Chapter 229 If You Can't Cure Yang Feng, You Can't Cure You?
Chapter 229 If I can’t cure Yang Feng, I can’t cure you?
Author: Mu Yunfeng
Lao Zhu readily agreed to Yang Feng's contracting plan.
This is a good thing.
In fact, he really doesn't want to maintain the garrison of the Huining Commandery Division anymore...
Of course, that doesn't mean canceling it.
Instead, the Ningdu Commandery Division and Huining Guards will be moved to Longquan Prefecture. Longquan Guards is in Longquan Prefecture City, which is Hunchun, so the Huining Guards and Huining Commandery Envoy Divisions can be moved to Chongjin, which will facilitate transportation.
, can rely entirely on sea transportation. However, the Udiha Qianhu who were originally granted to Huining Guards were divided into Jidu Guards one by one. They are still under the command of Huining Capital and are allowed to go to Jilin City.
trading.
As for the Ming army, just go to Jilin.
There are wooden rails leading to Jilin, and transportation to Jilin will be stable in the future.
And after all, Jilin is further to the south, especially in the south where stable agriculture has been established. At present, military stores, post stations, and road protection teams along the wooden rails are all reclaiming wasteland and farming. After all, the Yehe tribe will also be able to maintain a certain amount of agriculture in this area. Then.
By maintaining a naval force there, control of the entire Songhua River Basin can be guaranteed, not to mention that Yang Feng's reclamation area is there to suppress it.
The key is that there is no strategic need to maintain it.
There is no possibility of the residual Yuan returning in the short term.
It was Zhu Yuanzhang who was considering the Western Expedition.
After all, after the defeat of Annan, the Ming army had no major wars. In fact, the northern armies had not had any major wars in recent years. Now that firearms were widely used, he wanted to see if he could pursue them and fight fiercely.
This is the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition...
Zhu Di?
But Zhu Yunxi disagreed.
And there is nothing else we can rest assured about.
You can’t let Lan Yu go in, right?
None of the remaining generals have such strategic-level expedition capabilities. As for Zhu Di's current identity, it does not matter, because it will take at least a whole year for Ma and his voyage to the East. During this period, Zhu Di has nothing to do. He is just waiting in Fusang, completely
You can use it to launch a Western expedition. In short, Zhu Yuanzhang has been planning it.
If we can achieve a great victory this time, then Zhan Yuanzhen will have no choice but to be driven to Central Asia.
In this way, the Ming army garrisoned in Jilin and used its navy to control the Songhua River, and then retained the Whale Sea Guards who were the farthest but easier to supply along the coast. When necessary, they could go upstream and jointly control the Songhua River with the Jilin Navy, and
With the strategic support of Longquan Prefecture, the imperial court can quickly increase troops to Huining by water transportation when necessary. Longquan Prefecture also has water transportation from the Mudanjiang River. In fact, it controls the upper reaches, middle reaches, and outlet of the Songhua River. Jinghaiwei is a slave.
Qiancheng.
All three bases can receive stable rear supplies.
Two shipping and one wooden rail.
So control is not weakened.
Costs have dropped sharply.
After all, the place in Huining is really inferior to Fusang.
The imperial court does not need to invest in Fusang.
Not only do you not have to invest, you can even rely on taxation to meet the needs of the garrison in Fuso. After all, the chieftains have to pay taxes, and the tax rate set is far higher than that of the southwestern chieftains. For example, even the top chieftains like Shuixi Anjia only need to pay taxes a year.
Two thousand dan, but the Guangida family in Fuso has to hand over 20,000 dan of rice to Daming every year.
He is not the tallest yet.
The highest one is the Ashina family of Aizu, who needs to pay 30,000 koku every year.
This is all given by Yang Feng.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised by this.
He also didn't expect that the Fuso area was actually a high-quality rice field area.
The annual tax is actually higher than that in Yunnan.
Yunnan only collects 120,000 shi per year, and Fusang collected 150,000 shi last year. The chieftains of Yunnan are still unwilling to pay the tax. To this day, the tax is still being levied because the chieftains are unwilling to pay the tax. But the chieftains of Fusang directly
Even if they paid taxes enthusiastically, last year's autumn grain was sifted clean, without even sand, and was the plumpest. Even the officials who went to inspect Fusang came back and were moved to report that the Japanese were the most respectful in the world.
Obviously he enjoyed the happiness of being an American king there.
Even Zhu Di was very satisfied with them. In the past, when the Ming army built cities and built roads there, it was basically these chieftains who came out.
They eat less than chickens and work more than dogs.
Being obedient is touching.
This makes it even more useless.
But if Yang Feng was willing to contract, then Zhu Yuanzhang would certainly be happy to keep it.
