The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 674 Population Doubling

The whole army of large soldiers and horses is still 200 people, which has not changed much, and has fought a few battles with other freshmen in the middle, and then made up for it, and has remained at this number.But in the past two years, Zhao Dashan continued to lead them to fight in Taichung and Taipei. Many Dutch soldiers died. At present, there are less than [-] Dutch soldiers left in the general staff. Zhao Dashan had to go to the second battalion to make up a lot of troops.

But now there is a new problem. Since Putesman got the silver and introduced the boatman, he returned to Europe and vigorously promoted the benefits here.

Many retired soldiers from Europe, even those on active duty, come here and want to join the mercenary army.

After being rejected by Zhao Dashan, many Europeans are now wandering in the coastal areas of Fujian.

Ding Yi heard this, and asked, where are we now?

Zhao Dashan pointed to the map hanging in the conference room behind him, and said that he was almost in the northwest of Dayuan, and their sentinels could already see Zheng Zhilong's immigrants.

As mentioned earlier, Zheng Zhilong moved 4 to [-] people, all in the west and north. Ding Yi's troops moved up from the south, and have now reached the position of Taichung.

When Ding Yi came last time, they only fought near Nantou County, but this time they have completely occupied all the areas south of Taichung.

They learned from the Japanese, conquered piece by piece, and then built forts at the intersections, gradually advancing. Basically, they beat the newcomers and familiar fans on these sites to vote or run away.

Ding Yi looked at the marks on the map, and said slowly: "Don't fight to the northwest for the time being, build a fort on the spot and build a defense line."

Everyone nodded.

Now Zheng Zhilong is still a tyrant on the sea, and there are his immigrants over there. Ding Yi is now fighting there, which will easily damage the relationship between the two. In his strategic plan, he does not want to be distracted from making troubles with Zheng Zhilong before the world is established.

Because Zheng Zhilong had an example before, after the Manchu Qing conquered the world, he surrendered.

If Ding Yi won the world and he also surrendered, that would be the best.

Then instead of going to the northwest, we can only go to the east.

Looking at the entire map at this time, Ding Yi's military sphere of influence is exactly in the left half of the lower half of the map of Dayuan Province.

It is about equal to exactly a quarter of the staff.

There are more minerals in the central and northern parts of Dayuan, and Ding Yi is not in a hurry, so he can only fight the nearest ones and conquer them one by one, so that Zhao Dashan will concentrate his efforts on the east mountainous area of ​​Tainan City starting this year.

There are more mountains here, and there must be a large number of raw fans in it, so we can only rely on the Fan Army and Dutch soldiers, as well as their crazy dog ​​army.

Considering that there are many mountains and great dangers, Ding Yi decided to take over the barbarians and turn them into soldiers.

Foreigners who come, whether they are Dutch, Italian, or Portuguese, are all accepted.

Then organize them and the Fanren to fight in the mountains to the east.

Ding Yi's Ming army is very precious, and he must use more mercenaries and fan soldiers to fight in mountainous areas.

In addition to increasing the number of mercenaries, Ding Yi also needs to increase the number of Ming troops by [-], considering that the Ming army here is not too large.

"This year, the Han Chinese who are senior officials, whether they are old immigrants or new immigrants, will draw one from every few households, increase the number of troops by [-], and form the fourth infantry battalion."

"I came here this time, and I brought a lot of armor. Except for the slightly less guns, I can equip half of the guns and half of the spears."

It turned out that Ding Yi had prepared for this side before he came. In addition to cotton armor, mail armor, guns and spears, he also brought [-] pieces of iron armor.

As long as the soldiers are gathered together and the training is strengthened for half a year, they will be able to form an army immediately.

After becoming an army, even if it is not as good as the elite of the Qing Dynasty, it will definitely be no problem to fight the Ming army. After a few victories, it will become an elite.

After the expansion of the army this time, there were [-] soldiers and horses in the army, of which the Ming army reached [-], occupying more than half of them.

Ding Yi also said: "The infantry here, especially the infantry of the Ming army, have to board the ship for drills, and find a ferry to practice landing battles."

"The artillerymen of the infantry battalion must be able to shoot the cannons on the ship."

"Familiar with the basic structure of large ships such as third-tier battleships, learn how to survive at sea, don't get seasick, and can swim."

This is to train all infantry battalions as marines.

There is no fighting here, and the coastal conditions are good, so it is easy to train.

For example, in the future, if you want to fight the easternmost part of the big players, you will climb over the mountains and mountains from the west, and it will take time and you will easily get lost.

But it is much easier to take a boat to the far east and land directly from the east.

The prerequisite for increasing troops is population, food, and economy.

Zhao Dashan and others said that apart from a slight loss of money, there was nothing wrong with the others.

The first is the population. In the past two years, both Daejun and Jeju have increased greatly.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen, all soldiers entered the customs and robbed tens of thousands of livestock, which were robbed by Ding Yi.

At that time, Ding Yi sent [-] yuan to senior officials and [-] yuan to Jeju.

When Ding Yi left, the population under his rule was 13. After more than two years of emigration and conquest of Fanbu, the population has reached 15.

Adding the 23 sent here, the current population is 4000, almost double that when he left.

Hoarding also increased significantly.

Because the places occupied by Ding Yi are the four great plains of later generations, with countless fertile fields.

When he left, he hoarded more than 20 yuan of land. Now, including the land of Dadu Society and the hoarding of new immigrants in the past year, it has reached 48. According to Zhu Xiangyang, by the end of this year, the hoarding of land here It will exceed 60 mu.

