Nanming Yiming

Chapter 96 Hangzhou Vision (for subscription support)

After winning the fortified city of Hangzhou, Qian Mo can be said to be in high spirits.

As early as the Five Dynasties, Hangzhou surpassed Nanjing to become the veritable No. [-] state in the southeast. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou was the No. [-] state in the country for business and taxation. The Southern Song Dynasty directly established its capital here, which naturally made it more prosperous.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang established Nanjing as the capital in the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing has always been the accompanying capital since then, making it difficult for Hangzhou to compete with Nanjing in terms of political influence.Moreover, Hangzhou is not comparable to Suzhou in the same period in terms of population and commercial prosperity.

But after all, it is one of the most prosperous and prosperous areas in China for hundreds of years, and it has not been affected by too many wars.At this time, there were nearly 50 people in Hangzhou City, and the population of Qiantang and Renhe counties directly under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Fucheng exceeded 90.

The population of the entire Hangzhou Prefecture exceeds 220 million, which is only behind Suzhou Prefecture.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang had a population of over 1300 million, second only to South Zhili (today's Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai), and surpassed Jiangsu if Anhui was not counted. It was the province with the highest population density in China at that time.

Right now, the Hangjiahu Sanfu controlled by Qian Mo is a rare plain area in Zhejiang. The population of the three prefectures is close to 600 million, which is equivalent to 9% of the national population. They are the essence of Zhejiang as a whole.

Winning Hangzhou means that Qian Mo is sitting on the granary of the Hangjiahu Plain, silk, and its wealth is no less than that of the Susong area.

Of course, if Qian Mo can further seize the Su and Song prefectures, he will completely control the economic and demographic lifeline of the entire Jiangnan.

Different from Suzhou, Hangzhou itself is a solid city with a perimeter of more than 40 miles and a wall of about 2 feet high, built close to mountains and rivers.Moreover, there is Tianmu Mountain in the northwest of Hangzhou as a barrier, and the Qiantang River in the southeast is a natural barrier, which is a place where you can make a fortune.

Qian Mo, who won Hangzhou, raised his influence to a whole new level. At this point, Qian Mo was no longer a small anti-Qing guerrilla force, but an anti-Qing warlord force that could separate areas.

Its appeal and influence are far from comparable to winning Huzhou.

After the annihilation of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou and the massacre of the families of the Eight Banners in Mancheng, Qian Mo also successfully raised himself to the list of the first batch of Qing Dynasty to be exterminated.

According to the size of influence, Qian Mo felt that he should be ranked behind Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren.After all, these two slaughtered the Eight Banners in Nanchang City as early as the beginning of the incident.

However, it is estimated that in Dorgon's extermination list at this time, Qian Mo is only ranked behind these two, and the "second list" is not gone!
If Qian Mo continues to win the Su-Song prefectures, and even approaches Nanjing, then it is not impossible to achieve "overtaking on a curve". Tan Tai and He Luohui's southward army is likely to abandon Jiangxi first and rush directly to Hangzhou.

Qian Mo needs time to digest these fruits of victory, so he needs to let other Ming troops have a greater influence to attract the firepower of the Qing army.At this time, although the development of the head covering is no longer possible, it is really impossible to continue to "die".

Therefore, Qian Mo decided to give up Suzhou and Songjiang for the time being, the big fats that were on his lips. Right now, military expansion and preparations for war are the number one priority.

The Jiaxing Mansion in the north originally had 2000 people in the Jiaxing Camp, plus the 1000 surrendered troops from the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army under Zhang Tianlu and the 1000 Green Battalion from the original Jiaxing Mansion.Now they are all incorporated into the Jiaxing Battalion, and the prefect of Jiaxing Lu Bingwen is asked to recruit 1000 recruits to expand the Jiaxing Battalion to 5000 people. It is necessary to ensure the safety of the Jiaxing area.

There are now Taihu Battalion in Huzhou area, Huzhou Battalion and Tianmu Battalion with a total of 3 troops. Qian Mo ordered Ma Li, the prefect of Huzhou, to continue recruiting troops and add 9000 troops to each of the 3 battalions.Among them, the Huzhou Battalion is full of cavalry. As a strategic reserve, it is ready to support other fronts at any time, even the front lines of Huizhou and Jiangxi.

The government treasury in Hangzhou has a lot of money, grain and military resources. There are 25 taels of silver alone, 15 shi of grain, and a large amount of cotton armor, gunpowder, knives, bows and arrows, pig iron and other materials. It can be said that Qian Mo made a fortune. Small fortune.

This time, Qian Mo of the Hangzhou prefecture recruited more than 3000 Qing soldiers and thousands of young men, so he established the "Hangzhou Battalion" based on the surrendered Qing troops. Deputy commander in chief, responsible for guarding Hangzhou.

The Chongming Camp, Shenji Camp, and Jingnan Camp each added 1000 men, mainly young and strong Qing soldiers who surrendered, and the old method of "bringing the old with the new" and "replacing training with war".

