The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 597
Originally in history, Tokugawa Iemitsu's power would reach its peak after the [-]th or [-]rd year of Chongzhen, complete control over all of Japan, and begin to formally close the country, but now it seems that with the uprising of Uemon and Amakusa Shiro, I am afraid that there will be no more After ten or eight years, it will be difficult.

Jeju often contacts people from Youemon and Amakusa Shiro. They come to pick up soldiers, and they are all here.

Right now, the uprising of Amakusa Shiro and Youemon has swept through several daimyo sites, and it is getting worse and worse. In order to extinguish the uprising of Youemon, the shogunate has been devastated, and has repeatedly asked Ding Yi to sell them more artillery and bird guns .

Ding Yi estimated that as long as Uemon persisted for another three years, Tokugawa Iemitsu would not be able to pacify the whole country and complete control of Japan in the next ten years.

If Youemon plays better, it is not impossible to shake the foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the future.

Of course, from Ding Yi's standpoint, he needs to do business with the shogunate, and also needs the turmoil of Youemon. He hopes that the two sides will fight for ten or eight years, and never be able to tell the winner.

In addition to Japan and North Korea, there is also a rich man from Persia named Awei. In the past, Awei only traveled to Daming and Japan once a year, and only had one or two boats. Afterwards, he came to Dayuan with five large ships, and bought a large number of Ding Yi's goods. It was obvious that he really wanted to have a good relationship with Ding Yi.

Ding Yi is also willing to do business with him. Persian carpets are very popular in Daming, Japan, Korea, especially Japan and Korea, and European countries also like it very much. This allows Ding Yi to open a business route with Avi.

Another place to make money is selling grain.

Now Ding Yi has 60 mu of farmland in Dongjiang Town. The temperature has been a bit cold in the past two years, and the summer grain harvest is usually not good.

But last year Ding Yi still received 140 million shi, an average of less than [-] shi per mu. This is based on the premise that he has some high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes.

In Jeju, Wei Jiye's annual output can reach more than four stones per mu.

Based on the current average of 42% of Dongjiang Town's tax revenue, Ding Yi can get [-] shi here.

The common people and hoarders have something to eat for themselves, and Ding Yi mainly used it to raise soldiers, with an annual surplus of 18 shi.

There are more grain fields here than Jeju, but the output is not as high as Jeju, and the tax is not as high as Jeju, so the surplus grain is much less than Jeju.

But this is a net surplus of grain, and Ding Yi can sell it in addition to his regular grain storage.

Ding Yi's regular stockpiles in Lushun and Dongjiang are 35 shi per year. When new grain comes out, he eats old grain and sells the excess.

Few of the generals in Dongjiang Town were able to eat enough before, but now they suddenly discovered that after there was a lot of food, they could actually sell food to make money, which was unimaginable before.

But the problem now is that there are more and more grain sellers in Dongjiang Town.

With the stabilization of Ding Yi's base and the promotion of high-yield crops, after paying taxes, there is still surplus food to eat, especially for craftsmen, officers, teachers and other families with more fields, who have a large amount of surplus food to sell on the market every year.

This caused Ding Yi to spend money to buy their food.

Fortunately, because there is a lot of grain here, everyone is selling it, so the price of grain is extremely low. Once, because everyone rushed to sell grain, the price was lowered to below one or two stones.

In the end, Ding Yi made a unified purchase, with a protection price of one tael per stone, and then sold it to Dengzhou, Ding Yi could still make a small profit.

The common people here eat less food and rice, because Ding Yi grows red beans, potatoes, corn, etc., plus the meat, fish, and fruits they produce themselves over the years. It's almost enough to have more than one stone of rice.

This made Ding Yi feel that as long as Jeju is fully developed, more fields can be stocked, more grain can be sold, and more money can be made.

In addition to these expenses, Ruan Wenlong had another expense that he didn't mention at the meeting, and that was Ding Yi's plan to recover his salary.

After Ding Yi organized his own house building (school district house) to start selling, the houses near the school have sold particularly well in recent years. Last year, the income from selling houses alone was 8 taels, which drove four weeks of consumption income. For the whole year, the Financial Secretary The recycling income in this piece has reached 30 in history.

Of course, more income means more expenses.

Last year, the entire expenditure of Dongjiang Town was close to 200 million taels, of which hundreds of thousands were supported by senior officials, the bulk of which was military expenditure and shipbuilding.

But this is already considered good. Originally, shipbuilding would be more expensive, but Ding Yi has a steady stream of large wood support from North Korea and Dongjiang, which greatly reduces the cost of raw materials.

The cost of Zheng Zhilong's shipbuilding is many times higher than that of Ding Yi.

The two sides also built a warship with [-] raw materials, and Ding Yi's cost may only be a quarter of Zheng Zhilong's, or even less.

Then Ruan Wenlong mentioned craftsmen again, and this time Ding Yi was overjoyed.

When Lushun first built a school, many people did not understand, especially when Ding Yi made all children go to school, everyone did not understand.

