Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Nurhachi and his sons and daughters—no, they should be called Jin Fang now. His family became ordinary farmers in Hebei, and they were assigned fields to farm and livestock, and they were treated like Han people. "Keeping your head is already a great gift. If you work hard, you may not be able to become a hero in our army." This Jin Fang was studying hard to review, preparing to take the Wu Jinshi examination.

He should be able to pass the exam, and Bailang is indeed planning to use him as an ordinary general. It's not so easy to be an officer in the interior.Bailang didn't like to kill indiscriminately, although he really thought about being a wild boar skin guy - but at this time, this bastard had not done any evil, and he was just robbing Jurchen himself, and in a sense he could be regarded as Bailang's helper.

And spare his life first.

Bailang returned to Beijing, and Qi Jiguang was in Liaodong to send out the Jurchens—according to the order of the emperor, all these people had to enter the customs and distribute them to various places, especially the south. instead of silver.Bailang is planning to collect quotas for deerskin and mink fur, so as to collect these high-quality furs and sell them on the condition that the animals will not become extinct.

Among other things, Japan's demand for high-quality deerskin and mink fur is huge, or it can be sent to Jiangnan to sell to Western merchants, and the income is also very good.Overseas trade has great benefits, not to mention that Da Ming is now number one in the world, and the silk tea and sugar porcelain produced are all best-selling hard currencies, which can be exchanged for real money.

It was precisely because of this that the silver plundered by the Spaniards from Central and South America flowed into China in large quantities.And Bailang is now thinking about abolishing the two liters of yuan - abolishing things like silver ingots and replacing them with silver dollars with fine serrations on the edges of silver eighty-five and copper one-five to determine the standard weight and size, which is exactly in line with the traditional Chinese Tianyuan Local copper coins are common.

"This is a die-casting machine and a steel mold." Silver coins are not difficult, as long as a silver alloy plate is cast, and then stamped with a hydraulic machine, but the hydraulic machine must try to store power, and the pressure can be cast. Fine silver coins.Bailang even designed the style of the silver coin, with Panlong on one side and Wanli Tongbao one yuan on the other. At most, there are small characters on the bottom to indicate which year it was suppressed.

The weight and size are limited, so it should be able to replace one or two taels of silver. The weight is equal to half of one or two taels of silver, which is about 25 grams. After that, the copper coins of Wanli Tongbao are directly used as auxiliary coins. A hundred yuan gold coin also has a strict ratio of [-]% gold, [-]% silver, and [-]% copper, and its weight is strictly limited to [-] grams.

The gold coins are more exquisite, the same dragon pattern and Wanli Tongbao hundred yuan.If these die-cast coins are popular, he plans to use die-casting methods for even the lowest copper coins-made of copper alloy.There is a huge profit in this, and the seigniorage is a lot of fiscal revenue, and it is also conducive to economic development-Kuping silver is quite troublesome, and the amount of silver collected has to be unified and purified Pouring costs a fortune.

In terms of household statistics, it is also easy to engage in corruption. If silver coins and copper coins are all used now, it can more or less make up for the loopholes.Gradually transition from metal currency to credit currency - it can't be used now because this thing has been played so badly by Da Song and Da Ming before Daddy Pig, no one will trust it.

This matter is too normal. In the Middle Ages, no matter the Chinese and foreign courts were the same, it was instinct to renege on debts.And Bailang also knew that the issuance of Daming Treasure Banknotes was useless except that it would cause panic.Now that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is full, there will be a large amount of silver and other precious metals flowing in in the foreseeable future. Although the trade with Japan is not in the hands of the government, the business tax received so far has already reached millions of taels—— There is still a lot of tax evasion.

He ordered the Ministry of Industry to design the coinage machine, and Bailang had nothing to do while drawing the drawings—anyway, most of the civil affairs were handed over to the cabinet and the inner court. He was only responsible for regular inspections of the military camps, inspecting the manufacture of weapons and daily training That's enough—it can't be done otherwise, if it's the same as in the past, it's not uncommon for the consumption of training the firecrackers to be more than five or six times that of his patrol situation, and it's not uncommon for it to be ten times.

Don't underestimate the courage of the corrupt bureaucrats of Ming Dynasty.

This year is still smooth, the four northern provinces have good harvests, and the northwest can at least live on their own. The silver income has also shown a considerable surplus due to the emergence of the wool trade. Liaodong can meet its own food without government subsidies. In the past few years, these four provinces have become accustomed to Bailang's governance and stabilized.

"You can do it." At this time, Bailang heard the news that Japan has been unified by the Toyotomi family, and it seems that they are coming to Daming to ask for a seal?But there is also news from a sea merchant that Japan has been gathering troops as if to spy on North Korea?Of course, Bailang knew that this was Japan's first Korean War. Bailang held back his desire to fight, and he might not be able to move this time.

Qi Jiguang, as the old commander, Bailang also used his true energy to recuperate the old general's body when they met, "Heart disease is purely heart disease." This is what he thinks. He also "lived" over - Bailang didn't care about his inaction before, this time it was justifiable to make Qi Jiguang the commander-in-chief of aiding the DPRK, and Yang Hao and others were deputy.

After Qi Jiguang's training, the Liaodong Army now has a total strength of more than 7000 troops, including 48 Zhejiang soldiers, all of whom are elite infantry and cavalry—Bailang also sent [-] finalized six-pound guns.Qi Jiguang is worthy of being one of the few military strategists in the Ming Dynasty. He immediately noticed the advantages of the six-pound gun, not only the improved maneuverability and fire brought about by the overall advantage of the gun mount, but also the fact that such a gun can replace the previous Ming army equipment. of many other artillery pieces.

The more uniform the armament is, the better it is, and the less pressure it puts on logistics. Instead of being equipped with a variety of cannons of different calibers and sizes, it is better to simply equip a six-pound cannon—this thing is light and can also fire a variety of ammunition. A variety of field artillery from the tiger squat gun to the Fran machine gun.The performance is far superior to the artillery equipped by the Ming army before. Bailang also sent a small amount of flintlock guns, which of course were well received by the old general - this is a rifled flintlock gun, the kind that uses lead Minie bullets.

This kind of lead bullet with a small cork on the buttocks has a very accurate trajectory after being loaded with a rifle. Of course, the old man used these firecrackers to form a shooting army-specially used to kill the opponent's generals. Now it seems that two hundred In the distance of 1.6 steps, it is "one hundred shots and one hundred hits".The cavalry is also a "big horse" that has been cultivated from the grassland. Of course, in Bailang's eyes, they are small and medium horses. Only those with a shoulder height of [-] meters or more are regarded as big horses by Bailang.