The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 639

[639. Chapter 618: Folks are going to make a fortune]

Fang Jifan could see the embarrassment in Zhu Houzhao’s face.

It’s like a master who suddenly discovers that his secret skills have been usurped by others.

Shrugging, Fang Jifan was helpless about this.

A few days later, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince got married. No one paid attention to this wedding, and the Crown Princess Shen was said to be dignified, but Fang Jifan had never seen what she looked like.

Thinking about the fact that Mrs. Shen had just walked through the door with the green prairie on her head, Fang Jifan himself didn’t know how she would feel. When she woke up, she saw seven women touching her belly. What would she feel like? Feeling, if one of them is still nearly thirty years old, in this era, he can almost be her mother, then…

So Fang Jifan looked at Shen Ao’s expression, which was strange.

However, Shen Ao was very happy that the Shen family was about to give birth to a queen. Although she was still the Crown Princess, His Royal Highness was also someone he admired very much.

But at this time, he had to pack his bags, and together with Yang Biao, he took more than two thousand soldiers from the Flying Ball Battalion and set off. Countless flying balls were packed into hundreds of carts. In addition, There was also countless fuel. In order to set off, Xishan recruited thousands of cattle and horses, as well as more than 900 farmers.

The mighty team is heading south. They will arrive in Guizhou in three months after traveling through mountains and rivers.

At the same time, the Beiwa guards far away in Ningbo have also received orders.

Ningbo prepared Japanese guards and recruited more than 1,500 people from Yiwu and Yongkang who had been poor for 18 lifetimes. After all, in this era, people who have been rich for 18 generations are relatively difficult to find, but this poor man who has been poor for 18 lifetimes is more difficult to find. , but it is all over the mountains and plains.

Biwawei’s treatment was good, and as soon as he heard that he wanted to recruit people, people rushed to join him.

After several months of training, fishing, and whaling, these people have grown up rapidly.

There are seven warships in Beiwawei. In addition, there are six ships specialized in fishing. The fish production has been increasing steadily.

Almost every month, as many as 70 or 80 giant whales are brought back from overseas. In this bay, aquatic product processing workshops have been built one after another. Countless farmers have become slaughtering craftsmen. There are many nearby Specialized wax-making workshops, and at the same time, workshops specializing in the processing of whale skin, whale bones, and whale meat have also sprung up.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the taxes of Ningbo Prefecture have skyrocketed, so much so that the Ministry of Revenue has also shown support for Ningbo Water Village.

On the one hand, there is a large amount of aquatic products, which can replace food. People in the south of the Yangtze River eat more fish, and the demand for rice will naturally decrease. In addition, the most gratifying thing is the sharp increase in silver taxes.

This Ningbo mansion can now bring a salt tax of 500,000 taels to the court every year.

This… is an extremely scary number.

You know, the main taxes in the Ming Dynasty came from physical taxes. For example, for farmers, the court collected grain taxes, and grain taxes were grain. For merchants who made cloth, the court adopted a method of drawing one out of ten and directly levied cloth; for silk, silk was taxed.

Therefore, Ming Dynasty’s tax and silver income was not much. Two to three million taels a year was considered a lot.

The lack of silver in the court was actually quite embarrassing, so much so that most officials and sergeants issued horses and charcoal as their salaries, and even the court simply used Ming Dynasty treasure notes to pay their salaries.

The five hundred thousand taels of silver brought by Ningbo Prefecture a year greatly alleviated the embarrassing situation of the Household Department.

Because the court’s main tax revenue came from salt and iron, such as salt, the court adopted a monopoly system. When salt was produced, salt merchants were required to exchange silver for salt before they were allowed to sell it.

Because of this, the price of salt has remained high, and illegal salt sales have been rampant. Therefore, the salt tax has not increased since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but has become less and less. The situation in Ningbo Prefecture is different. A large number of fishermen After the fish comes ashore, it needs to be processed and made into salted or pickled fish to ensure that it will not spoil. The demand for salt is extremely huge. Some workshops use hundreds of kilograms of salt every day, and this, Almost all official salt is used. After a large amount of salted and pickled fish are prepared, they are sold inland or in the capital. The sales volume is surprisingly good. Although the price is high, the cost of yellow croaker is low after all, even if official salt is used. Salt is also profitable.

In this way, Shuizhai made a lot of money, the gentry in Ningbo Prefecture made a lot of money, the salt merchants made a lot of money, the transshipment merchants also made a lot of money, and even the court also made a lot of money. Got a sum of money.

Millions of kilograms of salted and pickled fish are sold every day through various channels into households all over the world. Even in the military, they like to carry such fish as dry food. After all, they have a long shelf life. , and with this salted fish, it can actually be eaten instead of salt. When making porridge, cut off a small piece of salted fish meat and put it in. Not only does the porridge taste much more delicious, but you don’t even need to add salt. It can be said that it is a home-like meal Good fish is a must-have when traveling.

The military order from the Zhenguo Mansion was conveyed to Shuizhai.

Tang Yin took a breath of cold air.

