Be the emperor from the postman

Huguang is cooked, the world is full.

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, with the production of handicrafts and the development of cities and towns in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, the number of grain buyers increased.

Grain production in the north and south of Dongting Lake and Sichuan developed rapidly, and rice was concentrated in cities such as Hankou, Yueyang, and Changsha along the waterways.

Famous rice markets in Hankou, Jiujiang, Wuhu, Suzhou and other places formed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Through water transportation, the food-deficient areas of the remaining nine provinces all rely on this place.

Huguang has sixteen prefectures under its jurisdiction.

He Jinchao just occupied the five mansions of Xunyang, Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Chengtian and Wuchang.

He has not had time to send officials to manage most of the areas where the wind is falling, mainly because he cannot be drawn out.

It is mainly occupied along the north bank of the Yangtze River. If it enters Jiangxi Province and captures Nanchang Mansion, it will be regarded as officially cutting off the grain transportation.

Whether it is targeting Chongzhen's meals in Beijing, or the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang relying on buying grain from Huguang, it will cause great turmoil.

In particular, the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang all rely on Huguang rice millet. They all switch to cotton and become the center of the textile industry in the country. They cannot support themselves in food.

After the food was cut off, these handicraft workers would cause trouble, which would definitely catch the local government of Daming by surprise.

In today's situation, food is said to be precious, but it is not precious.

Regarding He Jinchao's proposal to stimulate Zuo Liangyu, Xu Yixian made a supplementary explanation mainly on grain transportation.

"King Qin, we should buy food from the local ship food gang and give them a chance to hook us up."

Xu Yixian smiled, businessmen are after profit, and now the hammer bandits have controlled the Yangtze River system, and are slowly radiating the entire Huguang.

In the future, both land and water routes will be controlled by the hammer bandits. If these people want to do business, it is impossible not to actively approach them.

"Alright."

He Jinzhao didn't think too much about these businessmen.

He slaughtered one of the eight Shanxi merchants entrenched in Zhangjiakou when he burned Zhangjiakou, and copied their hometown after occupying Shanxi.

In recent years, He Jinzhao has been stuck in the trade neck, so Shanxi merchants can't effectively supply Huang Taiji whether it is trade with Mongolia or domestic trade, which is extremely aggrieved.

Fan Yongdou and others can only rely on smuggling with the Mongols, and they can no longer make huge profits.

Even Sun Chuanting collected information near the capital and used business as a cover to further plunder the business of Shanxi merchants entrenched in Zhangjiakou.

After this battle of Songjin, if Huang Taiji wanted to regain his vitality, he had to go to the frontier to plunder again to recover his blood, and then the group of Shanxi merchants would have a chance to recover their blood.

Otherwise, the eight Shanxi merchants would not always think that the Qing army could defeat the hammer bandits. After all, the foundation of their hometown has been dug out, and the news of colluding with foreign enemies has long been spread in Shanxi.

The reputation of these companies is rotten in Shanxi.

A large number of people who were forcibly rescued by He Jinchao from the Qing army were also filled in various places in Shanxi. It turned out that these businessmen from Zhangjiakou drew maps and led the Qing army, and they were extremely resistant to these families.

Fan Yongdou and others can only rely closely on Huang Taiji, hoping that he can enter the Central Plains, so as to obtain great benefits, and even take revenge on He Jinchao.

There are various guild halls in Wuchang City, which are the administrative offices of Huguang.

Since the Jiajing period, the capital has built more than 50 guild halls.

But it is mainly to provide exams for students who go to the provincial capital or to Beijing to catch the exam. Of course, there are also a large number of businessmen who come to the provincial capital to do business.

These people travel far to the provincial capital, and the road to the capital is even further. The average person's money is limited. If they live in the provincial capital or the capital for a long time, the cost of just a sleeping house is extremely high, let alone a slightly better condition.

Even businessmen who do business make many people unable to afford expensive rent.

Therefore, during the Jiajing period, there were special places for foreigners to live and gather. In the Wanli period, there were guild halls in each township in the capital, especially in Wuchang City.

There are 24 in Wuchang city alone.

To say that the most famous guild hall in Huguang is the former residence of Zhang Juzheng, the former prime minister, which has been transformed into the Quanchu guild hall.

"I saw that there are quite a lot of guild halls in Wuchang City, so I asked them to come to the Yellow Crane Tower to have a talk. I haven't visited yet. Before that, I should bring all the middle-level businessmen here."

After hearing Xu Yixian's explanation of Huguang and other places, He Jinzhao felt that the businessman had to be accommodated and worked for him, and even communicate with Guangdong through the water system.

Yongzhou Prefecture, Hengzhou Prefecture, and Chenzhou in Huguang border Guangdong.

