Thirty-two smuggling traders in Shanxi and eleven smuggling traders in Shaanxi were arrested during this arrest operation. Such arrest operations immediately caused panic among Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants.

Not long after, the official posted a notice explaining the reasons for the arrest to the public. Only then did a group of merchants realize that the court was cracking down on border smuggling.

Border smuggling is indeed a serious crime of beheading in the official laws of the Ming Dynasty. This arrest by the court has made people unable to find any fault.

For Shanxi merchants, although the merchants involved in border smuggling were caught by the court, not all Shanxi merchants were doing border smuggling business.

On the contrary, many Shanxi merchants were active in the capital and their commercial activities in Northern Zhili were also very active. Since Zhu Youxiao began to stimulate the economy of Northern Zhili and built the trade barriers of Northern Zhili, many Shanxi merchants also made money in Northern Zhili.

At this time, the public opinion trend among merchants in Beizhili had changed. It no longer attacked Zhu Youxiao as before. Instead, it began to praise him because of the profits.

Although the merchants in Northern Zhili were subject to various taxes at this time, most of the taxes were relatively fair. After the economy of Northern Zhili flourished, they earned more money.

Because the arrest was so rapid that there were not many fish that missed the net, there was naturally no resistance. The merchant class was not easy to incite rebellion and other things, and at most it was carried out some small-scale civil unrest. Therefore, the impact of this arrest and house search was quickly eliminated.

Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants still lived a normal life, but soon many Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants began to curse.

Because Zhu Youxiao extended his hands to the salt markets in Shanxi and Shaanxi. The Royal Salt Industry Company announced that it would take over the operation of Chi Yan. The business method was roughly the same as that of Beizhili. That is, the salt was produced directly at the place of origin, and then the merchants were freely trafficked. The price sold to merchants was 15 yuan, and private salt was strictly investigated.

In the whole north, only the salt sales in Northern Zhili are directly sales plus distribution, and the profit margin of distribution is only 2 yuan, while in other northern provinces, the distribution profit is 5 yuan.

As for the northern salt merchants, the main ones were Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants. During this rectification in the north, the interests of Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants were hit by some blows.

But Zhu Youxiao's series of actions next made Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants even curse.

Because Zhu Youxiao handed over all the supply of military rations in the Jiubian to the Jimin Grain Store. At the same time, the Royal Capital entered Zhangjiakou and officially monopolized the transaction with the Mongolians.

The salt business is ruined, the grain business is ruined, and the grassland economy has nothing to do with them.

Although other Shanxi merchants do not participate in smuggling, they may be a link in the smuggling economy. They may be commodity suppliers or purchasers of grassland raw materials.

After the Royal Capital officially entered Zhangjiakou, the exchange between Zhangjiakou and the Mongolians became a complete monopoly of Royal Capital. Fur goods, wool, and cattle, sheep, and camels were all sold by Royal Capital. In particular, horses were all turned into royal capital.

There are also many Shanxi merchants who develop manufacturing, because they do not do business in Northern Zhili, and they suffer heavy losses this time. The Mongolian market disappeared directly and became a monopoly of royal capital. And their commodities gradually began to compete with Northern Zhili's commodities in the north, especially for Shanxi, where the metallurgy industry is relatively common, the steel products in Northern Zhili have begun to sweep across northern provinces.

After the salt business, military food business, and manufacturing industries were hit hard, the Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants were hit hard.

The Shanxi merchants were better. They had a large number of pawn shops, restaurants, ticket numbers and other industries, so the Qin merchants were a little bit miserable.

Because it shook the interests of these merchant gangs, Zhu Youxiao successively transferred an infantry division to Gansu and an infantry division to Shanxi and Shaanxi in less than a month.

Soon the Central Army had an infantry division in Gansu and two infantry divisions in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Such troops were deployed in Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi to maintain stability. At the same time, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang spies were also traveling between provinces. The Shanxi merchants and Qin merchants were silent. They even dared not mention Zhu Youxiao's name in public places, for fear of being targeted by the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang spies.

The troops from the Supreme Command were transferred to Gansu, Shaanxi and Gansu, and soon, under the order of the Supreme Command, began to attack the bandits and bandits everywhere.

While maintaining high military pressure, the Supreme Command began to conduct preliminary rectification of eight towns outside Liaodong Town, that is, verifying the troops, and the Supreme Command directly issues military pay.

Within the Supreme Command, the General Staff formulated a new plan for the payment of military pay for the border army.

"After fully verifying the soldiers, each border army will issue half a stone of military ration subsidy for one month, 1.5 stone of military ration is distributed in the twelfth month, and 7 stone of military ration is distributed throughout the year. At present, there are about 700,000 troops in the eight towns, and a maximum of 4.9 million stone of military ration is distributed every year. If these military rations are transported to border towns, the situation in border towns will be completely stabilized, but the expenses are a little too large." Sun Chuanting said to Zhu Youxiao hesitantly.

