Be a little expert in death, be a little expert in death!

Anyway, at this time, there is basically no one in the Ming Dynasty who can restrain Yang Qing, if it is not for the fear that the last piece of pure land in the Ming Dynasty that has not been affected by the war in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be destroyed, Yang Qing will also succeed in forcibly implementing public land......

It's nothing more than killing more people.

If Yang Qing showed the courage of the Qing army to wash Jiangnan in the original history, the Donglin Party would not be worth mentioning at all.

But this kind of thing should be avoided as much as possible.

However, the new policy has officially begun to be implemented in various localities, and the taxes on the gentry are the responsibility of those local officials, and they are temporarily levied according to the land in the household register, and will be discussed later when the border is completed.

But even so, taxes increased significantly during the summer months.

The local gentry did have sporadic resistance, but the fear caused by Li Zicheng had not subsided, and the vast majority of the gentry still pinched their noses and accepted it, as for those who resisted, the local officials solved it themselves under the orders of the ministers, after all, those gentry still had many ways to deal with the collection of taxes, and an open boycott was the most unwise choice.

And the meridian has also begun.

Under the protection or supervision of the Jinyi Guard and the Tax Police Corps, the Household Department organized a number of meridian teams in accordance with Yang Qing's intentions, and first began to measure and classify the farmland from Nanjing, especially those fields that were forcibly confiscated from the nobles, and then those tenants were all incorporated into the militia as reserves. In this way, together with the three armies of Beijing and Ying, which were previously formed on the basis of the fields of the guards, the surroundings of Nanjing can be said to be impregnable, and these three armies will be withdrawn after the other armies are reorganized and will be used as the guards stationed in Nanjing. The 60,000 tax-free yeoman peasant guards resembling the royal family, and hundreds of thousands of tenant militia of the imperial village, can really be said to protect Nanjing as if it were an impregnable wall.

Whoever attacks will have to fall into the vast sea of people's war.

After Nanjing's meridian boundary is completed, it will be extrapolated outward.

First of all, it is estimated that it will take at least two years to carry out an inventory of the official fields in various places, and after two years, the inventory of the official fields will be completed, and the militia of Huangzhuang will be completed in the same way.

As another part of the new policy, the Department of Taxation was also established.

Lao Wang is the director of the tax department.

His first task was not to set up a tax agency as quickly as possible, but to revise the new tax law as quickly as possible, and all the commercial taxes such as tea, silk, and salt were revised, and at the same time new customs were added, and all customs were set up in Songjiang, Ningbo, and Fuzhou, and the customs department directly under the customs was established......

"Smuggling is definitely not going to work."

Yang Qing said to Zheng Zhilong.

At this time, he was in his own marquis's mansion, in the summer night breeze, Kou Baimen sang on the piano, Yuanyuan sat on the side and performed the tea ceremony, Li Xiangjun danced with a group of dancing girls, according to the taste of the literati, this can be regarded as the ultimate in life, of course, this is mainly for hospitality, when there are no guests, Yang Qing will let them dance in tulle, poor Li Xiangjun after being roulin by him, basically his heart is at his mercy.

Zheng Zhilong smiled but did not answer.

This smuggling naturally means that he, the largest smuggling group in the Ming Dynasty!

"But you can have a monopoly!"

Yang Qing said.

"Loyal and brave marquis, please make it clear!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

"It's very simple, let's follow the example of the Dutch and set up a Nanyang Company with a joint-stock system, the Queen Mother, me, and your Zheng family partner. The imperial court granted the Nanyang Company the right to trade in the entire Nanyang, and the trade of foreign merchant ships to the Ming Dynasty was not restricted, but the export trade of the Ming Dynasty itself in the direction of the Nanyang was all monopolized by the Nanyang Company, including foreign colonization, crusading against those Fanbangs who were disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty, and setting up commercial bases in Fanbang, which were all authorized to Nanyang Company.

The Ming merchant ships that are not from the Nanyang Company, but dare to do business in the Nanyang, are all pirates, and how to deal with pirates is the responsibility of you, the chief of the navy. ”

Yang Qing said.

"But it's not just my Zheng family who is doing business in Nanyang at the moment!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Absorb, with the fleet to invest in the Nanyang Company, either join the Nanyang Company, or withdraw, neither join the Nanyang Company but dare to do it, all of them will be treated as pirates, but the Nanyang Company only does Nanyang business, to the north is not in the scope of the monopoly, after all, we can't eat alone, we have to leave a bite for others."

Yang Qing said.

Zheng Zhilong groaned.

For him, it's hard to say whether it's good or bad.

In fact, the trade of Nanyang is monopolized by their Zheng family, basically nothing else's business, some have already been sunk by him to feed the fish, but it is in the form of illegal smuggling, Yang Qing's Nanyang Company is actually harming his current interests, not only does he have to share the monopoly profits, but also the Nanyang Company has to pay taxes, even if the tax rate is definitely lower than that of foreign merchant ships, but also has to pay taxes, he did not pay in the past. But if he refuses, he will become Yang Qing's enemy, and since Yang Qing is eyeing maritime trade, he will definitely not stop in the end, he will not do it, some people will do it, such as Shen Tingyang and the like, if he wants to stop it, he can only start a war with Yang Qing.

