After more than three years of development, the Royal Bank has spread throughout Northern Zhili and has developed a large number of depositors. At this time, most people in Northern Zhili have Royal Bank certificates of deposit.

It was precisely through the deposits absorbed by the Royal Bank that Royal Capital obtained a large amount of development funds, and the large amount of loans also allowed all industries in Beizhili to develop rapidly.

For example, in the fourth year of the Tianqi period, the scale of the textile industry in Northern Zhili increased by more than 20 times compared with the first year of the Tianqi period. Now all the cotton cloth in Northern Zhili is produced in this province, and some of it is exported to other provinces.

Most of the investment activities of Royal Bank were rewarded. At this time, Royal Bank expanded to other provinces and it was a natural time.

This time, it is expected that it will inevitably obtain generous capital returns.

Jiangnan was the richest region in the Ming Dynasty and the most developed business. The cessation of salt merchant capital caused a certain impact on the Jiangnan economy. A large amount of funds are currently needed in the market, and Royal Bank can provide it. Many commercial activities in Jiangnan area have very high profit returns, and most of them can get returns whether it is loans or investments.

Even if the money lent cannot be collected, there will be asset mortgages. When Royal Bank lends money to the outside world, the review of asset mortgages is very strict, thereby avoiding the creation of a large number of bad debts.

After all, at this time, the Royal Bank still used real silver and had not issued paper money on its own. Once a large amount of bad debts were generated and the depositors could not withdraw their money, it would have a great impact on the emperor's credibility.

After all, this is Royal Bank, and it is under the banner of the royal family, and it does not mean that it goes bankrupt.

Therefore, Royal Bank's foreign loans require asset mortgage. In addition, Royal Bank also has a fixed quota for absorbing time deposits at this time and will not absorb unlimited time deposits.

However, there are still many high-quality projects that Royal Capital can invest in. For example, marine trade, etc., which require a lot of funds, so the quota has not been used up. Going to Jiangnan region to acquire deposits is also a very good choice.

The salt merchant who was seized this time was detained for a while after the home property was checked, and it was clearly a fat sheep.

The merchants in Jiangnan all angrily criticized the emperor for being too ugly and showed strong resistance to the royal capital that suddenly appeared in the Jiangnan region.

At the same time, the call for the Void King system is also rising in the hustle and bustle of Jiangnan region.

The so-called virtual monarchy is similar to the Western constitutional monarchy. To put it bluntly, businessmen want to dominate politics by themselves.

The rapid development of the commodity economy in the late Ming Dynasty led to the emergence of capitalism. These very rich merchants naturally began to pursue higher-level dreams after they had money. In addition to immortality, they naturally became power.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was also destroyed by these merchants. If these merchants could have some money in the late Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising in the north could have been completely eliminated through disaster relief. However, the merchants in Jiangnan were watching with a smile, waiting for the Ming Dynasty to be over. Then they wanted to build a new regime pattern with power belonging to them.

But they thought too well, and the actual situation did not develop according to their expectations.

Therefore, the Void monarchy was very marketable in the late Ming Dynasty, and many scholars advocated this idea, or system. Because they catered to the capital class, these scholars also made great progress and were regarded as guests of honor wherever they went. One-stop food, drink, and fun was definitely indispensable, and maybe there were all kinds of money gifts.

To put it bluntly, constitutional monarchy is also an idea that will inevitably appear after the emergence of capitalism, because merchants have this need.

Zhu Youxiao naturally ignored the so-called public opinion in the Jiangnan region. The real public opinion in the Jiangnan region is that the price of grain is relatively expensive.

The civil unrest in Guangdong that occurred last year actually represented the situation in the Jianghuai area to a certain extent.

Zhu Youxiao’s main goal is to focus on food issues.

In the spring of the fourth year of the Tianqi period, all fifteen production corps were sent out, and fourteen production corps were sent north of Liaodong, which is the Jilin area in later generations.

There is also a production corps, which was sent to Hokkaido.

Soon Zhu Youxiao issued an edict to divide Hokkaido, which belonged to the Japanese territory in the later generations, into the Ming territory, and was once a "Zhendong Province". The reason why he named it "Zhendong" was mainly because Zhu Youxiao hoped to suppress the Japanese forever in the island country and prevent them from coming out.

Now the little Japanese is also closing the country, so let them continue to close their country!

Zhendong Province is not only Hokkaido, but Zhu Youxiao also planned the later Sakhalin Island to the administrative area of ​​Zhendong Province.

In the spring of the fourth year of the Tianqi revelation, Gao Bangzuo was appointed as the governor of Zhendong Province, went to Zhendong Province to establish administration and manage military affairs.

Zhendong Province is still a place of miserable disease, and this appointment looks a bit like exile. However, before Gao Bangzuo took office, Zhu Youxiao summoned Gao Bangzuo to talk for a long time. Gao Bangzuo knew the emperor's attention to Zhendong Province, so he happily went there.

