Chapter 445

The strategy was formulated by Cheng Shijie, and the idea of changing the race to the Indochina Peninsula was his idea, and since it started, there was no way to turn back, so he could only grit his teeth and stick to the end.

Difficulties are objective facts, and the Tusi people in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangzhou, in the north, are mainly voluntary at this stage, and the best way to change people's inherent concepts is to use facts as persuasiveness. Just like when the peasants went to the city to work, at the beginning, many people would rather be idle at home than go to the city to work, until they saw that the same villagers or acquaintances who went to the city to work made a lot of money, and they began to go out one after another.

Although the Red River Plain is only half the size of the Hanjiang Plain, the problem is that 90 percent of the fields in the Red River Plain are excellent paddy fields, which means that the Red River Plain has more than 28 million mu of paddy fields.

However, as more and more Tusi soldiers and civilians poured into the Red River Plain, these lands gradually felt that they were not enough to settle, and the capture of Thang Long City was only the beginning, and this war could not be stopped at all.

With the capture of Thang Long City, Cheng Shijie returned to Liaodong, he was going to start inspecting Guangdong, the current Guangdong is not the Guangdong of three hundred years later, the whole Guangdong is still rich except for the circle of Guangzhou, and the rest of the place is extremely poor.

People always have to find a way to survive, whether it is legal or illegal, they will use it, so even on the edge of the Pearl River Delta, there are bandits and bandits everywhere.

There are even more bandits and bandits, all staring at those who have made money overseas, and they will kidnap tickets when they see the opportunity. Therefore, the rich generally live in Guangzhou, the big city is safer than the countryside, and those who do not have this condition simply build watchtowers in their hometowns to protect themselves, and the children of the clan do farm work during the day, and stay in the watchtowers with weapons at night to sentry, making it like a war of resistance. If the financial resources are relatively large, there are hundreds of fierce township soldiers in a fence, and even if the bandits want to move them, they have to weigh it.

The sea is not very peaceful, as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the coast of Guangdong began to be chaotic, pirates entrenched on the major islands like wolves staring at the passing caravans, crossing the ocean to the Ming Dynasty's European seas are also merchants and thieves, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries have plundered coastal states and counties.

However, they didn't have the courage to play with the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty, and they all ransacked a few towns, and they were still far from the realm of the Japanese Invaders. Bandits, pirates, clan forces, and civil rebellions...... These forces were intertwined, making the situation in Guangdong extremely complicated, and the Ming Dynasty's rule over Guangdong was confined to the Pearl River Delta, and the decree of this circle would not work.

Three hundred years later, Guangdong is rich in the world, but Guangdong three hundred years ago was a basin, who was put here to be an official, it was really bad luck for eight lifetimes.

Of course, Cheng Shijie is not afraid of trouble, and it can even be said that he is a super troublemaker himself, who can make trouble, and of course he is good at solving trouble.

After the capture of Nanjing, the Ming Royal Army instead added six brigades to the south of the Yangtze River, a total of ten brigades of two or three hundred thousand troops, and began to suppress bandits and bandits from county to county, and this strategy was actually to prepare for the development of Zhanzhou, as long as the bandits were captured, unless the bandits and robbers with great resentment would be beheaded.

Other bandits who surrendered will be loaded onto ships and sent to Zhanzhou for labor reform, and now Huguang was split into Hubei and Hunan by Cheng Shijie, and now the development of the two lakes has been on the right track, after the redistribution of land, agricultural production has been quickly restored, factories have begun to bloom everywhere, each county has several textile mills, cement factories, steel mills, presumably in the next few years, the productivity of the two lakes area will burst out in a blowout mode.

Hunan and Hubei don't need Cheng Shijie to worry about it, he focuses his main energy on Guangdong. When Cheng Shijie came to Guangdong, the 26th Brigade in charge of public security in Guangdong had basically swept away the bandits and bandits, and the civil rebellion had been solved by land reform.

As for the clan power, in the face of strong military strength, it is not a matter at all, and besides, he doesn't look down on the little interests occupied by the clan power, and his eyes are set overseas, which is the real source of wealth.

Cheng Shijie came to Guangdong, without fanfare, but with Zhou Ning and more than a dozen guards, carrying more than a dozen carts, loaded with goods, just like ordinary caravans, Cheng Shijie used this way to also test the public security situation in Guangdong.

When he came to Foshan, Cheng Shijie found that the public security in Guangdong is now very good, prices are relatively stable, and there are rare smiles on the faces of the people.

