Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1354 Peace of the World

  Northern Province.

  Governor Wang Xizuo has been in office for more than a month.

  Northern Province has gradually stabilized.

   However, rebellions outside the Northern Province continued one after another.

  France is fine. After all, the Kingdom of France is powerful, and the king's control is no small matter.

  But the German states next door have become a mess.

   All kinds of melees continue, fighting to the death.

   What the knights are facing is no longer the so-called knights in the past, but farmers with various weapons.

   A group of bankrupt knights even joined the rebellion.

   There is also constant friction between states.

  The titular Holy Roman Emperor couldn't do anything about it.

  A large number of people who escaped from the war fled to the northern province.

   Here, it seems to be a paradise.

  Wang Xizuo even hired a group of Swiss mercenaries at extremely low prices.

   At the same time, a northern fleet was established.

  His envoy has already begun to make peace with France, expressing his willingness to offer a little gold and silver to help the royal family solve some small troubles at present.

  The French royal family obviously does not want the northern province to continue to be in chaos. After all, continued chaos is very likely to cause chaos in the border provinces of France.

Of course, before this, France had been under the rule of the Habsburg family from Spain, to the North Province, and then to the German states. This even led to France shaking hands with the Ottomans for its own safety. despised by European countries.

   But now, a northern province that has separated from the Habsburg family is obviously not a bad choice for France.

  Of course, the most important point is that France itself is on the top of the powder keg, and it is even more impossible to take any excessive actions at this time. It is lucky to be able to survive this storm.

  Compared to the chaos in other places, the settled northern province, although the market is still sluggish, has gradually begun to recover.

  Because the Dutch and Frisians have always been at the center of great power struggles, they are not interested in politics and military affairs, but they have extremely high talents for business and agriculture.

  People still perform their duties, and life becomes stable.

  The heavy debts also began to be sorted out by Governor Wang Xizuo, and gradually cleared up a lot.

  Wang Xizuo promulgated the Mortgage Act, that is, through mortgages to clear debts, the price he gave for the mortgaged land was fairly fair.

at the same time…

  A letter was delivered to Wang Xizuo.

  Wang Xizuo frowned while pinching the bulletin.

  In many states, many Jews began to leave their homes.

  On the one hand, during the tulip storm, nobles and farmers from various states borrowed money everywhere in order to buy tulips, and most of the borrowers were Jews.

  Now, these creditors have obviously become a group of hateful guys.

  On the other hand, the beliefs of the Jewish people are different from many others, and most of them are regarded as alien by the locals.

  Usually, at most, it is nothing more than discrimination, but now, it has become disgusting.

   Everywhere their property was confiscated, they were evicted, and even horrific atrocities were committed.

"What a poor group of people." Wang Xizuo took the bulletin and said to several staff members who had been eating and drinking with him: "They didn't do anything wrong, but they were treated like this and conveyed my order. , Accept them, they should find an ideal place to settle down again, and build a new home.”

   After finishing speaking, Wang Xizuo had a smile in his eyes: "I heard that they always hide their property with them at any time, isn't that true?"

   Everyone understands what it means.

  Protecting them, to some extent, is conducive to the stability of the Northern Province.

Wang Xizuo then continued to sit at his desk. He was writing a letter. This was a passionate letter, addressed to Wang Xizuo’s master, Fang Jifan. No, it should not be called Fang Jifan, nor Qi Guogong, but Fang Da. good man.

  He must report the situation here to Mr. Fang Dashan and offer some possible help.

   Of course, it is best to establish trade between the Northern Province and the East.

  Even...he also put forward the idea of ​​establishing a Han mercenary army, preferably this mercenary army can be equipped with short guns.

   In addition, he has to report on his property status.

  Wang Xizuo understood very well.

  I came here alone, I am neither a nobleman nor a victorious general. The reason why we can gain a foothold now is that people need themselves for the time being.

  My own foundation is too shallow. Once the Kingdom of Spain or the Kingdom of France recovers, they will crush themselves into powder like strangling an ant.

  In order to deal with this possible situation, he had to hug Fang Dashan's thigh.

  As for the large amount of wealth I bought here, of course, these are not my own.

  He is very clear about this.

   It's not that he's not greedy.

   Rather, he had followed Fang Dashan and knew very well how Fang Dashan treated his enemies.

  Including this tulip storm, he is also the main participant. Such miraculous techniques have still made his scalp tingle.

  So... don't make the good man unhappy, you must faithfully play the role of your servant.

  He recorded all the houses, estates, and all mortgaged properties.

   This is a long letter, and it is written in Chinese characters, so I don’t worry about being deciphered.

   Just when he was almost writing.

A guard came in: "Your Excellency, a farmer wants to meet you in person and pay tribute to the good man and you. His 70 acres of land have been mortgaged for 1.5 gold coins. He is very grateful to the good man and your help. "

   Seventy acres of land, before the tulip storm, was enough to exchange for seven or eight gold coins.

  But now, it can only be exchanged for 1.5.

not only.

   Just for this, I also gained people's gratitude.

  Wang Xizuo raised his head with a quill in his hand, and sighed: "Ah, that's it, this is what I should do, as a servant of a good man who does good... Forget it, let him come in."

  A farmer wearing an old hat came in tremblingly, his face was extraordinarily solemn, and he first walked to the portrait of the Governor's Mansion step by step.

  This portrait is the work of a portrait that took a month.

   Inside is the face of an oriental man, with a handsome face and a simple and honest smile, and there seems to be a heroic look between the brows.

  The farmer took off his hat and muttered something.

  Then, he turned around and walked up to Wang Xizuo, his eyes turned red, and he bent down.

  Wang Xizuo stretched out his hand.

  The farmer kissed the back of Wang Xizuo's hand: "Thank you Fang Dashan, thank you Governor, thank you."

  Wang Xizuo just nodded reservedly like all nobles.

  The farmer took a step back and bowed again before turning around and walking away with awe and gratitude.

  Wang Xizuo has long been used to such scenes.

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   Chapter 5/5 delivered.

  (end of this chapter)