The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 569 Zhang Xianzhong Shen Yin

"Return to Your Highness," Qin Zuoming hurriedly said, "Right now all major and minor wars in northern Sichuan are settled, General Yang Jing and Yang led Liu Wenxiu to surrender his troops, cooperated with King Jinzhou's garrison in front and back attacks, wiped out Gebuku's remnant soldiers, and captured nearly ten thousand dead.

"In the north, the brother of the last general led his troops to surround Dingning and Qiang, and attacked day and night. Luo Luohun sent Li Guoying to lead more than ten thousand bandits to rescue them. Li Dingguo set up an ambush in Caishen ditch. When the army entered the ditch halfway, he attacked from both sides, and the enemy stood up. After Li Zongbing set fire to the ditch again, Li Guoying suffered heavy casualties, and less than 3000 people retreated to Hanzhong. After that, Luo Luohun never dared to aid Ning and Qiang.

"At the end of the day when we left Shu, my elder brother had already transported the cannon to the city of Ning and Qiang, and it will be recovered in a few days."

When he said this, he couldn't help showing joy, "As for the silver boats on the Minjiang River, as His Highness expected, they will eventually be searched along the river. In just half a day, we found a large number of boats hiding in the middle of the river near Weimen!"

Zhu Linming's eyes brightened when he heard the words. Although he had heard about the discovery of Zhang Xianzhong's sunken silver ruins in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River from the news of later generations, but the archaeological salvage had not yet started at that time, so he did not know the exact location or the shape of the silver boat.

Previously, he just wanted to give it a try, so he ordered Qin Liangyu to send people along the river to search for the "ships offering silver to the bandits", but he did not expect to find them!

In history, Zhang Xianzhong loaded a large amount of Sichuan taxes on board, so that when the war was unfavorable, he could go down the Minjiang River and into the Yangtze River, and use these wealth to develop in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty.However, Zhang Xianzhong was accidentally shot to death by Hauge, and his silver boat was discovered by the Jianchang Wei Navy. Seeing that the Daxi army guarding the boat could not resist, they scuttled all the silver boats, and a large amount of gold and silver was lost at the bottom of the river.

Therefore, Zhu Linmi specially told Qin Liangyu this time that he must act in secret and not let the bandits have a chance to destroy the ship, but he didn't know how well Qin Zuoming carried it out.He hurriedly asked: "Have you captured Kou Chuan?"

Qin Zuoming cupped his hands and said: "Return to Your Highness, the last general led his troops to approach the Xian Kou anchorage in a fishing boat late at night, and then boarded the boat four times at the same time. The Kou didn't have time to react, and he surrendered after a little resistance.

"All 67 ships of all sizes, 61 of them were captured by the subordinates. Only six sentinel ships escaped in the chaos and were blocked by our surrounding guards, and sank from the bottom of the ship.

"At the end of the day, people will get people to take out the belongings on board, and get a total of 150 million taels of cash! There are also 31 boxes of various jewelry, jade and gold wares, which can be discounted to about 60 taels."

"Okay!" Zhu Linmi couldn't help but cheered, "Da Ming just needed money, and the 200 million taels came too timely!"

Qin Zuoming was also full of smiles, "At the end of the day, seeing that there is no need for our department in Sichuan, and thinking that we should report the good news to His Highness as soon as possible, so he concealed his identity and went down the Yangtze River on a merchant ship. It took only four or five days. arrive.

"It's just that we will pass through Huguang on the way, and at the end of the day, we are worried that if we use boats to transport silver to Nanjing, He Tengjiao's navy may be in trouble halfway, so we still send people to unload silver carts and go around Guangxi. It will take about three or four months to get there." arrival."

"You did a good job with the silver boat, I have to reward you later!"

"Thank you for your great love, the last general dare not take credit for it..."

