Dashun Yongchang

Entering the Forbidden City again and standing in front of the Jinshui River, Li Zicheng felt as if he had passed away. It seemed that only four years had passed since the last time he stood here, but his mood at this time was quite different.Looking at the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but asked Liu Zongmin beside him, "Is it different from what it looked like four years ago?"

After looking at it for a long time, Liu Zongmin said: "There is no difference in looking at it, but the mood is a little different. When I first saw it, this palace was really magnificent. Looking at it now, I feel that such a house does not seem to be lived in. "

Li Zicheng also smiled and said: "Yes, this house is actually more suitable as a temple for gods. Well, I have seen it here, so let's go to the Hall of Martial Arts to talk."

It is said that the Hall of Martial Arts spoke, but in fact there is nothing to say, but important figures from Manchuria and Mongolia came to visit Li Zicheng and let him recognize him.At this time, Luo Luohong began to assume his own responsibilities, and began to sort out the relationship network behind these people for Li Zicheng.

To be honest, this is the main reason why Li Zicheng was willing to accept the surrender of the Manchus.From Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, the Manchus have been marrying various Mongolian tribes persistently, making the Manchu-Mongolian relationship extremely complicated, and only Manchu relatives like Luo Luohong can figure out the marriage and blood relationship behind these people.

And this kind of relationship is indeed very important for controlling the various ministries of Mongolia.For example, now Li Zicheng has a little understanding of the relationship between the various tribes of Mongolia, instead of simply dividing the various tribes of Mongolia into Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia.He continued the Manchu division of Mongolian tribes, that is, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, plus a Western Mongolia.

The surrender of the Manchus made the situation of all the ministries of Inner Mongolia almost in the hands of the Shun Army. It took almost no time. Li Zicheng realized one thing, that is, as long as the Ten Banners of Horqin and the Tumote Tribe are controlled, the inner tribes Mongolia can barely turn the waves.

As for Outer Mongolia, because it is in a bitterly cold place, supplies have always been scarce, and its population is much smaller than that of Inner Mongolia. After being defeated by the Manchus once, it almost lost the desire to expand to Monan. Now it only needs to use military threats and trade lures , then the surrender of Outer Fan Mongolia is also a matter of time.

The real threat is Moxi Mongolia. Although this Mongolia is far away from China, there is a prairie suitable for nomads around this Mongolia, and it can also trade with more western countries, so the power of this Mongolia is somewhat Out of control.Their trade is not controlled by China, and they worship Tibetan Lamaism in their beliefs. Therefore, when this Mongolian force began to harass the Outer Mongolia or the Hexi Corridor, China did not have many means to contain it.

Li Zicheng ordered Luo Luohong to gather some Manchus and Hans to record the relationship between various Mongolian ministries, and then handed it over to the General Staff for investigation, and then ordered a banquet in the Hall of Martial Arts to entertain these Manchu and Mongolian ministers.That night, Li Zicheng handed over the guards of the Forbidden City to Luo Luohong, the guards around the Hall of Martial Arts to the Guards Division, and the security of the inner city to Hauge, Wu Sangui and Chen Yongfu.

Nothing happened all night, but Li Zicheng woke up from a hangover and felt a headache. When he got up to drink water, he found a soft young woman lying beside him.Li Zicheng returned to normal just after being stunned. Originally, Dou Meiyi came to Zhengzhou from Xi'an to see him, but it was only in July that she found out that the other party was pregnant, so Li Zicheng sent someone to send Dou Meiyi back to Xi'an. At this time, there was no woman around him. , this woman should be a woman in the palace.

Seeing that the woman beside her was in good shape, Li Zicheng patted her on the back lightly and said, "Go and pour me a bowl of cold boiled water."

The woman agreed lightly, and then got up to get dressed. Li Zicheng said disapprovingly: "You don't need to wear it, just pour a bowl of water over here. It's not bright yet, so you can sleep for a while."

The woman froze for a while, then obediently got out of bed and poured Li Zicheng a bowl of water.After drinking the water, Li Zicheng finally felt a lot better. Seeing the sweetness of the woman beside him, he couldn't help feeling excited, and asked casually, "What's your name?"

The woman carefully covering her chest with her hands lowered her head and replied, "Ba..."

