"Governor! Governor! The reopening of the market has finally been agreed! ”

Outside Yan Song's official hall in the yamen of the governor's Zhejiang ministry, the secretary walked in with an official document and walked in happily.

Yan Song, who had not been very smooth in the entire five years of Jiajing, couldn't help but stand up when he heard the words: "Really? ”

"It's true! The State Hall has already written over, please see the Governor! ”

Yan Song immediately greeted him and took it in his hand to see.

After a few moments, he even said yes.

Not only the Ningbo City Ship Division was reopened, but the Fuzhou City Ship Division was also abolished. At that time, Fujian's city was originally in Quanzhou, but it was moved to Fuzhou in order to suppress the maritime power in Quanzhou after the sea ban began. Not long ago, there was an anti-thief Pu Zitong in the "remnants" of Quanzhou that year, and the Fuzhou City Bo Division was abolished for various reasons this time.

"Guangdong is only given to the Huang Ming Ji franchise, and Ningbo is the only pass for private maritime business! Okay, good! ”

There is no doubt that this will be the most important achievement that Yan Song left to Zhejiang.

"Go down immediately, and during the Chinese New Year, the governor will not rest." Yan Song knew that the imperial court was facing the situation now, and if he won the battle in the north, the pressure on the financial plan would be greater, "Inform the Xiangxian Academy, according to the commercial law, if you want to go to sea openly, you must be a registered company!" The verification of the principal and the deposit in accordance with the law are all taken advantage of the Chinese New Year. The national policy that the governor finally asked for will be trialed next year, and Zhejiang will only issue ten licenses first! ”

The last stone of Jiajing's five years was thrown to the southeast, and the news spread far and wide.

Although civilian ships can only enter and exit from Ningbo, the sixth year of Jiajing is the year of the Ming Dynasty's "switch".

When the news arrived in Fuzhou, the local gentry and wealthy businessmen in Fujian were full of indignation.

"Why does the imperial court favor one over the other? Fuzhou City Bosi is good, and now it has been withdrawn. Now that civilian ships are allowed to go to sea, do we all have to go north to Ningbo first, and then come back? ”

"When I went to Ningbo, where is the way for our Fujian maritime businessmen to live? In the future, wouldn't we only be able to look up to Guangdong and Zhejiang? ”

"Why do you treat Fujian so poorly?"

After hearing the feedback from below, the governor of Fujian just said lightly: "Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, each of them is treated equally, and each is allowed to have ten licenses for trial implementation. If you have time to make noise, it is better to prepare quickly. The imperial court arranged it in this way, and it had its own reasoning for the imperial court. How? The imperial court set up a city and a ship, which was built specifically for Fu? ”

Nowadays, there are still many troubles, and there are too many mountains in Fujian, so we can only rely on the sea to eat the sea.

However, in some areas on the west coast of Taiyuan Island, where does Fujian have the spare strength to take care of this major event?

On Fujian's head, on the contrary, is another heavy task: with the strait between Taiyuan Island and Fujian as the main route, the military affairs meeting agreed that the Daming Naval Division, which was to be built over several years, would be based in Quanzhou and Penghu Inspection Divisions, which would not only undertake the heavy task of patrolling and inspecting civilian ships after they were launched into the sea, but also continue to open up and control Taiyuan Island.

The strategic task given to Fujian by the imperial court is actually very simple: isn't it that there are many mountains and few lands and they have to go to sea? Then it is better for some people to gradually go to Taiyuan Island opposite.

Daming needs the solid land of Taiyuan Island on the sea.

Therefore, the Fuzhou City Bosi was withdrawn first.

At the beginning of the new year, the waves caused by the switch only fermented on the southeast coast.

Ningbo is prosperous again, and it is suddenly better than in the past.

Yan Song has been sitting here since the sixth day of the first lunar month, and whether he can straighten out this matter and bring a steady stream of sea trade benefits to the imperial court determines whether he can return to Beijing.

The liaison persons sent to Ningbo by the non-governmental maritime merchants were told one thing with a confused face: after returning to Hong Kong from the sea, a stone called struvite can be used to offset part of the customs duties of the city.

