I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 141
Chapter 140

Although money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible.Starting capital is very important in anything you do.

If Cheng Shijie didn't get the money that the former Dengzhou Wei Zuoqianhu Gaowang got for several years as an official, he didn't have the capital to support his family soldiers. Without his family soldiers, it would be impossible to defeat the bandit Qin Wu. Ning Haijun would not be able to develop after the capture of the bandits, and without Cheng Shijie's super-standard treatment, it would be impossible for Ning Haijun's officers and men to take risks for him...

All of this is a cycle.The most critical person in this cycle is Cheng Shijie, and the most critical factor is money.

The same is true for the development of southern Liaoning. Without vigorous repairs and dredging of ditches, the reclamation in southern Liaoning would not have the most basic fertilizer. Without fertilizer, there would be no high grain yield.And the same another cycle is that if Cheng Shijie doesn't use work-for-relief to attract a large number of refugees into southern Liaoning and bring a sufficient labor force to southern Liaoning, it is impossible for the ditches in southern Liaoning to spread rapidly like a magic trick. Come.

Relying on agricultural reclamation alone is far from being able to make southern Liaoning so prosperous. More importantly, Cheng Shijie has opened various factories. These factories can not only provide jobs for refugees, but also produce a large amount of materials. .

More importantly, these factories can continuously make money for Cheng Shijie. Just one salt factory earned Cheng Shijie 360 million taels of silver in less than nine months, which is currently the most profitable among all Cheng Shijie's industries. factories, followed by textile mills.

Because hemp, cotton, silk and wool are used, and the mixed textile technology is adopted, the wool cloth produced has become a hot commodity in Jiangnan due to its good air permeability, comfort and good warmth retention.

In later generations, people in the south of the Yangtze River would rarely be able to wear woolen sweaters, but in the little ice age at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even Guangzhou and Kunming would have extreme weather and snow, and the southerners would not have a good time in winter.The textile factory managed by Jin Qiaoer has earned Cheng Shijie 160 million taels of silver while satisfying the internal consumption of southern Liaoning. If it reaches the end of the year, it is expected to catch up with the salt factory and become Cheng Shijie's most profitable factory.

Again, it was Cheng Shijie's carriage factory. Due to the successive expansion of the Ninghai Navy, military transport carriages have increased again and again. The income of ten thousand taels of silver.

In the end, it is the turn of the income from Tuntian Juntian. Goods exported to Jiangnan or Shandong are good, and the price is fair, but the goods smuggled to Jiannu through Hu Erqi and Xie Jinglin include salt, tea, linen, cotton, canvas, various It is conscientious to grow spices and earn more than ten times, and it is not impossible to earn twenty or thirty times or even hundreds of times.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie obtained a total of more than 800 million taels of start-up capital by relying on the Shandong Mutiny, the Kong Youde Rebellion, and the extortion of Zu Dashou. Ten thousand taels of silver.

In less than a year, Cheng Shijie surpassed the wealth accumulation of seven generations of Fan Yongdou.Cheng Shijie used factories, war seizures, and smuggling methods to obtain more silver than the Ming court's annual fiscal revenue.If Emperor Chongzhen knew that Cheng Shijie would make so much money, he might not let Cheng Shijie be the manager of Liaodong again.

Instead, let Cheng Shijie be the Minister of the Ministry of Households, or the Minister of the Ministry of Industry... But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is not a Jinshi and cannot hold such an official position.

If he didn't have so much capital, what would Cheng Shijie use to open a bank?

Especially as more and more factories increase their production capacity, there are more profitable factories, especially the dozen or so steel factories whose products are not waiting for them. These factories have always been mainly producing military supplies. After the needs of soldiers, there are already products that can make money.

For example, hoes made of stainless steel in southern Liaoning are of good quality, durable, and most importantly, cheap. There are also curved plows, axes, and hatchets that can be sold abroad.

