Chapter 530: Colonial Forerunners

The new dynasty was established, and the people below always had to say something, that the Mongolian Tartar was a big robbery, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, said that the rich man in Jiangnan couldn't sleep.

In general, rich people always have to spit out some money, and the trend of King Qi and Jiaozhou Camp is like this, and everyone below is thinking about how much to give.

Began to sell the ownerless fields in the provinces, the consideration of the rich and powerful is very simple, this is a political investment, throw the money in, and when the old and new Ding Revolution, it will involve a little less of their own, compared to the direct hands-on, Shandong also provides a large number of fields.

It's good to get something back, it's not just a matter of choking your neck and asking for money, and this field is also a profitable thing no matter how you look at it, and Shandong has done enough.

After the king of Qi made this gesture, the landlords and gentry in the world, the wealthy businessmen, even if they had doubts in their hearts, understood that the king of Qi would not be like an army of displaced people.

The Zheng family in Fujian, the Lianghuai Fang family, and the Liu family in Hebei, these three families are inextricably linked with the Jiaozhou camp, they understand the style of work and economic policies of the king of Qi, and know that this land sale is indeed a good opportunity to make a fortune in addition to political purposes.

So I didn't hesitate to take my family funds and put them in, and the local businessmen in Shandong and the businessmen in the Lianghuai area also belonged to the clear bottom, so it was also a pleasure to take the money.

The Jin merchants in Shanxi, the wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and the high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing were all hesitant, but they generally thought that this was an opportunity for the king of Qi and Shandong to take sides and take out the money to buy some land for sale to show their attitude.

After seeing that the Zheng family, the Fang family, and the Liu family invested money as if they were giving away money for nothing, the businessmen in Shandong and Lianghuai almost rushed up to grab it, and they felt that this land selling strategy was not simply to take money from everyone's pockets, but to give everyone a chance to make money and make a fortune.

The businessmen are chasing profits for the purpose, seeing that this matter is profitable, the attitude is naturally different from the reluctance at the beginning, the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan are also huddled together, asking Shandong to give them more shares, the land is limited, and the land price cannot continue to rise after rising to a certain extent.

But with so much silver, so many gentry, they could not be left empty-handed, and the only way was to sell more land.

At present, the Shaanxi general Zhao Neng has just led his army into Shaanxi and is in the process of fighting, Shanxi is still nominally under the control of the Ming army, Henan, Beizhili, and Shandong are under complete control.

The Zheng family, the Fang family, and the Liu family are allies and cronies, and Kong Sande in Shandong and Shandong and Lianghuai are large and small merchants, these people are their own people, and these aspects must be taken care of and satisfied.

But in terms of the purchasing power of these people, the land taken out is almost emptied, what should the rest of the people do, and the Zheng family brought it up, Qi Guogong has always been very interested in the Zheng family's ships and shipbuilding power, if there can be more on the field, the better, these things are also easy to say.

Anyway, Zheng Zhilong also figured it out, anyway, if he wants to be the other party's courtier in the future, it is better to take advantage of this time to take out his own things and talk about the price.

It has always been Li Meng's wish to build a strong maritime armed force, but it is needless to say that building ships requires a lot of money, the key is the shipbuilders and suitable sailors, which can not be done in a hurry, these Zheng families have them, this is the Zheng family's capital to dominate the sea.

But at this time, there was no land to sell, and most of the merchants in Jiangnan and Shanxi had not yet bought it, so they went there to find land for sale.

The officials of the Tian Administration Department and the Finance and Trade Department were racking their brains, or Li Meng, the king of Qi, solved this problem, Li Meng just said:

"Sooner or later, the land in the world will be brought down, and those who are sure to be sold will be given to them!"

These words made the officials in charge of selling the land suddenly realize that what can be sold can be wide, the land occupied by the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty is the best in the local area, and it covers a very wide area, and when the dynasty changes, these fields will naturally be confiscated, this is a piece.

There are also various lands of the Daming Guard, these military camps will naturally become borderless land after the fall of the Daming, and the two of them together are also a huge amount, not to mention the areas occupied by the Shun Army and the Great Western Army, and the areas destroyed by Zuo Liangyu, these are all so.

After consulting Li Meng's consent, Liaozhen outside the Guan, the Baishan and Heishui areas that still belong to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as the pastures outside Shanxi and Beizhilikou were also within the scope of sale.

At the end of May, the land south of Seoul in Korea was also regarded as land that could be bought and sold, and the land of these Ming vassal states and enemy countries was cheaper than the land of the provinces in the Guannai, and the conditions were much more relaxed than those in the Guannai, for example, there was a tax exemption for several years, and in the Guannai you had to build a grange under the guidance of the Shandong personnel, and the grange had to pay taxes, and the tenants in the grange had the obligation to be transferred to serve as soldiers and serve in the government, while the fields outside the Guan, Saiwai and North Korea had such and such preferential treatment.

