Chapter 528: The World Galaxy Converges in Jinan

In the history without Li Meng, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, he went to Beijing with a large amount of family assets, and the number of several million taels was confirmed by everyone, and many wild history notes said that this property was ten million taels.

Zheng Zhilong, who has always been shrewd, may think that he has been from the dragon very early, so he is ready to take the silver two to Beijing to enjoy the wealth and prosperity, but the truth that wealth is not exposed is common in ancient and modern China and abroad, and for those barbarians outside the border, how can they bear it when they see so much silver.

Not long after going to Jingshi, Zheng Zhilong was imprisoned for his guilt and died in prison.

In this era, Zheng Zhilong is one of the earliest local forces to have a relationship with Shandong, although there are many intrigues between them, the Zheng family and the Tartars hooked up and wanted to attack the port of Shandong, but the relationship on the surface was still maintained, on the one hand, through the system of Jiaozhou port and Lingshan Commercial Bank, the goods transported from abroad were sold to a wider place in the north, the second is that Shandong salt goods have been sold to Fujian, and the third is several sea transports, and the Zheng family is out of the ship.

In addition, part of Shandong's naval system was brought out by Deng Grass and Yang Si, the sea monkey of Qingzhou, and part of it was the group of people who were sent to Fujian for training.

With such a relationship between inside and outside, the Zheng family made up its mind to change camps, and there was no obstacle, and Shandong was relatively receptive, after all, the Zheng family's forces were all at sea, and there was no conflict with the current development direction of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Of course, what really reassures Li Meng is one point, that is, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong can develop the power of the Zheng family to such a few steps in places like Fujian, thousands of large and small ships, tens of thousands of disciples, counting the periphery, almost the overlord of the East Asian sea, it can be said that it is a copy of Li Meng's development, not to mention that this Zheng Zhilong does not have these strange things in Li Meng, which is even more rare.

has such a talent, but he has no self-reliance, and when he made a career at sea, he was eye-to-eye with the Ming government, thinking about being recruited.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty over there was a big momentum, and it was the initiative to contact and sell well in the past, and after Shandong determined its absolute advantage, the Zheng family immediately posted it again, and there was no idea of dominating one side by themselves, but they always wanted to rely on the strong and exchange the power in their hands for peace and wealth.

This is the so-called small family spirit, Sun Chuanting has a very apt evaluation of Zheng Zhilong, "There is no ambition, but it is a pity that he is talented", this evaluation is similar to what later generations said about Zheng Zhilong, because of this, Li Mengcai is very relieved of Zheng Zhilong, he naturally will not kill chickens and eggs like those Manchu relatives and nobles who have never seen the world, but is ready to give this Zheng Zhilong enough wealth in exchange for this sea power in his hands.

Now that the white people are already dividing the scope of the sea, and they have not even unified the Ming Dynasty, if they start from scratch to develop maritime power, I am afraid that it will be too late, with the Zheng family's already large-scale maritime strength, it is always a higher starting point, catching up with the maritime footsteps of Europe that have been many ahead, and conquering those territories that the West has not yet conquered.

At this time, the north is one step away from being fully controlled by Li Meng, and Li Meng's strength is far greater than that of the south, where all forces are mixed, and the general trend of the world is already clear.

Zheng Zhilong, who wants to rely on the strong, will naturally take the initiative to come over to join Toucheng, and he arranged for his younger brother Zheng Zhibao to contact him in Jinan, which is an obvious move.

Li Meng had already considered the next arrangements for Zheng Zhilong, but as soon as the land sale strategy came out this time, Zheng Zhilong's performance still surprised him.

The land sale policy is not a confidential document, from the time of the determination of the Xiangcheng side, the Jiaozhou battalion system from the top to the bottom of the people know, some ideas, can write a few people to participate in this discussion as much as possible, but also Shandong officials are relatively self-disciplined, this news in the first month slowly spread.

Zheng Zhibao, who is based in Jinan, only learned the exact news in February, and his first instinct was to write to his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong, who is still in Fujian.

At the end of March, Zheng Zhilong rushed to Jinan from Fujian with three million taels of silver, and after Fang Yingren hurried back to Yangzhou, he returned to Jinan one day later than Zheng Zhilong, and he took two million and 300,000 taels of silver.

Huai merchants rely on salt, Fujian merchants rely on sea trade, these are the two most profitable businesses in this era, Yangzhou Fangjia and Fujian Zheng family are the representatives of these two places, they have also accumulated amazing wealth, three million taels and two million three hundred thousand taels, almost catching up with the Ming Dynasty's financial income in a year, but it was easily taken out by private individuals.

After taking so much silver, the two families asked for a very simple matter, to buy land, and they bought all the fields that Henan, Shaanxi, and Beizhili took out to sell.

