"Your Majesty, this is Xiong Tingbi's secret recital on the trade between Liaodong leather goods and ginseng."

Kuimen.

Zhu Yijun had just returned from watching the Three Gorges, and Shen Li handed him a notebook.

Zhu Yijun opened the secret music and looked at it for a while, and then said: "In this case, after returning to Beijing, we will discuss the transfer of the imperial property." ”

Shen Li said yes.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun returned to Beijing.

When Zhu Yijun returned to Beijing, the city had completely completed the urban construction work, so it had also changed greatly.

The huge Jingshi City has become more magnificent from a distance, especially the strengthening of the drainage system and sanitation work, which has made the entire Jingshi cleaner.

Even, in the inner city and the city tower, there are also arc lights, so at night, the brightly lit capital adds many dazzling pillars, and therefore looks more dazzling.

But the more because of this, the more Zhu Yijun became more likely to care about the large barren Huangzhuang Manor outside the Jingshi.

He had to admit that because of the existence of Huangzhuang near Beijing, it was really inappropriate to turn a large area of land on the outskirts of Beijing into an overgrown wasteland, just like a ringworm growing on Shuntianfu, and it seemed to continue to show the drag of the Ming royal family on the people of Beijing.

For this.

As soon as Zhu Yijun returned to Beijing, he immediately discussed the matter with the ruling ministers, and finally decided that the territory north of the border wall now built was the private property of the Ming royal family, and at the same time abolished the imperial village that the Ming Dynasty had begun to set up in large numbers since Yongle.

All the land in the Huangzhuang was given to the common people, and the land rented by some people was directly distributed to the tenants, and the tenants changed from tenants to landlords, and the fields that were not rented were directly sold at the same price, and then the silver money was returned to the state treasury.

In the past, the stewards of the imperial village were all transferred to the management of the imperial estate, and they were transferred back to the Shaofu to take up various new positions, in order to prepare to undertake the management of the next large number of imperial estates.

Although the mountains and dense forests in the north of the country have now become the property of the emperor, it is impossible for Zhu Yijun to say that he really wants to hold these territories in his arms like gold ingots and not let go, and he is not allowed to mine them from all over the world, which makes no sense.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun decided to contract out the mountains and dense forests in the north of the country.

Of course, Zhu Yijun only has the right to use the contract, and it is the right to use it for a limited time, and he cooperates with people who have the strength and are willing to go to the north to develop interests.

The royal family is only responsible for receiving a certain percentage of dividends each year.

The closer the local area is to the customs, the higher the natural contract price, and the higher the dividend ratio.

The farther away from the customs is, the lower the contract price and the lower the dividend ratio.

Even in some particularly distant places, Zhu Yijun only asked for only 100 mink skins every year, no dividends, or upside down, free money for weapons and equipment, and only let them share proportionally after three or even five years.

For the powerful bureaucrats, they are naturally willing to contract a better place for development nearby, but they need to pay dividends to the royal family every year, and they also have to accept the supervision of the corresponding personnel in the inner court, but for them, it is nothing, as long as there is a benefit to earn.

For the middle and lower class of the people, some of them are more daring, and they are naturally more willing to go farther away.

Of course, many retired military attachés, even high-ranking military attachés, prefer to contract farther places, and take the opportunity to continue to live the military life they are accustomed to, and at the same time be free to "dominate the king" in these places.

Zhong Changdong, the general of Zhishi, and more than 100 of his old subordinates contracted a large piece of land in the Yenisei River valley in later generations.

According to the contract rules given to them by the Holy Decree, they could get eighty percent of the wealth mined here, and only twenty percent to the royal family, and these twenty percent would be paid in the form of taxes when they entered the customs to buy and sell slaves, skins, ginseng, etc.

Of course.

The reason why the emperor gave them such a high share was also because the area was now basically inaccessible and very cold, and only some primitive Tatars who were completely uncivilized lived here.

And what they can do here is actually hunting and making hides, and also catching people to dig ginseng, or forcing local natives to offer them leather goods and ginseng.

These benefits are very visible, and may not even be as cost-effective as the profits obtained from buying subscription coupons in China, not to mention the difficult conditions.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor was so generous, increasing the proportion of the contractor's share to 80%, and also providing equipment, food, etc. for free, and said that he would use 10% of the 20% for the future construction of the railway, so that these people could come back to trade or reunite with their families in the future.

But Rao has increased to eighty percent, made many promises, and in fact, not many people have come to grab this deal.

Therefore, Zhong Changdong and others contracted this property, and it was also very smooth, and his family also thought he was stupid, and his son even did not hesitate to kneel and persuade him, but Zhong Changdong did not listen.

