Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

And this agreement has four points of view:

The first is the land mortgage.To be honest, the current Runing Army's own land is very tight, and it is impossible to get the 24 mu of land. Although the delivery date is five years later, as the Runing Army continues to allocate to its retired soldiers In the period of serf land, the land of the Runing Army will be more tense.

Obviously, the Runing Army must go out of its own territory and go outside to plunder.This is doomed that the Runing Army will implement an offensive policy, and it is all about going out.If the original Jimin Land Reclamation Firm was a semi-official go out to occupy land for farming, then now the Runing Army will completely transfer to a full-official farming.

The second is the establishment of the firm.Here, whether it is the Runing Army or the Yangzhou salt merchants, they actually count the imperial court's property and other people's private property as their own.To put it more seriously, they actually no longer paid attention to the court's decrees, and they were on the verge of rebellion.Moreover, in order to snatch the salt fields, salt wells, and salt sales areas, the Runing Army's policy is doomed to be aggressive, which is similar to the first point.

So this leads to the third point. The agreement between Wu Shigong and the Yangzhou salt merchants on expanding business can only be an oral agreement, and no piece of paper can be left as evidence.Of course, it can also be seen that Yangzhou salt merchants trust Wu Shigong's promise.

Finally, there is the distribution of shares in the firm.There is nothing to talk about the shares of Runing Army, but Wu Shigong, who holds the shares of Yangzhou Salt Merchant, put restrictions on them to prevent one of them from taking too much share.This is also a precautionary measure to prevent the salt industry.There is such a big family.

Because if the Runing Army finally seized the world, the salt tax would still become an important tax for the Wu family dynasty. Wu Shigong had to plan ahead at this time to prevent losing part of the salt tax at that time.However, because of the current cooperation with Yangzhou salt merchants, it is conceivable that one of them will become bigger in the salt industry.It's just that in order to solve the financial shortage of the Runing Army, Wu Shigong can only look at this problem in the future.

Through this incident, we can actually see that following the victory of the Runing Army, some interest groups began to take the initiative to board the chariot of the Runing Army.And Wu Shigong's personal leadership position in this group is becoming more and more stable.

in the army.All the generals of the Runing Army system, if they want to leave the Runing Army, not to mention whether his subordinates will agree or not, but just saying that they do not have the financial resources controlled by Wu Shigong, those troops will immediately collapse.So with Wu Shigong, the army is almost monolithic, even the Xue family, they only have their own ideas on Wu Shigong's successor, but they definitely dare not challenge Wu Shigong, the leader.Even Wu Shigong's father-in-law, Xue Lian, was useless. [

This is especially true in the civil service system.Because Wu Shigong was not qualified to open a government office, almost none of these civil servants in the Runing Army were qualified as officials of the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, there is no Runing Army.Actually they are nothing.Therefore, they are absolutely of one mind with the Runing Army.

And so do interest groups.Whether it is the official and gentry groups of Runing and Guide, or the Jiangnan consortium and the salt merchant consortium of Yangzhou, their profits must be supported by the Runing army.And this kind of support has increasingly evolved into support for Wu Shigong personally, which is contrary to the wishes of the imperial court. These interest groups have also begun to completely favor the Runing Army.

So when the Runing army returned to Runing.These interest groups began to show their power.There was an endless stream of distinguished guests visiting Wu Shigong, and the gifts and rewards were piled up like a mountain.And when Wu Shigong offered the same conditions as the Yangzhou salt merchants, after using the land five years later as a mortgage to borrow, he immediately raised another three 10,000+ taels, which made Wu Shigong feel astonished at the wealth of the people.

And those interest groups.Completely treat this loan as a feast.Twenty-five cents per mu of land is a quarter of the market price.Such an opportunity is too rare, so those rich families are completely crazy about grabbing it.Although it will take five years to get these lands, these rich people are not worried at all that the Runing Army will regret their promises, nor are they worried that the Runing Army will not be able to grab these lands.It's funny that these people have much more confidence in the Runing Army than Wu Shigong himself.

Not only that, in Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and various places in the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of officials and gentry began to raise money, and they wanted to continue to lend money to the Runing Army, for fear that Wu Shigong would not agree.So in the blink of an eye, Wu Shigong changed from worrying about not having enough money to worrying about too much money, what a happy worry!

And it's not good for Wu Shigong not to accept the money.This has become a weather vane, which shows which family the Runing Army is close to and which one is closely related.If you don't accept it casually, not only is it not a good thing, but it will offend people for no reason.It seemed that those officials and nobles were crying and shouting, "Hurry up and take away all our money!"

So Wu Shigong would not refuse anyone who came, anyway, it would be better to have more money now, and he also told Deng Qifan: Whoever sends money in the future, it will also be accepted as it is.Anyway, if there are too many lice, it doesn't itch, and if you have too many debts, you don't worry.As for whether it will be possible to take out so much land in five years?Let's talk about it then!People are under pressure!

However, Wu Shigong did not have a choice to accept the money, at least two of them did not accept it, one was Ruan Dacheng who also came to Runing to congratulate Wu Shigong; the other was the Zheng family in Fujian.

"Mr. Yuanhai! You are already flourishing in your humble house, why do you need your money? I really dare not accept the late student!" Wu Shigong laughed.

"To be honest with Changjing, I'm also Bo Youjia, and the mere 2 taels is just a token of my heart, and I'm returning for He Changjing's victory. I hope Changjing will have to resign." Ruan Dacheng also said politely with a smile.

Originally, Ruan Dacheng came to Runing to meet Wu Shigong with Hou Fangyu's letter of introduction, and he just wanted to get in touch with Wu Shigong and get to know each other first.But when Ruan Dacheng learned about the fact that the Runing army borrowed money to repay the land, he made a decisive decision and immediately offered to pay [-] yuan to Wu Shigong.How could Ruan Dacheng give up on such a great thing of selling well and making money?

"Mr. Yuanhai is famous all over the world. Wansheng can't even invite you on weekdays. How can you spend money? If you don't accept gifts, it's the best gift. However, Wansheng is ignorant, and he doesn't do many things well. I just need help from someone as big as Mr. Yuanhai. The most troublesome thing now is the resettlement of refugees. There is wasteland here in Wansheng, but there is a lack of latitude and longitude to take care of it. I am a bit burnt out, and it happens that Mr. comes here. So there is a ruthless person in Wansheng Please, first give Mr. ten thousand mu of land, and share one hundred households for the later students. And the stock exchange in Runing will also issue new bonds. If you are interested, sir, can you stay in Runing for a few more days?" Wu Shigong said.

Ruan Dacheng understood Wu Shigong's meaning as soon as he heard it, he pointed at Wu Shigong, and did not refuse, the two of them immediately laughed.