Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 55 God's help?

Naturally, Tangning didn't want to see things continue like this, so he took this opportunity to implement a series of development measures immediately.

First of all, the first thing Tangning did was to select [-] recruits from the registered young and strong, and immediately started training.

In the early training, they were not considered regular troops, so they only needed to be given food and a small amount of money.

But outside of training, many things can be arranged for them to do.

The rest, over the age of 30 and under the age of 50, are also a considerable group of laborers. These people with hands and feet cannot let them receive charity every day with peace of mind, and must work hard.

It just so happened that the city wall needed to be repaired, and the number of people in the city continued to increase, making it a little overwhelmed, so Tang Ning planned to expand the city based on the existing city.

The current Huanggang City is regarded as the inner city, and the expanded part is regarded as the outer city.

Secondly, Tang Ning encouraged trade and promoted the status of merchants. For this reason, he also established several factories, mainly engaged in salt industry and textiles.

The salt industry is the military supplies he took out from the arsenal. Because they are all packed in bags, they need to be processed and turned into smaller packages to facilitate entry into thousands of households.

As for whether selling smuggled salt violated the Ming Dynasty's laws, who still has the ability to control Tang Ning?

As for textiles, raw silk, cotton and linen are mainly purchased for further processing.

Of course, within these two main businesses, there are also sales of cigarettes, matches and lighters.

Due to Tangning's control, the amount of these items was very small, but they were very profitable. During this period of time, a lot of expenses were covered by this.

However, in this turbulent age, it is not easy to do business safely.

In order to protect the life and property of businessmen, he established the first bodyguard agency in history: Shunfeng Bodyguard Agency.

According to the size of the caravan, he organized the new army soldiers into groups of five to ten to escort the caravan to Chaozhou and Zhangzhou.

Because Zhangzhou is the origin of Jiang Shiying's rebel army, the two sides reached an agreement, with the new army as the umbrella, as long as they don't do anything out of line, I believe Jiang Shiying's army will not make things difficult.

As for Chaozhou, whether it is the Mercer British Army or the official army, they are not willing to provoke the new army for the time being, so it will be safer here.

As long as the two forces are not in trouble, ordinary bandits, robbers and the like should not be opponents of the new army equipped with submachine guns or machine guns.

Shunfeng Escort's charges are reasonable, and Tangning's reputation is very good, so merchants who have ideas to expand their business to other places in the two prefectures are still willing to give it a try.

In addition to the above points, Tangning also vigorously promoted production.

Due to the chaos caused by the war, there is a large amount of abandoned land around Huanggang City that no one cultivates. Now it is the turn of spring and summer, which is suitable for cultivation.

Therefore, Tang Ning first allocated the land to each household according to population and labor, and provided seeds and farm tools.

The problem of the cattle is a bit troublesome, but we are working hard to solve it. For the time being, the number of cattle is not enough, so we can only use manpower to fill them.

In order to let people farm with peace of mind, he preliminarily promulgated a three-year tax law, and the tax was not high.

As long as there is no major disaster and no crops are harvested, it is not a big problem to feed the family according to the allocated land, and there will be surplus food.

In the event of a disaster, if you are unable to support yourself, you can be exempted from tax.

The reason why it is a three-year taxation law is because the law stipulates that within these three years, taxes will only be collected according to the proportion stipulated in the tax law, and taxes will never be increased in any name, let alone taxes that will be collected after three years in advance. .

The core content of this tax law seems to be few, but it is what the people care about most. The demise of Ming Dynasty has an inseparable relationship with random tax collection.

Since Chongzhen came to power, the government has been corrupt, coupled with natural disasters and man-made disasters, there have been many wars.

In order to quell internal strife and foreign aggression, Chongzhen had to use troops again and again, but using troops required a lot of money.

Years of wars had already exhausted Ming's treasury. Faced with the country's difficulties, those gentry and wealthy families ignored them, and only cared about annexing land and filling their pockets, continuing to empty out the weak Ming.

As a result, Chongzhen had to increase taxes on ordinary people again and again, and even collected taxes decades later, but it was still a drop in the bucket.

The smell of wine and meat from rich families and the freezing of bones on the roads are happening every day in the huge Ming Dynasty, forcing people to have nowhere to go, and those who rebel are responding everywhere.

