On the tenth day of the second lunar month in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi rode a horse to the school grounds outside Kaifeng City. Updated quickly without ads.
Lu Hu followed Li Zhi and reported to Li Zhi the results of his trip to South America.
Lu Hu has found the rubber tree fruits and loaded three ships of the fruits at once, all of which were transported to Qiongzhou Prefecture. Qiongzhou Prefecture is the Hainan Island in later generations. The land in the west of Hainan Island is moist and fertile, and because of the protection of the mountains, there are no typhoons that the rubber trees are afraid of. The rubber trees are
excellent breeding ground.
Lu Hu bought hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest in Qiongzhou Prefecture and began to hire people to plant the first batch of rubber trees. These virgin forests were basically free of charge. Lu Hu bought them by giving the local government some money in the name of the King of Tianjin. Lu Hu bought them
Hu hired local workers and began to burn the forest, and then planted rubber trees on the burned land.
Everything went according to plan, no problem.
The only thing that worries Li Zhi is that it takes a long time for a rubber tree to mature. After the rubber seeds are planted, it takes six years to tap the rubber. This long time is unacceptable to Li Zhi.
Li Zhi asked tentatively: "Is there a lot of wild rubber in South America?"
Lu Hu nodded and said, "There are quite a few. There is a large rubber forest near where we camped for the fifth time. I went to take a look and found that there are quite a lot of rubber trees in the jungle that is dozens of miles around."
After some estimation, Lu Hu said: "There are probably more than 10,000 wild rubber trees in that area. I'm afraid there are even more in other places that we have not explored."
After hearing Lu Hu's words, Li Zhi felt that before the rubber plantations in Hainan became mature, it seemed to be a good choice to go to South America to harvest wild rubber. However, if he went to South America to obtain raw materials for a long time, it would not be possible to do it as quickly as he did with the seeds this time.
There must be a conflict with the Portuguese. Li Zhi's current fleet seems to be too weak. If he wants to fight the Portuguese in South America, he needs to expand his navy.
The Navy is very expensive.
Or maybe instead of buying it directly from the Indians, buy it from the Portuguese at a high price?
But that was all a thing for another day. Li Zhi put aside the problem and rode towards the school field outside the city.
Li Zhi will review the 50,000 veterans in Henan today and send troops to Huai'an to attack the Jiangbei Army.
On the school field outside Kaifeng, Henan, 50,000 veterans had already lined up in neat lines, standing there waiting for Li Zhi. Li Zhi entered the school field from the north, looked at the 50,000 veterans with high morale, and nodded.
The land inspection work in Henan, which was carried out by 50,000 veterans, has ended.
All land ownership in Henan Province has been clearly demarcated. Which land was stolen by thieves and which land is owned by farmers have been fully investigated. The 50,000 veterans are not only literate and able to do basic clerical work
, and it is a powerful armed force in itself, with a strong deterrent effect, making it easier to conduct investigations with less effort.
Nowadays, all the "trophies" fields that the farmers received from the thieves have been classified as "public land" by Li Zhi. Farmers who rent public land must pay high rent. In this way, no one will think that following the thieves to rob is to make a fortune.
Everyone will realize that only by working in compliance with the law can we gain benefits.
In fact, Henan has not been peaceful this year. Although Li Zhi's policies were implemented very strongly by the army, some farmers were still dissatisfied and made trouble. There were more than a dozen violent resistance incidents in southern Henan. Soldiers of the Huben Army
They suppressed it forcefully, arrested more than a hundred people, and shot dozens of people before settling the matter.
However, these are just minor disturbances. Generally speaking, the people of Henan still accept Li Zhi's policy arrangements.
By the 22nd year of Chongzhen, land discipline in Henan had been reorganized. The next step was to collect private land taxes and public land rents step by step. These tasks only need to be carried out according to the tax yellow book, and do not require 50,000 soldiers.
Execute strongly.
In fact, after a year of intensive training, Henan Province's government officials, court staff, police teams, etc. were also established, enough to handle these tasks.
Although Li Zhi is currently short of civil servants, when choosing between North Korea and Henan, Li Zhi still gave priority to Henan's needs.
After Li Zhi's administrative personnel settle in, the fair and upright legal environment of the entire society will be maintained, and the people will take the initiative to develop agriculture, breeding, and traditional industry and commerce, and their lives will get better and better.
At this point, Henan is on the right track and has become an ordinary province within Li Zhi's system.
Li Zhi glanced at the soldiers on the school field.
After a year of land inspection work in Henan, the veterans did not abandon their military appearance and discipline. Standing on the school field, the veterans stood upright and were all very energetic.
Although the veterans have been busy with government affairs this year, they have still not missed the parade and target practice every three days. Although the training every three days cannot make the combat effectiveness improve by leaps and bounds, there is no problem in maintaining the original combat effectiveness.
Next, Li Zhi will put these veterans into the battlefield in Huai'an and defeat the Jiangbei Army who is pestering Huai'an like candy.
Then he sent his troops south to control the entire southern Zhili north of the Yangtze River and established Jianghuai Province.
By then, Li Zhi's Tianjin, Shandong, Henan and Jianghuai will be connected into one huge territory with a population of 40 million.
Li Zhi stood on the high platform in front of the school ground for a while, and then the leaders of each regiment came up and saluted Li Zhi.
"Jiang Chong, the leader of the first regiment of the trapping division, reported to the prince that all 6,000 combatants of our regiment have been assembled, ready to go out at any time. Our regiment is an old regiment with rich combat experience, and I hope the prince will use it on the front line.
The officers and soldiers of our regiment have made meritorious service to the county king!"
"Zu Dashou of the Cavalry Regiment of the Dang Kou Division reported to the Prince that all 6,000 members of the Cavalry Regiment are now equipped with new sniper rifles, which can be used both offensively and defensively, and are extremely mobile. I would like to ask the Prince to use our regiment to intercept the enemy's rear.
Once the regiment officers receive the order, they will risk their lives and fight with all their strength to make the reputation of the cavalry regiment known!"
The captains of each regiment came up one after another and asked Li Zhi to fight.
Li Zhi nodded.
Standing on the high platform, Li Zhi said loudly: "When we attacked the Tatars, Jiangbei Army stabbed us in the back."
"When we entered Henan to wipe out the bandits, the Jiangbei Army contacted the Deposed King of North Korea and attacked our rear again."
"The Jiangbei Army is the private army of the gentry, and these gentry are extremely shameless. In their eyes, there is no country, no family, only their own interests. They can join forces with the Tatars to attack us, or they can join forces with North Korea to attack us. As long as they can
As long as they can keep their tax-free rights and continue to suck the blood of this nation, they will do anything they can."
"Can we tolerate such an army to continue to control the rich Southern Zhili, oppress the people of Southern Zhili, and use Southern Zhili's manpower and material resources to attack us?"
Li Zhi's words were very brief. The regiment commander passed the words to the battalion commander, who passed the words to the company commander and platoon commander, and then to the squad leader and soldiers. Officers at all levels passed on Li Zhi's words.
Soon, the sound of soldiers roaring could be heard throughout the school grounds.
"cannot!"
"cannot!!"
"Take Nanzhili!"
Li Zhi waved his hand and said loudly: "Send troops! Target South Zhili!"
