Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 618 Folks are about to make a fortune

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

  It's like a master craftsman who suddenly discovers that his secret old craft has been usurped by others.

   Shrugged, Fang Jifan was helpless about this.

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

Think about this Shen who has just passed the door, with the green prairie on her head, Fang Jifan himself doesn't know how she will feel, when he wakes up, looking at seven women touching his big belly, what will it be like? Feeling, if one of them is still nearly thirty years old, and in this era, someone who can almost be her mother, then...

  So Fang Jifan looked at Shen Ao with a strange expression.

  Shen Ao is very happy. The Shen family is going to have a queen. Although she is still the crown princess, His Royal Highness is also someone he admires very much.

But at this time, he had to pack up and set off with Yang Biao and more than 2,000 soldiers from the Flying Ball Battalion. Countless flying **** were packed into hundreds of carts. There are also countless fuels. In order to set off, Xishan recruited thousands of cattle and horses, and more than 900 village households.

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

   At the same time, Beiwawei, who was far away in Ningbo, had also received an order.

Ningbo Beiwowei 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 hard to find, but this poor man who has been poor for 18 lifetimes , but it is all over the mountains and plains.

  The salary of Beiwawei is good, and when they hear that they want to recruit personnel, people rush to the first.

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

  There are already seven warships in Beiwawei. Besides, there are six ships specialized in fishing, and the fish production has been steadily increasing.

Almost every month, as many as 70 or 80 giant whales have been dragged back from overseas. In this bay, aquatic product processing workshops have sprung up one after another, and countless farmers have become butchers. At the same time, workshops specializing in the processing of whale skin, whale bones, and whale meat also sprang up.

  In the south of the Yangtze River, the taxes in Ningbo Prefecture have risen in a straight line, so that the Ministry of Households has also shown support for Ningbo Water Village.

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

   This Ningbo prefecture can now bring salt tax of 500,000 taels of silver to the imperial court every year.

  This...is an extremely scary number.

  You must know that the main tax of Ming Dynasty comes from tax in kind. For example, for farmers, the imperial court collects grain tax, which is grain. For the merchants who made cloth, the imperial court adopted a method of drawing one out of ten to directly levy cloth; for silk, silk was taxed.

  Therefore, Daming’s tax and silver income is not much, two to three million taels a year is considered a lot.

   It is actually quite embarrassing that the imperial court has no silver, so that officials and sergeants mostly issue horses and charcoal as salaries, and even the imperial court simply pays salaries with Daming banknotes.

  The 500,000 taels of silver brought by Ningbo Prefecture a year greatly eased the embarrassing situation of the household department.

  Because the imperial court’s main tax revenue comes from salt and iron, such as salt, the imperial court adopts a monopoly system. When salt is produced, salt merchants are required to exchange silver for salt, and then they are allowed to sell.

Because of this, the price of salt has remained high and private salt is rampant. Therefore, since the founding of the country, the salt tax has not increased, but has decreased. The situation in Ningbo is different. After the fish is landed, it needs to be processed and made into salted fish to ensure that it will not spoil. The demand for salt is extremely huge. Some workshops use hundreds of catties of salt every day, and this, Almost all of them use official salt. After a large amount of salted fish and marinated fish are prepared, they are sold to the inland or the capital. The sales volume is surprisingly good. Salt, too, is profitable.

In this way, the Shuizhai made a fortune, the gentry in Ningbo Mansion made a fortune, the salt merchants made a fortune, the merchants in transit also made a fortune, and even the imperial court made a fortune. A sum of money was paid.

Millions of catties of salted fish and pickled fish have entered the world through various channels. Thousands of households, even in the military, like to use this kind of fish as dry food. After all, the shelf life is long , and with this salted fish, it can actually be eaten instead of salt. When cooking porridge, cut off a small piece of salted fish and put it in. Not only does the porridge taste much more delicious, but even the salt is saved. Good fish is a must for travel.

  The military order of the Zhen Guofu was conveyed to Shuizhai.

   Tang Yin took a breath.

  This place is thousands of miles away from Annan, this attack, he never imagined that his mentor would borrow the power of the water village.

