Through the construction of public toilets and the guidance of a certain prince, the four fecal valves finally mastered some knowledge about sewers.
Considering that I can collect higher-priced filth in Xincheng, I don't plan to miss this opportunity to continue to hold on to my thighs.
One family had one hundred thousand taels, and four families had collected four hundred thousand taels. Their lavish spending made businessmen in other industries look at them with admiration.
If the project in the new city hadn't taken up a lot of working capital of each family, the scumbags would have spent more money to express their loyalty.
At this juncture, the more you spend, the more loyal you will be. The more loyal you are, the more benefits you will get. This is called a virtuous cycle!
The manure industry is different from other industries. Not counting other places in Jifu, the largest market in Beijing is monopolized by these four companies.
Unless they are their distributors or agents, any manure dealer who wants to compete with them will be suppressed by these four companies.
This was with the tacit approval of a certain prince, so they had nothing to fear.
A certain prince didn't care or care about the development of the manure industry, as long as the capital city didn't become as filthy as before.
And when you need to pay for it, you can’t be vague or even refuse!
Otherwise, what’s the point of having a dog?
A certain prince believes that some disobedient feces will die in their own products sooner or later...
Originally, a certain prince only wanted to borrow one million taels of silver from merchants in the capital, and three million taels of silver from their counterparts in the south of the Yangtze River.
Considering his poor relationship with the latter, he reversed the loan amount.
Let’s first see how much money can be borrowed from the capital. If it’s not enough, then think of other ways.
Within three days, merchants in the capital collected 4.5 million taels of silver, and a certain prince took the whole amount and returned the fraction.
Many vassal kings and a bunch of county princes stayed under the fence, in order to avoid ending up with the same fate as the Chu King Zhu Huakui who was demoted to a commoner.
Naturally, they were very cooperative. Since their respective families were relatively wealthy, they easily collected ten million taels of silver.
To put it another way, it was just so that the prince could allow Zheng Zhilong to send more fleets to deliver goods to his fiefdom after becoming a vassal.
Without local products and being on a deserted island thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia, you are really no different from the natives on the island...
The main reason was that they finally came across an opportunity to buy novel products at half price, so the feudal princes and princes rushed to subscribe.
After eating these products, they will definitely not sell them easily.
For example, a new oil lamp retails for ten taels of silver in the local market, but you can't even buy it on a desert island with one hundred taels of silver.
Previously, the lowest wholesale price at a certain prince's place was only 30% off. One can imagine the reaction of these princes who are about to move to the feudal vassal...
Judging from the current progress, the first phase of the plan to move the "Southland" to the feudal domain may be completed within ten years or even within five years.
First transport the relatives of the feudal king and the prince, and then slowly transport the population of the feudal country, which is the same way as the "Northland" side.
After capturing Dongfan, the next step is Luzon. Zheng Zhilong plans to send troops to Luzon at the end of this year or early next year.
If all goes well, large-scale migration to the Southern Islands is expected to begin in the year after next.
Different from the scale of moving the Min to the north, Zheng Zhilong will send thousands of large ships to move the Min.
It is estimated that no less than 100,000 people can be transported at one time, and 200,000 people can be transported twice a year. If it persists for ten years, it can transport 2 million people!
Considering the abundance of crops in the south, which can be harvested three times a year, a certain prince's plan is to continue on this scale for a hundred years!
If mainland Australia is included, the South China Sea will accommodate at least 40 million immigrants.
The Sunda Islands and Luzon to the north of Australia accommodate another 20 million people.
The total population of the Pan-Southland will be as high as 60 million, and if the Northland accommodates 20 to 30 million people, the population pressure on the mainland will be greatly reduced.
The only problem is that it is difficult to arrange a place for the fourteen feudal kings who arrived later.
Many islands in the Southwest Pacific, including New Zealand, are already famous.
The Australian mainland is a way out for a certain prince, so naturally he cannot sell it in advance.
"Eastland", that is, the American continent, is so far away from the mainland that no vassal king intends to go there.
The mainland can no longer support so many fat-headed and big-eared borers. Dongfan and Luzon are grain-producing areas and must not be touched.
Considering the important status of Sumatra and Java, a certain prince could only take out the largest island of Kalimantan.
The area of this island exceeds the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian combined. It can easily accommodate twelve vassal states at once.
If it really can't be placed, the island of Sulawesi in the east can be used to make up for the shortage.
The island of New Guinea must not be touched, because there is the famous "Grasberg" gold mine on the island, and a certain prince will not let others get involved here.
