These guys are causing trouble in the local area. Even if they are pardoned, it is not the whole clan, but only a part of each family.
All retired soldiers who are willing to accept recruitment can enjoy the pardon of twenty relatives including themselves.
According to this standard, even if a wealthy gentry marries him, the number of places he can get is extremely limited.
Unless the retired soldier is an orphan or there are only a few members of the husband's family left, the mother's family can generally only get about five places.
Through this move, a certain emperor could quickly divide and disintegrate the hostile forces.
If the other party was powerful, like Le Hai, who had thousands of men under his command, the number of pardons he would receive would naturally be greater.
Naturally, big customers will not be treated the same as ordinary customers. Not only are they given more quotas, but they are also given more money. As long as they accept the recruitment, they will be served with good food, good drinks and good hospitality, just like Song Taizu released his military power over a glass of wine.
In exchange, those who are recruited, except for their relatives, must surrender their weapons, disband their troops, and agree to settle overseas. After settling down, they must abide by relevant local laws and regulations and must not return to their old careers...
The imperial court also recruited a lot of troops in the south, but most of the retired soldiers responded to the call and agreed to follow the trend and settle overseas, which was at least a better life than staying at home.
There is little arable land in the south, and many people can only work in cities after retiring from the army. Companies have moved away, and they cannot find good jobs when they return to their hometowns. They can only drag their families with them.
Veterans in coastal areas have basically already figured out their future options before they retire from the army. They have good places to stay in Southeast Asia, South America, and Australia.
Inland soldiers are not used to the humidity of the seaside, and value the dry western, northern, and eastern regions more, and they will gain more land by moving to Min.
Veterans were a hidden danger to the local area, so the local government teamed up with the military to move away all they could, leaving only a few who lived with the wealthy gentry.
This allowed the wealthy gentry to offer very high prices to the veterans. If there were more people, they would definitely not receive such generous treatment, let alone betroth their daughters or granddaughters to each other.
After seeing the situation clearly, veterans who dare to resist can only be described as rare. Most of them will consider their families and choose to be good.
Many of them have just married a lovely wife or taken a new concubine. If they died or were sent to mine, wouldn't they be advantageous to others in vain?
The smartest veterans are like Li Hai, who dominate the mountains and work for themselves. The rich gentry, their families and servants who came to join them all became meat tickets in their hands, and were sold at a good price. .
Those who followed Li Hai for a living, and those at the lowest level, all received a bonus of 800 silver coins. Together with the travel expenses issued by the court, it was enough for them to start a new life overseas.
The wealthy gentry who had participated in the rebellion before now all regretted it to death. If they had known about this, why did they do it in the first place?
Although he could drag his veteran son-in-law to obtain pardon, his belongings were almost wiped out, which was equivalent to being purged and left home.
Not only that, but he also had to make a helpless decision, because the number of pardons he received was only in the single digits, which simply could not meet the needs of the whole family.
He is reluctant to let his beloved concubine go mining, and he is also unwilling to let his eldest son and grandson suffer. If these are taken away, there will be basically nothing left.
As a last resort, I could only humbly beg my new son-in-law, hoping to give me more places. However, each veteran only had twenty places in his hands.
If you give it to your mother's family, your mother-in-law's family will have to be sent to mine. Who is willing to work exhaustingly in the mining area for ten years? Can you still come out alive?
Now every veteran can straighten his back and feel proud. He is no longer a son-in-law in a weak position. A pardon quota is enough to make his family fight for it.
Naturally, there are many parents who spend money to buy places, but they are short of money, because bandits will not easily let go of the opportunity to make a fortune.
Since everyone has served in the military, they may not embarrass the veteran family, but for the wealthy gentry, there is no need to give them face.
Face is earned by one's own strength, not by kowtow.
In another scenario, if a veteran goes to a company to apply for a job as a security captain, can he get the job by kowtowing, bowing, and saying auspicious words?
The honor of being a soldier only goes so far. Apart from that, the target of the search will never be let go!
There are impoverished people everywhere, and the best way to deal with it is to put valuables in your son-in-law's luggage in advance.
Many rich gentry who had been looted became paupers. When they saw the imperial envoy Sun Chuanting, they licked their faces to stop them, crying about their experiences, hoping that the envoy could seek justice for themselves...