He is indeed not afraid of Yang Qing at sea.

But his foundation is on land, Yang Qing casually found an excuse to let Jinyiwei go to Fujian to raid his family, he couldn't stand it, and at that time, the Zheng family's more than 20 years of accumulation was gone.

As far as his strength is on land, just a military camp in the past, even if he unites with the gentry in Fujian, he will be given in vain, he has been a rich man for twenty years, obviously does not have the courage to cross the world when he was young, after all, he is no longer a pirate, there are a bunch of industries in Fujian wrapped around his hands and feet, and the Nanyang Company at least gave him the glory and wealth in the future......

"Then be loyal and brave!"

He said very simply.

"Okay, Nan Amber is refreshing! Brother, I'll give you a treasure mountain. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Loyal and brave marquis, please speak."

Zheng Zhilong said.

"There is a gold mine in the north of Taiwan, don't ask me how I know, Nan Amber just needs to know that I won't lie to you, the location is in the mountains south of the city of San Salvador built by the Spaniards, and I don't know the more specific location, but I know that it should not exceed the coast fifty miles to the south. In addition, there is a huge sulphur mine in the mountains to the southwest, which should be easy to find, where there are hot springs, and the sulphur land must be barren. ”

Yang Qing said.

"But it's a land of people."

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Do you still need my brother to teach Nan Amber how to do it?"

Yang Qing said.

"It is more troublesome to find the gold vein, but the sulfur mine is in the mountains and forests, as long as you walk over, you can see at a glance, these brothers will not stretch out their hands, which can be regarded as a little heart for Nanamber."

He went on to say.

"Is the Marquis of Zhongyong afraid that I will not recapture Taiwan with all my heart?"

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"Fujian is mountainous and lacks fertile land, that is, there are sweet potatoes in these years, otherwise I am afraid that most places will starve to death every year, so why not move to Taiwan? Facing the mainland, Taiwan's plains are all the most suitable for rice, and with abundant water sources, fertile land, and a suitable climate, all of them can be developed to feed a population of five million, and it would be a crime to future generations to lose such a good place to the Dutch. ”

Yang Qing said.

Zheng Zhilong smiled and raised his glass.

Yang Qing raised his glass and touched each other, and the two drank it all.

The first step in solving the problem of maritime trade is the first step, but then Yang Qing is not ready to make things bigger for the time being, he is only doing export now, but the real root cause is still not moving, and the real Ming court has almost no harvest in overseas trade, the root cause is not Zheng Zhilong's family, but all the gentry along the coast are Zheng Zhilong. In fact, there are not many merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty to the South Seas, no more than ten ships go to Batavia every year, and there are clear records from the Dutch, and Batavia is the largest trading port in the South Seas, which shows that the scale of the Ming merchants' active trade in the South Seas is very small.

What really caused the loss of customs revenue in the Ming Dynasty was the direct trade between the small boats of the coastal gentry on the offshore islands and foreign merchant ships.

Zheng Zhilong will not care about this problem.

In fact, Yang Qing also has no ability to care.

Even if he let the navy constantly patrol the coast, it will be useless, because his navy will definitely be dragged into the water and become smugglers, just like our Daishimizu division and the British are in partnership with yakata.

Neither can the state-run one.

Daming's tea was originally state-owned.

But in fact, all smuggling, in the era when the imperial power was not under the county, any policy as long as the gentry did not cooperate was in vain, and when he infiltrated the Huangzhuang all over the countryside of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it was not too late to do it at that time, and now no matter what reform is carried out, it will be broken in an instant. He is now the first step to get this Ming version of the East India Company up, at least this link only needs to deal with the Zheng family, and those small maritime merchants along the coast of the South Seas can absorb this monopoly group.

There was no internal competition in the shipping of the Ming Dynasty, because there were very few ships going out, and the main competitors were European merchant ships, but in fact the Dutch welcomed the Ming merchant ships to transport goods to Batavia, where the Ming merchant ships would be welcomed.

"Then there's one more thing."

Yang Qing said: "It's time for our reinforcement army to set off. ”

Dolgon turned to Guannai, giving the Koreans hope of recovering the north, but they themselves absolutely did not have the guts, it just so happened that Yang Qing also wanted to pull Li Zicheng and contain the Qing army from the rear, so Chongzhen promised before, but the reinforcements that have not been sent so far should set off.

"But there's still a manager missing."

Yang Qing then said.

"What do you mean?"

Zheng Zhilong asked.

"How is Ling Lang? If Nan Amber wants him to take the top prize, I didn't say this. ”

Yang Qing said.

"How many troops does the Marquis of Zhongyong want to send?"

Zheng Zhilong asked.

"North Korea is mountainous, and the camp is inconvenient, not to mention that my Daming is also still in the midst of the peace, and there are not so many soldiers and horses available, and this is North Korea's own business, let's just go to help, let the North Korean people know that the Ming Dynasty sent troops to protect them, let alone send troops, that is, if you don't send troops, just show the Ming flag, it will be enough for the North Korean people to strengthen their confidence."

Yang Qing said.

"How much?"

Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Uh, a battalion."

Yang Qing said.