In addition to slowly operating Huguang and training the navy to collect taxes for foreign trade, Yang Wenyue and others also slowly radiated to Huguang to do some inland business.

Then there are some Yao people in Yongzhou Prefecture who often come and go, and some Miao people's miscellaneous places. Apart from the constant chaos, there are not too many problems.

Following He Jinchao's order, some soldiers went directly to the various guild halls and knocked on the doors, saying that King Qin was here to invite them.

Many businessmen were a little uneasy, even though He Jinzhao announced the abolition of exorbitant taxes and poll tax at the city gate, and taxes would only be collected when goods entered the city.

But no one could tell if He Jinzhao's large-scale banquet for them was a Hongmen banquet.

Zhang Shicheng is the grandson of Zhang Juzheng, and he is not young now. The family was restored to official status only in the second year of Tianqi, and they have established a firm foothold in business for so many years.

He paid homage to the three emperors (Fuxi, Shennong, and Youxiong), and hoped that he could return smoothly this time.

Each guild hall has its own patron saint, who is enshrined in the guild hall.

Some are the ancestors of the industry (civil engineering is dedicated to Lu Ban), some are dedicated to the sages of the hometown, and some are various gods (Guan Gong, Mazu) and so on.

Many businessmen were summoned by Hammer Bandit He Jinzhao, and left the guild hall, rushing to the government office in a nervous mood.

Because in addition to the gentry landlords occupying a large number of land properties, these wealthy businessmen are also a new class of landlords.

(That is, the landlords of the common clan, such people generally do not have political privileges, and can only obtain privileges by relying on the family's children to obtain fame and fame)
Everyone knows that businessmen are rich.

In the moment of turmoil, who should we not rob them of?
Wuchang City has patrols by urban management, and the shops that occupy the roads have also been taken back.

The streets were divided into fixed places for small merchants and hawkers. Sitting in a sedan chair and listening to the cries outside, Zhang Shicheng felt that He Jinzhao was a man who could handle people's hearts.

As far as he knows, these street vendors will not charge stall fees for the first three months, and will only charge a fixed daily or monthly fee when the time comes, which is so attractive for people to do business.

As for the tenants in the countryside, they are very supportive of the hammer bandits. If they rent for ten years, they can give priority to buying fertile land and get a [-]-[-] share.

As for joining the Hammer Bandits, there are more benefits, but many people want to send their sons, fathers and brothers to join the Hammer Bandits in order to gain military merit.

I imagined it all the way, but when Zhang Shicheng entered the Yellow Crane Tower, he found it was a mess.

Bosses from teahouses, wine shops, noodle shops, fruit shops, colored silk shops, yarn shops, incense candles, sauces, rice shops, fish shops, and meat shops also came.

Seeing this, Zhang Shicheng suddenly felt a little relieved, this is definitely not a Hongmen banquet.

If He Jinzhao wanted to rob, he would rob them, and he would never rob or kill these small merchants.

He Jinzhao was standing on the second floor and looking out, he found that the Yellow Crane Tower was not in the shape of a cylinder, but square and square, and the square was quite large.

"Master, it's almost time for people to come."

Niu Youcai came with a booklet, and everyone came to sign in when he arrived.

He Jinzhao asked Xu Yixian to come forward and tell them how to collect business tax, mainly for wealthy and middle-class businessmen.

On the other hand, the small merchants saw that those big wealthy merchants did not receive preferential treatment from the hammer bandits, so they asked them to go upstairs to discuss in detail, but listened to King Qin's military adviser announce the regulations, and they were extremely surprised and proud in their hearts.

Zhang Fuzhen knew what his lord was worried about.

Previously in the land of Qin and Jin Dynasties, they fought hard, but this time they attacked Huguang brazenly, just like cutting tofu with a sharp knife.

It's no wonder that the hammer gangsters are advancing triumphantly. It's really that Ming's army in the south is becoming more and more useless.

With Hong Bing under his command, Hong Chengchou at least dared to confront the hammer bandits. Even Xu Dingchen had always dared to nail Yanmenguan and other places with more than 3000 soldiers under his command.

But the generals in the south were too rotten.

As a result, He Jinzhao's policy of building high walls and accumulating grain was not effectively utilized. The expansion was too fast, and batch after batch of officials trained were scattered to fill the gaps.

Now it has just occupied the five prefectures of Huguang and parts of Henan, and there is still a large amount of land that the hammer bandits have not touched.

So much so that my lord is going to expand the power of the officials in the base area, and call out more officials to gain a firm foothold in the newly occupied land. During this period, some locals have also been promoted, but they are still under assessment.

After the personnel arrived, they had to kill a few people if they were not sure.

The taxation issue Xu Yuxian mentioned is also obvious, roughly determined according to the level.