What's that?

……

It was struvite that really played a very good role in the experiment between Jin Kela and the old farmers of Huangzhuang, so the State Hall finally "risked" and decided to switch it.

It has always been the goal of "good management" for both the emperor and the center of the court.

The sea ban makes it easier to manage the people.

The switch is not only a substantive measure to encourage business, but it is easy to make "the people's hearts and interests", but also because the city is too far away from the center of the imperial court and the interests are too large, it is very easy to lead to subsequent corruption and other situations.

However, the war with the Northern Captives resumed, and the emperor was still ambitious, and the demand for money and food in the future was too great.

Under a variety of factors, this switch proposal has finally been recognized by most people, so let's try it first.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, after the court meeting, there was a "enterprise summary plan meeting" held in the palace.

In addition to the summary report on the business conditions of each enterprise after the restructuring last year, it is the arrangement for this year.

In the early days, Zhu Houxi did not criticize them for achieving much results quickly, but he still had to emphasize some directional issues.

"Guo Xun was punished by me, and Li Fuda's case is also being thoroughly investigated." Zhu Houxi calmed their hearts, "But you don't have to be worried. In the past, between your lords and the five governments, some of the things you did when you selected military generals were all things of the past. In the future, now that we have set our minds to assist me in running these companies, we will all look forward. I'm talking about the front, not the money. ”

I looked down at the report in front of me: "I thought that in the first year, most of you would lose money. As a result, at the end of the year, the assets of most enterprises have increased, and many businesses are even profitable. ”

After looking up at them again: "I don't want you to rely on the identity of the enterprise and the current trend of purchasing by various offices to turn the silver of the household into my silver, and the property of many small private merchants into my property. This is not a good sign, and I will take this opportunity to talk to you about it again. ”

Eighteen enterprises basically have some monopoly business and resources. Even if they are not monopolies, the assets and manpower they are allocated to them, and the conditions and attractiveness they can offer when recruiting talents, are not comparable to those of private commercial banks.

They want to make money, it's easy.

However, Zhu Houxi's expectation for them is to really drive the development of some industries and technological innovation.

However, as a minority shareholder, since this generation of lords in the eighteen enterprises has no idea of becoming an official, they still need material incentives such as profit distribution in their lives.

"I've been thinking about it for a year, and I've set some goals for all of you, and you all have a look."

Huang Jin stood up when he heard this, and handed out the pamphlet that he was going to distribute to everyone.

Sincerity Bo Liu Yu took a look at it: the five-year plan of the Tongyi Bureau.

After he opened it, one of them was how many more "outlets" should be added to the existing post station system in five years, and what kind of post network should be formed by zoning. In the technical category, it took five years to survey the existing roads and cooperate with the special forces of the provincial security departments to draw up new maps in accordance with the new technical requirements.

After reading it hastily, Liu Yu glanced at the brochure of the Construction Bureau next door, and saw that there were projects such as the gradual renovation of the old and new gallop roads, the trial study of rail carriages, and the joint research of cement and slag utilization by the Baojin Bureau.

On the other side, the war bureau is basically mainly technical. Liu Yu was dizzying: What flint inspired the ignition? What spiral rifling? What smokeless gunpowder?

Zhu Houxi didn't hide it at all now, and directly pointed them in the direction.

But he also knew one thing very clearly: "I am afraid that most of you will not be able to achieve these goals in five years." Even if some technologies have an eyebrow, I am afraid that they will be expensive and more expensive than they can be built. But that's the direction, and that's where you can make a contribution to me. But if there is success, it is meritorious, and the hereditary status is not demoted, and even the knighthood is further determined, all by these. Today, all the families are here, confirming each other, and you will probably know what kind of Ming I want to see. ”

It's not that Zhu Houxi doesn't know that it took decades or even hundreds of years for various technologies to evolve slowly, but he is an accelerator - human wisdom is not fundamentally different from each other, and the accumulation of knowledge is of great significance, but sometimes what is more lacking is a clear direction.