Now there are 4 battalions in Hangzhou, and the Chongming, Shenji, Jingnan, and Hangzhou battalions have all expanded to 4000 people.

Due to the previous successful tactics of "surrounding the spot and fighting for aid", the prefectures around Hangzhou were also empty of troops. Whether it was Susong Second Mansion in the north of Hangzhou, Shaoxing in the east, or Yanzhou in the southwest, there were not many Qing troops left.As long as he defeated the Qing army going north from Fujian, Qian Mo could look for opportunities to take Yanzhou or Shaoxing before Tan Tai's southern conquest army arrived, and then expand his territory.

After another crazy military expansion, the current Suhu Governor's Mansion has 8 people from the 33000th Battalion Army Division, plus 3000 from the Zhejiang Navy Division, a total of 36000 troops.

At that time, even if the Qing army concentrates its main force to attack itself, it will have enough strength to wrestle with them!
However, after the expansion of the army, the most troublesome thing is that Suhu Chief Envoy has no money. He really has no money.

Qian Buer said: "After this round of military expansion, the monthly salary of the soldiers alone is nearly 10 taels, and the annual tax of the Hangjiahu 3 prefectures is converted into about 120 million taels of silver, which is barely enough to pay the annual soldiers' wages." military pay."

"Now that the Governor's Mansion has been relocated to Hangzhou, and the monthly consumption of supplies in successive wars is huge, the Chief Secretary is now seriously unable to make ends meet. If it hadn't been for the fruitful harvest of taking Hangzhou this time, the treasury of the Suhu Governor's Mansion may have bottomed out long ago! "

Qian Mo said: "During the siege of Hangzhou, the grain price rose to 3 taels of silver at one time, so the Industry Department should have made a small profit."

Liu Yichen was asked again: "Now how much silver taels is handed over to the Chief Secretary by the Intelligence Department every month?"

Liu Yichen said: "1 taels of silver!"

Qian Mo asked: "The property under the name of your intelligence department should have increased a lot. Why hasn't the money handed in increased? Did you increase the benefits in private?"

Liu Yichen also looked helpless, and said: "It is true that the income of the intelligence department's subordinates has increased, but now that the war is tight, the intelligence department spent a lot of money in order to break into the Qing army. The last time they instigated Hou Qianhai, it cost 1 yuan a time. Two denarii."

"Moreover, the accounts of the intelligence department are checked by the staff of the chief envoy, and the monthly budget for the use of money is also reported to governor Xia for approval. There is absolutely no violation of regulations for rewarding money."

Qian Mo said: "I am at ease in the use of funds in the Intelligence Department, and will be rewarded for meritorious service. This time Huang Bao performed outstandingly, and I promoted him directly to the position of deputy commander. The Hangzhou Battalion must pay close attention to me." .”

Liu Yichen said: "Thank you, Governor General, for your trust in the Intelligence Department. We must follow Vice President Huang as an example!"

Qian Mo said to Qian Buer: "The Intelligence Department has indeed tried its best, so what suggestions does Chief Executive Qian have?"

Qian Buer said: "Taxation is nothing more than two big heads, one is land tax and the other is commercial tax. Should we think of some ways from these two aspects?"

Of course Qian Mo knew that these two dollars were the big money, but at present Qian Mo didn't want to touch these two dollars, to be precise, he didn't dare to touch them.

Qian Mo said: "The land under the gentry's name does not pay taxes, and it cannot be solved overnight. Don't think about it for the time being. If the tax is collected in a hurry, it will inevitably cause turmoil. I'm afraid the gain will outweigh the loss."

"However, the people are now displaced. Although no additional taxes will be imposed on the land under the name of the gentry for the time being, it is still necessary to effectively prevent them from taking the opportunity to continue annexing the land of the people."

"The fields confiscated by the traitors in various places were also turned into farms by the Department of Industry to recruit displaced people as tenants so that the governor's government can hoard food."

"This can also solve the problem of refugees. After all, the rent charged by the Department of Industry is relatively reasonable. Those tenants must have a surplus. In the event of a famine, they must be appropriately reduced or exempted. In this way, other big landlords will not dare to increase rent indiscriminately, and they can relieve it in disguise. contradiction."

"In addition, the Department of Industry can lend loans to people in need, so that they don't have to sell the land under their name at a low price. After that, the people can pay back with food or silver. Of course, a certain guarantee is required."

"If there are a few local tyrants who don't have a good eye, they want to get the idea of ​​​​owning the farm under the name of the property department, or obstruct the normal mortgage business of the property department, then we have no excuse to repair them."

For the time being, Qian Mo still decided to focus on "maintaining stability", and just curb the momentum of these tyrannical mergers, and did not hit them hard.After all, this kind of class conflict cannot be resolved in a short period of time. Qian Mo still needs to unite various forces to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

The main contradiction in the current society is the ethnic contradiction, that is, the contradiction between the pro-Ming forces with the Han nationality as the main body and the Qing Dynasty with the Eight Banners as the core.All other contradictions are secondary contradictions and can be put aside temporarily.

