Xia Xun outlined this grand blueprint, listen to Chu Bingbei and Ding Dusi and so on, they have settled in Liaodong for many years, in the local have their own family, although you are a four-grade general, but because of the backward economic environment of Liaodong as a whole, the family is not very rich, once as Xia Xun said, spread out an economic network through Liaodong and the inland, with their family in the local whether it is connections or capital are stronger than ordinary people's conditions, naturally win a place from it, and make great profits.
The young imperial envoy was a little hesitant and reminded: "Ministry, it is certainly a good thing to develop the economy of Liaodong.
However, such as military horses, they are important materials, and the imperial court has built several horse markets in the Liaodong region, which are specialized in buying and selling military horses.
Before he finished speaking, Xia Xun smiled and said: "Young Imperial Envoy, you, you only know one thing, don't you know the other, don't you know that the imperial court and horse politics have already been reformed?"
Xia Xun said: "I am a big Ming horse government, and I am strong, and there is no place to raise horses in the Guy Pass, so I am training cavalry and raising military horses, and the burden is heavy."
When the emperor ascended the throne today, there were less than 24,000 registered military horses in the country.
In order to promote the people to raise horses, the emperor also abolished the ban on the people who were not allowed to raise horses during the Hongwu period, not only allowed free breeding, but also allowed free trading, which was the will of the first year of Yongle in July, why don't you know?"
What Xia Xun said is true, after Yongle ascended the throne, he found that in this stall left by Emperor Jianwen, there were few military horses, he fought with the Mongols in the north for many years, and knew that once the supply of military horses was a lot, it would be in a state of passive defense in the war with the northern nomads, so he thought of many ways to increase the number of war horses, and allowed the people to raise horses and trade freely, which is one of the policies.
Zhu Di also knows the truth that "people are most efficient when they work for their own benefit".
The young envoy really didn't know much about this, and couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, Xia Xun said: "So, if we have a way to expand the purchase of military horses, and the emperor knows about it, I'm afraid he will have to laugh from ear to ear, will he disagree?"
After speaking, he looked at Magurhun and smiled, "What, can you agree?"
"Agreed, completely agreed," Magulhun said immediately, as if he was afraid that Xia Xun would change his mind again.
Joking that this is a good thing that has a hundred benefits and no harm to him, and if you don't agree to make a show again, let the other big clans of Kaiyuan know the news, and don't break their heads and run to the governor's mansion to fight for this deal Standing aside, his dark eyes rolled, and he said suspiciously: "It seems that this governor is not knocking on my uncle's bamboo pole, look at my uncle's eyebrows and smile."
Xia Xun's idea is indeed a good way to make a fortune for Magulhun.
In fact, no one has thought of this method before, the problem is that no one can do it, which requires huge funds and connections, and strong policy support, and it is impossible to complete the entire operation process by changing one person to preside over it.
This is like some places, originally poor and backward, after the successful investment promotion, the local economic environment has been greatly improved, why there is no investment promotion before the economic activity is not that no one thinks of how to get rich, but because they either have no policy, or have a policy without start-up capital, or have the capital and do not have the ability to get through all aspects of the relationship, and these are not a problem for Xia Xun.
With his status and status, there is no need to invest in advance, and a promise is enough to gain the trust of the tribal leaders of the Liaodong tribes; With his power, it is enough to coordinate the distribution of interests among the generals of the guards involved in the region; With the smuggling vessels under his direct control, coupled with the maritime forces that are booming in Dengzhou Bay in Shandong Province under his indirect control, it is enough to complete the most critical step of the whole problem, the most crucial step in turning materials into goods: transporting things out Xia Xun's words dispelled everyone's concerns, and at the banquet, between talking and laughing, they agreed on this cooperative management plan, just like in 1978, eighteen peasants in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province pressed their bloody handprints, and took the lead in implementing the practice of contracting production to households and taking responsibility for their own profits and losses, thus opening the prelude to the reform of China's rural economic system.
Drive them into the pen, it's a big tribe, and some even have pigs and chickens.
The pigs and chickens were tended by old men or captured slaves, both male and female, and the men were mainly half-grown children.
The young slaves worked during the day and were sometimes dragged into the tent by their masters at night to vent their silver desires.
There are a lot of felt bags, a large tribe of more than 20,000 people, and those felt tents are like a mushroom after the rain, rolling and undulating, connected for several miles.
Such large tribes are very rare, because their main means of survival is grazing, and when the tribe multiplies, they have to separate their families and live together, and the nearby pastures cannot feed so many cattle and sheep.