After all, he still likes to have more people move there. Of course he is happy if someone pays him the cost of maintaining it. As for the issue of Yang Feng developing there, he doesn't have to worry about that. Yang Feng's development is also on his land.
development.
In this way, Ambassador Yang won another money-losing product.
But the little princess continued to feel resentful.
Now what Yang Feng has acquired is basically money-losing goods. Shanxi is still investing, at least in the short term, it will cost money. It will cost millions a year. In fact, Shanxi has already begun to collect taxes.
, a tax police team recruited by Yang Feng himself has settled in Taiyuan, and then uses his tax form and cooperates with the bank to collect taxes on Taiyuan's industry and commerce.
At the same time, tax police teams in other places have also begun to form.
But even in such a short period of time, it is impossible to collect enough 2.8 million taels per year in Shanxi, not to mention the maintenance of the tax police team, which also requires a lot of investment.
The reclamation of wasteland in Huining is a loss of money, and the development of Shuofang Prefecture is also a loss of money.
It has also been expanded there.
The previous chiefs and commanders were all hired by Yang Feng, and then each took their families northward.
Everything was based on the model in Huining. He took the land reclamation workers recruited by Yang Feng to open up wasteland and farm in Shuofang Mansion. The King of Jin assigned a piece of land that Yang Feng selected to be contracted to him, and Yang Feng paid the King of Jin Mansion a contracting fee every year.
.But at least for now, it is still in the pure investment stage. Even if the conditions there are better than those in Huining, the first batch of grain will not be harvested until this autumn.
And not a lot.
So now Yang Feng needs to pay for the transportation of food there.
Purely losing money.
Of course there is money to be made.
There are banks and industries in the capital, but banks actually don't make much money...
At least it's not very profitable yet.
This kind of bank itself is not for profit, its existence is the greatest value, but the problem is that this value is to the country, or to her father, purely from Yang Feng's perspective, it is actually just maintenance.
What really makes money in the end is the Wutaishan Industrial Park. It can be said that those factories are Yang Feng’s biggest source of income. But the problem is that there is no patent protection in Ming Dynasty, so except for some that do have technology monopolies, other relatively low-end ones have already
Imitations began to appear. It is true that no one has been able to make mirrors yet, but there have been a large number of imitations of glass products. After all, burning glass itself is not a high-end technology, and Yanshen already has a government-run glaze factory.
It's just that they used to supply glass as jewelry, that is, they provided some colored glass products to the palace.
But the technology is fine.
There are a lot of craftsmen who are good at this.
So burning the glass is really no big deal.
In the end, the income of these factories became increasingly unable to cope with Yang Feng's various investments. He had to continue to develop new projects, such as the self-ringing bell. In short, he had to continue to worry about his days of being unable to make ends meet, and led the Ming Dynasty
technological progress.
Of course, this is only theoretically possible.
In fact, because of the bank in hand and Yang Feng’s golden brand, it can be solved through various methods such as equity offerings and bonds, including direct loans from banks...
Isn’t it okay for my own reclamation company to get a loan from my own bank?
Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang has the whole story.
If the cash flow is not enough, go to him. Anyway, he takes the main advantage of the bank.
In short, Yang Feng is letting the people of Ming Dynasty feel the shamelessness of capitalists in advance.
Just when Yang Feng finally ended his manic period that lasted for more than half a year, returned to normal, continued to play the role of friendly envoy on Mount Wutai, and expanded the scale of his industry, the imperial examination case was also severely punished under the trial of Song Zhong, the commander of Jinyiwei.
The torture was completed and the case was closed. Zhang Xin and others were stubborn and did not confess anyone else. Maybe they really didn't know. After all, Liu Sanwu could handle this kind of thing by himself. Except for Bai Xintuan, who was the deputy examiner, Zhang Xin and others
Xin and others were actually brought in by Zhu Yuanzhang to re-mark their exams. Unexpectedly, they would advance and retreat together with Liu Sanwu, and even joined the ranks of playing the emperor like a monkey without hesitation.
So they are probably just too naive.
But no matter what, since they dare to show disloyalty, they will inevitably die.
In the end, Zhang Xin, Bai Xintiao and others were directly ordered to be Ling Chi by the emperor...
How disloyal!
This is already a major rebellion.
Not only Lingchi, but also the three Yi tribes. In short, in his twilight years, His Majesty the Emperor once again raised his sword and told the world that as long as he survives, you will all kneel before me.
Or if I can’t cure Yang Feng, I can’t cure you?
"Why bother?"
Ambassador Yang looked at Zhang Xin and others who were being delayed and said with emotion.
However, the distance is relatively far, so we can only see red figures one by one, and there is no sense of horror at all. This is much less than the number of people killed in the original history, mainly because the new technology was added to the original history.