Even in a cold and painful place, it is a rank of officials, and his salary was half raised by Zhu Youxiao, which is not a grievance.

After the spring, 20,000 new recruits from the production corps boarded a huge fleet of more than 200 merchant ships and went out to sea in a mighty manner. They will go to the newly added Zhendong Province to open ranches and farms, but mainly ranches.

In addition to transporting people, the fleet also transported a large amount of production materials.

In fact, at the speed of a sailboat, it doesn’t take long to travel to Zhendong Province, and it can be reached in less than ten days. If it is a headwind, it will be slower, at most half a month.

Traditional Chinese sailing ships are quite comfortable in terms of manned manned ships. There is a boat building on it. You can overcome seasickness during immigration. You can arrange a doctor to follow on the ship.

You can also stop to the North Korean port for replenishment in the middle of the way, or go to the Japanese port for replenishment, but generally you don’t need to go to the Japanese port. If there is an emergency, you can still go. After all, Japan has a trade relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so it is not a big problem to ask for replenishment. Moreover, local daimyos are probably more welcome. They want to trade with the Ming Dynasty now, but the Tokugawa shogunate does not agree.

The fleet arrived smoothly at the South Island of Zhendong Province (Hokkaido). Among the strongholds established by the Navy, more than 200 earliest immigrants had settled here. The food was very easy to solve because there were many fish in the sea. The first batch of immigrants were fishermen. When they immigrated here, they obtained free fishing boats, fishing nets and other production tools distributed to them by the imperial court.

When he arrived at the South Island, Gao Bangzuo found that in addition to fishermen immigrated from the Ming Dynasty, the Marine Corps also captured thousands of Hokkien slaves, and had taught these indigenous slaves some production skills that had no technical content, and was improving the construction of the stronghold.

"We need more contract workers. Continue to arrest them. If there is not enough manpower, transfer them from the production corps." Gao Bangzuo was very sure of this behavior, because this behavior was created by the emperor, and he also modified the word slaves and used contract workers to call these slaves.

What kind of social civilization determines what kind of rule method. There is nothing wrong with using slaves itself, because if these indigenous people do not use them as slaves, they will not be able to integrate into it at all.

First of all, there is a lack of language, and secondly, there is no advanced production skills. If the feudal society ruled these indigenous peoples who were still in a relatively primitive state, then these indigenous people will not only be unable to contribute their production value, but will also become a factor in turmoil.

The indigenous people here in Zhendong Province are different from Taiwan. Taiwan’s indigenous people have been in contact with the Han people for a long time, so it is still feasible to establish rule using the feudal society model. However, the Hokkien people in Zhendong Province can only use the slave model to form rule.

For these natives, it is nothing bad to be slaves. This allows them to achieve food and clothing. To enable slaves to create more benefits, they naturally need to eat fullness and try to make them healthier. So as long as they are willing to work, they don’t have to eat whips.

And they would also give them a row of marriages, catch the female natives and match them, and then give birth to small slaves. In fact, it is the same as those contractors who signed a contract for selling their bodies in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no big difference, so Zhu Youxiao changed the name of slaves to "contractors".

And a rule was also formulated. If these contract workers develop consciousness and want to go out by themselves, they can also work and redeem themselves.

If you don’t make money, just continue to be a contract worker!

After decades and hundreds of years, the descendants of these contract workers have integrated into this civilization and collectively developed consciousness, and a lower redeem price can be issued, and the slave problem will be solved. At that time, those who are willing to be contract workers will continue to be contract workers, and those who are unwilling to earn a salary of two or three years will be redeemed.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao hastily formulated a "Regulations on the Management of Contract Workers" for Gao Bangzuo to implement, that is, during the daily production process, the contract workers should not be overworked and abused. There must be a day off every seven days, and overtime work must be rewarded for food, etc., and these contract workers must be given certain pocket money every month.

If the contract holder of the contract worker does not abide by the regulations, the contract worker can go to the government for litigation. If the lawsuit is successful, the government can issue a certain fine warning, etc., provided that these contract worker must awaken the litigation awareness. Basically, these contract worker will have these consciousnesses when they reach the second generation, and the third generation will have these consciousnesses.

At that time, the slaves and slave owners can play under the rules, and both sides can live. If these slaves feel that living like this is a good life, they can continue to live. If they feel that life is unhappy, they can also find a way to redeem themselves.

The Chinese civilization itself is constantly assimilating other nations. This civilization is not divided by blood, but is defined by cultural identity.

Because Zhendong Province has just opened a province, it does not have a certain number of Han people as the foundation like Taiwan, and its immigrants are not as attractive as Taiwan, and Zhendong Province lacks labor. Therefore, the first thing Gao Bangzuo did when he took office was to order more indigenous people to be arrested and then trained to become contract workers.

