Chapter 612 Pirates of the Beibu Gulf
"Dongliang, I want to launch a plan... the Pirates of Beibu Gulf, let you preside over the presidency." Wang Ju said.
The so-called Beibu Gulf Pirates, this name is purely a spoof of Wang Ju.
But its significance is much more important than Captain Jack's spoof adventures.
After Wang Ju finished speaking, he handed over a bag, which contained a few pieces of paper, which was his Beibu Gulf Pirates Plan.
After reading it, Lu Herang asked in confusion: "Is Jiaozhi so powerful?"
"How to say, if their army arrives at Guangdong and Guangxi Road, my dynasty is prepared, then it is not powerful at all. It's just a group of monkeys." Wang Ju said sarcastically. Then he said, "However, when my dynasty army penetrates into Jiaozhi, it will be very troublesome. First of all, the weather is hotter, not only hot, there are many rivers and dense jungles. It is a real jungle, and the thick shade can almost cover the sun."
Lu Herang had been to Jiaozhi and knew it well, so he nodded.
"Just talk about overseas. Why do I repeatedly warn that we should not go deeper under this terrain? In fact, those overseas tribes have more civilizations and more backward weapons. It is precisely because of this terrain that when we are not familiar with the terrain, they will inevitably cause major casualties. Moreover, it is Jiaozhi, their civilization is not weaker than our dynasty, and their population is larger, all kinds of crafts are gradually mature, and the system is perfect. This is not terrible. What is terrible is the rise of a large army. In the past, when the Tang Dynasty was conquered in the southeast of the river, the humid and hot weather caused the army to grow malaria, and it was the more humid and hot Jiaozhi."
That way, it makes sense.
There are also forests in the north, but they are mainly fallen leaves and conifers, and there are fewer bushes in various mountains and forests.
However, the tropical rainforests in the south are different from the jungles in the north.
Lu Herang asked again: "How did you conquer it before?"
"In the past, their civilization was even more backward and sparsely populated. Just like the tribes in the jungle overseas."
In fact, it cannot be said to be tribes. It can be said to be countries. However, these countries are very small, like the archipelago of Feihou, now there are at least one thousand countries of all sizes. Therefore, compared with the Song Dynasty, they can only be considered tribes.
"But it's different now, so I repeatedly ordered that immigrants should not intermarry with foreigners. After all, the population base is too small now, so intermarrying. On the other hand, they will be assimilated by them. Because of their different bloodlines, they will become the second Jiaozhi if they don't get it right in the future."
When Wang Ju talked about this, he was a little worried, but his bloodline was the same, wouldn’t he really have a second Jiaozhi?
But this cannot be thought of, so far away.
"And the court's generals are not familiar with the south. If they despise the expedition in the land, even if they are undefeated, they may not be able to achieve full success."
"Zi'an. Are you planning to go to Guangnan?"
"Yes, it's best to avoid it for a few more years. After Guangnan makes contributions, it's the best time to return to the court."
Why did Wang Ju have this plan? Let’s see why Wang Anshi stepped down. Once Zhao Xu learned Wang Anshi’s method, the country’s abundance gradually disappeared. However, Wang Anshi’s reforms were in power, so he would definitely not be tolerated by Zhao Xu.
This explains why Wen Yanbo has been hindering Wang Anshi in the court. About next year, after Wang Anshi came to the capital, he was immediately dismissed from prefecture soon.
First, Zhao Xu could not tolerate the emergence of new powerful ministers in the court, and second, the reform brought opposition from many people, which happened to take down Wang Anshi, using this to offset the anger of some people.
Wang Anshi became a victim...
This is the truth. Zhao Xu was a strong emperor with a strong desire to control himself, otherwise he would not have been reorganized. Why is reorganized? It is nothing more than to further concentrate power.
What can you do under such a king?
Because it caused countless disputes in the court, it would be better to do more things in the local area. In fact, Wang Ju set up countless retreats in the overseas world, including retreat, huge economy, and other resources.
Therefore, going to the court later is beneficial.
Don’t talk about friendship, as a king, how much friendship can you have?
Thinking of this, Wang Ju murmured: "Where did Han Qi kill anyone?"
If it weren't for Han Qi, how could Zhao Xu have such a tragic preventive mentality?
"Han Gong..."
"Don't worry about him, they are already the former waves of the Yangtze River, and they will all die on the beach soon. There is still some information here, so you can take a look."
Wang Ju handed over another bag, and there was more information in the bag.
"Zi'an, where do you need Ding Zhuang now?" Lu Herang said after looking for a long time.
Many ministers dared not speak out about the large-scale immigration initiated by Wang Ju, and some people were opposed. However, not many people thought about the process and even thought it was easy.
That's that easy?
