Chapter 200: The Completely Blocked Jiannu
In July of the second year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao was still counting his 'trophies', which were very rich, and what made Zhu Youxiao particularly happy was that there were more than 20,000 horses among these trophies, nearly half of which could be used as war horses, which was definitely an unexpectedly happy harvest.
There are more than 600 acres of cultivated land, and the value has reached at least 30 million yuan.
A batch of seized gold and silver was later discovered, and the amount rose to more than 1,300 yuan. A large number of grains were also discovered, and the merchants of Shanxi especially liked to store grain, because the grain of this era was often like currency, and these merchants could make a fortune in the disaster year by hoarding grain, of course, not necessarily to sell silver, but more to exchange grain for land, or to borrow money in the form of usury. When the peasants borrowed usury, they naturally became poorer and poorer, and when they reached a certain point of poverty, they had to sell their land to repay them. When they had no land, they sold their sons and daughters and their bodies. His wife was separated, and he was a slave and a servant.
It is equivalent to saying that those lands, according to the market price, are about 30 million before, but it is worthless to sell them in large quantities, because there is not so much currency in the market. Jin merchants are also really fat, and such a scale of land can tell the story. This is only a part of the Jin merchants, but after this blow, the strength of the Jin merchants' business gang has dropped by at least half.
These lands are good assets, and the consortium naturally does not sell them. Just like the overseas capital of the United States in later generations, the real estate owned by the United States is worth hundreds of trillions, not tens of trillions, but trillions. Sounds scary, doesn't it? It is estimated that the money in the world does not add up to that much. Assets are such a thing, if calculated according to the price of tradable assets, the assets owned by those consortia are too terrifying.
Money for the consortium. A lot of times it's just a piece of waste paper. What they really want is all kinds of assets. Many assets are bought at several times the price. People don't sell it at all.
Controlling a large number of assets means controlling a large number of resources, which means that you can form a terrifying control over the world.
Assets controlled by a consortium are difficult to spit out, unless there is a war.
Naturally, this cultivated land was controlled by the Royal Consortium, but most of this land was incorporated into the 'Beizhili Agricultural Company' rather than the Royal Agricultural Company. The model of Huangzhuang will spread to Shanxi, and this land will be mainly used for the people. Farms and pastures produced by the kind of hired labor system of the Royal Agricultural Company. At present, there is not much room for expansion in the provinces of Daming, and only the direction of Liaodong, which is occupied by wild boar skins, will be the main expansion direction of the Royal Agricultural Company after the split.
This time the raid also copied a large number of jewels and jade, antique calligraphy and paintings, as well as a large number of mansions, worth more than 3 million yuan, these jewels and jade and antique calligraphy and paintings, fine products will be collected by the royal family. The rest will be monetized, and some of the mansions will be monetized.
The confiscated grain amounted to more than 1 million stones, which greatly replenished the food supply of the imperial court in the border towns.
Various seizures of goods. Worth millions of dollars.
And the value of assets such as shops and workshops is also more than 2 million yuan. will be monetized in large quantities.
After some realization, about 6 million yuan of funds can be obtained, which makes Zhu Youxiao get nearly 20 million yuan of funds at one time.
The value of the real estate retained by Royal Capital is more than 30 million yuan.
Even more impressively, royal capital began to formally monopolize trade with the Mongols. In Zhangjiakou, a large number of shops and warehouses have become owned by royal capital. The royal capital then established the 'Royal Trading Company' and officially started trading with the Mongolian Lindan Khan in Zhangjiakou.
The two sides agreed to officially open the market on the first day of September, when cattle and sheep were the fattest.
The 'Royal Trading Company', which was quickly established by the Royal Capital, was still able to cope with the trade with the Mongols, because when the company was formed, a large number of shopkeepers and associates engaged in the smuggling trade were directly transferred from the Labor Reform Bureau, and they were smoothly absorbed.
Those shopkeepers and fellows don't want to be reformed through labor in the labor camp, plus their owners are finished, and the treatment given by the emperor is good. So these shopkeepers and associates, who had a wealth of experience in border trade, became employees of the Royal Trading Company.
At the same time, in the border areas between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, the operation to crack down on smuggling trade has been thoroughly launched. The Central Army sent a large number of soldiers and began patrolling the border passes. And stationed at various gates to prevent smuggling caravans from bribing border guards to secretly leave the country.
The effect is still very good, under the high-pressure blow of the imperial court, first of all, the big caravans organized by those merchants are all wiped out. And the situation of those ordinary people going out of the customs to trade was also silenced because of the army's patrols and the control of the gates. There may still be a few fish that slip through the net and secretly carry out border smuggling, but it doesn't matter anymore, it can't shake the national interests, and the smuggling trade can be completed under such a crackdown, but it is only a very small number, and the scale cannot be too large.