"It doesn't matter what you call it." The lustful Li Zicheng pulled the woman onto the bed and gagged her.The woman in her arms struggled symbolically, and obeyed Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng, who had slept for a while, got up again, feeling refreshed. Seeing that the woman beside him who had been conquered several times was still asleep, he got up and went out by himself.

After washing up and eating breakfast, Li Zicheng came to the front of the Hall of Martial Arts, and saw Luo Luohong and Hao Ge coming up to greet him, and they greeted Li Zicheng.Li Zicheng saw the red-eyed looks of the two, and was quite moved in his heart and said: "You two worked hard last night, so go back and rest separately in a while. There should be nothing serious in these two days."

Luo Luohong and Haoge also breathed a sigh of relief. They both knew that what they were most worried about last night was trouble. After all, if something happened to Li Zicheng who lived in the Forbidden City, then the Shunjun and Wu Sangui troops outside the city would obviously not be there again. Accepted the Manchu surrender.And after being safe and sound last night, then the trust between the two parties has been established, and no one will take the initiative to make trouble at this time.

Luo Luohong said loudly to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty is so confidant to the ministers, if the ministers don't do their best, then they are still individuals. The minister only wants to offer a loyalty to the majesty in the future, in order to repay the trust of the minister..."

Hauge was half a beat behind Luo Luohong, but still stammered to express his position to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng looked at the two and nodded and said: "Okay, I know you two are loyal to me, you two Don't worry, I will not disappoint your loyalty. But I forgot two things yesterday. Is Duoduo in Tongzhou? Call him into the city, and I want to talk to him about the expedition of the two white flags. In addition, Where are Dorgon's survivors? I want to see them too."

Hauge lowered his head and remained silent, Luo Luohong's eyes wandered for a while, and then he whispered: "Did you rest well last night, Your Majesty?"

Li Zicheng nodded thoughtfully and said, "Not bad, you arranged that maid? Then stay."

Luo Luohong coughed lightly and said: "That is not a court lady, but Fujin Batma of Dorgon. However, His Majesty likes it, so it's okay to stay. Anyway, we Manchus don't have the custom of being widowed."

Li Zicheng: "..."

The three of them stood in the corridor in silence for a moment, and then Li Zicheng laughed and said, "The weather is pretty good today. Go back and rest early, and let's talk about other things in the afternoon."

Chapter 622 Placement

On September 9, Duoduo led 14 vests to Lanzhou to quell the chaos through Shanxi and Shaanxi. The two white flags can still live in Beijing for the time being, waiting to go to Lanzhou in batches.On the same day, Wu Sangui's 3000 troops went to Jinzhou and Shenyang to take over the land of Manchuria outside the pass.The Two Yellow Banners and the Zhenglan Banner also sent some personnel to go back outside the customs to settle in the fields, so that the banners could move back in batches.

The two Red Banners and the Xianglan Banner each sent some personnel to the relocation area to investigate and prepare for the construction of houses and land reclamation for the relocation of the population.However, all the Aixinjueluo clan and the five ministers' families have obtained the qualifications to stay in the capital.As for the land occupied by the Eight Banners outside the capital city, the Shun army decided to temporarily let the state take over, and wait for the investigation to be clear before distributing the land or returning it to the original owner.

Li Zicheng also ordered the distribution of money and food for each banner to continue for the next three years, but it was canceled after three years.Except for the orphans, widows, old and weak who can get care, other people no longer enjoy it.This series of policies stabilized the Eight Banners of Manchuria to the greatest extent, allowing them to quietly accept the arrangement of the imperial court.The abolition of the Eight Banners military service is the most popular among ordinary Manchus. After losing the ability to plunder the Han people, Manchus want to afford horses, armor, and weapons for combat. All of these have to be paid for by the Manchus , has become the heaviest burden for ordinary Manchurians.

In addition to the Manchus, those Mongolian and Han Eight Banners also began to resettle.The Han people are easy to say, except for some backbones who were sent to Jeju Island, Ryukyu, and Taiwan, others were sent to Liaodong, mainly to enrich the Liaodong Peninsula.

Only the Eight Banners of Mongolia have a lot of problems, because the grasslands simply cannot afford an excessive population, and these Eight Banners of Mongolia have become accustomed to military life, and putting them back on the grassland only strengthens the power of the Mongolian ministries.

