my days with tyrants

Lao Zhu readily agreed to Yang Feng's contracting plan.

This is a good thing.

In fact, he really didn't want to maintain the garrison of Huiningdu Commander...

Of course, it doesn't mean to cancel.

Instead, the Commander of Ningdu and the Commander of Huining will be moved to Longquanfu. Longquanwei is in Longquanfu City, that is, Hunchun. Therefore, both the Commander of Huining and the Commander of Huiningdu can be moved to Chongjin, so that the transportation will be convenient. , can rely entirely on sea transportation.However, Huining was originally entrusted to the Wudiha Qianhu to which Huiningwei belonged, and they were divided into individual guards, and they were still under the command and envoy of Huiningdu, and they were allowed to trade in Jilin City.

As for the Ming army, it is fine to go to Jilin.

There are wooden rails leading to Jilin, and the transportation to Jilin will be stable in the future.

And after all, Jilin is closer to the south, especially in the south, where stable agriculture can already be formed. At present, military shops, post stations, and road guards along the wooden rails are all reclaiming wasteland and farming. After all, the Yehe tribe can also maintain a certain amount of agriculture in this area.Then maintain a navy there, and the entire Songhua River Basin can be guaranteed to control, not to mention that there is still Yang Feng's reclamation area suppressing it.

The point is that there is no need for a sustained strategy anymore.

In the short term, there is no possibility of the remnant yuan returning to the east.

It was Zhu Yuanzhang who was considering the Western Expedition.

After all, after Annan was defeated, the Ming army did not have any major wars, and the northern armies have not actually fought any major wars in recent years. Now that firearms are widely used, he also wants to see if he can fight hard.

He is the commander of the Western Expedition...

Zhu Di?

But Zhu Yunxi disagreed.

And there is nothing else to worry about.

You can't let Sapphire go up, can you?

None of the remaining generals have the ability to conduct expeditions at this strategic level. As for Zhu Di's current status, it doesn't matter, because it will take at least a whole year for Ma He to go to the East. During this period, Zhu Di has nothing to do, just waiting in Fusang. You can take it over to engage in a Western Expedition. In short, Zhu Yuanzhang has been planning it.

If he can achieve a great victory this time, then Can Yuanzhen can only be driven to Central Asia.

In this way, the Ming army stationed in Jilin, controlled along the Songhua River with the navy, and then continued to keep the Whale Seaguard, which is the farthest but easier to supply, along the coast. With the strategic support of Longquan Mansion, the imperial court can quickly increase its troops by water to Huining when necessary.Longquan Mansion also has the water transportation of Mudanjiang, which is actually controlled by the upper reaches of the Songhua River, the middle reaches, and the estuary. Jinghaiwei is Nuergancheng.

The bases at all three points can obtain stable rear supplies.

Two seas and one wooden rail.

So the control is not weakened.

Costs have plummeted.

After all, Huining is really inferior to Fusang.

The imperial court does not need to invest in Fusang.

Not only do you not need to invest, but you can even rely on taxation to meet the needs of the garrison in Fusang. After all, those chieftains have to pay taxes, and the tax rate is far higher than that of Southwest chieftains. Two thousand shi, but the Guangyida family in Fusang would hand over [-] shi of rice to Daming every year.

He's not the tallest yet.

The highest one is Ashina from Aizu, who needs to pay [-] koku a year.

This is all given by Yang Feng.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised by this.

He didn't expect that Fusang area was actually a high-quality rice field area.

The annual tax revenue is actually higher than that of Yunnan.

Yunnan has 12 shi a year, and Fusang collected 15 shi last year. The chieftain in Yunnan is still reluctant to pay the tax. So far, because the chieftain refuses to pay the tax, the levy is still in progress.However, the chieftains in Fusang paid taxes enthusiastically. Last year's autumn grain was sieved clean, without even sand, and it was the most plump.So much so that when the officials who visited Fusang came back, they were moved and said that the obedience of the Japanese people is the highest in the world, and it is obvious that he enjoyed the happiness of the American king there.

Including Zhu Di was also very satisfied with them. Before the Ming army built the city and built roads there, these chieftains were basically the people.

Eat less than a chicken and dry more than a dog.

The obedient ones are touching.

This makes Huining even more tasteless.

But if Yang Feng is willing to contract, then Zhu Yuanzhang is of course willing to keep it.

