Chapter 612: Pirates of the Gulf of Tonkin

"Dongliang, I want to start a plan...... Pirates of the Gulf of Tonkin let you host. Wang Ju said.

The so-called Pirates of the Gulf of Tonkin is a pure spoof of Wang Ju.

But its meaning is much more important than Captain Jack's spoof-style adventures.

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he first handed over a bag, and there were a few pieces of paper in the bag, which was his plan for the pirates of the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf.

After reading it, Lu He asked puzzledly: "Is Jiaozhi so powerful?" ”

"How can I say it, if their army arrives at Liangguang Road, and I am prepared, then it is not powerful at all. It's just a bunch of monkeys. Wang Ju said sarcastically. Then he changed his voice and said, "However, if I go deep into the territory of Jiaozhi with the army, it will be very troublesome. First of all, the weather is hotter, not only hot, but also with many rivers and dense jungles. It was a real jungle, and the shade could barely cover the day. ”

Lu Herang had been to Jiaozhi and knew better, so he nodded.

"Let's just talk about overseas, in this kind of terrain, why do I repeatedly warn not to go deeper, in fact, those tribes overseas are more backward in civilization and more backward in weapons. It is precisely because of this kind of terrain that if you are unfamiliar with the terrain, you will venture to go deeper, and you will inevitably have heavy casualties. Moreover, their civilization is not much weaker than that of our dynasty, and the population is larger, and the craftsmanship in all aspects is gradually maturing, and the system is perfect. This is not terrible, what is terrible is the rise of the army, when the Tang Dynasty in the southeast of the river was conquered, because of the hot and humid weather, the soldiers had malaria, and it was even more humid and hot."

In this way, it makes sense.

There are forests in the north, but they are dominated by deciduous and coniferous trees, and there are few shrubs in the mountain forests.

However, the rainforests of the south are different from the jungles of the north.

Lu Herang asked again: "How did you conquer it before?" ”

"Before, their civilization was more backward. Out in the boondocks. It's like the jungle tribes overseas. ”

In fact, it can't be said to be tribal. It can be said that it is a country. However, these countries are very small, like the Philippine Monkey archipelago, and now there are at least a thousand or more large and small countries. Therefore, compared with the Song Dynasty, it can only be regarded as a tribe.

"But now it's different, so I repeatedly ordered that immigrants are not allowed to intermarry with foreigners, after all, the population base is too small now, and intermarriage. In turn, they will be assimilated, because the bloodlines are different, and if they don't get it right in the future, they will become the second cochin. ”

When Wang Ju said this, he was a little worried, that is, the blood is the same, will there really be no second Jiaozhi?

But this can't be thought of, and that can be thought so far away.

"Moreover, the important generals of the imperial court are not familiar with the south, and if they go on an expedition with contempt, even if they are undefeated, they may not be able to achieve complete success."

"Zi'an. Are you going to go to Quang Nam again? ”

"Well, it's best to avoid it for a few more years. After Guangnan's meritorious service, it is the best time to return to the court. ”

Why does Wang Ju have this plan? Let's see why Wang Anshi stepped down, once Zhao Ji learned Wang Anshi's method, the country's arrears gradually disappeared, but Wang Anshi changed the law and had power all over the world, so it must not be tolerated by Zhao Ji.

This also explains why Wen Yanbo has been restraining Wang Anshi in the court, and after Wang Anshi came to the capital next year, he was immediately dismissed as prime minister.

The first is that Zhao Ji can't tolerate the emergence of new ministers in the court, and the second is that the change of law has brought many people opposition, and he just took down Wang Anshi to offset the anger of some people.

Wang Anshi became a victim......

This is the truth, Zhao Ji is a strong emperor, and he has a strong desire to control, otherwise he would not have carried out the reform, why the reform, it is nothing more than to further concentrate power.

What can you do under such a king?

It caused countless disputes in the court, it is better to do more things in the local area, in fact, an overseas, so that Wang Jubu has countless followers. Including retreats, and a huge economy, and other resources.

Therefore, it is advantageous to go to the court later.

Don't talk about friendship, as a gentleman, how much friendship can there be?

Thinking of this, Wang Ju muttered, "Han Qi killed people." ”

If it weren't for Han Qi, how could Zhao Ji have such a tragic precautionary mentality?

"Han Gong's ......"

"Leave him alone, they are already the front waves of the Yangtze River, and they will all die on the river beach soon. Here's some more information, you can take a look at it. ”

Wang Ju handed over another bag, which contained more information.

"Zi'an, you need Ding Zhuang now." Lu He said after looking at it for a long time.

Many ministers did not dare to speak out about the large-scale immigration initiated by Wang Ju, and some held an attitude of opposition. But not many people think about the process or even think it's easy.

