Chapter 376: Sinicization, Progressive, and Profit Distribution

Boiling frogs in warm water kills people with slow fire, but Jiang Feng once experimented in his kitchen, as long as the frog was a little fire below and the water temperature rose slightly, it immediately jumped out. Jiang Feng, who wanted to tell Zhang Liang and his subordinates a big truth, was quite depressed.

But the same principle is used on people, but it is very useful, Jiang Feng led his team to North Korea has been five years, if it is just ashore, the small court of North Korea is concentrated on attacking with all its strength, although the Korean army is weak, but Jiang Feng's troops are not unlimited provisions, competing with each other to consume, after all, the side with fewer people suffers, but after Jiang Feng showed his prestige, he immediately shocked the king of Korea and Li Rengong.

These bureaucrats just wanted to keep their wealth, and after seeing that Jiang Feng did not want to usurp their power, but wanted to cooperate with them, these Korean rulers immediately bowed their heads to Jiang Feng.

The result of bowing his head is not bad, the life of the Korean royal court may not be comparable to the rich families in the south of the Ming River, but after Jiang Feng controlled the shipping and trade of North Korea, after all, the local power in the north of Korea still needs the king of North Korea and the king of Baeksan to give orders, and it needs to rely on the manpower of North Korea to develop and transport the iron ore of Maoshan and the coal mines distributed all over the country.

Although it is a small amount, it is also a huge amount of money for the royal family and nobles, with the port, commerce is also prosperous, and Seoul, which is relatively close to Incheon, has become a place where many trading houses and warehouses are stationed.

Even the civilians in Seoul are full of praise, and the manpower required for the establishment of various workshops is also a large increase, for workshops and workshops, which require a certain amount of craftsmanship and labor enthusiasm, few slaves are used to work, and when Huazhou was not established, Zhao Xiucai made a rule with various workshops that slaves were not allowed.

Originally, he wanted to give these jobs to the surplus labor force of Minwei, but he did not expect that Minwei's own handicraft workshops and farmland had completely digested the labor force, and the Ming merchants in Incheon and Seoul had to hire local Korean civilians at very low prices.

They felt that the very low price was already quite a good treatment in North Korea, and everyone rushed to enter the workshop to work, and in the workshop, whether it was the head of the craftsmen or the merchants, all of them were Han Chinese, and if they could speak Chinese, the treatment would be quite increased.

This has spawned another craze, that is, the boom of learning Chinese in Seoul and the towns north of Seoul, although the Korean scholars and nobles, and the royal family all know Chinese, but the common people still speak the native language, and many North Korean scholars are now relying on teaching Chinese to earn some extra money.

At that time, those Tie Ding and the later 2,000 veterans were all recruited in the artisan battalion, and these people had already become officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels of the Jiang family military system, and their families had been working in Jiang Feng's weapons workshop since they were taken to Dengzhou.

After arriving in North Korea, as the population increased more and more, more and more workshops for making weapons continued to expand, after all, the team training also needed weapons. And more importantly, whether it is outside the Guan, Huazhou, or Yizhou, the need for agricultural tools for these populations is extremely huge.

At Su Guanyue's suggestion, Jiang Feng instructed Zhao Xiucai, the chief secretary, to open a Huazhou money bank, and the Huazhou Governor's Mansion and the Huazhou Taishou Mansion jointly issued a document, that is, if the people of Huazhou and Yizhou have assets or guarantees, and the guarantor must hold positions in the Huazhou Yamen and the army, they can set up workshops and shops on their own, and if the funds are insufficient, they can borrow money, and the interest is one-twentieth of a year.

You must know that in the past, Huazhou's workshops were government-run, and his shops were opened by Li Guangtou and some businessmen who were attached to Jiang Jiajun, and it is not an exaggeration to say that these shops were government-run, but these shops were more of an attitude, and the profits were very thin, which was equivalent to sending materials to Huazhou in disguise, which was also a method used by maritime merchants to express, since this was the case, it was naturally impossible to be too large. After all, investing money at sea is a huge profit.

As the population increases, such shops are becoming more and more inadequate, and many people do not have a large amount of money to participate in the maritime trade, but they can also see that it is profitable to open such shops and workshops in Huazhou, Yizhou and even outside the Guan.

