Everything is empty, money and food are the most important!

Huang Han already has a population of millions in his hands, and it will affect millions of people in Shanxi.

What are you afraid of with guns, people, money and grain, territory, ports, outlets to the sea, and cross-era sailors?

Five days ago, the families of the eight imperial merchants and dozens of traitorous Jin merchants had already been escorted to Tiger's Den City by Song Pengfei and four battalions of men and horses to prepare for the ship of Phi Island and Shenmi Island.

The army of the Hui Division also went on the road with 20,000 families and more than 100,000 people from the Shanxi War.

Shanxi merchants were uprooted, and the "Red Banner Army" self-operated firms and the merchants of the system jointly took over Shanxi's business, and in the future, doing business was equivalent to fair competition between collective stores and private firms.

This practice is based on the failed model of governance in the first 30 years of the national dynasty, everything is collective and state-run, resulting in the salesmen who sell goods for the collective and the state have become masters, and they have no sense of service at all.

It also leads to the lack of vitality of the single market for commodities in the absence of a competitive mechanism.

To create a market atmosphere of fair competition, and to compete freely under the premise of legality and under the condition of paying taxes according to law, the firms of the "Red Flag Army" can go out of business if they do not operate well, and they cannot use force to deal with their competitors.

With the gradual improvement of the market mechanism, the shareholding system can be implemented at an appropriate time, and the collective ownership can be changed to the common ownership of shareholders.

Because the vitality of collective ownership is weak and it is competitive at the beginning, it will not be long before people will be superfluous, and marketization is the only way to go.

Shanxi and Xuanda have broken the old system, and Huang Han must control them for a long time so that the gains of reform will not be lost.

It is believed that in a year or two, millions of ordinary people in Shanxi and Xuanda will not go hungry and their quality of life will gradually improve under the management of the "Red Banner Army", and they will become good citizens loyal to Huang Han.

In the future, it will be difficult for Tatars and Jiannu to get iron and grain from Shanxi and Xuanda.

During the Ming Dynasty, why did the Tartars' combat effectiveness plummet and finally developed to the point that they couldn't even build slaves?

That's because the Ming Dynasty controlled trade for a long time, so that the horses, cattle and sheep of the Tartars could not be sold at a high price, and even getting an iron pot was sky-high.

Nurhachi benefited from the recognition of Li Chengliang as his master and received support, so he was able to conquer the Mongol tribes after the unification of the Jurchens.

Jiannu attached great importance to trade, and the massive gold and silver treasures looted from Liaodong in the early days were converted into armor and weapons through the Jin merchants, so the Tartars were defeated and lost, and the Ming lost their land.

Now that Shanxi's commerce and trade were firmly controlled by the Huang Han, it was not easy to obtain a large amount of iron for cannon casting with the poor productivity of Jiannu?

After the "Red Banner Army" took control of the border trade, it would continue to purchase cattle, sheep, horses, leather goods, and wool from the Tartars at a lower price, and the commodities allowed to leave the border freely did not include iron tools, grain, and gunpowder.

Tea, porcelain, silk, table clocks, cotton, sweaters, blankets, spirits, cosmetics, luxury goods, etc., are encouraged to be exported.

Not only did the economic blockade continue against the Tartars, but the garrison "Red Banner Army" also had to wage non-stop local wars to drive the Mongols north and west, and the best result was to drive them to Europe to plunder Tsarist Russia.

The most fundamental reason why Tsarist Russia crossed Siberia to the Far East and took away the vast land in history is that the Ming Dynasty was weak and could not help the wind, and the Tartars and Jiannu occupied the flower world of the Han people.

The territory owned by the Han Chinese was probably the best in the world, and the Tatars and Jiannu migrated southward with fertile soil, leading to a sharp decline in the population of the farther north, and when Tsarist Russia invaded Siberia, there were very few natives there.

With the Huang Han Dynasty and the "Red Banner Army", how could it be that many foreign races would be allowed to seize the living space of the Han people, and drive the Tartars two or three thousand miles north to Siberia until they were Siberia, which was a ten-year plan after five years of Pingliao.

If there were millions of Tartars and slaves living in the vast land of Siberia, it would not be Tsarist Russia that occupied the Far East, but the old Maozi who were always on guard against the resurgence of the Yellow Peril four hundred years ago.

In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival, although it withered after the war, but because there was a "Red Flag Army" around them who did not loot the people by starvation, the soldiers and civilians of Shanxi were stable.

In order to tide over the difficulties together, the propaganda team has been widely publicizing that saving food has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the refugees who have been sent in can only feed six or seven of the two meals on average, and even then there are few people who say strange things.

The hot labor site is in the mining area, and it takes a lot of strong labor to crush the stone to make equipment for firing cement, and there are a lot of manpower needed for coal mining and iron ore mining.

The workshops of the original Jin merchants are all operating at full capacity, and ironmaking, steelmaking, coking, silk reeling, spinning, weaving, etc. can also solve many jobs.

No one is afraid of hardship, because those who do heavy physical work can eat three meals and have two meals, and they can also get wages ranging from five to one or two according to the size of the effort and the difficulty of the work, so that the wife and children at home can have food and clothing.

Huang Han never thought that the population was a burden, and at this time, he used work relief and relief to prevent three or four million people from freezing and starving to death during the cat winter, and also enabled the young and middle-aged to eat enough.

When spring began, millions of people were mobilized to build ditches, dig irrigation wells, and plant a large number of potatoes, a hardy and easy-to-serve high-yielding crop.

If we do not suffer from a catastrophic disaster that occurs once in 30 years, we will be able to sell some of the surplus grain produced by Shanxi Tunhu while they can be self-sufficient.

As long as the hunger can be solved, the situation will be stabilized, and it is inevitable that Shanxi and Xuanda will be actually controlled by the "Red Banner Army."

Just when the Ming Dynasty was empty in response to the Qing army's large-scale invasion of the interior, the Liukou ushered in a climax of development.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Lao Huihui and other big leaders of the rogue deliberately released the news of attacking Xi'an with the intention of establishing themselves as kings, which caused Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian and other generals to be exhausted.

In the second half of the lunar month, the main force of the Liukou once again passed through Shangluo Mountain and ran to Henan as if it were no one, and they grabbed food that could maintain basic survival in several county towns, and once again engulfed more than 200,000 people.

Gao Yingxiang got a detailed report and learned that there were a large number of military supplies, weapons and food hoarded by the Ming army in Xiangyang City, and learned that due to the fertile land and water in Xiangyang, King Xiang's vein was extremely rich, and there were countless gold and silver treasures in the mansion, and the grain in the treasury was piled up.

The hungry Liukou wanted to slaughter the fat sheep too much, and after learning that Xiangyang was very fat and empty, he began to drool.

They also learned that King Luyan's Tianxiong army and the "Red Devils" along the river had crossed the Yellow River to pursue the Qing army, two thousand miles away from Xiangyang, and realized that a great opportunity was in front of them.

。 Sogou