open sea

Chapter 1249

Du Tong, the commander-in-chief of Lima City, reluctantly walked out of the gate of the barracks. Now the soldiers are getting more and more worthless, and he has to trouble the commander-in-chief to come out and make up his mind for anything serious.

Said that the goods from the black market have arrived, Ren Xiaozuo's black market has approved a total of 50 Tongbao from the military camp and has not spent it all yet. How much can he bring back, and he bothered himself to come out for a trip.

He, the commander-in-chief, discussed with the chiefs of the fleet and the bannermen. This time they will do a big one. They will collect 430 Tongbao from the bannermen, and everyone will take out everything they have on their bodies. Just counting on the black market to buy items and turn them over to the military government at that time, according to the general's temperament, he will definitely give them a reward for the banner troops who have contributed money and effort.

As long as they make more money, at least the commander-in-chief will ask them to offer [-] Tongbao and [-] rewards, right?
The 50 Tongbao given to Ren Xiaozuo sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only 500 taels of silver, which is not a lot of money, but the black market has been in operation for six days and has not spent all the money, which means that the business is not easy to do.

If it's not easy to do, they will earn less, so Du Tong naturally can't get enough energy to see the result that he had expected in his heart.

As a result, as soon as he walked out of the barracks, he almost stared out his eyes when he saw the donkey cart after donkey cart carrying objects on the street.

Ren Chang, a small banner officer, stood beside the carriage at the front, and there was a lot of yelling from behind. When he took out a piece of paper, his face couldn't help but his brows brightened. He almost called the commander-in-chief the general he used to call, and said, "Marshal, the goods from the black market, seventeen carts."

"There are firearms, armor, jewelry, utensils, gold and silver, and large animals." Ren Kai turned his head and pointed at the convoy, "These carts, horses, and donkeys are also goods."

"The seventeen carts were all collected by Ren Xiaozuo in the past six days?"

Ren Chang heard Du Tong's surprise, and said with a smile, "Where, these are all collected in the past two days. No one could come when the black market first opened. Ren Xiaozuo thinks it's because people who are close to the black market were beaten by Daming. However, most of them are poor people who can’t afford to live, even if they come, they can’t afford anything to buy our things, so he asked a few people to help him collect things, these are the things those people sent over these two days .”

Du Tong frowned in surprise and said, "Look for someone to help him collect things?"

As he spoke, the chief soldier went around to the first carriage and lifted the brown cloth covering it, revealing a bundle of matchlock guns bundled together, some light and some heavy, and the pistols were stuffed directly into the woven apple basket , he asked: "With so many firearms, what kind of birdman did he find to help him receive the goods?"

"Back to Commander, it's...the rebel army and the noble army in the city." Ren Chang thought for a while and said, "If he can collect these things, it will be more useful than leaving the firearms in the hands of those people. They have no gunpowder now. These guns are nothing more than sticks of fire in their hands."

Du Tong put his hands on the firearms on the board, and nodded slowly: "76 light guns and 270 heavy guns, this Ren Xiaozuo is a capable person, I would have thought that there are still 430 taels of gold on this list, Two thousand, 560 taels of silver and [-] and a half taels, what is the price he gave to the local people in the city? One hundred tongbao, one tael of silver?"

Du Tong calculated in his heart and smacked his tongue secretly, this Ren Xiaozuo is really dark, he doesn't understand business matters, and he doesn't know the market, the darkest thing in his mind is only five hundred Tongbao and one tael of silver. Isn't it okay to double the increase?After all, they sell cornmeal and potato noodles at Armed Forces Square, and Wubai Tongbao can buy 77 catties of yellow noodles.

There is no other food, but it can't help eating yellow noodles, just enough for a few mouths of the family to eat for less than ten days.

Ren Xiaozuo directly increased the purchasing power of Tongbao by ten times, so can the people in the city still live?

Anyone who acts like him will be beheaded in Daming.

"Yes, one tael of gold is exchanged for four taels of silver, and one tael of silver is exchanged for one hundred tongbao. This carload of muskets is less than ten thousand tonbao." Ren Chang shook his head and said, "I heard from Xiao Zuo that they originally used the Spanish ratio. , One gold is exchanged for twenty silver, so now it is not a last resort, others do not want to exchange gold, but they are willing to sell firearms, firearms are soldiers themselves, without gunpowder is considered waste."

"Xiao Zuo doesn't have much money left. I hope the general will grant him another million tongbao. In addition, he has another proposal. He hopes that the general can make city tickets in addition to the city entry ticket. The prospective ticket holders can Exit the city through the south gate."

The entry ticket he mentioned was actually a ticket to enter the Daming District in the north of the city. The ticket was not expensive, one thousand Tongbao per person, but every one or two more silver he brought would cost an extra hundred Tongbao.

Originally, Du Tong established this rule based on his belief that the black market would fix the exchange rate of banknotes at [-]:[-] and charge a [-]% tax.

It's good now, it's a [-]% tax.

The city entry ticket was specially stipulated by the Ming army for those who ran far away. In places close to the Daming District, or for poor people who have nothing, it is actually not strict. The old, the weak, women and children, as long as they passed the quarantine, they could get asylum from the Ming army without a ticket.

Those who are married are allocated houses according to the family, and the government allocates work according to the size of the family's labor force. Those who are not married share the dormitory with other young people, and go out to work in the same way. Each person sets aside a field to work in stages. The government provides food, and the government collects [-]% of the tax in the next two years. After three years, the land will be given to you. The government of Lima City also collects the same tax as the counties of Mexico and Changsheng.

Those under the age of 15 do half of the work and go to the Chinese language school organized by the government to study. If they learn well, they will be given the same rations as adults.

As for the elderly over 50 years old, Du Tong originally planned to let them not have to work, and the government would provide half-grain support for those with descendants, and the government would support those without offspring. , are all Spaniards, he was so angry that he raised the age to 50 years old, and stipulated that the government will provide half-grain support for those aged 60 to 80, and the government will provide support for those over 80 years old.

The original people who co-authored this piece of land were tossed and tortured, and none of them even lived to fifty.

As for occupations such as merchants and craftsmen, Chief Military Officer Du Tong does not support it in principle, but he does not object. First of all, they must study the "Wanli Wanguo Tongfa" carefully before considering doing things other than farmers, or they will turn around Don't complain about being shot dead according to the law.

In short, everyone enjoyed the proper care of Ming imperialism in advance.

"The ticket to enter the city is not enough, do you need a ticket to leave the city?"

"Well, some people have done bad things. People in the city know them and dare not enter Daming District. They hope to go out of the city and go to other places..."

Before Ren Chang finished speaking, Du Tong's eyes were already wide open: "I really treat Lao Tzu as a businessman, let Ren Xiaozuo tell everyone that there will be a ticket to go out of the city, but not now, and the ticket to go out of the city is very expensive .”

"Let them kill each other, this is the ticket to leave the city? This is the ticket for the wicked!"

(End of this chapter)