The taxes of the Ming Dynasty are not heavy, but they are exploited by the officials and officials, so that the people are miserable, but there are no miscellaneous taxes in the Dingxin Dynasty, and the system of officials has been abolished, there is no obvious difference between officials and officials, they enjoy the same treatment, they can be promoted, and their children and grandchildren can also participate in the imperial examination, but the Dingxin Dynasty does not have the gentry exempt from tax, just like the officials also have to pay taxes.

Cheng Shijie casually asked a grain seller and asked, "How much is the price of this rice?" ”

"Doumi Eighty Wen!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the grain seller and asked puzzledly: "Isn't business good?" ”

"Business is not good!"

As soon as Cheng Shijie asked, he learned that the Liaodong Management Committee was also implementing Cheng Shijie's policy, adopting the method of cash-for-work to build roads, ditches, and bridges in Guangdong.

In particular, the government will enforce the setting of grain prices, and the price of grain collected and sold must not exceed a premium of 20 percent.

Cheng Shijie did not pity the grain merchants, there are not many grain merchants with a conscience, and it is a common phenomenon to insert sand and stones into the grain. Moreover, this grain merchant has a threshold, which has a great relationship with the government and the gentry.

In addition to the grain business, which is not very good, other businesses such as shoes and socks, needles and threads, salt, wine, and cloth are not bad, and there are shouts and shouts.

After half a month of inspection, Cheng Shijie finally came to Guangzhou.

The director of the Guangdong Management Committee is the fifth year of the Apocalypse, supervising Guo Weijing, who was born in the imperial history, Guo Weijing is too lucky, he was as early as the eighth year of Chongzhen, and he was removed from prison because there was no backstage, and no one cared about him, and he almost died in the edict prison, so Wen Tiren and other events had nothing to do with him.

When Sun Zhili was rectifying the Guangdong Management Committee, he promoted Guo Weijing and rose to the top and directly became the director of the Guangdong Management Committee.

Cheng Shijie also must have a problem here, but now there is a shortage of capable officials everywhere, only if there is no major mistake, if it can be used, it will be used.

Guo Weijing brought the leaders of the Management Committee and the Guangzhou Executive Committee to greet Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie rested in Guangzhou for three days, and then convened a committee meeting of the Guangdong Management Committee, of course, Cheng Shijie made important instructions at the meeting, first of all, he announced that he would build a steel plant with an annual output of more than 50,000 tons, a phosphate fertilizer plant with an annual output of more than 50,000 tons, and at the same time set the cement output at 100,000 tons.

Guo Weijing smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, should we be cautious in this matter?" ”

In Guo Weijing's view, Cheng Shijie was overwhelmed by his previous achievements, thinking that no matter where he was, he could conjure up a large amount of iron ore and phosphate rock like a trick! It is more reliable to build a cement plant, after all, Guangdong is quite rich in resources to make cement, but it is a bit outrageous to say that it is necessary to build a steel plant, and there is no large-scale iron mine in Guangdong at all.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "This king has already thought about this matter very clearly, you just need to carry out the order!" ”

"Is there a problem with this location?"

"What's the problem?"

"In the South China Sea, by the sea, there is no coal here, there is no iron ore here, it is easy to build a steel mill, how to produce it after building a steel mill?"

Cheng Shijie took the ore from Zhanzhou and said: "Use Zhanzhou's!" ”

As soon as Cheng Shijie said the resources of Zhanzhou, Guo Weijing no longer objected, and he instantly understood why Cheng Shijie did not directly produce steel in Zhanzhou, but put it in Nanhai County, which is mainly to drive the economic development of Nanhai County.

If you didn't say anything, let's start construction.

Cheng Shijie's second decree is much more reliable, that is, to encourage wealthy businessmen in Guangdong to set up textile factories, and the flax and cotton planting industries in Hunan and Hubei have been fully opened, and the output of cotton and flax will increase dramatically in two years at most, and a considerable part of these cotton and flax will be transported to Guangdong by water to be processed into cloth and even ready-to-wear.

Hunan and Hubei can't digest so much. This is the "division of labor" he proposed, the previous family workshop model of small fights has become a thing of the past, and now to play on several provinces to unite to integrate resources and everyone to play together, the formation of competitors Mount Tai top trend.

In the eyes of the wealthy people in Guangdong, this decree is quite reliable, they have been deprived of the right to annex land, and the money in their hands must be used to do a business, and the textile industry is very good.

