Chapter 202

Cheng Shijie's biggest advantage is that he will not be constrained.

Nominally, Liaodong is the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Chongzhen Emperor, its influence on Liaodong is very limited.

Although Liaodong was defeated by Cheng Shijie, because there is no local gentry class in Liaodong, there is no gentry class in the local area to stumble Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie, the Duke of Haiguo, has all kinds of privileges in Liaodong.

Whether it is legislation or the introduction of any regulations, Cheng Shijie does not need to ask anyone for instructions, at most he can keep Liaodong nominally belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

In Liaodong, the person who served as the director of the General Administration of Taxation was Yang Yunniang, who held Liaodong's money bag in one hand and Liaodong's taxation in the other. But in all of Cheng Shijie's problems, Yang Yunniang will definitely not create obstacles.

In this regard, Yang Yunniang is very clear about her position, she was originally an insignificant little woman, but because she met Cheng Shijie, her fate changed. It was Cheng Shijie who made her, not Yang Yunniang who made Cheng Shijie.

At this point, Yang Yunniang is very clear. She also knows her very thoroughly, Cheng Shijie can hold her up as the president of the bank, the director of the State Administration of Taxation, or let someone else do this position, in fact, there are countless people in Liaodong who are willing to serve Cheng Shijie.

The 19 members of the management committee of Liaodong (Yang Qingyun was added on behalf of the health system) Song Xiance, Lin Xuzong, Chen Guodong, Zhou Yandong, Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu, Zhao Wencai, Shen Shikui, Li Zhixiang, Yuan Shiliang, including Jin Qiaoer, Xie Zongze, Xie Jinglin, and Zhang Huaize are all Cheng Shijie's people, not Cheng Shijie's people, and only Chen Zilong, Song Yingxing, Fang Yizhi and Yang Qingyun are not Cheng Shijie's hardcore professionals.

Cheng Shijie's retention of these four people as the main opposition is to treat these committee members as catfish, and with these four people, the members of the management committee will think more comprehensively when doing things.

When Zhu Weiyuan and others were still having a picnic on the banks of the Yulong River in Xinghai City, Cheng Shijie wrote down three Chen, the first of which was about the protection of children in Liaodong.

For many parents of the Ming Dynasty, if they are not qualified according to the standards of later generations, especially those who have daughters, or parents who have many daughters, when they encounter difficulties, the first natural idea is to sell their daughters, and if they are lucky, they can sell them to large families as maids.

can become concubines, they can be counted as a good mix, but the most pitiful are the girls who were sold to the Qinglou, and their lives were completely ruined, and even more so they were trained to be thin horses.

Of course, the son will also sell, but this is the last resort, that is, they have no way to live, and selling their son is also so that the son can live, and generally when they sell their son, it is their own death date.

In ancient times, when describing a person as difficult, it would be said that he sold his son and daughter, but the problem is that selling a son is not the same as selling a daughter, and the purpose is not the same.

Before the eighties and nineties, and even now, the laws in many rural areas were not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and were not integrated into China's rural society. The rules that make people obey are not people's legal concepts, but ethical and moral concepts formed in the local society.

Chinese law is a foreign product, transplanted from a foreign country, and has no roots in Chinese society, and it is easy to grow crooked, followed by really smart people, and there are still too few wise people. There are too many fools, and there are too many fools.

Cheng Shijie remembers very clearly that in later generations, Moujing engaged in a very famous public opinion control, called "Under the Firmament", but as a result, he gained a large number of stupid followers in China. According to a certain Jing's strange logic: "You China is very backward, so you should reduce emissions!" "Mother's smog foetus gets tumor", "Between 1960 and 1970, in the first decade of Britain's pollution control, the economy not only did not regress, but the GDP doubled".

Anyone who has a little brain, should not believe a certain Jing, this product itself is a public knowledge that has been bought, and even openly thanked the "American Ford Foundation" at the end of the film, of course, many people have done it to shoot themselves in the foot, and under the operation of a certain Jing, the people are miserable.

