Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 895
Bailang made an order to clean up the canal tax customs, ordered the Ministry of Households to check the accounts, and let out rumors that grain would be transported by sea. Therefore, the ships will be built in Jiangnan and Shandong, and the Jiangnan ships will be built on the Wusong River and the Huangpu River in Songjiang Prefecture——Huangpu River The water is deep enough to build a shipyard here.Bailang knew very well that China's modern industry started from the Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau, and it was necessary to move up to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

This city is naturally a center of trade and industry. As long as the Ming Dynasty conducts large-scale maritime trade, Shanghai County will be the core city of course—it is connected by extremely developed inland waterway transportation and canals. Most of the goods in the [-] provinces can be gathered in this city through developed water transport and transferred to sea transport, reaching all directions.To the north is Japan and North Korea, and to the south is Guangzhou Southeast Asia.

This place is also a place where literary talents gather. Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture are both high places for imperial examinations. In particular, Songjiang Prefecture has the largest number of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the power of officials and gentry here is actually not as strong as other places in the south of the Yangtze River—all The gentry has become gentrified, and the land occupation is not very large, and it mainly relies on trade to make money.Besides, everyone is very good in exams, why do you dare to occupy a large piece of land? "It's fragmented, but the magistrate's brain is completely troubled." Bailang is also funny.

Being an official in Suzhou and Songjiang is a nerve-wracking job. "There are a lot of troublesome people in Wu" is not a cover. Dare to besiege the county government and make your county magistrate unable to step down.Over the years, these gangsters have resisted and evaded taxes in various ways, and they can collect [-]% of the tax, which has already been counted in the evaluation of the Ministry of Officials.

Bailang is not afraid of these troublemakers. Anyway, there are a lot of idlers in this place who just throw them into the factory to work. Nanzhili has coal and iron mines, a high level of education, and a developed commodity trade. It is really the birthplace of capitalism.This needs to be well protected-capitalism is better than the current feudal bureaucracy. Before the white-skinned pigs make progress, they should be colonized first.

The national strength of the Ming Dynasty is number one in the world. Even so, Bailang can’t do the feat of conquering Europe from the land. It is already good to be able to colonize Southeast Asia and the archipelago on the sea. North America is currently a place that is not dared to think about.It is difficult for the technology at hand to achieve large-scale colonization—the shipbuilding technology needs to be further improved, as well as in mathematics, at least to be able to calculate latitude and longitude relatively accurately, which is not something he can just take out a ready-made sextant.

Let Bailang do it alone?It's not that he will die of exhaustion, but he will be bored to death. This person just wants to fight and kill people, and start the research and development process with a click of the mouse. It would be too much to ask him to really engage in research and development. "It's better to let history develop naturally." The policy of going south has also been set. First follow the canal to deal with Nanzhili, then turn around and go west to deal with Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei, and enter Sichuan from Hanzhong. As for Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, that is At the end.

After the eighteen provinces of the Han land were stabilized, they went to the northwest and Uzang. At this time, there were not many people there, and the Mongols in Central Asia couldn't stop the Ming's soldiers at all.

"Building a navy, these guys will definitely embezzle a lot of money. And I think that the traditional Chinese coastal sandboat style ship is not suitable for ocean warfare, nor is it suitable for ocean voyages." Question Come on, there are not many huge and suitable trees in China at this time. It can be said that there is no wood used to make the keel of a large ship. Bailang has superheated steam drying technology, but he can't do anything without big trees.

Should I use metal to cast the keel?Bai Lang remembered that many sailboats in later generations used box-type keels, with lead water cast in the middle. They did not use big wood as the keels like today, so the ships could be built larger and longer.Shipbuilding still requires a combination of China and the West. Many Chinese technologies are still very useful, and Western designs are also advanced.The Ming Dynasty was able to build treasure ships back then, but the blueprint is still there. "It's somewhat outdated, and there really isn't that much wood."

Bailang didn't even think about sailing battleships with sixty or seventy cannons, he was only planning to build a fast battleship with twenty to thirty cannons - then he planned to use rear-mounted guns or front-mounted guns in the style of flash caps.As long as sulfuric acid and nitric acid are dealt with, it is not difficult to manufacture thunderbolt in small batches, and it is not difficult to manufacture lead azide in a simple laboratory type—but the cost will be relatively high.At that time, there will be a wax-sealed copper flash cap, which means that the breech-loading gun can be used for service.

Acupuncture and other things can be prepared, and metal fixed ammunition can also be used - but there is no basic industry, these things are expensive and the speed of replenishing equipment will be very slow. "We still have to start with the coal and steel complex. It's a pity that there are green mountains and green waters." Bailang sighed.This time, the three major battalions were not mobilized, but about [-] soldiers and horses stationed in Shandong began to go south, and Bailang went to the south of the Yangtze River.

This time he brought the empress and concubine with him. He originally asked the empress dowager if she would like to see the scenery of Jiangnan, but the empress dowager said she would not go, and she would look after the grandchildren for the son of the emperor. ——Although the fat man said with tears in his eyes that he really wanted to go, but the old lady gave him a look, so King Lu could only obediently accompany the Queen Mother.Bailang led the secretarial team and led an army of tens of thousands down the canal.

It can be said that the journey is full of chickens and dogs, and every place is bound to check the accounts - from the veterans brought by the household department who are not cut off by luck, they start to check the accounts, and the people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang are responsible for clearing and dividing the fields. Taxes are determined locally.It's useless for a scholarly family to have three Jinshi.No matter how many fields you have under your hands, you have to pay taxes and serve as an official - only yourself and your wife are exempted from being an official.

There is no such thing as the grace that the late emperor bestowed on the veterans.Those who dared to cry, Bailang would ask them whether to go with him or the late emperor.Along the way, Bailang ruined many people's reputations, but none of them dared to say that I am a fool.

This group of scholars is not as courageous as the Cao Gang and soldiers of the Water Transport. After Bailang abolished several Cao Passes and abolished a considerable part of Cao Ding, those people really dared to make noise and gather crowds to cause chaos.They gathered together to set fire to the towns on both sides of the canal and loot them, but they didn't dare to attack Bailang's army formation.But Bailang sent Qingqi to chase around, and he himself often led hundreds of soldiers to chase and hunt, how could the imperial court's disciplined soldiers not be able to defeat these mobs?
Immediately, people were killed, and the Cao Ding Cao gang who surrendered, Bailang ordered all to be sent to the frontier, and some were sent to Shandong to shipbuilding and mining as coolies.

(End of this chapter)