Is that easy?

After Wang Ju arrived in Quanzhou, he immediately did several things.

First of all, it attracted many powerful people to participate in the voyage and let them profit, of course, it was the main channel, that is, trade with the South China Sea countries near Malacca, and far away from Tianzhu, Dashi and East Africa.

Wang Ju's role is to wring them together, and when there are more people, the greater the strength, and there will be a certain protective effect, and he will no longer be afraid of pirates at sea, and he will no longer be afraid of extortion and extortion from some small overseas countries.

However, the southeast channel Wang Ju did not let out, and there were too many secrets in that direction.

This is one of them, and the second is that because of the increase in trade, Wang Ju also has the foundation to promote the development of various workshops, not only shipbuilding, but also various daily necessities, including ceramics, utensils, preserved fruits, tea, etc., so that the manufacturing, transportation, commerce and planting industries are quickly stimulated, so that these powerful people can be released from the low land income.

Don't take the poor peasants anymore, how much wealth will that add to you?

At the same time, in the name of donations, roads were built.

It is not only promoted in Quanzhou, but also promoted to the nearby Zhangzhou, Tingzhou, Nanjianzhou, Xinghuajun, Fuzhou, Shaowujun, and even re-expanded several mountain roads this year, so that the Qianzhou and Jianchang armies on Jiangnan West Road are also linked to this business circle.

Only when everyone can eat meat together, including officials, has financial revenue, it is equivalent to having political achievements, and the strong income of the state armies has increased. Then the opposition will decrease.

Even Wang Ju did one thing shamelessly. The temple was also pulled in.

What to do. The great monk of the Song Dynasty publicly shouted out money like honey. And there are many monasteries on Fujian Road, and it is also a big trouble not to make a fortune with these great monks.

Sometimes when Wang Ju saw these great monks, he couldn't help but think of the abbot of Shaolin Temple in his previous life......

It's good to understand, otherwise it will make people even more depressed to see the monks greedy for money like this.

However, fortunately, after several years of accumulation. Ten merchants, as well as Wang Ju's own name, have a large number of economic people and stewards who can do things independently, and even Wang Ju secretly hired a group of disabled veterans.

Although they are disabled, they still have combat experience, and they can at least train each Ding Zhuang to familiarize themselves with the weapons in their hands as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, this big mess will be a big mess if it is not done well.

This is the side of wooing.

Some people want to eat it, but the fish is not willing to let go.

Then you're welcome.

Now Wang Ju has more talent available to him, far more than anyone could have imagined. It's just that these people can't be put on the table.

Under their covert investigation, these people will be guilty. Including monks, think about it, once you treat money as honey, even if the Buddha sits in front of them, there are unclean things under your hands.

They then either report it to state and county officials, or support the victim's lawsuit, until these heroes are ruined.

In the first and second years, these heroes did not notice it, and saw that with the support of Wang Ju, various maritime merchants kept moving the people overseas, and successively used various channels to impeach Wang Ju. However, Wang Ju came to Quanzhou sadly, and he was very strong, and the officials of the nearby states and counties benefited from Wang Ju's promotion, so their opposition was ineffective. As a result, these heroes fell one by one inexplicably.

After a long time, they are not fools, and if they don't give up that fish, they will be in danger of perishing. So why not eat the tastier bear's paw and forgo the piece of fish?

As a result, more people joined this circle of interests, everyone's interests were intertwined, and a net was woven invisibly, and the opposition gradually disappeared.

Of course, there are still people who are unhappy, the people who Wang Ju migrated are all poor households, and there are some more pitiful homeless, runaways, and hidden households, these people can exploit them to their heart's content, and they migrate away together, and there will be no cheap people to farm and grow lychees for them.

Therefore, there are some smart people who lure poor people and runaways from Jiangnan West Road.

This Wang Ju has no objection, and even wishes that they would do so, because only in this way can the people in more areas be further evacuated.

In short, driven by Wang Ju, this area is very lively.

But fortunately, it is now Wang Anshi's change of law, and in the financial evaluation of political performance, as long as there is money, most officials will pretend not to see it. Anyway, whether it's good or bad, even Zhao Ji can't tell as the emperor, and it's them.

But why did Lu Herang say that he wanted Ding Zhuang.

There are not many people who migrated Wang Ju on the household register, 20,000 households, less than 60,000 people, that is, most of them are difficult at home, so the eldest son left to inherit the family business, and the second son went overseas, although it is 20,000 households, but more than half of the relatives of these 20,000 households are still staying inland, and only some people have migrated overseas, but these people are very good, and Ding Zhuang accounts for most of the proportion. Going overseas, it is not as beautiful as imagined, although there is indeed a lot of arable land, which is unimaginably large, and the income is also very high, but they have to start all over again, and at the same time have to fight with the local natives and fight for territory. Therefore, it must also be dominated by Ding Zhuang.