Here, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn are all planted in a large area, and the yield is higher than that in Dengzhou. Two years ago, taxes were collected according to tribes, that is, [-]% for Han immigrants, [-]% for Fan people, and [-]% for Mongolian Manchus. .

Last year, Zhao Dashan and the others discussed it and reported it to Ding Yi for approval.

Unified change to [-]%, those who have soldiers in the family, [-]% tax-free, and officials, craftsmen, etc., [-]% tax-free.

Under such a new policy, everyone wants to join the army and become officials.

Last year, there were more than 40 mu of grain fields, and Zhao Dashan's actual collection of various taxes and grains was about 60 shi.

Last year, there were a lot of immigrants. In addition to the food used by our own officials, the army, immigrants, and various workers, we used a total of 24 shi here, with a surplus of 36.

Zhu Xiangyang finally said: "Now the officers keep a total of 30 shi in grain."

Every year, they eat the old and save the new. This year they sold 30 shi to the opposite side of Fujian, and got more than 50 silver.

"The food price here is close to two taels and one stone?" Ding Yixi said.

"There is severe drought, famine, and high food prices in Fujian, and some merchants sell to Shaanxi and Henan. It is said that in Shaanxi, it has reached three taels, four taels of silver and one stone." Zhu Xiangyang said: "Let's transport some. Make more money."

"No, there are peasant troops over there." Ding Yi shook his head.

Now he doesn't have the energy to do this kind of thing, and he will lose blood if he is robbed halfway by the peasant army, and the local Ming army will also rob him.

It is impossible for him to send soldiers and horses to escort.

In this way, the big officials got more than 50 taels of silver last year only by grain tax.

Then there are more than 200 shops in the commercial street, such as rent and taxes, including block squares and red buildings, as well as shops selling letters. Excluding expenses, the net income last year was 15 taels.

The business in Dufang here is not as good as Denglai. First, there are few people, and second, there are not many rich people. The main reason is that the businessmen who come and go can play.

Then there is sugar refining. Now the annual output here is about 250 million catties, and there are still about [-] workers.

Ding Yi heard that there are still fewer workers?
Yao Xinhan said with a smile, because some new Dutch craftsmen in the Craftsmanship Bureau improved their tools, and then Yao Xinhan took a group of agricultural experts to some places and found that the Dutch planted sugarcane blindly and randomly. Some are planted unreasonably, far from Nantai City, and the planting is not planned.

In the past two years, Yao Xinhan led people to run around again, re-plan, build a new sugar factory, and divide the sugar factory into a brown sugar department and a white sugar department.

The former produced sugar easily and had fewer workers, while the latter produced sugar hard, had more workers and improved tools.

Sugarcane planting is carried out in slices on the principle of favorable transportation.

After doing this, not only the labor is reduced, but the efficiency is also greatly improved.

Zhao Dashan himself sold about 80 catties ([-]%), mainly from Japan and North Korea, and a small amount was sold to Luzon.

The other more than 100 million catties are used to exchange goods, including cattle, sheep, cloth, medicinal materials, iron materials, population, and even Macau guns and other goods, as well as all kinds of wonderful things that are exchanged in the task bar, and then these The goods are brought back to be sold or used.

Basically, the proceeds from the exchange of 200 million catties, in addition to what I used up, can probably just pay the salaries of [-] workers in each factory.

As for the 100 million catties he sells, it is more expensive for him to sell in Japan and Luzon, and it is not so profitable to sell in North Korea. The annual net profit is about 20 taels.

However, as his sugar production has increased over the past few years, more and more merchants have exchanged for purchases, and Japan has also begun to lower prices.

The Japanese like white sugar very much, but Ding Yi also wants to make brown sugar. After all, ordinary people can only eat brown sugar, and the nobles must have a relatively small base.

Most of what Ding Yi sells to Japan, North Korea and Luzon is white sugar, and most of what he buys is brown sugar.

At this time, Zhao Dashan proudly said to Ding Yi: "Last year, the iron pot factory sold a total of 20 iron pots."

Only within the staff, more than 7000 raw and cooked dishes were sold.

Many people exchanged grain for food, and of course Zhao Dashan sold the grain again and converted it into money.

The other main market is Luzon. There is a real shortage of iron pots in Europe. No wonder there were tens of thousands of people buying them in Yongzheng in history.

It may also be that they sold overseas indigenous people. Anyway, 15 were sold to Luzon, and the rest were sold to Japan and North Korea.

The net profit of the iron pot is 18 taels.

Zhao Dashan also said that his task column initially stated an annual output of 25 yuan, but later he found that the production speed and craftsmen of the local iron materials were not enough, so he changed it to 20 yuan.

But last year, the population surged by nearly 30, and the number of workers in iron pot factories and iron mines also reached more than [-]. This year, there may be [-] pots, and the profits will be even higher.

It was the first time Ding Yi saw the profit of iron pots, and he wanted to build iron pots in Lushun.

Based on the number of craftsmen and workers in Lushun, and the amount of iron materials he has hoarded, once he wants to make a pot, it is a terrible number.

But he still quickly vetoed it, after all, he didn't have time to build his military equipment for the time being.

In this way, the income of the senior staff for the past year has roughly come out.

The land tax is 60, the sugar industry is 20, the commercial transaction is 15, and the iron pot is 18.

A total of 13 million taels.

In addition, sugar was exchanged for a large amount of supplies, such as population, cattle and sheep, etc., all of which were not counted. Some were sold and some were used.

(End of this chapter)