Zhu Yuanzhang and many other new scholars who were awarded the first prize by Liu Sanwu, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, had already passed the imperial examination for them at that time and had been awarded the imperial title, so they were asked to re-score their exams together.
but……
Except for a few of them, including the number one scholar, they still didn't take the Northern exam.
Zhu Yuanzhang was finally completely angered.
The poor No. 1 scholar had only been working for a few days before he was taken to the execution ground.
"Now you and the emperor's grandson have become completely bad people in the eyes of the Jiangnan gentry."
said the little princess.
"Why, they don't have deposits?"
Yang Feng said.
"How is that possible? It's one thing to treat you as a bad person. It's another thing to earn interest on your savings. You're not a child anymore. How can you be angry with money? My father doesn't allow them to make loan sharks, and there are many restrictions on doing business.
, apart from letting the bank earn interest, is there anything more secure?"
said the little princess.
Zhu Yuanzhang completely banned usury.
After all, this is equivalent to stealing business from him. Private loans must either go to a bank or have the same interest rate as the bank.
Moreover, bank loans are very loose, mainly because they are not afraid of not being able to repay...
Under the current strict household registration system, unless you want to leave your hometown and escape, and then find a mountain forest to live with tigers and wolves for generations, you will still have to face the bank after all. This is not Yang Feng himself.
Yes, the big boss is the emperor. If you owe him a debt, you still want to run away. The world belongs to him. You can run wherever you want. The Ministry of Household Affairs will directly issue a letter to all places. Anyone who runs away due to debt will be arrested and taken back as a fugitive.
You should know that the Account Department also needs to borrow money from banks when spending money nowadays.
They are all one family.
Even the cost of pursuit and escape does not need to be borne by the bank.
So instead of thinking about running away, it is better to think about how to pay back the money.
If you really don’t have any money, just collect the collateral.
Currently, for most farmers in Ming Dynasty, their fields can be mortgaged.
Not enough land?
Hey, you have a daughter?
Give your daughter to the bank!
The Wutaishan Industrial Park is short of female workers, and the land reclamation workers in Huining are short of wives. In short, give your daughter to the bank and our account will be settled.
What, you don’t have a daughter?
So can my son.
Single?
Ha, can a single man defeat greedy capitalists?
Just pay it yourself.
When you go to the reclamation team in Huining, all your wages except for food and drinks are from the bank, and interest will continue to be calculated for you, and liquidated damages will also be added. In short, when you work and the loan and interest liquidated damages are deducted from your salary, you will
Even if you have regained your freedom, even if you have to work until you are eighty, you still have to pay off the bank one by one.
Don't try to use your meager knowledge to challenge Ambassador Yang's six hundred years of exploitation experience.
Modern banks are still unable to violently collect debts. Do you believe that Ambassador Yang can let Jin Yiwei come to your door to collect debts?
In modern times, you are most likely to be classified as a dishonest person if you are untrustworthy. Ambassador Yang can make you unable to go to heaven and unable to enter the earth.
Therefore, the loan sharks in various places have been tortured by banks. It is difficult to have their market in major cities and surrounding areas. But when they go down to small counties and rural areas, they have to face collection problems. After all, they cannot afford to have Jinyiwei come to collect collections.
, it is even more impossible to arrest someone's daughter to pay the debt, and if you are not a local rich family, you may be beaten up if you dare to collect debts. It can be said that lending is very risky. And the interest rate is fixed. Zhu Yuanzhang's law is illegal usury and does not recognize IOUs.
Legality, that is to say, if the interest rate is higher than that of the bank, the borrower does not have to pay back the money.
IOUs are illegal, which means there is no such thing. Why should I pay it back if I borrowed it based on my ability?
Therefore, those who have a large amount of treasure money in their hands do not dare to rely on usury to make money. Doing business these days is full of risks and restrictions, and profits are limited. Just look at the hard work of those salt merchants. On the contrary, it is more cost-effective to deposit it in the bank and earn interest. After all,
The bank interest is enough.
So it is one thing for the Jiangnan gentry to scold Yang Feng through gritted teeth, but it is another thing when it comes to money. We are all adults and are not so naive, but this is also the reason why they prefer Zhu Yunwen, because Zhu Yunwen succeeded him
If he takes the throne, then this system will continue, but Zhu Yunwen will overthrow it when he succeeds to the throne.
Open banking.
After all, Zhu Yunwen had a bad relationship with Yang Feng. Although he might not have the guts to deal with Yang Feng after he succeeds to the throne, it is still inevitable to cancel his various privileges financially.
Once these privileges are lifted, the Jiangnan gentry will usher in their spring, and they can start the carnival of capital to their heart's content.