The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 706 Control Shanxi Xuanda
Everything is false, money and food are the most important!

Huang Han already had millions of people in his hands, and it will affect the millions of people in Shanxi.

There are guns, people, money and food, territory, ports, outlets, and sailors who have crossed the ages, so what are you afraid of?

Five days ago, the eight imperial merchants and the families of dozens of traitorous Shanxi merchants had been escorted by Song Pengfei with four battalions to Tiger Cave City to prepare for shipping to Pi Island and Shen Mi Island.

Along with the returning army, there were more than [-] people from [-] households of war refugees in Shanxi.

The merchants in Shanxi were uprooted, and the "Red Banner Army" self-operated firms and merchants of the system jointly took over the business in Shanxi. Doing business in the future is equivalent to fair competition between collective stores and private firms.

This approach is based on the failed state governance model in the first 30 years of the country. Everything is collective and state-run, which leads to the salesmen who sell goods for the collective and the country as masters, and they have no sense of service at all.

It also leads to the lack of vitality of the single market for goods in the absence of a competitive mechanism.

Create a market atmosphere of fair competition, and compete freely under the premise of legality and tax payment according to law. The "Red Banner Army" can go bankrupt if it does not manage well, and it is not allowed to use force against competitors.

With the gradual improvement of the market mechanism, the joint-stock system can be implemented at an appropriate time, and the collective ownership can be changed to the common ownership of shareholders.

Because the vitality of collective ownership is weak, it is competitive at the beginning, but it will be overstaffed in a few years, and marketization is the only way.

Shanxi and Xuanda have been broken by the old system. Huang Han must control here for a long time so that the reform results will not be wiped out.

I believe that in one or two years, millions of ordinary people in Shanxi and Xuanda will not be hungry under the management of the "Red Banner Army" and their quality of life will gradually improve, and they will become good people loyal to Huang Han.

In the future, it will be difficult for the Tartars and Jiannu to obtain iron and grain from Shanxi and Xuanda.

Why did the Tartars’ fighting power take a turn for the worse during the Ming Dynasty, and finally developed to the point where they couldn’t even build slaves?
That's because the Ming Dynasty controlled trade for a long time, so that the horses, cattle and sheep of the Tartars could not be sold at a high price, and even an iron pot was a sky-high price. The feathered arrows used by too many Mongolian tribes could not even be made of iron arrows. , but ground from bone.

Nurhachi benefited from recognizing Li Chengliang as his son and received support, so he was able to conquer the Mongolian tribes after unifying Jurchen.

Jiannu paid special attention to trade. The massive gold and silver treasures robbed from Liaodong in the early days were converted into armor and weapons by Shanxi merchants.

Now that Shanxi's commerce and trade are firmly controlled by Huang Han, how easy is it to obtain a large amount of iron materials for casting cannons with the poor productivity of Jiannu?
After the "Red Banner Army" controls the border trade, it will continue to purchase cattle and sheep, horses, fur goods, and wool from the Tartars at low prices. The commodities that are allowed to freely exit the customs do not include ironware, grain, and gunpowder.

Exports of tea, porcelain, silk, clocks, cotton cloth, sweaters, blankets, spirits, cosmetics, luxury goods, etc. are encouraged.

Not only will the economic blockade be continued against the Tartars, but the "Red Banner Army" stationed there will continue to launch local wars to drive the Mongols north and west. The best result is to drive them to Europe to plunder Tsarist Russia.

Historically, the most fundamental reason why Tsarist Russia crossed Siberia and came to the Far East to take the vast land was that the Ming Dynasty was weak, and the Tartars and Jiannu occupied the colorful world of the Han people.

The territory owned by the Han people may be the best place in the world. Tartars and Jian slaves obtained fertile land and migrated southward one after another, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of the farther north. When Tsarist Russia invaded Siberia, there were very few indigenous people there.

With the Huang Han and the "Red Banner Army", how can we allow many foreign races to rob the Han people of their living space? It is a ten-year plan after the five-year Ping-Liao period to drive the Tartars two or three thousand miles north to Siberia.

If there are millions of Tartars and slaves living in the vast land of Siberia, it is not Tsarist Russia who came to occupy the Far East, but the old Maozi who are always on guard against the return of the yellow peril 400 years ago.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is here. Although everything is dying after the war, the soldiers and civilians in Shanxi feel at ease because of the "Red Banner Army" who starved to death and did not plunder the common people.

In order to tide over the difficulties together, the publicity team has been widely publicizing that saving food has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the refugees who have been helped can only maintain [-] to [-]% of their food for two meals on average.

The cold weather makes it impossible to construct, so we can only choose targeted material preparation. The hot labor sites are all in the mining area. Mining stone crushing to prepare for firing cement requires a lot of strong labor. Coal mining and iron ore mining require a lot of manpower. few.

The workshops of the former Shanxi merchants were operating at full capacity, and ironmaking, steelmaking, coking, silk reeling, spinning, weaving, etc. could also solve many jobs.

No one is afraid of hardship, because they can eat three meals and have two dry meals when doing heavy physical work. They can also get wages ranging from five yuan to one or two to five yuan according to the size of their effort and the difficulty of the work, so that their wives and children can have enough food and clothing. .

Huang Han never thought that population was a burden. At this time, he offered relief with work and relief, so that three to four million ordinary people would not die of cold and starvation during the cat winter, and also enabled young and middle-aged people to have enough to eat.

When spring began, millions of people were mobilized to build ditches and irrigation wells immediately with money and food, and then planted a large number of high-yield potatoes, which are cold-resistant and easy to serve.

Without the catastrophic disaster that occurs once in 30 years, the grain produced by Shanxi households would be self-sufficient, and a part of the surplus grain could be sold.

As long as the hunger can be solved, the situation will be stabilized. It is inevitable that Shanxi and Xuanda will be actually controlled by the "Red Banner Army".

Just when the Ming Dynasty was dealing with the Qing army's large-scale invasion of the interior and was empty of troops, the rogue bandits ushered in a climax of development.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Lao Huihui and other rogue leaders deliberately released news that they were attacking Xi'an and intending to establish themselves as kings, causing Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian and other generals to be exhausted.

In the last ten days of the twelfth lunar month, the main force of the rogue bandits once again passed through Shangluo Mountain and rushed to Henan as if they were in no-man's land. They went down to several counties and grabbed the food that could sustain their basic survival, and once again engulfed a population of 10,000+.

Gao Yingxiang received a detailed spy report and learned that there was a large amount of military supplies, weapons and food hoarded by the Ming army in Xiangyang City.

The rogues who couldn't eat enough wanted to slaughter fat sheep too much. After learning that Xiangyang was very fat and empty, they all began to salivate.

They also learned that Lu Yanwang's Tianxiong army and the "Red Devils" along the river had crossed the Yellow River to pursue the Qing army. They were two thousand miles away from Xiangyang, and they realized that a great opportunity was at hand.

(End of this chapter)