In the battles in the mountainous areas of Fujian, the powerful armed forces of the entrenched landlords were relatively strong.
They took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and caused a lot of trouble to the Ming army.
However, the Ming army did not have the power to fight against it. The Fujian Renaissance branch that gradually developed in the local area used grassroots organizations to fight against grassroots organizations, which provided great help to the Ming army.
You know how to play grassroots organization, and so do I. Let’s see which one of us is stronger.
In the battle, the Ming army's advanced weapons and strong combat effectiveness were also a very important factor.
The musketeers and gunners of the second battalion of Shenji played a great role in the battle. The emergence of muskets and artillery brought a huge blow to the powerful people based on the farm.
The bombardment of artillery made the solid defense of the farm meaningless. The powerful power of the muskets destroyed the morale of the landlords' armed forces in a very short period of time. The ferocious explosions of thunder and lightning made the landlords' armed forces terrified.
They thought they could defeat the Ming army with persistence, but when they realized that the Ming army's new firearms had developed to such an extent, they gradually fell into despair.
In fact, the powerful landlords on Fujian Road were not unaware of the Ming Dynasty's sweeping momentum. They also knew that the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty was natural and inevitable, but they could not accept the Ming Dynasty's liquidation policy.
They hoped to use their strong combat effectiveness and persistence in resistance to attack the Ming army, so that the Ming Dynasty would be aware of their strength, thereby gaining the value of the united front and obtaining more favorable policy conditions.
At least, the Ming Dynasty cannot be allowed to revolutionize their lives.
But Su Yonglin refused.
Sweep away the demons and monsters and carry the revolution to the end.
He refused to compromise.
He adopted a resolute attitude towards these people, using a large number of guns and artillery to attack them fiercely. He also sent relatively mature firearms such as Zhentian Lei to the battlefield to let these bastards know that the Ming army was definitely not someone they could mess with. .
With such a determined attitude, Su Yonglin led the Ming army to fight in the mountains of Fujian from September to the end of November. The explosion and roar of gunpowder brought the Ming army a complete victory.
They wiped out thousands of powerful families and tens of thousands of armed soldiers of the landlords.
The official power of the Song Dynasty in Fujian basically had no impact on the Ming army. The city fell instantly. However, the war between the powerful armed forces of the landlords and the Ming army and the peasant self-defense forces of the Renaissance Association lasted for a long time.
Su Yonglin first stayed in Sha County, Nanjian Prefecture, to command operations, and then moved to Longxi County, Zhangzhou, to command operations and carry out the agrarian revolution.
Under his overall command from the rear, the Ming Dynasty's powerful mobilization force was fully mobilized. A large amount of war materials were transferred from the Jiangnan area that the Ming army had just controlled to Fujian Road, providing extremely generous logistical support to the fighting Ming army.
With strong logistical support, the powerful local landlords and armed forces in Fujian gradually became unable to support themselves. By mid-November, the Ming army was victorious, and the strongholds of the powerful landlords and armed forces in Fujian were removed one by one.
At the end of November, the situation on the Fujian Road was basically stable. The powerful armed forces of the landlords in the various states were defeated and almost wiped out. The Ming army quickly attacked in the mountainous areas of Fujian with overwhelming force. It carried out a massacre against the opposition forces in this area in the late Tang Dynasty. Total destruction unprecedented since the Troubled Times.
In early December, the smoke gradually extinguished on the Fujian Road, and the Ming army won a complete victory. The landlords' regiment-trained armed forces could no longer pose any effective threat to the Ming army, so Su Yonglin left the war front with peace of mind and came to Quanzhou - the most important place in this era. Cosmopolitan.
Lin Jingchun has been waiting in Quanzhou for a long time.
When the landlord armed groups on Fujian Road launched a counterattack against the Ming army's attack, some local merchants in Quanzhou seemed to have seen the dawn of breaking away from the control of the Ming Dynasty, so they secretly contacted them and prepared to cooperate internally and externally to assist the landlord armed forces in capturing Quanzhou.
However, the situation changed rapidly. The Ming army withstood this counterattack, and in turn launched a ruthless attack on the local landlords' armed forces. The rebel forces of local merchants in Quanzhou were also detected by the Skynet Army, revealing their flaws.
So Donghai Marine General Zhou Mancheng immediately ordered the Marines to attack, destroying and annihilating the base camps of nine local merchants, killing nearly a thousand people.