In addition, there are more than 20,000 hidden households that have escaped, and the population of these households is even larger, with more than 90,000 people. But they are not counted in the register.

And there are many hidden households in the south, which also surprised Wang Ju.

Many of the elderly also wore their buns in order to escape the servitude of the state. I'm not Ding Zhuang, I'm underage......

Although the imperial court sent officials to loot the hidden households on Jiangnan West Road and Liangzhejiang Road, and now there are a large number of hidden households and escapees, Fujian Road is even more because the officials have not looted it.

However, it is not on the household register of the imperial court, although it has avoided taxes, its fate is even more tragic, since it is not on the household register, it is also not protected by the state, so the main households are exploited to their heart's content. In fact, there is no way to do this, in the case of the ancient productive forces were very backward, once the population swelled, this situation could not be avoided.

But in general, Ding Zhuang accounts for the majority.

But now it has gradually settled down, and once it has settled, it will at least be much better than living in the interior as a household below the fifth class.

So some people offered to pick up their family members.

Zhang Quanzhi took the Mizhou victims to the other side of the ocean, and Tao Qing secretly went to Runzhou.

Most of the ships still belong to Wang Ju and the ten merchants in Yanzhou, of which Wang Ju occupies seventy percent of the deed shares. In fact, the current wealth income has numbed ten merchants, why do you want so much money, can you spend it? But for Wang Ju, the more the better.

Under Wang Ju's prompting, Liu Shaoxian also deliberately went to the Wa Kingdom, and really found two silver mines, the reserves are not large, and the backward mining and smelting technology is not too high. But with this basis, you can continue to search. Trade should also be reciprocal, these countries were too poor compared to the Song Dynasty, so they had to form a copper outflow situation.

Therefore, Wang Jucai promoted the use of boats to pull wooden rafts to pull the wood of the Wa Kingdom to Mizhou, and added silver mines, which could amplify the trading volume and prevent at least some copper coins from flowing out. And the arrival of these silvers will increase the currency of the Song Dynasty.

The foundation of the bank must have sufficient currency, and Jiaozi cannot make the people adapt to it for the time being, so the silver of the Japanese country is actually very important. Why the Ming Dynasty used silver as currency was to get a large amount of silver from the Wa Kingdom. Once there is more silver, and copper coins are paired, there will be no shortage of currency. Then using some means will really promote the economy of the Song Dynasty, and even theoretically achieve what Wang Anshi said about the people without giving them and the country for their own use.

But not right now.

And now the voyage needs more silver, for example, the biggest profit is jewelry and spices, which was purchased by the city, but the city is not to pay copper coins, but to pay for related goods.

Does Wang Ju want so many commercial goods?

Once the voyage was further expanded, it was necessary to have enough money, including silver! With the silver, it will have to go through a series of dazzling turnovers before it can be transferred to Wang Ju's hands.

In short, its complexity is stricter than everyone thinks.

This has nothing to do with Ding Zhuang.

Moreover, most of the transactions in this transaction were exchanged for high-priced grain from the Wa Kingdom, but these ships, as long as they belonged to Wang Ju, had to bring people to the other side.

So Wang Ju made a series of arrangements, if there are family members, especially his wife in the interior, as long as he is willing, try to bring them over. Otherwise, the flesh and blood will prevent them from intermarrying with other races, and something will happen after a long time.

Then Wang Ju sent someone to secretly buy some women, and when the disaster came, he had to sell his sons and daughters, and Wang Ju couldn't save the children who were a few years old. There are too many of them, and there is no way to save them. Besides, if you don't save it well, it will be impeached, so why bother?

Therefore, I can only buy some teenage girls with money, and the price is pitiful, often only a few dollars a piece, which is not worth the price of a cow.

After buying it back, it gradually moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and then after those ships unloaded the grain, they sailed to the river, temporarily berthed, and then with the help of the night, these girls were secretly transferred to the sea ship and brought to the other side, so that they could match with the unmarried Ding Zhuang. However, Wang Ju repeatedly warned that these girls must be made willing, and they must not be forcibly matched.

Because of the fear of impeachment, it must be kept secret, and the women bought are not many, only four thousand or a few hundred. But here in Quanzhou, there are mostly women, the elderly and children. Of course, this is the side of constraints, but if you don't have this official uniform on your body, there are these conveniences. So there are two sides to everything, a good side and a bad side...... You can't complain about this.

These ships can still carry 30,000 or 40,000 people, but Ding Zhuang is very few.

But to implement Wang Ju's plan, there must be more Ding Zhuang. Therefore, Lu Herang was a little puzzled. (To be continued......)