Chapter 448: King of Cochin
And it is obvious that the Hao family has benefited greatly from this.
It is conceivable that the Hao family has become the upstream of the entire interest chain in Jiaozhi, monopolizing all the most profitable industries, while other families have just become the raw material carriers of the Hao family, they are like overseers, carrying leather whips, using all their resources, recruiting hard laborers, and quarrying mountains.
This kind of dependence relationship is actually the most stable, almost all families, the biggest feature of which is that there are a lot of children, so many open mouths to be fed, and it is not an ordinary family, it is inevitable to put on some pomp, without silver, you are nothing.
Therefore, for these people, they may be able to oppose the Ming court, but they will never reject the Hao family.
Coupled with Hao Zheng's business for several years, these people are inseparable from the Hao family not only in terms of interests, but even emotionally.
During the New Year's holidays, everyone has begun to move around each other, and when they encounter any difficulties, they will also think of asking the Hao family for the first time, and when they arrive at Langshan, they will come to visit every once in a while, and there are a lot of letters to and fro.
Many of the children have also been incorporated into the fire team, and now these hundreds of children are practicing back and forth in Langshan every day.
Now, the Hao family has promoted them to the toast, which is even more of a great favor, and these people naturally form an inseparable relationship around the Hao family.
Hao Fenglou can imagine that after the promulgation of the will, the entire Jiaozhi will immediately form a huge network of interests, at the top of this pyramid is naturally the Hao family, under the Hao family are some big toasts, and under the big toasts are small and medium-sized toasts and some principals, stewards and other figures, in this consolidated chain of interests, the influence of the Hao family will be in all aspects, although the Hao family is only Lang Son Gong in name. In fact, it is said that it is the king of Jiaozhi, and that will never be wrong.
Hao Fenglou knows these things, and in fact, the Son of Heaven also knows it, but right now, the imperial court really has no other way, since this is the case. Then that's all it can be. Jiaozhi was originally a chicken rib to the imperial court, it was originally a wild place, no different from Guangxi and Yunnan, and the people there were unruly, and they wanted to make trouble every three or five times, and the imperial court. You can't always have a large army stationed there every day, and you can't defend it day and night.
One of the most important factors is the problem of money and food, which Zhu Di cannot avoid no matter what, and this reason greatly prompted Zhu Di to change to the Tusi system.
Grain!
Cochin is still a large grain-producing province, and Zhancheng rice is indeed good, but Cochin grows a lot of cotton. Food is already insufficient, the imperial court has stationed tens of thousands of troops there, and these tens of thousands of troops want to be fed, of course they can't take food on the spot, where does the food come from? Of course, it is allocated by the imperial court, but the mountains and rivers are far away, and millions of catties of grain are transported over every year, how much people's labor is needed? The loss along the way is even more staggering. The imperial court takes out nearly one percent of the money and grain every year to support these military horses, if it is peaceful, it is fine, once there is a famine year or war, how can it be afforded?
Since Zhu Di has made up his mind, he will naturally not change it, he looked at Hao Fenglou and said, "This matter is decided." You tried your best to make this happen, and I naturally got your wish, and you can breathe a sigh of relief when the matter is so successful. But ......"
Zhu Di pondered for a moment. As if he was considering his words, he finally said, "But...... Ugly words must be said in advance, this Jiaozhi must not go any further, if something goes wrong, I have no choice but to ask. ”
Hao Fenglou's heart couldn't help but be happy. Something went wrong? Once it is a toast system, even if there is a little bit of a fork, it will be quickly pressed down by countless stakeholders, and as long as the Hao family does not have problems and the workshop is operating, then it is inevitable that the ore, cotton, coal, and wood of each family can be continuously exchanged for silver, and it is necessary to hire a lot of labor, this cycle is not easy to break for the time being, at least for 30 years, Hao Fenglou is still very confident.
Hao Fenglou said: "Weichen is willing to issue a military order......"
