Beiyang new warlord

Being pushed suddenly and staggering, with a crutch under his left arm, Luo Zhen, the second young master of the Luo family, roared angrily with a face full of resentment.

Almost fell down, but Luo Ning couldn't get angry at all, instead he anxiously explained: "Brother, don't you understand yet? The officers and soldiers are confiscating the house, and if we don't hang the flag of the regent, our Luo family will be killed." No more guarantees!"

He snorted angrily, but Luo Zhen stretched out his hand again: "Give me 10 taels of silver!"

"10 taels! What do you want so much money for?"

"Mr. Zhang Pu found me the position of Zhongshucheng in Nanjing. This opportunity is rare. I need money!"

"What are you going to do in Nanjing?"

Unable to restrain himself, Luo Ning screamed anxiously: "Hangzhou will soon be the territory of the Regent! Nanjing is a crater, where do you want to go? I forbid!"

"Don't forget who let that thief cut off my leg and cut off my official career?"

Full of resentment, Luo Zhen slammed his fist heavily on the wooden prosthetic leg, staring at Luo Ning viciously, with that look, she couldn't help shivering, but finally lowered her head helplessly.

"I'll give you 50 taels."

Chapter 628. Organizational distribution

Not only Hangzhou, Suzhou, Changshu, Songjiang, a series of core places in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in the bustling market, there are also big notices posted one after another, and each and every small townsman is full of curiosity. Zhang Zhang's face became pale, and he couldn't help exclaiming in surprise.

"What? Another tax increase?"

"Isn't it, I set up a stall to pay the one-hundred-man city ship tax a day, and let people live?"

"Brother, just have fun secretly! Didn't you see that those of us who run shops get half a tael of silver?"

"You can't live anymore, we spinners! We work from morning to midnight, earning the two hard-earned money, and have to go hungry every now and then. Fortunately, the tax plus can't even afford lamp oil." , how do we live?"

Amidst the resentful discussion, the government didn't care about you so much, just next to the notice, the servants in the government went out with a box in their arms with a cold face.

It's a pity that the monks can't escape the temple if they can run. As these "harvesters" start buzzing, the doors of every house in the bustling market are smashed open one after another, and ingots of silver coins are thrown into wooden boxes and clang. The guard You Zi was not satisfied, and kept yelling and cursing ferociously while taking turns with the whip.

"Hurry up! Give me money quickly! Is the court protecting you by collecting this money? If you let the northern barbarians come over, your whole family will be slaughtered!"

1000 million taels of compensation!The princes in the imperial court and the masters of Donglin have worked hard for the country, and they have worked so hard, so of course they can't afford this money!However, there is really no tax increase on the tent at the bottom. The land in the south of the Yangtze River is concentrated in the hands of aristocratic families. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, when Yang Sichang opposed the tax increase, it was already at the point where there was no tax increase, so these Donglin masters Their eyes were naturally placed on the small business owner again.

And it's more than 1000 million taels. The emperor wants to repair the palace and accept a few concubines. Does he need money?A few great scholars want to revise the book and cast a biography for the official who has recently been overturned by them. They also get money, right?To be more realistic, the three Jiangbei towns were almost wiped out by Mao Jue, and there were only [-] to [-] Nanjing Imperial Guards left in the huge Yangtze River defense line.

This is added and added, and the officials at all levels are not clean. They are also 5000 million taels of silver. Boxes of shiny tax silver are transported into Yingtian. With the abundance of the treasury, the faces of the Nanming princes Gradually, a smile appeared.

But they didn't notice that while the money was being lost everywhere, the social structure was also disintegrating at a rapid rate. The shops in Suzhou City were closed nine times a day, and the weavers who couldn't survive at all were also going against the current. Like shoals of fish on the beach, they escaped from the town and spread out into the countryside.

But even if the land in the south of the Yangtze River is fertile, it will be saturated in the past two hundred years. There is no new land to house them.

Just like Gao Yingxiang's old eighth team, the refugee team began to gather slowly in the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Refugees have always been the death knell of a dynasty!

But in this, Mao Jue also played a disgraceful role. After all, he was the main messenger of the Jiangnan plan. Starting from May 22, the compensation that caused Jiangnan's anger and resentment was also transported to Jiangbei one by one.

Shi Kefa's rule of the army is average, but the construction of this barracks is not bad. There is a ready-made spacious barracks near the north of Yangzhou City. At this time, the place is already overcrowded. In the sound, he took a step forward step by step.

After only a little over half a year, the Shandong Military Region was abolished. The original Shandong Army retired with some injuries, and some soldiers who were unwilling to be stationed in other places were cleared. The rest were directly converted into the Xuzhou Army on the spot. To the north, it is directly staring at Nanjing, the heart of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

After all, he was facing a dynasty. Mao Jue also strengthened the position of this army, increasing the number from ten to twenty. The source of troops was selected from the 27 infantry captured in the three towns of Jiangbei. Shrinking in Liaodong, guarding the era when tens of thousands of people are reluctant to recruit, and financially, the tribute exploited from Nanming is more than enough to support four Xuzhou Corps, let alone only one.