Therefore, as soon as the text was issued, many people came to apply, of course, those who had this qualification were only the upper echelons of the civil guard, and the families of the soldiers, these old craftsmen pooled money with each other or guaranteed each other, and after obtaining the qualifications, they opened workshops, and the people in the civil guard chose shops.

These workshops and shops are required to pay taxes to the Taishou Mansion, and if they produce some supporting things for the weapons workshop, they must be accepted and recognized by several old craftsmen.

There are naturally a lot of cats to play with, but when it comes to the Huazhou Governor's Mansion, everyone is trembling, although the profits are very high, and Jiang Jiajun has always been generous in spending money, but if there is a problem with the quality, there was a maritime merchant who mixed something into the gunpowder supplied to Jiang Jiajun.

As a result, it was discovered during the training, the merchant got the news but it was also very early, and after the upper and lower dredging was ineffective, he immediately ran back to Hangzhou City, and the whole family was wiped out a month later, and all the ships were sold to other maritime merchants at a low price.

This is naturally a warning, an example of killing one and setting an example.

After these workshops and shops were opened, the customers were those in the civil guard and the army, although the taxes in Huazhou were not much lighter than those in the Ming Dynasty, but firstly, the cultivation technology was advanced, and the natural production was high, secondly, the institutions were flattened, and there were few deductions in the middle, and thirdly, many people had other incomes, not to mention.

Everyone has purchasing power, and it is difficult to think about the business of the store, and the prosperity of the business has allowed them to continue to expand the store and manpower, and the manpower of the Minwei is limited, and those Koreans who are learning Chinese and gradually sinicizing are gradually accepted in, working in the workshop, and working as a partner in the store.

Because of the strength of the military force and the superiority of life, in the entire system under the command of Jiang Feng, people have more or less some so-called racial superiority, especially looking down on Koreans and other foreign races, feeling that they are useless and only deserve to be taken captive as slaves.

However, these Koreans who are proficient in Chinese, except for their slightly different appearances, and other Koreans who are the same everywhere have joined the store, their feelings have also changed, and it turns out that they can also do some work.

The income of the Koreans who worked in the shops and workshops was naturally much higher than that of the people around them, and they naturally had a sense of superiority in their hearts, and because they were subordinate to the Han people's industry, the officials and officials of the Joseon Kingdom were also afraid of them, which showed their difference.

In order to highlight the difference between themselves and other North Koreans, they do not speak Korean even at home, and let their wives and children learn Chinese and dress up like Hermes-Epitek.

Jiang Feng never thought that he actually just wanted to give more benefits to the backbone forces who supported him, and tie them more firmly to his chariot, who would have thought that there would be such a chain reaction, and there would be a large number of Sinicization of various Koreans, which is good, it is always a way to increase his own population, and greatly consolidate his rule in North Korea.

The Dutch people in Huazhou, that is, the white people, are now close to 2,000 people, and most of them live more than ordinary Han people, and in the process of opening workshops and shops this time, these people have been cultivated in the mercantilist environment of Europe, and the response is also the most fast, and now these people are almost all fluent in Mandarin, that is, the appearance is too special.

The current Korean royal family has been bewildered by this better and better life, they are enjoying it with peace of mind, they still have the power to give orders in Seoul and some cities in northern Korea, they are already very satisfied, they do not expect that the ruling foundation of the small court of the Korean Kingdom has been corroded by Jiang Feng, and even his people are constantly transforming.

In the north of Korea, there is a similar situation, the Ming adventure merchants control a large number of mineral deposits, use a large number of labor to work, the laws in the north are extremely harsh, the punishment is already very simple, deprived of the rights of the people, directly sold into slavery, these slaves are directly sold by the Jiang army.

If you want to avoid such a situation, you can only get closer to Hermes-Epitek as soon as possible, so that you can receive all kinds of preferential treatment.

For the farm tools and some irrelevant things to contract to private individuals, Huazhou's Taishou Liu Shunhua still has some incomprehension, he feels that now everything is money, why should he give away the profitable things, Jiang Feng's answer is very simple:

"I'm definitely going to make more money in the future!"