Chapter 606: Confused

In the spring of the twenty-third year of Jiajing, the whole world fell into a chaotic situation, this mood is indeed panicked, but more confused and inexplicable, the word 'Huazhou' is a common concept in the coastal merchants, but in the Ming Dynasty is still completely unfamiliar with him.

At this time, the concept of Huazhou all came from the residents who left Liaozhen, and the specious descriptions they said seemed to be legendary myths, which were even more unreasonable.

It is said that many of the guys in the teahouse and wine shop are informants, and the discussion on the streets and alleys can quickly be worn into the yamen of Jinyiwei and gathered on it.

However, these news cannot be turned into documents and news made public, because these policies are too intriguing and incendiary for merchants and gentry, and they are originally for war preparation and military spending, and now they have to raise taxes and levies, and the exploitation of the localities is even more severe.

Some things are getting worse and worse, especially this kind of suppression of speech, this kind of thing in the Ming Dynasty has always been bad, there is a Ming generation, the literati remarks are unscrupulous, and some gossip spirits are more outstanding, and they are even brilliant, and even the emperor's rumors have to be created.

Later generations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty scolded the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei and Dongchang for blocking the way of speech, not allowing the world to speak, in fact, the most blocked population and killed the wisdom of the people was the Manchu Qing, the text prison made the world dare not speak, can not speak, can only consume time in the study.

In the face of this situation, Jinyiwei and Dongchang really had nothing to do, but they could only arrest people everywhere, but most of the people who could discuss state affairs in the teahouse and wine shop were literati and gentry with some family business, and when one was arrested, the officialdom of the entire Beijing division was in an uproar, and even the civil servants of the Western Party did not do it.

Caught and released, let go, in the end, there is no choice, can only be prepared to investigate the source, all people talk about the shops in Huazhou, all are closed, this is considered to have an effect, nothing is more important than making money, every store is pasted with a banner that does not talk about state affairs, which is hundreds of years ahead of the times.

However, the more they grasp it like this, the more curious and discussable it is, and everyone is wondering what kind of power this Huazhou is. Unlike the situation in Beijing, the various prefectures and counties along the coast were in a state of panic, and the officials in these places had a very close relationship with the maritime merchants, and they had a general understanding of the strength of Huazhou's navy.

Now there is such a thing, think about the big ships and artillery in Huazhou, and that extremely terrifying financial resources, these officials in coastal prefectures and counties are numb.

The officials of the entire Great Tomorrow have a similar mentality, even if they know the truth about Huazhou or know a lot of information, they will not say it, otherwise they will be crowned with an adulterous enemy country, and their heads will be gone, so I won't say that everyone is killed.

There is still such a situation in the coastal prefectures and counties, which were originally high-ranking officials, and many of them invited businessmen to banquets or discussions, and their posture was very low, although the status of businessmen has improved a lot in recent years, but it is really strange that many officials are so "handing over the knots".

Guangning's troops have reached 40,000, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhen are still rushing there, the mighty battalion and the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Division are the most trusted soldiers and horses of the Jiajing Emperor, so they are placed near Jixian and the Beijing Division, responsible for the defense and action around the Beijing Division.

Some of the men and horses of Xuanhua and Baoding are camped in the Luanzhou area, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhen left 10,000 soldiers to defend the danger that may come to the grassland, and the rest of the people are moving towards Shanhaiguan and Guangning, and the artisan battalions of Jingshi and Tianjin Wei are also moving with all their might, because they all know that the other party's firearms are powerful, so they also work overtime to produce firearms, and the red-clothed general artillery of the Beijing division cannot be moved.

The red-coated general artillery in the rest of the places were all transported to Jixian, Luanzhou and Shanhaiguan, but when the artisan battalion was in full swing, the officials in charge of the artisan battalion disappeared several times in a short period of time, not because they suffered any means, but because they absconded in fear of crime.

The artisan battalion could not start for a long time, and the officials sent down to supervise it took a look, but found that the artisan battalion was already extremely short of quotas, and most of the craftsmen with some skills were nowhere to be found.