On July 25, nearly 200 people were escorted to the execution ground in Fusi, the town of Tianjing.
Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa, as well as the male family members of the family, as well as the display cabinets and companions of his firms, and hundreds of Jiannu spies, were all escorted to the execution ground.
With an execution order, a large number of heads fell to the ground.
Then Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa were sentenced to death.
The screams were very terrifying.
Under the torture of capital punishment, Fan Yongdou and other eight people died one after another. Although the people felt a little scary when they saw this scene, they applauded.
Subsequently, Daming Daily carried an in-depth report on the execution, especially the traitorous behavior of Fan Yongdou and eight others, and criticized it on a full scale.
After reading the report, people also applauded the imperial court's crackdown on border smuggling. Especially after reading the report, the front-line soldiers felt that the Son of Heaven was wise.
In the city of Shenyang, wild boar skins also received the news.
"What? All the eight businesses that cooperated with our Dajin Kingdom were seized? Wild Boar Skin looked a little shocked and asked in disbelief: "How is it possible, such a big move." ”
"The Ming court had already planned it, and it was obvious that it had only attacked these businesses after a long investigation. This time, our Dajin Kingdom lost more than 600,000 taels of materials because of this, and at the same time, almost all the spies in the territory of the Ming Kingdom were arrested. He Heli said to the wild boar skin.
"In other words, the source of intelligence and materials of my Dajin Kingdom is gone?" Boar skin asked, widening his eyes.
"Yes, Great Khan." He Heli nodded helplessly, "The Ming Imperial Court not only arrested the eight businesses that cooperated with us this time, but also seized those businesses that were smuggled with the Mongols. Our Dajin Kingdom is now unable to buy supplies from the Ming Kingdom. He Heli said.
"What a good thing that is! Now, if we can't buy supplies, we won't even be able to replenish weapons and armor. "Nurha had a headache.
After Zhu Youxiao crossed, he withdrew all the craftsmen in Shenyang and Liaoyang to Beijing, and after the wild boar skin captured Shenyang and Liaoyang, he did not get many craftsmen who could build weapons. Of course, wild boar skin still has a certain equipment production capacity, but the scale of production is not large, and at this time, Jiannu was harassed by the increasingly turbulent guerrilla harassment of the Ming army, and the production was seriously damaged.
The Liaohe Plain is very vast, and the population of Jiannu is too small, and the Han people are like slaves. This led to the guerrilla warfare launched by the Ming army against Jiannu, which had spread to the entire Liaohe Plain in the second year of the Apocalypse.
Jiannu's production activities outside the city were harassed and destroyed in large numbers. When the Han people were driven to farm, the crops in the fields were not yet harvested, and they were burned by the guerrillas. Grazing on the plains, and from time to time being cold-shot.
When they encounter some strongholds outside the city of Jiannu that ordinary guerrillas cannot deal with, the professional guerrillas may attack the strongholds one day.
Now Jiannu is really a bow and a snake shadow, and there is no way to deal with the guerrilla tactics adopted by the Ming army. Those guerrillas, killing a batch and another batch, are simply endless. A large number of Han people who were rescued joined the guerrilla warfare, and they were completely barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, and they had to pull a cushion back when they died.
The production of the slaves could not be carried out, and the looting activities were also difficult to carry out. The Liaohe defense line operated by Sun Chengzong was getting stronger and stronger at this time. The Ming army in Quang Ninh was stunned and did not move, so that the wild boar skin could not catch any flaws. At this time, the Jinzhou Army also retreated to the south of Jinzhou Pass, and the Dongjiang Army fought and ran. The guerrillas of the two defense lines of the Jinzhou Army and the Dongjiang Army continued to harass them.
The wild boar skin is controlled everywhere, and there is no way to concentrate his strength. It can only send a large number of troops, like a firefighting team, to strangle those guerrillas everywhere and guard against the Jinzhou Army and the Dongjiang Army.
The overall situation is already very favorable to Daming.
At this time, Jiannu's smuggling channels were cut off again, and it was very difficult for Jiannu to obtain supplies. For a military bandit gang like Jiannu, they can't grab things or buy things now, and the organization of Hanmin production has been destroyed everywhere, and there are indeed not many Hanmin in Liaodong at this time.
However, after all, Jiannu killed a large number of Han people, and there is no shortage of food for the time being, and there is still a lot of grain in the warehouse, so it is not a big problem to support it for a few more years.
But the morale of the entire bandit gang has begun to decline seriously at this time. If Jiannu can't find a breakthrough, then the result will be very bad. (To be continued......)