In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 159
"Sihai Trade will give us more sugar this year, and our navy will share with Four Seas Trade [-]% of the profits from the sale."

Everyone was very happy when they heard it. Many people thought that the Four Seas Trade was cooperating with King Wei.

"After there is too much sugar, we will not have enough five boats to go to Quanzhou every time, let alone enough manpower."

"Now that we have more ships, we need to increase the number of sailors. This king doesn't plan to spend any more money. This year, we will fill up the sailors."

"It should have been like this a long time ago. There are not enough people now." Feng Deshan immediately echoed and laughed.

Their right army is still short of more than 700 personnel, and the left army is also short of more than 900, which is a full thousand and five.

Now in the eyes of everyone, the money earned from these empty wages is not as good as the money earned from running a business after full recruitment.

King Wei said that he would recruit a full navy. Everyone at the scene was overjoyed and expressed their support.

Zhao Yurui waved their hands to signal them to stop arguing, and sure enough, everyone silenced the scene.

Feng Deshan saw it in his eyes and thought that King Wei is quite majestic now. He used to be the chief general and told everyone to stop arguing. Can practice well.

Zhao Yurui said, before March, the sailors will be fully recruited, and then resettled, all treatment will be the same.

In addition, he would recommend Ruan Cong as a general, and reported the names of some generals, most of whom were promoted to a higher level.

Everyone noticed that the Dinghai Navy now has a deputy commander who is vacant.

Work hard, everyone is thinking.

Then Zhao Yurui asked the generals on the scene to recommend some talents. After adding 500 people in the future, they can be promoted to the middle-level generals of each team and department.

This is the first time that Zhao Yurui asked everyone present to recommend her.

According to the Song system, the daily work of the navy would be in charge of the commander Feng Deshan.

But Feng Deshan knew that without King Wei, he would be nothing, and he would not even be able to pay the monthly salary of the entire army.

In order to cooperate with Zhao Yurui, he recommended his nephew on the spot and was promoted to conductor.

Zhao Yurui nodded immediately, saying yes.

Now everyone was excited and recommended their own people one after another.

Ruan Cong even recommended his son Ruan Heng as Brigadier General.

His son was originally the conductor, and Zhao Yurui agreed without hesitation.

At this time, the entire Dinghai navy was basically in the hands of Zhao Yurui.

Apart from not daring to rebel, there was nothing else to do, and he didn't listen to Zhao Yurui.

But what Zhao and Rui wanted was a more obedient army.

After recruiting 500 people this time, they will all be trained by Zhao Yurui's people, and the training place will be on Jintang Island.

After training, they will form another army alone, led by Zhao Yurui's men.
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After entering February, Dongyang Bank suddenly stopped collecting money. It is said that Liu Cheng has already made a lot of money from white sugar. He enjoys the Japanese business exclusively. From Dinghai to Japan, the profit is doubled by changing hands. The key The time is short and the volume of goods transported is large. One ship is tens of thousands of catties, and it can run several times a year.

If it weren't for the insufficient sugar production of Four Seas Trading, it is said that Liu Cheng would have stopped borrowing money.

Then the bank notified the depositors that it is necessary to set a contract time now, which will be signed once a month, once every six months, once every year, and most often every two years. Interest.

And there is a gossip that the two-year signings are all officialdom bosses and ordinary businessmen, and they are all for half a year or a month. They obviously want to kick out ordinary businessmen and only flatter officials and dignitaries.

The news spread that rich people can't sit still, the interest is well earned, so why don't you do it if you say you don't?No, it can't be like this.

Some people say that if we don't have time to sign, everyone should not sign, because he will definitely have to pay the interest.

Dongyang Bank was in a hurry, and sent people everywhere to persuade customers to sign a new contract and get back the principal at that time.

The customers refused one after another, ignoring them, and Dongyang Bank had to continue to pay interest every month.

Dongyang Bank has no choice but to increase the interest on borrowing money, but after all, there are very few borrowers from Dongyang Bank.

Not long after, some people said that King Wei and shopkeeper Yan had a good relationship. Some honorable officials asked King Wei for help, and they could deposit it in Dongyang Bank to get interest, but they had to have a good relationship.

then.

On the fifth day of February, Nie Zishu, Mo Ze, Cheng Yi, Yu Zhu, Lin Jie and others approached Zhao Yurui and asked to deposit the money in Dongyang Bank.

Among Shi Miyuan's confidantes in Qingyuan Mansion, only Zheng Qingzhi did not come.

Everyone else came. Together, they pooled 12 coins and wanted to deposit them in Dongyang Bank for interest.

Zhao Yurui looked embarrassed, and said that he just saved a sum of money for Wei Liaoweng and the others, but you are all my own people, hey, let me try again.

All the officials were overjoyed and expressed their gratitude to King Wei.

Zhao Yurui said again: "Deposits are risky. I still want to remind you that if the Dongyang Bank goes bankrupt, it will be bad if you can't get the money back."

Several people's faces changed slightly.

But Zhao Yurui said again: "I originally saved 60 guan, this time I plan to get back 50, but I only keep [-] guan. Always be careful."

Everyone hurriedly said, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, and ask Wei Wang for help.

The king of Wei saved 50 for fear of being a fool, and we only have 12.

So after February, there were still people looking for connections one after another, wanting to deposit money in Dongyang Bank. Many merchants even sold their land to save money, which actually lowered the price of the land for a while. Zhao Yurui took the opportunity to buy a batch of good land.

By May, in just one year, Dongyang Bank had collected deposits, including gold and silver, whose value had reached 2000 million guan.

