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Chapter 527 Merger
Luzon, military guard.

Gao Gong is an old man chatting about being a teenager, and he has been so busy for more than half a year.

As soon as Chen Mu left, all the problems of the Nanyang Military Mansion fell on the little old man's shoulders. Some things he could handle, and some things he couldn't handle, he had to deal with them reluctantly, and his head hurt a lot.

This has nothing to do with talent, the routine affairs of the Nanyang Military Mansion are easy to sort out, but Gao Gong doesn't understand more about technical means, even if he has some guesses, he dare not do it.

"Winter is approaching. Before winter, we will deliver the last batch of grain and grass to Kyushu Island. The next time we will transport grain there will be in February of the next year. Let General Chen Bazhi take care of it. Sending it to Malacca, Chen Shuai has enough rice for the winter."

"Another 22 taels were allocated from the military treasury to purchase rice and grain from tributary countries such as Sulu, Java, and Ryukyu, and to stockpile military guards for emergencies; Ruan Huang from Hue, Annan wrote a letter saying that his The ship port has been built, and merchants from the Ming Dynasty are invited to go to trade. This letter is sent to Lu Haojing and Huang Cheng, asking him to call together prosperous merchants for discussion. Thirty great blessing ship trading routes go twice a year. , shipped as it is.

"The chief officers of the guards marched westward to Burma, and the Nanyang Army's winter exercises should continue as usual. The military mansion will discuss with thousands of households a monthly exercise, and each army will decide when to come to the military mansion for the military parade, and come to the army mansion every ten days. Wei Huicao, this is to be sent to various thousand households, and it needs to be sent by express ship."

"As for Guangdong, well, Guangdong."

Gao Gong used to be the prime minister of the empire, even the most ambitious prime minister since the entire Ming Empire. He tried to restrain the imperial power in the form of laws, re-established the power of prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, and truly determined the cabinet as the country's political leader. The harem, eunuchs, and courtiers were squeezed out at the same time, interrupting political career.

It is not a problem for the prefects of Luzon and other countries to govern, command and train troops. The war against Japan has changed from the most intense battle to the stage of confrontation. Governor Lin Feng of Java has also done a good job. These are all easy for Gao Gong. But what happened in Guangdong gave him the most headaches.

For no other reason, Gao Gong is a person who attaches great importance to authority. Whether he is the chief assistant or the governor of the Nanyang Military Mansion, he has the boundaries of his own authority in his heart. Boundary to do.

But Chen Mu is different. The military governor's mind is very blurred. The imperial court's "Nanyang" is expanding, and apart from overseas affairs, he is still using official power to influence Guangdong.

In Gao Gong's eyes, this is not what the Nanyang Military Government should do, but everything Chen Mu does is to influence Guangdong, and this is not wrong.

If there is a purpose of the Nanyang Military Government, then this purpose is to use overseas forces to feed back the two capitals and thirteen provinces. The Guangzhou Mansion in Guangdong is the only official channel for the empire’s interests in Nanyang. Nature is inseparable.

However, the changes in the Guangzhou Mansion made Gao Gong somewhat elusive, no matter the customs, environment, or appearance there had changed from the places under the imperial court, even Gao Gong could not help hesitating seeing such a situation.

He has been sending letters to Wu Dui of Xuanda, knowing the situation there, Wu Dui attaches great importance to collective labor, pays according to merit, and has the power of governor of Xuanda. Employment and production all show their talents, but the situation in Xuanda is different from that in Guangdong.

There are so many factories in Xuanda that it affects the cultivation of the common people. Now Chen Mu has planted sweet potatoes on the barren land three hundred miles from my hand to Bansheng. Condition.

Farmers flooded into factories to become workers, which was also considered luck. A famine actually helped Wu Dui, allowing Xuanda's big landlords to hire more tenants. Before the Annan War started, those big landlords were called "farmers" by Chen Mu , it sounds a bit encouraging for this kind of land annexation.

But Gao Gong felt that this was a big problem, and so did Wu Dui, because Xuanda's reliance on silver was getting heavier and heavier.

