Chapter 376: Chineseization, gradual profit

Boil frogs in warm water and kill people at a slow fire. However, Jiang Feng once experimented in his own kitchen. As long as the frog had a little fire below and the water temperature rose slightly, it immediately jumped outward. Jiang Feng, who wanted to tell Zhang Liang and his men at that time, was quite depressed.

But the same principle is very useful when applied to people. Jiang Feng has been leading his own team to North Korea for five years. If he had just arrived ashore, the North Korean court would concentrate all his strength to attack. Although the North Korean army was weak and cowardly, Jiang Feng's troops were not infinitely fed. After competing and consuming each other, the fewer people were at a disadvantage. However, after Jiang Feng showed his might, he immediately shocked the King of Korea and Li Ingong.

These bureaucrats just wanted to keep their wealth and honor. After seeing that Jiang Feng did not want to usurp their power, they wanted to cooperate with them, these North Korean rulers immediately bowed to Jiang Feng.

The result of bowing his head is not bad. The days of the Korean royal court may not be as good as those of the wealthy families in the south of the Ming Dynasty. However, after Jiang Feng controlled North Korea's shipping and trade, the local regime in northern Korea still needed the North Korean king and Baishanjun to issue orders, and needed to rely on North Korea's manpower to develop and transport iron ore in Maoshan and coal mines distributed everywhere. The huge benefits in sea trade and mining were always divided into them.

Although it is a little bit small, it is also a huge amount of capital for the royal family and nobles. With ports, business has flourished. Seoul, which is closer to Incheon, has become a place where many commercial banks and warehouses are stationed. Now, these upper-class people in North Korea have money and spending places. This is a drastic change for a country that was once extremely closed.

Even the civilians in Seoul praised the people, and the staff needed to establish various workshops increased a lot. For workshops and workshops, which require certain craftsmanship and enthusiasm for labor, slaves rarely used to work. Before Huazhou was established, Zhao Xiucai set rules with various workshops that slaves were not allowed.

I originally wanted to give these job opportunities to the surplus labor force of Minwei, but I didn't expect that Minwei's own handicraft workshops and farmland would have completely digested the labor force. The Ming merchants in Incheon and Seoul had to hire local North Korean civilians at very low prices.

They think that the price is very cheap, which is quite good for North Korea. Everyone is rushing to enter the workshop to work. In addition, in the workshop, whether the craftsmen's leaders or merchants are all Han people. If they can speak Chinese, their treatment will increase considerably.

This has spawned another craze, which is the craze for learning Chinese in Seoul and towns north of Seoul. Although Korean scholars and nobles and royal families all know Chinese, the common people still speak local languages. Many Korean scholars now make some extra money by teaching Chinese.

On that day, those Tiedians and the later two thousand veterans were all the children of the craftsmen recruited in the craftsmen camp. These people have become officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels in the Jiang family's military system. Since their families were taken to Dengzhou, they have worked in Jiangfeng's weapons workshops.

After arriving in North Korea, as the population increased, the workshops for building weapons continued to expand. After all, the group trainers also needed weapons. And more importantly, whether outside the pass, Huazhou, or Yizhou, these populations had a huge demand for agricultural tools.

Under Su Guanyue's suggestion, Jiang Feng instructed the chief clerk Zhao Xiucai to open a Huazhou money house, and the Huazhou Governor's Office and the Huazhou Prefecture Office jointly issued a document that if the Huazhou people and Yizhou people have wealth or guarantees, the guarantor must hold positions in the Huazhou yamen and the army, they can open workshops and shops on their own. If the funds are insufficient, they can borrow money and the interest is one-twentieth of a year.

You should know that in the past, the workshops in Huazhou were run by the official, and their shops were opened by Li Bantou and some merchants who depended on the Jiang family army. It is not an exaggeration to say that these shops are run by the official, but these shops have more of an attitude and very thin profits. This is equivalent to conveying materials to Huazhou in disguise. This is also a method used by maritime merchants to express. Since this is the case, it is naturally impossible to have too large scale. After all, investing funds on the sea is a huge profit.