This batch of Mongolian Eight Banners has a total of 129 cows and more than 28780 people. In the end, Li Zicheng arranged them around Beijing and formed two guard cavalry divisions as his direct military forces.Although the surrender of the Manchu Qing still brought more than 30 surrendered troops, it was much easier for the Shun army than 4 years.

Because the strength of the Shun Army Headquarters was still too small four years ago, the Ming Army could not digest hundreds of thousands of surrenders.But this time the Shun Army also has more than 4 main forces, and it still has enough deterrent power to face this batch of Manchu and Qing troops.

In addition, the system of the Shun army is quite complete now, and there is a unified process for dealing with these surrendering troops. It will no longer be like 4 years ago when only a small army can be appointed to supervise the army. Can the surrendered Ming army be transformed? Come here, it all depends on whether the faction has enough people.

As for the surrendering army, the Shun army is generally divided into two situations and dealt with separately, the elite and the dawdling.The elite were selected and distributed among the various departments of the Shun Army, or the team was temporarily retained, just taking away the logistics supply and personnel power, while the idlers were transferred to local arrangements, or directly sent to somewhere overseas.

Since the staff department has a special person responsible for the screening, assignment, and resettlement of these surrendered troops, almost all the surrendered Qing troops have been settled in the three months from September to the end of the year.The only thing Li Zicheng had to do was to sit in the city of Beijing, show his face occasionally to inspect the armies, ask the soldiers of each army if they had any dissatisfaction, and then exempt some lucky ones from unfair treatment, so as to eliminate the anger of these sergeants.

At the end of November, Niu Jinxing arrived in Beijing with members of the Xi'an Zhengshitang.Perhaps during the Han and Tang Dynasties, Xi'an was still very suitable as a capital city, but after the Song Dynasty, Xi'an seemed too closed.A certain person is not Li Zicheng, so naturally he would not think about going back to his hometown all day long, so he ordered the relocation of Xi'an Zhengshitang to Beijing.

Left in Xi'an by Li Zicheng for four years, Niu Jinxing was not too enthusiastic when he saw Li Zicheng. Standing below, Gong Xuan and Song Qijiao felt that Niu Jinxing's appearance was really inappropriate, and he didn't look like a minister of a country at all.

Listening to Niu Jinxing's rambling about how he was waiting for his return after going to Xi'an, Li Zicheng shook his head endlessly when he heard that there was a bit of resentment in his words.It was so easy to catch Niu Jinxing's pause, Li Zicheng finally interrupted him and said: "I called you from Xi'an, in fact, I hope you can help me stabilize the situation in the north as soon as possible. These hundreds of thousands of troops are now It is a surrender, but if they are not settled properly, then the north will not be peaceful."

After hearing this, Gong Xuan opened his mouth and said: "What Your Majesty said about resettlement should be to turn these soldiers into civilians. I thought it would be easy to make these people feel at ease, as long as the water transportation is reopened.

The water transportation is not only to provide food and clothing for the people in Beijing, but also to give the people along the canal a chance to support themselves. As long as the water transportation is opened, the north will soon be at peace. "

After thinking about it for a while, Li Zicheng said: "Although water transport can feed hundreds of thousands of people in the north, this kind of support is actually similar to that of the Xiang army in the Song Dynasty. It is just to give the young and strong a meal for stability, but it can't give them anything. Hope. In addition, the high cost of water transportation is also a heavy burden for the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and I think it should be reformed."

But Gong Xuan said anxiously: "Your Majesty, although water transportation is a heavy burden on the people in the south of the Yangtze River, it is reasonable for the court. Because the wealth of the world is gathered in the south of the Yangtze River, if it cannot enrich the people, the difference between the north and the south will only As it gets bigger and bigger, it becomes even more difficult for the North and the South to sit together and talk about state affairs in the end.

