Chapter 104: Annexation
Luzon, Junfuwei.
Gao Gong is an old man who talks about juvenile madness, and the whole person has been busy for more than half a year.
As soon as Chen Mu left, the problems of the entire Nanyang Military Mansion were all pressed on the shoulders of this little old man, some of which he could cope with, and some things that he couldn't cope with, he had to reluctantly deal with them, and he had a headache.
This has nothing to do with talent, the routine affairs of the Nanyang Military Government are easy to put together, but more things involving technical means, Gao Gong does not understand, even if there are some guesses, he does not dare to do it.
"It's almost winter, and before winter, we will deliver the last batch of heavy grain and grass to Kyushu Island, and the next time we will transport grain to that side in February of the next year, so that General Chen Bazhi can do a good job of receiving it. This year, the surplus grain and grass from Luzon's annual income were sent to Malacca, and Chen Shuai's rice grain was enough to survive the winter. ”
"Another 220,000 taels were allocated from the treasury of the military government to purchase rice and grain from tributary countries such as Sulu, Java, and Ryukyu, and hoard military guards in case of emergency; Nguyen Huang from Hue, Annam, sent a letter to Lu Haojing Huang Cheng, asking him to convene the prosperous Zhujia to discuss, thirty Dafu ship trade routes twice a year, Chen Shuai allowed his soldiers to be armoured and fired, and transported them truthfully.
"The chief officer of the guards marched west to Burma, and the winter exercises of the Nanyang Army should also be the same, and the military government discussed the monthly drills of the thousands of households, and the armies discussed when to come to the military government and the guards to conduct the exercises, and every ten days came to the military government and the guards to conduct the exercises, which should be sent to the thousands of households, and they should be sent by fast boat."
"As for Guangdong, alas, Guangdong."
Gao Gong once served as the prime minister of the empire, and even the most ambitious prime minister since the entire Ming Empire, trying to restrain the imperial power in the form of law, re-establish the power of the prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, and truly determine the cabinet as the leading political force of the country, but because of this, he was also excluded by the harem, eunuchs, and courtiers at the same time, interrupting his political career.
The prefects of Luzon and other countries governed the government and commanded the troops to train the troops, and the war against Japan had shifted from the most fierce exchanges to the confrontation stage, and the governor of Java, Lin Feng, had also done a good job, all of which were easy for Gao Gong, but the matter in Guangdong gave him the most headache.
For no other reason, Gao Gong is a person who attaches great importance to authority, whether as the first assistant or as the governor of the Nanyang Military Government, he has the boundaries of his authority in his heart, and he has to do his best to achieve it within the boundary, and he must first find ways to expand the boundaries before doing it.
But Chen Mu is different, the boundaries in the hearts of the military governor are very blurred, the 'Nanyang' of the imperial court is expanding more and more, and in addition to overseas affairs, he is also using official power to influence Guangdong.
In Gao Gong's eyes, this is not what the Nanyang Military Government should do, but on the contrary, everything Chen Mu did was to influence Guangdong, and this is not wrong.
If there is a main purpose of the Nanyang Military Government, then this main purpose is to use overseas power to feed back the two capitals and 13 provinces, and the Guangzhou Mansion in Guangdong is the only official channel for the empire's interests in Nanyang, and the Nanyang Military Government and Guangdong are naturally inseparable in terms of interests.
However, the changes in Guangzhou Mansion have made Gao Gong a little unpredictable, no matter the atmosphere, environment, and appearance, all of them have become different from those under the rule of the imperial court, even if Gao Gong can't help but hesitate when he sees such a situation.
He has been communicating with Wu Dui of Xuanda, knowing the situation over there, Wu Dui attaches great importance to collective labor, remuneration according to merit, and has the authority of the governor of Xuanda, from the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau, textile factory, to the employment and production of coal mines today, but the situation of Xuanda is different from Guangdong.
There are many factories in Xuanda, so that it affects the cultivation of the people, and now Chen Mu wants to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes on the barren land of 300 li until Bansheng from the hands of me, but this still cannot change the situation that the original rich fields are gradually abandoned.
It was also a stroke of fortune that the peasants poured into the factories to become workers, but a famine helped Wu Dui, allowing the large landlords of Xuanda to hire more tenants, and before the war in Annam began, those large landlords were called 'farmers' by Chen Mu, which sounded a bit encouraging this land annexation.
But Gao Gong felt that this was a big problem, and so was Wu Dui, because Xuanda's dependence on silver was getting heavier and heavier.
