Andongwei is located in the westernmost part of Qingzhou. To the east is Lingshanwei and to the north is Qianniuwei. Although Andongwei is also farming, its main business now is breeding. This is also what Pang Gang proposed.
There are professional requirements for doing things. (To be continued 89 Free Novel Reading "") Pang Gang always believes that the energy of a person or a health center is limited, and it is impossible to require a health center to cover everything.
This is unrealistic. Everyone develops according to their own characteristics, and only then can they form an organic whole and complement each other.
Today, Pang Gang brought his officers to Antonwei to check on the breeding situation of Antonwei. Liu Changyou from Qianhu of Antonwei accompanied him attentively.
Liu Changyou is quite satisfied with the current development of Antonwei. With Pang Gang's strong support, Antonwei has repaired a complete water conservancy hub in a year. Now Liu Changyou can pat his chest and talk about where to open up wasteland.
, his water canals follow him wherever he goes. And what makes him most proud is that the breeding industry of Antonwei has seen great development this year. It is expected that Antonwei can provide 30,000 pigs for the entire Qingzhou before the New Year this year, and more than 10
Tens of thousands of chickens and ducks can completely guarantee the supply of meat for the people of Qingzhou.
Pang Gang walked in the rows of huge pig pens, looking at the fat pigs in the pig pens and the military households who were constantly busy inside and outside the pig pens. He felt very satisfied. He smiled and said to Liu Changyou
To: "Liu Qianhu, you have done well. It seems that I will pay you more dividends this year."
At this time, Liu Changyou's face was red, he patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, Sir, I may not be able to do a humble job in the war, but when it comes to raising pigs and farming, I will definitely be no worse than others!"
"Hahaha...I absolutely believe this." Pang Gang laughed. Liu Changyou's words were quite true. Speaking of which, those veteran military households who have been working in the fields for generations may not be proficient in fighting, but they can
If they were allowed to farm and raise pigs, they would all be experts.
After Pang Gang and Liu Changyou walked for a while, he thought for a while and said to Liu Changyou: "Liu Qianhu, how have you collected the refugees in recent days?"
Liu Changyou said: "I want you to know that more than 30,000 refugees have arrived in recent days. I have kept some of them in Anton Guard, but the rest have been sent to Qianniu Guard and Lingshan Guard."
"Well, you did a good job." Pang Gang praised him and then said: "I know that your Anton Guard is short of people, but Lingshan Guard and Qianniu Guard are even more lacking, especially Qianniu Guard. Their
There is the most wasteland, and a lot of manpower is needed. Chuqianhu has told me several times that you always leave the young and strong refugees to your own guardhouse, and only send the remaining old, weak, women and children to them. This is terrible.
Otherwise, we must know that their farmland is the foundation. Without Qianniuwei's farmland, we will be like duckweeds without roots. What will we eat then? Will we eat pork every day?"
Liu Changyou was lectured by Pang Gang until he was speechless for a long time. After a while, Nono said: "Sir, I'm humble... I'm just trying to keep more people to help."
"You idiot." Pang Gang hated Tie Bucheng and scolded: "I think your mind is not much bigger than the tip of a needle. Are you afraid that there will be no refugees? In just a few days, 30,000 refugees have arrived. You Anton
If Wei can accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 people, that's probably a huge problem. Do you know how many refugees there will be in the next year? It will scare you to death. There will be at least five to six million refugees in the next year. That's a lot.
There are tens of millions, how many people can your little Anton Wei take in?"
"My darling, there are so many!" Liu Changyou's eyes went straight as he heard this. Having lived in Anton Wei for half his life, he never dreamed that there would be so many refugees in the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued 89 Free Novel Reading "")
"Yes, refugees, a lot of refugees!" Pang Gang felt bitter in his heart. Knowing history, he knew very well that the Ming Dynasty was wiped out not so much by Li Zicheng as by a massive wave of refugees.
Tens of millions of refugees moved across the country, leaving no grass behind like locusts. This was the soil where Li Zicheng's bandits lived. Otherwise, with the ability of people like Li Zicheng, it would be impossible to destroy the Ming Dynasty.
Well, even self-protection is problematic.
