Dominate the Country

On June 19, the 142nd year of Chongzhen, in a teahouse diagonally opposite the Industrial and Commercial Department.

Chen Ming, who was wearing casual clothes, was looking at the door of the Industrial and Commercial Department. Four-wheeled carriages came to a stop at the steps, and then businessmen wearing silk and satin filed in one after another. These are the seeds of his hope, and they are also his first step in truly changing China, promoting industry and commerce, promoting industry and commerce, and letting go of the reins of capital. I hope that his actions today will have a beautiful result!

A society that has suppressed business for thousands of years once cleared the obstacles for these capitals. How much power can they unleash? What's more, there are powerful figures from the Fuhan Army behind them. This is a secret that is not a secret. How long will it take for them to explode with huge energy? Chen Ming had no idea at all.

When discussing this issue in detail, Wang Huizu, Xiong Bingzhang, and Liu Dezhao all mentioned "official supervision and commercial affairs". Although the words were different, the meanings could all be classified into these four words, which made Chen Ming sigh. The great inertia of history. In other words, in the process of Chinese society's transformation to modern times, many thinkings are not changed by time and different national conditions at all, but by culture, which can only be explained by starting from the deep historical origins.

Otherwise, why would Wang Huizu and others in this era think of ‘official governor’? This method is essentially the control of capital by feudal forces. If you get to the bottom of it, you will inevitably find the discrimination and suppression of "business" in traditional Chinese culture.

Chen Ming rejected it neatly. When telling his father, Chen Ming said directly: "If the government supervises business operations, the rights of both parties will be inherently unequal. In the end, these companies will only have the official power continue to expand and the commercial elements will weaken day by day. As a result, it gradually became the private property of the bureaucracy. Therefore, in essence, the official supervision of business affairs was the government's control of businessmen. There is more control than support. This is not a smooth road, but a kind of restraint. "If we want to promote industry and commerce and see the benefits as quickly as possible, we can only let them run free. Let's talk about it from another aspect. Being an official already has great power, no matter how much money, no matter how much blood, no matter how close relatives you are, you won’t feel relieved, right?

What's more, there are many of them behind those businessmen...

Zheng Wenbo and Zhou Hong arrived together, and neither of them even glanced at the teahouse. They didn't even notice anything wrong with the teahouse diagonally opposite.

There was nothing wrong with the teahouse on the outside. In fact, Chen Ming's personal guards had placed martial law inside and outside the building. The guards inside and the soldiers standing guard outside were just like Chen Hui's memorial service in the southern suburbs. The sky and the earth are the same. There are soldiers guarding the area within ten miles around. Thousands of people have surrounded a suburban altar. Flags are fluttering. The people watching outside can't see Chen Hui's shadow clearly except for watching the excitement. Unless he had a Barrett sniper and a high-power optical sight, the range of the rifled gun would not pose any threat to Chen Hui.

Chen Ming didn't bring anyone else with him. The Governor's Office was busy at this time. The Military Grange has received widespread response from the soldiers. Just as Chen Ming said, no one wants to leave their hometown during the Ananwowo period. As soon as the Military Grange appeared in the eyes of the soldiers, it immediately won a round of cheers.

Of course, no news about the military cooperative planned by Chen Ming has been leaked out. Who dares to reveal this, or who is bold enough to take advantage of heaven and earth for himself, is a sure way to test Chen Ming's knife.

Chen Ming will leave Lushan soon. He will go to the northern and eastern front battlefields to take a look. It has been two months since the large armies of the Fuhan Army entered the base area. By the time Chen Ming returned from the northern and eastern fronts, the military merit farm had been almost divided, and the troops had almost completed the defense change, allowing a large number of new soldiers to return to the northern and eastern fronts. Veterans of the Eastern Front. Then before August, launch an offensive against Yichang, Shinan and Hanzhong, and launch an attack against Hunan. The latter does not need to invest too many troops. It only needs to take advantage of the navy to sweep the Dongting Lake. Completely resolve the hidden dangers in the west before winter officially begins.

On a large map of China, Chen Ming faced the important civil and military officials of the Fuhan Army and his father. The pointer was pointed at the position of Hanzhong, towards the east of the Yangtze River outlet, and he swung it like a sword. "Down," taking Hanzhong will completely cut off the connection between Sichuan and Gansu and Shaanxi. When our army's shipyards in Yueyang, Jiujiang, and Wuchang send out warships next year, the naval forces will move down the Yangtze River to determine the southeast."

"Completely separate the area south of the Yangtze River from the area north of the Yangtze River. The entire Manchu Qing Dynasty is divided into two. They can only be at sea..." The Qing army's overseas navy is a very important and important enemy.

After winter this year, there will be no major wars in the Henan battlefield and Hanzhong areas, because it will be more difficult for the Qing army to attack at that time. The Qing army lost Hubei, and Agui was erased from the list of meritorious deeds. Emperor Qianlong paid more attention to the output of the Eight Banners' new army and cannons. At the same time, a large number of frontier troops and Gan soldiers from Guizhou and Yunnan were transferred to Hunan. Regardless of whether the Yunnan frontier soldiers and Guizhou Gan soldiers launched a fierce attack on the Fuhan army, Chen Ming was also prepared to attack Hunan in the winter.

In addition, Huang Jie in Jiangnan was naturally promoted to the commander of the division, and his troops were reorganized into the Third Division, with 20,000 soldiers under his command, which was more than the First and Second Divisions. The armor and cannons sent to Nanjing at the end of April had been handed over to the Third Division. The ships stayed in Anqing due to the flood season of the Changhe River. According to the battle report from Jiangnan sent back by the secret camp, the Qing army could not hit the iron triangle at all. They had no cannons, and when more and more shotguns were equipped to the Jiangnan artillery units, the power of the Qing army had been greatly reduced.

