The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 703
The twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month was the day when the operation began. More than [-] people from the "Red Banner Army" had deployed their defenses to attack local tyrants, profiteers, and corrupt officials.

Because of the proper deployment and perfect intelligence, and because of the powerful deterrence of the "Red Banner Army", and because the military officers of the Ming Dynasty who served as the umbrella had left the army for training, there was no violent resistance to the law at all.

The servants of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants saw the red flags fluttering, saw the "Red Flag Army" marching in array with self-generated blunderbuss, and heard the soldiers shouting orders to put down their weapons.
Seeing that the Fan family, Wang family, Jin family and other representative big businessmen have all admitted their defeat, the other Shanxi merchants dare not resist, and obediently let them go.

In the end, the eight imperial merchants and the servants of dozens of other Shanxi merchants were all gathered to participate in the training, and the number reached [-].

These people have good physical fitness, and there are not a few of them who have kung fu in their hands, so they can't let themselves go.

Kong Wu, who has lost his patriarch, is powerful and skilled in martial arts. It is impossible to live in peace if he stays in the market. It will become a hidden danger to public security. Only these people are the most suitable soldiers.

These people will not be left in the local area. After completing the basic subject training, those who perform outstandingly and pass the combat skills can be dispersed and incorporated into the "Red Banner Army" main barracks, and the rest will act as guards and follow the army.

The unprecedentedly strong and well-organized "Red Banner Army" does not need to worry about a few people being passive. After one or two years of assimilation, those who are active will be promoted.

I feel that working in the collective of the "Red Banner Army" not only earns enough to support the family, but also has a brighter future than smuggling with the boss. These servants will be indistinguishable from other regular soldiers and guards.

After getting rid of the Shanxi merchants, after counting the food reserves, and then calculating the population that needs to be provided with rations until the end of July in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the food gap is not too large.

At this time, good news came that Huang Yong's sea trade fleet had unloaded some grain in Nantong Prefecture, and they would definitely be able to send the remaining rice to Tianjin Wei and Huxue City before the Chinese New Year.

Huang Yong not only bought back 80 shi of rice, but also signed a trade contract twice a year and paid a deposit. The delivery volume for one trip was no less than 80 shi. The deadline for picking up the goods was in April and October each year. After that, I will have to make two trips to Nanyang every year.

Knowing the expectation of importing about 200 million shi of grain every year, Huang Han feels more at ease. Daming has these completely extra grains, which can guarantee that 300 million people will not starve to death, and can make 80 million adult men eat [-]% of the food every day. full.

Huang Yong knew that his brother needed a large amount of food to help the refugees. As soon as the fleet arrived at the port of Nantongzhou, he immediately sent someone to expedite the letter he had written in six hundred miles to Shanxi.

He reported the results of the battle in the letter, telling his brother that there were more than [-] new ships launched or about to be launched this year, most of them were merchant ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons, and [-] were warships.

Among them, there are more than [-] battleships with a displacement of more than [-] tons, and [-] ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons. The rest are small warships with a displacement of less than [-] tons, all of which are common to Jianghai.

Huang Yong stated that the combat effectiveness of the Longwu Navy and the total transport capacity of the "Sun Moon Shipping" have been greatly improved. If there are no other combat missions, he will continue to lead the fleet to Nanyang after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The last years of the Ming Dynasty were completely different from the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Western barbarians separatized a large amount of Chinese territory. There were colonies everywhere, and the streets were full of foreign goods. There was a huge trade deficit, and the real money was stolen and blackmailed by the colonists. , leading to poverty and weakness in the country.

From the Ming Dynasty until the end of the country, the goods were sold all over the world, and the trade was in surplus. The supply of silk, porcelain, cotton cloth, tea, handicrafts, etc. was simply in short supply, and a lot of real money was earned.

It's just that the Ming court's dominance is too fucked up. Although the profits from sea trade far exceed the sum of Ming's taxes and taxes, very few of them fall into the hands of the government.

The commercial and handicraft industries in the south are developed, and there are so many rich families. Unfortunately, these people have no sense of death and toothlessness, and they are unwilling to fight for the country at all. In the end, the huge wealth was snatched away by the Man Qing.

Now that Ming Dynasty has Huang Han, its export products include clocks, glassware, valves, nickel-white copper pipes, toilets, ceramic tiles, matchlock guns, soaps, foundations, hair oils, shampoos, etc. There are hundreds of types.

The products have crossed the era, become more competitive, and the gross profit margin has also increased significantly. The direct benefit is that millions of jobs have been added to Daming.

As long as Huang Yong escorts merchant ships carrying silk, canvas, porcelain tea, etc. to Manila and Pfeiffer Port, he can always get more than double the gross profit on average.

When returning to the voyage, it is fully loaded with rice, copper ingots, pig iron, lead, zinc, tin, sulfur, spices, sandalwood, gold, silver, etc., and the value will double when transported to Daming.

Today, the influence of the "Red Banner Army" is not only familiar to northerners, but also famous in southern provinces such as Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, etc., which is the good effect of large purchases.

Although there are many weaving factories and ceramic kilns in the system, they are far from enough to meet the supply of foreign trade. There is no tea or silk produced in the system. Therefore, [-]% of the goods of "Sun Moon Shipping" are purchased in Jiangnan.

Huang Han did not allow the commercial banks responsible for stocking goods in the system to owe triangular debts to destroy the natural economy, and refused to pay on credit if the purchase funds were not enough, preferring to borrow from the "Sifang Bank".

Buyers and sellers like cash and spot goods the most. The "Red Banner Army" system's commercial firms purchase an astonishing quantity, offer reasonable prices, and immediately check out and pay the "Sifang Bank" bank notes that can be deposited and withdrawn.

Such a good reputation is of course very popular. Whenever "Sun Moon Shipping" starts to prepare goods, merchants waiting for screening at the gate of the office line up in a long line.

Nine out of ten large merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have official backgrounds. The firm of General Zhenglu has never bullied the market, and has become the largest purchaser in Ming Dynasty.

It directly led to the willingness of Jiangnan officials to cooperate with the "Red Banner Army", and their spokespersons in the court also tried not to target the general who conquered the captives.

Because the two pirate groups Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang have repeatedly merged, the risk of the fleet traveling to Southeast Asia is huge. Nanzhili and Zhejiang Maritime Merchants used to pay the Zheng family 3000 taels of silver protection fee to travel east and west, but now they can't.

At least Liu Xiang's department was impatient when they saw a merchant ship flying the flag of Zheng Yiguan. Even if the robbery was not worthwhile, or even the gain outweighed the loss, they did their best.

By not steaming the steamed buns, Liu Xiang just wanted to destroy the reputation of Zheng Zhilong Group and weaken the Zheng family.

Huang Yong's Longwu navy should be invincible in the Daming waters. When escorting the merchant fleet, as long as there are ships in sight, they will intercept them all, even the official ships of the Ming Dynasty. The risk of running a sea trade business.

(End of this chapter)