Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty

“Yes, His Imperial Majesty.” Cai Ge nodded, and then repeated Yang Chendong’s request. The next time is when Zhu Qizhen and several Court Eunuch leaders are discussing how much silver taels are needed to train the new army this time, and how much population they need to trade.

Just as Yang Chendong imagined, Zhu Qizhen really doesn’t pay much attention to the population. Especially after the three places of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong were occupied by the Prince of Min forces, many refugees escaped from there. Now they are entrenched in the Southeastern provinces, and many of them are even coming near Nanjing.

According to the official report below, the emergence of these refugees has greatly affected the security of other places. Among them, only their eat, drink, shit and piss want to solve is a big problem, which often causes headaches for other local officials.

This time may be able to send these people out by means of transactions, as to whether this move will strengthen the mercenary. Hehe, let alone that they don’t provide population, don’t mercenaries have other options? Let’s just say how difficult it is to make these refugees who are living in a difficult life become an army. These people do not have enough food and clothing, and their health is generally not good. If not, Southern Ming himself would call them into the army. Otherwise, the Prince of Min forces will not let them leave their territory lightly.

In any case, these people seem to be tasteless in Zhu Qizhen’s view, and most of them are even cumbersome things. They just took the opportunity to give them to the mercenaries, let them get a headache, or make them annoyed. For a moment, save yourself by threatening yourself with a powerful army.

After wanting to open up, Zhu Qizhen began to order three Court Eunuch leaders to Statistics Refugee Population. According to him, except those physically strong young people and beautiful young women, other refugees can be used for trading. If a large sum of gold and silver is exchanged, Southern Ming will have the strength to train the new army and strengthen himself.

The number of refugees has long been reported by local officials, and the number has reached 5,000,000. Most of them are refugees from Guangdong, because they have been prepared long ago, waiting for the Prince of Min forces to occupy a place in Guangdong, basically except for some fields and houses, the population is very small. The number of refugees in Guangdong alone has reached nearly 3,000,000.

Among these 5,000,000 people, the proportions of women and men are almost the same, each accounting for one third, and the proportions of the elderly and children are also almost the same, each accounting for one of 60%. With such calculations, the approximate accounts will have a result.

Women are around 1.5 million, and two 10 silver taels per person is 30 million fine silver.

For the elderly around 900,000, five taels of silver per person is 4.5 million fine silver.

Children around 900,000, ten five taels of silver per person, that’s one thousand 3.5 million taels.

There are about 1,000,000 men (Southern Ming retains 500,000 and the remaining 1,000,000), 500,000 taels per person, which is 50,000,000 taels.

Together, the total population is about 400,300,000 people, and you can get 2.9 million silver under the transaction.

When the numbers were obtained, Zhu Qizhen couldn’t help being sucked in a cold breath. He didn’t expect that they were just some vagrants, which could increase his financial income so much. Once these nine thousand and eight million two are available, Southern Ming’s economy will be revitalized. Not only does it have money to train the new army, but it can also build more armor and weapons, and it can also be used to rejuvenate the country. Southern Ming’s change is not impossible.

“haha, good, good, good.” After three good words, Zhu Qizhen’s excitement was fully revealed. “I pass on my decree and order all the prefectures to send all the refugees to Songjiang Prefecture. Well, not only the homeless people, but also the rapists in various places, and those who have not corrected themselves are also sent to Songjiang Prefecture at the same time. My buddy, this matter is left to you. It’s done with Cai Zhong Minister. By the way, don’t forget that Yang Family’s fourth brother, immediately remove his surveillance and ask him to contact Yang Family Bank quickly and tell him the specific amount we can trade. When the time comes, they can’t come up with enough silver.”

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen has already thrown Yang Chendong’s threat theory aside. What he has to do now is how to make Southern Ming rise again under his leadership.

Zhu Qizhen’s one after another Imperial Edict was issued without discussion by the ministers. The reason for doing this is because he doesn’t want to give people tongues and fight for saliva. Based on what he knew about the ministers, once he knew that he had a human trade deal with mercenaries, he would definitely stand up and stop it.

Although these courtiers have long been helpless against the refugees. But they have read the book of Sage since childhood, so naturally they want to learn to be His Highness. Such abandonment of the people would definitely not agree.

Since they won’t agree, why do you need their permission? He is His Imperial Majesty.

It’s just that there are no impervious pants in the world, not to mention that this matter involves such a large population. In less than a day, the ministers below knew about it. Then one by one hurriedly walked into the Imperial Palace, not to mention that they were here to persuade them.

