Chapter 66: The Wicked Ticket

Du Tong, the chief military officer of Lima City, reluctantly walked out of the gate of the barracks, and now the soldiers are becoming more and more unproductive, and they have to worry about themselves, the chief military officer, to come out and get ideas.

said that the goods collected in the black market had arrived, and Ren Xiaozuo's black market had approved a total of 500,000 Tongbao from the military camp and had not spent it until now, how many things could he transport back, and he was bothered to come out and run by himself.

He, the chief military officer, discussed with the commanders of the fleet and the flag army, this time they were going to do a big one, and collected 14,390,000 Tongbao from the flag army, and everyone took out all the things they had brought on their bodies, and they were counting on the black market to buy things, and when the time came, they would hand them over to the military government, and according to the temperament of the commander, they would definitely give them a return for the banner army who contributed money and efforts.

As long as they earn a lot, the handsome man will let them pay 10,000 Tongbao and reward 20,000, right?

The 500,000 Tongbao given to Ren Xiaozuo sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is only 500 taels of silver, which is not a lot of money, but the black market has been in operation for six days now and has not spent all the money, which means that the business is not easy to do.

If it's not good, they will earn less, so Du Tong naturally can't muster the energy to look at this expected result.

As a result, as soon as he walked out of the barracks, he almost stared out his eyes when he looked at the objects of donkey carts and carts being transported on the street.

The small flag officer Ren Chang stood on the side of the carriage at the front, and the shouts continued, and the flag soldiers who drove the car stopped the donkey cart on the side of the road one by one, and saw the chief officer come out, Ren Chang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and took out a piece of paper from his arms, and his face couldn't help but be happy, and almost called the big marshal into the general who was used to calling in the past, and said: "Big handsome, black market goods, seventeen cars." ”

"Firearms, armor, jewels, utensils, gold and silver, and large animals." Ren Chang turned his head and pointed to the convoy and said, "These cars, horses, and donkeys are also goods themselves. ”

"Seventeen cars, all of them were collected by Ren Xiaozuo in the past six days?"

Ren Chang heard Du Tong's surprise, and said with a smile: "Where, this is all collected in the past two days, no one can come when the black market first opens, Ren Xiaozuo thinks that it is because the people close to the black market have been beaten by Daming, and most of them are poor people who can't afford to live, even if they come, they can't buy anything for us, so he found a few people to help him collect things, these are the things that those people have sent over in the past two days." ”

Du Tong frowned and said in surprise: "Looking for someone to help him collect things?" ”

As he spoke, the chief officer went around to the first carriage and lifted the brown cloth covering it, revealing bundles of bundles of arquebuses, some light and some heavy, and the pistols were stuffed directly into the basket containing apples, and he asked, "With so many firearms, what birdman did he find to help him receive the goods?" ”

"Back to Dashuai, yes...... It is the rebel army and the noble army in the city. Ren Chang thought for a while and said: "If he can put these things away, it is more useful than leaving firearms in the hands of those people, they don't have gunpowder now, and these guns are just burning sticks in their hands." ”

Du Tong put his hand on the firearm on the car board, and slowly bowed his head: "Seventy-six light guns, twelve heavy guns, this Xiao Zuo is a capable person, I will see that there are two hundred and seventy taels of gold, two thousand four hundred and thirty taels of silver and five hundred and sixty taels of silver on this list, what is the price he gives to the natives in the city?" A hundred tongbao and a tael of silver? ”

Du Tong secretly smacked his tongue in his heart, this Ren Xiaozuo is really black, he doesn't understand the things in trading, and he doesn't know the market, and the blackest thing in his heart is only five hundred Tongbao and one or two silver, isn't it okay to double the purchasing power of Tongbao? After all, it is not cheap for them to sell cornmeal and potato flour in the Armed Square, and they can buy 77 catties of yellow noodles for 500 tongbao.

There is no other food, and it can't help but eat yellow noodles, just enough for a few mouths to eat in less than ten days.

Ren Xiaozuo directly increased Tongbao's purchasing power by ten times, can the people in the city still live alive?

If you do something like him, you will be killed in Daming.

"Yes, one tael of gold for four taels of silver, one tael of silver for one hundred tongbao, this cart of muskets is less than ten thousand tongbao." Ren Chang shook his head and said: "I heard Xiao Zuo say that they originally exchanged one gold for twenty silver according to the Spanish ratio, so now it is not a last resort, others are unwilling to exchange gold, but they are happy to sell firearms, firearms are all soldiers' own, no gunpowder is waste." ”

"Xiao Zuo doesn't have much money left, I hope the general will grant him another million Tongbao, in addition to that, he also has a proposal, I hope that the general can make a city ticket in addition to the city ticket, and the prospective ticket holder can go out of the city from the south gate."

The ticket he said to enter the city is actually a ticket to enter the Daming District of the city, and the ticket is not expensive, one thousand Tongbao per person, but every one or two more silver to carry property will cost more than 100 Tongbao.

Originally, Du Tong set up this rule because he thought that the black market would fix the exchange rate of silver bills at 1:500 and collect a 20% tax.

Now it's good, it's a fifty percent tax.

The ticket to enter the city is specially prescribed by the Ming army for those who run far, in the place near the Daming District, or for the poor who have nothing, in fact, it is not strict, the honest young man who is pleasing to the eye by the flag army, or the old and weak women and children, as long as they go through quarantine, they can also get the protection of the Ming army without a ticket.

Those who have no family are squeezed into dormitories and go out to work like other young people, each person sets aside a field to work in stages, and the first year's harvest is counted as the government, and the government gives grain every month, and the government collects 50% of the tax in the last two years, and the land will be given to you after three years, and the government of Lima City will also collect the same tax as Mexico and Changsheng counties.

Those under the age of fifteen who do half of the work must go to the Chinese literature hall organized by the government to study, and if they learn well, they will work the same rations for adults.

For the elderly who are over 50 years old, Du Tong originally planned to let them not have to work, and the government with offspring will give them half grain support, and those who have no offspring will be directly supported by the government; It turned out that there was not a single pure-blood aboriginal who was over 50 years old, all of them were Spaniards, so angry that he raised the age to 60 years old, and stipulated that the government should give half a grain to the government for working at the age of 60 to 80, and the government would support the government over 80 years old.

The original people who shared this land were tossed and turned, and none of them even lived to fifty.

As for the professions such as merchants and craftsmen, Du Tong, the chief military officer, did not support it in principle, but he did not oppose it, first of all, they had to study the "Wanli Wanguo General Law" hard and then consider doing something other than being a farmer, otherwise they would not complain if they would be killed according to the law.

In short, everyone enjoyed the proper care of Ming imperialism in advance.

"The ticket to enter the city is not enough, but also to get out of the city?"

"Well, some people have done bad things, and the people in the city know them, and they don't dare to enter Daming District, hoping to go out of the city to other places......"

Before Ren Chang finished speaking, Du Tong's eyes had already widened: "I really take Lao Tzu as a businessman, let Ren Xiaozuo tell everyone that there will be a ticket out of the city, but not now, and the ticket out of the city is very expensive." ”

"Let them kill each other, this is a ticket out of the city? This is the villain's ticket! ”