Now he understands why the people in power always say that the outside must first settle the inside, if you want to use troops outside the country and concentrate on winning the war, if there is no stable situation in the country, you will not be able to gather the strength of the whole country to fight a big war, and he is now facing such a problem, in a short period of time, he really can't draw enough troops to immediately launch the final blow against Jiannu.

So for the time being, he can only let Guan Ningjun live a stable life for two years, as long as they don't make trouble, and when he calms down the Ming Dynasty one day, it's not too late to clean up these warlords, it's just a big deal to waste more money and food, anyway, he is not very short of money to spend now.

The opening of the sea ban and the imposition of commercial taxes on merchants make it possible for him to raise a large amount of financial revenue every year, so supporting more than 100,000 Guan Ning troops is not a very difficult thing for him now, and Zu Dashou and their gang of guys don't necessarily give them as much as they want, even if these guys have a lot of appetite, as long as they don't force them, they don't dare to come nonsense.

For industrial construction, Yu Xiaotian also began to act in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and he first set up a new semi-mechanized arsenal in Shunde Mansion, which was already firmly under control of Beizhili.

Shunde Mansion is the most important iron-producing place in the Northern Song Dynasty in history, there is a famous history of iron smelting in history, the local coal and iron ore are produced locally, during the Northern Song Dynasty, this is the most important iron-producing place in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the iron production of Cizhou occupies more than half of the national iron production in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, this place began to decline, the Yuan Dynasty was still a relatively important iron production place, to the Ming Dynasty, although the iron production here has been greatly inferior to the past, but here has unique conditions, coal and iron can be directly solved in the local area.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to take the lead in promoting industrialization in Shunde Province and set up an arsenal to use local resources to directly produce guns and artillery needed by the army of Yu's army.

The establishment of a large arsenal will also immediately drive the development of local coal mines and iron mines, and at the same time, it will also promote the development of many local handicraft industries in terms of the source, such as coke for steelmaking, which can directly establish a coking field in the local area, and then drive the establishment of earth blast furnace steelmaking, and finally form the first heavy industrial base in the north in Shunde Province.

As for the technical personnel, now he has no shortage at hand, and the Tamsui Industrial Zone on the island of Taiwan has cultivated quite a lot of managerial talents, technical personnel and professional workers over the years.

And this kind of industrialization, he did not hand over to the Ministry of Industry to be responsible, but out of selfishness, or the Seawolf Group to take the lead, as his family's private property, so as to avoid the spread of some secret technology, so that he lost his technological advantage in a short period of time.

In addition, with the cancellation of the sea ban, a number of sea ports were opened along the coast, so that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty used to secretly carry out underground activities, and turned to openly go to sea to do business, and suddenly the private capital burst out of huge power, and more and more businessmen began to invest their funds in the sea trade.

And these businessmen want to do sea trade, the first thing to do is to shipbuilding, before the Ming Dynasty forbade the sea, forbidden to build more than 400 large ships, now this ban has been canceled by Yu Xiaotian, so the shipbuilding industry in various coastal areas was immediately pulled up, a new shipyard was established in various places, for a time shipbuilding craftsmen became a sought-after goods, everywhere at a high price to recruit shipbuilding craftsmen, so that shipbuilding craftsmen have become a hot sought-after goods.

The sudden outbreak of the shipbuilding industry has naturally driven many related industries, such as wood, hemp, iron, tung oil, lacquer and other related industries used in shipbuilding.

With the construction of batches of sea ships and going to sea, the boatmen who can sail on the sea have immediately become sought-after goods, and they have begun to recruit shipwrights everywhere, especially people like the experienced fire captain, that is, the captain of the ship, which is often said in later generations, is even more difficult to find, which makes some pirates who could not find a way to go to sea for pirates, and now they have found a way to eat.

What's more, being a pirate now is not an easy thing, as Yu Jiajun's naval power is getting bigger and bigger, his hand is getting longer and longer, and he has gradually controlled the entire coast of China, and has never spared no effort to fight pirates, so that many pirates can only wash their hands and go ashore to find another way to survive.

Now that someone wanted to hire a firemaster or a shipwright, the pirates who had gone ashore to wash their hands found a new way to eat, and began to work as shipwrights for the merchants.

With more and more businessmen going to sea to do business, a large number of goods of the Ming Dynasty began to be loaded onto the ship by the merchants, and the sea was trafficked out.

After the opening of the sea ban, all kinds of handicraft workshops for export sprung up like mushrooms after the opening of the sea, and were set up by merchants in various coastal areas, absorbing a large number of landless peasants to become professional workers, which also greatly reduced the number of displaced people in the local area and reduced the management pressure of the local government.

