Daming pirates

Now he understands the reason why those in power always say that Xiangyang must first stabilize its internal affairs. If they want to use troops externally and concentrate their efforts to win the war, if there is no stable situation at home, they will not be able to mobilize the strength of the whole country to fight a big war.

, and he is also facing such a problem now. In a short period of time, he really cannot mobilize enough troops to immediately launch the final blow against Jiannu.

Therefore, for the time being, we can only let Guan Ningjun live a stable life for two years. As long as they don't cause trouble, it won't be too late to deal with these warlords when he one day calms down the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty. The worst thing he can do is waste more money and food.

That's all, he's not very short of money now anyway.

The introduction of sea bans and the imposition of commercial taxes on merchants have enabled him to raise a large amount of additional financial revenue every year, so supporting more than 100,000 Guan Ning's troops is not a very difficult thing for him now, and Zu Dashou and the others are

You don't necessarily give them as much as they want. Even if these guys have a big appetite, as long as they don't push them, they don't dare to do anything random.

Regarding industrial construction, Yu Xiaotian also began to take action when he was in Chongzhen for thirteen years. He first established a new semi-mechanized arsenal in Shunde Prefecture in North Zhili, which he had firmly controlled.

Shunde Prefecture is historically the most important iron-producing place in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has a famous history of iron smelting. The local area itself produces coal and iron ore. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was the most important iron-producing place in the Northern Song Dynasty, together with Cizhou and Cizhou.

The region's iron production accounted for more than half of the country's iron production in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, this place began to decline. During the Yuan Dynasty, this place was still a relatively important iron-producing place. By the Ming Dynasty, although the iron production here was much lower than before, it had unique conditions and coal and iron could be produced locally.

Solve it directly.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to promote industrialization first in Shunde Prefecture and build an arsenal to use local resources to directly produce the guns and artillery needed by the Yu Jiajun Army.

The establishment of a large arsenal will immediately lead to the development of local coal and iron mines. It will also stimulate the development of many local handicraft industries at the source. For example, coke for steelmaking can be directly established locally for coking.

, and then led to the establishment of earthen blast furnaces for steelmaking, eventually forming the first heavy industrial base in the north in Shunde Prefecture.

As for technical personnel, he now has no shortage of them. Taiwan Island Tamsui Industrial Zone has cultivated quite a lot of management talents, technical talents and professional workers over the years. He directly transferred a batch of them and could quickly copy them.

Blockbuster factory.

As for such industrialization, he did not hand it over to the Ministry of Industry. Instead, out of selfish motives, he decided to let the Sea Wolf Group take the lead and conduct it as his family's private property. This could avoid the spread of some confidential technologies, which would make him

Within, technical advantages are lost.

In addition, with the lifting of the sea ban and the opening of many sea ports along the coast, merchants in the Ming Dynasty who used to operate secretly and underground turned to openly doing business on the sea. Immediately, private funds exploded with huge power, and more and more merchants began to do business.

Merchants invested their funds in sea trade.

If these merchants want to engage in sea trade, the first thing they have to do is to build ships. In the past, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea and prohibited the building of large ships with more than 400 materials. Now this ban has been lifted by Yu Xiaotian, so the shipbuilding industry along the coast has

It was immediately mobilized, and new boathouses were built in various places. For a time, shipbuilding craftsmen became a hot commodity. Shipbuilding craftsmen were recruited at high prices everywhere, making shipbuilding craftsmen a hot commodity.

The sudden explosion of the shipbuilding industry naturally led to many related industries, such as shipbuilding lumber, hemp, iron materials, tung oil, lacquer and other related industries.

As batches of sea-going ships were built and launched into the sea, boatmen who could sail on the sea immediately became a hot commodity, and boatmen began to be recruited everywhere, especially experienced fire chiefs, who were often referred to as ship bosses and captains in later generations.

People are even more difficult to find.

This makes some pirates who could not find a way out and had to go to sea to piracy now find a way to make a living. Some people hire them and let them sail ships to do business. They eat well and get a lot of money. Naturally, they are not willing to go there easily anymore.

Be a pirate.

What's more, being a pirate now is not an easy task. As Yu Jiajun's naval power grows stronger and his reach becomes longer and longer, he gradually controls the entire coast of China. He has never spared no effort to combat pirates, making

Many pirates had no choice but to wash their hands and go ashore to find another way to make a living.

Now someone wanted to hire a fire chief or a boatman, so these pirates who had quit working ashore found a new way to make a living and began to work for various merchants to work as boatmen for them.

As more and more merchant ships went out to do business, a large number of Ming Dynasty goods began to be loaded onto the ships by merchants and trafficked out to sea. While shipping companies in various places made a lot of money, it also greatly promoted the development of handicraft industries in various places.

, some goods that were unsalable in the past have now become hot commodities, and the prices have been pushed up a bit, which has also allowed some idle people to find jobs and work in some workshops to earn their daily necessities.

