Chapter 325: Dominating the Sea, Stability, and Ambition

In August of the thirteenth year of Jiajing, the world was calm.

Although Jeju Island is small, it is the only leader after all, and some of the merchant ships at sea in the past have begun to take the initiative to go to the island to pay tolls, and the food problem that was difficult in the past has now been solved.

More than 30 Minwei have now begun to produce grain, and there is still a surplus of grain, and the original land of Minwei is in the south, and it is also extremely convenient to ship it to nearby Jeju Island by boat. Although the land in North Korea is barren, the southern ones are quite decent, and because Wiscom and the old farmers are already farmers and officials of various civil guards, standardization and slight scale still achieve good benefits.

Of course, Jiang Feng doesn't have any concept in his head to standardize this kind of thing, but now that he has just arrived in North Korea, all things must be carried out in accordance with the instructions above, so as not to take the road of resentment, Jiang Feng with 10,000 soldiers and more than 200,000 people is still at a disadvantage in North Korea, and what to do is naturally cautious and trembling.

The merchants on the northern sea reacted quickly, and after knowing that Jiang Feng's Jiang family army had disappeared in Dengzhou, they were ready to surrender to another master.

Dengzhou's private port has been blown up, and now Shandong is like a big barracks, and Dengzhou doesn't dare to go there, so Linjia Island in Laizhou has become the best choice, but no one thought that the island has been occupied by people first.

The occupation of this natural harbor made all the pirates who started late beat their chests, and the government's attitude towards this place is still the same, as long as you hand over the money that should be paid, nothing will interfere with what you do.

However, the one entrenched on the island seems to be more than a thousand distant disciples of the Lin family on the island, and in this kind of place on the sea, where there is no royal law, the Lin family, more than a thousand people, occupy this place, and it is naturally the object of coveting. In April, after the ground in Shandong was completely quiet.

The three fleets in Jiangnan spent money to hire pirates and pirates, and were ready to seize this port.

As a result, this flotilla that was ready to move was surrounded by five armed merchant ships on the sea near Shijiu, this kind of ship was Jiang Feng's ship, and now there were ships with artillery at sea, and it was not a Western-style ship except Jiang Feng. Moreover, these armed merchant ships are no longer the ships with six small cannons of the past, but big guys with twenty cannons.

These entangled some outlaws are about to occupy the maritime pirates of Linjia Island, they don't even have a chance to beg for mercy, they want to run, the hard sail is not as efficient as the Jiang family's soft sail in using the wind, and there is already a huge gap in speed, after catching up, the distance between the two ships is dozens of steps.

The cannon hit, sank one by one, and there were also those who didn't want to kill and drove the boat closer to prepare to jump to the gang, but even if there was a chance to grab the rope and swing over, the other party held the spear as if it was a game, and it was poked down, after the battle, not all of them were killed, and hundreds of people were tied to Jeju Island, and now North Korea is in special need of labor, and it is the need for Han labor, so it is also a waste.

After this battle, the people at sea finally knew who was the most effective in talking on the sea now, and who was the biggest fist.

Jiang Jiajun's technical advantages are finally revealed, ship technology is not something that can be learned by looking at the appearance, the keel, ribs, and the structure of the compartment are the key, the mast and sail and so on are quite exquisite things, but you can't see anything from a distance on the ship.

What's more, Jiang Feng's dock in Dengzhou is already very hidden, and after Incheon, it is even more semi-isolated, and it is extremely difficult for others to find out the news.

The combination of the technology of the Fu ship in the East and the Galen ship in the West, although this product also has all kinds of shortcomings, but it is enough to dominate the sea, and Jiang Feng's emphasis on artillery makes his advantages expand, of course, these can only be carried out with the support of Jiang Feng's almost terrifying financial resources.

If it weren't for the financial support of sea trade and private salt, and Su Guanyue's dedication to scheduling, there would never be such an achievement, even so, Jiang Feng still used the money obtained from the Beijing division as a reserve, and now there is an advantage in North Korea that the big wood on Changbai Mountain is relatively easy to obtain.

The small court of North Korea is already controlled by Jiang Jiajun, and one after another will is issued, and there are naturally people in Pyongyang who mobilize people to do it, and Jiang Feng will spend some money to go up, and it will be even more disadvantageous. Now in the port near Incheon, in addition to Jiang Feng's own merchant ships and Monk Li's merchant ships are running, Xia Cuiyu's own ships are also running.

Now Xia Cuiyu is already Jiang Feng's housekeeper, although Jiang Feng has no mind to take care of it, but after discussing it with Su Guanyue, Liu Fangrui thinks that it is better to put it in front of him generously than to put it outside so awkwardly, and Jiang Feng has no opinion.