After all, he still likes to let more people move there. Of course he is willing to have someone pay him the cost of sustaining it. As for the issue of Yang Feng's development there, he doesn't need to worry about it. Yang Feng's development is also on his land. develop.

In this way, Ambassador Yang won another money-losing item.

And the little princess continued to complain.

Now what Yang Feng has won is basically money-losing goods. Shanxi is still investing, at least in the short term, it will lose money, and it will lose several million a year.In fact, Shanxi has already begun to collect taxes. A tax police team recruited by Yang Feng has settled in Taiyuan, and then with the cooperation of the bank, he took his tax form and collected taxes from Taiyuan's industries and commerce.

At the same time, tax police teams in other places have also begun to form.

But even in such a short period of time, it is impossible to collect enough 280 million taels a year in Shanxi, not to mention the maintenance of the tax police team also requires a lot of investment.

Huining lost money in reclaiming wasteland, and Shuofang Mansion also lost money in development.

It has unfolded there too.

The previous leaders and conductors were all hired by Yang Feng, and then they each took their families northward.

Everything was in Huining's mode, with Yang Feng's other recruited wasteland reclamation workers, to open up wasteland and farm in Shuofang Mansion, King Jin set aside a piece of Yang Feng's own choice to contract for him, and Yang Feng paid the contract fee to King Jin's Mansion every year .But at least so far, it is still in the stage of pure investment. Even if the conditions there are better than Huining, the first batch of grain will not be harvested until this autumn.

And not many.

So now Yang Feng needs to pay for transportation to eat there.

Purely losing money.

Of course there is money.

It's the banks and industries in the capital, but the banks don't actually make much money...

Not very profitable, at least not yet.

This kind of bank itself is not for profit, its existence is the greatest value, but the problem is that this value is for the country, or for her father, purely from Yang Feng's point of view, it is actually a maintenance.It can be said that those factories are the biggest source of income for Yang Feng, but the problem is that there is no patent protection in Daming, so except for some that do have technology monopoly, other relatively low-end factories are already in production. Imitations began to appear.It is true that no one can make mirrors yet, but there are already a large number of counterfeit glass products. After all, firing glass itself is not a high-end technology, and Yanshen already has a government-run glass factory.

It's just that they used to supply glass as jewelry, that is, to get some colorful glazed products for the palace.

But technology is fine.

There are a large number of artisans who are skilled in this art.

So burning glass is really no big deal.

In the end, the income of these factories became more and more unable to cope with Yang Feng's various investments. He had to continue to develop new projects, such as the self-ringing clock, which had already been manufactured. technological progress.

Of course, it's just theoretically making ends meet.

In fact, because of the bank in hand and Yang Feng's famous brand, it can be solved through various methods such as stock offerings and bonds, including direct loans from the bank...

Can't your own land reclamation company get a loan from your own bank?

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang has the bottom line.

If the cash flow is not enough to find him, anyway, he took the main advantage of the bank.

In short, Yang Feng is letting the people of Ming Dynasty feel the shamelessness of capitalists in advance.

Just when Yang Feng finally ended his manic period that lasted for more than half a year, returned to his normal state, continued to play the role of envoy of allies on Mount Wutai, and expanded the scale of the industry, the imperial examination fraud case was also presided over by Song Zhong, the commander of Jinyiwei, and passed the severe punishment. Torture completes the case.Zhang Xin and the others were tough, they didn't confess to others, maybe they really didn't know about it, after all, Liu Sanwu could handle this kind of thing by himself.Among them, except Bai Xinwu, who is the deputy examiner, Zhang Xin and others were actually recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was going to ask them to re-mark the papers. Unexpectedly, they would advance and retreat with Liu Sanwu, and even joined the ranks of playing the emperor like a monkey without hesitation. .

So they're probably just naive.

But no matter what, since they dared to be disloyal, they would inevitably die.

In the end, Zhang Xin, Bai Xindao and others were directly decreed by the emperor to delay...

Unfaithful!
This is already a great inverse.

Not only Ling Chi, but also the barbarians. In short, His Majesty the Emperor once again raised his sword in his twilight years and told the world that as long as he survives for a day, you will all have to kneel down to me.

Or if I can't cure Yang Feng, I can't cure you?
"What the hell is going on!"

Ambassador Yang looked at Zhang Xin and others who had been maimed hypocritically and said with emotion.