Historically, if water transportation could not reach the north, the east of Hebei Province would be easily controlled by the Hu people outside the Great Wall, because the local farm output could not support the military expenses for preventing the Hu people from going south.Once these two places fall into the hands of the Hu people, they will become the best attacking places for the Hu people going south.The local residents are also happy to be controlled by the Hu people because they save the cost of guarding against the Hu people. "

Li Zicheng thought about it for a while, and found that these ancients were actually very smart. The water transport was indeed a heavy burden for the people in the south of the Ming Dynasty, but it was indeed the material cornerstone for maintaining the unity of the north and the south.It is precisely because of the water transportation that the north is unwilling to lose the south, and the south is also losing blood because of the water transportation, so it is unable to fly the banner of independence.

In terms of productivity in the feudal era, these ancients had indeed chosen the road of the most stable country, but the end of this road was not beautiful.As a result of the continuous extraction of wealth from the south, the economy of the south has always been a little short of capitalism, making it impossible to complete the final transformation.

It's just that after thinking about it, he can't agree to such a negative method, because this method is not good for the country except for the benefit of the feudal dynasty.In the final analysis, these are the five arts of weary people, which are not used to develop society, but to maintain rule.

Under the watchful eyes of several ministers, Li Zicheng finally said aloud: "What Mr. Gong said is not unreasonable, but this truth is only suitable for me, not for the common people. If I do what you say, I will live two or three hundred years." In 300, the people in the south of the Yangtze River cannot afford such a burden, and the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty will repeat itself. Will there be another Chuang Wang to overthrow the court?"

Gong Xuan has nothing to say now, what he wants is to stabilize the world as soon as possible, as for what will happen hundreds of years later, it's his turn to worry about it.Years of wars have actually made the northern people completely disgusted with war. If they can focus on the present first, then they will not think about the future. This is why Gong Xuan tried to restore the old system.

In his opinion, Li Zicheng is over 40 this year, how long can he be the emperor?Wouldn't it be nice to restore peace to the world as soon as possible and enjoy a few days of happy life?Why do you have to do the hardest thing.Although some people clapped their hands and applauded that it was a sign of peace, many people felt dissatisfied that Li Zicheng was too disrespectful to scholars.

The gentry supported the Li family. In exchange, Li Zicheng should give the gentry some respect.But now Li Zicheng gave his dignity to the army and businessmen, and he kept beating the gentry, that is to say, no one can challenge Li Zicheng now, otherwise everyone might not support Li Zicheng.

Of course, after the Manchus surrendered to Li Zicheng, such talk among the gentry disappeared.Because they have seen that those gentry who really dared to take practical actions to support the Manchus against Li Zicheng are all finished now.Having achieved such a brilliant victory, Li Zicheng has at least surpassed Song Taizu. If he can really subdue the Mongolian tribes on the grassland, then Li Zicheng's reputation can be comparable to that of Tang Taizong.

Neither Song Taizu nor Tang Taizong is someone who can be defeated by external forces, so everyone can rest assured to wait for the future changes. Li Zicheng will never live forever. Everyone is inherited from several generations, not less than ten or twenty years.

Seeing that the few people under the steps were silent, Li Zicheng said again: "Besides, this dynasty is different from that in the early Ming Dynasty. After all, Ming Taizu was a bit unlucky and failed to capture the Emperor Dayuan, so he still couldn't control it. grassland.

However, my luck is still very good.The Manchus have sorted out the Northeast and the grasslands, and now we just need to gradually accept these Mongolian tribes and ethnic minorities into the Dashun system.I have already sent Luo Luohong to the grassland to preach and persuade all the Mongolian tribes to pledge their allegiance to me. As long as this matter is [-]%, what we have to deal with is the Outer Fan Mongolia, Moxi Mongolia, and the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions.

If all these places can be surrendered to Dashun, then the inside and outside of the Great Wall will not be the border of our country, but the hinterland of our country.There is no need to bear the cost of preventing Hu people from going south, and these places will not be sparsely populated.Therefore, I plan to develop fields in Hetao, inside and outside the Great Wall, and Liaodong, and then use the output of these places to support the people.

In addition, various routes in the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea will be opened up, so that the east, west, north, south, and overseas states can communicate with each other for trade. In this way, Tianjin will prosper, and Hebei and Liaodong will no longer be barren lands.If the north can become prosperous, there will naturally be no need for water transportation to draw blood from the south. "

When Niu Jinxing heard this, he took the lead in applauding Li Zicheng, which made other people look sideways, and finally had to congratulate Li Zicheng.