Decades later, in the Battle of Waterloo, the last battle of the Napoleonic War, the British and Prussian armies of more than 100,000 had only about 300 cannons, and Napoleon tried his best to only gather 250 cannons. But now on the battlefield in Jiangnan, the 20,000 Fu Han troops have a total number of cannons that is not inferior to the French cannons in the last battle of Napoleon - the Battle of Waterloo, although there is still some difference in quality. But the British, French and Prussian troops certainly do not have as many tiger squat cannons, mortars, and even flying thunder cannons as the Fu Han army!

Huang Jie's battle in Jiangnan was somewhat like the defensive battle of the Fu Han Army in Henan. Relying on the pure firepower advantage, he easily resisted the repeated attacks of the Qing Army.

When it rained heavily in Jiangnan, the Fu Han Army in the three cities could easily abandon their positions on the plains, and the Yangzhou defenders could even withdraw into the city. The Qing Army looked at the tiger squat cannons, mortars and rows of muskets + grenades with awnings on the city walls, and still had to sigh at the city.

Chen Ming had not paid attention to the war in Jiangnan for a long time. The battle there became a synonym for "stalemate" in his cognition.

"Huh?"

Chen Ming paused when he looked up inadvertently. Who did he see? Zheng Wenjun, the third son of Zheng Lianfu of the Zheng family in Haishang. He rushed to Hubei in March, and Chen Mingkai had not opened Wuchang City at that time. Then he followed the team back to southwest Henan. But the Industrial and Commercial Bureau held a chamber of commerce today, what was he doing here?

"Your Highness, it was a post from Han Teng." The people around him quickly found out everything.

"Han Teng?" [Character appearance, book friend Qingmiao Yuanhuang Tianzun]

"He is the deputy director of the General Department of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. He is from Chengdu, Sichuan, and is from a salt merchant family." The followers were all old people who followed Chen Ming. They knew Chen Ming's character well. While asking about things, they also asked for a copy of Han Teng's resume.

"A Sichuan salt merchant, why did you come to us?" The deputy director is also considered the top person in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. There are two deputy directors in each department. Chen Ming leaned back in his chair.

"His family's property was noticed by the officials, and a trap was set. Once you get into it, it's gone. Han Teng used to make a living by running smuggled salt. Last year, he contacted the dark camp and successfully transported three batches of salt to the base. This spring, when he was transporting the goods, he revealed his tracks and was intercepted and captured by the Qing soldiers. He finally came to the base. The king let him work in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and now..." The Industrial and Commercial Bureau became the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and Han Teng also had a place in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

"What is his relationship with Zheng Wenjun?"

"They became friends in Yihong Courtyard."

Chen Ming's mouth twitched. When he first crossed over, he still wanted to go to Yihong Courtyard. But now, haha, he would never go there in his life. He couldn't handle the women at home. In May, Chen Hui held a grand ceremony, and people from Shandong, Fujian, and Taiwan sent people to congratulate her. Although they didn't bring much, they were all treasures. Especially Yang Mingzhao, who had just taken over his father's position, not only sent people to send several boxes of jewelry and treasures to Chen Hui, but also a batch of treasures to Chen Ming, and also sent two beauties. Li Xiaomei was so angry that she turned her face to Chen Ming, although she quickly put away her temper. But the more this happened, the more it proved that Li Xiaomei was really angry at the time.

A follow-up reaction caused by this incident was that Chen Ming's mother began to pay attention to Chen Ming's health. What's going on? He has been fighting outside for more than a year, and he is not without women. How come none of the women in the room are pregnant? Then he asked several famous doctors from Henan and Hubei who were recruited by the Medical Bureau to take Chen Ming's pulse in turn, and none of them said that Chen Ming was weak and lacked energy. But Chen Ming still drank tonic medicine for half a month, so that Chen Ming, who was already in good health, could not have sex with women every night.

Now Chen Ming has been back to Lushan for almost two months, and none of the dozen women are pregnant. It can only be attributed to God's will. Fortunately, he is still young and has Chen Ding.

With the convening of the Chamber of Commerce in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, some news has been continuously delivered to Chen Ming.

The Li, Wang, and Xu families that were once prominent in Lushan two years ago have now disappeared. In any case, there is no trace of them. The houses left by these gentry families were used as government offices by the Fu Han Army. Among the four families of Zhang, Ding, Xu, and Liang in Liangwa Town, only Ding and Liang are left. But now the Ding and Liang families are sitting in the front of the meeting room. They did not escape at the beginning, and now they are brave enough to come out again. Naturally, they will get what they want.

"Your Highness, this family is the disciple of the uncle..."

"This family is the disciple of the seventh master..."

"This Liu family is the relative of the fourth master..."

"This Wang family is the..., wife's family..."

"Nonsense. My great-aunt's maiden name is Xia, this, isn't this..." Chen Ming pointed to another piece of paper that just passed by.

"How dare I deceive Your Highness! This Madam Hu is only 28 years old... She is the new concubine married by Uncle Huang." The attendant said as he looked at Chen Ming's shocked expression, thinking that probably no one had told Your Highness about this rotten thing yet.

“It’s okay, let’s continue.” Chen Ming was stunned for a short time. No matter how good a concubine was, she was still just a concubine, not a wife. Let her uncle do whatever he wants. If he could really give birth to a fat baby, his grandmother would probably be very happy.