In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, he bravely sent a letter to the imperial court asking for a brigade to be appointed governor. However, the imperial court received no response, so the memorial was lost in the sea.
Dayong had no choice but to appoint local officials in Denglai and Lushun. The prefect of Dengzhou was Wang Hui, the former military supervisor of Denglai, and the prefect of Lushun was Ge Wannian, the former prefect of Dengzhou.
Wang Hui and Ge Wannian, like the former Dengzhou Dao Song Guanglan, surrendered to the Confucian thieves after Kong Youde's rebellion. They had long been removed from the imperial court. If it hadn't been for Dayong, they would have been escorted to the capital for questioning and executed. Therefore, it was considered peace.
Dayong is a grasshopper on a rope. If there is Dayong, there will be them. If there is no Dayong, there will be no others. Therefore, he is very loyal to Dayong. He has completed the errands assigned by Dayong quite well. He has been praised by Dayong. As the saying goes, you are all me, Shi Dayong.
His right-hand man. How sincere these words are, no one knows.
In the management of Dengzhou and Lushun, Dayong adopted a divide-and-rule approach, that is, the original local residents were managed by the magistrate's yamen and the magistrate's yamen, while the immigrants who moved later were managed by the Department of Resettlement and Resettlement.
After Chongzhen conquered Dengzhou with great courage in the fourth year, he transferred tens of thousands of captured rebels to settle the Dengzhou army, and promised that after three years of settlement, they could receive a certain amount of compensation and be released home. This policy had a great influence on the stability of the captives.
It had a positive effect and enabled the Dengzhou military camp to operate quickly.
After the three-year period was up, Song Guanglan, the former Dengzhou Dao who was in charge of the farming at that time, asked Dayong if he could honor the promise he made to the captured young men three years ago and let them go home. Except for foreign livestock, Dayong always kept his promises and asked Song Guanglan to start immediately.
Arrangements were made for young men from the fields to return home.
Unexpectedly, the number of young people willing to return home was very small. Only more than 600 people were willing to receive rewards and return home. The rest of the young people all chose to stay in Dengzhou to serve as farm households. Of course, Dayong was surprised by this result.
Counting households, they don’t have much freedom. Now that I give them freedom, these people refuse to leave.
Song Guanglan understood, and he told Dayong that there were natural disasters all over the Ming Dynasty. Although these young people did not have much freedom in farming in Dengzhou, they could still have enough to eat. In addition, in the past three years, the young people had to work while farming.
They also need to undergo military training, have already integrated into the big family of the military camp, and have a sense of belonging to the Liaodong Army. If they return home to starve or become a rioter again, staying here may not be the best choice.
Song Guanglan also said that due to the stability of Dengzhou in the past three years, many people from Laizhou and Shandong have also brought their families to join the army. Some poor families have also married their daughters to military camp households in order to have enough food. In addition to those who originally
Among the disabled and retired military officers of the Songshan Army, many of them got married and had children. Once they started a family, even if their roots were rooted, even if Dayong drove them away, they would not leave.
After hearing this explanation, Dayong was naturally happy. It was indeed a great sense of accomplishment to be able to provide the people with a comfortable home in this troubled time.
After thinking about it, Dayong decided to ask Song Guanglan to transfer all the young people in the field to local household registration in Dengzhou, return them to freedom, and allocate the cultivated land to them. 30% of the annual harvest would be handed over to the government.
The reason for this is that Dayong feels that farming is a hard job after all. He has squeezed them for three years in vain. Now that conditions permit, he naturally has to be more humane to them. Moreover, these people have not left Dengzhou, as long as they stay in Dengzhou.
If they live in the state, they have to pay taxes. The 30% net tax sounds small, but in fact it is a lot. With years of drought, the revenue costs are not much. Dayong cannot bear to ask them to pay 50% to 60%.
Being able to become a free citizen and obtain land to cultivate one's own land was a good thing. Naturally, everyone praised it. The day after the order was issued, Shi Dayong was known as the "Living Bodhisattva" among the people. Dayong accepted this reputation calmly.
In short, this living Bodhisattva sounds much better than "giving skin". Some flattering field officials encouraged the people to build a temple for Dayong. When he heard this, Dayong quickly stopped him and told the flattering field officials that you know
I don’t know Eunuch Wei. If you don’t know, just ask the masters in the Yamen.
A shrine!
