The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 318 The truth is within the range of the cannon

In mid-April, what happened to Lu Chao happened, Ding Yi was furious and almost killed Lu Chao, but the generals interceded, and Lu Chao's wife who lived in Lushun also came to Phi Island with her son to intercede.

Ding Yi spared him, and immediately transferred Lu Chao back. After being reduced to a small flag, he was sent out again not long after, and no one knew where he was sent.

After that, Ding Yi basically went back and forth between Lushun and Pidao, first to inspect the training results of various ministries, and second to properly arrange the Liao people on both sides.

The original Dongjiang Pidao soldiers (including those surrendered during the Denglai Rebellion) were extremely difficult to train at the beginning, and the veterans were more aggressive. In terms of personal bravery, they were very strong, but their discipline was poor.

The people in the training department beheaded a group, beat a group, and dealt with more than 100 people in a month, and then distributed military pay and food, and finally stabilized these arrogant soldiers.

Ding Yi is not in a hurry. These people will basically be honest after three months of training.

If it is disrupted and redistributed to various departments, after half a year, it should be able to stabilize.

And as long as Ding Yi pays half a year's salary continuously, no one will disagree.

Because whether they are under Mao Wenlong, Xu Fuzuo, or Kong Youde, they have never received full salary and rice for three consecutive months.

Regarding the resettlement of the Liao people, Ding Yi also wanted to make arrangements based on the reserves of grain and rice in various places.

Phi Island has very little grain storage, and the storage of land is not ideal. The population is now about the same as that of Lushun.

Lushun has 14 mu of land and the largest population, originally 15.

Pig Island has 5000 people, Mayang Island has [-] people, and Nakajima has [-] people. These [-] people are basically craftsmen and their families, and there are also a small number of guards.

Changsheng Island released 1 people, Beixinkou, Nanxinkou, Hongzui Fort, Wanghai Fort, Guifu Fort, and Fuhai Fort, each with [-] people.

There are [-] people in Fuzhou, [-] people in Jinzhou, and the rest are all south of Nanguankou, in Lushun.

14 mu of land can barely support them.

And when the fields between Fuzhou and Jinzhou start to be hoarded in the future, there will be grain to sell.

There are many people and few farms on Phi Island. At present, it is all supported by Lushun, but after a year, the farms will become self-sufficient.

Ding Yi put most of the people on Phi Island and other islands, and a small number on Tieshan as outposts.

Once the Houjin soldiers come from Zhenjiang, Tieshan can warn.
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On April 1000th, Ruan Siqing and Fran returned from Japan. This time he went out for more than half a year. He first went to Fuguang, Dayuan (Taiwan), and returned to Japan. He took 900 boats, [-] people, and only [-] returned. ship, more than [-] people.

He was beaten again by pirates in Taiwan, and it was Liu Xiang, a famous pirate in history.

Liu Xiang was originally a member of Zheng Zhilong Shibazhi, but because he refused to recruit, he fell out with Zheng Zhilong and ran around Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang. Ding Yi estimated that they were also Liu Xiang's men when they were beaten last time.

This time Ruan Siqing was besieged by more than a dozen pirate ships. Fortunately, they had a lot of guns and blunderbuss on board, so Liu Xiang didn't dare to fight them desperately. After two ships were sunk, they also sank two of Liu Xiang's , Liu Xiang's people saw that they were difficult to fight, so they withdrew.

After hearing this, Ding Yi comforted Ruan Siqing and Francois: "It's good that people come back. Our shipyard can make merchant ships with [-] materials and warships with [-] materials this year."

In the past two years, Ding Yi has been digging craftsmen everywhere, starting from a small fishing boat, and gradually expanding it. Last month, Li Zhi told him that the number of craftsmen and apprentices and their hands-on ability are almost the same. He can try to build a thousand-material merchant ship and a five-hundred-material warship. .

But with the current scale of Ding Yi's shipyard, it is better to build one [-]-material merchant ship and two [-]-material warships a year.

Ding Yi was overjoyed at the time, the navy was his most important department, but the development was too slow.

Fran and Ruan Siqing were also very excited when they heard that they could finally build a big ship.

Ruan Siqing also gained a lot from this trip. He first transported fur, ginseng and sea goods from Dongjiang, as well as refined salt to various places to sell, and then bought raw silk and cotton fabrics in Xufu, Songjiang, and finally went to Fuguang and other places to buy A batch of clam wood, sugar from the Dayuan (Taiwan) Dutchman, and a shipment of goods were traded with Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong had less and less saltpeter gunpowder and so on, so he gave a lot of Mintie.

