Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 768 Dusi + Company, Businessman + Landlord
While choosing territories for the vassal kings of Fanyingzhou, Zhu Yuxi was holding a joint meeting of the Military Affairs Council and the Cabinet to discuss the imperial court's policy of opening up Yingzhou.

Initially, some people proposed to follow the previous arrangements for Malacca and set up a governor's mansion, focusing on military affairs while taking into account people's livelihood.

But after careful discussion, it was rejected.

Because the situation in Yingzhou is different from that in Malacca.

Although Malacca was originally an overseas enclave, it is located on the east-west sea traffic artery, its location is very important, and its business is prosperous, and the local people have also been civilized.

Now the imperial court is preparing to incorporate it into Nanhai Province, cancel the governor's mansion, and relocate it to prefectures and counties.

As for Yingzhou, it is farther away from Daming, and its geographical location is not very important, and it is a truly wild land, which does not need to be carefully managed like the Dudu Mansion.

It should be noted that the finer the governance, the more the court will spend.

If it is more extensive, the cost of the court will be less.

Finally, after three consecutive days of discussion, it was decided to open up Yingzhou with the innovative "guardian system" plus "corporate system".

That is to say, the imperial court first set up the Yingzhou Capital Command and Envoy Division, and then established the Daming Yingzhou Reclamation Company.

Yingzhou Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division is referred to as Yingzhou Metropolitan Division for short, and is under the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Council.

Recruit soldiers from the Daming Gongtun Army, as well as veterans of the Garrison Army, Border Guard Army, Imperial Guard Army, and Imperial Forest Army.

Its military salary is divided into two parts, one is the guaranteed basic military salary compared with the military salary of the Gongtun army, referred to as "basic salary".The second is the reclamation bonus.

The basic salary is still paid by the imperial court through the channel of "Military Affairs Council-Military Pay Department-Daming Bank".The reclamation bonus is distributed by the reclamation company according to a certain percentage of the profit of the year.

The establishment of Yingzhou Dusi has also changed a lot compared to before.

Under the capital, there are only three levels: Wei, Suo, and Tun (fort), and the establishment is greatly reduced.

And the officers of the capital are all appointed by the Military Council, not hereditary.

In addition, whether it is an officer or an ordinary soldier, they can take their families to overseas capitals.After ordinary soldiers are discharged from the army, they can also choose to settle in the local area as immigrants.

As for military officers, they can also settle overseas, but they are not allowed to settle in the place where they are serving, only in other guards.Prevent him from relying on his power to become a cancerous guard officer like before.

The capital division has a capital commander, who is at the same level as the admiral, and is a first-rank military post.

In addition, there will be one Dusi Tongzhi and one Dusi Qianshi, who will be the first-rank civil servants (military system).

Then there are officials such as capital affairs, judgment affairs, and experience in the various functional departments of the capital.

The ranks of the Wei, Suo, and Tun chiefs in the back are relatively low, corresponding to the generals, Qian Zong, and Shaozheng (actually called Tunzheng).

And after the discussion at the joint meeting, its establishment became flexible, and the actual number of troops was greatly reduced.

There are 50 soldiers in each village.

5 to 10 villages make up one school, that is to say, each school has about 250 to 500 workers.

As for the Wei, it is established according to the location, so there is no lower limit for the garrisons under its jurisdiction, and the upper limit is 3000 industrial garrisons, neither exceeding 60 garrisons.

The main task of the industrial garrison troops is to go to the designated places to reclaim wasteland and farmland and build garrison forts according to the arrangement above.

The money and food required for the early stage of reclamation and farming are the responsibility of the reclamation company, which can be regarded as the initial investment of the reclamation company.

As for whether the reclamation company will be unable to make a profit within a few years due to this large investment, it depends on how the reclamation company operates.

As far as a capital is concerned, the right to establish or cancel a guard is in the hands of the imperial court.However, how many fortresses to open under a certain guard, where to open them, and when to open them are determined by the reclamation company and the capital through consultation.

The purpose is to allow the reclamation company to control investment and make profits as soon as possible.