Sun Chuanting did say something, but the content was based on his personal experience. Merchants began to resist taxes, evade taxes, and evade taxes on a large scale since the Wanli Dynasty.
Then it remained the same in the Chongzhen Dynasty. If Emperor Haojing hadn't turned the tide, I'm afraid the whole world would have been swallowed up by the Tatars outside the customs.
If the imperial court cannot collect taxes, it will have no military expenditure to defend the enemy. In the final analysis, whose fault is this?
What happened to you today is because you do not know how to reflect, and it is your own fault!
To put it bluntly, it’s your own fault and you can’t blame others!
And if you know the law and break the law, you should be punished by one degree!
His Majesty's ability to issue a pardon is already considered a great act of imperial grace!
Instead of exonerating the merchants, Sun Chuanting reprimanded them, which was equivalent to a loud slap in the face.
In his opinion, tax evasion by profiteers was tantamount to stealing taxes from the court.
Now that the bandits have looted it, isn't this retribution? You deserve it!
Poor people may not be hateful, but profiteers are definitely not worthy of pity, but very hateful!
Li Hai and others were naturally overjoyed by the words and deeds of the special envoy. This meant that the imperial court did not care about what they were searching for, which meant that they had made a lot of money.
Three months later, Li Hai, Chang Shan and Guan Yongwang took their families and direct relatives with them and lived an enviable retirement life in Sicily.
Since I have enough pension, I don’t need to look for a job in a new place. I can just buy some seafood, eat some barbecue, hug my beautiful concubine, and enjoy the hard-won good days leisurely.
At the same time, there were millions more miners in the Monan Mine, which made a certain emperor Long Yan very happy and rewarded Sun Chuanting with three bottles of elixir and several boxes of silver coins.
Five million miners can create a profit of at least 250 million silver coins every year, which is 2.5 billion silver coins in ten years. After that, they can also be allowed to go to the north to cultivate. It is really a good use of everything!
The winter temperature in Yakutsk ranges from minus 40 to 60 degrees, which is just the right time for those stubborn people to calm down...
There are many good places with few people at the same latitude, and these places can be settled by those with rebellious minds.
After all, it’s easy to burn out your brain in the south. Otherwise, how could you do such a stupid thing?
Under the double blow of military offensives and suppression and recruitment, the rebellion in the Ming Dynasty lasted for less than a year and was completely suppressed.
Especially in the two hardest-hit areas, Shandong in the north and Jiangnan in the south, large-scale rebel armies have existed in name only.
Either they were severely injured or even annihilated, or they accepted the imperial court's recruitment, some of them became Liangmin again, and the other part was sent to mine.
Ten brigades and about 50,000 Prussian troops have been stationed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the southern Zhili section of the canal, and the major cities in the coastal areas of northern Zhejiang have all been taken over by Prussia.
At the same time, Louis XIV couldn't wait to send three armies and nine brigades to take over the Liaodong Peninsula and form the French Empire's Pacific Fleet.
The first base was Lushun, which already stationed four battleships, four cruisers, eight destroyers, and a naval aviation unit with fifty aircraft.
The first thing William II took over was not Guangdong, Qiongzhou or Dongfan, but Fujian, where there were two shipbuilding bases and deep-water ports.
This is what the Netherlands has longed for, and they never expected to get it through land exchange. The land is much larger than imagined.
It is so large that the current population of the Netherlands is simply not enough to control the seven important areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Dongfan, Qiongzhou, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
The Dutch Parliament has agreed to implement the encouraging order. As long as the Dutch minister is a Dutch minister, every child, regardless of male or female, will receive a one-time reward of fifty silver coins.
According to estimates by relevant experts in the Netherlands, in order to hold on to such a large territory, the total population of the Netherlands needs to reach at least 30 million, which is the minimum requirement.
France also faced the same difficulties. The new territory was several times larger than before. However, France's population base was much larger than that of the Netherlands, and polygamy was implemented much earlier than the Netherlands.
This was the decision that made Louis XIV most successful. It takes at least fifteen years for a generation to grow from birth to adulthood. How can there be time in this lifetime?
France also has the same problem, so even black people (non-black slaves) with some status are now counted as public miners, otherwise they would not be able to gather the population and military strength to control such a large territory.