Zhang Shicheng also understood that He Jinzhao's tax collection with them was not based on the [-]-[-] tax, but raised the tax, and he didn't show any intention of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

In a short period of time, there will be no money tariffs, but salt and iron are heavily taxed, and all mines are owned by the hammer bandits.

Zhang Shicheng also came to a conclusion that He Jinzhao wanted to use their group of people to help the army and provide supplies for the city, but it was still a tax that looked like "robbing the rich and helping the poor" and refused to let their group of businessmen get huge benefits.

In other words, He Jinzhao is not short of money at present, whether it is capturing the vassal king of Ming Dynasty, confiscating the gentry, or occupying Guangdong to collect foreign trade taxes.

But Zhang Shicheng doesn't care, he has been in business for some years, and has extremely rich experience in how to win over corrupt officials who collect taxes.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were not able to keep themselves clean. Could it be that the hammer bandits were in charge, and those people would be able to keep their hands from taking money from their doorsteps?
All that needs to be done is to open one eye and close one eye.

Xu Yixian also emphasized the punishment measures for daring to bribe Hammer Bandit officials. Those who accept bribes will be punished according to the amount, and those who bribe will be severely punished.

In the final analysis, when the law was enacted, it was still biased towards the Hammer Bandit's own people.

Hearing this, Zhang Shicheng had to weigh whether to take the risk of wooing corrupt Hammer bandit officials.

Finally, Xu Yixian said that merchants who pay high taxes and merchants who do not evade taxes will be rewarded.

After Xu Yixian finished talking about the whole regulation, it will continue to be distributed to various shops in the future for everyone to learn, so that no one will forget.

From now on, individual questions will be asked, and those who can answer on the spot will answer immediately. If they can't answer, the consultant will answer after returning.

Zhang Shicheng understood that He Jinzhao's move was a stick for everyone, and he started feeding dates again.

But on paper, there are clear rewards and punishments, but in practice, I don't know how much room there is for manipulation.

A postman, such a means, is also very good.

Zhang Shicheng didn't know which military division planned it.

He didn't think He Jinzhao knew anything about business and taxes.

In the midst of the buzzing, Zhang Shicheng followed a hammer bandit soldier to the second floor. He was a little uneasy, never expecting to be interviewed by He Jinzhao.

"I've seen Marshal He."

He Jinzhao waved his hand and asked him to sit down: "I need a batch of herbs."

"Despite the commander's orders, the little old man will definitely cooperate with all his strength and will not take any money."

"Ah."

He Jinzhao glanced at him, and it was much smarter to say that he would not take any money than to let himself say that he was strong, and it was true that he could advance and retreat freely.

"No need." He Jinzhao sat opposite the old man:
"I have a lot of money to spend, and I didn't come here for your selfless dedication, but for you to guarantee the quality of the medicinal materials so that there will be no mistakes."

"What the commander told me, the little old man will definitely do it well, and I dare not make a mistake. If there is a problem with the medicinal materials, the commander can cut off my head."

Zhang Shicheng made his words very clear, and he would definitely handle this job well for Marshal He.

"Okay, I'm satisfied with the old gentleman's words."

He Jinzhao asked someone to ask him to leave.

Zhang Shicheng thought it was because of his grandfather's face, but he didn't realize that it was just that the hammer bandits needed medicinal materials, so he clasped his hands and went downstairs.

"Marshal, General Gao has already set off to Jiujiang with people on board."

He Jinzhao nodded, indicating that he understood.

As a vanguard, Gao Yigong must always be ready to go into battle.

"Uncle, why don't you let me do this job?"

"Your mother wrote to tell me that your son was born, named Li Puxing."

Li Dingguo froze in place immediately, then couldn't stop his ecstasy, jumped up and spun around twice and said excitedly: "I want to teach him how to ride a horse and shoot an arrow."

He Jinzhao couldn't help shaking his head and laughing when he saw his nephew acting like this.

Because he was placed in Sichuan, he married Liu Shi, a woman from central Sichuan. The two had a daughter in the early stage, and they were pregnant before this expedition.

"Do you want to go back to Sichuan and have a look?" He Jinzhao put his sister's letter on the table: "I'm afraid we won't change our defense if we don't fight this expedition for a year or two."

"Ah." Hearing this, Li Dingguo immediately fell into a tangle: "Uncle, when are you going to attack Nanjing?"

"Hurry up, after clearing Zuo Liangyu who is entrenched in Jiujiang, the Yangtze River will be unimpeded, and we can go down the river and go straight to Nanjing City."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo thought for a while:
"Then after I captured Nanjing with my uncle, there will be no fighting in a short period of time. I will go upstream and return to Sichuan to see my eldest son."

He Jinchao nodded. After capturing Nanjing, after a period of time in control, he will also change defenses on a large scale to face problems.

"Then you think that Zuo Liangyu can continue to escape instead of stationing in Jiujiang."