The construction of the rule of law should end with the national conditions, rather than blindly studying, about the legislative work of the "Liaodong Law on the Protection of Minors", of course, is not Cheng Shijie's words, he will not be objective enough to consider the problem, emotional times, so, he can decide whether to enact this law, but how to enact, is to accept the will of the masses.

That is, let the Liaodong Management Committee select people with sound parents and children and grandchildren from Lushun, Haizhou, Jinzhou, Fuzhou and other places as representatives, and then organize everyone to discuss. This representative must not be determined by his level of education or status, but by his class, occupation, and place of origin.

In addition to the legislative work of the "Liaodong Law on the Protection of Minors", the second is the directly promulgated law "Liaodong Prohibits Foot Binding", which does not need to be demonstrated, but is the law embodied by Cheng Shijie's will, Cheng Shijie directly stipulates that fines will be imposed on women who do not let go of their feet within one year.

Of course, although it is said that Cheng Shijie's cumulative method is indeed likely to punish the richest person to bankruptcy, the problem is that this time is too slow, so correct the mistake in time and increase it tenfold. In the first year he was fined ten taels of silver, in the second year he was twenty taels of silver, and in the third year he was fined forty taels of silver......

Anyway, ordinary people will not wrap their feet, because they need to work, in the Ming Dynasty, only the daughters of wealthy families who do not need labor will wrap their feet, of course, not all the daughters of rich and noble families will wrap their feet, at least Miss Xu Si, Cheng Shijie has seen, her feet are about eight inches, and they can be regarded as big feet in later generations.

Considering that today, Liaodong is facing a serious shortage of teachers, followed by insufficient funds.

But the problem is that education is the top priority of future development, and even if you lose your underwear, you still need to do what you need to do. The second issue is the issue of strategic grain reserves.

In the Ming Dynasty, grain is human life, you can meet, this year in southern Liaoning more than 36 million acres of land reclamation, as long as the autumn harvest is boiled, Liaodong will have enough grain, resettlement of more displaced people and people, in this way, will let the development of Liaodong into a virtuous circle.

In this regard, there is no too mature method to learn from, and the grain in southern Liaoning, it is foreseeable, will definitely be mainly potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, and of course, sweet potatoes can also be sent to the south of the Yangtze River in exchange for high-quality rice. This requires a large number of ships, as well as large sea vessels.

Lushun Shipyard is producing 5,000 large sea vessels, but in the stage of laying the keel, it is found that the keel is deformed and is solving the problem.

It seems that development needs to come step by step, and you can't eat a fat man in one go.

Just when Cheng Shijie was preparing to publish the "Liaodong Law on the Protection of Minors", "Liaodong Women's Prohibition of Foot Binding" and "Trial Draft on Liaodong Compulsory Education".

Xie Jinglin found a very pleasant surprise.

North Koreans don't know about the Mosan Iron Mine, and the Mosan Iron Mine has not been discovered by North Korea, and North Korea does not pay much attention to this area. It is estimated that the royal family of North Korea does not know how big Mosan is and what there is.

After learning of this situation, Xie Jinglin immediately revised the original plan of action and decided to purchase Xianning North Province as a family settlement area for the Ning Navy.

On April 16, the sixth year of Chongzhen, Xie Jinglin officially met with the Korean king Li Liang.

Li Liang was a king who relied on a coup d'état to ascend to the throne, he was originally the nephew of Li Hui, the king of Guanghae, and with the rise of Jiannu, Li Hui, the king of Guanghai, refused to aid the Ming Dynasty and secretly passed on the letter to Jiannu, which led to the rebellion of the people, so the warriors Li Shu and Shen Jingzhen (Li Liang's cousin) decided to launch a coup d'état and overthrow the Guanghai monarch.

On the night of March 12, the third year of the Apocalypse, the coup plan was officially launched, and after the coup was successful, Li Liang ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the territory for the Korean Injo, and this coup d'état was also called "Injo anyway".