In short, the opening of the sea ban can be said to be a whole body, driving a large number of industries from all walks of life, from the source to the terminal, absorbing a lot of human and financial resources, and producing huge benefits.

The common people are so easy to serve, as long as they find a bite to eat so that they will not starve to death, and few people copy knives to play with their lives, and the sudden outbreak of industry and commerce has absorbed a large number of idle manpower, and subsidized the homes of some poor people.

Many traditional handicraft technologies and products of Daming are sought after all over the world at this time, as long as you find the right way and invest in the establishment of workshops, you can almost take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

The Seawolf Group, which is also the rule-maker, must have benefited a lot from such a tide of opening the sea ban, they control almost all the trade routes at sea, whether it is the price or the way of trading, the Seawolf Group must take the lead in making the final say, if anyone is bad and wants to ship at the specified price, then I'm sorry, this businessman will definitely be kicked out immediately, and don't think about mixing at sea in the future.

Yu Xiaotian, as the owner of the Seawolf Group, of course, also made a lot of money, which is also the reason why he is hard-willed, as long as he is willing to spend money, then even if the household department can't come up with the money, he can also come up with enough funds to invest, just in the 12th to 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, he invested in the establishment of various factories and workshops in the north and the Central Plains, and invested more than 3 million taels of silver.

On the surface, the silver was not used for disaster relief, but when the funds flowed into the society, they were eventually dispersed to many people, and a large number of idle or landless and disaster-stricken victims were absorbed to work in various workshops, which also played a role in absorbing displaced people and providing relief to the victims.

These people who were absorbed into the workshop to work can get paid for their labor and support their families, so naturally they will no longer be bewitched and run away with the homeless army to make trouble, so don't look at Yu Xiaotian did not directly use his money to help the victims, but he invested in the establishment of the workshop, which still played a great role in disaster relief.

In addition to natural disasters, man-made disasters are also very important, and many officials and businessmen colluded to take advantage of the opportunity to hoard goods and raise prices, so that the price of grain showed abnormally high prices, so that ordinary people could not afford to buy at all, and finally lost their capital to survive, and were finally forced to embark on the road of recklessness.

However, after Yu Xiaotian took power, he immediately began to severely crack down on this kind of collusion between officials and businessmen, hoarding goods and raising grain prices by extremely bloody means in places where he could stretch out his hand to control them, and copied the property of thousands of profiteers who raised grain prices and hoarded goods, and arrested and killed a large number of corrupt officials who colluded with profiteers, and simply lowered the grain prices in the north.

For example, at the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the price of a stone of millet or wheat in the area of Zhending Mansion was too high by grain merchants to almost four or five taels of silver, and even the price of beans that people do not often eat was raised to the price of three taels of silver, compared with the Wanli period and the early years of the Apocalypse, the price of grain increased several times, such a price, not to mention that ordinary people can't afford it, even some people with small savings can't hold it.

But after Yu Xiaotian took power, it only took a few months, in October of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, to flatten the price of grain in the area of Zhending Mansion to a stone of wheat only sold for one or four dollars of silver, the price was much lower, although it was much higher than the price of grain in the Wanli period, but at least it returned to the normal range.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian also knew very well that the reason why grain prices remained high in the north at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that in addition to natural disasters and profiteers hoarding goods and raising grain prices, there was also an important factor, that is, among the Jin merchants in the north, especially in Shanxi, there were a group of people who took risks and colluded with officials and businessmen to smuggle a large amount of grain through the Zhangjiakou area, smuggle it out of the customs, and sell it to the Jiannu and Mongols at a high price, earning excessive profits.

These profiteers are undoubtedly in the Ming Dynasty, they are hardcore traitors, they are short of food in the customs at the same time, they turn a blind eye to the disaster in the customs, but the people in the customs urgently need the food, a large number of transshipment out of the customs, to make huge profits, one is to greatly aggravate the shortage of food in the customs, the other is to strongly support the needs of the slaves outside the customs, so that the slaves in the bitter cold outside the customs, but can eat food, not to starve to death.

The Jiannu outside the customs continued to invade the Guan, burned and looted to obtain a large amount of assets, and then purchased food from these profiteers in the Guan, which greatly alleviated the shortage of food outside the Guan, so that the Jiannu had the spare strength to raise soldiers and support the people, and finally continued to expand their strength, constantly plundered southward, and finally stole the Ming Dynasty.

Even some generals in the Guanning army outside the Guanguan colluded with these profiteers to share a large amount of profits, and even directly withheld the military rations allocated to them by the Ming court and resold them to Jiannu to enrich their own pockets.