Nowadays, most French men, unless they are particularly disgusted with black people, will buy a few black slaves to serve them. Not only is it cheap, but it also saves them from manual labor.
Black beauty is the most popular breed. Unlike white women, black beauty is not only docile, good at obeying orders, does not require food and clothing, but also has good physical strength...
At first, Western countries laughed at the fact that the Ming Empire had become Romanized because the rich in the Ming Empire were particularly good at enjoying themselves. They had slaves and baths, and the army was filled with a large number of mercenaries.
Now the Western countries, led by France, have gradually embarked on this old path, because everyone from top to bottom has tasted the sweetness of this path.
The head of state needs population to increase national strength and increase taxes, and the rich need cheap labor, which can also please themselves. Naturally, the two sides hit it off, but each gets what they need.
The French Army has formed a black company. Except for the white officers, the company non-commissioned officers are all black. Except for the expensive capital ships, there are no blacks.
In the view of a certain emperor, as long as black people are not eliminated, global blackening is inevitable, because capital pursues profit, and using black people can squeeze out as much surplus value as possible.
The same is true for the army. Since you can hire the same number of people with less money, why not use cheap black people as cannon fodder? The pension can be reduced!
As long as it doesn't affect ordinary people making money, the public won't have much objection to this, not to mention that most black people are engaged in manual labor and earn hard-earned money.
On the contrary, if you buy a few black slaves, you can become your own boss and make a good living by squeezing black slaves. I believe that most people will support the large-scale introduction of black slaves.
Humans are inherently selfish animals. Assuming that it is reasonable and legal to exploit others of the same kind, and it can benefit oneself at the same time, why not do it?
There were also many black people in the Ming Empire, but the industries they were engaged in were limited to mining, metallurgy, logistics, security, fighting, entertainment and other industries. There were very few black people who actually engaged in intellectual work.
After moving away from the mainland, a certain emperor could consider meeting the needs of the new residents and providing them with millions of black laborers. This is a win-win deal.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty purchased a large number of black slaves from France, the Netherlands and other countries. Now it can sell them to them at double the price, because it saves transportation costs and can deliver them to your doorstep on the same day.
This means that not only does it cost no money to buy black slaves, but a certain emperor also made a fortune through the descendants of black slaves. Why not?
This is the reason why a certain emperor would not restrict the birth of black slaves. Even slave miners could get married and have children as long as they found someone they wanted.
After most of the black people on the African continent are sent to other continents, wouldn't this continent be a good place?
Not only does it have oil and minerals, but it also has two crops of food a year, and its fishery resources are extremely rich.
Except that the Sahara Desert is more difficult to clean up, the pros generally outweigh the cons.
Now Zheng Zhilong's Fujian is a better model for the construction of the Ming Dynasty's overseas territories, absorbing almost 80% of the Fujian people, plus some Cantonese, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Guangxi people.
The total population has reached more than 20 million, industry and commerce are developed, rich in resources, fertile land, urban construction is changing with each passing day, and the living standards of the people even exceed those in the Ming Dynasty.
The local indigenous tribes can only submit to the Zheng family, otherwise they will be wiped out, and the captives will be sent to the Ming Dynasty for mining.
Using this method, the Zheng family could not only clear out the alien tribes and free up space for Yi Min, but also make extra money to meet the needs of the court, which was equivalent to killing two birds with one stone.
For Zheng, the natives and wild beasts in the territory did not pose much of a threat to her. As long as the army dispatched fighter planes and tanks, the so-called trouble would disappear.
The only problem is the remnants of the British and Spanish troops entrenched in the Congo. After these years of recuperation, the two groups seem to be coming back to life.
Zheng Chenggong ordered trenches to be dug in the northern border area, barbed wire fences were pulled up, equidistant gun towers were built, and additional patrols were deployed to prevent the other party from swooping into his territory to rob.
Although a bunch of measures were implemented, they were basically impossible to guard against. The opponent repeatedly crossed the border. In the end, Zheng Chenggong couldn't bear it anymore and ordered his troops to go north every year to give the opponent a blow in the head.
In the eyes of a certain emperor, this was a very normal thing, because while one was living well, the other was living just enough. As the gap between the rich and the poor widened, conflicts ensued...
