In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 265 Ming Dynasty is still strong
After the bank's deposit and withdrawal business was opened, the interest rate as high as [-]% per year really made many landowners and gentry excited, especially the military attaches who had just moved to Datong.

Although these military attachés were given official status, they had no real duties and no salary. The whole family was living on a daily basis. Not only did they not have any income, but their money was also spent like running water.

Even if the family has a big business, everyone has already been worried, so they immediately responded to the call, opened bank accounts one after another, and deposited a sum of money to earn interest.

Although the gentry and landlords from all over the country did not dare to save more, they all took out hundreds or thousands of taels of silver and deposited them in banks. Firstly, they wanted to try whether they could really get interest after one year. Secondly, they regarded it as giving money to Hua. The National Register of Approvals has been approved.

Although everyone had little savings, they couldn't handle the large number of people. In total, the bank absorbed thirty to four million taels of deposits in a short period of time. In addition, the shops of the Ministry of Commerce in various places also started operating, only accepting banknotes. The banknotes can be exchanged for Yuanbao at any time at the bank, and gradually people no longer reject the Chinese banknotes.

After all, compared to silver, copper coins and Chinese banknotes, it is indeed much more convenient. In addition, it is necessary to collect enough denominations of five taels to exchange for ingots. The bank runs in various places have gradually disappeared.

No matter the common people, the gentry, landlords, or small businessmen and hawkers, they all had more or less Chinese banknotes in their hands.

After Huaqiao's reputation was stabilized, branches in various places began to recycle copper coins, and all the recovered copper coins were transported to the Ministry of Works workshop to cast cannons.

After several months of busy construction, the Ministry of Industry has gradually got on the right track. Simple workshops have sprung up in the industrial zone in the western suburbs of Datong. Several iron ore, copper and coal mines are relatively easy to mine nearby. They were all directly put under the name of the Ministry of Industry.

The Ming Dynasty's steel smelting technology and the steel filling method were already very developed. Lin Rui didn't know much about this, so he didn't interfere too much. He just asked the Ministry of Industry to expand the scale and improve the reward and incentive system.

It is much less troublesome than measuring the land and counting the population. After the autumn harvest, it only took more than half a month to complete the census in various places. Twenty to thirty production centers were established in each state and county. Team.

Excluding the urbanites and landowners and gentry, the three counties have a total population of more than two million, and more than 600 production teams have been established. Each production team has a maximum of 5000 people and a minimum of 2000 people.

Each production team has several different production groups under its jurisdiction. Each production group has as many as 500 people and as few as one or two hundred. Each production group can basically reach three or four acres of land per person.

Lin Rui also retired more than 600 veterans from the field army and served as reserve officers in various production teams.

The Ministry of Industry also allocated some craftsmen to work overtime to build various farm tools, which were shipped to various production teams and given to the people on credit. Tens of thousands of cattle were also purchased from various tribes in the grasslands.

Lin Rui's request to the Ministry of Agriculture is that before spring plowing next year, all production teams must have one farm tool for each household and one ox for every five households.

After winter, the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation also began to send ladies to various places for statistics. Although only one person from each state and county was sent, and it is not known what they were counting, the deterrent effect on officials and gentry in various places was still quite large. Don't take it lightly.

The key is that these statistic ladies are elusive. Under the protection of personal guards and guards, they may come at any time. They do not come in contact with civil officials when they come. They look here and ask questions there, and then leave.

Over time, officials and people from all over the country also called these ladies collectors, and they all understood that these collectors were the king's ears and eyes.

With these interviews, the situation in various places was reported to the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation truthfully. After screening and summarization, Lin Rui also had a deeper understanding of the situation in various places.

With the initial establishment of the production team, a bumper harvest this year, and the stabilization of grain and salt prices in shops across the country, Datong Xuanfu, which had been in turmoil a while ago, gradually stabilized.The gentry and landlords in various places seemed to have accepted their fate. They no longer cared about the land and began to focus on their own shops. Local affairs were all taken care of by the agricultural officers, reserve officers, judicial officers, etc. of the production teams. Taking over the past.

The local gentry could only speak within their own family, but their authority was also severely affected. Many servants in the family also chose to leave their slave status and join various production teams.

Even some small traders and waiters in inns and restaurants in the city gave up their livelihood and chose to join the production team to farm.

Lin Rui has no clear regulations on the division of production team members. They can only be ordinary people. Anyway, as long as they are willing to join, everyone can divide the fields according to the regulations. Those who do not have a house can build their own plots of land. The only requirement is That is, the fields must not be abandoned, and the rent must be paid on time. Men who meet the requirements must participate in half a month of training every year.

This divided the states and counties into two categories of people: one was the local production teams responsible for working, and the other was the landlords, gentry and people in the cities.

The New Deal on the Chinese side has come to an end for the time being, Lu Xiangsheng's recruitment of new soldiers is also coming to an end, and Dorgon has basically settled all the Korean forces, leaving only the Korean Navy still refusing to surrender.

Niu Sao also rushed back to Hetao before the heavy snowfall with her troops and warriors from various tribes, but Wang Pu was left to garrison in Ningxia with more than 1 Ming troops.

It can be said that there was no pressure at all in the attack on Ningxia this time. The army easily wiped out all the Huihui tribes, and the women and children were also distributed to the various Mongolian tribes participating in the war.

As for the Ningxia General Soldier and the military attaches at various guard posts, they did not resist at all and surrendered directly. Lin Rui had no energy to govern Ningxia for the time being, so he left those military attaches as they were and only let Wang Pu stay there to take charge of the overall situation. .

This is also the reason why Ningxia's military attache surrendered so simply.

It can be said that this winter, except for the rebels Yu Yan and Yu Li from all walks of life in the Central Plains, the entire northern Ming Dynasty was relatively peaceful. There were no major wars in either the Chinese Ming Dynasty or the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

But everyone knew that this was just the calm before the storm. Not long after the New Year, Lin Rui began to order the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Logistics Department to transport grain and grass to Zijingguan. The workshops of the Ministry of Industry also worked overtime to build weapons and armor. The reserve forces of each production team also practiced for a whole winter.

Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng in the capital were also not idle. After noticing that Hua had begun to stockpile grain at Zijingguan, Lu Xiangsheng also stepped up military training, supervised the Ministry of Industry, and began to arrange troops at the same time.

Not only did Cao Bianjiao be transferred back to the capital, but Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie were also sent to Juyongguan, and Wu Sangui was also transferred back to the capital.

Wu Sangui was eager for this. After all, he was trapped in Juyong Pass. If the Chinese army came to attack, whether to surrender or not would be a problem. It was better to leave Juyong Pass and wait and see what happens.

What's more, all his Guan Ning cavalry are cavalry, and they are simply tying themselves up in the small Juyong Pass.

Emperor Chongzhen kept urging people from all over the south of the Yangtze River to escort the training pay and last year's autumn taxes to Beijing as soon as possible.

Nowadays, all parts of the Central Plains are corrupt, and the tax revenue from Huguang and Sichuan can only be transported to the south of the Yangtze River via the Yangtze River, and then transported to Beijing via the canal.

(End of this chapter)