Be the emperor from the postman

Yang Wenyue even listed the four prominent families in Guangdong: Xian, Huo, Li, and Chen.

The Xian family is a famous family in the South China Sea, the Li family ranks first in the clan annals of Guangdong, the Huo family is an old family in the South China Sea, and the Chen family has a long history and is called a giant family.

Second, the three giants monopolize iron smelting, which is another characteristic of the iron smelting industry.

Now it is mainly a new situation controlled by Xian, Huo and Li.

But Chen wanted to get involved, and had been looking for a suitable opportunity.

Cannons cast in Guangdong often have the inscription "Gunsmith Li, Xian, Huo".

[-]. The Three Giants colluded with the government to firmly control the production of weapons.

For the government, it is far easier to supervise and control the military production contracted by a few giant families than by many merchants.

However, the owners of large family workshops are mostly bureaucrats who are in office or have returned to their hometowns.

Huo Tao was a prominent eunuch in Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the official to the right servant of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

When he was an official, his brothers and family all made money by making money.

Li Daiwen was born in Foshan Town, Guangdong Province. He was a Jinshi in Wanli.

After returning to their hometowns, they formed a group with their brothers at home.

Some reformed furnaces and smelting, established armed forces (Loyalty Camp), and proposed that the iron smelting industry donate 170 four taels of silver every year as expenses to protect the industry.

Some built Tin Hau Temples where iron merchants gathered to gather people's hearts.

Some cast cannons and built fences to prepare for banditry.

All they do is related to iron smelting.

In particular, Li Daiwen was unable to walk, and Chongzhen allowed him to resign after complaining of illness 28 times.

On the way home, he sincerely wrote a memorial to Chongzhen exempting the three salaries. After reading it, Chongzhen was very moved, but he refused to accept it.

Li Daiwen, who is so dedicated to the country and the people, does not delay his family's making money at all, and promotes the Li family to become the leader of the iron smelting industry in Foshan.

Even Li Dai asked so much that he covered his family's way of making money, and did not reveal anything to the emperor.

Even if Emperor Ming was worried about money every day, which official would choose to ruin his family and career like Qin Liangyu and work for his own sake, a person like her would not be able to survive in the officialdom.

If you are noble alone, it will appear that we are vulgar.

The large number of officials and gentry of the Li family undoubtedly played a decisive role in Li's competition for the leading position in Guangdong's iron smelting industry.

The existence and development of such workshops are closely related to bureaucratic forces, and the local government is their backstage.

The wealth they accumulated from the iron smelting business eventually flowed to the management of the land.

For example, Xian Jing used his surplus to buy more land, which is a representative of them.

They use the safest form of income-management land to preserve their accumulated wealth.

Therefore, this kind of workshop is the most concentrated expression of backwardness and conservatism.

The famous family has both large workshops and countless fields.

Looking at the report written by Yang Wenyue, He Jinzhao couldn't help nodding his head. Since ancient times, only the collusion between government and businessmen can make the business bigger and bigger.

Come out to talk about the background!

Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Li Daiwen, they all choose such a path.

If Cao Mang wanted to rise, it would be extremely difficult.

No one in the family is an official and wants to start a business. Even if you succeed, those who are officials in the family will try to take it away and kick you out.

Yang Wenyue suggested that Chen's initiative could be used to suppress the other three.

In addition, you can also use the fact that the Li family in Guangdong was born in the Li family in Longxi to win over a little.

The ancestral lands belonged to the hammer bandits, if they wanted to go back to their hometown to worship, they would have to bow their heads.

After all, this is what they pay the most attention to!
Using the clan to deal with the clan, two peaches killing thirty, etc., all flashed through He Jinzhao's mind.

Although Guangdong's iron and salt industries are extremely developed, they cannot be separated from a large number of poor producers.

According to Yang Wenyue's estimate, more than [-]% of the people are producers of this kind of poverty.

Those who are semi-unemployed, have a little land, a little money, eat a lot, earn little, and live in toil and misery all year round, such as handicraftsmen and tenants, account for [-]%.

The remaining [-]% are big landlords and rich peasants, including prominent families and so on.

He Jinzhao even thought of the emergence of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty, but according to the current situation in Guangdong, it is slightly reflected.

As Lenin said, the difference between the capitalist workshops of manual factories and the workshops of small handicraftsmen is initially only manifested in the number of workers employed at the same time.

He Jinzhao wrote a comment on the side while reading it, saying that Shaya Yaxing should be killed here.

Then the hammer bandits replaced them and set up an official workshop.

Provide raw materials and partial deposits for small family workshops, so that they can work at home, and pay them when the goods are delivered.

