I am one year older than Chongzhen

The purpose of building a large prison is to return particles to the warehouse.

Prisons are just hardware, they also need excellent software.

In order to prevent traitorous Shanxi merchants from bribing prison guards to collude in confessions, all guards were young student soldiers from the base area when performing tasks.

There is no doubt about the loyalty of passionate young men aged fifteen or sixteen. They hate evil the most and can really treat money like dirt.

The population structure of the base area tends to be younger, with many teenagers, and there are thousands of teenagers who have been reading and literate for two or three years.

These literate teenagers were probably educated by Huang Yi himself, not just because Huang Yi took large classes in person whenever he had the opportunity.

It’s also because the books the teenagers read were also compiled by Huang Yi himself, and were practical knowledge selected from later generations of primary school and middle school textbooks.

Some of the young people who received the new education became student soldiers, and some were about to become technical personnel in factories, mines and farms.

They are just businessmen, they are all profitless goods. Most of these people are spineless, greedy for life and afraid of death!

Put them alone in a cell and starve them for several days, make them feel helpless every day, and destroy their spiritual support.

Torture is also one of the necessary means to extract confessions, and then compare the confessions of others, and honestly give them food and sleep.

Forget about lying or deliberately concealing things like eating or sleeping, you might even get skin cramps!

As long as the right person is caught and it takes some time, the wealth accumulated by the eight imperial merchants for a lifetime or even several lifetimes will become Huang Yi's military salary and development fund.

In order to ensure that the fish that slip through the net are minimized during the operation, Wang Jinbao, who received Huang Yi's instructions, has basically grasped where the homes of those traitorous Shanxi merchants are, how many homes there are, what the population is, and who is in charge.

There is no need to figure out which company has how much money and where it is hidden!

As long as you catch the person in charge of the money, everything will be fine.

It's better these days. There are no overseas banks to transfer property. Most of the property of the traitorous Shanxi merchants is gold, silver, and fields...

These things cannot escape and will eventually become Huang Yi's capital to conquer the world.

It was just the fourteenth day of the first lunar month when we returned to the base area, and it was still early for spring plowing!

While Huang Yi was preparing for the big bank in the base area, he also used this time to conduct a large-scale population survey.

As of the end of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the base area including the peripheral satellite Mongolian tribes had a population of more than 1.7 million.

Among them, there are more than 500,000 Ding people, and Han people account for more than 80%, making them the majority ethnic group.

It is estimated that the land that can be sown in spring this year will reach 4 million acres, including more than 1 million acres of dry land and mountainous land for growing corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.

There are more than 2.7 million acres of irrigated land capable of growing wheat.

According to current estimates of the "fertilizer powder" produced by soil fertilizer plants, it will be used by no less than one million acres of wheat fields this year.

Because I got a lot of capital from participating in Denglai's counterinsurgency, I have money to invest, and I am in the process of setting up a fertilizer plant near the big city in Guannei.

It’s easy to double the output of “fertilized field powder”.

After a year of construction, a city rose from the ground between Xinghe City and Dongshan Fort. The plaque on the city gate tower still has Geng Ruqi's calligraphy - Yonghe.

It can be seen that the city outside Zhangjiakou should value peace. This reminded Huang Yi of Yonghe Doujiu in later generations, and he felt a little dumbfounded.

He began to worry about how I could refuse if my father-in-law named the next city Yamato Castle.

In any case, due to the industrial prosperity in the base area, the number of shops has increased significantly, resulting in more and more jobs in the city.

The permanent population of Xinghe City, Yonghe City, and Dongshanbao reaches more than 400,000. Today's Zhangjiakou is roughly Huang Yi's territory. Under normal circumstances, there are three generals stationed there, so more than 30,000 military dependents have settled in Zhangjiakou.

There are about ten miles between the border wall of Zhangjiakou and Dongshan Fort. This area has even more potential. After tens of thousands of people and several months of construction, hundreds of factories and thousands of dormitories have been built.

In the future, this place will become a large industrial and commercial city with a permanent population of four to five million.

From the beginning, the base area was a cooperative large-scale production. There were no scattered households. They all lived together in farms, factories, mining areas, and urban areas.

There are hundreds of fortresses of various sizes scattered in the large and small basins of the base area.

Some of these forts belonged to farms, some to factories and mines, and they all had thick walls, enough to protect against cavalry raids.

All people in the base area who do not work or live in the city must live together in the fort.

Each fort has cold weapons such as swords, guns, and shields. The forts outside the city are basically issued with matchlock guns that have been eliminated by the regular army.

The production of steel in the base area is doubling every year, the quality is constantly improving, and the production of flintlock guns is also rising.

In the future, the forts will not only be equipped with matchlocks, but also flintlock guns. It is also possible for large forts to be equipped with two sub-cannons.

Anyway, Huang Yi's purpose is to give the people in every base area fighting power. When the Tatars and Jiannu came, they were greeted with muskets.

Without scattered farmers, it is relatively easy to establish grassroots organizations.

The establishment of the base area has entered its fifth year, and Huang Yi has really done everything he needs to do.

He can command an ordinary farmer by issuing orders at all levels.

Every adult in the base area has an organization. The most basic organization is the rural brave team of 80 to 100 people.

Retired disabled soldiers serve as cultural instructors and town governors, and those who are loyal and well-educated or have high force value are selected as squad leaders.

The literature teacher is responsible for ideological work and cultural education, the town governor is responsible for rewards and punishments and strengthening discipline, and the squad leader is responsible for daily work.

The scale of the farm in the base area depends on local conditions. A large farm may have hundreds of households. The farm director may be a squadron leader with three rural warrior teams under his command.

A small farm may be as small as a hundred and eighty Dingkou. The leader of the township brave team is also the farm director, and the literature teacher is also part-time the farm town governor.

When the base is established outside the Great Wall, every adult must learn combat skills and strive to have a gun in every household within three years.

As long as the Tatars dare to come to hunt the grass in the valley, the Han warriors will be able to kill the Tatars with blunderbuss and seize their horses!

After successfully robbing the Denglai rebels, Huang Yi had more than four million taels of cash in hand. It was time to issue currency.

The damn Ming Dynasty has actually been issuing currency - treasure banknotes.

It's a pity that the imperial court didn't care about credit, gold and silver reserves, and wasted money indiscriminately. By the Chongzhen Dynasty, the value of "treasure notes" was almost the same as that of waste paper.

The direct result was that the Ming Dynasty, which had already started using banknotes, returned to trading in precious metals.

In addition, in the early years of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng reformed and implemented the whip law and paid taxes in silver, which made the common people miserable.

A whip method made it easier for the court and dignitaries to search for wealth, and it could increase national tax revenue in the short term.

In the past, it has directly led to the bankruptcy and exile of the farmers at the bottom. (End of chapter)