Li Meng is indeed too surprised, he really underestimated the enthusiasm of the Chinese people for the land, rich businessmen and wealth, after having money, expanding reproduction is secondary, buying land as the foundation of the heirloom is important, Fujian is mountainous and has no good land, two Huai more Huangzhuang salt fields, Henan, North Zhili more good fields, Shaanxi also has eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, these are all good fields, how not to let these two tempted, they came first, with a unique relationship with Shandong, as well as their own strong financial resources, must buy as much as possible.

Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Fang Yingren, they all tell Li Meng that whether it is a salt business or a sea business, no matter how much silver they earn, it is just floating wealth, or buying land, so that this wealth can be passed on from generation to generation, and children and grandchildren can be benefited.

Instead of reinvesting in industry and expanding production, the money was invested in the purchase of land, which is also the reason why industry and commerce produced so-called "sprouts" but did not grow into towering trees.

For the enthusiasm of the Zheng family and the Fang family, Shandong, which formulated the policy, obviously did not expect that, according to the original land price, almost all the "ownerless land" in Henan would be sold short by these two families, because these fields were abandoned for a year, and there were no farmers to cultivate them for the time being, which was really of little significance to Shandong.

But after seeing this enthusiasm, I found such a problem, the sale of ownerless land here and there, originally intended to win the hearts of the gentry in the world, and to gain the world, it is necessary to use both grace and power, and Shandong's military and military might are already enough to deter them, so that they are really convinced, then they must come up with benefits.

At present, the fields in the three provinces are naturally the most and best in Zhongzhou and Henan, and if they are all bought by these two families, what will happen to other people who want to buy land.

As a result, after the people of the Finance and Trade Department made nervous calculations, they raised the original low land price a lot, so that the Fang family and the Zheng family could only buy the land of the next house, but such a scale was too big.

But Zheng Zhilong and Fang Yingren are also big shots, this time they completely disregarded their identity and system, and they became entangled with Li Meng, so they had to buy more.

These two families are so torn to buy land, Shandong does not dare to sell it to them, these two rich people in the world are so eager, what will happen to the other powerful gentry, when the time comes, they must always give them some land, otherwise they will be resentful.

Sure enough, in mid-April, Liu Qingsong, the governor of Shandong, personally asked to see the marshal and asked to buy the fields of Zhangde and Weihui in Henan, and several cronies of Liu Qingyang's faction, the governor of Beizhili, brought 1.5 million taels of silver.

One million taels of silver, that is, nearly 100,000 catties, these families have such a large amount of silver, it is definitely not a few people to get it, the Zheng family has a large fleet of transportation, the Fang family and the Liu family also use the tenants, and the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers around Jinan City are also busy.

This large amount of silver was escorted and transported by a large number of people, and it was also necessary to settle it, and it was necessary to arrange people to guard and guard it, and the troops and horses that were still resting were remobilized again.

The officials and clerks of the various departments in Shandong are so busy that they can't even sleep all day, and the hair of several of the organizers is a few gray hairs, and Kong Sande, the organizer of the Lijin Bureau, rushed directly from Jining Prefecture to Jinan City, and he is very experienced in handling large sums of money, so he must be able to help a little.

Although it is everyone's trouble, but it is a happy trouble, Hua Yuannian expanded the army nearly doubled, the manufacture of weapons, the establishment of Tuntian Grange, the early relief to the victims, and all kinds of things, the world will be decided, Jiaozhou Camp East Expedition West Station accumulated gold and silver mountains are also quickly consumed.

The Department of Finance and Trade wants to increase the collection in the Tuntian Grange under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, and wants to make the Bureau pay more silver, and the two are extremely dissatisfied with the high index, saying that the indicators of private salt and commercial banks under the Department of Finance and Trade are too low, and the merchants are exempt from the levy of centi, and the private salt is sold to the Grange according to the public price.

Now there is no need to quarrel, the silver from all over the country has entered Jinan like a stream, and now the organizers of all departments and bureaus are united every day to quarrel with Sun Hedou, the organizer of the Manufacturing Bureau, and Guo Dong, the deputy organizer, asking them to build the vault quickly, and urging those Han and foreign craftsmen to build a hydraulic coinage machine.

Shandong does not have to worry about money now, but should worry about how to spend money and how to spend it more effectively.......

After the Liu family came, Kong Sande also took out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the wealthy businessmen of Shandong and Lianghuai mobilized in turn, and ran to Jinan with the silver.

The officials and nobles of the Beijing division are also rich and noble, and after a short period of stunned, they all reacted, and sent people to come with silver, and what is even more ridiculous is that several Mongolian princes in Yongping Mansion actually arranged for their subordinates to rush to Shandong with gold and silver.

The silver money in the world suddenly converged into a river and flowed towards Shandong.