Zeng Guangxian's position was also added to the post of commander of the First Fleet after the commander of the Yulin Bay Navy, and his rank was also promoted to lieutenant colonel.

At the same time, Wang Hua was awarded the rank of major and was ordered to form the Yulin Bay Military Academy. The Military Council made a resolution that, in addition to recruiting graduates directly from the academy, military academies will be able to train and assess the promotion of non-commissioned officers and officers in the military in the future, and at the same time, the post of sergeant major will be formally established in all levels of the army. 15 days of training is required for non-commissioned officers to be promoted, 30 days for sergeant majors and lieutenants at and above the company level, and colonel-level officers are pending. According to the expansion plan for the next three years, in the future, not only platoon-level officers, but also battalion and company-level officers will be held by Ming Dynasty people.

Lin Zhaolong finally added one star on his shoulder and was promoted to captain. The Marine Platoon will be expanded to 120 people and upgraded to the First Company of the Yulin Bay Marine Corps. Lin Zhaolong served as a company commander and platoon commander of the Annam Marine Platoon and left for Vietnam. Zhang Hai served as a lieutenant and deputy company commander of the 1st Company of the Marine Corps, and stayed in Yulin Bay.

Wu Zhenhan and Liu Guannan's positions were transferred to each other. Liu Guannan returned to the patrol room and served as the chief inspector. At the same time, the patrol house will also be expanded to 200 people, because the crossing meeting requires the patrol house to not only bear the responsibility of law and order, but also the population management and fire protection will also be assigned to the patrol house. In the future, depending on the shipbuilding situation, it may be that Liu Guannan will also be responsible for the customs and maritime security.

With regard to the establishment of customs and taxation bureaus in Yulin Bay, the final vote of the General Assembly was to suspend the collection of any taxes. Not only is there a problem of unjustifiable names, but most of these travelers from 400 years later have studied "The Tombstone of the Five People", and collected commercial and industrial taxes in the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to asking for trouble.

In view of the fact that Sun Tianhao and Zhang Hai did not return to Qiongzhou, Liu Jun was transferred to the Qiongzhou office as the director. Liu Jun's work in the Yazhou office this year has been carried out very smoothly and has been well received by the conference. The director of the Yazhou office will be taken over by Wang Jian, the head of the logging team is currently in an idle position in the Industrial Bureau, there is no work every day, but his wife has married several people one after another, and now he has become the person with the most daughters-in-law among the travelers in Yulin Bay. The crossing conference decided to let Wang Jian and all his wives move to Yazhou to live, using his family as a cover, and doing some intelligence work by the way, because there is basically no intelligence to do in Yazhou now. Before the Spring Festival, the officials of the entire Qiongzhou Mansion and Yazhou City, large and small, Yulin Bay gave a generous gift, and in front of the sugar-coated shells, these Ming officials fell at the feet of Yulin Bay one after another.

Yulin Bay has developed more and more differently from the Ming Dynasty, and its direction is more like a development towards industrial and commercial society than a return to traditional Chinese agricultural society. Although this direction has been the tone since the landing, the Commission has now found that there are great hidden dangers. Liang Chengdong has been in charge of agricultural development since the beginning of the landing, and at the beginning, whether it was a traverser or a Ming Dynasty person who came to Yulin Bay, eating was the top priority, so Liang Chengdong's work was carried out smoothly. But with the prosperity of industry and commerce in Yulin Bay, now any factory or workshop you enter, or open a small business at will, you can earn much more money in a year than you face the loess with your back to the sky, and work tirelessly for a year. Therefore, more and more people in the Ming Dynasty and even the Li people began to farm with less peace of mind, and even if they farmed, few people grew grain, but changed to vegetables, poultry eggs and other things that could be sold at a high price. A year and a half have passed since the landing, whether it is the wasteland reclaimed by himself or the borrowed land under the Lizhai model, the land at the disposal of Liangchengdong is less than 5,000 mu, and even if the cultivation technology is improved and the output is increased, the increase in grain production is far from catching up with the increase in population. At present, the annual grain is only enough for the consumption of more than 10,000 people in Yulin Bay for half a year, and all the surplus grain must be purchased from outside.

"Members, don't take it lightly, this problem is serious." At the crossing conference, most people were indifferent to the food problem, and they were afraid that they would not be able to buy food if they had silver. Sun Dalei had no choice but to entrust Lu Tianxiang to warn the importance of this issue from a historical perspective over and over again, "Yes, we now have silver, and we can buy the food we need." But buying is not the way to go. In the present era, the reason why Europe has been able to smoothly embark on the road of modern development is because their industry and science and technology are developing rapidly, relying on guns, relying on colonies, and relying on plunder. But have you ever wondered, what is the basis of all this? It's agriculture, it's stable agricultural production. ”

After Lu Tianxiang accepted Sun Dalei's commission, he carefully prepared a report on this issue: "Everyone is from 400 years later, I will not go into detail about the problems of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, but I hope everyone understands that without the stability of the primary industry, there will never be industrial and commercial prosperity." This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was originally the world's tax area, and it was the grain production area of the entire Ming Dynasty. 'Wuhu is ripe, the world is full', this is what has been said since the Song Dynasty, but now, because of the huge benefits of silk trade with the West, the entire Jiangnan region is changing rice to mulberry, and the original grain export place has become a grain import place. In a few years, the drought in Henan and Shaanxi will make the Ming Dynasty have no food to adjust, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will rise up. ”

"Members, we have intervened in history, and maybe we are changing history. So what will happen in the future, no one knows this, if one day, the Westerners, the Annamite people, including the Ming Dynasty have imposed a blockade on us and imposed a trade embargo, then where will our grain come from, what is the use of just having silver, can silver be eaten? ”

Lu Tianxiang's speech prompted the conference to finally make a resolution, on the basis of continuing to maintain and expand the cultivated land in Yulin Bay, Liang Chengdong led the team to form another agricultural group to join the Annam Pioneer Group, go to Vietnam to farm, and strive to develop Vietnam into a grain and mineral base in Yulin Bay.

Xu Lang gave another 10,000-word letter to the crossing conference, and this topic was arranged to the end, and it was discussed for a whole day. Whether Yulin Bay could be rented out in accordance with the precedent of Macao, and whether Yulin Bay could become a country within a state in the Ming Dynasty, fierce debates broke out among the travelers.

Some traversers thought that this proposal was inappropriate, because the goal of the traversal group was the entire Ming Dynasty, and in the future it would also fight against Manchuria, colonize the South Seas, and maybe colonize the Americas, replace Emperor Chongzhen, and establish the Chinese Empire. Now we have to learn from Macau, then Portugal has not gone out of Macao after 400 years of development, and the crossing sports group must not be trapped in Yulin Bay in the future.

However, some travelers think that this is a very good proposal, if it can really be modeled on Macau to lease Yulin Bay, then in the future, whether it is development or military expansion, the Ming Dynasty government can not interfere. For the crossing group, the greater the right to freedom, the greater the room for development, and there is no need to think about what the Ming Dynasty government will think about every time a decision is made as it is now. Finding a mother-in-law for no reason, no one is so comfortable in their hearts.

In the end, it was decided to test the reaction of Yazhou and Qiongzhou first, and it was best to imitate Macao and Hong Kong in later generations, and set up a special administrative region of the Ming Dynasty, "listening to the tune but not listening to the propaganda."