Chapter 574 Ezo Land
"I heard that the navy of the government army went to chase and suppress Pu Xingfeng again?" A Guangzhou sea merchant said happily: "Now, the King of Qin is the leader in Guangzhou. He will reduce taxes and relieve new officials. The official scene is refreshed, and Li Kaiming has been suppressed again. The two thieves of Luzon have gone to the sea. The navigation is much safer, and even if we pay the taxes, we are willing to pay. After hearing Li Kaiming's words, we are very grateful in our hearts. We have reduced taxes, protected the waterway, and safeguarded the area. Then we will remove Pu Xingfeng. It seems that we have not cured a long time illness and suddenly healed one day. That feeling is truly the joy of life, which is much happier than the title of the Golden List and the wedding night.
Everyone couldn't help laughing.
This big sea merchant is vulgar, but it is indeed in people's hearts.
Regardless of the rich and poor, they are thinking of living a stable life. The mediocre people have too heavy taxes, just like carrying too heavy burdens, and their waists are bent. In addition, the bad officials and oppressing the local area have made people feel that the world has become increasingly difficult over the years.
No matter what the north is, Xu Zixian reduced a lot of miscellaneous taxes and strengthened investment in people's livelihood. The national tax was also reduced by 30%, and the burden on the local government was originally lighter.
The two Luzon thieves were suppressed again, and Guangdong's overseas trade was greatly restored. People no longer worried that they would be thrown into the sea to feed sharks when they went to sea. The trade naturally increased significantly.
In addition to security, Lan Fang, Sanfoqi, Luzon, Japan and other countries have been under the control of the shogunate, and many trades have been directly adjusted and regulated. The shogunate of course tends to local merchants of Wei, followed by Han merchants from all over the country, and finally, local countries.
Of course, we cannot do it too much. Dumping must also have a limit. If there is a large amount of uncontrollable trade and dumping, and the economies of indigenous countries are destroyed, it is to kill chickens and get eggs, which is what the wise do not do.
In the past two years, starting from the summer of the previous year, the navy of the government began to station in Lanfang and Sanfoqi and other countries, and began a series of small and medium-sized wars with the pirate forces of Pu Xingfeng.
Due to the intervention of the Navy of the Prefecture Army, Lan Fang and Sanfoqi and other countries were relieved and desperately helped the Navy of the Prefecture Army build ships and ships with the saved expenses. By the end of the 16th, many countries on both sides reached a tacit understanding. The countries in the South China Sea helped build ships and provided a large number of excellent sailors. The Navy of the Prefecture Army controlled the ships with military officers and five senses. At the same time, the Navy of the Prefecture Army was responsible for fighting with the enemy.
This method has led to the strength of the navy's navy increasing like an explosion. At the beginning, the ships of the navy's navy were not much different from Pu Xingfeng's pirates. In terms of experience, the officers and soldiers of the government were far less than those of Pu Xingfeng's pirates. However, the naval soldiers were more organized and more concerned about coordination. After all, the pirates were pirates. Dozens of ships seemed to be a whole, but they really looked like they were fighting a group of loose sand. Therefore, although the prefecture was weak at the beginning, they were weak, but with the advantage of Lan Fang and San Foqi, and the overall naval officers and soldiers were stronger than the pirates, the two sides also fought back and forth, and there was no huge difference in victory or defeat.
Pu Xingfeng was almost taking down Sanfoqi at that time. He had half of the near-shore port cities of Sanfoqi, but the navy of the government army entered Lanfang first and was very close to Pu Xingfeng, so he had to disperse his power. At the beginning, Pu Xingfeng still wanted to take down Sanfoqi first, and then use the power of Sanfoqi and Manshijia to compete with the navy of the government army. However, the battle became more and more intense. A year later, Pu Xingfeng had to deal with the navy of the government army from one third of the power. Half and more than half, now he was powerless to attack Sanfoqi. Manshijia's army was extremely poor and had no offensive. After three Buddhas recovered, they recovered several cities in succession and bet on the navy of the government army, which increased and decreased. By the seventeenth year, everyone knew that it was a matter of time before the government army defeated and eliminated Pu Xingfeng, a powerful enemy.
"As far as I know," Qin Dongyang said in a deep voice, "The Navy of the Palace Army has been gradually allocating troops from all over the place. He hopes that in the spring of the 17th year, the pirate Pu Xingfeng tribe entrenched in Malacca will be eliminated, and the waterway to Taixi will be completely opened. The navy will continue to go west and wipe out the remnants of the pirates, so that no bandit dares and cannot threaten the smooth flow of the waterway!"
In terms of the popularity of foreign trade and the unconcealed pursuit of wealth, Guangzhou is still above Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning, and Fuzhou is almost the same as it. However, Fuzhou also has royal families and a large number of nobles, and the aristocratic atmosphere has infected the people. Therefore, in terms of pragmatism and pursuit of wealth, Fuzhou is slightly inferior to Guangzhou.
On the overseas immigration, Guangzhou
There are more countries such as Lanfang, Siam, Zhenla, and Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou. There are more countries such as Luzon, Lanfang, and Sanfoqi. Originally, Mantaga was also a place where many people in Quanzhou immigrated. In the past twenty years, the original Han merchants have been driven away or persecuted, so fewer people in the past have gradually been.
Coastal areas, Guangnan East Road and Fujian Road were the first to set the trend. They moved overseas since the Tang Dynasty and gradually formed maritime families. If the situation was no longer turbulent, more merchants in these places would go overseas and create more wealth.
Hearing Qin Dongyang's words, many gentry and businessmen present were lit up. After the navy of the government eliminated the two Luzon thieves, the waterways to various countries in Luzon were unblocked again, and their wealth was also growing continuously. Coupled with the stimulation of tax reduction and exemption, all industries related to sea trade on the market were working hard to seize this opportunity and make more money.
If we open up the waterway to Thailand, tea, raw silk, and porcelain, these three powerful tools alone, I don’t know how much I can earn in a year!
"Your Highness the King of Qin is really intent!" A big sea merchant said excitedly: "It is really hard for us!"
"You think too much about this." Qin Dongyang smiled and said, "Trade is booming, and the country can increase taxes without harming the people. It is used for people's livelihood, for raising soldiers, and for schools. If the places where money can be used are wider, the places will be better, and the people will make more money. In the words of His Highness, this is called a virtuous cycle. The sea trade is booming, and related shipbuilding, logging, and cast iron are the first to benefit, and then those who make porcelain, silkworms, and those who grow tea can make money. People make more money, those who sell cloth, clothes, hats, shoes, restaurants, and even teahouses, and all walks of life can do it.
There are benefits. One industry will prosper, all industries will prosper, and all industries will prosper. The government and court will also prosper. A good court is to defend against strong enemies outside and polite the people inside, rather than fishing out the lake and fishing. One mindfulness is to make money on the people. The heavier the taxes, the more greedy the officials will be, the more suffering the people will be. If the people continue for a long time, it will be difficult to return. My King of Qin, not only is it trade, but it is the broad market brought by overseas trade, but also overseas trade has prompted the prosperity of all industries in the Great Wei Dynasty. It is not a skill to increase taxes to the people in the Great Wei Dynasty. It is not a skill to focus on the people who are digging food in the soil.
Good idea. Create a powerful navy, go out to sea to escort, so that the items produced by our Great Wei can be sold in the world and earn money from the people of the world. They have been prosperous for hundreds of years, and even after a thousand years, they will not lose their momentum. In China, dynasties will change in a few hundred years, but after the accumulation is difficult to return, the people in the world have to turmoil and rebel in order to have enough food, and there are thousands of people who die, and there are enough land and a hundred industries to be revived. A new emperor appears, and everyone can eat a stable meal, so they will stabilize again. Your Highness said that this situation is really a great mercy. My China has been civilized for thousands of years.
Being a foreigner, but he has been in chaos every few hundred years because he cannot eat enough. Shouldn't he feel a shame? Today's change is the beginning of a major change that has not been around for thousands of years. There are more and more foreign countries, and trade is becoming more and more prosperous, and the sea is becoming more and more important. His Highness Qin wants to seize this opportunity, of course, not only for the maritime business, but for the whole world, but also for the prosperity of China for thousands of years. This is the first-class big mind and big pattern. As long as our soldiers of the palace are pointed by His Highness's general, even if they continue, they will never regret it. Only move forward!"
When Qin Dongyang was speaking, countless people listened and many people silently recorded it. After that, many newspapers were published and countless newspapers transcribed it, which also caused an uproar in the north.
If the imperial court and the emperor were furious a few years ago, because the Qin King said this as a royal prince, he had already vaguely regarded himself as the guide of the Great Wei, and even had a thousand years of layout. Such a mindful structure was indeed extremely large. All the clear-headed officials and gentry students were moved and even excited. The emperor, who was deeply immature and had already been trapped in the quagmire, and the officials at the central government of the imperial court, saw such records and Xu Zixian's ambitions, had no other reaction except to smile.
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"Cold, so cold..." Chen Daojian was wearing a fur coat and a hat made of bear skin on his head. He wrapped his head and face tightly, revealing only his nose and eyes.
The boots on the feet are also made of animal fur, which is extremely thick and warm at a glance.
Even so, walking in the snow was quite cold. His eyelashes were covered with frost, and his fur robe was also covered with a thin layer of frost.
This is the Hokkien land, if there is a warmth in later generations
The temperature of the meter should be around minus 20 degrees Celsius, which should be the coldest time of the year in Hokkaido.
After obtaining the Hokkien land, the Japanese withdrew the only flag-based regime, followed by the Hokkien marching department and a large number of managers sent by the shogunate.
The most were horse officials, a large number of officials and horse-dressing horse riders, management and logistics personnel, as well as a whole army's government troops were responsible for security protection, and there were also more than a thousand guards.
In the Hokkien land, the shogunate also planned to immigrate, mainly because there are a large number of plains above the territory of the Dongfan area. The quality and quantity of arable land are not low. For many people who are willing to farm, the vast land here is also a blessed land. In many places, it is quite difficult for people to own one acre of land for their own private property. However, in the Hokkien land, the minimum standard for dividing land is 100 acres per household. In fact, if there are more than two strong men in the family and sufficient livestock, dividing land for 100 acres will start.
Compared with Fujian Road, the area of the Essay land is exactly one less than that of Fujian Road. In addition, although there are large areas of mountainous land, Fujian Road is also stretched out mountains. Even so, Fujian Road has a population of 15 million, and the Essay land is only about 100,000. The land is wide and sparsely populated than the East Road. Although it has a large number of volcanic landforms, it also has a considerable plain area. It is also an important grain production base in Japan in later generations, which shows that it also has considerable development potential.
Although this place will be the most important horse farming land, and several large plains have begun to grazle a large number of horses, it can still accommodate at least 100,000 immigrants starting from scratch. However, the immigrants here will come slowly, and they are mainly voluntary. The shogunate's plan is that the north is in chaos and refugees are everywhere. Once Shandong becomes chaotic, Hebei will also be in chaos. At that time, you can use sea boats to go to the north to accept northern immigrants. After all, in Shandong and Hebei, winters are full of the sky and the snow. Northerners are more adaptable than Fujian people.
Just like Chen Daojian, he stayed in the Hokkien for more than half a year every year. His job was to manage the affairs of the Japanese state. In fact, he was to manage the Hokkien. The Kang family had become famous and had a helper from the big family. After half a year of chaos, the Japanese state returned to peace. Because the top leaders of the Japanese state found that the Qin shogunate had no idea about the territory of Japan except for the wild land like the Hokkien, and all he wanted was to continue trade.
In this way, although it was discovered that trade caused silver and gold in Japan to flow out, and the people would gradually lack heavy metals, the same Wei Dynasty was also importing copper coins, and the speed of wealth flowing out was not so amazing under the control of the shogunate... After all, dumping too much damage to the vitality is equivalent to killing chickens and getting eggs. As long as the existing pattern is maintained, the Japanese can not only be independent, but also transfer a large amount of wealth to the shogunate in trade, which is enough.
Chen Daojian was in Japan and traveled to Kang'an, Da'ai family, and Kyoto for a maximum of one or two months. When he met the Emperor and the Japanese Guanbai, he listened to some reports and also cut off some trade dispute cases, but his main energy was still on the Hokkien land.
"We have also found out the experience..." Zhang Bofu, who was even white in his beard, said with a smile: "January to April, the snow will melt and the ice will disappear, and it will not be freezing. May to August, it is about the same as the autumn on our Fujian Road. There is no need to be shirtless when it is hottest. After September, it gradually falls. It is snowy and snow for three consecutive months. The deepest part of the snow is deeper than that of two adults. However, that's the case, in Shandong Road, our ancestral home is hotter than in summer, and in spring and winter, it is also similar to Shandong Road."
"Just just need to bear the war horses." Qian Shude, who is still in the guard status, but his official position is already the head of the capital, smiled and said, "Our cavalry is said to have been organized into several armies, with 40,000 to 50,000 people. In fact, most of the war horses used in the army are mixed horses. In the words of His Highness, the King of Qin, are horse-riding infantry and mixed horses, which can only be used to practice riding skills. It is impossible to go to the battlefield."
Everyone present nodded, and Chen Daojian sighed: "Our Great Wei devoted all the strength of the whole country, and the cavalry was formed in two wings. In addition, the pond horses and whistle cavalry of each army, there were no more than 100,000 war horses. Where did we get 50,000 or 60,000 war horses for cavalry to use in the past few years? It is enough for the miscellaneous horses, but the lowest southwest horses riding on horses, can hit the ground. Such war horses are also a joke."
"After all the time, I have to look at our place."
"Yes, if we can compete with the Donghu cavalry against the cavalry and win the battle on the battlefield, the most important thing is that we are here."
Chapter completed!