This place is thousands of miles away from Annan. For this attack, he never expected that his mentor would actually use the power of Shuizhai.

Fortunately, the hydrological conditions of Annan had already been clearly understood by Xu Jing, who went to the Western Ocean, so the navigation route was not a problem.

Tang Yin ascended the throne, summoned military attachés from all over the water village, and issued orders.

After that, all sailors were called to the school grounds and began to issue orders to fight in Annan.

Qi Jingtong, who had returned to Shuizhai from the capital, read the military order on the spot.

In an instant, the sailors were so excited that they cheered.

Some people knelt down on their knees, scratching the sand and gravel on the ground with their hands, and cried bitterly with excitement.

The screaming sailors had tears in their eyes.

Finally… the wait is here.

Especially the new recruits.

They did not catch up with the good time to fight against the Japanese pirates.

Those were the happy days that the veterans boasted about for half a year.

A Japanese pirate head was just one day’s income from fishing in the past, and they swept all the overseas islands. How many veterans directly sent money home to build houses based on a battle to annihilate Japanese pirates, and they didn’t build thatched houses with rammed earth. They use all blue bricks and red tiles, and even the beams are made of big wood.

Now…it’s finally here.

Although fishing is a good income, after all, the income is visible after a month. In other words, this makes life fade away.

But going to Annan, or even fighting, is different.

The new recruits were eager to try, while the veterans thought of their glorious years and shed tears on their armor.

Every time, at this time, Qi Jingtong couldn’t help but recite his mantra: “Don’t be excited, everyone, don’t be excited. We are going to Annan, thousands of miles apart, and fighting will take place in a few months. For now, we still need to be patient. There is no need to rush to attack, we still need to focus on fishing and wait for the order to attack; now to convey the general order is to ask your orders to step up their training in preparation for unexpected events. The Annan people’s fighting methods are different from those of the Japanese pirates. From today on , the training methods must be different…”

He roared hysterically, but this voice was quickly drowned out by the cheers and howls.

A head is money, and money means that one can marry a wife, have children, buy land, build a house, and glorify the village.

The sailors can almost see the foundation of their own mansions, can imagine what their children will look like, and have even begun to name their own grandchildren.

Qi Jingtong had no choice but to spread his hands and look at Hu Kaishan.

Hu Kaishan was naked, and the pectoralis major muscles on his chest trembled, and then he let out a lion’s roar: “*You*, shut up for me, you are a bunch of damn poor ghosts, thinking about your mother-in-law and your mother-in-law all day long. Zhaizi, why don’t you think about the teachings of Tang Shixue and Qi Qianhu? Let’s think about something healthy, such as serving the court or serving the country?”

All of a sudden, the sailors became quiet, and everyone was like a quail. Generally speaking, looking at Hu Kaishan.

Only then was Hu Kaishan satisfied, and he said to Qi Jingtong: “Okay, Qi Qianhu, let’s talk about it next. Tell us about things other than getting a wife, having a baby, buying land, and building a house. They don’t like to hear it. I like to hear it!”

Qi Jingtong: “…”

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Guiyang.

The horse has arrived and the medicine has been delivered.

Fang Jinglong is seriously ill and cannot afford it. All matters in and outside Guiyang are decided by Mrs. Liu.

My wife was a rebel, but she controlled the overall situation of the rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of native men, women, and children were dispatched by her.

Now, after marrying Fang Jinglong, he has also witnessed and heard the situation in the army of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he issued orders one after another. Therefore, despite the current epidemic, the situation in the army is still stable.

Mrs. Liu was very worried about her husband’s condition. The disease was so terrible that the doctors in the army were completely helpless, and the so-called local doctors had tried their best, but still had no results.

Seeing that her husband was seriously ill and blind, he vomited almost every day, and his high fever became more and more serious, to the point where he could not eat, he fainted for a long time, and even when he woke up occasionally, he kept talking nonsense.

In the Guizhou army, there are thousands of seriously ill people like my husband, and tens of thousands of other infected people. However, such an epidemic is still spreading crazily. No one knows that at the next moment, some people will start to fear. Chill and cough.

Therefore, when Fang Jifan’s letter from home arrived, he also brought the so-called ‘special medicine’.

Without any hesitation, Mrs. Liu personally administered the medicine to Fang Jinglong.

At this point, there is no way to tell whether the medicine is good or bad. It is better to just have the medicine than to wait for death.

Now, as many as two hundred people have died due to this epidemic. Every day in the army, people die suddenly. On the face of Liu, he still looks strong in order to stabilize the morale of the army, but at night, he also sheds tears.

She took the medicine herself, put the haggard Fang Jinglong’s head on her legs, took a spoon, and fed the medicine into Fang Jinglong’s mouth while Fang Jinglong was still a little awake.

Fang Jinglong was so angry that he just tried his best to open his eyes wide. His vision was blurry. He suddenly thought of something. While sucking the medicine, he murmured with all his strength: “Your Majesty, do you agree? Do you agree?” ”

(End of chapter)