Regarding Liaodong's strategy, Zhu Youxiao currently plans to use the Guangning defense line as the front and restrain the main force of Jiannu. Then he raided the Jiannu's rear through Dongjiang Town, thus helping the Ming army on the Guangning front line to reduce pressure.

It is always a problem that Jiannu has too few troops. If they want to deal with Dongjiang Town, then they will not pose any threat to Guangning’s defense line. The main materials of Dongjiang Town are stored on various islands. Jiannu’s maritime combat ability is to fight against Wushao. Even if the Dongjiang army is defeated, it is impossible to be seriously injured, and it is even more impossible for Jiannu to rob any materials.

If Jiannu wanted to attack the Guangning defense line to rob supplies, then their rear would be attacked by the Dongjiang army. This strategy was to bully the few Jiannu people.

Under such restraint, even if the Ming army did not achieve any results, for a group of Jiannu who had transformed into a gang of robbers and was not very good at production, just a few years would be enough to put Jiannu on the verge of collapse.

So the key point is that Guangning’s defense line must be strong enough to not be easily violated by Jiannu, and must also have certain offensive capabilities. The other is that the Dongjiang Army must be powerful enough.

Anyway, it is to make the wild boar skin lose sight of one thing, wander around, and end up in vain.

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On the other hand, Xu Guangqi, who was ordered to go to Cizhou to find ore and coal mines, successfully found high-quality rich ore after arriving in Cizhou. Not only is the ore high iron content, but also has a very low sulfur content. Cizhou is named for producing high-quality iron ore. At this time, in the north, its steel smelting is also well-known. There are five or six private iron plants in the area, and these high-quality ores are all in the mining of these private iron plants.

The only thing that was not going well was the low-sulfur coking coal. Xu Guangqi looked around and found no low-sulfur coking coal being mined. He had to take the prospecting craftsmen to search near Cizhou.

After searching for nearly two months, he finally found low-sulfur coking coal in a coal mining area. This made Xu Guangqi overjoyed, quickly wrapped the territory, and immediately returned to the capital to report to the emperor.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was no longer as diligent as before. He basically took half a day in the morning to process the memorials and listened to the information collected by the Jinyiwei and the East Factory. He was with the queen and his two beloved concubines in the afternoon and evening. He only went to the military camp or the Ministry of Political Science and Education every two or three days.

Although working hours have been reduced, because the framework of many things has been built, there are also many things that need to be built by Zhu Youxiao himself.

In terms of capital operation, Royal Bank is responsible for it. Royal Bank is developing very rapidly now, and its capital has been absorbed by more than 20 million taels. However, the funds for deposits have increased by 20 million taels again recently. The funds from the Tongzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Jinshang Piao have poured into the Royal Bank to prepare for a run, so Royal Bank had to tighten its money and prepare to have a tip-on confrontation with the Tongzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Jinshang Piao.

The tightening of money supply has led to a slowdown in the investment rate of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty's agricultural investment. The Royal Agricultural Company's wasteland reclaim has only completed 7 million mu of investments, and a total of 230,000 households have been settled.

Cao Jinyu's Jimin Grain Bank also needed a lot of funds, and he borrowed more than 6 million taels of silver from the Royal Bank. At this time, he had quickly completed his business to the entire Beizhili (Hebei). Due to the existence of the Taxation Bureau, grain merchants in the entire Beizhili were defeated and a large number of grain banks had already closed down.

Those big grain banks are the key targets of crackdown. When the tax bureau collects taxes, it is very harsh, such as grain retail tax, personal income tax, health management fees, and tolls for grain transportation. Under such cruel taxes, these big grain banks have basically gone bankrupt.

And those small grain shops generally survived.

These small grain shops are not privileged operations. They were unable to participate in the purchase of government-dealed grains. At the same time, these small grain shops and small grain shops also have many conscientious merchants. For grain merchants with good reputation, the Taxation Bureau has been much lighter in terms of tax collection. Although the grain retail tax still has to be paid, they still have profits. Moreover, the Taxation Bureau has recently issued a policy, that is, to participate in the charitable activities initiated by the Jimin Grain Bank, and you can reduce the tax rate by half.

