Chapter 481 The invincible armada of the whole family army, Quan Xu, was busy for most of the day, mainly to fool Zhu Yujian, the prince of the Tang Dynasty.Chengzu raised troops with the vassal king, and then won the world, and later there was a rebellion of King Ning, so the imperial court had a very strong control over the vassal king, and it was clearly stipulated that the vassal king was not allowed to take charge of the army.Even in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yujian recruited 1,000 people on his own and went north to prepare for King Qin, but was ordered to go back by Chongzhen, and then in November of the same year, he was demoted to a concubine.In this case, it is impossible for Quan Xu to help Zhu Yujian train the army, and at the same time, he does not want to arouse the disgust of Emperor Chongzhen, with a large number of immigrants to Liaodong, plus the whole family army has entered the expansion army, adding six brigades at one time, and now each brigade of the whole family army is no longer 3,000 people, but tens of thousands of people.In this way, the pressure on Quan Xu is even greater, and he doesn't want to return the 40,000 acres of land sent by Zhu Yujian, the only way is to give Tang Wang Shizi some other compensation."
Build a factory?"
Zhu Yujian looked at Quan Xu with some puzzlement: "What do you do to build a factory?"
”"There are so many benefits of the factory!"
Quan Xu said with a smile: "First of all, you can make money, secondly, you can live countless people, now there are many people in the Central Plains, and the people are struggling in the line of life and death, if you build a few large factories, you can feed tens of thousands of people, and there is a family behind a homeless, that is, there are countless people!"
”Zhu Yujian muttered: "However, I can't build a factory, how do I do it?"
”Chongzhen has been in the past five years, and the world is still not peaceful.Although Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng fought a big victory, Jiannu disappeared for a while.This year, Henan people have a more difficult time than in previous years, the rainfall is getting less and less, all kinds of pests are getting more and more fierce, of course, the most important thing is that the tax is heavier again, the heavy tax is like a mountain, heavy pressure on the people, so that they can't stand upright.The bandits have been suppressed for so many years, and millions of military salaries have been consumed, but they have never been able to exterminate the bandits, on the contrary, the bandits have also spread from the northwest to North China, which is undoubtedly a very bad sign.Although Quanjiazhuang Town can absorb some of the displaced people, the problem is that Quanjiazhuang Town is only a small town and cannot absorb all the displaced people.And in the same way, Quan Xu needs to build an empire in the industrial age, he can't do it alone, the prince of Tang has money and a certain amount of energy, if he wants, he can take a good lead and play a very good role in leading many gentry.As long as it develops, the people of the Central Plains can die a lot less, and the people's requirements are not high, as long as there is a bite to eat, they will not starve to death, and they will not follow Li Zicheng and others to rebel?
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued one after another, it was a terrible world, even if you wanted to be a bitter peasant, it was all extravagant, and the ghost knew what wave of homeless people came to kill, robbed you of the only bit of food, took away your livestock, and then dragged you to the next target, in the beautiful name, welcome to join the rebel army!
.And then what?
No then.Ordinary peasants would be used as cannon fodder, rushing to the city walls with the most rudimentary weapons, filling the trenches with their own corpses, and consuming the arrows of the defenders with their own lives.You don't have your share of the loot or anything, after eating this full meal, continue to march towards the next town, until that town is defeated, you can eat the second full meal, if you can't beat it, then starving, or how to call it a hungry soldier?"
This is simple, you may have also heard, I have established several blast furnaces in the Daimyo's Mansion, one furnace can produce 40,000 or 50,000 catties of steel, do you know how much 40,000 catties of steel can be sold?"
Quan Xu looked at Zhu Yujian and said: "At least four or five thousand taels of silver, if you farm, how much land do you need to earn four or five thousand taels of silver?"
”Tang Wangfu has almost 100,000 acres of land, most of which are fertile land, in fact, this 100,000 acres of land is only equivalent to one percent of the tens of millions of acres in Nanyang Mansion.It was far less than the fields occupied by the gentry, but the population of Nanyang Province was larger than that of the Daimyo, and it was more than half of it.Nanyang Province has a population of 1.4 million, and the per capita arable land is only more than eight acres."
Making money is making money, but not growing food, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?""
What is the present and what is the end?"
When Quan Xu heard this, he said unceremoniously: "Does the prince know that I only have 150,000 acres of land in Quanjiazhuang Town, Daimyo's Mansion, how many people have been fed?"
”"More than 10,000 people?""
More than that!"
Quan Xu smiled: "More than 70,000 people, it should be more now!"
”"How is this possible, a bite of two acres of land, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat enough!""
Those gentry planted food, they must not be able to eat it, Nanyang Mansion and Jingxiang live next to each other, Jingxiang has abundant rain, and the grain output is extremely high, they can't eat it at all, they can buy food from Jingxiang!""
It's okay to say that, it's just that the grain is transported from Jingxiang, and the loss on the way is serious, so I'm afraid that I won't taste the loss!""
So if you want to build roads, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and if you want to marry a wife, you must raise pigs first."
