I have a cornucopia

Chapter 100 It is the greatest honor to be Ming Dynasty’s dog!
Yang Feng returned to Antonwei and faced a problem...

"These days, people from Jiaozhou and Dengzhou have written to us and want to learn how to make cans from us."

Su Dunsheng said.

The person he is talking about is of course the knights of Confucius and Mencius.

As for what he did in Liaodong these days, Yang Feng didn't say anything after he came back.

Since he didn't say anything, of course no one would ask.

Although he said he was going to kill Huang Taiji when he left, no one actually thought he would succeed in such a thing. He did break into the palace in the capital and killed those nobles at will, but those nobles were trash in the first place. This can be said Everyone knows it. Besides, he was able to do this by relying on the military households in the capital, but what he had to face in Shenyang was not military households that could be mobilized with just a few words. There were tens of thousands of elite soldiers there, and any team he picked would not lose. The servants of the Wu family.

How could he succeed.

Since he didn't say anything when he came back, he must have given up on it.

There is no need to ask clearly about this kind of thing. It would be impolite to ask again.

Free is definitely not possible.

You have to have enough food everywhere.

In the prosperous times of the Wanli period, those wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen were competing for luxury.

Do you think these are for money? These are just some hard work to maintain. If we really want to make a lot of money, it is actually easy for us.

But what we want is stability, no famine or war, or in other words, we want these hungry people to have enough to eat and not rebel.

I have to say that the Zhang family is still very useful.

He is also a big landowner.

At most they won't be too crazy about the price, but under the current situation, the gentry also know very well that if they really force the common people to the point where they can't survive, they will still rebel, and then it will be too late to regret...

Su Dunsheng said.

Even if they learn, they will not be grateful to us.

But it was different in the prosperous times when everyone had enough to eat.

My Ming Dynasty has a strict household registration system.

"First of all, you have to understand that we can't stop them from learning. Can you find out how many of these workers are sent by them? Secondly, is this set of things difficult? They offer to follow us to give us face. , we want two thousand taels and then teach them, it is also to give them face, give face to each other, and we will use each other in more places in the future. It is not good to eat alone.

"Teach them, but the fee doesn't need to be too high. Anyone who wants to learn can get two thousand taels of silver, and we'll teach them."

But this kind of industry is simply beyond the reach of ordinary fishermen. Both fishing and processing are in fact already industrial levels.

Their canned food is only provided free of charge to the dependent people...

"This, if it were the Wanli era, I would probably not be able to exchange it for a thousand pieces of gold, but now, I am reluctant to spend money on these useless things."

In other words, those who work for them, whether it is fishing, processing, canning, or even coal mining and transportation, as long as they are in this industrial chain, and those who cultivate wasteland, the wasteland they cultivate is not their own. .

Teach, teach everyone, not only the trawling and canning industry, but also the seeds I got. You can teach if you pay, but you can’t do without money. You have to give some amount.

No one even bought it.

These refugees are not local citizens and have no right to own property locally, but they can obtain free food, clothing, and even medical care through reclamation and farming. Therefore, they are all hired workers, Yang Feng’s employees, and the wasteland they reclaim belongs to the original owner. , that is, Yang Feng rented it from the original owner. Anyway, they are all those who can't produce food at all in this year. Yang Feng gives them some casually, and they don't have the guts to ask for more. Of course, if the original owner is dead or there is no original owner, of course all the things that are reclaimed belong to Yang Feng.

After all, if you can’t buy canned food, you still have to buy their food.

So if it was during the Wanli period, how much would this be worth? "

Yang Feng said.

Therefore, those who preside over this kind of industry can only be powerful people with local control. Only they have the funds, the strength, and the ability to organize enough manpower.

If an ordinary fisherman wanted to do this, he would have to disappear into the sea in less than three days.

Su Dunsheng said sadly.

Our place alone is not enough.

If the tens of millions of hungry people in the Ming Dynasty could have enough to eat, then we would have returned to the prosperous Wanli era.

The two thousand taels must be a friendly price.

Why don't people like this charge money?

And there's transportation.

There are also local conflicts of interest.

Yang Feng picked up a mirror he took out from the cornucopia and said.

"But our canned food has made a lot of money recently, so it would be too cheap for them to distribute it like this."

In Antonwei, Ganyu, and even Juzhou, he owns millions of acres of land.