Cloth was a very precious treasure in ancient times, especially for a populous country like the Ming Dynasty, the gap was very large, as long as it could be made, it would not be sold.

Moreover, Cheng Shijie also gave a lot of preferential treatment to those who invested in setting up factories, so there were not a few people who invested in setting up factories for a while, and the textile alone stirred up the water in Guangdong. In addition to encouraging everyone to engage in textiles, he also encouraged everyone to invest in the seafood processing industry, Guangdong is close to the sea, seafood is extremely abundant, and it is a good business to make money by processing them into canned food for export or shipping them to inland areas to sell, and this decree has also been unanimously supported by everyone.

The Dutch East India Company in Batavia has an eerie atmosphere.

Whether it was Putmans, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, or the director and senior commercial commissioner, their faces were very solemn, because of the news that the Ming Dynasty was attacking south from the two fronts of Annam and Donghu, and these two armies, according to their reliable intelligence, the Ming sent seven or eight hundred thousand horses.

That is to say, the annual report of the Dutch East India Company is about to go wrong again.

This means that the investment of the Dutch East Indies in Annam and the Taungoo Dynasty may be in vain.

The Dutch East India Governor, Putmans, looked at the information in front of him and was speechless for a long time.

The Dutch East India Company had established a trading base in Nan'an more than ten years earlier, but the Portuguese competed with them, and the two sides fought head-to-head, but no one could help the other.

The Dutch East India Company was very powerful, with more than one hundred and fifty armed merchant ships of more than one thousand tons, and forty or fifty third-class battleships, but the problem was that they had too many colonies, and Portugal had been against the Dutch for a long time, so to speak, what the Dutch supported, they had to oppose, on the contrary, what the Netherlands opposed, they must support.

Just like the Ming Dynasty, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch East India Company and the Ming Navy launched the Penghu Naval Battle, and then Portugal strengthened its support for the Ming Dynasty, of course, the support they provided was also purposeful, equivalent to normal trade. The same is true of the strategy in Annam, where the Dutch supported Truong and the Portuguese supported Nguyen, and the two sides had been fighting in Nam An for more than a decade without winning or losing.

This is mainly because the strength of the two sides is equal, and the Dutch East Indies cannot invest too much resources and forces, and their combined fleet, which is also the world's top fleet in Europa, is like a pancake, and when it is divided, there are not too many warships and armed merchant ships in various places.

Even if there was a big battle with the Ning Navy and heavy losses, it could be replenished in recent years, but the size of the combined fleet of the Dutch East India Company could not be expanded.

It's not that the Dutch East India Company doesn't have money, it's that they don't have so many people, and like the Spanish Empire, most of the people that Dutch East India can recruit are broken peasants, thieves, scum and scum, although these people have problems with their character, they are part of the civilized world and can operate advanced warships.

As for those natives, they are not people in the eyes of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch East India Company is very envious of Daming, their support for Zheng Zhu is limited, gritted their teeth, squeezed toothpaste, squeezed out two or three thousand people, supported Zheng Zhu, and was beaten by Daming with a stick.

Whether it is the Dutch or the Grape people, supporting hundreds of musketeers to join the battle will not change the situation of the war at all, but the problem is that this is an East Asian monster house, even if more than 200 years ago, the Annam people have seen muskets and artillery, and the musketeers are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket in the face of tens of thousands of troops that can be mobilized by both sides.

"Your Excellency the Governor, those Ming people have wantonly usurped more than 150 sugar cane plantations and more than 260 mines in Annam, and they have not only brutally and savagely killed our company's business professionals, but also seized all our assets! This is a provocation to our Dutch East India Company, this is an act of war! ”

"Hans, or you go and defeat the Ming people!"

Putmans looked calm, if the Dutch East India Company could easily defeat the Ming Dynasty, and Hans, the bastard, he would have given the order a long time ago to let the Combined Fleet send troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, but the problem is, this is really impossible to beat.

The last battle in the Gulf of Tonkin was still raging, the Ming Luzon fleet and the Coconut City fleet often cruised on the route, either inspecting or seizing it, they also knew that there were many fruits in Nan'an, and they were also very cheap, but the Ming navy was detained for a month or two, and all the fruits were stinky.

"Is that all?"

"No, you can't do that!"

Putmans said with a serious face: "We must express a strong protest to Da Ming, protest against Da Ming's barbaric behavior!" ”

(End of chapter)