"It's okay, this time, the smuggling merchants will definitely get a lot of money and grain, and the court can still get out of these military rations. Anyway, this plan is to deal with it for a few years." Zhu Youxiao said calmly. As long as the border troops stabilized, the peasant uprising would not be able to start, and it would not be the Qing Dynasty as in history. With the Ming Dynasty's "high wall building" strategy, as long as there were no large number of thieves, Jiannu would not be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty no matter how he fought.

We will deal with this for a few years so that the border troops can have enough food. When the situation becomes more stable, we can attack the military officers and powerful people in the border town. You should know that in the past, the border troops were not only self-sufficient in the past, but also paid more than 10 million stones of grain to the court. Generally, each military household had thirty acres of land. After paying a little grain to the court, they could still leave a lot.

The reason why the border army cannot be self-sufficient now is mainly because the land is occupied by military officers and powerful people. At that time, the border army allocated at least 30 million mu of land, and at least half of the occupied land was less than half. If these lands can be recovered, then water conservancy will be repaired and resettled the border army.

Zhu Youxiao was in the capital at this time, waiting for the result of this house search. He still had five infantry divisions, who could reinforce the northern provinces at any time to suppress all unrest.

Once the military ration distribution policy of the Supreme Command is implemented, the border troops will be stable, and basically the central troops sent to various provinces can be transferred back to continue training.

This group of troops is used to deal with wild boar skins.

"The Royal Shipyard has agreed on a gunboat manufacturing plan, and craftsmen will first try to build a gunboat of one thousand materials. At the same time, the platoon will go to Guangdong to recruit red-branded craftsmen, but in the short term, it is unlikely that our navy will have gunboats." Sun Chuanting reported to Zhu Youxiao the gunboat manufacturing plan.

The Ming Dynasty was still able to manufacture the ship type of Westerners. After all, the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was actually not worse than that of the Westerners. However, the ship type of Westerners was not economical enough, so it really had no record of manufacturing and lacked certain experience. If you build it yourself and explore it for two or three years, it would be fine. If you can get craftsmen from the Portuguese, the development time of the Ming gunboats would be much shorter.

Nowadays, trying to make a one-thousand-material ship is extremely simple. European sailing ships are nothing more than changing a ship shape, without using watertight compartments, and then using Renfeng sails to operate. There is no problem in making them, but they don’t have much experience in applying Renfeng sails, and they also need to optimize the design and layout. The main reason is that these things take time. European shipbuilders can let the Ming Dynasty skip this step and directly reach the level of gunboats like Westerners.

"It's too late to go up. Let the shipyard build more large warships and equip the navy. The navy must be able to fight in Fujian within next year." Zhu Youxiao decided to say that if you slow down, Tainan will be occupied by the Dutch. The navy has no gunboats and can only go on. Fortunately, the Dutch have just risen at this time and is also known as naval gangsters. The best at short-distance gangsters is the battle. This kind of combat method that does not play by the routine beat the Spaniards to cry and call for their parents, and there are not many Dutchs in the gunboats. China has been playing such a boarding battle for thousands of years, but it is not afraid of the Dutch.

Although the Ming warships were likely to be "flying kites" by the Dutch on the battlefield, the range of gunboats these days is not far. If the Dutch dared to stop and shell, the Ming navy could completely take advantage of the number of numbers to surround them. If the Dutch did not want to be surrounded, they could only run away. If the Dutch warships could only run away, they would not be able to invest troops into the ground and would not be able to occupy any strongholds.

"Yes, the emperor, at present, there are twelve 4,000-foot warships being built in the Royal Shipyard, and a large ship with 5,000-foot materials are being developed."

"Have the problem of sail lifting and lowering been solved?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"I heard that I used a winch to lift sails, and this problem seems to be solved." Sun Chuanting said, not too much about this.

"Where is the admissions of the Royal Military Academy?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Admission notices have been posted to all provinces. All provinces over thirteen years old, under 20 years old, and children and above can register for the exam."

The martial arts lecture hall was renamed the "Royal Military Academy" and expanded its scale, mainly to train professional officers in large quantities. Therefore, in addition to promoting ordinary meritorious soldiers with culture from the army to enter the Royal Military Academy, a large number of students were also recruited from the outside world. There were no children who were young and were willing to give up their pens and join the army. Therefore, this enrollment was unlimited. As long as they could pass the examination and review, they would recruit as many as possible.

In another two or three years, you will have a large number of professional officers. The military in this day is much simpler than the future market. The military academy mainly teaches some essential things and some combat theories, and then sends them to the battlefield for training, and the cycle does not need to be too long.

If there are officers and enough money and food, the recruits can only be trained for a few months before they can be put into the battlefield.

The search and statistics of smuggling merchants are still in a tense manner. There are too many assets. Moreover, these Shanxi merchants also like to hide things. Some of the silver and grain are hidden by them. (To be continued...)
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