Even the furniture factories are selling to the outside world after satisfying the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the people of southern Liaoning. The production of these factories is very hot. With a weak industrial production base, Cheng Shijie can do more things.

He has money and technical reserves. He can open a cement factory, mine copper and iron ore, and even open a shipyard. Since the beginning of the year, he has not sent people to Jiangnan to recruit shipbuilding factories.

Regardless of the fact that the Lushun Shipyard has not yet officially put into operation, the boatmen have recruited more than 800 people.

In order to attract refugees to live in southern Liaoning with peace of mind, Cheng Shijie now provides refugees with a new set of clothes, bedding, washbasins, lunch boxes, single household bags, and kettles.

The refugees who owned these belongings immediately changed from the proletariat to the propertied class. These things can be sold for three or four taels of silver, and the actual value of these materials has exceeded ten taels of silver.

If they are skilled talents, in addition to free distribution of basic living supplies, they will also provide housing. Of course, this standard of housing is that ordinary craftsmen are not as good as ordinary Ning Navy soldiers, but professionals in a certain field enjoy more treatment than ordinary Ning Navy soldiers. Soldiers can even be compared with officers.

Cheng Shijie also prepared a good living and working environment for the immigrants. As long as the people who arrive in southern Liaoning can take a bath for free, or get new clothes, and eat sticky multigrain porridge, these multigrain porridge is not for saving money, but for the refugees. Nourish the stomach.

As long as the stomach is healthy, they will increase their nutrition and eat dry rice, such as rice, steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. As for meat, there is really not much. Now Cheng Shijie is still in the accumulation stage, even the best-paid Ning Navy soldiers, I can't guarantee to eat meat every day, but I can guarantee to eat some meat every three to five.

Although Hong Niangzi has a pool and a certain amount of money, her capital is far less than Cheng Shijie's. Of course, she has no way to compare with Cheng Shijie.

The red lady brought people to southern Liaoning, and soon the immigrants were assigned to factories according to their occupational skills. As for those who only knew how to farm, they were finally assigned to the [-]-household station for farming or the [-]-household station for engineering.

Seeing the familiar refugees being sorted away one by one, Hong Niangzi finally couldn't bear to find the director of the immigration management center.

This is another characteristic of southern Liaoning. Unlike the Central Plains, southern Liaoning has a three-level management system of provinces, prefectures (states), and counties. The prefectures are set up as magistrates, the prefectures are set up as magistrates, and the counties are set up as county magistrates.But in southern Liaoning, there are only two levels, the management committee and the executive committee. Below the executive committee, the former mayors of the towns, or town guards, set up working committees, which are called XX town working committees.

There is a director, a director, and ten hundreds of households, that is, committee members. The established working committee is responsible for management. In addition to the factory being called the manager or general manager, the local government is uniformly renamed the director or deputy director.

The management level of the resettlement center is at the same level as that of a town. The director is also surnamed Cheng, but he is not related to Cheng Shijie. This is a member of the Cheng clan from Fangcheng, Luoyang, and his surname is Cheng Yaodong.

Luoyang Fangcheng is actually Cheng Shijie's real ancestral home.

"Director Cheng, everyone has arranged, why didn't they arrange for me?"

As the leader of the [-]-strong refugee group, Hong Niangzi is actually well paid. She has a separate room in the resettlement center, which is actually three rooms, a bedroom, a living room, and a small study. .

The treatment for meals is in a small cafeteria, which can be the same as that of director Cheng Yaodong.

"Tang Sanniang, I'm about to find you. The rules in southern Liaoning are voluntary. Children under the age of [-] can be determined by their guardians or parents and choose their own careers voluntarily!"

Cheng Yaodong didn't despise Hong Niangzi because she was a woman. After all, Southern Liaoning is a bit different from the Central Plains. Women here can be officials. Yang Yunniang, Jin Qiaoer, Liu Xue, and Wang Wei are all officials, and their ranks are higher than him. to be tall.

Cheng Yaodong continued: "Given your ability to work, you brought over 2 people here. You should continue to use your strengths and take up a management position!"

