Fang Yuan was going to wage war with the Weng family on all fronts in the silk industry, and there were three battlefields, one was northern trade; second, overseas trade; The third is the local trade in the south of the Yangtze River.

Just cutting off the trade routes of the Weng family's northern trade and overseas trade is not enough to completely kill the Weng family, and it is necessary to give the Weng family a fatal blow in the Jiangnan market.

Fang Yuan found Xu Hua, the owner of the Peach Garden, and told him the idea of starting a war with the Weng family in the Jiangnan market, and took out the chemical fiber silk that was ready to be dumped on the market for Xu Hua to judge.

Xu Hua often deals with women in Qinglou, and has a unique vision for the quality of silk and the market. He carefully looked at and experienced the chemical fiber silk given by Fang Yuan, and made the same judgment as Bruce, this kind of high-quality and inexpensive silk definitely has a broad market in the market.

Fang Yuan's military and political affairs were cumbersome, and all kinds of affairs were pressed on him, so he didn't have the heart to personally go to the Weng family to fight.

Taoyuan is a famous brothel in Suzhou Prefecture, Xu Hua must know a lot of local silk merchants, so it was decided that Xu Hua should be the general underwriter of this silk, and the specific distribution to which silk merchants are all decided by Xu Hua himself.

Xu Hua saw that Fang Yuan was willing to be the chief underwriter of this kind of silk by himself, which was to give him a piece of fat, and immediately smiled happily and promised repeatedly.

Fang Yuan bought this silk on Taobao for 2 taels of silver per horse, and underwrote it to Xu Hua for 3 taels of silver per horse. As for the price of Xu Hua's redistribution, Fang Yuan did not interfere in principle, and only gave a price limit, that is, no more than 5 taels of silver per horse.

This price is lower than the current market price of 6-8 taels of silver / horse, which is considered to be Fang Yuan's concession to the people of Suzhou Prefecture to make a little benefit, the introduction of modern industrial products, of course, should be enjoyed by the people of the whole society, rather than businessmen to earn windfall profits in the middle, and the people to pay.

There is a profit margin of 2 taels of silver in the middle of a horse of chemical fiber silk, Xu Hua thought about it for a while, and knew that this business was completely worth doing, when he and Fang Yuan finalized the first batch of orders for 5,000 horses.

The dumping war in the Jiangnan market has begun, indicating that the business war between Fang Yuan and the Weng family has officially begun!

For a month in a row, all parties sent good news to Fang Yuan.

Qin Zhan, who was responsible for collecting the arrears of the Donglin Party, because of the convenience of the list, the Donglin Party had a total of 2.87 million taels of silver, and after bargaining and Fang Yuan's concession to reduce or reduce the amount of 40%, nearly 1.1 million taels had been successfully collected.

What has not yet been successfully recovered are some diehards who have a background relationship in the capital and stubbornly resist to the end, and the outstanding amount is about 280,000 taels.

For these diehards of the Donglin Party, Fang Yuan naturally had nothing to be polite about, and directly learned the Manchu Qing Dynasty's method of cleaning up the arrears of land and taxes, and let the Suzhou government order to deprive these Donglin Party members of their fame. Then agreed with Qin Zhan's Jinyiwei that no matter what method Jinyiwei used to recover the 200,000 or 300,000 taels of silver owed, as long as there were no large-scale casualties, only half of them needed to be handed over, and the rest would be distributed by Jinyiwei himself.

This order is tantamount to giving the wolf-like Jinyi Wei a Shang Fang sword.

Jinyiwei has everything he can do to clean up people, not to mention that he is also concerned about his personal interests, so he naturally does everything he can to clean up this group of Donglin Party people who think that the backstage of the capital is very hard.

Due to Fang Yuan's high-pressure policy towards the Donglin Party, a large number of Donglin Party members fled to Zhejiang for refuge like Qian Qianyi.

As a result, 30,000 acres of confiscated public land were confiscated. Ten acres of land can recruit at least 3,000 military households and raise 3,000 sergeants.

However, Fang Yuan was not prepared to recruit military households in the four prefectures of Nanjing for the time being, because there was no tradition of being able to send strong troops in the local history of Suzhou Prefecture. In addition, the local military resources will be unclear with the forces of all parties, which is not conducive to control.

Fang Yuan's plan was to recruit displaced people from other places to migrate to the local area as military households.

And the Dongting merchant gang, because the Xi family and the Shen family came forward to mediate, Fang Yuan successfully recovered 630,000 taels of silver.

As a result, most of the 4.86 million taels of silver in the first batch of outstanding field endowments had been recovered by Fang Yuan, and a total of 2.23 million taels of silver had been collected.

The first batch of collection was a great success, and Fang Yuan ordered Xiaoyuan and Jinyiwei to start the second batch of non-Donglin gentry and ordinary wealthy merchants to collect the arrears of land taxes.

This part of the amount is even more detailed, ranging from thousands, hundreds, and tens of taels of silver; There are many more people involved, at least tens of thousands. The amount of work is quite huge, and it is estimated that there will be no results in a few months.

In order to share the burden of Xiao Yuan, Fang Yuan ordered her to go back to the previous dental store again, and bought thirty small thin horses with flexible brains, accounting, accounting, and bookkeeping at one time, and set up an independent accounting department directly managed by Fang Yuan. He is responsible for the liquidation of land endowments, the construction of military bases, the income and expenditure accounts of the government office, and the accounting management of Fangyuan's private small treasury.