Corresponding reforms can only be carried out after a large amount of resources are in hand. At present, the Suhu Governor's Mansion is still collecting taxes according to the old system, so that there will be no voices of opposition in the ruling area for the time being.

After all, these areas have just been conquered. If you don’t touch the cakes of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, they will not oppose you, and they will trip you overtly and secretly; up.

As for silver, with the "first pot of gold" to search for traitors, the operation of Suhu Governor's Mansion can be maintained for the time being.Qian Mo can earn high profits by doing business on his own, so there is no need to force all the gentry to oppose him just to collect a little business tax now.

As long as Qian Mo's rule is stable, the business environment is good, and those businessmen make money, then there will be less resistance to collecting reasonable business taxes.

Now occupying the entire city, the large number of industries occupied by the Eight Banners of Hangzhou are equivalent to being taken over by the Suhu Governor's Mansion. Qian Mo intends to build a brand new business district in the original Hangzhou Mancheng.Get these merchants involved and share some of the cake's dividends.

As for the business tax, Qian Mo decided to organize a large overseas caravan and use the Shibo Division to open up the business tax.

After all, the land in these three states has not yet been warmed up in Qian Mo's hands, and it is normal for these gentry classes to have a wait-and-see mentality.

At this time, those who bet on Qian Mo in advance are more discerning businessmen. There are always a small number of such discerning leaders in every era. For example, the few businessmen who transported supplies for Qian Mo in Tianjiazhuang before are now in Jiaxing and Huzhou have mastered a large number of industries and channels, and they are flourishing.

Qian Mo also intends to build his own "Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium" based on the three states in northern Zhejiang.

The later Chairman Jiang successfully stood out from the warlords by relying on the "Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium" behind him.

Qian Mo said: "This time I plan to use the area full of Hangzhou to build a business district to attract all the big businessmen from all over the south of the Yangtze River. The industry department can first select some good shops and bring in their high-quality products. , and some other businessmen who have cooperated with us can also say hello in advance and stir up this business district."

"I will also contact businessmen from overseas, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spaniards will all come. We will make Hangzhou a commercial capital."

"Anyway, the land of these shops all over the city is in our hands, and the rental income will be a large amount of income at that time."

Qian Mo said to Xia Wanchun: "I couldn't find a suitable candidate for the prefect of Hangzhou for a while, so I asked Governor Xia to investigate and promote a suitable candidate. Now this position is equivalent to our Shuntian prefect, which is too important. For the time being, Governor Xia will be concurrently in charge." .”

"Besides, I'm talking about the concept of a full-city business district. Do Governor Xia and Minister Qian have any questions?"

Xia Wanchun said: "I have already understood the meaning of Governor Qian. The governor's office must restore law and order in Hangzhou as soon as possible, and create a stable business environment for the commercial district. This will also help the rent in the commercial district to rise."

Qian Mo said: "After all, Xiaoyin understands my thoughts. I will leave Hangzhou to you. From now on, this will be our capital."

He also said to Qian Buer: "We will not collect commercial tax for ordinary merchants for the time being, but the Shibo Department must do it and take a long-term view."

"You must pay attention to the business district and the ocean-going trade fleet. This is related to our 'money bag' in the future."

After arranging all this, Qian Mo said to Gu Yanwu again: "This time our army regained Hangzhou, we still want to report the victory to His Highness Jian Guo, so I have to trouble Brother Ning and go to Chongming again."

"The air in the room is not good, let's go outside and talk while walking."

Gu Yanwu said: "Your Excellency, are you worried that His Highness Jian Guo will propose Hangzhou?"

Qian Mo said, "Does Ningren also have such thoughts?"

"In fact, the relatives of His Royal Highness Jian Guo were killed in Hangzhou by the Qing army. It is only natural for him to propose to come to Hangzhou to pay his respects!"

"If His Highness really proposes to come to Hangzhou, Brother Ning will agree on my behalf."

Gu Yanwu said: "Your Excellency is so kind, you are not afraid that Lu Wanglai will not leave in Hangzhou."

Qian Mo said with a smile: "Then I will coerce the prison to order the princes, this is what he sent to the door himself."

Seeing Gu Yanwu's embarrassed face, Qian Mo said again: "It's just a joke, Brother Ning, don't take it seriously."

"Zhang Mingzhen will definitely welcome King Lu to East Zhejiang. His foundation is in East Zhejiang, not Hangzhou. Don't worry, Brother Ning. King Lu said that he would come to Hangzhou just as a test, so just agree."

"My Daming is in a good situation now, and I won't disregard the overall situation."

Looking at Qian Mo's back, Gu Yanwu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this person is indeed a hero in the world!
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