Qiming 1158

Chapter 1342 He refuses to compromise

In the battles in the mountainous areas of Fujian, the entrenched landlords and tyrannical armed forces were relatively strong.

They took advantage of the familiar terrain to bring a lot of trouble to the Ming army.

However, the Ming army was not without the strength to fight against it. The branch of the Fujian Revival Association, which gradually developed in the local area, used grass-roots organizations to fight against the grass-roots organizations, which provided great help to the Ming army.

You can play grassroots, so can I, so let's see who is stronger.

In the battle, the advanced weapons and powerful combat power of the Ming army were also a very important factor.

The musketeers and gunners of the second battalion of Shenji played a great role in the battle, and the appearance of musketeers and artillery brought a huge blow to the tyrants based on the farm.

The artillery bombardment made the farm's solid defense meaningless. The great power of the musket destroyed the morale of the landlord's armed forces in a very short period of time.

They thought they could drag down the Ming army by perseverance, but when they realized that the new firearms of the Ming army had developed to such a point, they gradually fell into a desperate situation.

In fact, the landlords and tycoons of Fujian Road were not unaware of the momentum of the Ming Dynasty sweeping the world. They also knew that the collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty was a matter of course and inevitable, but they could not accept the liquidation policy of the Ming Dynasty.

They hoped to use their strong fighting power and will to resist to strike the Ming army, so that the Ming country could more or less realize their strength, so as to win the value of the united front and obtain more favorable policy conditions.

At least, they can't let the Ming Kingdom kill them.

But Su Yonglin refused.

Sweep the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, and carry the revolution to the end.

He refuses to compromise.

He took a resolute attitude towards these people, used a large number of muskets and artillery to attack them fiercely, and sent the more mature firearms such as thunderbolts to the battlefield, so that these bastards knew that the Ming army was definitely not someone they could touch porcelain. .

With such a determined attitude, Su Yonglin led the Ming army to fight in the mountainous area of ​​Fujian from September to the end of November. The explosion and roar of gunpowder brought the Ming army a complete victory.

They annihilated thousands of tycoons and tens of thousands of armed soldiers from landlords.

The Song official forces in Fujian basically did not have any impact on the Ming army, and the city was soon to fall, but the war between the powerful armed forces of the landlords and the Ming army and the peasant self-defense force of the Renaissance Society lasted for a long time.

Su Yonglin first stayed in Shaxian in Nanjian Prefecture to command operations, and then moved to Longxi County in Zhangzhou to command operations and carry out the land revolution.

Under the overall command of him personally sitting in the rear, the strong mobilization power of the Ming Kingdom was fully stimulated, and a large number of war materials were transferred from the Jiangnan area that the Ming army had just controlled to Fujian Road, which provided extremely rich logistical support for the fighting Ming army.

Under the strong logistical support, the local landlords and tyrants in Fujian were gradually unable to support them. By mid-November, the Ming army was victorious, and the strongholds of the landlords and tyrants were pulled out one by one.

At the end of November, the situation on Fujian Road was basically stable. The landlords and tyrannical armed forces in various prefectures were defeated like a mountain and were almost killed. The Ming army attacked rapidly in the mountainous area of ​​Fujian, and it was like a broken bamboo. Complete destruction not seen since the troubled times.

In the first ten days of December, the smoke of gunpowder on Fujian Road was gradually extinguished, and the Ming army was victorious. The landlord regiment could no longer pose any effective threat to the Ming army. So Su Yonglin left the front line of the war with confidence and came to Quanzhou - this era. cosmopolitan city.

Lin Jingchun has been waiting in Quanzhou for a long time.

When the armed groups of landlords on Fujian Road launched a counterattack against the Ming army's attack, some local merchants in Quanzhou seemed to see the dawn of breaking free from the control of the Ming kingdom, so they secretly contacted them and prepared to cooperate from both inside and outside to assist the armed landlords in capturing Quanzhou.

However, the situation changed rapidly. The Ming army withstood this wave of counterattacks, and in turn launched a slashing attack on the local landlords' armed forces. The rebel forces of the local merchants in Quanzhou were also detected by the Skynet Army, revealing their flaws.

