Chapter 677: Devour Siam
This palace gate is a newspaper that is sent by the cabinet, including the palace dynamics, promotions of officials, etc. Because it is copied by the palace gate, officials in the world often have to report this newspaper to pay attention to the movements of the palace and the court. Because of this, the content of this newspaper is often high-sounding because it needs to be verified and confirmed by the cabinet, but behind these regular information, various information is often revealed.
People who can understand can naturally understand it, and they can't understand it and feel boring. But once they understand it, it will often be of great benefit to their future. Following the court's footsteps and seeing the direction of the wind is the most important quality of the court's official. If you lack this, then this black hat will not last long.
And now, the newspapers in recent days have become very interesting.
Amid everyone's scolding, Your Majesty personally affirmed Hao Fenglou. This affirmation was obviously done on purpose. His Majesty said four words in his mouth - "Loyalty". These four words seemed nothing, but it should be noted that in the palace, it is often very rare to praise someone by name in the palace. However, if Hao Fenglou is specially circled, he also added these four words, which is unusual.
Because one person is praised in the palace, especially in the palace newspaper, the second is diligence. The word diligence means that you are diligent and capable of doing things. Secondly, the word honest and honest means that you are honest, ridiculous. For the palace, honesty is higher than diligence, because diligence is only your way of doing things, and honesty involves your character. Honesty people are often not sloppy, and officials can do things. But after all, they are too slick.
Being honest is pure filial piety. The Ming Dynasty always valued filial piety. When the emperor praised you for filial piety, it was almost equivalent to saying that you are a perfect person. You are a moral gentleman. There may not be one such person in the palace throughout the year.
The best is loyalty. Don’t underestimate these four words. In fact, whether it is capable, honest or filial, compared with this loyalty, nothing will be gone.
Besides, after Your Majesty often determines it, the Hanlin Academy will have to make a few articles to follow His Majesty’s praise. Some words are nothing more than how loyal Hao Fenglou is. Of course, such articles are also copied into the mansion. When everyone saw that they were already full of curses, they were too lazy to scold them since then.
In fact, everyone scolded him for the emperor. He just wanted to tell the emperor that Hao Fenglou was so evil, but since the emperor had made the decision, he clearly had an attitude towards Hao Fenglou and could not be saved. If he scolded him again, he would vent his anger. Therefore, the Shilin still cursed, but the envoys stopped.
The will of the palace was sent to Siam.
Hao Fenglou, who was far away in Siam, received the imperial edict more than 20 days later. He did not neglect and ordered Lang Sanwei to join the Wutai people to station in Siam. In addition, the Ming army in Jiaozhi entered Siam one after another, and the overall situation in Siam was stabilized. Therefore, he set off with the Shenjiwei.
This journey naturally requires passing Lang Son. However, here Lang Son is full of joy because of Siam's great victory.
In recent years, Lang Son's trade development has reached a bottleneck. On the one hand, there are more and more workshops, and there are thousands of them. The competition is extremely fierce. The production of so many cloth, iron and wooden tools every year still needs to be maintained by sales. The sales in the Ming Dynasty are relatively stable, but because there are many countries here, the strategies of trade in various countries are also different. Some countries impose heavy taxes on merchants, and a Lang Son cloth is sold. Not to mention the travel expenses along the way, there are many checkpoints, and I don't know how much to eat and get the brigade. When the goods are delivered to the destination, the price has increased several times. The price has increased, but the price remains high, and it will inevitably turn from necessities of daily necessities into luxury goods. A affordable person will eventually turn from necessities of daily necessities to luxury goods.
Not many, and Siam is vast and has a large population, but it has become the best target for dumping. Not only that, after this shock to Siam, do other countries still dare to make things difficult for merchants? But don’t forget that Siam’s charge is to oppress Chinese merchants and block trade routes. If you still look like I was the one who used to be the same as I was holding my hair and I was the one who took charge of my territory, the next time, I will be the one who will deal with it. In addition, basically, the people who are responsible for dumping goods for Lang Son are often Chinese merchants from various countries. Their political status is guaranteed, so their caravans can be safeguarded. In the future, the demand for various goods from Western countries for Lang Son will definitely increase sharply, which greatly alleviates the problem of selling goods between workshops.
