After hearing that Rensheng had arrived in the southeast, he began to take action.
Of course, shipbuilding is not possible because it consumes too much money.
He first went to the boatman who was usually responsible for freight on the inland river.
Although the land of Jianfu is mountainous, it also has many rivers. After all, it is a land close to the sea in the south and has abundant rainfall.
He quickly found more than two dozen medium-sized shipping companies.
They are all boats that can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles of rivers and transport goods on them.
There were dozens of inland river boats at most, and as few as three or five.
Year after year, day and night.
The land of Jianfu is in the south, where the river never freezes all year round.
After taking the governor's notice, he directly asked the local county magistrate to summon these merchants.
"I usually go to the governor's office to praise the military affairs. What you do with the boatmen is conducive to the military affairs..."
When Wen Rensheng said these words, all the boatmen were so frightened that they knelt down.
"Master, we are willing to repay you with some silver..."
They thought Wen Rensheng wanted to commandeer their ship.
You must know that imperial requisition is the same as buying, which basically means you will go bankrupt.
It is impossible for the ship to give you money. If it breaks down, you have to accept its fate. If you want to get it back, you will need an extra amount of silver.
Or to put it another way, as long as you are doing business on a slightly larger scale, you must have a backer. If you don’t have a backer, you are waiting to be eaten.
There are only small traders, and big crocodiles don't like it. It's too troublesome and not enough time to do it once.
The small traders were left to the government officials, gangsters, landlords and gentry to expropriate them.
Therefore, merchants' families all regard cultivating scholars as their first priority, doing business as their second priority, and buying land as their third priority.
But land is not easy to buy. Without background, you can't buy much land.
If there is no scholar in the family and you buy land, unruly people will force you to avoid paying the rent.
This is very common.
The county magistrate will not help you, but will make you calm down.
In other words, as long as you don't have a scholar background, no matter how much money you have, you will always be bullied.
Unless you can master the gangster forces such as Daxing, your reputation will naturally be ruined, and it is impossible to take the imperial examination.
However, if you become a prominent figure, you can serve in the army in critical moments, and you may also get some military positions.
Nowadays, these medium-sized shipping companies have some backers, but they are either some middle and low-level military attachés or some local civil servants.
But no matter who is here in Wenren Sheng, they are all fat sheep.
Because they don't have the ability to compete with a governor.
It's very simple. Wen Rensheng will not touch anyone who has the ability to compete with the governor...
"Get up. I am here this time because, although the mountains are rugged, there are dense river networks in this province. We can develop more water transportation and use water transportation to communicate with each other."
"If you have any difficulties in daily life, you can report them to me and tell me. Don't be afraid."
Wen Rensheng said with a smile.
However, in the eyes of all shipowners, this is a wolf that eats people without spitting out its bones.
"This, sir, now the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and the people are safe, and there is no difficulty for the young ones." In order to prevent Wen Rensheng from getting angry, someone finally whispered.
"Yes, the villain thinks the same way."
"Really?"
"That's true."
No one dares to tell the truth.
Are there any officials who will help merchants solve their problems?
If it is to help farmers stabilize mergers and acquisitions, I have heard of a few.
I heard that some upright officials, in order to gain reputation, blindly favor the poor when judging cases, regardless of whether they are right or wrong.
As long as you are a wealthy landowner without any backers, you will suffer a loss if you suffer a loss.
If a tenant farmer fails to pay rent and sues the official, not only will he not get the rent, but he will also be compensated with grain and silver...
Anyway, there have been so many such things that local wealthy households have sold their land to those with merit...
"I see. Well, I have something to do. I want you all to jointly invest in the company and form a freight company that relies on inland rivers."
All the merchants suddenly felt cold in their hearts.
I'm waiting for you here.
Yes, wait until you invest in it, and then eat it together.
Isn't this just the big fish in the sea preying on the small fish?
I thought it was inconvenient to eat small fish, so I squeezed the small fish together and swallowed them in one bite.
They often heard people who went to sea talk about such strange things. After all, they were indeed interesting.
Now it's your turn.
But what can be done?
Behind the other party is the governor, and behind them are either hundreds of households, or in many cases thousands of households, such is the military position.
Regardless of whether they are all from the sixth grade, from the fifth grade, the grade is quite high, and it seems to be quite intimidating, but in front of an important person like the governor, P is not.
A post from a staff member can be used to call the governor's office, and if someone makes a mistake, he can be beaten with a cane.
This is no exaggeration.
There are too many problems with hundreds of thousands of households. If you don't pick one, it's easy to find trouble for you.