The more chaotic, the more forceful suppression is needed, and the more suppressed, the more chaotic, forming an endless loop, constantly consuming the last bit of life of Daming.

Therefore, the demise of Ming Dynasty was almost inevitable. Without Li Zicheng, there would be Zhang Zicheng and Zhou Zicheng.

In the current Huanggang City, the tax law promulgated by Tangning is to grasp the point that the people care about the most and stabilize people's hearts.

Only when the hearts of the people are stable can the people be stable and they can talk about development and production.

As for the corvee, Tangning directly put an end to it. Even if people were recruited for special reasons, it would not be free, but paid.

The promulgation of a series of measures gradually stabilized the somewhat chaotic Huanggang City, preventing uncontrollable turmoil.

This small town sandwiched between Zhangzhou Prefecture and Chaozhou Prefecture has become a haven of peace in the hearts of the people suffering from the war for a while, and everyone cherishes it very much.

But the people in other states and counties in Chaozhou Prefecture are suffering even more.

Because the Chuang army invaded the capital and successfully overthrew the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Shiying's army, who was also a peasant army, seemed to be injected with a booster.

It seems that an era belonging to the peasant army is waving wildly to them, morale is soaring, and the offensive is getting more and more fierce.

On the other hand, the officials and the army in the Chaozhou government are in panic, they don't know what to do, and the situation has become precarious.

Taking advantage of the favorable situation, Jiang Shiying once again sent someone to Huanggang City to invite Tangning to join him.

This time, he was more sincere than last time, and he reserved the position of lieutenant general for Tangning.

However, Tangning was still not tempted and refused without hesitation.

Although Jiang Shiying was annoyed, but thinking of Tangning's unfathomable abilities and the powerful fighting power of the new army, she had to endure it.

When Jiang Shiying and other leaders were proud and the Chaozhou government was panicking, another nursery rhyme quickly spread around Huanggang City:
The army broke into Beijing and lost the hearts of the people, and the people mourned and hoped for the dawn; Wu Sangui, outside Shanhaiguan, switched to build the captive Dorgon.

The two sides fought like a stone, and the Chuang army was defeated and left the capital; it is sad and sad that Li Zicheng, ups and downs for forty days.

Jianlu entered Guantuyuan, and was established in Yingtian at the beginning of the Southern Ming Dynasty; in April and May of the regime change, the four towns supported Zhu Yousong.

Needless to say, this nursery rhyme was naturally written by Tangning again. With the huge response of the previous nursery rhyme, when this nursery rhyme appeared, everyone in Huanggang City believed it.

Liu Gong and Yang Qiu, who knew this nursery rhyme, had mixed feelings in their hearts and didn't know what to do. The changes in the situation contained in a few short nursery rhymes were dazzling and shocking.

With the huge response of the previous nursery rhyme, they no longer dared to underestimate this nursery rhyme, and instinctively believed a lot in their hearts.

He thought that the hundreds of thousands of Chuangjun troops would take the capital lightly, and the world would belong to Dashun, but he didn't expect that Tangning would be so pessimistic about Li Zicheng.

Judging from the information specified in the nursery rhyme, Li Zicheng would be defeated after occupying the capital for [-] days. The specific reason for his defeat was that Wu Sangui joined forces with Dorgon to defeat him, so he had to escape from the capital.

Today is April [-]th, and Chuang Jun has been in the capital for nearly a month, so it will be ten days before we will see the outcome?

As for what Chuangjun did in the capital, which caused complaints, I have heard of it before, but this sentence is not a prophecy.

But the next few sentences are all convincing prophecies.

Especially the last two sentences of the nursery rhyme also indicate the major events that will happen in April and May.

After the Jianlu army outside the customs unites with Wu Sangui to defeat the Chuang army, they will successfully enter the customs and plot the Central Plains. This is naturally aimed at the Ming Dynasty.

Fu Wang Zhu Yousong will be supported by the four towns and become the new emperor in Yingtian Mansion, but there is only half of the country, and there is nothing wrong with being called Nanming.

If such a complicated situation was fully anticipated by Tangning, wouldn't it mean that this person was truly blessed?
(End of this chapter)