On the other hand, hesitating about the capture of Siam, the forest farms of many minerals in Siam will inevitably become the target of everyone's competition. Originally, everyone did not dare to purchase land, mines and forest farms in Siam because no one knew when Siam would change his mind, or if people were doing business in a foreign country, they would inevitably be exploited and exploited by local governments. Now this situation is very different. However, all Han and Chinese have a talisman on their bodies. The merchants in Langsan and even Jiaozhi are rich, while Siam has been poor for hundreds of years. At this time, everyone has silver. It is said that in Siam, a mine is only a few thousand taels of silver, but in Jiaozhi, the value may be ten times. The same acre of land is more than one hundred taels in Jiaozhi, but in Siam, even the fertile land is only seven or eight taels.
At this moment, the merchants in Lang Son went crazy. There were as many as 100,000 merchants here. In recent years, they have been accumulating wealth. Not all people have enough money in their hands. However, Siam is an undeveloped virgin land. This is quite similar to the so-called Hong Kong merchants in later generations. When they entered the mainland during the reform and opening up, these people flocked to the market and set up factories. With a total of one million yuan, they could occupy a large amount of land and recruit dozens or hundreds of workers.
Countless commercial banks have gone to Siam, buying mines and forest farms everywhere. Some commercial banks are rich and are directly smashed out by tens of thousands of taels of silver and enclosing tens of thousands of acres of land. But these people don’t even miss the Hao family. The Hao family’s business has sent people to contact us, but this time they have 500,000 taels of silver and almost purchased a fertile land and forests of a mansion. In addition, they have to start mining, logging and even build some junior workshops, then labor is a problem. It is easy to start mining and logging. Siam has manpower. As long as they supply two meals a day, countless people will be bees.
After all, it is rare for the natives of Siam to have a meal. Working for six or seven hours a day is nothing. However, those documents, foremen and other work dare not entrust Siam people. Major commercial banks naturally have to hire some Han people with high salaries. These Han people are often skilled documents and craftsmen in Lang Son. This time, they assist the managers of the merchants in front of the business. One is that the managers must manage the industry for their bosses, and the Han people of the same language can be used with confidence. At the same time, these documents and foremen are often familiar with production and are managed layer by layer, so that no mistake can be made.
In just two months, there were as many as 30,000 merchants, craftsmen, documents, and even some brokers who flocked to Siam. Since then, there has been a steady stream of people. They quickly merged with local Chinese merchants and Chinese, and they were like fish in water in Siam.
At the same time, even Chen Xue did not sit idly by. With the help of the business, some people have begun to purchase land and establish Chen Xue Academy. On the one hand, they are for local Chinese to study, and on the other hand, they also recruit some Siamese noble children to expand their influence.
There are many people who have benefited this time. The chaebols took this opportunity to make a big profit, and even ordinary small workshop owners benefited from it. Not to mention them, even ordinary craftsmen were recruited to Siam because of a large number of manual labor, which greatly reduced the labor force in Lang San. Local workshops had to add some wages. As for the refugees from the Ming Dynasty, the influx of the inlands was even more powerful. Some workshops even went deep into the inland to recruit people. At present, Lang San was short of nothing, but the only thing they lacked was people.
Such things that benefited all the people and others naturally made people happy. Now that Lord Hao returns to Beijing and passes through Lang San, countless people are greeting each other.
Such a grand occasion left a speechless person.
This person is Xia Yuanji who fell into Lang Son.
Xia Yuanji Liumeng Jiaozhi, now he travels through mountains and rivers, and what he sees and hears along the road is rare.
When he passed through Jiangxi and other places, it was really popular with thousands of people. The local gentry and scholars who passed by were almost ten miles away waiting for his great chariot ten miles away. However, when he arrived in Huguang and other places, there were obviously fewer people coming to welcome him. After passing Guangxi, he, the person who was paying attention to him, suddenly became a phoenix. The gentleman in the temple was worthless, no one paid attention to him, and no one respected him. Everyone thought he did not exist, and the escorts were incredible and complained for a long time, because before that, many people secretly gave these gurus to these gurus, just asking these gurus to take care of the gurus of Xia, but after entering Guangxi, he could not lose a penny. However, when he arrived in Langshan, although no one greeted him, Yang Shiqi and Duke Lu Guo Hao Zheng still came forward.
Chapter completed!