Now, Zhu Houxi has spent a year arranging what he thinks about "major scientific and technological projects" in this way.

With his technical literacy, he can't make any particularly reasonable plans for the development of scientific and technological progress, so it is better to be practical and according to his own needs.

Some of the infrastructure needed to efficiently manage a huge empire, the military technology needed to remove the hidden danger of foreign enemies, and some of the industrial technology needed to improve people's livelihood.

British public Zhang Lun said that he was very worried - then next year's summary plan meeting, won't everyone start to lose money? No longer expect military achievements to help the emperor take care of the business, many lords seek wealth and wealth.

Many of the directions pointed out by His Majesty are bottomless pits of financial and material resources.

"It's easy to make money." Zhu Houxi finally pointed out this point, "The first batch of private enterprises to go to sea, in the name of trial implementation and easy management, must have at least one of you to contribute shares, and the total proportion should not be higher than 30%. Throw this money and let them earn it for you. ”

This is the background color of the times, for those gentry and wealthy households, how to share profits?

However, this time they are not purely relying on "background" to occupy dry stocks, they will come up with real money. In order to obtain that license, it is necessary to verify the capital, and it is necessary to pay a deposit prepared to prevent the evasion of the customs duties of the city.

The president of the herd overseer looked at the emperor cautiously.

In the five-year plan for myself, why do I have the task of cultivating excellent Mongolian horses, Hequ horses, and Dawan horses? Where do stallions come from? Where to shepherd?

He didn't dare to ask now, nor did he dare to think deeply, but he just covered his pamphlet tightly.

Seems like there's some big plan?

……

This winter is very cold, and Daming Border Town still does not dare to slack off after the victory in Shuozhou.

The northern captives who have suffered losses are dangerous northern captives.

In the northwest direction of Beijing City, after passing Juyong Pass, you will come to Tumuyi Fort.

To the north of this place is Mayukou Fort. In that year, Wara rushed over from Mayukou Fort, defeated the Ming army, and captured a son of heaven who studied abroad.

In the west of the civil post fort, the Yanghe River and the Sanggan River converge here to form the Yongding River. Along the Yanghe River further north, you will come to Jiming Mountain.

In this place, there is a large army stationed all year round. It is located in the center of almost the entire Xuanfu Town, making it easy to go to all directions.

But Xuanfu Town has to go further northwest. When you arrive at Xuanfu Town, there is the Great Wall to the north.

In the north of Xuanfu Town, from west to east, Zhangjiakou Fort, Yangfang Fort, Qingbiankou Fort, Changyukou Fort, Geyu Fort, Da Baiyang Fort, and Xiao Baiyang Fort are lined up along the Great Wall, almost a few miles of a fort, and the defense line appears to be impermeable.

On this section of the Great Wall, the one west of the two highest peaks was formerly known as Aotou Village, which was also commonly known as Rentou Mountain. The one to the east is called Phoenix Mountain.

In the relatively low terrain between the two peaks, Qingbiankou, Changyukou, and Geyu three forts are crowded.

Mouth, valley, you can already roughly know the topography here: where the pass is.

This is the forefront of the defense line of Xuanfu Town in the Ming Dynasty. And Xuanfu Town, because it is the last line of defense outside Juyong Pass, has become the head of the nine sides.

Most of the generals of the general officers of the towns on the nine sides are "enlisted" by a certain general. Only Yansui and Xuanfu are a certain general of the "town".

Now it is Fu Duo who sits in the Xuanfu.

The Fu family has been a general for generations, but after being promoted from Fu Duo's grandfather Fu Gui to Sui Dewei's commander, he stepped into the middle-level military general sequence of the fourth grade. Fu Duo's father, Fu Ying, went one step further and commanded the capital of Shaanxi.

Fu Duo's eldest brother, Fu Zhao, made the left battalion capital division and garrisoned Yansui, and was named the chief soldier of Ningxia after Zhengde died in the early years of the war.

The second brother, Fu Jian, guards the tomb in his hometown in Yulin.

The fourth brother died in battle in his early years, and the fifth brother is now also in the army, commanding the envoy of Sui Dewei.