Ding Yi listened and thought for a moment.

Ruan Siqing then went to Japan, sold raw silk sugar, and bought [-] shi of rice grain according to Ding Yi's request.

After running for half a year, he brought back more than 50 silver, [-] shi of rice, two shipments of iron, one shipment of Japanese saltpeter, sulfur, flint, a batch of clam wood, and a small amount of copper ore.

There are more than 100 craftsmen, including Ming people and Japanese.

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard that Master Ding had money and food again.

But Ding Yi felt that it was not enough.

Because his current territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is increasing.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong may have a few million a year in income, but he has been running for more than half a year and has not made 100 million, which is indeed very little.

This reminded Ding Yi of ransacking the house again. Right now, the only way to make money faster than Zheng Zhilong is to raid the house. Unfortunately, he can't do it casually.

"Why is there less copper material?" Ding Yi asked at this time.

Because the copper used for his field artillery, the copper imported from Japan, is very important, and Lushun's current copper reserves are almost used up.

"Something happened in Japan, Matsubura Takanobu and the shogunate seem to be wrong."

Ruan Siqing brought back some important news.

One is that the Dutch asked them not to collect sugar for the time being this year. According to Zheng Zhilong, it seems that they also plan to teach the Dutch a lesson, and the two of them may turn their heads.

Ding Yi immediately thought that Zheng Zhilong defeated the Dutch in the naval battle of Liaoluo Bay in the original history, and stabilized the battle of the ocean overlord.

The second is that the shogunate was very dissatisfied with Iwami Yinzan's copper sales, and withdrew Iwami Ginzan's Matsudaira Umino and replaced him.

Because the shogunate is now preparing to mint copper coins and sell them to the Ming Dynasty to make money, the copper mines are not allowed to go abroad, and Matsudaira is too unreasonable to sell.

Matsudaira Unino was reprimanded for this incident, and even Iwami Ginzan was withdrawn from his position.

He was replaced by Abe Tadaaki's younger brother, Abe Jiro, one of the six great vassals.

Abe Jiro has a good relationship with Matsudaira Uno, and this time he sold a small amount of copper mines to Ruan Siqing, but declared that there will be no more copper mines in the future, and the deal with Mingren Ding Yi ends here.

At the same time, Tomita Takakazu, who had a good relationship with Ding Yi, was also reported to have received a large amount of benefits and was dismissed from his position. His successor was Miura Masakazu, the younger brother of Miura Shoji, one of the six members of the shogunate.

In this case, it means that a large amount of Ding Yi's interests in Japan will be cut off.

Moreover, according to Matsuura Takashi, the shogunate has already begun to interview Matsudaira, and it is necessary to consider increasing Hirado's taxation.

What does it mean?
It is equivalent to the shogunate testing Matsudaira Takanobu.

Hirado is one of the largest alleys in Japan, and all countries must pass through here when doing business with Japan.

The Matsuura family occupies a favorable location all year round and collects a large amount of taxes, which has long attracted dissatisfaction with the shogunate.

Because Songpu married his daughter to a Ming general, the shogunate was even more jealous, so at the beginning of this year, he proposed to increase the tax by [-]%.

If Songpu agrees, the merchants coming and going will definitely complain and want to scold Songpu, but the tax was taken by the shogunate.

If you do not agree, it is tantamount to openly confronting the shogunate.

The experience of the generation of Ginzan who practiced Okubo Chang'an in those days soon appeared in Matsupo's mind.

If you resist, will you perish?
Seeing Ruan Siqing passing by, Songpu immediately contacted him and asked Ding Yi and Zheng Zhilong to go to Japan no matter what.

In Japan, something big may happen.

After Ding Yi heard this, his face was very serious.

Right now, his territory has just grown, the population has increased, and the court hardly pays any salary. Waiting to see his jokes, the Japanese route is his most profitable route, and the Matsuba clan has also given him a lot of support. can not be broken.

"My lord, this is the situation. In addition, Ms. Sexiang also said that I miss my lord very much." Ruan Siqing finally said strangely.

Ding Yi nodded: "I see, it seems that we must discuss the truth with the shogunate."

And the truth is all within the range of the cannon. This is something that every modern person is very familiar with.

(End of this chapter)