How can you keep people's hearts without a home?
Therefore, Huang Yi must try his best to ensure that the men in the base area have wives and children to share the hot bed.
The prosperous base will definitely become famous in the future.
Because here, as long as you work hard and obey orders, not only will you be given livestock, acres of land, grain, and farm tools, but you will also be given wives. There is no better place in the world than here.
Huang Yi is preparing to create a new social structure in the base area from scratch, and he will definitely not give up this plan and become an official.
To be honest, Huang Yi was quite happy to see that Geng Ruqi had actually considered it and made arrangements.
He knew what was going on, and of course he agreed to send troops to garrison the Dongshan Fort that was to be built.
He also solemnly promised that as long as he is in charge of this fortress, it will be as solid as a rock.
This is not because Huang Yiyelang is arrogant.
Rather, he knew in his heart that Jiannu actually deliberately did not attack Zhangjiakou, where traitors and profiteers gathered.
Even because of the instigation of my own butterfly wings, history has changed, and the Tatars and Jiannu invaded.
The first person to bear the brunt is definitely not Dongshan Fort, but the base area.
As long as the base area can be defended, the enemy will not be able to attack Dongshan Fort or even Zhangjiakou City with all its strength.
Holding the base area was so exhausting that Jiannu retreated his troops, which must have exposed his strength.
Since you can't hide it, let's show it to you!
Then he was not polite, surrounded Zhangjiakou, arrested all the traitorous merchants, tortured them, and confiscated all their belongings.
How much money did the eight imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty have?
In terms of silver, it's probably more than tens of millions of taels.
At that time, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, etc., including their nephews, were captured and tortured at the expense of their lives in order to dig out all the money they had secretly buried.
This is the advantage of establishing a foothold outside the mouth. You don't have to worry about the court's attitude, and you don't have to worry about the impeachment of the censor.
Of course, these are all ideas and must be implemented after the wings are hardened.
Before that, you must behave harmlessly to humans and animals, even to the point of collaborating with the traitorous Shanxi merchants and committing crimes.
How can we prove that the base area has the strength to compete in the world and make Huang Yi feel that his wings are strong and he can fly.
Of course, it can withstand Jiannu's attack without causing serious losses.
Seeing Huang Yi who seemed thoughtful while chatting, Geng Zhanghua asked with a smile:
"What's wrong? Do you feel that my position is higher than yours and I have become your direct superior? Do you feel unhappy?"
"Where? I was originally optimistic about you and felt that you were fully qualified to be the commander-in-chief of a town. Now, you are just a guerrilla general, which is a bit inferior to your talents."
"Yeah! I've heard such words in my ears these days. There's no need between us. Why don't you care about your troop quota and food pay?"
"I definitely care! But is it useful for me to care? I have to rely on your help."
"Help is necessary. I have tried my best to get it. The quota of troops under your command is..."
Next, Geng Zhanghua talked about the number of soldiers Huang Yi should have and the distribution of food and wages.
Huang Yi was also given 1,200 mandarin duck jackets, cold weapons capable of arming 1,200 people, 200 Rumi muskets, 2,000 kilograms of gunpowder, and 500 kilograms of lead.
Huang Yi's Qianzong calculated cavalry and infantry at 30-70 based on 1,120 troops, with more than 300 cavalry and more than 700 infantry.
It stands to reason that every month, you can get more than 800 shi of natural grain, more than 1,500 taels of discounted silver, plus some beans and fodder.
Geng Zhanghua stated that he would do his best to reduce dissipation at all levels and strive to allow Huang Yi to receive no less than 70% of the quota.
Huang Yi's Qianzong was under the direct leadership of Governor Xuanda and was under the jurisdiction of the guerrilla general Geng Zhanghua.
Geng Zhanghua still has two thousand troops, plus an armored servant team of 240 people. From now on, these more than 3,600 troops will be Geng Ruxi's trusted force.
It was good that the Geng family could achieve this. Huang Yi was very satisfied and did not ask for anything else. Instead, he gave Geng Zhanghua five thousand taels of silver.
Instead of using the money to bribe him, he was asked to use his connections and power to accept 500 or preferably 1,000 households from disaster-stricken Shaanxi, Shanxi, and even the capital to settle down and stay in Shilibao.
Later, considering that Geng Zhanghua was from Shandong, he was also suggested to send someone to Denglai to negotiate. It would be better to get hundreds of families of Liao people who fled across the sea to garrison in Dongshan Fort.
Huang Yi also promised that even if he brought in a population of 10,000 or 20,000 people, he would not ask the court to provide him with money or land.
To be honest, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, population had become a burden on the court.
Prefectures and prefectures everywhere are strictly preventing refugees and refugees from entering the country. No prefect or county magistrate is willing to take in and resettle these low-income people who are struggling on the verge of death.
Coupled with the decay of the imperial court, the refugees could not see hope, so they started to rise up one after another.
After the robbery, the wealth plundered by the Jin army made Huang Yi have a lot of gold and silver treasures in his hands.
If you don't take these things with you in life or death, why keep them? Spend it all.
So he decided to increase the population, the more the better.
This is a good thing! It was also Geng Ruqi's political achievement, and Geng Zhanghua of course agreed wholeheartedly.
How to resettle the refugees has always been a problem for the court.
After Mao Wenlong died unjustly, Dongjiang Town became unstable and internal strife began to emerge.
How to deal with the tens of millions of Liaoning people who fled Liaodong and fled to Dongjiang Town, Denglai, Yongpingfu, Shuntianfu, and Jizhen is an urgent problem that needs to be solved.
Huang Yi was willing to spend five thousand taels of silver, and with the mediation of Governor Xuanda, it would not be a problem to get thousands of refugees.
He couldn't pay for lamp oil and sit in the dark. Geng Zhanghua had already thought about it. He reported it immediately after returning and asked his father to submit a memorial to the court promising to accept 10,000 refugees from Liaodong or Shaanxi.
He made a small calculation in his mind. Five thousand taels of silver can buy five or six thousand stones of grains. If he saves on food, it will be enough for ten thousand people to survive for four to five months. This time will be enough for ten thousand people to walk to Dongshan Fort.
Moreover, accepting refugees cannot be completed at once. It can be done in batches, five, six, seven or eight times, which will have a greater impact and make Governor Xuanda more famous.
Hearing Huang Yi talk about increasing the population again, Li Weida asked with concern: "Master Huang, are you sure you can provide livelihood for so many people?"
Although Geng Zhanghua knew that the Jin Army's transportation team had received a lot of food and property after Huang Yi intercepted and killed him, he felt that accepting 10,000 or 20,000 people was a bit too much, and said:
"Food is the most important thing for the people. When the time comes when there is not enough food to eat, ten or twenty thousand people can cause trouble and destroy everything. I suggest you think twice!"
Huang Yi said with confidence: "I have calculated that even if the population increases by 20,000 this year, my base area can accommodate it, and I can do it to prevent anyone who is willing to work from going hungry!"
Li Weida is good at doing business, and of course he is good at settling accounts. He said:
“This year’s food prices are 40 to 50% higher than last year. It costs three kilos of food to feed an adult a year no matter what.
Calculating the cost of living, the average person may not even get five taels of silver per year in a year, but 20,000 people would be worth one hundred thousand taels of snowflake silver. "