Unless someone is dispatched by an official and has specific real power: for example, Qianhu also serves as a garrison, supervisor, general, and leads troops outside, which will be regarded as somewhat respectable in terms of real power.
Of course, by the end of the dynasty, military generals with soldiers were highly valued and no longer had no status. On the contrary, they would be forgiven for making serious mistakes and would not be easily killed. Civil servants, even governors and governors, would be jailed and executed.
This is how things change.
Wen Rensheng continued:
"I will issue a yellow flag from the governor's office to this trading house and place it on the bow of the boat. If there are any extortionists on the water in the future, you can report to the governor's office."
When everyone heard this, their hearts were slightly shaken.
It seems that the other party doesn't want to swallow him directly?
However, most people still decide to sell their boats and pawn them off immediately after returning home, and quickly go to sea to escape.
Anyway, they were close to the sea. I heard that the officials were recruiting people to settle the land, so I ran over there.
Although we will suffer the disaster of Malaria Typhoon Savage after it passes, it is still better than destroying the family and killing people immediately.
"I think you all don't believe me. Well, I have made it clear here that I only take 40% of the annual profits, 20% goes to the governor, 10% goes to me, and the remaining 10% goes to the yamen."
When everyone heard this, they felt a little relieved.
Yes, the other party just wants money.
If you don’t want money, you just have to swallow it all.
It seems that the other party wants to keep things flowing smoothly.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Some people thought for a while, in this case, they would have a backer, and they would not have to worry about it in the future.
Moreover, with the support of the governor's Yamen, it seems that the previous support can be abandoned.
Moreover, the backers used to blackmail and intimidate, never letting anyone take a breath, and they would come to ask for money if they made a little more money.
As for the quality of industrial management, they are determined not to care. If they go bankrupt, they will find the next one.
And Master Zanhua here seems to live off profits.
Someone was shaken.
"The adults treat the common people so kindly, how dare the common people refuse to die?" One family decided to bite the bullet and obey.
This is a small boat shop, and I thought that even if I sell the boat and go to sea, it will be difficult to escape successfully.
After all, the other side will send troops to watch.
That's for sure.
Wen Rensheng indeed invited soldiers from Governor Biaoying and local government officials to take care of the boat shop he invited. How could it be so easy for them to escape?
Wen Rensheng didn't have time for those tricks.
Now Donglu is already developing vigorously, and the momentum will soon be achieved.
In fact, there were always opportunities in the late Ming Dynasty, but they lacked core advantages, making it difficult for them to make a successful comeback.
Only the sea route is the most likely opportunity to make use of existing technology, manpower, and materials to make a comeback.
Other methods, to be honest, the probability of error tolerance is too small.
He was knocked to pieces by accident.
Only the Jurchens cannot compare to the sea.
It will take at least 50 years for them to catch up, and as long as they continue to attack, they will not have the time or opportunity to catch up. They can just attack all the shipbuilding places on the sea.
The only way for the other side to control the sea is to move the border and ban the sea.
In fact, there is a way to break it, which is to connect with the inland river network and build a large fortress.
Why was the Liaodong Fortress destroyed?
Because it was a road transport, it was besieged by long trenches dug on land. Without external aid, it was naturally broken.
But with the help of sea and inland river transportation and constant foreign aid, there is no need to worry about being forced.
You must know that in the 13th year of Chongzhen, Jincheng was besieged for more than half a year and was only broken after the reinforcements were eliminated.
Later, under the coercion of Wen Rensheng, more than two dozen shipping companies finally invested in ships, manpower, private ports, etc., and finally formed a shipping company.
There are no exceptions, because the exceptional Wen Rensheng will not be selected.
Wen Rensheng named it: "Express Ship Line".
Then someone gave these people a yellow flag with their names on it. This is the background of the late Ming Dynasty, so there is no taboo.
In my Qing Dynasty, this color could kill your entire family.
Such an exaggeration.
From now on, just put such a flag on the bow of the ship.
Anyone who passes through various water checkpoints, private checkpoints, and banknote checkpoints, except those set up by eunuchs and feudal lords, can also pass through water checkpoints set up by nobles, officials, and gentry without any obstruction.
Relying on this, you can reduce a lot of costs.
At the same time, by avoiding inspections, passenger traffic will increase significantly when transporting people and goods.
Who doesn’t want to be able to ride on a ship that has a good background, is reliable, and can pass the customs smoothly?
"You take turns to reorganize, and the personnel who are not in business will be gathered here in batches, and I will check them one by one..."
Wen Rensheng said again.
Then everyone brought their shopkeepers, clerks, sailors, handymen, bodyguards, guards... one after another in rotation.