Seeing that they could go to a good place not far from the mainland and with spring all year round, the kings who spent a lot of money were quite satisfied.
From the perspective of long-term considerations and the fact that the kings had helped him a lot, a certain prince decided to include Sulawesi Island within the scope of his vassal.
The island is very large and can accommodate ten vassal states.
Su Island is relatively small and can accommodate four vassal states.
This would be no problem at all, and the kings began to think about "future affairs"...
The northernmost part of Kalimantan is the most valuable place because it is closest to the mainland.
The kings couldn't argue, and in the end they had to draw lots to decide who would belong to them.
King Jing Zhu Ciyan had the best luck and got this good position.
Just by looking at the name, you can tell that he is of the same generation as a certain prince, but a few years older than a certain prince.
A certain prince could not be obviously partial to him just because he was of the same generation as him, so he could only be given land no larger than the area of Dongfan Island.
In fact, the northern part of Kalimantan is not very good. Because it is close to the Luzon Islands, it is often disturbed by storms formed in the South Pacific.
On the contrary, the southwestern part of the island is a good place. Apart from heat and infrequent earthquakes, there are almost no natural disasters.
After the drawing of lots was completed, everyone settled their destiny, and the kings were waiting for the good day to move to the feudal lords by boat!
In order to solve the urgent need of a certain prince, Zheng Zhilong agreed to place an additional order of five million taels of silver.
In this way, a certain prince borrowed 19.5 million taels of silver from just three sources: merchants in the capital, vassal and county princes staying in the capital, and Zheng Zhilong!
It far exceeded the previously expected 10 million taels. As for whether the Jiangnan merchants were excited or not, it didn't matter.
Except for Zheng Zhilong's money, which will take several months to arrive, the other two have already arrived.
The matter of silver reward and pension was no longer a problem in an instant, but Beiting's debts were increasing.
Now we have nearly 60 million taels of silver in debt. If we don’t exploit the Monan Gold Mine, we will never be able to pay back the debt...
Based on the current progress of arrears, a certain prince believes that if it takes another five years to deal with Huang Taiji, Beiting's arrears will reach 200 million taels of silver!
When the world is at peace and order is restored everywhere, the economy will naturally develop rapidly.
With a certain prince's thousands of years of mining experience, it is not difficult to help the court pay off its debts.
What's more, during the Chinese New Year, the court also received a special "red envelope"!
As the factory guard followed the clues, he found out that the wealthy gentry in Yanqing, Huairou, Shunyi, Changping and other places had evil intentions and were implicated in the incident of a certain prince falling into the water.
At first, there were only six wealthy gentry families who were stubborn and tried to resist. Later, it developed to more than fifty families, involving as many as ten thousand people.
Dongchang and Jinyiwei were actually beaten and fled. A certain prince had no choice but to ask Sun Yingyuan to take the feudal lords of Beichang to practice their skills and fire a few shots with the Folan machine.
Although these thieves built earthen forts as strongholds to operate, they were not as strong as the fortifications. They fell apart soon after under the violent bombardment of the Folangji.
Without a bunker to defend themselves, the thieves had no choice but to fight in a corner. They brought their armed servants with them to fight to the death with the incoming Beichang clansmen, and were eventually eliminated one by one by Beichang.
The war lasted for more than half a month from the 29th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month.
Thirty-five main criminals were killed, 28 were captured alive, nearly 6,000 accomplices were killed and injured, and more than 20,000 people were captured and implicated, involving most of Shuntian Prefecture.
About 1.5 million taels of silver (including gold), more than 200,000 acres of land, and as many as 10,000 other valuables were seized, all of which can be cashed out for money.
As much as 150,000 shi of grain were found and sold directly to the people in the capital at a low price to survive the winter to avoid moldy and spoilage over time.
This is not over yet. A certain prince asked the factory guards to put all the wealthy gentry who had long-term tax arrears into the pot. This was an excuse given to him by the other party!
This directly led to over a thousand wealthy gentry households in Shuntian Prefecture being taken to the capital for trial. Their silver taels increased tenfold compared to before, and the grain that the factory guards received reached two million dan!
Now Taicang, the household department, is finally full, and it is full as never before...
After excluding the monthly salary for officials and the silver rewards and pensions from Master Wang, there are still nearly 28 million taels of silver in the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts!
If Daming and Donglu didn't fight again, it would be enough to take a year.
Because thieves were in the way, a certain prince was only interested in making money, and he couldn't live well for several years.
But once you have money, you can celebrate the New Year every day!
If you don’t have money, it’s called suffering!