The bodyworker should have a gentle and obedient personality.

Therefore, after these indigenous people are arrested, they need to conduct a certain amount of training and then go public and sell to immigrants or enterprises, thus entering the production process.

It doesn't matter if these slaves don't know how to do complex production skills. They can let them do simple and repetitive things, such as killing fish, herding sheep, moving bricks, etc.

Immigration is not very good at doing these things because the labor pay is relatively low. If I immigrate to such a cold and miserable place and have to do such low-paid jobs, then why do they immigrate?

In addition, there is also an advantage in capturing indigenous slaves. It is to eliminate indigenous instability factors so that production will not be disturbed by these indigenous people.

After Gao Bangzuo took office, his main purpose was to manage Zhendong Province well, so as to provide more food and industrial raw materials for the Ming Dynasty.

These are the things that are missing now, and food is definitely lacking.

Industrial raw materials are also short of. Beizhili's industry is now developing continuously, and the bottleneck restriction is the lack of raw materials. For example, the textile industry lacks more cotton.

Therefore, the industries developed in Zhendong Province cannot be the four main industries: fishery, animal husbandry, forestry and mining. Then, some construction industries that meet the needs of local residents can be transported from the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, fishery, animal husbandry and animal husbandry are the main ones. Mining is mined.

Forestry is also promising. The forest resources of the south island and the north island of Zhendong Province are relatively rich, and they are close to the coast, making it more convenient to transport. In the long-distance trafficking of logs, it is more convenient than inland areas in Liaodong.

After all, transporting logs on land is more troublesome and the cost is higher. Generally, wood is cut into wooden boards locally, or made into paper, and then furniture is trafficked for long distances.

Moreover, the Liaodong region is actually developed, and there are not many forest resources on the plains, and outside the mountainous areas, there are not so many large woods. Only Jilin and Heilongjiang are in the north, forestry in these areas have not been developed. The forest resources in Zhendong Province have not been developed, and there are big trees everywhere. Many large logs can be produced.

Enterprises that developed these industries also came to Zhendong Province one after another after the beginning of the fourth year of the Tianqi period. The fishing companies were the most, and they also brought many workers engaged in fishing. Canning factories also came and prepared to produce canned fish in the South Island. Generally, only canned salmon are produced, while other cheap fish are marinated and transported back.

Most of these companies are from royal consortiums, and private enterprises will not come on a large scale yet. After all, the infrastructure here is not yet perfect. However, several agricultural companies established by private capital have come here and are preparing to purchase land on the island to build ranch.

In addition, Zhendong Province has also welcomed the second batch of immigrants, including some technical workers in the construction industry, as well as employees and families of various enterprises.

After these people came, they had made arrangements between the officials and enterprises, and their salaries were half higher than those in the local area.

The construction of ranches on the island is also the next focus. First, the army needs to divide the safety production areas, arrest and eliminate the indigenous people around the area, or drive them into the mountains to dare not come out to harass them. Then the land in these safety production areas is auctioned to various enterprises for investment and construction.

Workers can immigrate part of the worker, and at the same time, they can use a large number of slaves, that is, contract workers.

At the same time, the official also arranged a group of immigrants to be herders. Each household gave 300 acres of land to go? Register and get on the ship! The government subsidized part of the production costs, and the bank loaned them a portion of the money. Moreover, the land should not exceed 300 acres and there is no tax. As long as you are willing to do things, a family ranch with 300 acres of agriculture and animal husbandry that does not have to pay taxes can make the family live a very prosperous life.

About half of the ranches on the island will be used to resettle these immigrants, all of whom are poor people from all provinces.

Not giving all the land to those enterprises for development is also to enrich the economic structure and enhance economic disaster resistance. In addition, immigrating domestic poor people to obtain means of production and living a relatively good life is also an important means to stabilize the situation in the Ming Dynasty.

As for not imposing agricultural tax on these immigrants, there is no problem. What the Ming Dynasty needs is that they produce agricultural products, and as people who are willing to immigrate to this cold and miserable place, this is also the return of their risks. When these people spend money to buy things, they naturally pay the value-added tax on goods.

After all, agricultural tax will still account for a smaller and smaller proportion in the future. In places like Zhendong Province, 300 acres of land are not considered a big landlord.

Zhu Youxiao's group of agricultural tax collections is also the landowners who merged a large amount of land, and enterprises that produced in agricultural companies.

There is a lot of land in a South Island (Hokkaido) that can be used for farming and grazing, with an area of ​​about 18 million mu, which is more than Taiwan’s arable land. Of course, the dimensions are different, and the land output level and type are also different.

With so much land developed, more than 100,000 farmers can be immigrated. In addition to the development of fisheries and urban industries, the south island of Zhendong Province can immigrate millions of people in the future.

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