After Wang Ju arrived in Quanzhou, he immediately did a few things.
First of all, we will win over many powerful people and participate in the navigation to make them profit. Of course, we will still follow the main channel, that is, trade with the South China Sea countries near Malacca, and far away are the areas around Tianzhu, Dashi and East Africa.
The role of Wang Ju is to tie them together. With more people, the power will be greater, and it will have a certain protective effect. He will no longer be afraid of pirates at sea, or that he will no longer be afraid of extortion from some small overseas countries.
However, the King of the Waterway in the southeast direction was not given up, and there were too many secrets in that direction.
This is one of them. Secondly, because of the increase in trade, Wang Ju also has the foundation to promote the development of various workshops, not only the shipbuilding industry, but also various daily necessities, including ceramics, utensils, fruit preserves, tea, etc., so it quickly boosted the manufacturing, transportation, commerce and planting industries, allowing these powerful people to release from their low land income.
Don’t conquer the poor poor farmers anymore, how much wealth can you add to you?
At the same time, we build roads in the name of donations.
It was not only promoted in Quanzhou, but also to nearby Zhangzhou, Tingzhou, Nanjianzhou, Xinghua Army, Fuzhou, and Shaowu Army. This year, several mountain roads have been re-expanded, so that Qianzhou and Jianchang Army on Jiangnan West Road are also connected to this business circle.
Only by letting everyone eat meat together, including the officials' fiscal revenue, is equivalent to achieving political achievements, and the income of the powerful troops of the state army increases. Then the opposition will be reduced.
Even Wang Ju did something shamelessly and pulled the temple into it.
What should I do? The Song Dynasty monks publicly yelled at the cost of money. There are many temples on Fujian Road, so it would be a big trouble to make money without these monks.
Sometimes when Wang Ju saw these great monks, he couldn't help but think of the Abbot Shi from Shaolin Temple in his previous life...
Just understand it, otherwise it would be even more depressing to see monks greedy for money.
Fortunately, after several years of accumulation, ten merchants and Wang Ju himself have a large number of economical people and managers who can do things independently, and even Wang Ju even secretly hired a group of disabled veterans who were disabled and retired.
Although they are disabled, their combat experience is still there. At least they can train all the soldiers and become familiar with the weapons in their hands as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, if this big stall is not done well, it will be a mess.
This is a side of win over.
Some people want to eat bear paws, but they are unwilling to let go of the fish.
Then you're welcome.
Now Wang Ju has many available talents, which is far beyond anyone’s imagination. However, these people cannot be placed on the table.
After their secret investigation, they took these people's crimes, including monks, and thought about it, even if the Buddha Tathagata sat in front of them, there would be something unclean under their hands.
Then either report to officials from various states and counties, or support the victim's lawsuit until these powerful men are destroyed.
In the first and second year, these powerful men did not notice it. Seeing that with Wang Ju's support, various maritime merchants kept migrating the people overseas and impeached Wang Ju through various channels. However, Wang Ju came to Quanzhou tragically and was very strong. In addition, the officials of nearby prefectures and counties benefited from Wang Ju's push, and their opposition voices were invalid. As a result, these powerful men fell one by one inexplicably.
After a long time, you are not a fool. If you don’t give up that fish, you will be at risk of death. So why not eat more delicious bear’s paw and give up this piece of fish?
As a result, more people were invested in this circle of interests, and everyone's interests were woven together, and a net was invisibly woven, and the voices of opposition gradually disappeared.
Of course, there are still people who are unhappy. The people who moved by Wang Ju are all poor households, and there are some more pitiful refugees, fugitives, and hidden households. These people can exploit them as much as possible and migrate together, and there will be no cheaper people to farm lychees for them.
Therefore, some smart people lured poor people and fugitives from Jiangnan West Road.
This Wang Ju did not object and even wanted them to do so, because only in this way can the people in more areas be further evacuated.
In short, under the leadership of Wang Ju, this area was very lively.
Fortunately, it is Wang Anshi's reform now. When evaluating political achievements in the financial assessment, most officials pretend not to see it. Anyway, whether it is good or bad, even Zhao Xu as the emperor cannot tell clearly, let alone them.
But why did Lu Herang say that he wanted to be Ding Zhuang?
In the household book, Wang Ju did not migrate many people, 20,000 households, less than 60,000 people, which is mostly in difficulties in family matters. So the eldest son stayed behind to inherit the family business, and the second son went overseas. Although there were 20,000 households, more than half of the relatives of the 20,000 households were still in the inland, and only some of them moved overseas. However, these people were very well-deserved, and Ding Zhuang accounted for the majority of the proportion. When they went overseas, they were not as glorious as they imagined. Although there was indeed a lot of arable land, which was too much for them to imagine, and their income was also very high, everything had to be repeated, and they had to fight with the local indigenous people to compete for territory. Therefore, Ding Zhuang must be the main focus.