Immediately after the "Anyway", Li Liang sent Li Qingquan to the Ming Dynasty to inform him of the "Anyway" incident and ask the Ming Emperor to canonize him as the King of Korea; However, the Ming Dynasty recognized it as a usurpation and refused to be canonized.

With the pleas of the Korean envoys and the help of Mao Wenlong, a Ming general stationed on Pundo Island (Phi Island) in Korea, the Ming Dynasty decided to approve the canonization of Injo based on the strategic consideration of "Lianxian slavery". On April 20, 1624, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Renzu obtained the quasi-canonization decree of Ming Xizong from the returning envoys, and on the third day of June of the following year, the Ming Dynasty envoys and eunuchs Wang Minzheng and Hu Liangfu presided over the canonization ceremony, and Renzu's legitimacy in the country was also confirmed.

Li Liang was a pro-Ming faction, so after the victory in Haizhou, he congratulated Emperor Chongzhen as soon as possible, and participated in the dedication ceremony held in December of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

Although Xie Jinglin's status is not high, he came to North Korea on behalf of Cheng Shijie, so he was warmly welcomed by Li Liang.

During the dinner on 16 April, Li Liang proposed to Xie Jinglin that because Jiannu was about to move recently, he hoped to ask Cheng Shijie, the governor of Liaodong, to reinforce Korea.

The so-called Jiannu was about to move, but the Jiannu cavalry under Hu Erqi was galloping along the Yalu River and the Tumen River. Don't look at the Ming army's attack on Jiannu very easily, but the problem is that the North Korean army is too vegetable.

is simply a war scumbag, Li Liang is really insecure.

Xie Jinglin acted as a reason: "It's not impossible to increase troops in North Korea, it's just inconvenient!" Let the officers and men of the Ning Navy live in North Korea, the officers and men of the Ning Navy will be homesick, and it is inevitable that there will be chaos, and Lord Cheng is ready to increase the total strength of the troops stationed in North Korea to 12,000 people, but the problem is that once the families of these soldiers and soldiers join the army, this will be 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the pressure on logistics and supply is too great. ”

What Xie Jinglin said is also true, after all, there is almost no autumn in Liaodong, once it is autumn, it is possible to drop the temperature significantly anytime and anywhere, and even snow in September is a normal phenomenon, once it snows, it will be impossible to transport grain. Summer is easy, but the problem is that there is no food in summer.

There was a big battle last year, and Liaodong, which was not rich, is now very tight in grain storage, and now Cheng Shijie is still buying grain from Jiangnan.

Li Liang also felt that what Xie Jinglin said was the truth, and if the DPRK was asked to bear the supply of the Ning Navy, an army of 12,000 men and horses would be able to afford it. North Korea is still a big country with a population of tens of millions.

But the problem is that if you are a family member of the army, then it is a bit big, and North Korea has a lot of territory, but the problem is that the area of arable land is not much, and North Korea also has to support its own army.

Li Qi was a little anxious.

However, Yin Jinzi of Seoul Prefecture is an experienced official, and he heard the hidden meaning from Xie Jinglin's words, it is difficult to do, it does not mean that it cannot be done.

Jin Zidian pulled Xie Jinglin and asked, "Mr. Xie, how can the Celestial Empire army rush to help?" ”

Xie Jinglin said: "Unless you change the way!" ”

"How?"

Xie Jinglin pointed to the topography of the Yalu River and the Tumen River basin and said: "This is the junction between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, if one or two guards are set up here, and the land is distributed to the guards and soldiers, so that you don't have to bear the supply of the soldiers, you can also defend against Jiannu, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?" ”

Jin Zidian also felt that this proposal was good: "I don't know where Mr. Xie thinks it is used as the guard of the Celestial Empire army?" ”

Xie Jinglin did not ask for Maoshan for the first time, but pointed to Mingchuan County on the map, of course, the so-called county in North Korea is roughly equivalent to the county of Daming.

In addition to some mountainous areas in the central and western parts of Mingchuan County, most of the area is the alluvial plains of the Mingjian River and the Yulang River, and the cultivated land is equivalent to about three or four million mu.