But after so many years of development, the schools in Lushun and Pidao have become more and more perfect, with more teachers, more subjects, and more students.

Last year alone, more than 1000 people entered various departments, of which more than 100 were admitted as craftsmen and more than 300 workers, which means that Ding Yi himself trained nearly [-] craftsmen and workers in one year.

Think about how many times he used to let Ruan Siqing go out to rob people and rob craftsmen, how many places he traveled in a year to get 500 people, but now he has trained so many people in just one year, and there will be more and more.

At present, the number of craftsmen and workers in Dongjiang has reached [-], and there are more and more experienced workers.

Craftsmen represent productivity and technological strength, which is one of Ding Yi's most important values.

At the end of the meeting, Ding Yi announced as usual that he would increase his troops.

There is more money, enough food, and an increase in population, so we need to increase our troops.

This time, 5000 troops were added, including 3000 cavalry and [-] navy.

Set up a cavalry division, divided into three battalions, the first battalion is still Zhang Jing, who is also the cavalry division division, leading a battalion of [-] cavalry, [-] old cavalry, and [-] new recruits, stationed in Fuzhou.

The second cavalry battalion is Yuan Youcai, with [-] cavalry stationed in Jinzhou; the third cavalry battalion is Yang Xiaochuan, with [-] cavalry stationed in Beigoucheng.

Because Ding Yi has always asked the infantry battalions to be able to ride horses, and each infantry battalion has similar training courses, so new cavalry will be selected from the infantry battalions with better riding skills first, and then recruits will be used.

Zhang Jingwai still called him "General Lushun".

Zhang Jing is still in charge of the defense of Lushun, Jinzhou, and Fuzhou. (Including Nanguankou, Wanghai Fort, Guifu Fort, Hongzui Fort, Fuhai Fort, Nanxinkou Fort, Beigou City, Baiyun City, Yongning Fort, Changsheng Island and other small forts)

Under the jurisdiction of the 1st Battalion Xianghuailai Division 3000 people (Beigou City), 3rd Battalion Mayue Division 5000 people (Shouwanghai Fort, Guifu Fort, Hongzui Fort, Fuhai Fort, Nanxinkou Fort, Jiajinzhou), 12 people from the Xuwei Division of the 3000th Battalion (Shoubei Xinkou and Changsheng Island), and 16 people from the 5000th Battalion Shang Kexi (Fuzhou and Yongning and other forts). 35 people from the 3000th Battalion He Xiaoche were transferred from Pidao to Beigou City.

The garrison in Lushun is as high as 2000 people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

In this way, the Lushun side has a total of 31000 soldiers and horses, and all the generals in the Lushun side have changed their stations.

On Phi Island, the 7th Battalion of Maoxin, with 3000 people, guards the front line of Tieshan.

Shen Shikui's 19th Battalion, 3000 people, is south of Maoxin's 7th Battalion, at the bottom left of Tieshan.

Xiao Yongqiu's 8th Battalion and Chen Shishi's 21st Battalion each have 3000 troops, one stationed on the west side of Phi Island and one on the east side of Phi Island.

The west can support Lushun, and the east can support Tieshan.

He Liangwu's 23rd Battalion has a total of 4000 people, and they are still guarding the islands.
There are also two thousand garrison troops from Qu Haibo on Phi Island, stationed at alleys, warehouses, where the generals live in mansions and other important places.

There are 18000 soldiers and motors in Phi Island, and all the generals on Phi Island have also changed their stations.

On the surface, Ding Yi is in charge of Pidao, and Zhang Jing is in charge of Lushun. In fact, Ding Yi spends more time in Lushun every year because his wife and children are there.

When Ding Yi was away from Phi Island, Shen Shikui was in charge of Phi Island affairs.

In addition, 3000 new naval forces will be stationed in Jeju first, where they will use warships to train the naval combat skills in Jeju, and will be distributed to the various battalions of the navy after one year.

The original [-] soldiers and horses on Jeju Island were required to participate in warship training, so as to ensure that they could fight in the sea and land in the future.

In this way, the total number of Ding Yi's troops in Dongjiang Town and Jeju Island (excluding navy) is 53000, including 10000 cavalry.

另有水师五个营，包括专门负责做生意的阮思青水师1营15条船1000人，济州沈志祥水师5营15艘船1000人，和用来训练新的三千水师（加十几条船）。

The Sixth Battalion of the Navy, with 15 ships and 1000 people in Frang, ran back and forth between Shangri, North Korea and Lushun.

守大员的宋飞水师2营15条船1000多人，许尔显水师4营14艘船2000多人。

Xilao, guarding Lushun and Phi Island, has 3 people on 35 ships of the 3000rd Battalion of the Navy.

The navy currently has a total of 116 ships, of which the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th battalions are mainly warships.

There are more than 12000 people in the navy.

In addition to Japan's Xu Bicheng's 71000 soldiers, Ding Yi's total soldiers and horses have reached [-].

This is not counting the Dengzhou and the large-scale garrison.

Because the finances of these two parties are independent, they are not counted together with Lushun.

(End of this chapter)