You don't need to spend a lot of capital and time to build workshops, and you can quickly expand your desired business level.

The realization of resource integration has made many small family workshops belong to the commercial capital of the hammer bandits, so that they can have the confidence to fight with the few surnames who control the iron smelting industry in the early stage.

After the army of hammer bandits has spread to Guangdong, it will be easy to say if they obey, and if it is not smooth, they will give a thunderous blow.

At the same time, the people who could not survive in Henan and other places continued to migrate to Guangdong.

The rice fields there are ripe two or three times a year, and as long as they are cultivated a little, they will definitely not be hungry.

To deal with those prominent families, He Jinzhao thought about the dispute between the Yuan Shao brothers, supported the collateral lineage, and suppressed the direct lineage, and hoped that Yang Wenyue could play a good role in provoking it if he had a chance.

Even if their clans are united, it is impossible for everyone to be holy, without selfishness, right?
People's hearts, most of the time, cannot stand the test.

Even if the conflicts among the locals will increase, it is still better than doing nothing.

He Jinzhao stopped writing and wrote again, control all the iron mines in Guangdong and seize all the means of production.

According to Shanxi's model, those who were defeated and those who refused to accept discipline were sent to mining.

At the same time, the suppressed miners were liberated, their treatment was improved, and they were allowed to become masters.

For the patriarchal power in Guangdong, it is mostly because of the rise of the two industries, getting rich from business, not reconciled with the original social status, dedicated to becoming an official through the imperial examination, escorting their own industry, and even directly taking the plunder.

Today's hammer bandits' policy shows that they don't need to take the imperial examination to become officials, which is also a great blow to these people.

There is a patriarch within the clan, and each sub-house has a head of the house, so the hierarchy is strict.

The patriarch and the clan gentry must be the direct descendants, the strong house, with them as the center, organized according to the principle of the patriarchal system of seniority and inferiority.

The patriarchal clan system is inherently exclusive. How can the various clans living in the same town reconcile their interests and overcome their conflicts?

In addition to marriage, there is also a need for a regional organization with spiritual strength that overrides the various clans.

This kind of spiritual power can neither be obtained from the common blood relationship, but can only be turned to the gods in the dark.

That is, Beidi.

With the ancestral temple of the Northern Emperor as the spiritual support and the Foshan area as the link, each clan established Jiahuitang and Dakuitang, which are controlled by official bureaucrats, gentry, and elders.

Under the banner of persuading virtue, rectifying faults, exorcising customs, and maintaining worldly religion, they perform the same functions as the ancestral halls of the patriarchs in rural areas.

The ancestral temple owns fields, shops and other industries, as well as righteous warehouses, and a militia armed with the Loyalty Battalion.

The township gentry group in the ancestral temple has both spiritual power and material power, integrating clan power and gentry power.

Not only can the common people be bossed around and dominated at will, even foreign businessmen have to bow their heads to worship.

He Jinzhao watched Yang Wenyue's memorial, and the patriarchal clan's control and interference in Guangdong's economy became increasingly intensified.

These clan gentry groups firmly controlled various industries. For example, if any businessman wanted to buy a pot, he had to go through the Xian family.

The Li Daiwen family controlled the entire iron smelting industry by controlling the supply of iron smelting raw materials and the production of iron products.

He Jinzhao wanted to confiscate the mines all over Guangdong. It could be said that he beheaded the Li family with one knife. If they were to die, they would definitely face a huge counterattack.

But he doesn't care, just to make an example to others.

If you don't take the "Loyal Minister of Ming Dynasty" as the knife, then who will take the knife.

He Jinchao appointed Chongzhen to give Li Daiwen a "good posthumous title" and send him on his way.

Turning over a page of the report, He Jinzhao wrote another note, abolishing private law.

As long as the clan has no power to punish, what other means do they have to deter people?

He Jinzhao dipped his ink, and then wrote a comment on the sidelines, asking for new technology. This group of people is good at sticking to the rules.

For the benefit of the family, the technology is passed on from generation to generation, only to the members of the family, even to the daughter-in-law but not to the daughter, in order to prevent the daughter from leaking to the husband's family.

As a result, many technologies have not developed for hundreds of years, and have been surrounded and bankrupted by new technologies from the West.

Yang Wenyue also mentioned that they vigorously cultivated talents, opened free schools, ethnology studies, and subsidized imperial examination funds, all in order to continue to protect the interests of their own family when they are officials.

But the hammer bandits did not need imperial examination talents, so their calculations were further frustrated.

He Jinzhao put down the paperwork in his hand, stood up, took a few steps, and pinched his forehead a few times.

Governing a place is more labor-intensive than marching and fighting.