But what is supplied to other than these people is sold at a slightly lower price than normal grain prices. Because production restrictions often exceed supply, it will not affect the interests of the local gentry.

This is the advantage of sweet potatoes. Even if you plant them in poor soil, you can still get a harvest. Moreover, sweet potatoes can also be cut, dried, ground into powder, and then used as flour.

Sweet potatoes are also grown in fields.

Zhang Hongde has learned a lesson from the past!

He already understood what Yang Feng meant. Yang Feng had too many things in his hands that were useless in famine but were of great value in prosperous times. But the problem was that now that we were in the midst of famine, war, and plague, those things he had didn't have much value. After all, rich people in this era must also be careful about their lives and dare not spend money carelessly. These things that were expensive in the prosperous times cannot be sold at high prices now.

There are private gardens all over the south of the Yangtze River.

Although saying Wanli this way is a bit beautifying, in terms of classical standards, his decades were indeed a prosperous period by classical standards.

Even when I was a perfect old dog in the Qing Dynasty, there was still a gap between them.

This can be proven by the written records of the missionaries of Margani and Wanli times.

As for the Battle of Saarhu, it was nothing compared to Wang Conger in his later years. It was just a border trouble at best. However, the White Lotus Rebellion swept across the southwest, and there was a war from Huguang to Sichuan. Although Wanli was scolded the most , but in fact, his years were really the best era in the late Ming Dynasty, and even in the entire Qing Dynasty, his years were not surpassed.

"So the most important thing now is not money, nor is it a struggle for power, but to end this troubled times, otherwise everything will be in vain. Wealth is precarious, land belongs to others in a blink of an eye, and even the emperor may hang himself on a crooked tree one day. , only stability and order can ensure everything we get, and only if the poor can have enough to eat, can our family business be passed down from generation to generation."

Yang Feng patted his shoulder and said sincerely. Of course, the main reason why he said this was to remind the gentry to control their inflated souls of oppression.

The gentry are a little bloated.

After all, there was still a court to control things in the past.

Although it is said that the emperor and the gentry share the same world, in the imperial era, the only person who could restrain the gentry under normal circumstances was the emperor.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power could never cooperate well with the gentry because of the laws established by the ancestors.

After all, although Zhu Yuanzhang's system was destroyed beyond recognition, even if it was changed beyond recognition, it was still the ancestral law. As long as he was still the emperor of the Zhu family, it was impossible to change it openly. Changing the ancestral system would shake the legitimacy of the imperial power. You can Explain it beyond recognition, you can pretend to have forgotten it, but you still have to recognize it as soon as it is brought out. But things are different now. Now because of the emergence of Yang Feng, and because the Knights of Confucius and Mencius in various places have driven the officials to the yamen to shut up, the local gentry has the final say. The power of the gentry locally overwhelms the imperial power. In this case, it will not expand. It's impossible.

Land annexation...

There must be land annexation.

After all, fertile farmland is the most precious thing in this era.

Now that the gentry had the ability to ignore the law, why did they continue to watch the yeoman farmers occupy good land?

All good land must belong to the gentry, and the land mainly belongs to small landowners. The eunuchs who control the Knights of Confucius and Mencius want to control the most good land.

After all, it costs a lot of money to maintain followers.

The final result is that local annexation intensifies, and fertile land is lost to those local powerful people.

It is even rapidly transforming into a feudal manor. After all, the land is your own. You can build a fort in tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, raise an army of followers, and control the tenants working around you...

Who doesn't like this kind of life?

Yang Feng did not interfere with this, because under the current natural disaster, it is impossible for the land to provide enough food to feed everyone. Giving good land to powerful people is equivalent to optimizing the structure. Good land that can feed people belongs to powerful people, who ensure that their tenants of survival, and then the unsustainable population that is squeezed out belongs to him. Expand fishing, expand the planting area of ​​those modern crops in his hands, and then become dependent on his population, and these populations will be his army, his workers, and his plantation workers. And when he needs it, these people will crush all the resisters for him. Whatever he wants these gentry to do, these gentry must do it, otherwise his army based on the poor who have hatred against the gentry will be razed to the ground for him. The estates of those gentry.

They will show no mercy.

After all, in this era, if there is no artificial reduction, relying solely on what Yang Feng took out of the cornucopia is still not enough to solve the famine.