That afternoon, Zhu Linmi opened the memorial just sent by the cabinet, intending to plan how to use the "windfall" of more than 200 million taels after the approval, but unexpectedly just opened the first memorial at the top, and couldn't help but frowned. brow.

This is Wang Yingxiong, governor of Sichuan, who said that after the death of Zhang Xianzhong, a large-scale famine broke out in the state capital originally occupied by Daxi in northern Sichuan, and asked the imperial court to allocate money for disaster relief.

It wasn't until Zhu Linmi finished reading the memorial that Zhang Xianzhong had been resorting to military tactics, imposing extremely heavy taxes on the controlled areas, and most of the people had no overnight food.When the Daxi regime collapsed, the small amount of porridge and rice allocated by the Daxi government disappeared, and hundreds of thousands of hungry people flocked to Chengdu helplessly.However, due to the continuous ravages of invaders and bandits in Sichuan, and the outbreak of plague, most of the fields were barren and there was no food at all.

In Chengdu, due to the recent use of troops by the imperial court, the granaries have bottomed out, so they can only temporarily keep the victims out of the city and give them a little rice soup. If this continues, a large number of hungry people will starve to death...

Zhu Linmi rubbed his forehead vigorously. He knew that not only northern Sichuan, but the whole Sichuan are not in a good situation.

In history, the "Guangdong and Guangxi filling Sichuan" happened. It was because only [-] households remained in Sichuan during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which was almost a barren land. Solved the Sichuan population problem.

Of course, the sharp drop in population in Sichuan at that time was mainly due to the massacres after Hauge entered Sichuan. Now that Sichuan is under the control of Ming Dynasty, it is unlikely that there will be [-] households in the whole territory.However, even if there was no factor of building captives, Sichuan suffered from military disasters and plague outbreaks several times before, and the people's lives were still extremely difficult. If the imperial court let it go, there may still be large-scale starvation to death.

Zhu Linmi couldn't help but shook her head with a wry smile. I'm afraid that the more than 200 million taels will be used to stabilize Sichuan, especially northern Sichuan.He also asked Yang Tinglin and other officials from the household department to be recruited. According to Wang Yingxiong's report, he estimated overnight that Sichuan's disaster relief needs at least one million taels.

Zhu Linmi immediately sent an order to Qin Zuoming to leave most of Zhang Xianzhong's heavy silver to Wang Yingxiong for disaster relief, and only a million taels were transported to Nanjing.

Then he ordered Jinyiwei South Town to secretly monitor the use of the disaster relief money as usual. There was no way, the corruption of officials in Ming Dynasty had penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

After Zheng Guangying left, Zhu Linmi returned to the case again, and carefully sorted out all aspects of Daming's development. The million taels left in her hand soon ran out.

It wasn't until it was dawn that he stood up exhausted and stretched his waist looking at the newly prepared capital increase budget.In his budget, he allocated 40 taels for road transportation construction, and added wooden tracks from Ningbo to Shaoxing, so that goods from the mainland can enter and leave the port faster and increase maritime trade.

There are thousands of taels in the transportation budget for Gezhi University, so that it can start research on the technology of mass production of asphalt.Daming is rich in coal resources, and the price of burning coal tar will not be too expensive. If there is asphalt, the transportation can be raised to a higher level.

Second only to transportation as a percentage of the budget is shipbuilding.Allocate 10 taels to Longjiang Shipyard to improve the berth and build an [-]-ton Galen warship.However, Zhu Linming estimated that with the current level of craftsmen at the Longjiang Shipyard, it would take a long time for this warship to enter the water.But things have to have a beginning. If Longjiang Shipyard is to have the strength to beat the old European shipyards, the initial investment must be indispensable.

In addition, 8 taels were given to the ocean-going caravan, which was counted as the imperial court's shareholding, and was mainly used to build merchant ships for trade.When mentioning merchant ships, Zhu Linmei thought of the "big killer" of maritime trade - flying shear ships. According to the current technical capabilities of Yongbeili, it should be possible to try to build them.

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