In this regard, Zhu Qizhen had long been prepared and refused to meet anyone on the grounds that he was unwell. As for whether they will make trouble after seeing no one, let them go. If it hadn’t been for Great Ming’s ancestral precept that he could not be sentenced to the Doctor, he really wouldn’t mind having a few people at this time to kill those courtiers who only know how to eat and drink every day, but are useless at critical times. prestige.

When the will is issued, the first person to benefit is naturally Yang Family Fourth Grandpa Yang Yang.

Originally staying well in Jianing Residence, suddenly a crowd of Embroidered Uniform Guards came and took him away from the Yang Family ancestral house without any explanation.

In this scene, I saw a lot of people at the time. Originally, Li Daotong, the prefect of Jianning, wanted to stop it because he knew that this person was the elder brother of Duke of Zhongdan. Once he was in his own territory If something goes wrong, can he get rid of it?

But when he showed up with a group of government offices, he saw the Embroidered Uniform Guard wearing flying fish suits, black gauze caps, luang belts, and embroidered spring knives on the waist. , He immediately persuaded. These are the people of His Imperial Majesty. If he dares to stand up and say nothing, he is afraid that he will be caught together.

Looking at Li Daotong’s air, Yang Yang is not at all to blame him. He was even prepared for the scene before him. He has always heard about some of the things that his sixth brother has done, and his merits are high. Sooner or later, Yang Family will be implicated.

So along the way, Yang Yang didn’t shout or make trouble, so he left Jianing Residence with the Embroidered Uniform Guard. His cooperation also spared him the suffering of flesh and blood. Soon after leaving Jianning, another group of Embroidered Uniform Guards came and announced to the face that this time was the Emperor Yingzong His Imperial Majesty who invited him to Nanjing as an official.

With the arrival of these Embroidered Uniform Guards, his treatment has also been improved, at least no one showed him face to face. After entering Nanjing, he was placed in a small courtyard for detention.

Although there is no restriction on his personal freedom, even if he wants to go shopping, no one will stop him. But there will always be some Embroidered Uniform Guard behind him, which also makes him know that he is still under surveillance. After thinking about it, the reason these people didn’t act on him was probably because the power on the sixth brother’s side was Zhenglong. Before the matter was settled, they didn’t want to provoke the sixth brother.

In this way, after less than twenty days, another Imperial Edict appeared in front of him suddenly. He was licensed by the current Emperor Yingzong His Imperial Majesty as the chief representative of Yang Family Bank in Southern Ming. All the Embroidered Uniform Guards around him were removed for a while, but this was really removed, and no one came to monitor him.

Just after regaining his freedom, he saw the current Court Eunuch leader Cao Jixiang appear in front of him. First, he was comforted for a while, and then he talked about the relationship between Southern Ming and Duke of Zhongdan He also asked him to hurry up to select locations in Nanjing, Songjiang Mansion, and Jianing Residence, and then raise silver liang.

Flying on the branch to be Phoenix, although this is mostly a description of a woman, it can also be a metaphor for Yang Yang’s experience at this time.

Just as Cao Jixiang led the people away, a platoon of Cold Front appeared in front of him. The leader of the team is the silver tiger platoon leader Yang Yang has ever met. This person has stayed in the Yang Family Village outside the Northern Ming Capital and is one of Yang Chendong’s trusted men.

The arrival of Yinhu not only protects the safety of Fourth Grandpa Yang Yang, but also helps him prepare Yang Family Bank. Many of the contacts with the Security Bureau go through his hands. It’s not that Yang Chendong doesn’t trust his fourth brother. He really doesn’t want the fourth brother to get involved in dangerous things.

The matter of Southern Ming’s dealings with mercenaries in human trade is like a gust of wind blowing everywhere, and various forces reacted differently for a time.

The matter reached Northern Ming. After the Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu heard the news, he was silent at first, and then loudly reprimanded Zhu Qizhen from the face of Civil and Military Officials.

“Since Taizu established Great Ming, I, Great Ming, has benefited the people absolutely, and I am determined to let them live a good life. When has there been any talk of dealing with the people? This Zhu Qizhen is clearly a disposition I don’t care about the ancestral law.” Zhu Qiyu of this meeting has already been on the same level as Zhu Qizhen. Unlike the previous Emperor Yingzong, he should at least be called Older Male Cousin, but directly called his name.

Zhu Qiyu seated on fire on the Golden Dragon Throne, and all the officials below bowed their heads in silence. To say that Great Ming was first established, there are indeed some rules, such as no marriage, no marriage, no tribute, the emperor guards the gate of the country, the emperor died in the community, and so on. This is a lot harder than other dynasties. But in these rules, not at all cannot deal with the people. Not to mention, Southern Ming blocked even surnamed Wang in order to survive, and now he trades the migrants for military expenses, what is it?