Jin Zidian shook his head and said, "Not here!" ”

Lee didn't even have much of an impression of North Hamgyong Province, his biggest impression was that North Hamgyong Province was mountainous and almost no flat land.

In the end, after the discussion of the Korean monarchs and ministers, they decided to give Maoshan to Cheng Shijie.

But the problem is that Xie Jinglin disagreed: "Your Majesty, as the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not take advantage of the vassal states, although Huining, Qingyuan, Zhongcheng, Qingxing, Wencheng, Funing, Shanyu plus the current Maoshan Town, a total of eight towns, as well as Phi Island and Jeju Island, but the land of North Korea, the Ming Dynasty cannot take it for nothing." ”

"Or give it away for eight taels of silver!"

Li Liang's idea was that with Daming blocking Jiannu in the north, he could sleep with confidence, and if the Japanese in the south came again, Daming's father would clean up the dwarfs.

Xie Jinglin shook his head and said: "Eight taels of silver is too little, this will make the world see the jokes of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, 10,000 taels of silver per place, a total of 100,000 taels of silver, is considered to be bought by the Duke of Haiguo to settle the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy!" ”

In this way, Xie Jinglin spent 100,000 taels of silver to buy a total of more than 14,800 square kilometers of land in eight towns in North Korea, including Huining, Qingyuan, Zhongcheng, Qingxing, Wencheng, Funing, Shanbai, and Maoshan.

Yes, that's right, it's 100,000 taels of silver, if Phi Island is a little expensive to spend 10,000 taels of silver, then Jeju Island and Mosan are too cheap.

The two sides officially signed an agreement, Cheng Shijie officially became the owner of Phi Island and Jeju Island, and these eight towns also became Cheng Shijie's private territory.

Of course, the 100,000 taels of silver were not paid directly to the Korean state in silver, but in the form of weapons and equipment, but the price of these equipment was very low.

For example, the actual cost of a spear is more than four taels of silver, so it is sold for five taels of silver, a total of 1,000 pieces, and in addition, there are three taels of silver for horizontal knives, a total of 1,000 horizontal knives. Cheng Shijie also generously gave Li Liang, the vassal king, a thousand sets of armor, and equipped Korea with an army of 3,000 people.

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If you really talk about it, there are many people who can't believe that there are more than 500 kinds of minerals in North Korea, especially in the later generations of North Korea, whose mineral resources account for 80% of it.

North Korea has the world's largest rare earth deposits and is expected to double the world's known rare earth oxide resources. At the same time, North Korea's magnesite reserves are the first in the world, and there are 7 kinds of minerals in the top 10, including tungsten, molybdenum, graphite, barite, and fluorite, and the iron ore reserves are also among the top 10 in the world and the first in Asia. In addition, North Korea has been known as a "gold-producing country" since ancient times, and gold is often co-existed with silver, copper and other minerals.

Unexpectedly, North Korea is actually a natural tyrant, and people have mines. On the contrary, although South Korea has more arable land than North Korea, its mineral resources are less than one-seventh of North Korea's.

Maoshan Iron Mine is the largest iron ore mine in Asia, the original largest iron ore is located in Dataigou, Qiaotou Town, Benxi City, Liaoning Province, and Maoshan Iron Mine has prospective reserves of 5 billion tons. Crucially, 28 percent of this huge iron ore mine is open-pit The underground part is 72 percent.

If it weren't for Cheng Shijie, the Maoshan iron ore would have been discovered in the thirties of the twentieth century, that is, more than 300 years later.

The problem is that this is an open-pit iron mine, which means that the actual population of Maoshan is not large, otherwise it would have been discovered a long time ago.

With the agreement from the sixth year of Chongzhen April 30 officially entered into force.

At the same time, Cheng Shijie sent a team of more than 1,000 engineers and technicians to Maoshan, including 40 projects and 100 households at any time.

Cheng Shijie is very disgusted with those European colonizers, their behavior is too simple and rude, for this, Cheng Shijie did more gentle.

