The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 595 Finally Made Money (Seeking Monthly Pass)
On the 12th, Ding Yi's army was divided into two, and one returned to Dongjiang Town, while he, Chen and others came to Jeju Island.

This is the third time he has come to Jeju Island. After more than a year, it is a completely different feeling to come back again.

They landed in the east of the island. Zhong Zhennu, Wei Jiye, Huang Bin, Shen Zhixiang, etc. had already received the news, and they brought local officials to welcome them.

A huge new port has been built on the eastern side, which can accommodate more than [-] large ships of [-] materials at the same time.

The places along the coast that could have been climbed were all sealed by piles of mud and stone walls, and a new fort was added every 42 meters, all of which were [-]-pound long-barreled guns as required. (Europe speaks cannon)

It was originally planned that there will be 72 42-pound guns in total in the six directions where Jeju can land, but considering that almost no one comes here, the process of distributing guns is a bit slow. After several years, two guns were sent from Lushun. There are more than a dozen cannons, and all the forts are ready, but there is still no time to build the cannons. In other words, Ding Yi has not taken care of all the cannons here for the time being.

After landing, there is a huge fort gate, two forts are stationed, the middle gate is made of solid wood, and the outside is wrapped with thick iron sheet, which is very heavy.

It takes several people to pull the hinge and push it at the same time to open it.

This place is different from the big officials. The big officials want to do business with the world and attract merchants, so it is open.

And this side is operated by Ding Yi as the rear area, so it is closed.

Wei Jiye has traveled all over Jeju Island in the past few years, and they have blocked all the places he could climb up with walls, and there are piers in places that are easy to touch.

In fact, large ships near the shore cannot approach. If you really want to touch it, you have to put a small boat from the large ship, and then drive the small boat to the edge of the island to touch it.

It is definitely not possible during the day. There are watchtowers and binoculars here to watch the sea. Unfamiliar ships will be spotted as soon as they approach.

So this is to prevent others from touching it at night.

After Ding Yi and the others entered the wall, they first saw stretches of barracks. The barracks were basically made of wood and stone, neatly connected together to form a wall. There were only a few gaps in specific places for passing through.

After passing through the barracks, there is a huge grassland behind. Some soldiers and horses are training on the left side nearby. In the distance is a black herd of horses. There is a fence between the training and the horses.

Wei Jiye asked someone to bring some young horses.

Everyone rode up one by one, Ding Yi said with a smile: "Come on, tell me about your achievements."

He rode a horse and ran into the grassland, and all the generals around hurriedly followed.

These horses have just grown up and have been trained for a short period of time. Ding Yi dare not run fast and jog carefully.

Everyone followed him, and Wei Jiye soon began to report.

At present, Jeju Island has a population of more than 3 households, with more than 8000 people, about half of whom are former Koreans, more than 2 are descendants of the original Mongolian and migrated Chahar tribes, and more than 4 are Ming people. (Most of them immigrated from Dengzhou in the past few years. The proportion of Ming people is getting higher and higher, and it will soon be similar to North Koreans.)
According to Ding Yi's request, no matter what nationality, children and teenagers start to learn Chinese and use Chinese books.

"The population has increased in the past two years. About five thousand of us are dedicated to building infrastructure. According to Master Ding's thinking, all of them belong to the logistics infrastructure department."

This is equivalent to a construction company. These people are all company employees. Their daily work is to help Jeju build various facilities such as city walls, forts, shipyards, craftsmen, canals, barracks, and private houses. These people need to be paid, but Not much was paid, and Ding Yi paid five qian a month in addition to food.

But in the eyes of these people, they are already very happy.

In the past, no matter the Ming people or the Koreans, it was a heavy corvee task every year. Not only did they have no money, but they had to bring their own food.

Now Ding Yi provides food and money, which is quite good.

Of course, the hours of corvee usually do not last year and month.

Therefore, Ding Yi takes four days off every month, and also has holidays on major festivals, which is very popular with the people on Jeju Island. Later, it gradually evolved into a job. Of course, the salary will be higher and higher.

Tu Zhe'er continued, "Dear General Ding, there are already [-] war horses on the island.

Through the efforts of herdsmen over the years, Jeju Island has been able to maintain a perennial [-] war horses, of which [-] are adults and [-] are young horses.

It can provide Dongjiang Town with at least [-] qualified war horses every year.

Ding Yi originally thought that he would need at least [-] horses per year.

Later, I found out that too many horses is not good. First, it is extremely difficult to transport, and then it takes up space. He hoarded a lot of land and built castles in Lu and Pidao. He could not take care of too many horses in a short period of time.

Because there are too many horses, you need to build a large number of stables and support staff for raising horses, so he later asked for about [-] to [-] horses per year, and Dongjiang Town will slowly absorb them.

"We can transport five thousand horses back this time." Yuan Youcai murmured, he was the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry, and his eyes were red when he heard that there were tens of thousands of horses here.

Ding Yi also laughed and nodded. After returning this time, the cavalry should be expanded to [-].

When Ding Yi came last time, the grain field here was 31 mu. Now more than a year later, it is 38 mu.

This year, the population increased by more than 2, and the stockpiling of grain fields was relatively slow because they promoted high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, and then needed to mobilize more people to do other things, otherwise it would have broken through to 40 mu.