Most of the time on the battlefield, you can see the situation clearly, but when it comes to governance, various problems will occur.

Not long after, Zhang Fuzhen came to report that the uncle and nephew of the Zheng family had gone to rest at the Prince Jin's Mansion nearby.

Except for a few main halls, many houses were assigned to hospitals, and a few of them became places for officials to come and go.

Otherwise, so many houses are empty and unoccupied, and they will always be damaged.

"My lord, the Zheng family's sincerity is full, and it seems that they are prepared to lie down and be small."

Zhang Fuzhen feels that Zheng Zhilong is not short of any rewards in his life, maybe a title of title can handle him.

"This kind of One Piece has tolerance and brains, otherwise he can't be the one who made it happen."

He Jinzhao didn't have much idea about Zheng Zhilong, Zhao Xiaowu's navy hadn't been drilled yet, and he still had to do his best to govern Guangdong.

As long as they receive more ships and various assets manufactured by the Ming government, they can naturally recruit many skilled workers and try to conduct sea training.

The most important thing is to be familiar with hydrology, otherwise you will die if you go out to sea.

The affairs of the navy cannot be completed overnight. First, occupy several important ports along the coast, clean up the wealthy gentry on the shore, and manage the trade at sea.

"Master, did Yang Wenyue send something?"

"Well, it's a thick investigation summary document, go and read it."

He Jinzhao pointed to the things on the table, while Zhang Fuzhen sat over and looked at them.

Zheng Zhipeng followed Niu Youcai to the Prince Jin Mansion next door.

"How many wives and concubines does the handsome have?"

"Three."

"Only three?"

Zheng Zhipeng was extremely surprised. He Jinzhao exaggerated and said that he occupied half of the Ming Dynasty, so he is so unattractive!

What Niu Youcai said was also on paper. As for the other two generals, they currently have no plans to bring them into the harem.

Zheng Zhipeng put his mind away, he knew that He Jinzhao had a son.

But I have to sigh with emotion, this is the person who does great things.

After all, if a man can control his lower body, most of the time he can achieve great things.

Prince Jin's Mansion, the real century-old prosperity.

It is by no means comparable to the mansion built by Zheng Zhilong when he returned home.

Zheng Zhipeng also opened his eyes this time.

We have never lived in the imperial palace, and we can brag about it when we live in the imperial palace and wait until we return to Fujian.

Pirates.

It's really normal to like to brag, after all, some people boast that he has exchanged bodily fluids with mermaids.

Shi Daxuan had a sad look on his face, his eldest son died early, so he had high hopes for Shi Lang.

He never thought that he would follow Zheng Zhipeng to come to hammer the bandits for a mission, so he directly brought his son in.

He taught his son mostly the experience and knowledge of naval warfare, and fighting on land, what big effect would that have?

When Zheng Zhipeng's uncle and nephew entered the "Prince Jin's Guest House" yelling, they couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.

Prince Daming's palace, even though the Zheng family said it was the same in Fujian, there was no chance, let alone a visit, or even a stay.

This is a symbol of identity and status.

As a result, the hammer bandit Marshal He didn't hesitate to live there.

But Zheng Zhipeng is also an ordinary person, and if he looks around carefully, not to mention that he is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, it is almost inseparable.

"A cow, a cow!"

Zheng Zhipeng sat on a mahogany chair, leaning against the back: "General Shi, why are you so sad?"

"My son."

"Don't you have two sons?" Zheng Zhipeng poured him a cup of tea himself, and asked him to sit down: "Brother means, let me see if you don't know."

"I know I know, but I didn't expect to send my son here."

"Marshal He is also afraid that Zheng Du will be bullied in a new place alone." Zheng Zhipeng patted him on the shoulder and said:
"Brother also wants to marry He Jinzhao. If your son is sent here, he may have a good development in the future, do you understand?"

Shi Daxuan was stunned immediately, he always thought that Daming was Daming, and the hammer bandits were always rebels, not orthodox.

"Can he do it?"

"Zhu Yuanzhang can get things done even if he is a stinky beggar, let alone He Jinzhao, who is becoming more and more powerful.

Although my elder brother doesn't know why he didn't take advantage of the chaos to attack Daming, he still feels that things are not easy, and he must have a plan.

After just contacting him today, I know that he has a way of managing people's livelihood, but he doesn't know whether his military strength is as tyrannical as he boasted. "

Shi Daxuan nodded again and again, the reason is this.

But until the last moment, who can be sure that He Jinzhao will win?

Zheng Zhipeng said very cautiously: "General Shi, if you send a son who is a little bit useless, you might as well not send it here, lest you suffer a loss in the future, and you will regret it later."