Nine local merchants were wiped out, their families were killed, and all their property was confiscated. After this battle, the local rebel forces in Quanzhou disappeared.
Lin Jingchun calmly handled the remaining assets of the nine major local merchants, bringing their merchant fleets, locally operated stores and commodity warehouses under the control of the Department of Maritime Trade of the Ministry of Finance and changing their status to state-owned.
After Su Yonglin dealt with the entire Fujian Road rebel force and arrived in Quanzhou, Lin Jingchun had already expanded the total assets under the control of the Maritime Trade Department by one-fifth and welcomed Su Yonglin for inspection.
"Nine local merchants collaborated with some landlords from other places to prepare for an attack on Quanzhou. They gathered a total of more than 4,000 armed forces. The scale was quite good. Unfortunately, the combat effectiveness was not very good. General Zhou said that he only used 2,000 marines to attack Quanzhou. They dispersed, which shows that their combat power is weak."
Lin Jingchun followed Su Yonglin and said with a smile: "Now the assets and merchant fleets under the names of these nine merchants have been sorted out. The merchant fleets and warehouses have all been brought under the control of the Maritime Trade Department, and the shops under their names are managed by other departments. .
Not to mention other departments, the assets controlled by the entire Maritime Trade Department have expanded by about one-fifth. The assets of these maritime merchants are indeed rich. I don’t know if I don’t count them. I am shocked when I count them. Now, the Maritime Trade Department really has a bright future. . "
Su Yonglin nodded.
"If you are looking for death, there is no reason not to allow them to die. Since you don't want to live in the new era, then you can die in the old era. Now the war on Fujian Road is about to end. As a place with great wealth, Quanzhou will have a lot more to do in the future. You have to make arrangements to help the surrounding states."
"Well, I will make arrangements for this."
Lin Jingchun nodded and said: "The war between Zhangzhou and Nanjian Prefecture is the largest, and financial support will be provided in time. There will be no shortage of financial support from other state capitals. Quanzhou will support whatever it can support. After all, the most important thing in Quanzhou is money. .”
Lin Jingchun didn't say these words for no reason.
After the Second Ming-Song War, Lin Jingchun and the relevant departments of the Ministry of Finance spent several months reorganizing the two large ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou, adjusting everything in place, and then reopened maritime trade.
After all, China's porcelain, silk, tea and other key products are very powerful. Overseas countries cannot produce them, but they like them very much.
Despite the Ming Dynasty's strong restrictions and increased tax rates, after the seaports reopened and trade resumed, they still purchased a large amount of goods and took them away, and soon returned to Quanzhou and Guangzhou to continue their previous trade.
Of course, this time their trading partners were no longer Song shipping companies and merchants, but almost all Ming officials and merchants.
They need to pay a higher tax rate to the Municipal Shipping Department, and the price of purchased goods has also increased. The reason is that the war continues, transportation and production are difficult, and product output has declined, so they cannot increase prices to balance their accounts.
Later, the Shipping Department of the Ming Dynasty told them that due to the Sichuan rebellion, Shu brocade production had been greatly affected. More than 90% of Shu brocade could not be supplied on time, so they were very sorry that the Shu brocade trade might be temporarily affected. .
After that, the price of Shu brocade still circulating in the market went straight up to the sky due to the vicious involution of merchants from all over the world. It was difficult for merchants from all over the world to find a piece of Shu brocade, and the wealth and taxes they paid for it were several times higher than in the past.
It was not until the end of the seventh year of Hongwu that the price of Shu brocade finally fell back to a relatively normal range.
After this period of extreme operations, the Ming Dynasty Shipping Department and the Ministry of Finance were more certain that the demand for silk, porcelain and other commodities from overseas merchants was almost "rigid", indispensable and irreplaceable in a sense, and within the limits allowed by the rules Within the scope, the Ming Dynasty can operate at will to obtain high profits.
However, Lin Jingchun still maintained his basic rationality and did not let the various deceptive rules proposed by his subordinates be implemented.
He believes that there is still a basic rule that must be followed in business, and one cannot actively break this rule, otherwise what is needed today will be mercilessly abandoned tomorrow.
After all, silk, porcelain and tea are not hard-core necessities like food that you will die if you don't have them. If you really make people anxious and stop playing with you, you won't be able to make any money.
Take your time, be fair, just and open, and give them a good trading experience. They can still make money and benefit future generations.
Don’t kill the hen that lays golden eggs for meat!
