Due to the development of the mine, the ethnic minorities in the Huaiji area who still live in the mountains and forests have begun to praise Ding Rongcheng as a good person among the Han people. Whether it is the medicine for insect repellent and mosquito control, or the cold-repelling shochu that is most respected by men in the mountains and forests, or the flower cloth that is gradually getting cheaper, it makes life easier than ever for people in the mountains and forests.

At least this generation of ethnic minorities don't have to worry about living, because they have found, or rather Ding Yi has opened up a number of paths for them to make a living: leading the way to prospecting. As long as the mine is found, according to Ding Yi's charter, as long as the mine is still operating, the mine owner has to pull up some rice and noodles every ten years according to the law to go to the mountain people who led the way to find the mine.

Who is more familiar with the mountains in Guangxi than these ethnic minorities whose ancestors lived in the mountains? At first, they didn't believe Ding Yi's words, but they only ran a few times to see that the people who came into the mountains to ask them to lead the way sent the spirits were very appetizing, but when the mine owners really sent rice and noodles every ten years, they said that their hearts were captured by Ding Yi.

Why are these people reluctant to go down to the mountains and cultivate their fields? Even if they were given farm tools and seeds, they often ran back to the mountains after eating up the seeds and grain. In addition to their distrust of the Han government, there is also the problem that they will not farm. If you don't know what to say, you can learn it from scratch, that's standing and talking without backache, why? People are in the mountains and forests, and they can make do with hunting and live, and their ancestors have lived like this for generations, just like this for decades, and suddenly come to learn to farm from scratch? !

Ding Yi gave them a chance not to learn from scratch, and the mountain people were very skilled, and they were even invited by Ding Yi to be an instructor in mountain tactics. They couldn't tell the systematic truth of the three-point support of modern rock climbing, but it wasn't a problem, and Ding Yi spent an afternoon. I saw with my own eyes that the seven or eight invited instructors could complete all the techniques and movements of the climbing course he had written, but they couldn't speak official dialect very well, and even if they could, they had a strong accent, which was a bit of a headache.

And they had rice and flour, and they had silver, and they could afford to buy soju. can afford to buy flower cloth, and even those who go to work as instructors, when they go back to the mountains to visit relatives. was still wearing shiny high-top cowhide boots, which made the old man in the village reprimand with a black face: "Your mother's!" What is the gold of the feet of the mountain people? How many turtledoves do you have to change to a pair! Loser! "No matter how you explain it to the old man, it was distributed by Ding Rongcheng, and he also asked to wear boots. The old people don't give up. "Wear it when you go to the barracks to make rules! Don't step on things so badly when you go back to the mountains! When the old man returned to the barracks after his vacation, he repeatedly said, "Ding Rongcheng treats you guys so well!" Kind people, you have to work hard for others, isn't it just climbing mountains? Do you want to teach people honestly about that thing? ”

As for the inhabitants of Huaiji. Needless to say, the sea boats carrying rice from the Champa side were changed to river boats in Canton Prefecture. Transported along the Xijiang River, the price of rice is much lower than in the past. On the contrary, the landlords and the rich peasants who had their own fields were a little worried, because the price of rice was cheap, and when the harvest season came, life would not be easy.

It's just that as soon as the mine is opened, it is impossible not to set up a smelting workshop, so there are many descendants who enter the factory to do things, although the situation of land annexation is not as serious as the end of the Ming Dynasty at this time, but the general farmer will still rent some fields of the landlord's rich peasant's family, this is good, the income from entering the factory is compared with the income from renting the field, who is a fool? As long as they can enter the factory, who will be a tenant farmer? As a result, labor became scarce.

However, the landlords and rich peasants were also dumb and ate coptis, and they couldn't tell what they were suffering.

Because there are several landlords who have pushed out the elders, shouting in the Dao Hall that if this goes on, the autumn tax will not be paid! Who knew that Lu Dao was submitted to the governor of Guangxi, and Ding Rongcheng was actually approved! Huaiji territory, farming does not need to pay taxes! This is really since ancient times, except for the aborigines of Longxing land like Fengyang, no other place has ever heard of it.

Ding Yi has a problem with his brain, so he will care about the field tax in Huaiji - so the entire Huaiji territory has basically turned into a large-scale industrial and military industry base, and the Ma'anshan and Panzhihua heavy industry areas in later generations will go to iron and steel enterprises to collect agricultural taxes? How crazy do you have to be to do such a thing?

So the landlord rich peasant can only grit his teeth and endure it, not that no one has thought about it, a large amount of rice and noodles are collected, and then the goods are sent to Huguang, but Ding has long wanted to be in front, food stamps, although Ding has never used it when he grew up, he has heard of it when he was a child, and after he gnawed Hou Dagou 7,000 steps, Ding Yi organized the census of Huaiji, and then began to distribute food stamps. This is also the root of more and more people starting to go to the yamen to register their household registration.

The food stamps issued by the government do not cost money, and according to that amount, the food stamps for one person are enough for two people to eat.

