Chapter 388: Qingyutang and the final preparations for going south
In fact, Zhang San's biggest gain in the past three months is that he finally recognized the children of Yixue again, and also established a correct outlook on life for them in the way of chivalry, which is of great significance for their subsequent training.
Recently, more than 400 orphans over the age of 14 in the Yixue School are going to work and study, and Zhang San will also send a group of students to Jiangnan, in addition to the original study of navigation, there are some other students.
For example, the children who are involved in the accounts are now in the accounting room, Zhang San plans to transfer a batch of accounts to deal with the accounts in the Jiangnan area, although Zhang San transferred a few experienced accounting rooms from Tokyo last time, but after a long time without supervision, it is inevitable that some people will be corrupt, and these children can try to avoid this kind of thing.
There is also a child with mechanical talent, who will be arranged for Ling Zhen to participate in the development of weapons, although relying on ballistas and bed crossbows Zhang San can achieve a certain sea advantage at this stage, it does not mean that the Great Song Navy has no way to deal with him.
Not to mention anything else, as long as the Song army is equipped with a bed crossbow and a catapult on the big ship, it can threaten Zhang San's ship, as for the advantage of ship speed, the Song army is not without fast boats, like loach boats and the like, there is no problem in catching up with Zhang San's new ship in a short period of time.
Zhang San believed that if he wanted to collect all the tolls of merchant ships like Zheng Zhilong, then he must always have an advantage over the Great Song Sailors, and the Great Song Sailors were different from the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty is forbidden to the sea, as long as the pirates do not attack the town, the Ming army will not manage it under normal circumstances, and the Ming Navy Division exists in name only, and it is not able to manage the order of the sea at all, so the pressure faced by Zheng Zhilong comes from his peers.
And the Great Song Dynasty is indeed not the case, the Great Song Dynasty is open to the sea, and the tax revenue of marine trade once accounted for half of the total tax revenue, so the Great Song Dynasty will not allow pirates to become bigger, although the Song Dynasty sailors did not spare no effort to crack down on pirates, but as long as there is a rising government, it will not care.
Half of the Song army will send sailors to requisition a part of the civilian ships to suppress the bandits, and relying on powerful weapons, almost as long as they find the pirate's nest, they can basically succeed in suppressing the bandits, so Zhang San wants to increase the toll fee, which will definitely touch the interests of all maritime merchants, and the government will definitely go all out to encircle and suppress it at that time.
Zhang San never underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, how powerful Zheng Zhilong was, and in the end, was he gradually included in the system of the Ming Dynasty? Moreover, Da Song plays Zhao'an more slippery than Da Ming, maybe Zhang San can hold on to the end and it is difficult to ensure that others are not moved.
Moreover, when the official army sees that they can't fight, they will definitely change their strategy, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not develop new tactics against Zhang San at that time, and even if the government has poor action, there is still a large number of maritime merchants, and they will definitely progress very quickly when it comes to interests.
The most critical problem is that Zhang San still has the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, if he has been suppressed by the pirates, the reputation of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau will be ruined, for the reputation of the Dart Bureau, there must be contacts between them, even if other businessmen do not strengthen their strength, Zhang San will take the initiative to strengthen their strength.
Therefore, in the next step, Zhang San will ask Ling Zhen to start the development of artillery, and according to Zhang San's plan, the pirates will maintain their superiority for one to two years. Then the situation with Weiyuan Dart is evenly matched for a year or two, so that in three or four years the pirates will enter the age of artillery. At that time, Weiyuan has been maintaining a state of parity, updating a certain number of artillery.
Then the pirates updated the artillery, and the dart bureau was updated, and after a few years, when Zhang San had enough strength, he could call the court to fight, and if he did not compromise, Zhang San also gave the Great Song Dynasty a piece of board and was not allowed to enter the sea, and then it would be seen who would suffer a big loss.
Of course, that's all later, in addition to the bookkeeper, mechanical research, and nautical chart students, Zhang San also has to bring a group of children who are willing to learn shipbuilding and are willing to learn to sail ships, but most of the children around Tokyo are orphans in the north, and there are really not many who love to sail.
In the end, Zhang San reluctantly scraped together more than 50 who were willing, and the rest of the orphans who were not arranged were all taken away by Zhang San, who needed a large number of his own people to manage whether it was sugar, soap, or glass making in the future.
Originally, there were eight or nine hundred people who graduated in the first batch, but first 50 people were recruited to learn navigation, and then the intelligence center transferred a batch, plus the accounts used in the accounting room, and some were learning various skills.
Zhang San originally planned to get all the more than 400 people who were about to graduate to the south, but the industry in the capital also needed a large number of newcomers to enrich it, especially the account room, and the business became bigger and bigger, and the manpower became more and more insufficient.
Zhang San originally transferred people from the account room to the south Yang Sister-in-law didn't say anything to take care of the overall situation, but when Zhang San wanted to transfer all the potential children who were about to graduate, Yang Sister-in-law immediately quit, Zhang San thought about it for a while, and the new person was transferred to re-training.
After dealing with the problem of children, there is also the selection of teachers, Hangzhou as an important core in the future, the school over there must be carefully operated, in addition to Hangzhou Sea Shark Island also needs a certain number of teachers, and the children over there also need education.
Fortunately, Zhang San arranged for Hu Ge to start recruitment and training early, and this time the transfer was mainly to ask those who were willing to go to the south to teach, in addition to promising higher wages, each person would also arrange a small courtyard, and those with their families would also be given an additional acre of arable land after another year. After five years, two acres will be given a year, and three acres will be sent a year after ten years.
By analogy, such a teacher only needs to work for 20 years then he can get at least 50 acres of land, this policy makes teachers enthusiastic, after all, the field has always been the ultimate dream of the Chinese people.
The source of the field, Zhang San has a lot, as long as the Ryukyus are developed, then the field can have as much as he wants. As the saying goes, those who have constant production have perseverance, as long as these teachers are tied to Zhang San's chariot, then Zhang San will continue to gain loyal students.
Otherwise, if the teacher is not consistent with himself, he will have some loyal and patriotic things, and finally the students that Zhang San has worked so hard to cultivate will be set up by others, then Zhang San will not cry to death, just like the current Yixue, all teachers who have this sign Zhang San are generally transferred to other positions.
After opening the field teaching mode, the teacher's selection changed from the teacher's selection to Zhang San's selection, because more than eighty percent of the teachers wanted to go to the south to earn a piece of land, Zhang San was afraid that the policy would hurt the enthusiasm of the left-behind teachers in Tokyo, so he had to say that in addition to the teachers in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as the capital teaches seriously, he will also get land after falling to the south in the future, and from the day he participated in the work.
In this way, those teachers in the capital also have a lot of balance in their hearts, as for those teachers who have no intention of going to Jiangnan, Zhang San doesn't care, these people are not dead to the imperial examination, and if they want to serve the country, Zhang San has no need to be entrapped.