And even if Zhong Changdong and others choose to contract here, it is not for the sake of being rich and expensive, but just for liking, because he doesn't like to intrigue in the internal official office.

However, because Zhong Changdong has lived in Liaodong since he was a child, he is not very afraid of wind, frost, rain and snow.

Now he and his subordinates are fighting everywhere in this area with one man, one horse, one gun and one pot of wine.

Although they were small in force, they were largely subjugated by the primitive Tatars who lived here because of their superior equipment and combat experience.

It was only during this period that Tsarist Russia was also expanding eastward, and had already destroyed the Siberian Khanate in the Ob River valley in the tenth year of Wanli, and was going deeper into the Yenisei River valley further east, and had sent a large number of Cossack cavalry to this area to raid and sentry.

Therefore, Zhong Changdong and others soon encountered the Cossack cavalry, and there were many encounters between the two sides.

The sharp knives and spears of the Cossack cavalry did not take advantage of Zhong Changdong and other Ming royal mercenaries, because Zhong Changdong and other royal mercenaries had already used rifled rear-loading cavalry guns, which were particularly fast in loading and firing, and could deal with the highly mobile Cossack cavalry faster.

What's more, many of Zhong Changdong's subordinates are themselves Sinicized Tatars, and it is easier to communicate with the local primitive Tatars, and it is easier to get the support of these Tatars, which makes the Cossack cavalry not advantageous in terms of intelligence detection and concealment.

this day.

Zhong Changdong took the main army composed of 300 old subordinates and locally recruited Tatars, and ambushed in a col where he knew that he was about to pass a group of Cossack cavalry, according to the tip, and while grabbing the snow into his mouth to eat, he smoked a paper cigarette made by the Ming official, and said:

"Pass the order, as long as you win this ambush battle, each person will be rewarded with five boxes of paper cigarettes."

The officers and soldiers under Zhong Changdong's command were all excited after hearing this.

Because they are very addicted to cigarettes, it is difficult to get paper cigarettes from Middle-earth in the distant Yenisei River area, so in their eyes, paper cigarettes are more expensive than gold of the same quality, and the local Tatars who became their mercenaries quickly became obsessed with this paper cigarette, and even they were willing to die for Zhong Changdong because they needed paper cigarettes, after all, this thing made them addicted.

Therefore, Zhong Changdong specially used the paper cigarettes he brought here as a bait to boost morale before the war.

So, after a group of Cossack cavalry came, Zhong Changdong just gave the order, and the three hundred officers and soldiers under his command all rushed down the mountain with a roar, and threw the thunder to the Cossack cavalry camp one by one, and then Zhong Changdong also personally urged the horses to charge, and drew his sword and shouted:

"For His Majesty the Great Ming Emperor, slaughter all the invaders!"

Soon, the Cossack cavalry was defeated, and many of them surrendered.

"Decapitate them all!"

"All outsiders who invade the territory of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be killed!"

Zhong Changdong was already very overstretched in managing the primitive Tatars because he had few people, so he still chose to execute the Cossack cavalry who surrendered, and only divided some of the equipment of the Cossack cavalry as a supplement for losses, and the rest were distributed to the local Tatars who had chosen to be loyal to him.

Therefore, Zhong Changdong and his comrades-in-arms were basically unable to organize a large-scale population to concentrate on mining, but only collected leather goods and ginseng from the local Tatars in the form of taxes, and then regularly sent reliable people to the south to exchange.

Zhu Yijun relied on the wealth sharing obtained by these partners in the robbery and tax collection in Saibei to expand the scale of his wealth.

Although one partner could not provide much of the taxes obtained from leather goods and ginseng to the royal family, the primeval jungle in the north was too large, the territory was too vast, and there were too many partners who cooperated with the emperor, so after being concentrated, the emperor's wealth increased by this was not a small amount.

Zhu Yijun took this money to increase investment in China, and at the same time, he also rewarded the people around him with the income from investment, and let the people around him respect him more and more, and also reward the people who contributed to the Ming Dynasty, so that these people also respect Zhu Yijun more and more.

"The 36th Annual Mathematics Champion Award of Huangming Wanli is, a lifetime academician of the Huangming Research Institute and the former Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shishuai Jiamo!"

On this day, after the first assistant Wang Xijue announced the winner of the annual Emperor Ming Mathematics Champion Award, Zhu Yijun, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally awarded Shuai Jiamo with a bonus of 500,000 silver dollars and a holy decree conferring on the third-class viscount.

Nowadays, Da Ming has been accustomed to changing the name of arithmetic to mathematics, mainly because Da Ming's research on mathematics has entered a new level, and it is no longer just for arithmetic, but has been used to explore the world, so now the arithmetic award has also been renamed as the mathematics award.

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