The way to make money here is to recruit private craftsmen, let them take refuge under the artisan camp, they can be exempted from taxes and servitude, so that they can earn a lot of money, and at the same time, the officials in charge can also collect some filial piety, and they can also take over some work outside to do, so although this artisan camp is very poor for generations, but the labor of artisan households that is not worthy of the name is very large, and there are many shortages of military households, but the artisan households are often overnumbered.

This time it was a shortage, which really surprised the officials of the Ministry of Industry who were familiar with the joints, and they were puzzled, and then there was a lower-level artisan battalion official who did not go to say the key, an apprentice fifteen taels of silver, a skilled craftsman thirty taels of silver, and the master was fifty taels, if there is a family, it can also be converted into a four-fold price.

And as long as the people are handed over, they have their own ships in the Tianjin Wei area to receive them, and the rest of the things don't have to be taken care of, and if you sell the people, you can get the silver, and those craftsmen are willing to get on the ship, and the officials in this artisan battalion are capable of three years.

Who cares about the future, every time these officials come to office, someone comes to contact them, and what they do is to constantly recruit craftsmen from the locality, and then hand them over to the buyers, and get the silver. The weapon workshops in the Tianjin area rely on some rough work to deal with it hastily, anyway, the imperial court has been regardless of quality for many years, and sometimes, this quantity is not a big deal.

Since the supervision is in vain, and the traders' traders have a large amount of silver in their accounts, the officials below are all keen on this matter, and speaking of which, these people are not much different from the employment introductions of later generations, but they are more straightforward.

The Ming Dynasty never paid attention to craftsmen, and when they looked at it, they found that the so-called artisan household camp was not only written about the coolies who could work, but also the young craftsmen who knew some rough crafts (incidentally, these young craftsmen were going to go to Huazhou for a period of time in the artisan camp), and there was no so-called manufacturing capacity anymore.

When the news was transmitted back to the Beijing Division, Shangshu and Shilang of the Ministry of Industry were immediately imprisoned, but fortunately, there were still arsenals in various places, and the rest were not coastal artisan battalions, and the loss of personnel was not as serious as that of the coast, and the emergency organization could still play some efficiency, but the production of firearms was far from enough.

Emperor Jiajing and the officials below have been in a hurry to prepare, but there is no movement in Huazhou, although it is said that it is not active to attack, but the border and everywhere are very strict, Huazhou civilian households and military households are similar to the civil law of Baojia and sitting, whether it is the border people outside the customs or the original residents of Liaozhen, they have been registered in a very short time, and the civil officials and regimental training envoys in each region are extremely strict.

If a stranger enters, he is not included in the list of civil officials, and there is no joint seal and signature guarantee from other civil officials and regimental training envoys, and he has the right to be arrested and imprisoned immediately, and if he resists, he can be killed immediately. Households that take in and fail to report information are subject to penalties ranging from large to small.

If a stranger has a seal and signature guarantee from other areas, but there is a problem in the local area, the person who issued the guarantee will be held responsible, and the system of joint sitting and everyone is responsible makes it difficult for the fine work and spies to enter it to investigate, and the cavalry in Huazhou is excellent, if the kind of scout horse and scout horse can't stay in the interior of the Liaohe River for too long, they will be hunted down, and the kind of person who sneaks in disguise is in the net of heaven and earth, and can do nothing.

As for what to use in the name of righteousness and loyalty, those who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and are not accustomed to Huazhou have already returned to the Ming Dynasty, and the rest have received a lot of benefits and benefits.

said, Huazhou appeared, and the news of Daming could only be released by Huazhou, and the strange news described by those who put it back was even more untrue.

Although, the soldiers are fast, Huazhou has not taken any action, but there is a sentence "know yourself and know the enemy, a hundred battles will not be defeated", until now Daming seems to be a blind man to Huazhou, he doesn't know anything, he doesn't know the movements and movements of the other party, but Huazhou has too many relationships in Daming, and every move of the Ming army is in Huazhou's inspection.

There were only more than 300 Ming troops on the west side of the Da Liao River, all of them were horse teams, and they were stationed at the front line, just to be able to report to Guangning as soon as possible when there was something, but the military camp on the opposite side was silent, and the power was amazing during the drill, which had already shocked them.

However, after coming here for a few months, from the freezing of the river to the two months of the imminent enlightenment, the opposite side was practicing as usual, and there was no intention of marching, nor did it mean to garrison and build a camp for a long time......