However, because of its proximity to Liaodong, this tribe has apparently adopted a lot of Han Chinese lifestyles, not only raising pigs and chickens, but even opening up some vegetable fields and farmland near the tribe, which should be taught to them by captured Han slaves.
It's just that their planting mode is more extensive, I don't know if it's because of environmental reasons or farming is not their main production method, so they haven't received enough attention, but because they raise a large number of cattle and sheep, and the cow and sheep manure are good fertilizers, so the crops and vegetables grow very well.
Some families have already cooked, and the men who have been busy all day come home and sit comfortably on the ground, drinking the mellow mare's milk wine while mouthing the tender hand-grilled mutton, which is also very comfortable, at this time, it is the most relaxed and relaxed time for the people of a tribe.
"Boom Boom" In the distance, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and at first the sudden sound of horses' hooves was muffled by the footsteps and shouts of the horses, cows, and sheep who had just returned from the tribe and were about to be locked in the pen, but the hooves were getting closer and closer, and the ground began to tremble, and some people began to notice that something was wrong.
"What's going on, it looks like a large herd of horses is approaching" A man in a fat Mongolian leather robe with a right side, a slanted placket, a high neckline, long sleeves, trimmed, and a hem without slits at the hem, and riding boots on his feet frowned, and he pushed away a woman who was waiting for him to eat, grabbed his waist knife, and walked out of the tent.
The woman who was waiting for him to eat was wearing a Mongolian robe with a collar and sleeveless sleeve, no front and long shoulders at the back, and her hair was also braided in Mongolian style, but her face was very beautiful.
This is a Han woman, the daughter of a criminal official who was exiled by the whole family to Liaodong for corruption, because she was born very pretty, and was very favored by him after he returned from captivity, so she did not have to engage in too heavy labor, and only did some easier work such as milking mare's milk and cooking food with the housewife.
The man stood still at the door of the felt tent, put his hand on the canopy and looked into the distance, and saw the situation in front of him clearly at a glance, and couldn't help but open his mouth in astonishment, and a large piece of iron cavalry rushed in like a wave, and suddenly appeared in front of him, these people were dressed in uniform clothes, banners were like clouds, and red war jackets fell with the galloping horses, like a blazing rock flow gushing out of a volcano, they were actually Mingren "What's the matter, the tribal police posts on the periphery, how come there is no news to send back?"
He didn't have time to figure it out, and when the iron rode to the front of the tribe, it was like encountering a flood of boulders, and immediately split into two tributaries, and continued to spread forward, outflanking the thousands of felt tents of the entire tribe.
The men who heard the alarm and ran out of the tent hurriedly draped up, grabbed their swords, guns, bows and arrows, and stepped up to the horses that were too late to be saddled, but they were blocked by the herd of cattle, and they could not rush out at all, let alone gather together to form a joint force.
"Woo woo" The horn sounded, and I don't know if it was their people who blew the horn, or the Ming army blew the horn, the Ming army in the gallop has begun to shoot arrows, galloping horses and archery, only the best people in riding can ensure the accuracy, but at this time they don't need to care about the accuracy, the arrow rain is pouring generally, and the warrior team of about hundreds of people who have just barely formed a joint force in several places has also been scattered, followed by bows and arrows, heavy and sharp throwing spears are thrown over, once the Ming army that forms a circle stabilizes the momentum of the charge, the accuracy of the weapon is greatly increased, Those sharp spears can penetrate heavy armor and string knights and horses together, and the lethality is extremely amazing.
The tribal warriors who were in a hurry to meet the enemy immediately returned the color with bows and arrows, but then there was a thunderclap-like explosion in the Ming army, the choking smell of gunpowder wafted away, the projectile iron sand splashed everywhere, and a large felt tent was bombarded into tatters by a cannon in the roar of the bowl.
The fire bolt hit the person, easily penetrated the leather armor, the bowl mouth gun replaced the scattered projectile a dozen large pieces, regardless of people and animals, next to each other is a blood hole, dense as a beehive, the violent explosion sound is even more shocking the herd of cattle and sheep scurrying around, so that the mount under the crotch of the Tatar warrior is like a small boat in the wind and waves, staggering and difficult to stand.
There was only a simple fence on the periphery of the tribe, which was easily kicked in this chaos, and the iron cavalry of the Ming army began to attack the interior of the tribe, the war horses spread their hooves and galloped, the spears in their hands flashed in the cold light in the blood-red sunset, and the neighing of cows and horses, the cries of women and children, and the shouts of warriors were intertwined, forming a strange movement full of passion and death To be continued: