In June this year, Zuo Liangyu fled to Jiujiang, and the Jiujiang prefect wanted Zuo Liangyu to give him 300 soldiers, but Zuo Liangyu sternly refused, and as a result, the prefect and Zuo Liangyu had an estrangement, and the prefect always refused Zuo Liangyu to enter the city, and as a result, Zuo Liangyu was angry and looted all around.

As a result, a large number of refugees appeared in Jiujiang, and many people floated down the river along the Jiujiang River, and some people fled to Nanjing.

In addition, in addition to Jiujiang, and the upstream Huguang, Wuchang, Xiangyang and other places, occupied by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army, also caused a large number of refugees, in the past few months, the number of refugees who poured into Nanjing is afraid that there are not 100,000, this is because this is the Ming Dynasty, if it is placed in the future, under such a disaster, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of millions of refugees can not stop.

For an agricultural economy like the Ming Dynasty, a sudden influx of 100,000 people in a city can only cause two results, one is to raise prices, the other is to lower wages, and ultimately it is more difficult for everyone to make a living.

This is also the reason why Yang Chao was able to recruit a hundred trained scholars, otherwise these people would definitely not accept to be 'humiliated' in the barracks.

The impact on Nanjing also affected Yang Chao, most of these people went down the river to the first destination of Longjiangguan Wharf, and after Yang Chao began to build Shuiying Wharf, the craftsman Bai Lei recruited a large number of refugees, and as a result, attracted more refugees, and finally attracted a large part of the refugees in Longjiangguan, basically tens of thousands of people gathered here.

However, Bai Jiangtou only recruited 3,000 people, which was still at Yang Chao's request, so many people were recruited, and Bai Jiangtou originally planned to recruit only a few hundred people, but later expanded to 1,000 people, and finally reached 3,000 people.

Yang Chao is motivated by the mentality of helping the victims. Being able to give them a job is equivalent to giving them a bite to eat, but I didn't expect to attract too many refugees. They all want to find work here, and they wander around the docks every day. Even if the wages paid by the white craftsmen are only enough to make a living, they still expect to work for the white craftsmen.

But it was obviously impossible for 3,000 people to have work for everyone, and in addition to some of the families of the recruited workers, there were also a large number of unemployed young people on the docks.

Qingzhuang didn't have a job, and he was prone to accidents when he wandered all day long, so fights and thefts on the dock happened from time to time, which made Yang Chao also have a headache, and mobilized the army to suppress these people. Yang Chao can't do it yet, and he has no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, it's not good if he can't get it into a massacre, the court punishment is still a trivial matter, and the key is that Yang Chao's conscience can't get by.

But if you don't care about it, if you dare to steal today, you will kill someone tomorrow.

Yang Chao urgently discussed with Jiangning County, but the county magistrate didn't know what to do, there were too many refugees, and the yamen couldn't wait to clean up the relationship. Therefore, it is just perfunctory Yang Chao, and there is no actual action at all.

The only thing Yang Chao can do is to keep increasing the number of workers. But it is far from catching up with the number of refugees, and the more you add, the more people you will attract, and the greater the hidden danger, unless Yang Chao can hire all 100,000 refugees.

However, to employ 100,000 people, even if it is a penny of silver per month, it will have to increase the expenditure of 10,000 taels of silver, and the wage is still a trivial matter, and the problem is that after the increase of workers, the materials must be increased accordingly. tools, as well as the craftsman of management. If you don't have 350,000 taels a month, you can't get down.

And 100,000 people work on the docks, providing food every day. Housing problems, even drinking water, are big problems, if you don't get it right, it's disease, and then it's the plague, and if you hire these people to work, you have to provide a simple house, even if it's a shack, it's a lot of expenses, at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and then it's disease prevention and prevention, Yang Chao has no experience.

Yang Chao wanted to shirk it, but suddenly his heart moved, he is not a person who is easily frightened by difficulties, doesn't he just accumulate experience without experience, he does not have the experience of managing 100,000 people now, but it does not mean that he will not have it in the future, now Yang Chao has less than a thousand people, it does not mean that he will not lead thousands of troops in the future, and he will still have to face it head-on in the future to escape the difficulties of this large-scale human organization.

If there is a problem with the 100,000-strong army in the future, it will affect the outcome of the war and the rise or fall of the country.

So Yang Chao not only did not flinch, but took the initiative to find Shi Kefa, reported the problems here in Xinjiangkou, and expressed his willingness to share the worries of the imperial court and hire a large number of people to build a wharf.

After having this group of craftsmen, there are conditions to organize large-scale construction.

As a result, the number of refugees flocked to Xinjiangkou day by day, and the number of refugees increased from 10,000 to 30,000 in less than a month, and the growth momentum continues to grow.

At the same time, thousands of ships were rented, and the rent for a month was 100,000 taels of silver, and this was because most of them were small boats, and a large ship like a rush ship could not be rented without a hundred taels of silver a month.

This is a very fatal thing, Yang Chao is already very profitable, shipping has been done by him to the limit of 1,000 taels a day, but it is only 30,000 taels a month, Jin Hai Lou can earn more than 10,000 a month, but Yang Chao only accounts for one-third of Jin Hai Lou's shares, that is, borrowing Kang Xiaobao's share, at most 10,000 taels a month, another industrial exchange is still developing, and the profits that can be brought to Yang Chao in a month are negligible, just a thousand taels of silver.

Therefore, Yang Chao's monthly income is about 40,000 taels, and the soldier's salary is indispensable, and he also has to deal with various expenses in the army, such as the salary of the clerk, the maintenance of weapons and equipment, etc., at least 5,000 taels of silver must be prepared every month, and the construction of the polder, the rest of the barracks, etc., need 5,000 taels, so that Yang Chao's monthly activity funds are actually only 30,000 taels, but only 30,000 people are employed, and he has already overspent 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver.

Relying on the 100,000 taels of silver transported back from Haizhou, the 50,000 taels of silver accumulated by Jinchai Lou, and the surplus of shipping last year, there are more than 200,000 taels, which can support three months, and can only go bankrupt after three months.

But three months is obviously impossible to complete the construction, according to Bai Lei's estimate, it is to hire 100,000 laborers, and it will take at least a year, sometimes it is not the more people, the faster the speed, the scale of the new Jiangkou Shuiying Wharf, a year is a miracle.

And even if it's finished, what will happen to these 100,000 people? When the time comes, they will face unemployment again, and who knows what will happen.

These are all things that Yang Chao has to consider, even if Yang Chao is not afraid of trouble by birth, but he also has some headaches.

But the disaster is always not a single line, just when Yang Chao is worried about the source of funds, but it is his own cash cow industry, and the shipping industry is in trouble.

One day in late October, suddenly Yang Chao's three ships returned to the dock and docked, and one by one the soldiers disembarked with a disgraced face, looking dejected, like a defeated rooster!

Three rushing boats and four shallow boats docked on the dock for less than a quarter of an hour, and Yang Chao was seen hurriedly arriving at the dock with a dozen personal soldiers.

"What's going on?"

As soon as Yang Chao arrived at the dock, he immediately boarded the ship to check the situation, and Zhang Dawei followed Yang Chao in frustration.

"My lord! It's sincerity. ”

"I know it's Sincerity."

Yang Chao already knew the simple situation, he came to the dock to see the specific situation, and he heard that Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle, had set up more than 30 large ships near Yanziji, intercepted Yang Chao's fleet, and also opened artillery bombardment on the fleet.

"The ship seems to be fine? Are you sure no one was hurt? ”

After Yang Chao checked it, he found that only the shells of several ships had some scratches, and they didn't need to be repaired.

Zhang Dawei said: "Our people are fine, but a few merchants have been killed." ”

Liu Kongzhao's fleet bombarded Yang Chao's fleet, Yang Chao not only had a few warships and the cao ships behind him, but also followed dozens of merchant ships.

Liu Kongzhao is a descendant of the founding hero Liu Bowen, one of the most prominent families in the Ming Dynasty, and the Liu family is also a former commander of the navy.

In the past, Nanjing's Caojiang Governor was Gu Zhaoji, although Gu Zhaoji was not a good official, and he connived at his brother-in-law Cui Wei to be the party to blame, but at that time, Yang Chao had Xiong Mingyu, and the strength in his hand was hard enough, but he did not violate the river water with Gu Zhaoji's well water.

However, after the captives entered the Kou, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty came to a turmoil, when the Eastern Prisoners entered the Kou, all kinds of contradictions were pressed, and as soon as the Eastern Prisoners withdrew their troops, a large number of officials in the court concentrated on impeaching Gu Zhaoji, saying that during the war, Zhang Xianzhong in the south of the Yangtze River repeatedly attacked the Anqing area, but Gu Zhaoji, who was guarding the quarry, did not send troops once.

Gu Zhaoji was deposed by the emperor because of this, of course, there are also reasons for political struggle, I heard that Gu Zhaoji has a close relationship with Zhou Yanru, and Zhou Yanru also contributed to the coming to power, obviously he was implicated by Zhou Yanru.

After Gu Zhaoji resigned, he was succeeded by this Liu Kongzhao, compared to Gu Zhaoji's inaction, Liu Kongzhao's action is still very great, and this person is very bold, when the emperor summoned him before he took office, he was very bold to cry to the emperor, saying that civil officials are bad, and if he goes to the Jiangnan Navy if there is a civil minister to supervise, he will inevitably be constrained, and it is difficult to do things well.

The emperor was already very disappointed in Wenchen, and even the trusted Zhou Yanru was that kind of goods, so he actually agreed to Liu Kongzhao and removed the civil official imperial history in the Yamen of the Caojiang Admiral.

Chongzhen's record is recorded as follows: "Liu Kongzhao wept Chen, Wenchen made elbows, and the power was different, so there was a fate, but Kong Zhaoshi had no length, but he encouraged the lord with empty words, and he believed it, and even stopped Wenchen's life to join the river." ”

Removing the literati who manipulated the Jiangjiang Admiral Yamen was equivalent to handing over the control of the naval army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to Liu Kongzhao alone, and Liu Kongzhao immediately became the most powerful person in Jiangnan, and with his useless posture of daring to denounce the Wenchen with the emperor, he was obviously a person who would not give face to the civil officials and yamen, so Shi Kefa had no choice but to do it.

But Yang Chao really didn't know where he offended Liu Kongzhao and caused such a big trouble, this is the real big trouble. (To be continued...... ）。