The land outside the customs and the grassland on the grassland, the Jiangnan merchants may not be interested, but the Jin merchants in Shanxi and some rich people in the north know that it is profitable, not to mention the value of the land itself, the cattle, horses, livestock and fur, has been traded with those nomads, that is the gold and silver mountains.

For the Zheng family, Liaozhen outside the Guanhai and several seaside ports in North Korea, the port of Shandong will not be sold, and they may establish their own estates around the port, where the storage of goods, the repair of ships and even related businesses can be placed, which is also tempting them.

Shandong put forward this concept, the officials to disperse, this is also another way to mobilize the people's strength, Jiaozhou battalion is limited, can not take care of everywhere, but can encourage the local people to go outside to colonize and pioneer, and when the conditions are ripe, the government will send troops to intervene, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

The following officials diverged their ideas, but what they didn't expect was that these wealthy businessmen also expanded this idea, and the maritime merchants of Guangdong and Fujian, as well as the big families from Nanyang, had more contact with the West, and saw the clues from the later changes in Shandong's land sales policy.

They asked if they could treat the land of the Nanyang countries and Japan on the same level as the Korean side, and they would rather pay a higher price, but they would have the right of first refusal to buy the land after the Jiaozhou camp conquered the land there.

After the official in charge of selling the land consulted the king of Qi, he directly rejected this idea, but in private, some officials took the initiative to contact these bold businessmen, and said that if they wanted them to take the initiative to do some work, it may not be impossible to make this request in a few years.

There was a lot of confusion about the sale of land, and there were still aftermaths in the middle of the second year of China, but the results were also significantly abnormal.

Needless to say, the wealth gathered in the world naturally changed suddenly, the situation of the wind in various places changed abruptly, the consumption of Beijing and several surrounding cities was the key to driving the north-south trade, Chongzhen was killed, everyone was in danger, a large number of people ran out, the market was suddenly depressed, and the business exchanges between the north and the south also came to a standstill.

The officials, nobles, and wealthy people in Beijing all understood the situation, and their minds also settled down, and many of the people who escaped also returned, and the market prospered.

It affected not only the Jingshi, but also the civil and military officials of the small imperial court in Nanjing City gritted their teeth with hatred when they mentioned Li Meng, a traitor who killed the monarch and plotted rebellion, and the Jiangnan scholars also looked like they did not share the sky, but after April, the wind direction gradually changed, and the spirit of scolding there was much less on the side of the hundred officials, and some people in the scholars began to shyly answer about the change of destiny, after all, when Chongzhen was in power, natural disasters, internal strife and external disasters were all complicated, but in the past two years, they have gradually recovered, isn't this the mandate of heaven?

Some people also say that the former emperor Chongzhen did die at the hands of the Tartar assassins, and the blame for the King of Qi was not wronged by a good person, and what evidence do you have?

There are also people who make a righteous and awe-inspiring state, saying that if the northern soldiers go south, they will inevitably be killed by soldiers, and those who suffer are the people of Li, and everyone is the people of the Han family, so why not consider the people and avoid this disaster of swords.

The family background of scholars is generally better than that of ordinary people, after all, this will occupy the labor force of the family, and the richer the family, the greater the possibility of having a famous scholar in the family.

Nowadays, the wealthy families of the Jiangnan clan have invested their silver in Shandong, or to buy land, or to do business, and now they are about to share honor and disgrace, so what are you scolding, everyone and the spirit of making a fortune together is the right thing.

In mid-May, the military and logistical quartermaster of the Jiaozhou battalion rushed to Beizhili in advance, preparing to build a large camp in Tianjin Sanwei, fighting outside the pass, the large battalion was obviously more suitable in the territory of Beizhili, and the troops directly under the king of Qi, who had been resting for nearly half a year, began to prepare for mobilization again.

The military report of the Shaanxi general Zhao Neng sent back to Jinan, the king of the Ming Dynasty, King Qin, committed suicide in Xi'an City, and the governor of Shaanxi, the political envoy and others surrendered in the city, and the next task was to divide the troops to pacify the entire territory of Shaanxi.

Niu Yan, who served as a secretary and supervisor, finally contacted Niu Jinxing in Xiangyang with the help of the Shandong Salt Gang, and exchanged letters in a very secret way.

Of course, Niu Yan understood his situation and knew what to do, and every letter was handed over to Li Meng, the king of Qi......