With the engineering hundred households and technicians to Maoshan is a guard team of about 600 people, this escort team is the veterans of the Ning Navy, these veterans are more or less disabled, such as missing a few fingers, or toes, after all, the battle between the Ning Navy and Jiannu took place in winter, and there were too many soldiers who were frostbitten.

When North Korea saw that Cheng Shijie was doing what he said, he immediately sent five or six thousand people to Maoshan, and also put his hanging heart into his stomach.

As for how to develop Maoshan, Cheng Shijie's positioning of Maoshan is the future steel capital, Maoshan not only has iron ore, but also coal in Wencheng, and the natural conditions for steelmaking have been met.

With the control of these eight towns, Shuangchengwei also began to expand, to the south and Maoshan into a piece, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, of course, at the current stage, Liaodong human resources are also very scarce, the development of Maoshan, it is inseparable from the help of the Koreans.

"Want to eat well?"

"Yes!"

"Then work for Twin Cities Development Group, there are fresh fruits, sweet milk, delicious steamed buns, and delicious dishes!"

Although the Shuangcheng Development Group also held swords and guns, the well-dressed, tall and mighty soldiers of the Ning Navy were typical imperialist images.

The North Koreans were very poor, the local agricultural planting technology was backward, and the grain production was extremely low, coupled with the expropriation of the Korean government, the life of ordinary Koreans was not easy.

The Ninghai Shuangcheng Development Group did not directly pay money in Maoshan, and in this place, there was no use for money and materials, and the North Korean workers worked for the Shuangcheng Development Group, and their daily remuneration was food, food, salt, cloth, and other materials.

Of course, the prey obtained by the North Koreans can also be sold directly to the Shuangcheng Group, in addition to the prey, there are also local specialties such as mountain ginseng, medicinal herbs and so on.

Thanks to the hard work of the North Korean workers, a simple and large makeshift camp is being erected, with tents that can be quickly erected and fences around the camp.

Gradually, the wooden fence of the camp became a stone wall, and the stone wall became a city wall, and the original town slowly became a city of spectacular scale.

Daming Shuangcheng Development Group brought not only materials to Maoshan, but also living habits, for example, getting up every morning to wash your face and brush your teeth, then eat breakfast, and drink some tea in the afternoon.

The development work of the Shuangcheng Development Group in Maoshan began to develop rapidly, and the Ming and Korean sides got along very harmoniously, and the guards of the Shuangcheng Development Group were not like the colonial army, they had strict military discipline and could not mess around.

Then the Maoshan wharf, highways, and post stations on the Tumen River slowly appeared......

As for the interests of the Shuangcheng Development Group in North Korea, Cheng Shijie is not worried at all, because the eight bureaus have a total of more than 7,600 garrisons, of course, if you count the garrisons of Phi Island and Jeju Island, the number of this garrison is nearly 25,000 people.

If the 25,000 elite officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy cannot guarantee Cheng Shijie's interests, it is time for Cheng Shijie to reflect on himself.

The core of harmonious coexistence and win-win cooperation is that in this way, both sides have benefits, the Ninghai Navy can ensure the security of the North Korean border, and the local people also have the opportunity to work and receive material compensation.

At this time, Maoshan has actually become a huge construction site, a residential community for the employees of the Shuangcheng Development Group, a barracks for the escort team, a logistics camp for the exploration team, a temporary barracks for the workers of the 100 households of the project, and a huge warehouse around the wharf and port.

At this time, the warehouse was full of grain, various tools and daily necessities from Liaodong. Maoshan City is still divided into four parts: the management area and the living area, the military management area, and the commercial area, the management area of the management committee includes the barracks, warehouses, and office areas, and the living area is still the traditional two-story brick building of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Maoshan City, there are about 10,000 Ming Dynasty people living here, the scale of the city is more than ten times larger than the original Maoshan Town, the most important thing is the road, build a road and then a road, these wide and flat roads, is the North Koreans have never seen, in fact, this kind of road Ming people have not seen much.

This is the cement road.

(End of chapter)