Rather than being completely dominated by the imperial court as in the previous expansion of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it quickly turned into a situation of high investment and low income. In the end, because of the huge losses all the year round, it was unable to make ends meet, so it had to give up its rule over the local area. (Such as Vietnam, Monan, and Mobei.)
The Ming Yingzhou Reclamation Company was constructed with reference to the British and Dutch East India Companies, as well as some organizational structures of later generations.

The preliminary drafted structure is relatively simple, from top to bottom are companies, commercial buildings, and development zones (bases).

In principle, each health office will establish a business hall, and each office will correspond to a development zone.

The main task of the company is to obtain all kinds of valuable local resources and increase the income of the business hall.

Such as buying furs, gems, and precious ores from natives at low prices, hunting, logging, planting cash crops on land, using transportation advantages to trade with various kings, and so on.

Gentlemen, landlords, and merchants of Ming Dynasty, as long as they are not officials or generals, and have sufficient economic strength, can apply to become contractors in the development zone of the reclamation company.

Contractors can apply to the capital to form a certain number of private armed forces, no more than 1000 people, and only need to be inspected by the capital once a year after filing.

The company's business hall is only responsible for controlling the general "operation direction" of the development zone, providing some technical support and guidance, and does not interfere with the specific operation of the development zone by the contractor.

In order to ensure that the company has sufficient profits, the contract price is not a fixed amount, but a way of guaranteeing the bottom line and adding a share.

The minimum contract period is one year and the maximum is five years.

As for how much a development zone needs to guarantee and how much to divide, it depends on the situation.

In addition, the person in charge of the commercial hall does not necessarily have to contract out all the development zones, and can also organize manpower to operate them himself.

In short, everything is for the company to obtain more profits.

During the three-day joint meeting, in addition to confirming the "Duji + Company" Yingzhou development policy, it also preliminarily determined the location of the seven guards under the Yingzhou Dusi.

They are:
Dengyingwei (the place where the Nanyang Squadron first landed in Australia, Northland-Darwin).

North cornerback (i.e. No. 5 preset collar, Queensland - Weipa).

Dongyanwei (i.e. the No. 7 pre-college located in Yanzhou, New Guinea-Port Moresby).

Dongyangwei (Queensland - Cairns).

Donglaiwei (Queensland - Mackay).

Triton (Queensland - Sunshine Coast).

Triton Watch (New South Wales - Sydney).

South East Wei (Victoria - Melbourne).

Southport Guard (South Australia - Port Lincoln).

As for Fengzhou, Huangzhou and a series of islands in the extreme north, as well as the western part of Yingzhou, we can only wait for a few years until the Ming Dynasty establishes a foothold in the northern part of Yingzhou and the southeast coast before exploring and developing.

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After the joint meeting of the Military Affairs Council and the Cabinet determined the policy of opening up Yingzhou, some relevant departments became busy with it.

The Military Affairs Council is responsible for recruiting soldiers and transferring officers to the capital of Yingzhou.Whether it is a soldier who volunteers to go to the army or an officer who is ordered to take office, a certain amount of ideological work is required.

Although soldiers take obeying military orders as their bounden duty, Yingzhou is far away and a barren land after all.

Whether it is a soldier or an officer, it may be difficult to return to Daming in a few years after this trip.

Therefore, it is necessary for these people to have sufficient mental preparation, so that they can be dedicated to their duties and even actively work after they go there.

To the outside world, official and semi-official newspapers such as "Daming Daily" and "Beijing News" should be used to publicize, and the gentry, landlords, and merchants in Daming who have saved a lot of money in their hands will actively participate in this matter.

Daming's domestic propaganda ability is already very strong, it can be said that it is close to the level of modern countries.

Within a few days, under the hype of various newspapers and magazines, there was an upsurge of discussing Yingzhou in all 24 provinces of Ming Dynasty.

In a village in Henan.

After Gao Minghu finished telling the villagers about today's "Da Ming Pao", his wife Liu Xicui, who was ten years younger than him, said, "The imperial court wants to recruit veterans to go to Yingzhou. I want to apply."

Liu Xicui, who was preparing dinner, paused for a while when he heard the movements of his hands, and then continued, saying: "The imperial court needs you, so you can go."

