The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 361 Jinghai
Since the brothers who first followed Huang Han to start a family have already obtained official positions and a lot of income, many people have built luxury houses in Tiger Cave City and have also received Huang Han's support.

Huang Han does not discriminate against businessmen who do serious business, and even protects them. He also promulgates laws and regulations to clarify the payment method and penalty regulations of commercial taxes. Tiger Cave City really only needs to pay commercial tax of [-] in [-], and there are no other exorbitant taxes.

Such a geomantic treasure land with great potential and good law and order naturally attracts merchants from all walks of life, which in turn promotes the development of the commodity economy and forms a virtuous circle.

Many merchants saw the solid Tiger Cave City, and saw the prosperity and urbanization of the more than ten miles bordering Funingwei and Tiger Cave City. They were also buying land to build Huatang and build shops.

Building a house requires labor and raw materials most. The bricks, tiles, cement, and steel produced by Huang's can only make profits if they are sold, and then they can flourish.

When the internal digested production capacity still cannot meet the needs, we will vigorously sell to the outside world, and when we can’t do it, we will launch large-scale projects invested by the government, such as building roads, reservoirs, bridges, warehouses, and renovating wharfs and ports. Guaranteed to make the current production capacity in short supply.

At the beginning of spring, among the newly arrived Han people who are willing to do farming work, they will be given acreage leases, and those who are willing to stay and become factory laborers will be rearranged according to their performance in winter.

The land of Gyeonggi lost more than one million people the year before last, and Funing was once surrounded and attacked by Jiannu, and it was also one of the hardest hit areas by military disasters.

The entire Yongping Mansion up to Shanhaiguan's Ying'en Gate was originally a relatively densely populated and wealthy area. It suffered heavy losses in this military disaster. Nine out of ten families of the big landlords who did not hide in Funing County in time were destroyed.

There are too many unowned lands in this vast area at the northern end of the North China Plain, and there are also many civilian and military generals coveting this place.

Huang Han had the righteousness of needing acres of land to cultivate and support the imperial court’s [-] military households in Ningwei, and Zheng Guochang, the Zuo Buzheng envoy who had the false title of Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Beizhili, blatantly took care of him.

There is also the elder Xu Guangqi who reported to the court that Huang Han needed a large number of acres to plant high-yield crops, and the governor of Shuntian Liu Zhilun unequivocally supported the development of the "Red Banner Army".

Those are just external help, the key is that Huang Han is not easy to mess with!

Who is Huang Han?Zheng Guochang and Qin Liangyu, the son-in-laws of two well-known high-ranking officials, have won tens of thousands of victorious generals.

It was the stunned young man who dared to threaten civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats in the court, and was ready to fight with his old fists. He was the one who caused the extinction of smallpox in Yongping Mansion, and the benefactor of tens of thousands of living people.

Who dares to stroke the tiger's beard with such a person?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land of Gyeonggi was devastated by slaves and invaders many times. On the one hand, millions of people were waiting to be fed, and on the other hand, tens of miles of fertile land were barren.

It has just started now, and it will intensify in the future. In the end, most ordinary people in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to survive. This situation is the result of the interaction between the bandits and the slaves, and it is also caused by the insensitivity of the Ming court.

Huang Han couldn't allow this to happen. He had to manage the base area well, increase investment in water conservancy, and sow high-yield crops, so that the food of the "Red Banner Army" system could be saved into tens of millions of shi.

When you are starving and dying, you can do everything you want if you have food, and everything is empty talk without food.

Huang Han not only grabbed territory in Yongping Prefecture, but also expanded his influence at sea.

Under the leadership of Huang Yong, the "Red Banner Army" water battalion began its half-year Jinghai operation at the end of August.

Huang Han is well aware of the profits of sea trade and the value of sea-going ships. How can he be robbed faster if he builds it himself?

At this time, the "Red Banner Army" sent troops to the south of Liaoning was a god-sent opportunity, and it happened to take advantage of the high-sounding reason of fighting Jiannu to prevent traitors from reporting military information and smuggling food and weapons to control Liaohai.

The method is very simple, to lure all private merchant ships to be inspected, and then take the means of suddenly turning their faces to detain them for their own use.

It is estimated that when the ship owners living in Denglai find out about this situation, maybe the Wuqiao mutiny in history will break out. It will be difficult for the dignitaries in Denglai to protect themselves. How can they have the energy to go to sea to find their lost merchant ships?
Huang Han's method of engaging in gangsters and eating gangsters was clever, because once the thieves such as Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde rebelled, they would loot many cities. Too many landlords and old wealth were looted, their homes were ruined, and there were many rich men with seagoing ships.

Therefore, it is destined to get hundreds of sea-going ships this time, and there is another huge advantage, all the shit can be buckled on the heads of Li Jiuzheng, Kong Youde and other anti-bones.

The warships of the "Red Banner Army" water battalion are fast and the artillery fire is fierce. It is basically effortless to stop private merchant ships at sea, and there are few stubborn resisters. Therefore, the Marine Corps has gained combat experience by jumping on board and boarding the ship, but the casualties are very small. .

The [-] marines headed by Zeng Xiangxiang and An Xiaole have the task of learning culture every day. Now most of them can write more than [-] Chinese characters silently.

After they seized the merchant ships, they would distinguish the sailors, re-employ those who were honest and not the confidants of the master, and scattered them to work on multiple merchant ships, and the remuneration was not lower than before.

Huang Yong accidentally captured the smuggling boat of the Shen family in Laizhou a few months ago, and discovered Geng Zhongyu was about to surrender and become a slave. Now the Shen family has been punished by the court, and most of the men were sentenced to beheaded and exiled.

The captured captain was called Shen Xianyi, who was in his early thirties and had a strong body. When he unexpectedly saw his wife, children and old mother, he cried like a child.

Huang Yong asked Gao Youmou to find out about the family members of a servant of the Shen family. Only the head of the Shen family and the direct males would be beheaded, and the rest of the males would basically be exiled. Sell.

Shen Xianyi saw his wife, and learned from her that the Shen family was ruined, and the head of the family was beheaded by the court without exception, and his wife, children and mother were rescued in a daze. Only now did the wife know that it was the result of the husband asking someone to rescue him.

When he himself was in prison, how could he manage the lives of his family? When he heard what his wife said, he felt ashamed. He realized that he should follow the right path to seek a family background for himself and happiness for his family.

Captain Shen immediately brought a family of nine to see Huang Yong, swore allegiance to the "Red Banner Army" on the spot, and asked Huang Yong to send his wife, children, and mother to Huxue City for resettlement. He took his 15-year-old eldest son, Shen Youlue, to join the army and serve the country.

Shen Xianyi is a scholar who has passed the Tongsheng Examination but not the Academy Examination. His son is also a Tongsheng. Now both father and son are investing in the army to fight for the future.

(End of this chapter)