The management of this independent accounting department was entrusted to Xiaoyuan.

The collection of autumn grain in Suzhou Prefecture is also progressing smoothly, because this year, the wind and rain in Suzhou Mansion are smooth, and in addition, Chen Hongmi and other officials of Suzhou Prefecture have worked hard to collect in order to curry favor with Fang Yuan, and they have collected 4.15 million stone grain very smoothly, of which 2.15 million stone grain needs to be handed over to the imperial court.

The remaining two million stone grain, according to the previous discussion with Fang Yuan, was handed over to Fang Yuan for a total of two million taels of silver protection money through grain and the method of converting it into silver.

Fang Yuan recovered this part of more than 4 million taels of silver, allocated 1.5 million taels of silver and secretly handed it over to Chongzhen, and the remaining 2.5 million taels of silver went into Fang Yuan's own pocket.

The amount of silver in his Yue Bao account has reached 6 or 7 million taels, and the daily interest paid by Yu Bao alone is 700 taels, which can be said to be rich and rich, and he can finally let go of the construction of a large military base, as well as the investment of the Firearms Research Bureau.

Fang Yuan directly allocated a total of 50,000 taels of silver to the Firearms Research Bureau presided over by Tang Ruowang and Bi Maokang, so that the two must see the research results within three months.

And Jing Jie's plan for building a large-scale military base has also been introduced.

A total of 80,000 acres of cultivated land and 190,000 acres of forest land near Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake are expected to be expropriated, including 50,000 acres of cultivated land and 150,000 acres of forest land belonging to the Weng family, Xi family and Shen family; 30,000 mu of cultivated land belonging to self-cultivated farmers and fishermen, and 40,000 mu of forest land need to be transferred to 5,000 self-cultivated farmers and 10,000 fishermen.

According to the official land acquisition standard, the cost of collecting this part of the land of self-cultivated farmers and fishermen is at most 5 taels of silver per mu of cultivated land and 2 taels of silver per mu of forest land. However, the market price is 10 taels/mu of cultivated land and 4 taels/mu of forest land.

Fang Yuan did not want to deduct the land of these farmers and fishermen, so according to the official expropriation price, the market price was compromised, 7.5 taels of silver/mu of cultivated land, and 3 taels of silver/mu of forest land.

The amount of silver that needs to be spent on this part alone is about 350,000 taels.

In addition to having to pay the full amount of land acquisition, it is also necessary to resettle these farmers and fishermen who depend on farming and hunting for their livelihood, and at least give them a livelihood. Otherwise, these farmers and fishermen, who have lost their livelihoods, are also a high-risk group of outcasts and robbers.

However, this is not difficult for Fang Yuan, because the construction of large military bases, the construction of warships and the expansion of naval divisions is a large amount of labor. As long as food and shelter are provided, and then a monthly salary is paid, these people can be appeased. Moreover, the construction of military bases and the construction of fleets is also a major project that will last for several years, and at least for a few years, these farmers and fishermen will still have no worries about food and clothing.

After the completion of the sailor division, there will be a shortage of sergeants who are good at water combat, and those fishermen who live on fishing boats all year round and are familiar with water are ready-made sailors. Farmers who are not accustomed to water can stay in the military base and work as handymen to earn a living.

As for the cost of land expropriation by the Dongting merchants to help the Xi family and the Shen family, Fang Yuan would personally go to the Xi and Shen families to negotiate; The land of the Weng family, after the Weng family is killed, can be confiscated.

According to the calculations of Fang Yuan and officials of the Suzhou Prefecture for several days, the total construction cost of a large military base of 200,000 to 300,000 mu will be at least 2 million taels of silver.

The construction cost of 2 million taels of silver can be borne by Fang Yuan's treasury, but this figure is only a preliminary estimate, and Fang Yuan will not easily believe this number.

It is strange that the Suzhou government officials do not get kickbacks from it. With the urine nature of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, if the government undertook the construction, it would be common to ask for additional costs after the repair was halfway through, or it would be impossible to delay it for a few years, then this military base would be the same as the Ningyuan defense line, a bottomless pit of silver.

How much silver it would cost to build a military base, Fang Yuan couldn't estimate it at the moment, and he didn't have such a talent who was proficient in infrastructure construction for the time being.

The only way Fang Yuan could think of to come up with a more accurate cost was to open the bidding.

The biggest advantage of public bidding and allowing local wealthy businessmen to undertake the construction is that they can find specific responsible persons. If it is handed over to the government to repair, the budget is exceeded, or there is a problem with the quality of the building, the officials of the government will definitely blame each other and blame the relevant department, which is usually not found, and can only be stopped in the end.

If the contract is contracted to a wealthy local businessman to build it, no matter what mistakes occur, the responsible person is quite clear, Fang Yuan can directly take the rich businessman who undertook the construction to blame, and the lost expenses can be directly confiscated from the rich businessman's family property to make up for it.

Another advantage of open bidding is that the cost can be relatively transparent, as long as the contractors of each construction project report the amount of the bid, the approximate cost of building this military base, Fang Yuan can do it in his heart, instead of being blind in front of his eyes and let the government officials fool him.