"What is a management position?"

"Simply put, it is to be an official!"

"Being an official? Can a woman be an official?"

"It's definitely not possible in other places, but we can do it in southern Liaoning!"

Cheng Yaodong said: "Your situation is a bit special. It is not up to me or the Executive Committee to make decisions. Now it needs to be approved by the Management Committee and Marshal Cheng."

As a refugee leader with more than [-] people, if he is resettled, the level should not be too low, otherwise, who will come to seek refuge with Cheng Shijie in the future, and report the issue of being a red lady to the management committee. The super treatment can be regarded as buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars.

So, this problem was reported to Cheng Shijie. Of course, Cheng Shijie is now on the bank of Taizi River, more than 500 miles away from Jinzhou. Even if he reports quickly, it will take two or three days.

The red lady looked at Cheng Yaodong and said, "Can I choose by myself?"

"Can you choose?"

"The Haizhou executive committee still lacks a deputy director!"

In order to make it easier for the red lady to understand, Cheng Yaodong explained: "Our deputy director of the executive committee in southern Liaoning is like your Chenzhou or the magistrate of Zhengzhou in Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan!"

After saying this, Hong Niangzi understood.

The red lady shook her head and said, "I want to join the army and lead the army to fight!"

Since the moment she was captured by Mr. Yulang, Hong Niangzi has no turning back.

With her character, it is impossible to accept her fate, and she will definitely resist.

When she killed the first person, there was no turning back for her.

With the sword of Mr. Yulang and the blood staining the bridal chamber, Hong Niangzi opened another path in her life, a completely different path.

On this road, she needs to keep killing people, the bandits who want to kill her, the scum among the refugees, and the local tyrants and evil gentry...

In short, the lives of the red lady and the red lady are not eighty, but a hundred. If there are too many people killed, a shadow will naturally be left in her heart.As long as she closes her eyes, she will have nightmares.

Without a knife, she wouldn't even dare to sleep. It's not that she likes to wear that red wedding dress very much, because as long as she doesn't have this red wedding dress, any clothes she wears seem to be stained. Blood.

"Joining the army... this problem... I'm very sorry, it's not within my scope of authority to help you solve it!"

Cheng Yaodong said: "If you want to join the army, you need to wait for Ning Haijun to recruit troops and sign up to join the army, or you can go directly to the Ning Haijun General Mansion to sign up directly and join the army by special recruitment. If you are specially recruited, you need to have special skills!"

The red lady bit her lip: "I can ride a horse, is it considered a specialty?"

"Calculate!"

"I can shoot arrows. Although I dare not say that I can shoot arrows with a hundred steps, if I shoot people within a hundred steps, I can hit nine out of ten arrows!"

"Calculate!"

"I will lead troops!"

"This is even more important!"

The red lady rode her bay red horse, carried her long bow, and hung a long knife at her waist, and rushed towards Jinzhou City.

……

Cheng Shijie never thought that his meeting with Yang Qingyun would be like a patient and a doctor, stationing troops on the banks of the Taizi River. Cheng Shijie went to swim in the Taizi River because the weather was too hot.

When going ashore, Cheng Shijie accidentally stepped on a sharp object, and a small cut was scratched on the sole of his foot.

Cheng Shijie didn't care either. In just three days, his feet swelled up, and the wounds festered...

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to return to the later life for treatment.

However, Wu Sheng rode a horse overnight and took advantage of the newly established station system to bring Yang Qingyun, the only son of a former imperial doctor in southern Liaoning, who had won his father's true biography, to the bank of the Taizi River. camp.

Yang Qingyun also knew very well that the current Cheng Shijie was the sky in southern Liaoning. If something happened to Cheng Shijie, the sky in southern Liaoning would definitely collapse.

He didn't dare to be negligent, and after treating Cheng Shijie, he quickly took out a sharp blade and scraped out the festering part for Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie finally saw the magic of Chinese medicine. Yang Qingyun only took a few silver needles, and after they were sterilized, they were inserted into his head, and then dozens of silver needles were inserted into his thighs and feet. Then I found that I lost all feeling in my left foot.

