Chapter 635: Relationship with the Gentry Repaired

Now that the entire island has been taken, the next step is to govern, immigrate, and establish a stable rule on the island. Chen Yue had already ordered someone to take a boat to Beigang to summon Jun En.

The formation of households in Beigang has almost been carried out, and another thousand soldiers are stationed, and the next step is to start the organization of households and people in the southern part of Dongfan Island, and all the Ming people on the island will be brought under the rule.

As for the aborigines of the island, they first implement a fetter policy, as long as they are willing to pay taxes, ignore them first, and then slowly assimilate later. Now there are deserted forest plains on Dongfan Island, and there is no need to take land from the aborigines.

Because the Dutch surrendered without a fight, and the city of Resharan was intact, Chen Yue took the city of Relanza as his residence and renamed it Pingnan City. Pingnan City is a military city, and in addition to the Qi State Mansion, the castle is the office of the core department, and ordinary people are not allowed to live at all.

However, Chen Yue planned to build another city on the original Provencha Street and Heliao Street as the seat of the official residence to rule Dongfan Island. Next, Chen Yue planned to gradually move the Ordnance Division Workshop on Zhoushan Island to the south, and move the core of the Qi State Mansion to Dongning Island.

Just when Chen Yue was standing at the head of Pingnan City and making plans to rule and govern the entire Dongfan Island, Qian Fenglin, who was far away in Zhoushan, let out a sigh.

Chen Yue went with a large army to attack the Dutch on Dongfan Island, and the affairs of Zhoushan were handled by Qian Fenglin, including repairing relations with the gentry of Ningbo Shaoxing.

In the summer, in the name of raiding and going to sea for trade without permission, the Zhoushan Shan Army intercepted and seized more than 20 sea ships, but with the escape of Yang Wenqing, who was detained on a desert island, what the Zhoushan Army did was revealed to the world, causing a great earthquake in the entire Zhejiang officialdom, and Shilin was discussed.

It was already customary for the gentry along the coast to smuggle in the Japanese state, and it was a well-known thing. With the subsidence of the Wako Rebellion, after the opening of the sea in Longqing, the court basically ignored the smuggling of the gentry, and in fact could not control it. Therefore, in the eyes of the vast majority of the gentry, it was not a big deal to trade with the Japanese state.

And now Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, intercepts sea ships under such an excuse, what is the difference between this and robbing people's property, yes, it is plundering people's property!

If it was to plunder the wealth of ordinary people, naturally no one cared, but Chen Yue robbed most of the gentry's sea ships!

You must know that the Ming Dynasty is the world of scholars, and the gentry are the real masters, and the gentry in the people speak better than the government. Now, although Chen Yue is only moving some gentry in Ningbo and Shaoxing, he is touching the interests of the entire gentry class. And now that Chen Yue can move the gentry in Ningbo, he may open the knife to all the gentry in the future!

Therefore, as soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a great earthquake in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shilin, and then caused the anger of Nanjing officialdom, and many imperial historians and ministers of the imperial court wrote to impeach Chen Yue, the prince of Qi.

However, before the matter was completely fermented, the news of Lu Zhenfei's failure in the Northern Expedition reached Nanjing.

Compared with the failure of the Northern Expedition and the casualties of 100,000 officers and soldiers, Chen Yue's robbery of the gentry's property is nothing.

Moreover, Lu Zhenfei was defeated, and the call for Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, to make a comeback was very high, and at this time, the imperial court had no intention of dealing with Chen Yue because of such a trivial matter.

So after making trouble for a while, the gentry such as the Yang family and the Tujia in Ningbo reluctantly found that they had nothing to do with Chen Yue.

Although the matter was over, considering that after conquering overseas and occupying Tofan, if it wanted to develop rapidly, it would have to get the support of the coastal areas, and if it was resisted by the gentry, it would be difficult for Tofan Island to do anything in the future.

Take the sea trade as an example, the goods of raw silk, porcelain and silk are in the hands of the gentry, if you offend these gentry, you will definitely not be able to get together with the goods of the Japanese country, and where can you make money?

For another example, the canned fish and meat in Zhoushan, as well as the specialties of Dongfan Island in the future, need to be sold in the vast market, and the gentry control the place of the Ming Dynasty, without their cooperation, the goods of the Duke of Qi do not want to be sold to the Ming Dynasty! And the rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are the best markets.

So in every way, the relationship with the gentry had to be repaired.

How to repair the relationship? Of course, the gentry had to make up for their losses.

Of course, Chen Yue will not and cannot return all the silver earned from trading in the Japanese Kingdom to the Yang family and other gentry, at most, he will compensate the gentry according to the market price of raw silk and other goods in the Ming Dynasty, which is the bottom limit that Chen Yue can accept. That is to say, to return the capital of the gentry to them, so that they do not lose money. Of course, for Zhoushan, this is equivalent to borrowing someone else's chicken to lay eggs for a few months, and then returning the hen to the other party.

Of course, this will lose a lot of money for Zhoushan, but what it gets is a broad market and future prospects.

Qian Fenglin was born as a jinshi and was familiar with the psychology of these gentry, so he was naturally able to deal with such things with ease, plus Lu Yun from the Pinghu Lu family ran around to say yes, and things went very smoothly.

Lu Yun received the help of Chen Yue when he was in the Wa Kingdom, and recaptured the sea ship from the Dutch and rescued his subordinates, and was very grateful to Chen Yue, the Duke of Qiguo, and admired the righteous deeds of the Zhoushan business.

The Pinghu Lu family is famous in the Ming Dynasty, and during the Jiajing period, there was a Jinyi Weidu commander who made the three dukes and three orphans loyal to Bo Lu Bing, and there were Jinshi high-ranking officials from generation to generation, and it was a first-class family in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and its reputation was not under the Ningbo Yang family.

Lu Yun came forward on behalf of the Lu family, and the gentry in Shaoxing, Ningbo, naturally wanted to sell their face, and Zhoushan was willing to take the initiative to return their capital, so that they would not be lost, which was also an unexpected joy, although he was not angry about the loss of a large amount of sea trade profits, but when Lu Yun said that because of the hurricane, five out of ten sea ships from Zhejiang and Fujian were overturned by the waves, Yang Wenqing was also secretly happy. According to the calculation of time, after he set off by boat, it coincided with the huge waves, and if he hadn't been robbed by Zhoushan, he might have been overturned by the waves......

After the matter is explained thoroughly, this festival can be regarded as unveiled. However, the Yang family and other gentry demanded that Zhoushan should no longer intercept sea ships going to sea in the coming year, and Qian Fenglin also agreed on behalf of Chen Yue. However, as long as Zhoushan drove away the Dutch and occupied Dongfan Island, it would have the strength to share the route of the Japanese kingdom with the Zheng family, and it would be impossible to say that these gentry who went to sea would also have to pay a sum of money to Zhoushan in order to ensure that they were safe and sound at sea, that is another story.

Making peace with the gentry of Ningbo Shaoxing means that Zhoushan has a stable rear, and Qian Fenglin can be regarded as a long breather. Only those who are in Shilin know how powerful the gentry are in the Ming Dynasty!

The reason why Chen Yue was repeatedly excluded in the past had a lot to do with the fact that he acted unscrupulously and had a bad relationship with the gentry officials.

However, Qian Fenglin could not relax, because the immigrants from Shandong were about to arrive......