   Fortunately, the hydrological situation in Annan has already been figured out by Xu Jing who was sailing to the West, and the shipping route is not a problem.

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

   After that, all the sailors were summoned to the school grounds, and the order to fight in Annan began to be issued.

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

  In an instant, the sailors cheered excitedly.

  Someone knelt down on his knees, planing the sand and stones on the ground with both hands, crying bitterly.

  The screaming sailors burst into tears.

  Finally... the wait came.

  Especially those recruits.

  They didn't catch up with the good time to fight Japanese pirates.

   That was the happy day that the veterans boasted about for half a year.

A leader of Japanese pirates is just a day's income from fishing in the past, and he swept the overseas islands all the way. How many veterans, relying on a Japanese pirate annihilation war, directly sent money home to build a house, and it was not a thatched house piled up with rammed earth. All the bricks and red tiles are used, and even the beams of the house are made of big wood.

   Now... finally here.

   Although fishing is a lot of money, after one month, the income is visible after all. In other words, this is called life fading out.

   It is different to go to Annan, or even fight.

  The new recruits are eager to try, and the veterans think of their glorious years, and shed tears on their armor.

Every time, at this time, Qi Jingtong couldn't help but think of his mantra: "Don't get excited, everyone, don't get excited. Going to Annan, thousands of miles away, and fighting will be a few months later. Right now, you still need to be patient. There is no need to rush to attack, you still need to focus on fishing and wait for the order to attack; now the general order is sent, and you are asked to step up your drills in case of accidents. The Annan people's fighting methods are different from the Japanese pirates. From today , the method of practice also needs to be different..."

  He roared hysterically, but his voice was quickly drowned out by cheers and howling.

  A human head is silver, and silver means that you can marry a wife, have a baby, buy land, build a house, and glorify the village.

  The sailors can almost see the foundation of their big house, and they can imagine what their baby looks like, and they have even begun to choose their grandson's name.

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

Hu Kaishan was naked, his pectoralis major muscles trembled, and then let out a lion's roar: "*you*, shut up for me, a bunch of **** poor ghosts, they only think about wives and wives all day long!" Zhaizi, you can't 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 quieted down, and everyone looked at Hu Kaishan like quails.

Only then was Hu Kaishan satisfied, and said to Qi Jingtong: "Okay, Qi Qianhu, let's talk about it next. Talk about things other than marrying a wife, having a baby, buying land, and building a house. They don't like to hear it. I love to hear it!"

  Qi Jingtong: "..."

  ………

  Guiyang.

  The fast horse has arrived, and the medicine brought has been delivered.

  Fang Jinglong couldn't afford to be seriously ill, and all matters inside and outside Guiyang were decided by Mrs. Liu.

  Madam was born in a rebel army, but she controlled the overall situation of the rebellion at the beginning. Hundreds of thousands of native men, women, and children were all sent by her.

   Now, married to Fang Jinglong, she has also been swayed by the situation in the Ming Dynasty's army. Therefore, she has been ordered to go on one after another. Therefore, even though it is a major epidemic, the situation in the army is still stable.

   Mrs. Liu was very worried about her husband's condition. The epidemic was so terrible that the doctors in the army were helpless, and the so-called local doctors had exhausted their prescriptions, but they still didn't see any effect.

  Seeing that her husband was sick and blind, he vomited almost every day, and his high fever became more and more serious, so that he couldn't eat, fainted for a long time, and even if 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, this kind of epidemic is still spreading crazily. No one knows the next moment, some people will start to panic. Chill and cough.

  So when Fang Jifan's family letter arrived, at the same time, he also brought the so-called 'special medicine'.

  Mr. Liu hardly hesitated, and personally prescribed medicine for Fang Jinglong.

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

  Now, as many as 200 people have died because of this epidemic. Every day in the army, some people die violently. On the face of Liu, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he still looks strong, but at night, he also shed tears.

  She took the medicine herself, put the already haggard Fang Jinglong's head on her lap, 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 only tried to open his eyes wide, his eyes were blurred, he suddenly thought of something, while sucking the medicine, he murmured with great effort: "Your Majesty, did you agree, did you agree? "

  (end of this chapter)