So Zhou Mancheng, the commander of the East Sea Division, immediately ordered the Marine Corps to attack, smashing and destroying the base camp of nine local merchants in a row, beheading nearly a thousand people.

The nine major local merchants were cut down and wiped out, all their family properties were confiscated, and the local rebel forces in Quanzhou were wiped out after this battle.

Lin Jingchun handled the remaining assets of the nine major local merchants lightly, and brought their maritime merchant fleet, locally operated stores and commodity warehouses under the control of the Ministry of Finance's Maritime Trade Department, and changed their nature to state-run.

After Su Yonglin disposed of the entire Fujian Road rebels and arrived in Quanzhou, Lin Jingchun had already expanded the total assets under the control of the Department of Maritime Trade by one-fifth, and welcomed Su Yonglin to visit.

"Nine local merchants are in series with some landlords from other places to attack Quanzhou. They have gathered a total of more than [-] armed forces, which are quite good. Unfortunately, the combat effectiveness is not very good. General Zhou said that he only needed [-] marines They were scattered, showing that their combat power was 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 are all 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 Sea Trade Division have expanded by about one-fifth. The assets of these sea merchants are indeed rich. I don't know how to count them. I am shocked when I count them. Now, the Sea Trade Division is really promising in the future . "

Su Yonglin nodded.

"If you seek death yourself, there is no reason not to allow them to die. If you don't want to live in the new era, then you should die in the old era. Right now, the war on Fujian Road is about to end. Quanzhou is a place of great wealth. To help the surrounding states, you have to make arrangements."

"Well, I'll make arrangements for this."

Lin Jingchun nodded and said: "The war between Zhangzhou and Nanjianzhou is the largest, and financial support will be in place in time. There will be no shortage of financial support from other prefectures. Quanzhou will support everything that can be supported. After all, the most important thing in Quanzhou is money. ."

Lin Jingchun didn't say this for no reason.

After the Second Ming-Song War, Lin Jingchun and the relevant departments of the Ministry of Finance spent several months rectifying the two large ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou, adjusted everything in place, and then reopened maritime trade.

In the final analysis, China's famous products such as porcelain, silk, and tea are very powerful, and overseas countries cannot produce them, but they like it very much.

Despite the Ming Dynasty's strong restraint and the operation of raising tax rates, after the reopening of seaports and trade resumption, they still purchased a large amount of goods to take away, and soon returned to Quanzhou and Guangzhou to continue their previous trade.

Of course, this time, their trade targets were no longer the Song Dynasty shipping companies and merchants, but almost all officials and merchants from the Ming Dynasty.

They need to pay a higher tax rate to Shiboji, and the price of purchased goods has also increased. The reason is that the war is endless, transportation and production are not easy, and the output of products has declined, so they cannot be adjusted by raising prices.

Afterwards, the Bureau of Shipbuilding in the Ming Dynasty told them that because of the Sichuan rebellion, the production of Shu brocade was severely hit, and more than 90.00% of the brocade could not be supplied on time, so I felt very sorry, and the trade of Shu brocade might be affected temporarily.

After that, the price of Shu brocade that was still circulating in the market went straight to the sky under the vicious involution of merchants from all over the world.

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 operation, the Ministry of Shipping of Minguo and the Ministry of Finance have further determined that the demand of merchants from overseas countries for silk, porcelain and other commodities is almost a "rigid demand", which is indispensable and irreplaceable in a certain sense. Within the scope, the Ming Dynasty can operate arbitrarily to grab high profits.

However, Lin Jingchun still maintained his basic rationality and did not allow the various deceptive rules proposed by his subordinates to be implemented.

He believes that doing business still has to pay attention to a basic rule, and can't take the initiative to break this rule, otherwise, today's just needs will be ruthlessly abandoned tomorrow.

After all, silk, porcelain, and tea are not the kind of hard-core rigid needs for food that will die if you don’t have them.

Take it slow, pay attention to a fair, just and open, give them a good trading experience, this money still has to be earned, and it can also benefit future generations.

A hen that can lay golden eggs can't be killed to eat meat!

(End of this chapter)