Various handicraft workshops that can be exported have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain after the sea ban, and have been established by merchants in various coastal areas, absorbing a large number of landless farmers to become professional workers. This has also greatly reduced the number of local refugees and alleviated

Management pressure from local governments.

In short, the establishment of the sea ban can be said to have affected the whole body, driving a large number of industries from all walks of life, absorbing a large amount of human and financial resources from source to end, and producing huge benefits.

The common people are so easy to serve. As long as they find a mouthful of food to eat without starving to death, few people risk their lives by copying knives. The sudden explosion of industry and commerce has absorbed a large amount of idle manpower and subsidized the household income of some poor people.

The sea ban has not been in effect for a long time, but the benefits have already been experienced everywhere.

Many traditional handicraft technologies and products of the Ming Dynasty are now being sought after all over the world. As long as you find the right way and invest in building a workshop, you can almost always take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money.

The Sea Wolf Group, which is also the maker of rules, must have benefited a lot from such a wave of maritime bans. They control almost all maritime trade routes, and whether it is price or transaction methods, the Sea Wolf Group must take the lead.

It has the final say, if anyone breaks the rules and wants to ship goods at the stipulated price, then I'm sorry, this merchant will definitely be kicked out immediately, and he will no longer be able to work at sea in the future.

As the owner of the Sea Wolf Group, Yu Xiaotian has certainly made a lot of money. This is also the reason for his toughness. As long as he is willing to spend money, even if the Ministry of Accounts cannot come up with the money, he can come up with it himself.

Sufficient capital investment, in the year from the 12th to the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, he invested more than 3 million taels of silver in investing in various factories and workshops in the north and the Central Plains.

On the surface, this money was not used for disaster relief, but when these funds flowed into the society, they were eventually dispersed into the hands of many people, and attracted a large number of idle or landless and disaster-stricken victims to work in various workshops.

This also plays a role in absorbing refugees and providing relief to disaster victims.

These people who have been recruited to work in the workshops can get paid through labor and support their families. Naturally, they will no longer be deceived and follow the refugee army to cause trouble. So don't look at Yu Xiaotian for not taking his money.

It was used directly to provide relief to the victims, but by investing in the establishment of workshops, it still played a big role in disaster relief.

The reason why there are so many people affected by disasters in the Central Plains and the North is that, in addition to natural disasters, political events are also very important. Many officials and businessmen colluded and took the opportunity to hoard goods and drive up prices, causing the price of food to become abnormally high, making it impossible for ordinary people to buy it, and eventually going bankrupt.

Having lost the capital to survive, he was eventually forced to embark on a desperate and dangerous path.

However, after Yu Xiaotian came to power, he immediately began to use extremely bloody methods to severely crack down on this kind of collusion between government and businessmen and hoarding goods to drive up food prices wherever he could reach out. He raided thousands of stores to drive up food prices and hoarded food.

The property of the profiteers who had stolen goods was captured and killed, and a large number of corrupt officials who colluded with the profiteers were hunted down, which forced the price of food in the north down.

For example, at the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the price of millet or wheat per stone in Zhending Prefecture was so high that it was almost four or five taels of silver by grain merchants. Even beans that people did not often eat were raised to three taels.

The price of silver has increased several times compared to the years of Wanli and the early years of Tianqi. At such a price, let alone ordinary people cannot afford it, even some families with small savings cannot afford it.

However, after Yu Xiaotian took power, it only took him a few months. In October of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, he had already stabilized the price of grain in Zhending Mansion to the point where one stone of wheat was only sold for one, two or four cents of silver. The price

It has been reduced a lot. Although the price of food is still much higher than that of the Wanli period, it has at least returned to the normal range.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian also knew very well that the reason why food prices in the north remained high at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that in addition to natural disasters and profiteers hoarding goods to drive up food prices, there was another important factor, which was that there were so many Shanxi merchants in the north, especially in Shanxi.

A group of desperate people colluded with officials and businessmen to smuggle large quantities of grain through the Zhangjiakou area, smuggled it out of customs, and sold it to Jian slaves and Mongolians at high prices, earning excessive profits.

These profiteers were undoubtedly hard-core traitors during the Ming Dynasty. While they were short of food in the customs, they turned a blind eye to the disasters in the customs. However, they transferred the food urgently needed by the people in the customs in large quantities out of the customs and made huge profits. First, they greatly aggravated the situation in the customs.

The food shortage situation, secondly, strongly supported the needs of the slaves outside the customs, so that the slaves could eat food in the bitter cold outside the customs and would not starve to death.

The Jiannu slaves outside the pass continued to invade into the pass, and obtained a large amount of property through burning, killing and looting, and then purchased grain from these profiteers inside the pass, which greatly alleviated the food shortage outside the pass, allowing the Jiannu slaves to have enough energy to support the army and the people, and finally continued to

With the expansion of strength, they continued to raid south, and finally stole the Ming Dynasty.

Even some generals in the Guan Ning Army outside the Pass colluded with these profiteers and profited from them. They even directly withheld the military rations allocated to them by the Ming Dynasty and resold them to the slaves.

Lining one's own pockets.

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