Chapter 623 Exile

In October of the fifth year of Yongchang, Zhang Cunren took his son, grandson and more than 10 people from his clan, and under the scolding of the soldiers of the Shun Army, they boarded two sea ships from Tianjin Wharf.Before boarding the boat, Zhang Cunren looked back at the Tianjin city behind him with nostalgia. Although there were many people watching near the pier, they didn't come to see him off, but cursed at sinners like them.

Zhang Cunren could only get on the boat silently. In his opinion, this was the winner and the loser. Who made the Qing Dynasty lose?Zhang Cunren always believed that his allegiance to the Manchus was not treason, because "a good minister chooses the master to serve, and a good bird chooses a tree to live in."

It was Emperor Chongzhen who couldn't use people, so they were captured by the Manchus, and Huang Taiji humbly bowed to the corporal, which completely conformed to the Confucian so-called Mingjun, so he did his best to Huang Taiji.As long as the Manchus unify the world and create a prosperous world, then his behavior is a meritorious official who founded the country, not a sinner.

The only problem now is that the Manchus were defeated, so the massacres of the Han people by the Manchus in the past were wrong, but this is just the way of war.As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen could not make the world stable, causing the people to be displaced, and the people were in dire straits. This is the real cruelty.

As for whether the Manchus will curb their behavior after seizing the world and treat the Han people with kindness, Zhang Cunren believes that there is no doubt about it, because as long as the Manchus want to stabilize the world, they must adopt a gentle policy towards the Han people, otherwise There is no way to rule these trillions of people.However, he couldn't see this future because Manchu failed.

But during the process of Shunjun's selection of them, Zhang Cunren always refused to admit his mistakes, and insisted that his allegiance to Huang Taiji was for the world to choose a Ming emperor, not for the purpose of betraying Daming for his own wealth.His remarks naturally made him unable to pass the screening. For example, his boss, Meng Qiaofang, was much more tactful. He not only deeply reflected on himself when he was questioned by the Shun Army, but also exposed several generals of the Han Army Banner who were trying to riot against the Shun Army. As a result, he passed the test smoothly, and still got an official position in Shunjun's side.

Because of Zhang Cunren's wrong remarks and unrepentant performance, the military judge sentenced Zhang Cunren's family to exile.According to the screening method of the Shun Army, death and injury caused on the battlefield cannot be punished with capital punishment, unless they massacred prisoners after the war or massacred civilians during the war, the capital punishment would not implicate their family members.This screening method punished some homicide maniacs as much as possible, but it would not strike too broadly and cause the Qing army to feel insecure.

Zhang Cunren himself knew very well that if he had switched to the Qing army, he would not have been interrogated and would have been dragged out and beheaded.For the Qing army, any backbone of the enemy army who refused to surrender would be executed as soon as possible to prevent the night from having long dreams.Therefore, when the Shunjun military judge gave him a trial, he said that he did not need to appeal and was willing to accept the decision.

Of course, Zhang Cunren could see that his family and tribe were not so magnanimous. When they boarded the ship, it could be said that there was a lot of mourning, but the people in Tianjin who were watching were very angry.For the people of Tianjin, there is no end to the evil of the Qing army.

During the Chongzhen period, the Manchus broke through the customs several times, but Tianjin has not been affected positively, so that the people of Tianjin have an illusion that the war is the business of the masters above, and has nothing to do with them. Do you want them to pay taxes? What good does killing everyone do for the Manchus?

However, after the Shun army withdrew from Tianjin, the people of Tianjin realized that the Manchus were certainly not as good as the Shun army, and even more vicious than the imperial court.After all, Tianjin is at the foot of the emperor, so even if the Ming court raised three rates, it would be more lenient for Tianjin people, and those who owed the national tax should also owe it. We must not let refugees appear at the foot of the emperor.

But the Manchus are good to Tianjin, and even the people in Beijing don't take it seriously. The Manchus only pay attention to the well-being of the Manchurians, followed by the Mongols, and the Han people are treated equally.Therefore, the Manchus dealt with the problem of tax arrears very simply. Before I came, the tax arrears were exempted.