It's just that Xia Cuiyu still has that attitude, if she doesn't get rid of Xia Qingjiao, she won't really enter the door of the Jiang family, Jiang Feng's sea power at this time is already very strong, and she doesn't pay so much attention to the ships and sailors of the Xia family, but after all, this woman followed him from Dengzhou to a foreign land, and they have some fate with each other.

What's more, Jiang Feng's family is big, and it is inconvenient to use Zhao Xiucai as a housekeeper in the inner house, Zhao Xiucai is now almost the head of the entire Jiang family's military material system, and he is very busy, and he can't be separated, so he simply let Xia Cuiyu come over to manage the inner house.

Xia Cuiyu is different from Liu and Su in the inner house, she has been running a business outside since she was a child, leading the children of the family, and she can be regarded as a capable and shrewd person, and this time she can be regarded as making the best use of her talents, Xia Cuiyu proposed it herself, and the more than 20 Xia family children who followed her in the Jade Building did not have anything to help in North Korea, so she simply took down a few ships and started a business at sea.

The sea around Daming is full of gold and silver, as long as you take the boat to the sea, don't encounter wind and waves, it is difficult for pirates not to get rich, not to mention the powerful sea power of Jiang Feng, and the Xia family These people themselves are familiar with the way, and after doing it a few times, it began to snowball.

According to the plan of Dengzhou shipbuilding, in the 14th year of Jiajing, there should be one warship of 650 tons of the same class as the Shunfeng, two ships of about 400 tons, and about 10 ships of about 300 to 200 tons.

The more than 30 civil guards in North Korea are all under strict military control, and the information traffic in this era is also sluggish and backward, all news from the Ming Dynasty is strictly sealed, and Jiang Feng never does anything to treat the people with kindness, and there is an iron law in the civil guard:

"It's the death of those who return to their hometowns!"

After looking at the heads of nearly a hundred people, all of them were honest, and the regimental training of each civil guard was a cross guard, and the young and strong drills selected by this civil guard were all in other civil guards, and they were carried out in rotation, suppressing and monitoring each other.

After the initial homesickness was gone, that is, I felt the benefits here, first of all, Jiang Jiajun said that he would not collect taxes for three years, but only had hard labor, and after three years, the taxes would only be collected by 30%.

You must know that when they were in Shandong, most of these refugees were tenants and semi-yeoman farmers who rented the landlord's land to cultivate, and often worked hard for a year's crops, first to hand them over to the landlord, and then to pay the imperial grain tax, and then to go out into labor. When I was just spring plowing and sowing, many people were dismissive of the guidance of the agricultural officials, thinking that I have been doing it in the field for so many years and still need you to teach?

However, the peasant officials are also the big people who speak well in the civil guard, and many people have changed their habits for many years, and they have planted crops such as so-called corn and of course wheat and sorghum.

Because all of them were organizations in which the health officials and the agricultural officials cooperated, although there were very few cattle from the Korean people, but the strength of the people was great, and they still played a very high efficiency, and when the harvest came in August, many people looked at the harvest full of grain, and many old people could not believe that it was all their own grain, and some people who were used to living a hard life were crying there.

The climate in the south of Korea is warm, so you can cultivate two crops a year, after the second batch of seeds are planted, the mind of the civil guard gradually settles down, although the law here is harsh, but the food is their own, and I heard that the Ming Dynasty is still in the midst of war.

There are also craftsmen who are transferred from various Minwei in the shipyard in Incheon, and if there are people who are willing to work in the dock, the wages are good and they can be deducted from taxes, which is quite an excellent job. There were also a large number of Korean craftsmen in the docks, and now the inhabitants of all parts of North Korea are in fear, and it is said that those who are now arrested are being exiled to places where they cannot return.

However, as long as you know the craft, you can work in the dockyard or know other crafts, your status is very different, and you are immediately protected in all aspects, and the status of the family is much higher.

For more than a year, Korean craftsmen came from all over the country, gathered around the Minwei or lived in a mixed group, about a few thousand households, a total of 20,000 people, Jiang Feng arranged for them to live between Seoul and Minwei District, these people were not under the jurisdiction of the Korean officials, and they were called the Goryeo artisan household camp.

Jiang Feng has been living in seclusion during this period of time, staying in the fortress near the port of Incheon, and some people close to him know that he is in the command room in the center of the fortress every day, looking at the map hanging on the wall-the chart of the sea frontier of ten thousand miles......