open sea

Chapter 1522 Bravery
Qi Jiguang was doing something for which he didn't know the reason.

As for negotiations, he was actually adept at negotiations. He had always been arrested when he knocked on the border. When relatives came to negotiate, Qi Jiguang presided over them.

And to be honest, Qi Jiguang didn't think that the Raksha Kingdom in the outlying land was any different from Chahar to Daming.

He also has experience in covenants, gathering tens of thousands of subordinates, going to the altar to drink blood to make a covenant, writing a sacrificial oration, issuing a bunch of poisonous oaths to declare to heaven, and the covenant will be concluded after the wine is drunk and burned.

He has no experience in writing a treaty and leaving it for future generations to read.

Just like when Chen Mu negotiated a treaty with the Spaniards, it has always been a disastrous thing for Qi Jiguang. You, Chen Mu, knew when you signed the treaty that ended the first war in Mingxi that you would go back on your word. war two.

Then why do you still have to sign?
There is no time limit in the contract, as if it is forever, but anyone who is not a fool knows that this is impossible.

If you rob someone else's land, they must accumulate strength to take it back; if someone robs your land, you will definitely try your best to fight it back.

Unless one party is always strong, so strong that the other party cannot afford the will to fight.

But if it is really so powerful, why sign a treaty?
He prefers to understand this as an armistice agreement.

However, regarding the armistice agreement, the emperor sent a letter from the imperial court to order him some small things, and changing the name of the town was one of them.

The emperor said that this was a request from Dongyang Chen Shuai to the imperial court. He hoped that when the treaty was signed, if the battle had not yet been fought, the fight would continue in the future, so he named the place where the treaty was signed Nerchinsk, which meant that this was the beginning.

Wanli asked all the Korean-Chinese translators and military attaches who graduated from the lecture hall, but no one could clearly understand the connection between Nerchinsk and Shishi.

But it doesn't matter, Wanli doesn't mind changing the name of someone else's family anyway, on the contrary, Dongyang Chen Shuai is willing to help the court solve its problems, I am very relieved.

The imperial court has too many names to name.

In fact, naming is not a big deal, but to be honest in the past, no one wanted to name it, no matter which language is used in the surrounding area, the border people are used to being called names, it would be too troublesome to change them.

And some small places used to have no names, and the officials of the imperial court didn't bother to come up with names. In the end, the local people followed the habit and just named them.

But this procedure does not work now.

On the land of the West and the East, the names of Chiligulu or Balabala are everywhere, which do not meet the needs of users at all.

These things are in the local area of ​​Eryang, and there may be a hundred households in the area. They just named them, but if they didn’t come up with it, it was passed to the court, and the officials in the court were needed to name it. The people in the court really regarded it as something to do. .

Just like ordinary people carefully naming their children, flipping through ancient books that they can't understand, trying to find a good name with provenance.

Especially in the northern part of the Ming Empire, the northern part of the country was particularly chaotic due to the emergence of railways.

Letting the common people name their names according to their habits is simply bad food, such as Jining, what a good name.

Just because there is an export firearms shop there, with the troubles of the world due to the railway in the north, it has become a necessary place for merchants to go out of the fortress, so that people call it the export city.

Unpleasant bubbling.

But let alone, the business of Wang Yue's export firearms shop is indeed getting better and better. It is no longer called an export firearms shop. It was first called Beiyang Export Arms Firm, and later changed its name to the Northern Arms Chamber of Commerce.

The establishment changed from Wang Yue, a registered banner army, to one registered officer and 120 banner troops, and later to [-] registered officers and [-] banner troops. There are two officials from the Ministry of Industry and two from the Ministry of Industry, and one supervisory censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

What remains unchanged is that it is still a subordinate institution of the Beiyang Military Government. In addition to the registered flag army, there are more civilian employees, spread all over the seven towns, guards, and border forts on the northern border of the Kingdom of Jin. In addition to selling arms, there are also training Caravan escort business.

The meaning of the existence of the Northern Arms Chamber of Commerce has changed from increasing income for the Beiyang military government to a cash cow for Wanli to kill two birds with one stone in the north.

Its expansion from shops to commercial banks and then to chambers of commerce is inseparable from the support of Wanli. One of the reasons is that the investigation by Jin Yiwei found that the price of firearms exported by the shops was close to ten times the cost, and the goods were armed with new firearms by the Beiyang Army. , The old goods that have been eliminated are recycled, only the freight cost.

In the past, such things could not be done. Transporting a batch of firearms from the southern guard to the north was basically the same as the cost of materials.

But it is different now. The railways in various places are in full swing, which greatly reduces the cost of land freight. Even the iron and steel mines of various guards are gathering in Beiyang.

In this way, Wanli believes that exporting firearms is indeed profitable.

On the other hand, as the construction of the railway outside the northern mouth is getting better, the situation in the vast world is getting more and more chaotic, and the big rogues will be quickly cut off almost as soon as they appear.

However, small groups of horse thieves emerged one after another, and it was difficult to count on the army to calm down, which brought a lot of trouble to the merchants and also caused a lot of losses to the court.

Even in the 11th year of Wanli, there was a major case of the Qinglong Army column being hijacked by horse thieves.

A group of horse bandits raided a line of green dragons carrying grain to the west at night, and then rushed to tie up all the workers and put them on the side of the road before the road guard arrived.

A section of the railway track was removed, and the big green dragon was taken off the track. The dragon's head was pulled by twelve horses, and it galloped across the Mongolian grassland with whistling black smoke—it directly became a mobile camp for horse bandits.

From then on, Wanli really came up with the idea of ​​controlling the mob with good people, and took out 27 silver from the internal treasury to become a shareholder of the chamber of commerce, allowing it to expand rapidly, and increasing support for firearms to foreign merchants.

Jinyiwei was assigned to inspect and inspect the various commercial stations outside the mouth to collect and publish information such as the portraits, characteristics, and scale of the horse bandits. The annual reward was 20% of the dividend from the Northern Firearms Chamber of Commerce. The reward was released in Jining. The brave team of [-] people registered and arrested them by themselves, and undertook the task of protecting the road.

In fact, this is because Wanli has absorbed the experience of the Eastern military government using merchants to run rampant in the Pacific Ocean. Everyone knows that there are many powerful people in this world. There is a red line for checkpoints. When entering, you have to abide by the law. Not only do you want to go out, but also provide logistics for you. work well.

The most important point is that all the strongholds of the Firearms Chamber of Commerce are set up on the northern border of the Jin Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty. Even if these people are used to being wild and come back to make trouble, there is the Jin Kingdom founded by Altan Khan as a buffer.

It's just that in this way, Wanli followed his wish, and the incident of robbing the train outside his mouth would basically not happen, but correspondingly, the outside world was indeed getting more and more chaotic.

(End of this chapter)