This is a famine for tens of millions of people.

According to historical records, nearly two-thirds of the counties in the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty recorded the situation of no production or nearly no production.

Even in modern times, it is not easy to solve this kind of famine quickly. At least there are not many countries that can do it. This cannot be solved by Yang Feng, and he also needs time to promote it. The final choice was those few, redistributing food by force, which is what Li Zicheng was doing. When King Chuang came, he would not pay for the food, but he would pay the gentry's family for payment. To put it simply, the gentry was forced to hand over their accumulation and then distribute it to the poor. If they did not take the money from the poor, they would be giving part of it to the poor. I, the Qing Dynasty, use force to kill. Killing half of the people will naturally leave the remaining people with good land to support themselves. It is simple and bloody, but it is indeed the most effective.

Nothing else.

migrant……

At least within the Ming Dynasty, there really is no good place.

You can only immigrate overseas.

But this is long-term work and cannot solve short-term problems.

After all, hungry people will starve to death before they can immigrate.

Purchased food...

This can't be done either.

The Ming Dynasty has one-third of the world's population. Even if the world's surplus food is used up, the hungry people of the Ming Dynasty cannot be fed. What's more, except for Nanyang, the rest of the Ming Dynasty is also in famine. The Japanese country is also suffering from the Kanyong famine.

As for the little surplus grain in Nanyang, even if it is obtained, it will be a drop in the bucket.

What's more, it can't be obtained.

Grain trade is more than just trade.

Even in modern times, those who engage in grain trade are those super multinational groups, because it involves a series of supporting industries such as acquisition, transportation, storage, port shipping, etc. This is how water transportation was used in the Ming Dynasty. Grain from the south was collected by local officials, transported by military households to various warehouses, and then loaded on water ships for transportation north. In the end, with millions of water workers, only four to five million shi were transported to the capital a year. , the highest record seems to be just over five million.

Even if private trade is included, there will only be another three to five million dan more than the sky.

This is the grain trade of this era,

This is still under the condition of perfect governance and stable operation of the system.

Go to Nanyang to purchase?
Could it be that those small countries in Nanyang would pile up all the grain in the dock warehouses for Ming Dynasty in advance?
So Yang Feng had no choice but to play his tricks.

Let annexation be allowed, use annexation to squeeze out the population that the land cannot support, and then use this population to ask for food from the sea.

While they were talking, a man wearing North Korean official uniform was brought in.

"General Lin, I have made you suffer. Yang has gone to Liaodong to find out your identity. Now you have to wait here with me. I will report to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to reward you."

Yang Feng supported the latter who was about to kneel down and said.

This is Lin Qingye. He fled from North Korea to Daming. He originally wanted to go to Dengzhou, but he drifted to the coast of northern Shandong and was arrested by the local magistrate of Haifeng, also known as Wudi. Because no one knew him and he could not prove his identity and intention, he was imprisoned. After being imprisoned for several months, historically speaking, he was finally released because people who later came from North Korea told his story.

"I don't dare to ask for a favor from my superior country. It's enough to be a guard dog for the Ming Dynasty."

Lin Qingye said with excitement.

He is actually about fifty.

"General Lin is joking. You are such a loyal minister, and you will still be rewarded. You can stay here with peace of mind. Even if His Majesty gives you an official title, it will probably be under the command of the Shandong General Soldier. I will get you a few ships, and you can cruise with them on the sea. , in the future, if loyal ministers and righteous men come from North Korea, it will be convenient for them."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

This man was actually a naval general, and he happened to get some ships for him to trade with North Korea.

Especially instigating North Korea to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

After all, North Korea is now an important blood source of our Qing Dynasty. After the last defeat in Shandong, Huang Taiji forced Li Zhu to send 200,000 shi of grain. In fact, they have been forced to send grain to Huang Taiji these years. If Gungun really takes the capital, it is very likely. After all, Gui Gui is helping him. If North Korea resists and stops this transportation at that time, plus the plundering south is blocked by Yang Feng, Gungun will have a hard time in the capital. of.

After all, there is not enough food in the capital.

Historically, after Gungun captured the capital, he actually fell into a food shortage.

Li Zicheng had already scraped it before him. What he took over was a third-hand product, and in the end he had to force North Korea to transport grain.

(End of this chapter)