The charitable activity of Jimin Food Festival is to open porridge sheds in the affected areas. These grain merchants are willing to contribute to the country, so they are allowed to grow and grow.

Those big grain merchants with privileged operations who can develop to that extent are generally all the unscrupulous merchants who raise grain prices in the year of disaster and will be eliminated.

Jimin Grain Bank's profits are very considerable, and the only problem is that it occupies a relatively high capital rate. After all, there is a backlog of grain from purchase to sales.

The reform of Changlu Salt Field was also under the leadership of Lin Jusheng. In July, 500,000 mu of salt fields had been reclaimed. 60,000 stoves in the salt field were hired by the Royal Salt Industry Company as formal employees, and 2 taels of silver were given monthly. During the peak salt drying period in summer, these stoves participated in the salt drying and hired a large number of temporary workers to produce. In winter, they were responsible for maintaining various facilities, and in spring and autumn, they were reclaiming new salt fields, building salt transport roads, etc. Anyway, they had something to do in the year.

As for the peak period of salt drying, the labor required is indeed a lot of labor, so it is to recruit temporary workers to produce. The salary standard is one or five cents a month, and the wages are settled on a daily basis, and thirty cents a day can be settled. Even if you do half a day of work, it can be settled. This kind of wage is relatively high, attracting many people to work in the salt farm.

Private salt in the Northern Zhili area still exists, but after the reform of Changlu Salt Field, the private salt problem was immediately greatly curbed.

In the past, the canal ships transported cargo from the south to the north, but when they returned, they could not leave the ship empty, so they transported private salt from Changlu Salt Field to the south to sell.

Recently, due to the reform of Changlu Salt Field, the grain ships have no salt to transport. However, this is only a temporary phenomenon. The vacant market is soon filled with private salt again. Many powerful people, even many people, have gone to the beach to cook salt. Although this behavior is illegal, it cannot stop people's desires.

Both Jinyiwei and the Salt Industry Company reported this situation. Zhu Youxiao was already considering whether to open the Beijing camp and use armed forces to crack down on private salt.

When news came that Xu Guangqi found low-sulfur-rich iron ore and low-sulfur coking coal, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed and decided to go to the Royal Military Factory that afternoon.

Yang Guang's side had already asked someone to prepare the imperial carriage, but Tian Ergeng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, hurried into the palace and reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Report to the Emperor, Li Kezhuo, the young minister of Dali Temple, committed suicide by hitting a wall in the Labor Reform Bureau."

"What! I committed suicide?" Zhu Youxiao asked in disbelief, and ten thousand grass horses ran by in his heart. Li Kezhuo was also a talent! He originally planned to use the Red Pill case to crack down on the Donglin Party, but the plan was now considered a failure.

"I was killed on the spot. When the doctor arrived, I could no longer save him." Tian Ergeng said, kneeling on the ground, "I am not good at doing things well, please punish me."

"Forget it, forget it. Li Kezhuo died if he died. He allocated all the young and strong people in his family to mine, and the women were used as official prostitutes." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, although Li Kezhuo was dead, he still had a lot of crimes from the Donglin Party, and he didn't necessarily need the Red Pill case as an opportunity.

But as soon as Li Kezhuo died, the late emperor Zhu Changluo died in an unknown way, and this tone always came out.

"I obey the order." Tian Ergeng breathed a sigh of relief. This time he was really negligent. He never expected that Li Kezhuo would commit suicide. However, Tian Ergeng still understood the emperor's intention. Li Kezhuo was dead. His three tribes should not want to have a good life.

Nowadays, the system of the factory guards in which they have made three tribes seems to not kill one person, but this chronic punishment is even more cruel. First of all, after being held in three groups, the men of the three tribes will be official slaves for life and cannot reproduce. Women in the three tribes, like Li Kezhuo, will be regarded as official prostitutes. For those with a milder plot, the female relatives may be rewarded as concubines and maids for being meritorious soldiers.

Decades later, the three tribes lost their descendants and no more incense.

Moreover, among the three tribes, young and strong people must keep working hard labor until they do not do it, which is very painful and will never make a breakthrough.
Chapter completed!