Chapter 1448: Eyes Turn to the East
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In the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty, in a tall building in Jincheng City, there is a sultry tune constantly coming out. On the bustling and busy streets, people are in a hurry.
On the smooth concrete road, from time to time, there will be a two-horse truck galloping by. The concrete and wood shops on both sides of the street are filled with people coming and going.
At this time, the prosperity of Jincheng is no less than the heart of the Ming Dynasty.
Just over a year or two ago, Jincheng was still a very dilapidated place. Not to mention the city, it's just a place name.
At that time, when Zhao Hongyu led the Imperial Army here, Jincheng only had a dozen families in a small village. And the surrounding area is very desolate, probably because of the war, people have fled the country.
But on the basis of such nothing, Zhao Hongyu built a big city in just over a year, and it developed very prosperously.
Today's Jincheng is not what it used to be.
Because of the establishment of Jincheng, and Zhao Hongyu led the Imperial Army, as well as tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers transferred from Kyushu to fight the Jurchens in successive battles, and the Jurchens were defeated one after another.
In addition, a cement wall was built here in Jincheng to provide safety for the people.
Therefore, Zhao Hongyu used Jincheng as a stronghold and began to sit down and buy and sell here. For a time, the goods brought by Zhao Hongyu began to radiate from Jincheng to the surrounding areas, attracting a lot of businessmen.
Even, even the caravans on the steppe Mongolia will sneak to Jincheng to shop.
Although Jincheng's storage zĂ i, for the Jurchens who are almost more than 200 miles away. It's a huge threat.
But the problem is that the Jurchens can't solve this threat at all.
It's not that they don't do it, it's that they simply can't do it.
Fighting and fighting, in addition to paying huge casualties as a price, they didn't even hurt Zhao Hongyu's hair, but their side lost a lot of soldiers.
Therefore, after a fierce battle with the Jurchens here in Jincheng, there was actually a strange period of peace.
This ensured the development of Jincheng and the expansion of Zhao Hongyu's influence and trade.
Here in Jincheng, all the people who come here. They are all amazed at Jincheng.
The kind of cement structure houses that are very different from the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty have smooth, clean and wide streets. Or the bands of Japanese soldiers patrolling the streets, as well as the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the strange costumes of the Japanese soldiers.
Let the people who have been to Jincheng not forget it even after a long time.
Especially here in Jincheng, there is a wide variety of goods, as well as a large amount of cheap refined salt and grain for sale. So, it was a great attraction to the enthusiasm of the merchants.
If nothing else, just rush those grains and refined salt and high-purity liquor, it is already worth them to risk coming to Jincheng to do business.
Not to mention. The Jurchens can't help the Jincheng forces at all, so there is no problem with their safety.
With this kind of guarantee, the businessmen for Jincheng, of course, are like a dog seeing fragrant. You just can't get rid of it if you want to.
And with the arrival of these merchants, this has greatly improved the prosperity of Jincheng. At the same time, due to the increase in population, the number of merchants who have begun to buy shops and prepare to do business here for a long time has also greatly increased.
With a population. Then there will be a variety of services and businesses to emerge.
What Zhao Hongyu couldn't have imagined was that the first one to open here in Jincheng was actually a green building!
Yes. One of the earliest industries here in Jincheng is a place called 'Chunlailou'. The owner of this place is from Nanjing and is a very discerning guy.
Originally, he went to the capital to find a friend to catch up, but in the capital, he heard a friend talk about the place Jincheng, and he suddenly became interested.
Therefore, he followed the caravan that set out from Jincheng to Jincheng and came to this emerging city.
As soon as he arrived in Jincheng, he found that there were great business opportunities here.
Of course, this guy's so-called business opportunity is not the kind of serious business.
It's the leather and meat business he is most familiar with.
Because of the increasing number of businessmen coming and going in Jincheng and the large number of people doing things here in Jincheng, he saw unprecedented business opportunities.
At the beginning of the construction of Jincheng, because a large amount of labor was needed, all the young men were found.
Therefore, this has caused the phenomenon of excessive yang energy in Jincheng, that is, there are too many men, but there are few women.
After all, Jincheng is very close to Shengjing in Houjin, but it is only more than 200 miles away. Coupled with the frequent invasions of the Later Jin in recent years, the army of the Ming Dynasty could not resist it at all.
Therefore, some territory in the northern frontier has already been lost in the Ming Dynasty.
So, Jincheng is a very dangerous place here.
But now everything has changed, because the Ming court has an agreement with Zhao Hongyu, and has borrowed a large amount of money from Zhao Hongyu's hand.
Therefore, Jincheng became the place where Zhao Hongyu was the Song Empire.
Then, of course, Zhao Hongyu will garrison troops here to protect his interests.
And after a series of battles with the Houjin army, the Houjin army was defeated. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Houjin army will not be able to defeat these compatriots from distant Americas.
Then, people have become a little less concerned about the danger of Jincheng.
With such efforts and facts, Zhao Hongyu also proved his strength and ability to protect the personal safety of Jincheng merchants and residents.
Therefore, slowly the resident residents here in Jincheng, as well as the merchants in the past, gradually increased.
