Niuzhuang, not a village, is a county seat, it is mainly thanks to the endless salt pans on the coastal bay and developed, Niuzhuang's sea salt in the Ming Dynasty, in the northeast has accounted for an absolute share, but also became the Ming Dynasty at that time, Liaodong Governor Yamen one of the most important financial revenues, at that time, Niuzhuang's sea salt has not made the Ming court feel important, and after the establishment of the Houjin, this place has become the money bag of the Houjin, not only that, after the Ming Dynasty imposed economic sanctions and embargo on the Houjin, It has become an important means for Houjin to control the entire northern Mongolian tribe, money can be without, but salt cannot be without, people who don't eat salt for many days will definitely not survive.
For this reason, when Nurhachi was in Nurhachi, a salt administration agency was set up in Niuzhuang to supervise the production and sale of salt, but at that time, the savages had just come out of the mountain, and they were most interested in looting, especially when they faced a fat and powerless Ming Dynasty, and there was no pressure on the finances at all, because as long as the finance was lacking, they immediately used thousands, at most tens of thousands of people and horses, to cut the wool on the fat sheep of the Ming Dynasty, that is, especially later, there were more and more objects of wool cutting, such as Mongolia, Take North Korea, for example.
But everything was changing, and when the new emperor Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he confidently launched a war of plundering against the Central Plains, only to be defeated, and everything changed from then on.
Originally, waging war was to make a fortune and a money-making business, after that war, the princes and nobles of Houjin felt that the war was no longer to make money, but to lose money, and then they found that the salt field of Niuzhuang was the basis for continuing to support them in the war, so the new emperor Huang Taiji regarded this salt field as his main taboo, Therefore, the jurisdiction of this salt field was abolished, and the salt administration department was upgraded to a county, and within this year or two, a part of the profits from the original salt was withdrawn and began to be allocated to the local government, so that the local government could build a city wall and improve the defense equipment.
Wu Quan was the first person to be promoted to the county order by Huang Taiji.
Wu Quan is also a very sad person, he was also an official of the Ming Dynasty, born in the south, or the Jinshi of the Apocalypse, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the officials who were delegated to the local area must be in different places, as a result, this Wu Quan was arranged to the Daling River in western Liaoning, and made a county order, but the fate made people, I wanted to contribute to the Ming Dynasty, but I didn't want to, the Jin soldiers were strong, and directly broke through the Daling River, and Wu Quan was captured.
Wu Quan is a smart man, grasped the essence of Huang Taiji's single-minded sinicization, and immediately surrendered to the fullest allegiance, and at this time, what Huang Taiji needed most was the Wen Chen of the Han people, to help him rule his own world, for him, the level of a county order is quite high, so he gladly accepted, and sent him to Niuzhuang, and made a county order, which can also be said to be a kind of reuse.
Niuzhuang is a good place because it produces salt, and this salt is of good quality, high yield, and low cost, of course, this cost is also on the work of those salt lads who are regarded as pigs and dogs.
Untouchables, this is the case in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that in this post-Jin land, they are just slaves among slaves.
In the case of the Ming Dynasty's comprehensive economic blockade of the Qing Dynasty, with salt comparable to gold in hand, Wu Quan's life was outrageous, as long as enough salt was handed in, the rest could be quietly sold to the wealthy families in the cattle village who had been trafficking illicit salt for generations, and the income would be quite rich.
Of course, he had to take out most of his income and hand it over to the Niuzhuang garrison General Ida, who was an authentic Manchu and his own master.
"Everything is good here, just this cheap and noble can't be compared with Daming."
Wu Quan stood up, sorted out his official uniform, and prepared to go to the city guard yamen to order something.
"If you are in Daming, you are a dignified seven-grade civil official, at this time you should be on top of your own hall, waiting for the pickled garrison general to come to visit, you are in a good mood, say a few words to him, if you are in a bad mood, scold him at that time, it is all his cheapness, but here it is just the opposite, he is a dignified civil official and county order, and he has to run to him early in the morning, and if he goes late, he will be whipped, what kind of world is this" I complained in my heart, but I didn't dare to stop and walked out of the lobby, but as soon as I came out of the warm room, I was shivered by the wind outside, although it was already spring, the south wind finally came, and it blew all night, but the weather was still the same as winter, the thief was cold and the thief was cold, where was as warm as spring like his southern home "The south wind is finally here."
Wu Quan muttered like this.
The reason why Wu Quan looked forward to the south wind was not out of nostalgia for the south of his homeland, it was related to interests.
When the south wind comes and the sea opens, your salt pan can continue to dry salt, and your pockets can bulge again.
My own expenses are big, these five-room concubines, dozens of slaves, and I have to feed three masters, and I have to fight those Jurchen soldiers up and down, all of which cost money.
There are also those wealthy businessmen in the city, who send people to inquire about the news every day, these people are all worth millions of dollars and rival the country, but they definitely can't be offended.
And one more important thing, which is now crammed into the hungry people in the city.
Lu Hanqiang carried out a famine plan, the result was surprisingly tragic, the first to suffer were those Han slaves, they themselves were farming for Allah, not even tenants, the master's family suffered a disaster, and they suffered heavy losses, who cares about them So these Han slaves were completely abandoned, and they had no permanent property and could only leave their homes to find a glimmer of life in larger cities, and in the autumn of last year, there began to be a large number of hungry people without food and clothing around the city, filling the city with a full, It puts a lot of pressure on the city, and even more so in the winter, and there are already more than 100,000 refugees stranded in this small cow farm.
At the beginning, Wu Quan was still pitiful to these refugees, and went to the big families to raise some food and open a few porridge farms, but as a result, there were more and more refugees, and most of those rich households were also helpless, Wu Quan's heart was cold and numb, and finally this porridge field was closed, and those refugees were left to fend for themselves.
It was freezing cold, and those homeless people were lying on the street, without food or drink, crying every day and night, which was very terrible and annoying.
This is still secondary, the most important thing is to hire people to clean up the dead every morning, which costs money, and as a result, this winter is not able to get out, how can this be done.
Come on the south wind, when the south wind comes, the sea will be opened, and you will be able to make money, and you will be able to drive the hungry people who are stranded in the city out of the city, anyway, when the south wind comes, everything will be better. t1706231537: