Chapter 244 Company
Chen Mu believes that these three people are rare technical talents, especially in the special period when the Oriental Military Office directly targeted Europa. The role that the three people can play in the future is probably as unlikely as no one can imagine today.
Even if his estimate was wrong, it was just to punish two people less, and his temple prayers did not make any mistakes.
Yang Tingxiang's mission was to spend all his life learning in the months assigned by the military mansion to Chen Jiujing to sail to the Caribbean Sea, strengthen training for the three, and find some indigenous people as followers for them, and initially build this special department that only stays in Chen Mu's consciousness.
In fact, Chen Mu did not tell Chen Jiujing all his thoughts. Chen Jiujing was a general, so he would be a general step by step. Perhaps he would get a higher official position than Chen Lin in the future. The department Chen Mu was going to form was at least shameful in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, and he didn't really want his adopted son to come into contact with these things.
So he sent his personal soldiers to carry the letters until Chen Jiujing left Mexico City and went to Qilin Guard to meet Yang Tingxiang.
The Governor of New Spain only realized that the training of those three was just one of Chen Mu's huge plan for Europe.
"The Europa Affairs Department of the Commerce Bureau of the East Military Administration of the Ming Empire is responsible for handling corporate affairs for merchants who go to Europe and bear military responsibilities."
In the quiet night, even the tavern next to the Armed Plaza in Mexico City was closed. Yang Tingxiang, who was sitting in front of the desk, frowned, and wrote the word "Company" on the paper with his pen in his hand, thinking about the meaning behind it.
He knew that the Chamber of Commerce had always been jointly organized by merchants based on the township party. For example, the Fujian-Guanghe Xingsheng was organized by Chen Mu. However, in Chen Mu's introduction, the company seemed to be different from the Chamber of Commerce. Yang Tingxiang first wrote down the merchants under the company, and then the Chamber of Commerce above the company, and his ideas gradually became clear.
"One or more merchants jointly contribute to the joint venture based on share or contribution, based on funds, backed by force, and for profit, and the profit is distributed according to shares, and earn Europa wealth. It is under the jurisdiction of the Europa Department of the Commerce Bureau of the Oriental Military Office."
In Yang Tingxiang's understanding, Chen Mu's so-called "company" form is somewhat similar to the Minguang pirates.
It’s not that the Minguang Pirates really look like the company, but that Yang Tingxiang feels like it.
The main reason is that Chen Mu's introduction is too induced. He is investing together based on funds. This is how Lin Afeng and others bought boats and hired people in the coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong. With force as the backing, Lin Afeng and his pirate brothers were the backing of Lin Afeng and others. For profit as the purpose, there is no need to say that, if they don't seek money, what did the pirates hang their heads on their belts and live through life and death?
Chen Mu's company introduction successfully made the concept of "company" equate with the "pirate armed group" in the mind of New Spain Governor Yang Tingxiang.
"If companies need to escort during the operation of the East Coast of Asia to the waters under the jurisdiction of the Western Military Office, they can withdraw funds to hire the official fleet or report to the Military Office to establish a company armed fleet. Disputes arise from each department and will not be accepted by the Eastern Military Office. The strength of the fleet is not allowed to fight each other; the strength of the fleet armed forces is divided by the company's tax amount."
"If you need to purchase a warship, you can apply to the Dongyang Military Office Commerce Bureau. After review, the military office will purchase it uniformly according to the official price."
OK, Yang Tingxiang overturned the concept in his previous mind and added two words to this concept: the official office of the Ming Dynasty.
The official pirate armed group of the Ming Dynasty.
"The Governor of New Spain needs to establish an Oriental Mercenary Company in the co-government region to resettle retired flag troops; the armed personnel of each company's escort fleet can be funded by the company and sent to the mercenary company for unified training."
There is a word in the martial arts lecture hall that specifically describes this kind of thing. What is it called?
Yang Tingxiang tapped his knuckles on his forehead, stared at the erratic kerosene lamp, suddenly raised his hand and pointed it in the air in front of him, and said to himself: "By the way, the industrial chain."
The military contract period of the Eastern Military Office is actually less than four years except for training. In other words, in the New World, a large number of retired flag troops will inevitably be produced in two years. The officers who grew up in the war may not leave the army, which will cause the army to be bloated. There are more and more officers, but the flag troops are fixed at a number of 56,000.
In addition to the military organization, without a large-scale defeat, more and more flag troops will be difficult to integrate into peace. All problems can be solved by simply pulling the trigger on the battlefield, but this is not the case with peaceful life.
At least before they are desperate, the culprits who lead them on this path can give them a chance to return to their old careers.
Mercenary companies are a great way to go.
Contacting the recent affairs of the Dongyang Military Office, it is not difficult for Yang Tingxiang to see that the so-called company is prepared for the upcoming Hui merchants and some Fujian and Guangxi merchants. It is obvious that when they come over, the so-called Dongyang mercenary company will start to make profits.
If Chen Mu asked Yang Tingxiang to start preparing for the company approval of merchants, establish a mercenary company and build a commercial port on the east coast, and the plan to develop the shipbuilding industry means Chen Mu's outlook for Europa, then the next standard details about the armed fleet will let Yang Tingxiang see Chen Mu's ambitions for Europa.
The company system is not in business under Chen Mu's plan. Although their owners are a group of merchants, they obviously emphasize both business and military.
Commercially, the commercial tax of the Dongyang Military Administration is 2.5% of the customs duties and half of the transportation tax. After the goods are unloaded from the port to the port, the people of the villages and towns along the way are transported to the east coast. The armed fleets of each company are not allowed to sail to the west coast.
Under this condition, the Military Affairs Office gave various companies the right to rent land in New Spain, but the land can only be used to grow a small amount of grain and a large amount of cash crops or open factories, and is not allowed to be used for other purposes. For example, building large houses and large yards are prohibited, and the land leasers are companies rather than individuals.
Military, all companies must install the Dongyang Military Office Flag Army. At the beginning, they only sent the flag army as guides and protecting security. However, as the company's trade volume increased, not only did the armed fleet be expanded based on annual tax amounts, but the officers and flag army installed also purchased ships and joined the company.
The Dongyang Military Office does not participate in the operation, but collects taxes and controls force.
The minimum annual tax of 1,000 taels was granted permission to purchase five small shark boats, ten two-jin cannons, and employed 100 armed sailors; the annual tax of 20,000 taels was given permission to purchase ten small shark boats, two four hundred shark boats, and employed 400 armed sailors.
In the end, one million taels of taxes were paid in the end and ten six-class warships were allowed to be purchased, two Nantang-class warships and corresponding armed sailors were hired, and the force of a company was equal to two guards.
Even if the Dongyang Military Administration collects 30% of the tax, Yang Tingxiang now does not think that any company will get the financial resources to buy the Nantang-class warship. He thinks that Chen Mu set this rule just for people to see... But if any company could pay even one million taels to the court a year, Yang Tingxiang felt that no one in the civil and military affairs in the court would care about selling two Nantang ships.
Master Wanli might have sold the warship while jumping.
"Cleaning, repairing."
Chapter completed!