The output here has always been higher than that of Dongjiang and Dengzhou, and the tax rate is also higher than that of Dengzhou. Last year, Jeju tax revenue of various grain crops was 72 shi, and the income per mu was close to [-] shi. (Of course, this is the reason why there are sweet potatoes, etc.)

Last year, North Korea shipped over 20 shi ([-] grains and [-] soybeans). The soybeans were mainly used to raise horses, and some of them would be sent to Lushun for war horses.

In this way, Jeju Island received 92 shi of various grains last year.

Ding Yi used about 16 shi to raise people in Jeju Island, and an additional 60 shi (mainly soybeans) for raising horses and sheep. In addition, Ding Yi also distributed to Muhu, Zhanbing, and Chaha Erbu just came here, and all the land was provided by Ding Yi before the hoarding, and Zhong Zhennu left nearly [-] shi in the end.

Hearing this number, the crowd cheered in unison.

From the occupation of Jeju to the present, it has been almost exactly three years.

Hearing the grain storage figures, everyone felt that starting from this year, there should be no need to post money here.

Wait a minute, don't be too happy, there are not so many, Wei Jiye and Zhong Zhennu haven't said last year's income and expenditure?

Last year's income: in terms of grain - 50 shi was deducted from the customary grain storage, and [-] shi of actual grain was collected.

In terms of silver: sheepskin and cowhide, mutton and beef, fruits, and seafood and other specialties here, except for personal use and gifts to Lushun, can be sold for about 7 taels of silver.

This piece was 16 last year, but this year it is less.

This year, because they supported Japan's Youemon and Amakusa Shiro, they produced a large number of leather armors, paid wages and consumed leather armors, so they decreased instead.

Of course, the war horse didn't count as money, it was always given to Lushun, and there was no income for this one for the time being.

Someone once suggested to raise more war horses and sell them. Ding Yi is not short of money for the time being, so of course he will not do so.

Last year, the internal commercial sales here were about 2 taels. This is because the population increased last year, and Wei Jiye gradually built shopping malls and other consumer places to recycle silver.

The people here are generally richer than those in Dengzhou, so their spending power is still acceptable.

In this way, the cash receipt last year was more than 9 in total, which is [-].

In this way, the total income of Jeju last year was: grain 50 shi, silver [-].

Look at the total expenditure in Jeju last year.

Let's talk about the military first.

The 4th Battalion of Shen Zhixiang Navy has 500 people, all of which are paid by Lushun, and Jeju is only responsible for food.

Huang Bin here, according to Ding Yi's request, added 1000 troops for every [-] people who immigrated.

At present, there are three battalions of six thousand soldiers and horses, of which the first and second battalions in Jeju are infantry divisions, mainly local Mongolians and Koreans.

The 2000 people in the third battalion are often trained on Shen Zhixiang's warships, and they will be used as naval officers in the future.

These 6000 people have to be paid by Jeju itself.

Fortunately, the bulk of the expenditure is armor and equipment, which cost 10,000+ the year before last.

Last year, I used less, and the fixed expenses such as the consumption of armor and equipment were only more than 4.

The year before last, we only paid food and tax exemption. Last year, we started to pay, but it was only five yuan a month. In addition to the food and food, there was no war in the local area, so it was basically stable. The main thing was tax reduction, which was very popular among the local people. The people welcomed him, and they all rushed to join the army.

Six thousand soldiers and horses spend about 8 in the annual payment and consumption of soldiers and armor.

Then came the bulk of the money. First, all the officials, craftsmen, doctors, teachers, and other personnel on the island, about 1000 people, spent about [-] yuan on wages (including school teaching expenses).

This is considered relatively good. When we first came here, everyone spent a lot of money on house construction and living equipment.

Then there is the salary of the 12 infrastructure troops of the infrastructure department, and the consumption of all infrastructure materials, including the consumption of farmland in the early stage of Chahar immigration and the consumption of building forts. This area used nearly [-] for the whole year.

Last year, more than 2 taels were spent on raising horses, and more than 6 taels were spent on harvesting sheep, cattle, chickens, and pigs.

Other purchases of local fruits and seafood add up to nearly [-] yuan, and a total of another [-] yuan was spent.

In this way, the annual expenditure of Jeju last year was 38 taels of silver, plus the food consumed, including people, horses and sheep, etc., a total of 32 shi.

Last year's income of 20 silver was not enough at all, and he suffered a blood loss of [-] taels.

Fortunately, there are 60 stone grains.

It just so happens that Japan is losing harvest due to natural disasters, so they sell some to Japan and some to Ming Dynasty, making up for the lack of money.

Last year, there were 10 taels of silver and more than 20 shi of grain in Jeju.

In this way, four years after Jeju came to Ding Yi's hands, they were finally able to transfuse their own blood and earn their own expenses, with surplus silver and grain.

But at present, apart from keeping 20 shi of surplus grain, most of the grain will be sold. After all, there are many places where money is used here.

In terms of silver alone, last year there were about 30 taels of silver in Jeju Island.

From the 60 shiliang just now, it suddenly became more than 30 taels. The change is a bit big, but everyone is still very happy.

At least Jeju is already making money, and it will be more and more.

(End of this chapter)