Gao Minghu sat down, looked at his missing right little finger, and sighed: "It's not that the imperial court needs me more, but that I'm not used to living a comfortable life like this."

He was a soldier who joined the Hong Niangzi uprising in the early years. He was only 35 years old when he retired from the position of deputy of the frontier army the year before last.Mainly because of mild disabilities and insufficient literacy, otherwise he might be able to stay in the army and get promoted.

After returning to his hometown, he was very unwilling, so he asked the old children in the village for advice, studied hard, and after a year or two, he was able to understand most newspaper articles.

If given the opportunity, he hopes to build greater achievements, instead of being a small landlord relying on the accumulated military merits, military pay, and rewards in the past.

He took his wife's hand and said sincerely: "If I go to Yingzhou, you and Xiao Huzi have to go with me. And after this trip, I don't know how many years it will take to come back, maybe I won't come back at all."

Liu Cuixi hugged her husband's head and smiled, "If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken and marry the dog, you will follow me wherever you go."

Gao Minghu also laughed, "If you have a daughter-in-law, I have confidence in my heart. Just wait, I will definitely save a bigger family fortune for the little tiger!"

Hangzhou.

Fugui Building.

Wu Huitong, Zhao Qianjing, and Shen Jinyuan, three well-known businessmen in Hangzhou, were drinking tea.

"Could they not come?" After a while, Shen Jinyuan couldn't help asking.

Wu Huitong smiled and said, "Don't worry, they will definitely come—although these three have learned to invest in building workshops and opening shops in the past few years, at most they made small profits, and some even lost money. Those of us make a lot of money, but we are all jealous.

This time we took the initiative to invite them to discuss cooperation, and it is impossible for them not to come. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of footsteps came, the door of the box was opened by the shop owner, and three middle-aged men walked in, but they were Qian Wei, Ding Lanyao, and Zhou Gongpu, who were quite prominent landlords in the Hangzhou prefecture in the past.

After some politeness, after sitting down, Zhou Gongpu took the lead and said, "Just tell me directly, what is the specific charter for us to go to Yingzhou Contracting Development Zone as a partnership?"

Hearing this, Wu Huitong and the three of them were overjoyed.

Wu Huitong said: "So the three members are interested in participating in this matter?"

Qian Wei smiled and said, "If we had no intention, how could we be invited to this dinner?"

Ding Lanyao questioned, "To be honest, with the current financial resources of the three, it should be enough to contract a development zone, right? Why did you ask us to take a stake?"

Wu Huitong exchanged glances with the three of them, and then Wu Huitong explained, "Although the three of us have made a lot of money in the past few years, we have been investing all the time, and the funds we can use now are actually not that much.

In addition, going to Yingzhou for reclamation is not doing business - it is said that in addition to opening up wasteland, farming, hunting and logging, the main purpose is to deal with the natives, and even use force.

We all started out as serious businessmen, and neither knew farming nor martial arts.After thinking about it, I still feel that the outsiders understand this better, so I want to set up a company with the three and go to Yingzhou to make a fortune together. "

Zhao Qianjing said: "Yingzhou is far away and there are certain dangers. The three of you don't need to let your close relatives and nephews go. You only need to let capable people from the side branches of the clan go."

After listening, the three big landowners discussed in low voice with each other for a while.

Immediately, Zhou Gongpu said: "The three of you want to share the risk of this transaction, right?"

Wu Huitong smiled coyly, and said: "This overseas business must have certain risks, but if it is done well, it will definitely make more money than in Daming."

Zhao Qianjing said: "The three of you can think about it. Those princes and county kings are all vying for it. Even the imperial court has set up a special reclamation company to participate in it. Can the development of Yingzhou not make money?"

Qian Wei, Ding Lanyao, and Zhou Gongpu nodded slightly, and said one after another: "Okay, we agree to cooperate!"

In fact, they had made up their minds to agree to the matter before they came.

How much money they can earn from contracting the development zone in Yingzhou is secondary to them. The key is that they can be big landlords again, and they can even own private armed forces openly, which is not too beautiful.

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