There were 23 large and small shipyards, and the number of people suddenly increased. According to verbal statistics from shipowners, these people totaled about 3,500 people.
There are three to four hundred people in the big one, and only twenty or thirty in the small one.
The main reason is that there are many escorts and guards, but not many sailors and clerks. This can also show the scene of the end of the world.
Greatly increased operating costs.
After all, guards do not work, they only provide security. If it is a peaceful year, only one-tenth of the manpower is needed, which can save a lot at once.
But that's not possible now. If there aren't enough escorts and guards, then you'll have to wait to be robbed.
Water ghosts, bandits, liars, river pirates, etc. will eat you up.
Then Wen Rensheng did some cleaning.
It took two days to find 35 traitors, 220 greedy people, and 422 scoundrels. Finally, a total of 1,200 people were found who were honest and willing to work, smart and motivated, and somewhat loyal, and barely qualified.
Among them, more than 100 loyal and kind-hearted people were identified based on their character, and these owners put them in purchasing and supervision positions.
All in all, after some cleaning and rectification, and a new batch of supplements were recruited, the business efficiency of the 23 boat shops immediately increased significantly.
On this day, Wen Rensheng reported what he had done to the governor Wang.
When Governor Wang heard this, he immediately laughed and said: "Since you are short of guards, just allocate 200 people from my camp to serve as guards. It will be considered as an occupation."
When Wen Rensheng heard this, he immediately agreed.
At the same time, he also knew that this was a major drawback.
What is Zhanwu? It means that the governor has a direct command camp, and the soldiers inside are paid by the imperial court.
Now he is being dragged into working as a private businessman.
The state spent money to support them, but private individuals used them for labor.
It is most common in the capital camp. The corruption of the capital camp begins with occupation, and the person who occupied the most is the emperor himself, who used it to build palaces and mausoleums.
Such noble eunuchs also followed suit.
As a result, the capital camp was in great disarray.
This is also normal. When the imperial court looked at peace, it spent high military pay. As a result, the soldiers were just idle there, and of course they couldn't bear their inner impulses.
They don't want to be unable to defeat others in the future. They only know that doing so can save taxes. If they want to requisition civilians, firstly, they have to give them food. If they don't give them, they will easily become unrest. Secondly, they will take up farming time and affect production.
So the Jingying camp was used. You must know that this labor force is hundreds of thousands, and they are all young and strong.
How troublesome it is to recruit laborers from other places to do this.
However, Wen Rensheng knew it and still did it.
Naturally, he had other plans.
Because he wants to pay double pay to these standard battalion soldiers and provide them with more training.
Turn public soldiers into private soldiers.
So he selected 200 soldiers from the governor's Biao camp, all of whom were good-natured and conscientious people.
And they were given the first month's silver, 2 taels, upon arrival.
In fact, these people knew it well, and it would have been fine if they had not issued it, because the yamen would have issued it.
The premise is that the yamen will not default on payment.
Sometimes Biaoying will be in arrears, if the governor is ineffective and not taken seriously.
In short, Wen Rensheng gave them extra money and ordered them to perform exercises every three days according to the characteristics of this era.
They only provided enough food, and there was no queue or daily training.
Those are all time-spanning.
Daily exercise is even more impossible.
I just hope that they will take the initiative to work hard when they have enough to eat in their spare time.
During the drill, I still practiced the Yuanyang Formation and Qi Jiguang's Art of War.
Of course, when you get to the north, there is another way to form a car formation.
It's just a chariot formation, why can't it defeat Donglu?
The reason is very simple. It is not that the law is not good, but that the equipment is not good and the pay is insufficient.
The vehicle array needs to be coordinated with firearms, but the firearms often explode. How to use this?
As for the express shipping companies and cargo escorts, with the background of the governor's office, there were still some people who didn't open their eyes at first, but after a few lessons, it became smooth.
Relying on his reputation as governor, he can still be used within the province.
Express Trading Company soon began to rise to prominence, and its business volume increased significantly.
Stealing a lot of business from others.
Taking away someone's wealth is like killing your parents.
Naturally they were unwilling to do so.
However, considering the background of Express Trading Company and the fact that their scale is not too big, many people still choose to tolerate it.
This is an official battle.
The bigger the official, the bigger the wealth.
Of course Wen Rensheng knew that this method could only be used locally.
When you go to Beijing, many people can go directly to Tianting.
A sixth-grade or seventh-grade censor can overthrow the ministers in the cabinet, let alone a governor?
Therefore, this rule cannot be directly applied to that place.
It depends on who can mobilize the imperial power better.
That one is a little blurry.
In short, business in the capital is another approach and cannot be touched without sufficient strength.