Quan Xu said with a smile: "Build a cement road that can pass through four four-wheeled carriages in parallel, running through all counties in Nanyang, so that the transportation problem will be solved!"
”"Build a concrete road?"
Zhu Yujian said with a surprised face: "How much does it cost?"
”"It doesn't cost much!"
Quan Xu smiled disapprovingly: "Anything that can be done with cement, sand and stones is nothing!"
I came out of the cement, as for the sand and gravel and labor, you can recruit it, there are a lot of ordinary people in Henan who can't eat, even if you don't have to pay the workers, give them a bite to eat, you don't have to worry about manpower.Building a road is very simple, it is nothing more than leveling the roadbed, and then pouring the cement slurry on it and flattening it, there is nothing difficult.This cement road will not be broken for one or two hundred years after it is repaired, and if you calculate carefully, is it much cheaper than a dirt road?
”Nanyang Mansion is also a treasure land of feng shui, and it is also a large resource house, which has rich steel resources, especially Ye County, which is located in Yuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, of course, Wuyang County has not yet been established, and there is only one inspection department in the territory, which is the very famous Wugang in later generations.There is also Nanyang Dushan jade, one of the four famous jade in China, coal, steel, limestone, and all the hardware conditions for building cement roads can be met.Zhu Yujian was soon attracted by the grand blueprint outlined by Quan Xu, the establishment of a factory can feed the homeless people, countless living people, and thousands of families will give birth to Buddhas.With money, you can buy food, and with population, you have the capital to train the army.What's more, he opened a steel mill, which could make blades, armor......
In an instant, Zhu Yujian understood General Quan Xuquan's good intentions.The conscience of heaven and earth, Quan Xu really didn't think about bewitching Zhu Yujian to rebel.However, Zhu Yujian believes that Quan Xu will first solve the problem of money and food for him, then solve the population problem, and finally the real problem of military training.Quan Xu didn't know that Zhu Yujian still had such thoughts in his head, of course, he wouldn't care if he knew it.Under Quanxu's planning, the two sides finalized the intention of cooperation.Zhu Yujian invested 74,000 taels of silver to cooperate with Quanxu to establish a steel mill, and Quanxu invested 50,000 taels of silver, of which technology was used as the share capital, accounting for 60 percent of the shares, and Zhu Yujian accounted for 40 percent of the capital.The two sides jointly established Nanyang Development Co., Ltd., and planned to set up four 50,000-jin blast furnaces and an annual output of 5 million stone cement plants in the future."
Happy working together!"
Quan Xu said with a smile: "This matter, the detailed matter, I will be in charge of the management of He Qiushan in my house!"
”Although Chongzhen did not say it explicitly, Quan Xu also knew that Chongzhen streamlined more than 1,400 people in one go in order to reduce the expenses in the palace, and these people would consume more than 100,000 taels of silver in the palace.He threw these to Quan Xu, and Quan Xu naturally wanted to give them a home.Now it is just right that he can draw a certain amount of manpower from the family villa, and under the leadership of He Qiushan, go south to Nanyang Mansion and cooperate with Tang Wangfu to carry out the plan of laying out the Central Plains.In fact, the most ideal development direction of Quanxu is not Liaodong, but the Hanjiang Plain, Liaodong because of the Xiaoice River period, this year has found that crops have been frozen to death, I am afraid that this cold winter will become more and more serious in the future.People can use fire kang and fire walls to fight against the severe cold of winter, but crops cannot, some people will say, that can build greenhouses to grow food.This is pure nonsense, then there is no consideration of the cost, once the establishment of the greenhouse, then it needs to be refined, that is to say, a person is responsible for more than a dozen acres of land on the sky.If the chemical fertilizer can't keep up, the output of more than a dozen acres of greenhouse is also limited, not to mention the cost.Ordinary people can't afford it, although Quan Xu has money, it is not a problem for him to focus on overcoming a difficult hurdle with his money, let him build a greenhouse to feed three or four hundred people, he might as well focus on the Indochina Peninsula.If you can grow food in the direction of Liaodong, you can plant it, if you can't plant it, then open a factory, and then let the whole family army rob it, this era is not like later generations, you can't do anything out of the ordinary, he can rob the Indochina Peninsula, rob Luzon, anyway, those monkeys in the South Seas, in the face of the whole family army, there is no resistance at all.Nowadays, the strength of the whole family's navy and transport fleet has expanded rapidly, and the combat effectiveness has been formally formed in the eight Sea Shark-class warships, and eight more Sea Shark II of the Wanshi class will be completed soon.Even if he doesn't have to buy the warships of later generations, Quan Xu has the ability to build a huge invincible armada.Quanxu's plan was to drive the Spaniards, Dutch, Portuguese, and British out of the South China Sea step by step, and turn the South China Sea into an inland sea for the whole army."
The colt is back!""
I'm back, I'm tired!"
Quan Xu was lying on the bed with his eyes closed: "I'm tired to death!"
”Half an hour later, Zhu Weiyuan and Quan Xu were so tired that they collapsed on the bed, and they didn't even have the strength to move a finger.Quan Xu gasped exaggeratedly: "I'm tired, I'm tired!"
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