Watching Yang Qingyun use a small knife to scrape out the pus on the bottom of his feet, it took almost a stick of incense, and Cheng Shijie saw Yang Qingyun start to clean up the wound, apply medicine and bandage it.

It was not until most of the silver needles were pulled out that Cheng Shijie felt a faint pain.

"Is this the legendary acupuncture?"

"Small tricks, let Marshal Cheng laugh!"

"True skills are real skills!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Mr. Yang's medical skills are excellent. I want to hire Mr. Yang as the dean of Liaodong Medical College. I wonder if Mr. Yang will give in?"

"This one……"

Yang Qingyun got up and refused: "How can Yang, He De, be worried about the director of the hospital, please ask the commander to ask someone else to be wise!"

Yang Qingyun was also bitten by a snake once, and was afraid of well ropes for ten years.

Because his father was an imperial doctor, he was clearly right, he didn't cure the wrong disease, and he didn't prescribe the wrong medicine. He just found out that Emperor Tianqi had been poisoned by lead, and he was killed by others.

Originally, he just wanted to be a little doctor in peace, but because he treated Hou Shu of the Suiyang Hou family, it was obvious that Hou Shu had overdosed on the medicine of tiger and wolf, so he had to let him...

Cheng Shijie also understands the doctor's thinking. In this era, the requirements for medical skills are very low. If ten patients can save seven people, this is a qualified doctor.If ten patients can live eight people, then it is a good doctor.If ten patients can save nine people, this is a miracle doctor.

As a doctor, I actually don't like to treat the rich and powerful. Naturally, there will be a lot of rewards if they are cured, but the problem is that once something goes wrong, the consequences will be disastrous.

And Xiaomin, who is living and fighting, is the most ideal patient. He has no power and power, and he can only consider himself unlucky when he dies.

"Mr. Yang misunderstood. What I mean is to set up a medical school so that Mr. Yang can establish a sect and teach disciples!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "I wonder if Mr. Yang has ever learned about Zhenhai City?"

"Six Sages City?"

"Six Sages City?"

Cheng Shijie became puzzled instead.

Although Cheng Shijie named Zhenhai City Zhenhai, the problem is that on the central square of Zhenhai City, statues of the six sages of the farm family were erected, namely Shennong, Jia Simiao, Fan Shengzhi, Chen Yan, and Wang Zhen. , Xu Guangqi and the stone statues of the six agriculture majors, although the six sages of the farm family were appointed by Cheng Shijie.

But the problem is that Xu Guangqi's disciples and old officials are also quite a few. How can such a thing that can make Xu Guangqi famous be let go?
Therefore, the name of Zhenhai City has not been spread, but the name of Liuxian City has been spread all over the world.

The name of one of the six sages of the farm family even reached the ears of Emperor Chongzhen.

Yang Qingyun's gaze became eager. He didn't want to be Cheng Shijie's personal doctor, nor did he want to be a full-time doctor for the elite in southern Liaoning, but that didn't mean he didn't want to be a doctor's representative.

"The commander-in-chief means to build a city of doctors like the city of six sages in the farm?"

"Ben handsome... yes!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said, "In Jinshishan, Gaizhou, the commander-in-chief wants to build a new city, named Xinghai City, establish Liaonan Medical College in Xinghai City, and set aside 60 mu of land around Xinghai City as a medicine field. Cultivate Chinese medicine to meet the research and demand for Chinese herbal medicine in medical schools."

Yang Qingyun looked excited: "Marshal, this medicine field is different from farmland. It can only be cultivated carefully. If we want to take care of 60 mu of medicine fields, I'm afraid it will take 3 to [-] people."

"I don't favor one over another, and I will give you five towns and fifty households in the field. You can direct these fifty military households in the field to grow the medicinal materials you need!"

