Chapter 351: Bazaar of Rice
And Zheng Yiguan knew that keeping Zheng Zhibao would shake the morale of the army, but he was helpless, and Lord Huang Sheng used a yang scheme. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zheng Yiguan must not kill Zheng Zhibao and others, and he must treat them well, otherwise the soldiers under his command who no longer recognize him will be even more detached.
Moreover, Zheng Zhibao is his own brother, and Lord Huang's ability to spare Zheng Zhibao's life has proved the sincerity of the Ming army to let him go.
Zheng Yiguan patiently listened to Zheng Zhibao and the others tell about the Daming sailors they had seen, about the young musketeers and soldiers, and also knew that he was already crossing the street in Fujian and the coastal areas of Guangzhou, where everyone shouted and beaten.
Zheng Yiguan's mouth was full of bitterness, it seems that Daming has this Lord Huang Sheng, and this bowl of rice on the sea is not delicious. Going overseas to grab land and build a country can really be considered.
In just two months, Xu Xinsu has recovered some vitality, and his subordinates have received more than 20 large and small warships allocated by the imperial court, and the reward for the great victory over Zheng Yiguan has also come down, and he has become the deputy general manager of the Kinmen Water Camp from Sipinwei.
This kid is rich, and now his thinking has changed and he is willing to spend money, Fujian is in drought, and the people are struggling to make a living, he has money and food and immediately pulled up a private army of more than 1,000 people, plus a full amount of 1,000 generals, his strength has surpassed that of a guerrilla general.
Xu Xinsu gathered some scattered warships and purchased some new ships, and now has ten main warships of the No. 2 Fuship-class, thirty-two grass-skimming ships, and more than 40 Cangshan ships, wave-opening ships, and so on.
With the experience of the past, he knew that the army was the foundation of his foothold, and he trained the sailors every day regardless of his blood, and believed that he would soon improve his combat effectiveness, and if Zheng Yiguan came again, he was afraid that he would lose both.
Since Xu Xinsu was stationed in Kinmen, he naturally wanted to improve the city of guarding thousands of households, and he took advantage of the fact that there were too many displaced people near Xiamen to gather and bring more than 2,000 households to settle down in Kinmen, and at the same time repair the city and port while the army and civilians were reclaiming.
Xu Xin is known as a wealthy and food-rich population, and has many warships and soldiers, and I believe that it will not be long before he is the actual master of Kinmen Island.
There is a famine in Fujian, and the price of grain is ridiculously high, and a bucket of rice costs two taels of silver, and the poor cannot live at all.
Of course, Huang Sheng couldn't see death without help, so he sent a young musketeer to sell 200,000 stone of rice in Fujian according to two taels of silver and one stone through the Ye family's sales network, of course, it was retail, and everyone was only allowed to buy three buckets if they died.
They also have an important task to widely publicize and recruit excellent craftsmen, shipbuilding craftsmen are the most popular, and the Huang family offers a guaranteed monthly salary of one or two or two yuan, and gives rations four buckets per month for large-scale recruitment.
As long as the selected craftsmen can receive four months' remuneration in advance, and then drag their families to settle down in Zhejiang, they only need to work for five hours a day in Zhejiang, and they can rest for three days every month, and their wages will be paid.
Who is unwilling to have such generous conditions, the craftsmen who were favored by the young people of the Huang family are fleeing with their families, and the officials who manage them are helpless, and no one dares to chase them, otherwise they may die from the remnants of Zheng Yiguan's plunder.
Ye Chengjing knew that he had to pull them when the people were not making a living, otherwise they would take risks, and when bandits were rampant, both the poor and the rich would be threatened.
This time, he followed Huang Sheng to show off his power in Nanyang, and the attitude of the Spanish governor and those high-nosed and blue-eyed Westerners towards the Ming Dynasty made him feel supremely honored.
He also saw with his own eyes that the private soldiers of the Huang family and the pirates of Li Guozhu had wiped out the entire army of the Great Yue Navy, so it was difficult for a country to fight against such strength, what should he do in the future?
He was not afraid, but had expectations, and he had already made up his mind in his heart that he would follow Lord Huang in the future, either he would not get ahead or he would never recover.
Lord Huang used the grain he bought to do good deeds, and he asked to come out under the name of the Ye family. Of course you can! The Ye family will have an unexpectedly good reputation!
As for whether he offended the black-hearted bureaucratic capital who was ready to make a fortune in the country, this old son was not afraid of causing trouble.
His family and his partners made too much money on this trip to Nanyang, at least 30% higher than their expectations, and the Huang family, who could bring them wealth, asked him to find a partner to sell rice at a reasonable price, and of course he spared no effort.
Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, was not a big corrupt official, but he still worked hard, and when he saw the merchant who was selling rice for charity, he immediately cooperated with the action and sent soldiers to maintain order and make secret visits to prevent profiteers from buying and hoarding Juqi.
With these 200,000 stone of rice in Fujian, at least 400,000 people can live with some bark and wild vegetables, but what about many desperate people? They can't afford even one stone of rice and two taels of silver, so should they starve to death?
No, no, there is Lord Huang's scientific robbery of the rich and helping the poor, and it will definitely not be like this, after all, the people who are really destitute are a minority.
It is often the absolute minority who begin to take risks in order to fight for a chance to survive, and the fragile balance of the rioters is upset once they riot.
It could have been rebuilt and resumed after the disaster, but it was destroyed by man-made disasters that were constantly smashed, looted, and burned, so more destitute people were born, and finally developed to the point that the imperial court was unable to provide relief.
The natural disasters of the Ming Dynasty are the cause, is it possible that Shaanxi has been plagued for 17 consecutive years? In fact, it was Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other careerists who burned, killed and looted, and brought the most important disaster to the Ming Dynasty - the military disaster.
They spread like locusts in the south of the Shanxi-Shaanxi River, and as long as they pass through one place, thousands of ordinary people who could have been self-sufficient have become abjectly poor, and in order to survive, they can only follow these thieves as cannon fodder, and then plague the next place.
In the end, the team of Zhang and Li became bigger and bigger like a snowball, becoming the first force to destroy Han civilization.
Huang Sheng is ingenious in providing relief, but he doesn't distribute food when he sees the homeless.
After selling 200,000 stone of rice for two taels of silver and one stone, the 200,000 stone on the ship is all profit, and the people who don't want to go hungry, the Huang family will give you food and clothing, come on, get on the ship and go to Zhejiang.
The government is most afraid of the gathering of displaced people, and now the poorest people who have no food and clothing have been taken away, a full population of 20,000, more than 4,000 households.
Although there are quite a few people, because Gu Shanhe has already educated 10,000 people to learn to obey orders, he asked the good citizens who are active among these 10,000 people to lead two or three families, and they will be in order immediately.
Huang Sheng left 20,000 stone of rice for Xu Xinsu, asking him to help take in another 1,000 refugees and send them to Lingao County, Qiongzhou, telling him that the Huang family had tens of thousands of acres of tuntian there and needed manpower.
Such a trivial matter is of course effortless with Xu Xinsu's ability, and he said that he would definitely be able to hand over the population to Ma San in less than a month. If you do the math, there are 1,500 households going to Lingao, with a population of about 6,070, and Ma San's work will be much easier.
Completed the relief of the people of Fujian, and waited for the Huangdongshan fleet to send people to Lingao to return to the sea, with more than 600 sea ships to sail north, in mid-November to Daishan Island, nearly half a year of more than 20,000 people of work here has begun to take shape, the cement plant has been put into operation, the yarn factory has been completed.
The mill was nothing more than centralizing the management of the new spinning machines and providing jobs for the women, and this time the raw cotton purchased was unloaded on the spot, and it would be a large-scale light industrial base in the future.
Daishan Island Grain Depot has built 20 silos, which can store more than 100,000 stones of grain, which is due to the fact that the Huang family builders have built many silos, and the design is becoming more and more reasonable.