It can be said that [-]% to [-]% of the rich and officials in the six counties of Qingyuan Prefecture have deposited their money in Dongyang Bank.

In early May, Zhao and Rui came to Jeju Island again.

He came to Jeju Island for the first time in July last year, and then came once before the Chinese New Year in December, and had a meal with his friends on the island.

This is the third time I have come to the island. Every time I come here, the island has changed a lot.

The entire island adopts a militarized and factory-like management model, divided into various household registrations, and each household does its own thing.

The island's population has exceeded 11, and there are currently [-] households with more than [-] people.

After Zhao Yurui got on the island, he rode on his horse and led a group of people to the east of the island.

This side is far away from the densely populated area on the west side of the island, and there are many mountains.

His biggest secret crafting bureau, firearms bureau, etc. are all inside.

After disembarking from the West Port, it takes half an hour to ride a horse to get here. Along the road, you can see many construction households, who are building roads and checkpoints.

The road repair here is relatively simple. The main thing is to defend and prevent people from entering. Basically, there is a clear whistle at [-] steps, and a hidden whistle at [-] steps. You can see people leading dogs everywhere on the roadside.

Jeju Island raises a large number of dogs, not only for eating dog meat, but also for patrolling and guarding, which is quite useful.

Soon they came to the mouth of a valley with continuous mountains on both sides. The valley mouth was between the two mountains. See far.

Li Pingbao was standing on the city wall, saw Zhao Yurui from a distance, and immediately waved his hands excitedly: "Open the door, open the door, the king is here."

When Zhao Yurui rode in, Li Pingbao had already come down and took the rope.

After entering, you can see a long passage, like Weng City, because there are walls and obstacles built on it.

The passage is about ten steps long. After walking out of the passage, the eyes suddenly open up.

This is a good place surrounded by mountains. There is a freshwater river in the middle, running from east to west, and there are several ponds connected to it. There are even mountains and rivers on the mountain leading down to the river. The water resources are particularly rich. Qin Yue led people on the island It's been a long time since I uploaded it before choosing this place.

There are mountains in all directions, and there are only two entrances and exits.

One is to the west where Zhao Yurui came in, and the other is to the east.

Going out to the east is a jungle, which stretches all the way to the sea. In the future, a new port can be built on the seaside, and the weapons built here can go directly to the sea from the east.

Of course, there is no time to repair the new port on the east side for the time being, and all access to and from the west.

The area surrounded by mountains is about 1 mu in size and is divided into several areas.

As soon as Zhao and Rui came in, they saw that many new houses had been built on both sides. The houses were all made of stone and wood structures, which were relatively simple. They were isolated on overhead to prevent moisture, and they were [-] centimeters above the ground.

This side is full of cavalry trained by Li Pingxia.

One fort is set up for every one hundred households, a total of twenty forts, and there are several special toilets in each fort, and the excrement will be used to grow vegetables.

Among the one hundred households, each household sent out a strong soldier, a total of two thousand strong soldiers, who were trained by Li Pingxia and the others, and the monthly payment was three guan.

The middle-aged, elderly and young people with a large population in each household will be randomly selected to help build sewers, roads, fortifications, etc.

There are also some older teenagers and girls who will participate in odd jobs at the Firearms Bureau. Anyway, Zhao and Rui will pay wages for all the jobs involved. Although it is not much, it is very popular.

Like Li Pingbao, the corporal leader who was following him at this time was named Zhou Youde.

There are five people in his family, father, wife, son and daughter.

Dad is only 46 years old, and he is considered a prime man. He is the head of a fortress, and his monthly salary is consistent.

Responsible for organizing various work and activities of other non-soldiers in the fort.

The wife mainly cooks, does laundry and grows vegetables at home, and the family also raises some chickens, ducks and geese.

Among them, duck and goose feathers can be sold to craftsmen for making arrows.

My son is 12 years old. He learns characters and reads every morning, and helps with work in the afternoon. Calculated on a daily basis, he spends [-] Wen every half day.

Sometimes it is possible to build the sewers of this castle, and sometimes it is possible to follow the grandfather to help build a house and so on.

My daughter is ten years old. She works at home with her mother in the morning, and in the afternoon she goes to the Firearms Bureau to help burn charcoal or make gunpowder. It also costs [-] cents every half day.

Except for Zhou Youde's wife who has no wages, the whole family has wages for their sons and daughters. The whole family earns more than five pennies a month. The key is net income. Food and drink are provided by Zhao Yurui.

Zhao Yurui distributes the grain and meat for each castle. Big meat is distributed once every three days (fish is distributed once every five days, and a lot can be distributed at one time). In addition to the chickens and ducks raised by oneself, the food is quite good.

In these 1 castles, [-] households, a total of [-] strong, plus less than [-] family members, Zhao and Rui spent nearly [-] yuan a year to support them, all accumulated with money.

Zhao and Rui will all use this method. In the future, if they raise 100 elites plus their families, it will cost 20 million guan, and if they raise 1000 elites plus their families, it will cost [-] million guan.

That is to say, if he wants to raise 20 elite soldiers, he will spend at least 1000 million yuan a year. Thinking about it this way, raising soldiers is really expensive. Even for a court as rich as the Southern Song Dynasty, it is not easy to raise 20 elite soldiers.

Of course, all war horses, utensils, weapons, firearms, armor, etc. are not counted.

Calculated according to Zhao Yurui's standards, all 20 elite soldiers in armor and horses will earn at least 2000 million per year.

(End of this chapter)