In addition, there are more than 20,000 households who have hidden their families and fled, and the number of these households is even greater, with more than 90,000 people. But they are not included in the household registration.
Moreover, there are so many hidden houses in the south that Wang Ju was unexpected.
Many old people are still wearing boy buns to escape the country's taxes and services. I am not a young man, but a minor...
Although the imperial court sent officials to plunder the hidden households on Jiangnan West Road and Liangzhe Road, a large number of hidden households and evacuated households have now been generated. Because officials on Fujian Road have not plundered, there are more.
However, if the court household registration is not included in the court household registration, his fate is even more tragic. Since he is not included in the household registration, he is not protected by the state, so all the main households will be exploited to the fullest. In fact, there is no way to do this. In ancient times, when productivity was very backward, this situation would be inevitable once the population expanded.
But in general, Ding Zhuang accounts for the majority.
But now it is gradually stable. Once it is stable, it is at least much better than living in the inland households below the fifth grade.
So some people proposed to take over their family members.
Zhang Quanzhi took the victims of Mizhou to the other side of the ocean, and Tao Qing secretly went to Runzhou.
Where most of the ships belong to Wang Ju and ten merchants in Yanzhou, Wang Ju accounts for 70% of the shares. In fact, the current wealth income has numbed the ten merchants. Why do you need so much money? Can you spend it all? But for Wang Ju, wealth is the better.
Some of them were to go to Japan, which was also a long time ago. At Wang Ju's reminder, Liu Shaoxian deliberately went to Japan and found two silver mines. The storage volume was not large, and the output was not too high. However, with this basis, we can continue to search. Trade must be equal. These countries are too poor compared to the Song Dynasty, so we have to form a situation of copper coins outflow.
So Wang Jucai promoted the use of ships to pull the wood from Japan to Mizhou, and combined with silver mines, which can increase the transaction volume and at least prevent some of the copper coins from flowing out. Moreover, the arrival of these silver will increase the currency of the Song Dynasty.
The foundation of the bank must have sufficient currency, and Jiaozi cannot adapt to the people for the time being, so the silver in Japan is actually very important. Why did the Ming Dynasty use silver as currency and obtained a large amount of silver from Japan? Once there was too much silver, and with copper coins, there would be no shortage of currency. Then, using some means would truly promote the economy of the Song Dynasty, and even theoretically achieve what Wang Anshi said, the people did not increase their taxes and the country would use it for their own use.
But it won't work now.
Moreover, sailing now requires more money. For example, the biggest income is jewelry and spices. This was acquired by Maritime Corporation. However, Maritime Corporation does not pay copper coins, but mostly pays for related commercial goods.
Does Wang Ju want so much commercial goods?
Once the navigation further expands, sufficient currency, including silver, must be required! With silver, it must go through a series of dazzling turnovers before it can be transferred to Wang Ju.
In short, its complexity is more serious than everyone thinks.
This has nothing to do with Ding Zhuang.
Moreover, this transaction was mostly exchanged for high-priced food from Japan, but as long as these ships belong to Wang Ju, they would have to be taken to the other side.
So Wang Ju made a series of arrangements, and if there are family members, especially their wives, inland, they should try to bring them as much as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible. Otherwise, the strong-wedding person would prevent them from intermarrying with foreign races, and things would happen if they were long.
Then Wang Ju sent someone to secretly buy some girls. When the disaster came, he had to sell his children. Wang Ju couldn't save the children of a few years old. There were too many, and there was no way to save them. Besides, if you don't save them well, you will be impeached. Why bother?
Therefore, I could only buy some teenage girls with money, and the price was pitifully low, often only a few cents of money, and it was not worth the price of a cow.
After buying it, they gradually moved to Jiangnan. Then they waited for the ships to unload the grain, sailed to the river and temporarily moored. Then, with the help of the night, they secretly transferred these girls to the Shanghai ship and took them to the other side to match them with the unmarried Ding Zhuang. However, Wang Ju repeatedly warned that these girls must be allowed to voluntarily and not forcefully matched.
Because I was afraid of being impeached, I had to do a secret. I bought not many female speakers, only a few hundred people. But in Quanzhou, there are mostly elderly and children. Of course, this is a constraining side, but if there is no official uniform on my body, there will be these conveniences. Therefore, things have two sides, the advantageous side, the disadvantage... This cannot be complained about.
These ships can still transport 30,000 to 40,000 people, but there are very few Ding Zhuang.
But to implement Wang Ju's plan, there must be more Ding Zhuang. Therefore, Lu Herang is a little puzzled. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!