Fu Duo's eldest son, Fu Jin, has just won the third place in the martial arts competition, and he is only a little short of entering the main list.

Today, Fu Duo, who can be said to have guarded the frontier for the Ming Dynasty for generations, is only the chief military officer, and does not have the title of General Zhenshuo.

He was only transferred from the position of Ningxia General Soldier the year before last by Yang Yiqing to be transferred to the General Military Officer of Xuanfu Town.

Now, Gu Shilong is here, Yang Yiqing's letter has arrived, and along with him, there is also the seal of General Zhenshuo that he has been thinking about for a long time.

There are many total soldiers in the world, not many can be printed, and even fewer are at the beginning of the town word.

On the third floor of Xuanfu Town, Zhenshuo Building is located between Gongji Building and Qingyuan Building, where Fu Duo visited the Duke of Yasukuni and received the seal.

It is not a trivial matter for Gu Shilong to come to Xuanfu Town with a "sick body" shortly after the Spring Festival, and at the same time carry a seal of General Zhenshuo.

Gu Shilong's health was a little better, but he still came in person.

Standing on the tower of Zhenshuo and looking out of the city, the guards were far away.

"Ying Ning's letter, you've finished reading it."

Fu Duo saluted: "I'm done." ”

Gu Shilong looked at him slightly sideways: "The seal is given to you, and it has been widely spread to all sides." After the victory in Shuozhou, His Majesty granted you the seal of General Zhenshuo, and moved from the invitation of the Marquis of Wuding to the chief military officer of Datong. ”

"Please also ask the state to publicize it."

Gu Shilong said with a smile: "The Fu family has been loyal to martyrs for generations, and Your Majesty knows it. The Xuanfu has a heavy responsibility, and General Fu is impenetrable. Not only Shangxi Road, Middle Road, and North Road, but also Lower West Road and South Road. ”

Fu Duo's heart moved: "West Road? ”

Gu Shilong nodded affirmatively: "West Road." Of course, the middle and north roads are as usual, the most important. ”

Fu Duo looked at Gu Shilong.

Xuanfu Town and the forts due north are the middle road defense area, and the upper west road is centered on Zhangjiakou and is also next to the Great Wall, not to mention the north road. How to listen to this, how it seems to be the West Road and the South Road to be emphasized.

Aren't Xia Xi Road and South Road next to Datong Town?

“…… What are the arrangements of the military council, and why can't it be clearly stated? ”

"At this moment, the snow is covering the mountains, and the movement outside the Great Wall is unknown. Beiyu suffered a loss in Shuozhou, maybe this time he will find an opening between Datong and Xuanfu to find face? After all, they belong to two towns, and I am afraid that there will be difficulties in dispatching and blocking them. ”

Fu Duo thought to himself, what are you fooling ghosts? If you come from that direction, you are facing Taihang Mountain, what is the map of Beiyu? And if you are not careful, you will be dumplings by Xuanda and the two towns.

“…… I understand. ”

Fu Duo didn't understand, but he knew that it should be a big plan right now.

Let him wear the seal, I am afraid that there will be a credit worthy of this seal soon.

"The Xuanfu was entrusted to General Fu, and the dog was also entrusted to General Fu."

“…… Didn't Guogong stay in Xuanfu for a while? ”

"I have to go back to Beijing to reinstate my purpose."

Fu Duo only felt that he came and went too deliberately, and when he saw Gu Shilong's second son Gu Yu, the two of them stared at each other.

Gu Yu was a little nervous.

So Fu Duo felt even more entangled: what is Xuanda planning on the front line, even he, the chief military officer, has to hide it first, so that Gu Shilong is willing to throw his immature son over to mix up some credit?

…… Then where did the Marquis of Wuding come to the border after being punished, and he also came to get credit, right?

But Fu Duo has been in the border town for so many years, and he really can't imagine that Beiyu has any great merit so easy to get.

Lower West Road and South Road ......

Fu Duo remembered the interesting stories and secrets of Datong Town that the generals under his command said, and couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart.

…… Playing with fire, right?

(End of chapter)