For this reason, Wu Dui also specially asked for a holy decree from the imperial court, stipulating that between Xuanda and the University, from potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice grains to all kinds of vegetables, the price of goods will be flat, and if the law is violated, it will be beheaded.
Xuanda is still under the control of the imperial court, because although there are many factories there, those factories are directly under the imperial court, and the directors of the Ordnance Bureau, textile mills, and coal factories are all new officials of the imperial court, and the final goods produced also belong to the imperial court, which is easier for the imperial court in terms of control.
The advantages and disadvantages are obvious, when production can be maintained and there is still a market, workers can ensure income in drought and flood; But once the market collapses and Xuanda's income and expenditure are not comparable, the workers will not be paid, and there will be no land to support themselves, and all this will be borne by the imperial court in the end.
That's a million taels of wages a year, and it's not just a disaster that can be relieved by a hundred thousand taels of silver.
However, the situation in Guangdong is different, and in addition to the Xiangshan Shipyard, Nanyangwei Textile Factory, Nanyang Ordnance Bureau, Nanyang Weigang Ordnance Bureau, and Nanyangwei Port Shipyard, there are no less than 800 factories directly under Nanyangwei in Guangzhou Prefecture, which are large or small, all of which are owned by merchants.
For example, Foshan Iron Works is a joint venture for 120 furnace households and iron households; Xinhui Longhu Shipyard, for Xinhui Tan households 37 households, along the coast robbed 124 fishermen, seven Taoist priests, three families co-organized, formerly known as Longhu Daojun Shipyard, just next to the Dragon Tiger Zhenjun Temple, because of superstition and obscenity, was ordered by the government to change its name.
The factories all over Guangzhou Prefecture are about the same, or for the common people, or for the businessmen, or for the idle officials and the common people to open together, the relationship is complicated, and with the full support of Chen Mu, all kinds of factories are in full swing, and there is no risk of bankruptcy - a large number of raw materials are shipped from all over the country, including overseas, and the products are sold to various places, and those that can't be sold are piled up in Haojing, and there is always a Dafu ship that can transport them away.
With such faith that came out of nowhere, people went crazy.
This kind of atmosphere even affected Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, and Huguang, but most of those places were not influenced by Chen Mu, and even if they had influence, they were extremely limited.
Immediately followed by the strict prohibition of the opening of the factory, is to prohibit the people from moving, people are too serious in pursuit of profit, uprooted from their hometown to flee to Guangdong to open a factory, the government repeatedly prohibited, the neighboring provinces have different degrees of land barren problem, but there is no danger, people rush to sell the land, so that the price of land becomes low, in a short period of time does not seem to shake the national capital.
There are always fish that slip through the net, Gao Gong specially wrote a letter to Chen Mu's uncle, asking the Shaw clan to close the Shaw Shipyard in Fujian, and the governor of Fujian is not easy to manage directly, so he can only write a letter to the Nanyang Military Mansion.
In the past, after land annexation, the poor people would become displaced people, but now the poor people give up being tenants and land annexation occurs.
"Alas!"
Gao Gong sighed long, he didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, if there was no Chen Mu, only a letter from the imperial court would be needed to close all the factories, but the problem was that there was a Chen Mu standing behind those factories without saying a word, he never waved his flag and shouted, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that he was fighting everywhere in order to find a place to buy raw materials and sell products for these factories that have sprung up like mushrooms.
The land annexation, which was most important in all dynasties, has become more and more serious.
What's more critical is that just a few days ago, Gao Gong had just ordered that no one in the military government and guards should send letters to Chen Mu in Myanmar without permission, and all letters must be reviewed by Jinyiwei, and he didn't dare to write to ask Chen Mu about these questions.
For no other reason, Yan Qingyao is about to give birth, this matter is the top priority of the entire Nanyang Military Government, and Old Man Gao is especially concerned, and specially summoned seventeen of the most famous Wen Po from Guangdong, and the gynecologists of the two small flags under the military government guard, did not dare to let Chen Mu know this news to affect his judgment in the war.
"I can only wait for this little handsome man to come back!"
Note: Gynecology - Ming Longqing Five-Year Tai Hospital changed 13 departments to 11 departments.
Including the large square pulse, small square pulse, women, surgery, acupuncture, eye, mouth, throat, typhoid fever, orthopedics, acne rash eleven departments, Zhu You and massage are eliminated.
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