Moreover, there are quite a few merchants.
These people have money and leisure, they come to Jincheng to do business, and they can't always be so busy.
Moreover, here in Jincheng, they did earn a lot of silver, which can be regarded as a fortune.
So. If you have money, you will definitely have to spend it.
There are taverns and restaurants in Jincheng, but these people who have money can not just drink and eat.
As the saying goes, they are full of lust, so when they are bored, they also want to have some fun.
Not only those businessmen have this kind of demand, but even those young people who sold their labor and were hired by Zhao Hongyu here in Jincheng also need such a venting channel.
After all. Zhao Hongyu will not deduct wages, and the wages are still very high.
Therefore, even those workers who are engaged in construction have a lot of money.
Wouldn't such a large group of men be a big business opportunity?
You don't have to do everyone's business, the merchants of Jincheng alone are enough to make a lot of silver.
Therefore, 'Chunlailou' quickly appeared, and a group of soft girls brought from Jiangnanyi came to this emerging city in northern Xinjiang. It brings a breath of ** to the men here.
Sure enough, after the opening of Chunlai Building, business has been booming.
Those merchants who made a lot of money in Jincheng basically came to Chunlailou to spend a lot of silver. But the mouth that made the boss smile went to the back of his head.
A Ming army of more than 3,000 people was stationed here in Jincheng, mainly to assist Zhao Hongyu to garrison.
This Ming army is here in Jincheng, in fact, it is a soy sauce role. Here in Jincheng, they basically have to follow Zhao Hongyu's arrangement.
Arguably. This is Zhu Shangwu, the unreliable emperor, because he feels that he seems to have mistreated Zhao Hongyu, who lent him a lot of silver, so he is a little unhappy. sent such a Ming army to Zhao Hongyu for command, which can be regarded as a little bit of heart.
After all, at that time, Zhu Shangwu also knew that Jincheng was very dangerous here.
And using this as a collateral for borrowing, this is really Zhao Hongyu's loss.
At the same time, this Ming army also had a mission, that is, to learn to use new tactics and operate new muskets from the army of the Song Empire.
You must know that when Zhao Hongyu led the Imperial Army to fight in Beijing, the scene of the defeat of Houjin made Zhu Shangwu yearn for it.
In his opinion, as long as he learns this tactic and equips the Ming army with that sharp musket, then do you still need to worry about Houjin?
Therefore, this Ming army followed Zhao Hongyu to Jincheng.
And, also participated in several battles against Houjin.
This Ming officer and soldier received double salaries from top to bottom.
One is from the Ming court, but this salary is sometimes issued and sometimes not, so it can't be counted on at all.
The other is the salary sent to them by Zhao Hongyu.
This salary is terrible, six taels of silver a month is three times the salary of the imperial court, not to mention, there are three meals a day and meat to eat.
And the officers did not withhold the salary, and truthfully distributed it to the hands of the big-headed soldiers.
At the same time, there will be some benefits during the holidays or occasionally.
Days like this make them feel like they're dreaming.
Therefore, this Ming army, from top to bottom, can be regarded as a group with spare money.
As a soldier, if you have spare money, you are either gambling or prostituting, and the big soldiers of this era are not modern soldiers, and there are so many rules.
They can't go to a high-end place like Chunlailou, but since Jincheng has Chunlailou, there have been more and more women who operate the skin and meat business.
Like some half-hidden doors, or some secret prostitutes or something, they have also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
In addition, there are some low-level 'entertainment venues' that also appear in Jincheng.
For these things, Zhao Hongyu has no intention of stopping them.
After all, these men in Jincheng really need such a place, otherwise wouldn't a group of men be suffocated.
At the same time, because there are as many as 40,000 Kyushu Japanese soldiers under his command, they need the comfort of women, otherwise the devil knows what bad things they will do.
It's just that these Kyushu soldiers can't go to Qinglou and have intimate contact with those women of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they have money, they can't do it, so Zhao Hongyu got a group of widows from Kyushu to do the business of these widows, and at the same time solve the physiological problems for Jean Amen.
Moreover, while doing the business of Japanese soldiers, these girls from Kyushu will also serve the men of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as a double income.
I have to say that the strange things that Zhao Hongyu developed here in Jincheng are really a bit laughable.
And as the supreme head of Jincheng, he is also the overlord here.
Of course, Zhao Hongyu will also go to Chunlai Lou to see and learn, and he also met several historical celebrities in Chunlai Lou.
It's just that Zhao Hongyu is not a person who thinks about problems with his crotch, and he won't be able to walk and sell when he sees a woman, so he was only surprised and didn't have anything to do with him.
And now that the development of Jincheng has tended to be stable, basically as long as it is done step by step, there will be no problems.
Therefore, Zhao Hongyu set his eyes on Houjin again.
In the inner city of Jincheng, in the city lord's mansion, a secretary under Zhao Hongyu's command hurriedly pushed open the door of his office and walked in, and as soon as he entered the door, he immediately straightened up and said loudly: "Your Highness, Kyushu has received a letter from the mainland, and the letter is graded as a tenth-level ......" (to be continued......