But this time, the veterans who have just experienced the devil training for three months are very happy. They can finally put on the air of seniority, and deliberately stand upright one by one. In a horizontal row, you can always hear the officers Angrily, he cursed loudly: "The same nose and two holes, you look at others, and then look at yourself, water crotch diapers, no wonder you surrendered as soon as you went to the battlefield."

After scolding, he couldn't let go of his anger, and the officer waved his hands heavily and ordered: "You guys, let's talk about these recruits!"

Then you can see a few recruits crying and being pulled aside to stand in a military posture, and then a few veterans are there beating their arms and legs and roaring like dogs.

"Straighten your chest!"

"Tummy!"

"Who the hell made your legs tremble!"

But when the military training was in full swing, suddenly crying sounded from the side of the barracks. Even the soldiers who were concentrating on the training couldn't help turning their heads to look towards the edge of the playground, but saw a large group of women strung together with ropes. Like grasshoppers, a dozen soldiers pulled the rope and drove them away like livestock.

While walking, the hostage was crying and shouting miserably.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo' mother

"My child! My child! I beg you to be merciful and let me go back!"

That cry, even a group of rough men and soldiers, couldn't help but soften their hearts. A Xuzhou man who had just joined the army was so angry that he yelled loudly at his queue leader: "Isn't it about the Liaozhen army?" Are you not allowed to rob civilian girls? What’s going on here? Is talking about military regulations farting?”

"shit?"

Although the soldier's tone was rude enough, surprisingly, the always strict officer was not angry, and after cursing, he sighed again.

"These are the poor women who were captured by the officials and masters from the south to repay the debts of our regent! They are full of fat, sitting on thousands of hectares of land, but they are not even willing to take out this little money. They would rather go and arrest the daughter-in-law of the poor. To repay the debt, if the regent doesn’t accept them, they might be sold to some kind of prostitute, if that’s the case, it’s better to accept them.”

"I heard that these young women are all prepared to reward soldiers. This three-month training camp, regardless of recruits, veterans, or those who perform well, will reward as many wives as there are. Concubine, so work hard! Marrying to you is better than selling into a hook bar!"

Later generations will remember the teacher's education saying not to fall in love early, and when the time comes to grow up, the organization will naturally assign objects!Mao Jue did it!As soon as the words fell, the officer who spoke felt like he had fallen into a wolf's den, looking at him with red eyes like rabbits, saying that a good man should not be a soldier, this is a civilian husband who was forcibly conscripted into the three towns of Jiangbei Most of the big soldiers are bachelors, and the organization is assigned to the assigned objects, which was unthinkable before.

This time, it doesn't matter whether you want to grab the girl or not, the Xuzhou-accented soldier is the one who stood at attention the hardest: "Don't worry about it, you little one! You must train with all your heart!"

"That's good!"

He couldn't help but sighed how attractive the woman was, and then the officer picked up the whistle again, straightened his face, and yelled loudly: "Next time, the training begins, stand at attention! Walk together!"

Amidst the neat whistle, under the scorching sun, a group of soldiers exuding male animal hormones raised their legs high and did disintegration movements, even though their burning face was dark, and even pieces of skin fell off, it didn't hurt. Make a move.Although the starting point is bounty and women, this army is still getting more and more separated from the feudal army, and is moving closer to the modern army with a steel-like military discipline.

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The changes brought about by Mao Jue were not limited to the army, even the salt merchants, which had been decayed for two or three hundred years, had undergone drastic changes.

Gone are the days of sitting at home and waiting for the money to rush. Mao Jue introduced free trade in the salt market, but it did disrupt the otherwise orderly Huai salt merchants.

First of all, the largest source of profit for salt merchants is actually lost in the area south of the Yangtze River. After all, the Southern and Northern Dynasties across the river have become a reality. Many Huizhou salt merchants have fled back before. It is estimated that this big piece of cake was taken by them. Everything is taken over.

All the salt merchants can't go on comfortably anymore. In this June, they have shouldered their burdens to open up the market. Henan originally had Huai salt and Hedong salt, that is, the Huamachi salt that Yuan Conghuan got. Losing a large area of ​​Jiangnan market, Huaiyan can only take advantage of the fact that Hedongyan is also seriously injured at this time, and see if it can snatch the Henan market. It would be great if it could invade Shanxi and Hebei along the way!

However, when a group of salt merchants were carrying their burdens to conquer the world, the former Yangzhou General Merchant was also one of the few Anhui merchants who did not escape back to the south of the Yangtze River, Feng Xuewen, the big shopkeeper of Jinhuohao.

In June, the sea in the north was still freezing cold, but in the two Huaihe Rivers, the sea has already warmed up. In the sky, seagulls with wings more than one meter long glide comfortably along the sea surface with warm wind , looking for fresh fish to fill their stomachs, on the beach, people carrying big black pots are also busy in a hurry.

The method of salt production in the Ming Dynasty was not far behind that of the Han Dynasty thousands of years ago. Only a small part of the salt was used to dry salt in the salt fields, and most of it was the salt cooked by the government-controlled kitchen households. A household is a special household registration for salt production under the control of the government.

Therefore, although Lianghuai salt merchants sell salt, they actually have no right to interfere with salt production.

But now, since Yanyin and commercial nests have been cancelled, these kitchen households have naturally become free people and can be hired by others. While others are still eyeing the sales in the salt market, Feng Xuewen has already aimed at source of salt.