Dayong doesn't dare to deserve it, he still wants to live a few more years.
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In addition to allocating land to free people, Dayong also asked the Dengzhou government and the four county governments under its jurisdiction to organize the freedmen to engage in livestock raising, and also asked the Dengzhou government to organize people to go fishing at sea.
Dengzhou is close to the sea. It is said that relying on the mountains eats the mountains, and relying on the sea eats the sea. Wouldn't it be foolish to leave the Bohai Sea as a big fish bank and not develop it?
If it weren't for the inconvenience of transportation and preservation in this era, Dayong might have come up with the idea of trading aquatic products. Even so, dried kelp, seaweed and dried fish still appeared in small batches in restaurants in the capital.
Dayong told the officials in charge of seafood exports that as long as they can open up sales, they will have a share of the profits earned.
Contrary to Dayong's imagination, the high-ranking officials these days don't seem to be very interested in seafood. They probably despise such cheap things, but they are just peddlers. Ordinary people are very fond of kelp and dried fish.
Based on the principle of small profits but quick turnover, Dengzhou's seafood sales have opened up markets in the capital and Tianjin, earning tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. Although the money is so small that even Dayong can't stand it, Dayong still encourages managers to
The officials who run it will make this business bigger and stronger. He often said, "Look to the future and look to the world."...
Qian Dagang, the commander-in-chief of the Navy, has changed his career and became the leader of the caravan. The waterway in the south has been opened. Dayong sent people to connect with the Zheng family and exchanged the gold, silver and jewelry stolen from the Donglu for their cooperation.
Food produced in the south is continuously shipped to Denglu.
The appetite of the Zheng family is really too big. Dayong estimates that if they continue to cooperate like this, in less than two years, they will have emptied the gold mountain they snatched from Donglu. He really wants to take advantage of the enemy, but the navy of the Zheng family is so competitive.
Our own navy is even more powerful. God knows how these pirates became more powerful than the official army! The Fujian government will all behead them!
Dayong has no idea of expanding the navy yet. He has no choice. His family is limited. He has spent too much in the past two years. Although he has made money everywhere, he has not cut back on expenditures. The money is spent like running water. What else can he do?
Hearing no response made Dayong sometimes want to go to Shenyang to grab one again. However, considering that Hauge's family was limited and he had no good opportunities to grab it, he couldn't take the risk. But the North Koreans were worth it.
Yes, but it seems a bit unethical to rob someone else when they are doing business with Hauge under pressure. Japan is a good place. I heard that silver is produced there. If you can grab a handful, you will gain a lot.
As soon as Qian Dagang mentioned the idea of expedition to Japan, the other party shook his head like a rattle and told Dayong that although the navy can run away from Korea now, if it really wants to go to Japan, it will fall apart halfway.
The wind is strong and the waves are strong!
The current Dengzhou Navy is not the giant fleet of the Three Treasure Eunuchs of the past. At best, it is slightly stronger than the Yangtze River Navy. The two most capable ships are sent by North Korea. The ones that can be used are really hard to come by.
Many. Qian Dagang didn't even dare to go to Port Arthur when there was no strong wind on the sea. If he had the courage to go to Japan to rob, he would just work as a merchant ship.
There was no way, the navy couldn't go, Dayong could only give up this idea, and planned to build the largest warship in Asia in Lushun in the future, and the navy must also become a navy, so that all the warships of the Dutch and Spanish would go away.
, obediently pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. If you don't pay tribute, all these white monkeys will be killed and eaten.
The Age of Discovery!
No matter how ignorant the gambler Dayong is of world affairs, he still knows that the seventeenth century was when European countries were desperately expanding into the sea. Later generations called it the Age of Discovery. Some people say that it was the Age of Discovery that opened the door to modern human civilization.
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Living in this era that opened the door to modern human civilization, he could only stare at the door in a daze. Dayong felt angry and didn't want to know. He didn't know whether it was because the jar was broken or because his brain was enlightened. He actually decided to wait until the Ming Dynasty was peaceful, and then he led the army all the way from the northwest.
Advancing to the west, Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe... wherever the Ming army can go, they will colonize it. It depends on the strength of the modern human civilization created by your great voyage, or the continental civilization created by Shi Dayong with a butcher knife.
powerful!
You white-skinned pigs, just wait. One day, you will look to the east with fear and exclaim: "Yellow peril! Yellow peril! Yellow peril!"