"Sir, those refugees will not come to our Qingzhou." Liu Changyou, who was startled by Pang Gang's words, asked Pang Gang worriedly. He was told that there were tens of millions of refugees. If there are one million refugees coming this year,
It can crush the entire Qingzhou to death.
Pang Gang shook his head: "Not yet this year, but it's hard to say next year."
"So our task this year is to work hard to cultivate food." Pang Gang said seriously: "Our task is to be able to accommodate at least 1.5 million to 2 million refugees next year."
"One and a half million to two million?" Liu Changyou felt that his breathing was starting to become difficult. "The food that so many people eat every day is a small mountain! Can we have so much food?"
"That's why we have to work hard to farm and grow food!" Pang Gang smiled and patted Liu Changyou on the shoulder. As for the land, you don't have to worry about it. The land in Qingzhou is not enough. We can also distribute them to Dengzhou and Laizhou. As long as we can
Once those refugees are resettled, our population will become stronger and stronger.
After coming to this era, Pang Gang went from precariousness to confusion and confusion to the goal he has set today. Pang Gang once thought about whether he could try to help Chongzhen preserve the Ming Dynasty and finally become famous. But in the end, Pang Gang finally
After thinking about it clearly, the demise of any dynasty is not accidental. It has its own inevitable factors. If you want to prevent it all by yourself, you will end up like a mantis trying to stop the chariot. To use a common saying in later generations:
The wheel of history rolls forward, and anything that stands in its way will be crushed to pieces.
Pang Gang believed that the demise of the Ming Dynasty had its inevitable factors, the first of which was its tax crisis and financial crisis.
Compared with other countries, the commercial taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty were ridiculously low, so low that it was unbelievable. The commercial taxes collected by the Song Dynasty were quite large, accounting for about half of the national fiscal revenue. By the Ming Dynasty,
It is simply as low as no commercial tax at all.
The Ming Dynasty's court finances were even stretched to maintain the normal operation of the country. They actually had to rely on an emperor to cut down on food and expenses and save on his own personal life expenses to barely support the country's expenses. This was unprecedented in China's five thousand years of history.
That's the only thing a scorpion can do. By the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's finances had become so fragile that even a small-scale war or a serious famine would lead to a national financial crisis and the country was on the verge of bankruptcy. And those who were far away
A country that is much poorer than the Ming Dynasty, although it has launched wars for many years, its economy is more than enough. This can be considered a strange thing.
On the contrary, the landlords and gentry headed by the Donglin Party lived a life of intoxication and dreams. The book "Jin Ping Mei", which has been listed as a masterpiece for a long time, explains very well how the landlords sucked the flesh and blood of the country.
The official Ximen Qing in Jin Ping Meili is not only a virtual master of the Fangzhongshu and sexual hedonism trends that have been widely popular since Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, but his story truly reproduces the "market vending" in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty.
”, a prosperous business scene of “chasing the last to make profit”. From this, we can get a glimpse of the true face of those who were rich and unkind at that time and place.
In addition to the normal business methods, Ximen Qing is also suspected of tax evasion. According to the tax system of the Ming Dynasty, thirty taels of silver were paid. In "The 81st Chapter of Han Daoguo kidnapping money and fleeing to the soup to protect the deceiver and betraying his kindness", Han Daoguo had 10,000 taels of silver.
The silk and satin goods were subject to tax of more than 300 taels of silver. However, when the tax card was passed, Ximen Qing activated his network and bribed with 50 taels of silver. He received a favor letter from Mr. Qian. When the tax card was passed, the goods were "two boxes combined into one".
After three stops, I only reported two stops.” In the end, the goods were not inspected, and I only paid thirty-five taels of silver and got through. Of course, Ximen Qing also sent a generous gift to Chao Guan afterwards.
It only cost one hundred taels of silver to give gifts under the tax belt. The cargo ship came from Nanjing to protect the goods. Ximen Qing used another one hundred taels of silver to bribe and prepared a banquet gift to give to the tax collector to thank the director. At least five or six hundred taels of tax had been evaded.
-Here, the court suffered a big loss, the tax collectors made a small profit, and the one who made the biggest profit was Ximen Qing.
From this we can see how crazy the landlord class in the late Ming Dynasty was in tax evasion.
Some people also say that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was caused by the eunuch class. Pang Gang has always scorned this statement.