These money, grain, houses, land, etc. were all used to recharge the imperial court, and a certain prince did not take the opportunity to swallow a tael of silver.
Even so, the moths in Shuntian Mansion have not been wiped away, and there is still a lot of land that is not taxable.
When the Ming Dynasty began, the cultivated land area in Beizhili was approximately 58 million acres!
By the second year of Jianwen, this area had dropped sharply to 27 million acres!
Today, based on the output of one stone per acre of land, there are only four million stones of grain at most!
Where did the big head go?
You won’t go to find your father, right?
What was confiscated this time, plus the previous auctions and inventories from the Ministry of Household Affairs, totaled only six million acres!
The remaining more than 50 million acres are still not recorded by the court. In other words, even with a 50% discount, there are still 20 million acres of man-made wasteland in Beizhili, which is fertile land that does not need to be taxed!
In this case, there is no need for a certain prince to be polite. His main task this year is not to braid his hair, but to beat up rich gentry!
I, Dayan Shenggong, have been made docile, not to mention these duplicitous country bumpkins!
After the Chinese New Year, we started to organize things from Shuntian Prefecture, and went through the sieves one by one!
If one person is missed, track down the county magistrate!
If a stone is missed, the county magistrate will make it up!
One hundred thousand elites are always ready. When Dorgon comes again, they will go out to braid their hair.
If Dorgon doesn't come, he'll go out and beat up the rich gentry. Anyway, you can't take a nap in idleness!
Even Jifu couldn't harvest much food, and the military rations couldn't be guaranteed to be in full supply. How could they plan for the Northern Expedition on time?
Food must be mainly local, supplemented by food shipped from the south and Southeast Asia.
These extremely stingy country bumpkins also planned to murder a certain prince, which gave him enough motivation and reason.
Anyone who is still in arrears may be an accomplice or remnant of the mastermind and must be eradicated immediately!
On the sixth day of March, regiments in Wuqing, Dong'an, Gu'an, Yongqing and other places launched a rebellion under the instigation of thieves. The rebellion was huge and numbered no less than 5,000 people.
A certain prince sent four brigades of East Palace Guards to go south in four directions to suppress him!
Facing the well-trained East Palace Guards, the group training was naturally no match. They quickly fell apart and fled in all directions.
In just five days, more than 90% of the rebels were wiped out. The mastermind died among the rebels, and a few who slipped through the net were at large.
Adding up the two groups before and after, the number of people sent to Shandong for mining exceeded 50,000!
The only good thing is that the market for buying and selling young ladies in Beijing has become more prosperous...
Especially the German mercenaries who have earned money are very interested in spending dozens of silver coins to buy a little sister!
Hans Brooke, who likes real braids, has earned more than 3,000 silver coins and planned to return to his hometown.
Thinking of traveling thousands of miles across the ocean and the dangerous conditions at sea, I didn't plan to leave for the time being.
Except for relatives in Hesse, family members had long since died in the war, and it seemed that there would be no benefit in going back.
The capital of the Ming Empire was ten times more prosperous than the largest cities in Europe, especially the various delicacies that you couldn't eat every day.
After consulting with many captains and company commanders of the same rank, Brooke decided to make his home here.
The benefits are obvious. Working for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Empire, you can receive high salaries and bonuses.
Good things like toilets will not be available in Europe in the near future. Even if they are available, the price will be extremely high.
The most important thing is that a man here can marry several women, as long as he has enough money, no one will care!
Since there are delicious, fun, and useful things here, why go back to the West?
Brooke spent a thousand silver coins to buy a house and two young and beautiful women, and he lived a happy life.
Apart from the language barrier, everything is fine.
The two women did not understand any foreign language and could only communicate with Brooke through gestures with their hands.
Fortunately, Brooke is not stupid. He has a lot of experience in overseas combat, has very strong cognitive ability, and can already speak simple plain language.
When there were no war missions, he would go to compatriot Lao Tang to receive free plain language training.
Because if you want to continue to climb up, you must pass the language barrier.
If he planned to stay in the Ming Empire, Brooke would not be satisfied with his current rank and position as captain and company commander.
If you can become a battalion commander, a regiment commander, or even a brigade commander, you are equivalent to a quasi-noble in the West. As long as you accumulate enough military merits, you can be canonized by His Highness the Crown Prince.
At least 30% of the 10,000 German mercenaries who came to the Ming Empire had plans similar to Brooke's.
Instead of returning to the war-torn, rubble-strewn homeland, it would be better to stay in the Ming Empire.
When you are short of money, you go out to fight. After making money, you go home and hug your woman and feel happy...
