open sea

Chapter 388
The storm is coming in Guam, but the massive attack of the Western Army cannot affect Hirado in the slightest.

The Japanese pirates from all walks of life in Wudao were intimidated by the officers and soldiers, which made Chen Bazhi controllable and surged his troops. Matsuura Takanobu was very smart. He still missed the days when Wang Zhi brought him help. This time he had the same enemy as the Ming army. Put down a low profile to seek Chen Bazhi's opinion and send troops to attack Longzao Temple.

In other words, the Ming army was useless to him, and what he really wanted was not land, and he had no intention of dominating Kyushu. The Matsuura clan, who was born in a wealthy family, only wanted to be safe in the three-acre land in Hirado.

It doesn't matter to him who killed Longzao Temple, as long as he was beaten to death.

Undoubtedly, Chen Bazhi can certainly satisfy his little wish, which is the main reason he came here.

However, for him, the most interesting thing is far from the coalition with the Matsuura 48 Party, discussing the matter of dispatching troops and fathou, he is not good at dealing with the Japanese, so he entrusts Li Dan with full authority.

Since the Chen Corps landed in Hirado and Matsuura Takanobu gave the five islands as a frontier position, the biggest change has been the expansion of the Daming Sea to the east. The Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea have always been the inner seas of the Ming Dynasty. Needless to say, the key lies in North Korea, Liaodong, and Zhili. Merchants swarmed to Wudao.

The Nanyang Yamen was never a purely military government office. Their interests covered almost the entire maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty came from Fujian and Guangxi provinces, but their interests were not limited to the two provinces.

The most striking example is Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei's official and merchant families. Their business is truly nationwide, with Shanxi and Ningxia in the north, and Fujian and Guangdong in the south. Although they never go to sea, they are the largest distributors of maritime goods.

In the past few years, Chen Mu has used his own actions to let people know what He Xingsheng means, and let the whole world know what the Nanyang Expedition means—it means that Gao Gong will collect business taxes!
Ever since Chen Mu went to Nanyang, precious wood originally only produced in the mountains in the southwest, gold, silver, copper and iron from all over the place, as well as pearls and gemstones, have poured into the middle school in large quantities, and the number is increasing every year, which has greatly impacted the middle school. Market property prices.

In order to protect some merchants, it was Zhang Juzheng who initially proposed to raise customs prices to protect middle-class merchants. Of course, it was not to protect the wealthy merchants, but to protect the small handicraftsmen of Daming and the laborers who earned money by selling their strength.

Zhang Ju was very careful when he raised the customs clearance, for fear of reducing the enthusiasm of maritime merchants.

It took several years of hard work for their cabinet ministers to barely pull up the fiscal deficit of about 100 million taels in the past years; the reason why they reused Chen Mu and gave him the right to dominate the sky overseas was only because of him. It can increase this number from 100 million taels to 200 million taels.

As a result, the customs tax overturned last year, and the revenue increased by 200 million taels, and the enthusiasm of maritime merchants has not diminished at all. What does this mean?
It means that you don't have to worry about governing the Yellow River, disaster relief in various places, and food and pay for soldiers, and you can also reduce or exempt taxes from the provincial government that is in arrears, so that you can rest with the people.

In the old words of Gao Ge: This broken customs is worth two small towns!
In fact, this is not only because of the maritime affairs, but also the affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Everything has to be found from the inside. In Qingming, everything is trouble-free.

Zhang Juzheng was very careful and ruthless in his actions, so the customs sweep he proposed was naturally followed fiercely.

As a result, when Mr. Gao was happy, he twitched his beard and clapped his little hands, thinking about collecting business taxes.

Because the money of maritime merchants is not money, the same is true for middle and middle merchants, right?400 draws one, and Zhang Juzheng forcibly draws [-] million taels of discounts, so how much can the local commercial tax draw together?

How scary is Mr. Gao thinking about this all day long in the room?

Businessmen from all over the world are not fools. Anyone can figure out the trend, but people still flock to it.

Chen Mu has made a lot of money in Nanyang, and the route to Manila alone is making a lot of money every day, but few merchants in the north can catch up with them. rushed over.

What Chen Bazhi really cared about was not the gathering of merchants, but a letter from Li Rumei.

According to the intention of the old man of the Li family, he wanted the two sons to become a thousand households under his subordinates. Of course, Li Chengliang wanted to send Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei because Li Rusong and Chen Mu had an unpleasant contact experience.

The veteran has the sharpest vision. Now that the border town is peaceful, the place where he can make the most military exploits is under Chen Mu's command. There are constant wars, and they are well received by the emperor's courtiers. That is the place where the generals are most likely to stand out.

But Chen Erye was fighting at sea, and there were Ma Gui and other northern generals by his side. Li Chengliang heard that they were all idle, so he didn't want to send the child there.

Now as soon as he heard that Chen Bazhi went to Hirado to build a port in Wudao, Li Chengliang immediately asked his son to write a letter to Hachiro—if Hachiro was not a junior, Li Chengliang would have wanted to write it himself.

In fact, Chen Bazhi could tell that this letter was read by Mr. Li beside him, and it was written by Li Rumei.

Qianhu's official positions are not big or small, but they are military officers in the end. In the whole world, without military merits, they cannot be promoted to military officer.Of course, sometimes people don't care how military merits come about, but military merits are hard conditions.

Only in Nanyang, civil and military officials below the governor only need to report, that is to say, Chen Mu has no bad intentions, otherwise relying on this to make money alone might be better than his management of Nanyang.

Nanyang ministers can make their own official uniforms, regardless of whether the court likes it or not. If they don’t like it, they can send a letter to dismiss them, but they have already served as officials.

After writing a letter to Manila, Chen Bazhi wrote back to Li Rumei after discussing with Li Dan here, asking them to come here first.

I thought Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei would only come with a few dozen people, but I didn’t expect that there were more than a thousand of them. There were [-] serious Liaodong cavalry, and it was Li Chengliang’s order to go to Wudao for Nanyang. Assisting in the battle is actually Er Li's personal soldiers.

The others were the Han'er in Liaodong, the Jurchen in Jianzhou Haixi, and the Mongolian soldiers in the hometown of Tainingwei. They were strange and strange, and belonged to their own subordinates because of the situation that Chen Bazhi couldn't understand. A lot of rations were transported.

Er Li rested in Wudao for more than ten days, and then several large ships came from the sea, and hundreds of Korean soldiers who were timid and timid came to their posts, and they were frightened by the rampant Japanese pirates on the island.

Regardless of good or bad, the two Li brothers clapped their hands to Chen Bazhi and said, "Commander Chen, the soldiers are all ready!"

Chen Bazhi was fooled by this operation, is this coming from two thousand households?

I found all the soldiers, prepared all the weapons and horses, and even sent the soldiers, food and ships.

Now, there are seven thousand households in Luzon Beiwei.

Chen Bazhi was noncommittal. In his opinion, these two thousand households of Northern soldiers were very similar to the Western feudal army mentioned by his adoptive father. One hundred noble knights each brought two or three retinues and six or seven peasant soldiers, but he took them all. Regardless of the combat power, it looks similar to the composition of the Japanese samurai's combat power.

Being a teacher is enough.

"Send a message, let Matsuura Takanobu board the ship, and divide the troops to attack another Takanobu!"

(End of this chapter)