At the beginning, the people in Tianjin tried to reason with the Manchus. After all, the emperor had to be reasonable, even if he was the Manchu emperor.But they soon discovered that even if they didn't mind the Manchu sitting on the dragon chair, the Manchus didn't regard them as their subjects. Only the Manchus were the subjects of the Manchu emperor, and the Han people were nothing more than slaves.

The Han people who tried to reason with the Manchus were beheaded, and the common people who wanted to endure and pay the money were then encircled and occupied by the Manchus.Therefore, under the oppression of the Manchus, these Han people finally realized that there are still differences between the Manchus and the Han people, and it is hopeless to expect the Manchu emperor to treat them fairly.

So from the second year of Yongchang to the fifth year of Yongchang, rebels against the Manchu Qing appeared in Tianjin and even the entire Hebei area.In the fifth year of Yongchang, Zhang, the female leader of the rebel army in Tianjin, called herself Empress Xizong, launched an uprising together with Wang Li and Zhang Tianbao;Because of the northward advance of the Shun army, these rebels quickly took over the local government power.

Li Zicheng recognized the legitimacy of these rebels' resistance to the Qing Dynasty, accepted some political demands of the rebels, and then disbanded the rebels.Although the rebel army was disbanded, the trend of hating the Manchus and the Qing army did not dissipate. Therefore, when Zhang Cunren left Tianjin, he was ridiculed and spurned by the people of Tianjin.

Fortunately, the weather in October is still cool, otherwise Zhang Cunren's family, who were locked in the cabin, would feel that this place is simply hell.Because the cabin has no windows on the side except for a few small air vents directly above, so after the cabin is closed, it is not only dark and stuffy inside.

The door of the cabin will be opened for about an hour every day, and then people will go to the deck in batches to breathe. Zhang Cunren’s family complained about the exile at first, but after staying in the cabin for a day, almost everyone is looking forward to seeing him as soon as possible. In the place of exile, even if they are with wildlings, they don't want to continue to sit in this dark cabin.

This painful voyage lasted about five or six days, and the ship finally stopped, and finally arrived at Jeju Island.Zhang Cunren's family found that the wharf here was no different from Tianjin, and most of the people walking in the city were Chinese wearing Hanfu. They thought this was the destination of their exile, and everyone felt no grievances, and felt that this place was also good.

But obviously they were thinking too much, and soon someone notified them that they had selected 30 young men and continued to go north by boat. The destination was Vladivostok in the north, a city farther than the Korean peninsula.Zhang Cunren quickly made it clear from the small officials that asking them to select 30 young men is not the end, but that these young men can take over the rest after the construction of Vladivostok, because the city has only been established recently and there are no houses There are too many people to accommodate, so let people go to build it first.

Zhang Cunren thought for a while, and decided to take his son Zhang Chaowu and some clansmen there, and the others stayed on Jeju Island first.His grandson and sons once persuaded him to stay and let the young people take risks. Zhang Cunren shook his head and said: "You have experienced too little, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for you to accomplish anything in the past. I used to not only build houses for everyone , the important thing is, to find a way to survive, we can't really make a living by fishing and hunting, right?"

Under Zhang Cunren's insistence, the son and grandson finally made concessions.Zhang Cunren asked his sons to go out to inquire about the specific location and geographical environment of Vladivostok, and soon decided to exchange the belongings they carried with them for a batch of iron, cloth and grain.The materials on the Jeju Island market are still quite abundant. It has become a transit point for the trade between China, Japan and North Korea. Merchants from various countries transport materials to Jeju Island for trading, and the types of goods exchanged are more abundant.

In late October, a ship bound for Vladivostok set off with Zhang Cunren's family and 10 others.The captain told Zhang Cunren that each person needs to pay 112 taels of boat tickets, and each person can only carry 15 kilograms of free luggage. The excess needs to be paid separately, either in cash, or with fur after the trade in Vladivostok is completed.

Zhang Cunren's son, Zhang Chaowu, looked at the captain in disbelief and said, "We are exiled, and we have to pay for the boat ticket ourselves? If I don't buy the boat ticket, then I don't have to go to the place of exile?"

The captain laughed and said, "What good thing do you want? If you have no money to pay for the ticket, then I have the right to sell you to the officials in Vladivostok. After you pay the ticket money with the money you earned from working, then you can go Start counting the term of exile. In addition, the annual interest rate is 12%, are you going to make a free ship?"