Zhu Di smiled, and just pulled down his face, it was nothing more than a warning, and now seeing that Hao Fenglou was really serious, he shook his hand and said: "There is no need for the military order, you can do it yourself." He paused, seemed to remember something, sighed for a while, and then said: "I plan to order the King of Han to go to Datong, I want to hear what you mean?" ”
Hao Fenglou was stunned and said, "Father doesn't think that the Mongols will attack on a large scale?" ”
Zhu Di said casually: "This ...... I'm not sure, but I know a little bit about their habits, in fact, they are the same as us, they are also human beings, and they are all flesh and blood. As long as the court and the government are in Henan, there is something to do, then the money and grain will be allocated to various places for relief, and if there is something in Shandong, it will be close to the provinces to transfer grain, this disaster is good or not, and it is two words, at least to give people a hope, can give people a glimmer of life. Outside the gates, once a disaster occurs, a large number of livestock are killed and wounded, and without animals, they have no clothes to keep warm, no meat to survive the winter, children will starve, women will be frozen, and when the winter wind comes, the number of dead and injured will be as few as 12 out of 10, which is unbearable. Therefore, people outside the customs are most afraid of winter, this winter is difficult, but everyone asks for life, right? They want to live, but what will they do if they are stricken by a disaster? ”
Zhu Di's words couldn't be more simple, Hao Fenglou could hardly imagine that Zhu Di, who specializes in beating people, could have such objective thoughts, and couldn't help but answer: "So I can only rob." ”
"Not bad." Zhu Di smiled, and a little worry was swept away, and then said: "The official is ruthless, and it can't be reversed; God doesn't make beauty, the left and right are dead, and if you don't rob, you can't succeed. If I were them, I would rob them. But I am not them, I have 3,000 mansions, countless grain hoards, countless people and cattle under my belt, so they think about me, want to kill my people, rob my money and food, trample on my land, am I a good deceit? Can I give it up? But they are poor and crazy, left and right are either starving to death or freezing to death, so they would rather take this risk to jump over the wall, when the Great Song Dynasty, the emperors were smart, and thought of a way, that is, to send New Year's coins, after all, these people are villains, left and right are crazy, we will not see them, save really to fight, the court wastes money and food, and finally ends up with both losers, this is a way, send the New Year's coins, even if people encounter a famine year, they can also spend the winter, if they do not encounter a famine year, but also improve people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, Although this year's coin, although it is not a drop in the bucket, the imperial court can get it after all, right? ”
Hao Fenglou was slightly stunned for a moment, and said, "Father, the emperor ......"
Zhu Di pressed his hand, smiled, and said, "Don't be busy, listen to me first." He paused for a moment before continuing: "Although the method is good, but I am not rare, they want to rob it, and I will not send New Year's coins to the past dynasties." If you are born to stammer, you may be able to reward you with a bite to eat, but if you hit me on the head, then of course I can't be polite, I have only one mind, hit, he comes once, I will beat him once, if he is extremely vicious, I will be more vicious than them, they will commit my border town, I will let people step on his one acre and three points of land, he will move a finger, then from this Yongle four years, I will fight every year, until the blood of their men is clean, Beat them like tigers, beat them until they would rather starve to death and freeze to death than dare to move a single bit. So this trip must be prepared for a fight, they have to make a small fight, I will accompany them, if they want to fight a big fight, I will also accompany them. Although the Han people are reckless, but they have also learned some skills with me over the years, this tiger cub should always be in charge alone, he is the prince, who will he go if he doesn't go? Those people in the border towns are all rough-skinned and thick-skinned Qiu Ba, if I appoint others, these people may not be convinced, but the King of Han has always had some prestige. ”
Hao Fenglou couldn't help but feel strange in his heart, after saying so much, it seemed that he was asking King Han to go to Datong, but what does this have to do with himself? This kind of matter is a matter for the Son of Heaven to consider himself, even if he has to find someone to discuss, which of the cabinet ministers, even the secretaries of various ministries, and even the governors of the five military governors' mansions is not more qualified than himself.
When Hao Fenglou hesitated, Zhu Di smiled slightly and said, "That's it, just complain to you, you don't have to make an embarrassment, and I don't plan to listen to your opinion." ”
Hao Fenglou never believed that Zhu Di was just complaining to himself, but he still said: "Erchen is ashamed, he can't have any suggestions." ”
Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "You are the military attache of Jinyi Wei, what advice do you need?" Just do your own thing, you, usually too nosy, everything has to be strong. ”
After being reprimanded, Hao Fenglou saw that Zhu Di was not interested in talking, so he stood up and said goodbye: "Then Weichen will retire." ”
Coming out of the warm pavilion, Hao Fenglou was still pondering what Zhu Di's words meant, and he was in a trance for a while.
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