For this reason, Wu Dui also specially asked for an imperial edict from the imperial court, stipulating that the price of all kinds of vegetables from potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice grains to various vegetables should be kept at a constant price, and those who violated the law would be killed.

Xuanda is like this, and it is still under the control of the imperial court, because although there are many factories there, those factories are all directly under the imperial court. The imperial court is easier for the imperial court in terms of control.

The advantages and disadvantages are obvious. When production can be maintained and there is still a market, workers can keep their income in drought and flood; borne by the court.

That is a salary of millions of taels a year, not just a disaster that can be relieved by 10,000+ taels of silver.

But the situation in Guangdong is different. Except for the Xiangshan Shipyard, Nanyangwei Textile Factory, Nanyang Military Bureau, Nanyangweigang Military Bureau, and Nanyangweigang Shipyard, five factories directly under Nanyangwei in Guangzhou Prefecture, the remaining factories are large or small. There are no less than [-] houses, all of which are owned by merchants.

For example, the Foshan Iron Works was jointly established by 120 Luhu iron households; the Xinhui Longhu Shipyard was jointly established by 37 Xinhui Danhu households, 120 four fishermen who were looted along the coast, seven Taoist priests, and three novelists. Longhu Daojun Shipyard is next to the Longhu Zhenjun Temple. Due to superstitious worship, the government ordered it to be renamed.

Most of the factories all over Guangzhou are like this. They are either jointly run by the common people, or run by merchants, or jointly run by unemployed officials and the common people. The relationship is intricate, and with the full support of Chen Mu, all kinds of factories are opened in full swing, and no one has closed down. Risk - A large number of raw materials are shipped in from various places, including overseas, and the products produced are sold to various places. Those that cannot be sold are piled up in Haojing, and there is always a big blessing ship that can transport them away.

With such confidence that comes out of nowhere, people go crazy.

This kind of atmosphere has even affected Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, and Huguang, but most of those places cannot be influenced by Chen Mu, and even if they have influence, their influence is extremely limited. The original industrial and commercial circle in Guangdong.

Immediately following the law prohibiting the opening of factories, people are prohibited from migrating. People are too serious about profit-seeking, and they have to flee to Guangdong to open factories when they leave their homes. However, there is no danger, people are rushing to sell their fields, making land prices lower, and it seems that the country will not be shaken in the short term.

There are always fish that slip through the net. Gao Gong specially wrote a letter to Chen Mu's uncle and master, asking the Shao clan to close the Shao's shipyard in Fujian.

In the past, poor people would become refugees after land annexation, but now the poor people give up being tenants and land annexation occurs.

"Ugh!"

Gao Gong sighed for a long time, he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, if there was no Chen Mu, all the factories would be closed down with just a letter from the court, but the problem was that there was one Chen Mu who didn't say a word Standing behind those factories, he never waved his flag and shouted, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that he was fighting everywhere to find places to buy raw materials and sell products for these mushrooming factories.

The annexation of land, which was the most important thing in the past dynasties, has become more and more serious.

More importantly, just a few days ago, Gao Gong had just ordered that no one in the military guards should send letters to Chen Mu in Burma without permission, and all letters had to be reviewed by Jin Yiwei. He himself dared not write letters to ask Chen Mu these questions.

For no other reason, Yan Qingyao is going to give birth, this matter is the top priority of the entire Nanyang Military Mansion, Mr. Gao is especially concerned, he specially summoned seventeen of the most famous stable women from Guangdong, and the military mansion guards The gynecologists of the two small flags did not dare to let Chen Mu know the news in order to affect his judgment in the war.

"We can only wait for this handsome young man to come back!"

Note: Department of Gynecology—the Tai Hospital changed the [-]th department into the [-]th department in the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty.

Including Dafangmai, Xiaofangmai, Women, Surgery, Acupuncture, Eyes, Articulation, Throat, Typhoid, Orthopedics, Pox, eleven subjects, Zhu You and Massage were excluded.

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