The population is increasing, and such shops are becoming increasingly unable to meet the needs. Moreover, many people do not have a large amount of funds to participate in the maritime trade. However, they can also see that it is profitable to open such shops in Huazhou, Yizhou and even outside the customs.

So after the document was published, many people came to apply. Of course, those who have this qualification were only the upper class of the Civil War, the families of the soldiers, and the old craftsmen, who raised money or guaranteed each other. After obtaining the qualification, they opened workshops, while the Civil War people chose shops.

These workshops and shops all need to pay taxes with the prefect. If you produce some supporting things for the weapon workshop, you must go through the acceptance and recognition of the leaders of several veteran craftsmen.

There are naturally many tricks to play with here, but when it comes to Huazhou Governor's Office, everyone is trembling. Although the profits are very high, the Jiang family army has always been generous in spending money, but if there is any problem with the quality, a maritime merchant once mixed something into the gunpowder provided to the Jiang family army.

As a result, it was discovered during training. The merchant received the news very early. After the unblocking of the upper and lower parts, he immediately ran back to Hangzhou City. As a result, a month later, the whole family was wiped out and all the ships were sold to other maritime merchants at low prices. Of course, Hangzhou Prefecture could not find out anything, but Huazhou distributed the crimes and related disposals to various ports and posted them without shyness.

This is naturally a warning, an example of killing one to warn a hundred.

After these workshops and shops were opened, the customers were those in the civil and military. Although the taxes in Huazhou were not much lighter than those in the Ming Dynasty, the first thing was that the farming technology was advanced, and the production was naturally higher. Secondly, the institutions were flat, and there were fewer deductions in the middle. Thirdly, many people had other incomes, not to mention this.

Everyone has purchasing power, and it is difficult to think about the business of the store. The prosperity of the business has allowed them to continuously expand their store and staff. The manpower of the Minwei is limited. The Koreans who have gradually become Chinese have gradually been accepted, working in workshops and working as shops.

Because of the strength of force and the superiority of life, in the entire system led by Jiang Feng, people have more or less the so-called racial superiority, and they look down on the Koreans and other aliens, thinking that they are useless and only deserve to be captured and slaves.

However, these Koreans who are proficient in Chinese, except for the slightly different appearances, all the same people join the shop, their feelings have also changed. It turns out that they can do some work.

The Koreans who work in shops and workshops naturally have much higher income than those around them, and they naturally feel superior in their hearts. Moreover, because they are subordinates under the Han people's industry, the governments and yamen runners of the Kingdom of Korea are also afraid of them, which shows their uniqueness.

In order to highlight the differences between them and other Koreans, these people do not speak Korean even at home, so that their wives and children can learn Chinese and dress like the Han people. In fact, if this continues, by the second generation, you will not be able to see the difference between these people and Han people.

Jiang Feng never thought that he had to give more benefits to the backbone who supported him and tie them to his own chariot more firmly. Who would have thought that there would be such a chain reaction that would actually be a large number of Koreans. This would be a way to increase his population and greatly stabilize his Korean rule.

The Netherlands, that is, white people in China, are now nearly 2,000, and most of them live better than ordinary Chinese people. Moreover, during the opening of workshops and shops, these people were originally influenced by the Mercantilist environment in Europe and responded the most quickly. Now these people speak fluent Mandarin, which means they are too special.

The current Korean royal family is already confused by this kind of better and better life. They are enjoying it with peace of mind. They have the power to issue orders in Seoul and some cities in northern Korea. They are already very satisfied. They did not expect that the ruling foundation of the small court of the North Korea Kingdom was already corroded by Jiang Feng, and even his people are constantly transforming.

In northern Korea, there is a similar situation. The Ming Dynasty adventure merchants controlled a large number of minerals and used a large number of labor to work. The laws in the north were extremely harsh and the punishment was extremely simple. They deprived of the rights of the people and sold them directly into slaves. These slaves were directly sold by the Jiang family army.

If you want to avoid such a situation, you can only get close to the Han people as soon as possible, so that you can receive various preferential treatment.

Liu Shunhua, the prefect of Huazhou, still didn't understand why he used money for money now, so why did he still have to give up the profitable things? Jiang Feng's answer was very simple:

“I will definitely make more in the future!”
Chapter completed!