The eunuch problem in the Ming Dynasty has been exaggerated by some people, even to the point of being exaggerated to the limit. However, Pang Gang believed that the eunuch problem in the Ming Dynasty was essentially the result of internal conflicts among civil servants and conflicts between civil servants and the emperor.
The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with the Han Dynasty, let alone the Tang Dynasty. It is not a repetition of the eunuch problem of any previous dynasty. On the contrary, it is the result of new political relations. During the Song Dynasty, the power of the civil servants was already quite large, but the emperor at least
He could also reach a certain tacit understanding with the civil service group, cooperate with each other, and at least use part of the civil service group to serve him. But in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor truly became a loner, and he was completely alone against the civil service group.
At this time, he had to use eunuchs to relieve his pressure. On the contrary, when the emperor was able to obtain the support of a part of the civil service group, the eunuchs had no room to intervene in politics. The most typical example was during the reign of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty. A common saying
It means that Shizong controlled the eunuch Yan. In fact, this is just superficial talk. The key issue is that at this time, Jiajing won the support of some civil servants and greatly improved their status. Of course, there was no need for eunuchs at this time.
During the Chongzhen period, almost no civil servants around Emperor Chongzhen were willing to support the emperor. At this time, all the civil servants had in mind were the interests of their small group, so Chongzhen had to significantly improve the status of eunuchs.
To counter the civil servant group. For example, eunuchs were sent everywhere to serve as supervisors in the army, and eunuchs were sent to collect taxes for him. From this, we can see how desolate Chongzhen's heart was.
The physical defects of eunuchs also led to their strong pursuit of money, which also led to their infamy. Originally they were helping the boss, but later they delayed the boss, and in the end even the emperor and them were arrested.
A group of mud-legged people were served in one pot.
It can be seen from this that if we want to raise the crumbling Ming Dynasty again, we must reorganize the landlord class and gentry class of Ming Dynasty, and the blood that will be shed in this process will be countless. In other words, we must
Reshuffling the gentry and landlord class in Jiangnan was impossible for any Ming emperor. The only way was to start from scratch and overthrow all the rotten things and start over. This was Pang Gang's
Intention and determination.
After Pang Gang inspected Anton Guard, he rushed to Wanghai Fort without stopping.
Five more large docks have been built on the seaside of Wanghai Fort. There are more than ten shipyards near the docks. Thousands of craftsmen are busy in these shipyards. This is Pang Gang's newly built shipyard.
and naval base.
These shipyards are used by Pang Gang to manufacture and train Chinese shipbuilding craftsmen. Pang Gang does not expect them to design and manufacture any amazing masterpieces in a short period of time, but only expects them to slowly restore their previous shipbuilding standards.
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After returning from Hangzhou, Pang Gang had a better understanding of the role of the navy. Pang Gang only used ten warships to blockade the Hangzhou dock for seven or eight days. If he were not afraid of using too much to benefit the Zhejiang gentry
If it is too much, it will be detrimental to my future development. If I block him for another ten and a half days, I will still be able to make millions of taels of silver.
Since the role of the navy was so great, Pang Gang had no reason to give up. Therefore, after returning from Hangzhou, although he was busy taking in and relieving the refugees, he never stopped building the navy.
Relying on the mutated "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons", Pang Gang now owns ten Dafu ships with a carrying capacity of 800 tons, and 30 frigates. This type of frigate is only more than 200 tons and has excellent navigation capabilities.
The ability and flexibility are enough to escape the pursuit of all pirates or enemy navies. It is a maritime weapon integrating reconnaissance and combat. Pang Gang named it the Wanghai-class clipper. But what shocked the sailors the most was that their
General Dingguo didn't know where he got three large warships that were much larger than the Dafu ship. These warships were the Spanish galleons that became world-famous more than a hundred years later, with a load capacity of
The 1,200-ton sailing ship was equipped with 60 cannons and could carry 500 members. It was a veritable giant at sea during this period.
With these three maritime giants and the 30 newly added clippers, Pang Gang did not feel relaxed at all, because he had received news two days ago. At this time, Ming Dynasty's largest maritime merchant and maritime military
The leader of the group, Zheng Zhilong, had already set his sights on him. This sudden news immediately made Pang Gang's nerves tense again.