"The climate in southern Liaoning is still very suitable for the cultivation of most Chinese herbal medicines. For some Chinese herbal medicines that are not suitable for planting, we can also buy them from other places!"

"It doesn't matter, don't worry, within three to two years, it is enough to cultivate most of the Chinese herbal medicines in Liaodong. If it is really impossible to cultivate them, go to other places to buy them. In short, I want Chinese medicine to flourish in Liaodong."

Cheng Shijie knows that many people in later generations do not actually believe in Chinese medicine, because there are many liars in Chinese medicine, such as ancestral medical skills, family medical skills, descendants of generations of famous doctors, etc., are all liars in all likelihood.

Once upon a time, web articles had a similar prejudice, and web articles were equal to small yellow articles.

"Three to two years will definitely be no problem. We have enough land and enough workers. In three to two years, we will be able to cultivate a sufficient amount of Chinese herbal medicine. If the medical school can keep up by then, there will be no problem."

Yang Qingyun is also confident. So far, Cheng Shijie has never failed in doing things.

In fact, traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine have not received enough attention for a long time. Although the rulers of the past dynasties have also supported Chinese medicine, the scale and strength of the support are far from enough. It is also necessary to go to the mountains alone to collect herbs. Occasionally, there are drug dealers who plant medicinal materials, but they are only driven by economic interests and have a lot of randomness.

Cheng Shijie is willing to use 60 mu of land to grow Chinese herbal medicine, because he knows that Chinese medicine is valuable.It is also an opportunity to step on the feet of Western medicine.

Although Yang Qingyun is the only top Chinese medicine talent in southern Liaoning, not to mention how high the level of traditional Chinese medicine in southern Liaoning can be, at least it is no problem to grow Chinese herbal medicines on a large scale.

In fact, the study of Chinese medicine is not that difficult. As long as you are willing to spend money, those traditional Chinese patent medicines can always find a suitable ratio through repeated trials according to the formula handed down.

As for the subjects...

Ning Haijun has no shortage at all.

Yang Qingyun said: "Commander, although Yang has received the true teachings of my father, his medical skills are not the best. Yang has a senior brother named Su Yong, who is now in his hometown in Nanzhili. Yang tried to trick senior brother Su over here. ...No, please come here, but it will take a while for the specific situation to be resolved."

Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Qingyun's urgent look, which was a little funny.

Sure enough, there is no one in this world who cannot be bribed, only if the right method is not used.

Regarding the opinion on establishing Xinghai City, Cheng Shijie directly sent it to the Liaodong Management Committee for discussion and specific implementation methods.

Now there is not much time until autumn, and the four seasons are not distinct in southern Liaoning. In fact, there is no obvious spring and autumn in southern Liaoning. In autumn, it is cold to the bone. In spring, you can get rid of cotton clothes and wear unlined clothes.

Time is running out.

It will be signed by the official who will establish Xinghai City and sent out.

Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Qingyun and said: "Mr. Yang, the biggest problem we are facing right now is the high infant mortality rate, not to mention the common people, even the royal family is the same, just like the father of today's son, Emperor Taichang, he has seven children. Sons, five of them died young, ten daughters, seven died young, seventeen children died twelve."

"There are actually many reasons for this problem."

Yang Qingyun has not started to explain.

Cheng Shijie said: "The first thing you should do is to gather all the stable women in southern Liaoning and train them in medical knowledge."

In fact, Cheng Shijie knew all this knowledge, but the problem was, if it was impossible for him to train midwives on fertility knowledge and precautions.

Even before the founding of new China, the infant mortality rate was as high as 35 per thousand, and the average life expectancy was only [-] years old, but how to solve the problem?That is to increase the number of medical institutions, increase the production of drugs, and establish a public health system covering all levels of health and epidemic prevention, maternal and child health care, and health supervision across the country.

This is a huge system project that requires a little bit of effort and a lot of difficulties.

But the problem is, no matter how difficult it is, you have to persevere.

(End of this chapter)