Zhang Chaowu asked angrily: "What is the difference between doing this and forcing a good man into prostitution? Can the imperial court allow you to do this?"

The captain looked at him contemptuously and said, "If there is no money to be made, why do we go to such a bad place as Vladivostok? Isn't it good to go to Japan, North Korea for trade, or go to Nanyang for trade?"

Zhang Cunren stretched out his hand to stop his son, and asked the captain kindly: "If there is no money, how will the fur deduction be calculated?"

The captain became more interested now, and introduced to Zhang Cunren, "Vladivostok is indeed a desolate place in the north for our country, but it is also an area rich in fur and ginseng. As long as you are willing to take some risks and enter the interior If you go to trade with those savages in Lu's woods, you can get a lot of fur and ginseng.

Those of us who run boats still need to grasp the weather when going to and from the sea. Once we miss the weather, we may miss a year.Therefore, for us, it is best to conduct transactions immediately every time we arrive at a place, and then set off as soon as possible, so that we can not only travel as much as possible, but also have higher benefits.

If you can collect goods like fur and ginseng from Vladivostok, I have a price list here, you just need to calculate according to this price list.If you can make a long-term deal with me, I can also arrange the source of goods for you..."

Chapter 624 The Return

On September 9, the fifth year of Yongchang, Jiang Tianyi, who was on a mission to Europe, arrived in Guangzhou. In fact, the ship that went to Europe with them returned a year earlier than them.But for China-EU trade, it is actually a disadvantage for China to send ships to Europe, because there is almost no return goods to be loaded in Europe, and even when European merchants go east by themselves, most of the ships are loaded with silver.

That is to say, when China goes to Europe to deliver goods, not only does it have the problem of being lowered by European merchants, but the risk on the road is also unbearable. After all, Europeans have been engaged in great voyages for more than 2 years, and they can do business in the East and the West. Trade is not just sending a few ships, but establishing ports along the way as a resting base for ships.

Who dares to rest in a colony established by others, a ship full of gold, silver or expensive cargo?Colonists were sometimes sea merchants and sometimes pirates.For example, the British maritime merchants seem to be honest port merchants, but they spared no effort to plunder the merchant ships of their European compatriots in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.In this era, as long as you are not caught, you are a respected sea merchant, not a notorious sea thief.

Therefore, after the first Sino-European trade, the Chinese merchant ships that returned first did not go to Europe again.However, for Jiang Tianyi and other envoys sent by the imperial court to Europe, this trip to Europe was indeed very fruitful. For the first time, they knew what the world was like, and they no longer regarded the world as within Kyushu. Here Kyushu refers to the place in East Asia.

Seeing how big the world is, many of the missions returning from Europe felt that China could no longer keep its doors closed. If it didn't go out to grab territory, the outside world would be snatched up by the Europeans.The Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spaniards, these small European countries, even Spain is only the size of Guangdong Province in the eyes of the Chinese, but these small countries are grabbing territory at the doorstep of China, which is simply unreasonable.

Jiang Tianyi and Xie Qian felt that if China continued to let these European colonists do nothing, then sooner or later, Chinese merchant ships would not even be able to go to the Indian Ocean.This is not unfounded worry, because after the Dutch occupied the city of Malacca, it seems that they did not intend to block roads and charge fees, but wanted to monopolize the waterway through Malacca.

Thinking that in the future, if Chinese merchant ships want to go to the Indian Ocean or return to China, they will have to get the consent of the Dutch. They feel that the city of Malacca must not be occupied by the Dutch. What is the difference between this and a small country paying tribute to a big country?For China, this is the biggest humiliation, not only the Dutch, but also the Chinese businessmen who pay the Dutch.

On October 10, Jiang Tianyi and others arrived in Yangzhou. After four years of envoy this time, they finally achieved success.In addition to 28 people who died of illness, 4 person missing when the ship fell into the sea, and 3 people died in fighting with pirates, the remaining 1 people returned to Yangzhou safely. In addition, they also brought back nearly The 7 Europeans, except for some missionaries, were mainly watchmakers, woolen weavers and painters.

In terms of materials, the mission did not bring back much gold and silver, but bought a lot of livestock and plant seeds in Europe, the most valuable of which were probably two pairs of fine-wool sheep donated by the King of Spain.

Facing the gift and declaration of war sent by Emperor Dashun, the King of Spain quickly responded by accepting the declaration of war, but gave Emperor Dashun a gift in return.Because the porcelain sent by the Chinese was too exquisite, the Spaniards could not find handicrafts of the same value to give back. Many years of war had actually destroyed the Spanish handicraft industry. In order not to lose face, the Spaniards had to send fine wool sheep. It is a national treasure of the Spaniards.

The livestock and plant seeds brought back from Europe were quickly picked up by the Academy of Agriculture, and by the way, several agronomists invited from Europe on board were also taken away to introduce the habits of these livestock and plants.

When Yangzhou Agricultural College was established, it was also the time when Jiang Tianyi and others set off for Europe. The address of the college was placed at the foot of Shugang Mountain in the north of Yangzhou City, and beside it was a botanical garden for cultivating rare plants from all over the world.Song Yingxing served as the principal of this school. The school enrolls 100 students every year, and the imperial court subsidizes each student with 120 taels a year, in addition to allocating 5 taels to the school.

This year, the first batch of students will graduate, and these students will serve as agricultural technology instructors and horticultural technicians in various provinces.This is probably the first time in the history of China that the study of knowledge is not for the purpose of being an official, but for promoting the development of technology.However, in the end the court gave them an official status, because without this official status, too few people applied for the Agricultural College.

Of course, Dashun's education is rapidly recovering, and the north has even surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty.Because in the past four years, a total of more than 2000 new-style primary schools have been built in the local area, most of which are in the north of the Yangtze River, and nearly 20 primary school students are enrolled every year. This alone is no longer comparable to the scale of private schools in the north. .Therefore, if you are admitted to the Agricultural College, you will be given the status of an official. It is conceivable that some of these students will definitely choose the Agricultural College in the future.

However, for people like Jiang Tianyi, when they landed, they found that they could not move freely immediately, but were confined to a certain area. As long as they stayed here for 7 days and there was no abnormality, and there was no problem after the doctor's observation, they could really move around. get free.

The emergence of this regulation was mainly because after Dashun's foreign trade was liberalized, foreign exchange activities suddenly became more frequent, so some infectious diseases began to appear with the arrival of overseas crew members, and the most troublesome one was smallpox.Once it appears, it will infect one, followed by cholera and plague.

To be honest, the plague was not imported from overseas, but brought along the river boats from a certain area in the middle of the Yangtze River.Fortunately, the control of the Shun Army is still quite good, and the Jiangnan area is rich and the people have savings, so the short-term blockade will not cause social problems, so the plague was quickly prevented.

But in this way, the imperial court also paid more attention to the work of epidemic prevention, and another was to start a large-scale promotion of vaccinia vaccination.After repeated tests, the doctors in Dashun finally have a mature technology for vaccinia vaccination, which has increased the success rate of vaccination to [-]%. The remaining [-]% is due to insufficient control of the effectiveness of the vaccine. smallpox.

Because of the successful experience of vaccination to prevent the spread of smallpox, the resistance to vaccination in the Jiangnan area gradually weakened, and they began to accept the idea that everyone who was vaccinated could eradicate smallpox.

Of course, for the members of the mission, these seven days are not seven days of lying down and resting. The Statistics Department quickly arranged tasks for them, requiring everyone to write a report and record their missions in detail. to be archived as information for the Statistics Division.So these seven days became the days for everyone to write reports. Some people were forced to stay and supplement the report because they could not finish it within 7 days.

Jiang Tianyi's handwriting is quite good, because he has the habit of keeping a diary, so he completed his mission report ahead of schedule within 7 days.Then after walking out of the closed area, I saw that the teacher Jin Sheng was already waiting outside.He hurriedly stepped forward to salute the teacher and said, "Why are you here, teacher? I'm planning to visit you."

Jin Sheng looked him up and down, then nodded and said to him: "Seeing that you are safe and healthy, I feel much more at ease. You don't know, there have been more people going to sea for trade in recent years, and people who have disappeared overseas without reason There are too many, and some people met robbers at sea and had their hands chopped off, their ears cut off, what a tragedy."