The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 299 Coffin Board

After the reconstruction, the Jinyiwei spy network spread quickly in the mainland!
But it has little to do with Zhou Tianxu, the commander!

To be honest, Zhou Tianxu's ability is not bad, otherwise, no matter how much Zhu Hongyu trusts him, he will not always let him be the commander of the Jinyiwei of Ming Dynasty.

How important intelligence is to a country, Zhu Hongyu knows better than anyone else!

He will never allow Daming's Jinyiwei Commander to be a waste!
However, Zhou Tianxu's ability can be considered excellent at best.

It is absolutely impossible to do it. Counting from the first Northern Expedition of the Liberation Army, it only took nearly a year to spread the intelligence network to the entire continent!
The most fundamental reason why Jin Yiwei's information network can be spread out quickly is actually people's hearts!
Although I dare not say 90.00% of the common people and gentry under the rule of the Qing court, at least [-]% of them are interested in Ming Dynasty.

In other words, Daming's intelligence work was basically done wherever he went, and there were "citizens" who were willing to help for free.

Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to understand that the intelligence network can be spread out quickly!
Zhu Hongyu fell into deep thought, since the Qing court colluded with the Dutch and the British.

It is still gratifying to keep his business in the Pingnan Palace, but there is no need to keep Macau Port, the stronghold of the Ming army on the mainland.

It is still gratifying to hand over Macau to the Dutch or the real British after capturing Macau, and the two sides will continue to do business.

In this case, Macau is really in danger!

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly to show that he knew it, and he was going to call the generals of the Liberation Army to discuss the matter when he turned around.

Then asked.

"Aside from that, is there anything else?"

Zhou Tianxu continued to speak.

"The Qing government and the Dutch asked for a group of Xiyi shipwrights, and recruited shipwrights from all over the country to start building warships at the Longjiang shipyard."

"What's more, our people in Jiangnan are already preparing to rescue the victims of the Ming history case and invite a group of great Confucian scholars from Jiangnan to Luzon."

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly when he heard the words, a trace of envy for the Qing court flashed in the depths of his eyes.

It is said that building a ship means building a ship, and there is no need to worry about craftsmen and wood at all!
Needless to say about the craftsmen, the vast land and abundant resources of the Qing court really did not come out of the air, and many shipwrights could be recruited casually.

Coupled with the attracting shipbuilders sent by the Dutch to the Qing court, shipbuilding is no problem!

Timber is not a big problem!

Shipbuilding wood does need to be dried in the shade before it can be used, but the Qing court did not lack shade-dried wood.

Of course, this is not because the Qing court prepared dry wood for shipbuilding in advance!

It's because, apart from shipbuilding, the wood for making coffins also needs to be dried in the shade...

The Chinese custom in funerals is that as soon as a person gets old, he will start to prepare good wood in advance and put it at the foot of the wall in his yard waiting to dry in the shade.

When I die, I will use the wood that has been dried in the shade for several years in advance to make the coffin board!
As long as the Qing court could show its face and order the robbery of the people's coffin boards, there would be no shortage of wood for shipbuilding.

So, here comes the question, can the Qing court be willing to show its face?

The answer is yes!

When will I face off? !
Zhu Hongyu took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes and said.

"It seems that this year is not going to be a good year!"

"Order to convene a meeting of the generals of the Liberation Army!"

Wang Ruxian went to deliver the order, and Zhu Hongyu also took Zhou Tianxu to the conference room.

……

Before making Zhu Hongyu wait long, all the generals of the Guangfu Army in Zhenyuan City had already gathered.

All the generals outside Zhenyuan City are already on their way!

Zhu Hongyu's matter Zhou Tianxu explained the matter to everyone, and then everyone showed worry.

Next, the generals of the Restoration Army outside Zhenyuan City will gradually arrive in place!

Seeing that everyone was present, Zhu Hongyu opened his mouth to announce the agenda.

"Everyone must know about the matter in Macau. Shang Kexi, the old bandit, has moved his troops, and the target is probably Macau!"

"Since our army regained Macau at the beginning of this year, for more than half a year, the island of Macau has provided our army with a small income of 200 million silver dollars."

This is still in the case of sharing Macau's taxes equally with Zheng Jun!

Of course, the income of the Liberation Army's less than 200 million silver dollars in half a year is not only tax, but also trade income!
If a tax of 200 million silver dollars is collected in a small Macau for more than half a year, then what the hell is killing the chicken to get the eggs and exhausting the river to catch the fish!
In terms of taxation alone, after sharing it equally with Zheng Jun, the Guangfu Army still has more than 20 silver dollars in its account.

It's not an exaggeration, but it's not a lot!

"Now I'm still happy, old thief Shang, who wants to take away my Daming's Macao, tell Gu, can you agree?!"

Everyone spoke one after another, filled with righteous indignation.

"No, never agree!"

"Macau is my Ming's Macau!"

"Macau must not fall into the hands of Qing captives!"

"..."

The finances of the Liberation Army are currently very ample, even if taxes in kind such as food are not counted.

It can also earn three or four million silver dollars every year!
If it was in the previous Ming Dynasty, such a little tax every year would definitely not be enough.

But the current recovery army only has two territories in Luzon and Qiongzhou!

At most, Hong Kong, Macau, and a stronghold on the Leizhou Peninsula, and the rebel army on the Zhoushan Islands.

The smaller the stall, the less the cost of maintaining the stall.

Even at present, Zhu Hongyu is raising soldiers with high salaries, improving the treatment of officials, rapidly expanding the number of officials in order to decentralize the government to the township level, and doing a lot of construction on his own site...etc. All kinds of generous money.

The financial situation of the Liberation Army is still quite ample!
The main reason for being so well-off is the development of industry and commerce and income from trade.

In the foreign trade of the Liberation Army, Macau, a port facing the mainland, is definitely the top priority.

Because, even though it became dilapidated during the wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China under the rule of the Qing court is still the largest consumer market in the world.

The recovery army develops industry and commerce, and most of the products produced are to be sold to the mainland!

When doing trade with Westerners, the bulk is actually silk, porcelain, tea, sugar and other luxury goods, but there are not many ordinary industrial products.

Because the distance between East and West is too far, the probability of accidents along the way is too great!

Storms, pirates, diseases... All kinds of accidents can kill people!

In this era, due to technical limitations in shipbuilding and navigation, if ten ships set off together, only two or three may return, and no more than half of them will return.

With such an accident rate, if a Western businessman travels to the East, he will die if he pulls a boatload of cloth back.

If you want to make money, you can only do luxury business!
All in all, the Liberation Army cannot lose the port of Macau.

If Macau's annual income of 200 million silver dollars is lost, the entire system of the Liberation Army may have problems.

Without the big market in the Central Plains, many commodities produced by the Liberation Army would have no place to sell, and the development of industry and commerce would be even more ridiculous.

For this reason, Zhu Hongyu even made up his mind to fight a decisive battle with Shang Kexi for Macau.

(End of this chapter)