The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 107

On Ding Yi's boat, the three of them sat on the table with wine, snacks, snacks, and meat.

But Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were not in the mood. As soon as Kong Youde sat down, he yelled: "We are all vulgar soldiers. Ding Dusi just speak up if he has something to say. Our brothers are still in a hurry to go back to Guanglu Island."

Geng Zhongming nodded.

Ding Yi thought for a while: "How long will it take for Guanglu Island to have so many sea cucumbers and abalones today?"

It turned out that Ding Yi took a fancy to the sea cucumber and abalone produced in Guanglu Island.

As for sea fish, he also produces them on Shuangdao, so he values ​​these two more.

In this era, Jiangnan Nanjing Division and other places have already regarded these two things as the same as bird's nest, and regarded them as high-quality food materials, which are relatively valuable.

The rich and dignitaries are still quite willing to spend.

Kong Youde didn't want to sell it to Ding Yi, so when he was about to speak, Geng Zhongming stopped him and said loudly, "Once every five days, we will deliver two baskets of sea cucumbers and five baskets of abalone to Pidao, and you will send someone to pick them up, 100 taels."

Ding Yi remained calm, his heart bursting with laughter, in his previous life, this was simply the price of cabbage.

But he couldn't figure it out, Geng Zhongming and the others got so many wild sea cucumbers.

Originally wanted to ask, but looking at it like this, the two of them wouldn't say anything, so he nodded without hesitation: "Deal."

Geng Zhongming chuckled, grabbed the wine glass on the table, raised his mouth and drank it: "Thank you Ding Dusi, farewell."

Kong Youde didn't drink any wine, so he left directly.

After getting off the boat, Kong Youde was still yelling: "Why did you sell it to Sisi? Mao Shuai was killed, and he also had a share."

Geng Zhongming sighed: "He is now Yuan's confidant, why should we have trouble with him?"

"And everyone is their own master. If you and I are on Yuan's side, doing the same thing, the fault of killing Shuai Mao is mainly Yuan."

Kong Youde listened and felt that it made sense, he just shouted: "Look at this stupid guy who is quite rich, let's sell him for 1000 taels."

If Shen Shikui had been there, he would have spit out a mouthful of old blood all the way to Lushun when he heard Kong Youde say that Ding Yi was stupid.

If Ding Yi is stupid, there will be no smart person in the world tomorrow.

Ding Yi didn't know that he would be regarded as a fool with a lot of money.

In fact, on the Phi Island side, sea cucumbers, especially abalone are still unaffordable.

The popular goods here include animal skins, pearls, ginseng, and sea cucumbers, which cannot be sold for a long time, because they are not kept for long, and they are all traded in fresh ones, and here along the coast, everyone has some.

But Ding Yi intends to dry them, just like later generations, so that they can be stored for a long time and sold to farther places.

A few days after he came back from Phi Island, the first wave of Liao people from Phi Island arrived in Lushun.

Now there are 500 more people in Nanying, and the population reaches 4700.

After this wave of Liao people arrived, they were treated better than the previous ones.

After disembarking, everyone has to take a shower, throw away the old clothes, and change into new clothes. (The new clothes are just old clothes from before Nanying, and they are considered new if given to them after washing.)
Then register, classify, those with skills will be reused, and those without skills will be assigned to various construction sites.

The next day, Ruan Wenyan's boat also came back from Dengzhou. This time, she bought a lot of supplies and brought back a few craftsmen and scholars.

According to her, Lu Chao is very capable.

Due to Ding Yi's role in the speculation of food prices in Dengzhou, he had hired green skin beggars, and Lu Chao also learned to use them.

There are several blacksmiths and craftsmen in Dengzhou who used to do business and lived well.

Lu Chao asked the Qingpis to pay the protection fee, and harassed them every now and then. The craftsmen were so angry and angry that they had no choice. Whenever they reported to the officials, the Qingpis ran away and came back another day. Planning to move.

At this time, Lu Chao appeared and proposed to invite them to Lushun with a high salary.

Some craftsmen agreed as soon as they were cruel.

After listening to Ding Yi, Niang, who did you learn such a dirty way?
But in the past few years, there was a great chaos in Dengzhou, and countless civilians and craftsmen were killed and injured. I can be regarded as saving them in advance.

"Let's go next time, and warn Lu Chao not to do more of these things." Ding Yi said very seriously.

Ruan Wenyan understands that she can't do more.

Next, Ding Yi's side entered a period of orderly development, mainly the construction of Lushun and business dealings.

Ruan Siqing is in charge of the front line of Phi Island. There is an office there.

Exchange and do business with merchants from all over Phi Island, and after buying goods, bring them to Dengzhou to sell at Qin Nan.

Then buy grain, rice, nitrate, sulfur and other military supplies from Dengzhou and bring them back to Lushun.

Ruan Wenyan was in charge of the front line of Dengzhou, mainly bringing people back from Dengzhou, and gradually began to send people to Laizhou to develop a stronghold.

These strongholds have several functions. One is to collect local materials. After all, Ding Yi always buys in Dengzhou, but it is not enough for him to buy. Therefore, Laizhou, Wendeng and other nearby areas are his development goals.

The second is to send eyeliners to set up strongholds in the local area to communicate with each other.

Three can also sell Ding Yi's goods to other places by the way.

In the early stage, Ding Yi was limited to the problem of manpower and the problem of roads in this era. He could only develop in Shandong. The long-term goal is to spread the bases all over the country. Within five years, Ding Yi intends to have bases in all provinces, capitals, and states across the country. .

But now comes the problem.

That is, he makes money more slowly and spends money faster.

The place where he makes money now is the military and civilian service center in Lushun, which collects the military salaries of some sergeants, which is also his largest consumer group. This month, there are not dozens or even hundreds of taels.

There are a lot of money to spend, shopping, buying people, construction, food and salaries.

I originally thought that more than 20 taels was quite a lot, but the money was spent like flowing water.

In mid-July, Ding Yi had already spent 4 taels, and Ding Yi, who was heartbroken, didn't sleep well for several nights.

At this time, the population under Ding Yi's rule reached [-], and he occupied more than half of Lushun, which caused Chen Shi and Mao Yongyi to have a lot of opinions.

Because many of Ding Yi's hoards are close to their residences.

But Xu Fuzuo said, Governor Yuan agreed with Ding Yi to hoard land and build castles, so you can do the same.

Let's do it, Chen and Mao have the money to do it, and they won't do it if they have money, they can only watch Ding Yi occupy the space.

In mid-August, Ding Yi's population exceeded 20, and he still had [-] taels in his hand, and his heart ached for a long time.

But after more than two months of intensive construction, the entire Shuangdao and even the southern half of Lushun are completely different.

Ding Yi's first salt field was finally healed, and he began to dry the salt.

The barracks have also been fully built, enough to accommodate 3000 people, but Ding Yi is still limited to [-] soldiers and horses, mainly because there are not enough craftsmen and the supply of weapons and equipment.

Right now, the craftsmen of Ding Yi's Craftsmanship Bureau have broken through one hundred, and it's still too late.

Think about the Houjin Shenyang, where the shops for building armor stretched for tens of miles, and this provided the Houjin with tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

The Ming Dynasty was blessed with thousands of miles, countless states and cities, and a large empire. Now it can't even supply iron armor. Expanding the army is really not an easy task.

(End of this chapter)