But the distance is relatively far, so I can only see the red figures one by one, and I don’t even feel the slightest sense of horror. This is much less than the original history, mainly because the original history also added new divisions. The number one scholar and many new scholars who were selected by Liu Sanwu, because at that time Zhu Yuanzhang had finished the palace examination for them and they were awarded the Imperial Academy, so they were asked to re-read the papers together.

but……

Except for a few of them, including the number one scholar, they still did not win the northern exam.

Zhu Yuanzhang was finally completely angered.

The poor No. [-] scholar was taken to the execution ground only a few days after he did it.

"Now you and the grandson of the emperor are completely bad people in the eyes of Jiangnan gentry."

said the little princess.

"Why, they don't save money anymore?"

Yang Feng said.

"How is that possible? It's one thing to treat you as a bad person, but it's another thing to eat interest on deposits. You're no longer a child. How can you be angry with money? My father doesn't allow them to lend usury, and there are many restrictions on doing business. , besides putting it in the bank to eat interest, is there anything more secure?"

said the little princess.

Zhu Yuanzhang completely banned usury.

After all, this is tantamount to robbing him of business. Private lenders either go to the bank or pay the same interest as the bank.

Moreover, bank loans are very loose, mainly because they are not afraid of paying back...

Under the current strict household registration system, unless you want to leave your hometown as an escaped household, and then find a mountain forest to burrow into, and stay there with tigers and wolves for generations, you will still have to face the bank after all.This is not Yang Feng's own. The big boss is the emperor. If you owe him debts and want to run away, the whole world belongs to him. Wherever you can go, the household department will write directly everywhere. Anyone who runs away due to debts will be treated as a fleeing household. Grab it and bring it back.

You must know that when the Ministry of Accounts spends money now, it also needs to borrow from the bank.

All are family.

Even the cost of chasing and fleeing does not need to be borne by the bank.

So instead of running away, it is better to think about how to pay back the money.

If you really have no money, you will take collateral.

At present, most farmers in Ming Dynasty can mortgage their land.

Not enough fields?

Hey, you have a daughter?

Give your daughter to the bank!

Wutaishan Industrial Park is short of female workers, and Huining pioneers are short of wives. In short, give your daughter to the bank and our account will be settled.

What, you don't have a daughter?
So can my son.

Bachelor?
Ha, can a single person stump a greedy capitalist?

Just pay for it yourself.

The wasteland reclamation team in Huining, except for food and drink, all wages are from the bank, and interest will continue to be calculated for you, and liquidated damages will be added. Even if you regain your freedom, even if you want to work until you are eighty, you have to pay the bank a lot of money.

Don't try to use your meager knowledge to provoke Ambassador Yang's 600 years of exploitative experience.

Modern banks are not yet capable of violent collection. Do you believe that Ambassador Yang can let Jin Yiwei come to collect collections?

In modern times, most of you are listed as a dishonest person. Ambassador Yang can make you have no way to go to heaven and nowhere to go to earth.

Therefore, those usury loans in various places have been tossed by banks. Anyway, it is difficult to find a market for them in major cities and surrounding areas, but when they go down to small counties and rural areas, they will face the problem of collection.After all, they have no ability to let Jin Yiwei come to collect the debt, let alone arrest the daughter of the family to cover the debt. Moreover, if it is not a local wealthy family, they may be beaten out if they dare to collect the debt. It can be said that the risk of lending is very high.And the interest is fixed, Zhu Yuanzhang's law is that usury is illegal and does not recognize the legality of the IOU, that is to say, if the interest is higher than the bank, the borrower can not repay it.

IOUs are all illegal, which means there is no such thing, so why pay back what I borrowed with my ability?

Therefore, those who have a lot of precious money in their hands dare not rely on usury to make money. Doing business these days is dangerous and restrictive, and profits are limited. Just look at the hard work of those salt merchants. Instead, it is more cost-effective to deposit in the bank to earn interest. After all Bank interest is enough.

So it is one thing for the Jiangnan gentry to scold Yang Feng with gritted teeth, but it is another matter when it comes to money. Everyone is an adult and it is not so childish, but this is also the reason why they like Zhu Yunqi more, because Zhu Yunxi followed If the throne, then this system will continue, but Zhu Yunqi's succession will overthrow it.

Open banking.

After all, Zhu Yunqi had a bad relationship with Yang Feng. Although he might not have the guts to deal with Yang Feng after succeeding to the throne, it is inevitable to cancel his various privileges economically.

Once these privileges are cancelled, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will usher in their spring, and they can start the carnival of capital to their heart's content.