But no food stamps? I'm sorry, but I can only go to the original rice shop to buy high-priced rice. So the eye-catching gangsters began to plan a new livelihood: pouring food stamps! Accumulate a lot, and then buy low-cost grain with the ticket and send it to Huguang to sell, in addition to the manual road fee, how can it be a sum of income.

Du Ziteng was quite worried about this, and even the elders of the Dao Hall proposed to punish these gangsters, the reason is very simple, if the grain in Huaiji is sold out, won't everyone buy high-priced rice again? Who doesn't want their hometown to have no worries about food and clothing, and the villagers to be rich? Even among the elders, those disgruntled landlords and rich peasants do not agree to watch the outflow of low-priced rice and noodles - although there are many people behind their backs who are also involved in selling food stamps, or hope that the government's rice shops will close down soon, but they will not expose their true thoughts, they are all villagers, and they are not afraid that the people will listen to the fire and go to pick up the ancestral grave in the middle of the night?

It's just that Ding Yi didn't care, he said to Du Ziteng: "This is an inevitable process of history. Whether it's food rationing, or reselling food stamps, it's the same. Anyway, the big families and gentry in Huaiji didn't have a few complete houses in the rebellion, so let the Daotang pass a resolution to raise the commercial tax. ”

What is the commercial tax of Daming so low? It is because the gentry class controls a large part of the commercial operation, and whenever the emperor wants to increase the commercial tax, Shilin, as the spokesperson of the interest class, will definitely attack the emperor and compete with the people, in fact, not with the people, but with the gentry.

There are no gentry in Huaiji now, whether the rebel army enters the city, or the official army recovers the county, of course, it is the first to eat the big households. In Hou Dagou's several advances and retreats with the Ming army, many gentry were tossed back and forth like this to the point of breaking their homes. Therefore, whether it is a disguised increase in commercial taxes or a unified payment of grain by the officials and gentry, the resistance can be so weak that it can be ignored.

Du Ziteng doesn't know what the inevitable process of history is, but this does not prevent him from faithfully carrying out Ding Yi's orders, which is also what Ding Yi admires about him. However, when Du Ziteng asked Ding Yi: "Hou Dagou has not made any moves recently, and it seems to be a little more restrained than before, sir, do you want to take the master mother over?" ”

Ding Yi once again denied his opinion: "No." He didn't say anything, and Du Ziteng didn't ask.

The latter was only motivated by concern, not by his IQ: where did these rice, the raw materials for the manufacture of nitro gunpowder, etc., the craftsmen who were constantly sent by land and sea, and all kinds of goods that were in demand in Huaiji come from? Isn't it Liu Yiyi sitting in Beijing, and the cargo is strategizing?

It is a cement that is very popular with the nobles and border towns, if there is no Liu Yiyi's popularity and connections in the business circle, it may not have such a good market, good enough for Ding Yi to give up the agricultural tax in Huaiji, good enough for Ding Yi to have the confidence to turn Huaiji into a large-scale industrial base.

"Keep an eye on Hou Dagou's movements, this person is not easy to match." Ding Yi commanded Du Ziteng worriedly.

He knew very well that Hou Dagou was an absolute fierce man in these years, and he had a very strong ability in military strategy.

After being swallowed by Ding Yi with seven thousand steps, Hou Dagou did not become angry, and then sent troops to attack, but chose to shrink, which is enough to show that he has a very keen war antennae, or rather, talent. This is exactly where Ding Yi has a headache - no matter where Hou Dagou sends his troops, Ding Yi has a place to deal with it, but Hou Dagou doesn't do anything, shrinks, and Ding Yi is helpless.

The so-called retracted fist will definitely be more powerful when it is struck out. That's the way it is.

Hou Dagou, who is as unresponsive as a dead dog, doesn't know what he wants to do next.

"Sir, there are still many people who come to join the army, do you want to be admitted on the basis of merit?" Du Ziteng then asked Ding Yi for advice on how to deal with another problem, because there are too many soldiers, they have to pay for food, they have to assemble, and these things have to need money, otherwise even if they can have food to eat, if they are not assembled, what is their combat effectiveness?

"There are not many soldiers...... Of course, the enthusiasm of the population should not be discouraged, and a reserve system for military service should be established, and men of appropriate age should be regularly organized and trained in queues, so that they can be recruited into the army as much as possible if necessary, and it will not take too much time to integrate into the army. Ding Yi thought about it and said to Du Ziteng, "Those who took the initiative to sign up, recorded it, I have a useful point." ”

His so-called usefulness was to organize these people to carry out propaganda and incitement among the people.

These people don't have to be much talkative. These people from among the people, what they say, what they say in their own country, will actually be more convincing.

Of course, Ding Yi has other exams and tests waiting for these people, is it for the considerable treatment of Ding Yi's subordinates, or to protect the family and defend the country, or to recognize the concept of the speech given by the propaganda team when they go to the countryside? Different people have different uses.

Ding Yi is no longer just the commander of a special squad, he has to face a game of chess as big as the whole of Guangxi.

Making the best use of things and making the best use of talents is the key to playing this game of chess well and winning this game of chess. (To be continued......)