Beiyang new warlord

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At this time, To'er was even more effective. One end was holding the silver, and someone was already shouting indignantly at the other end.

"I'll follow the dragon head all the way, bah! Zheng Zhilong, that ignorant and inhuman man, came to fight in the Japanese country. Not only did he have no money to pay, but this bastard also abandoned us like weed shoes, throwing us like trash. I am here to fend for myself, why should I go back to Fujian to see his face as a bastard, and work for him!"

"That's right, brothers, Mao Longtou is the real British lord, the leader who is loyal and loyal! We offended him, but he not only let us go, but also gave us travel expenses and such kindness! How can we not report it? I Zheng Batou's life is sold to General Mao!"

Half of these words were lines, and usually they came from the heart. No one wanted to be abandoned! Infected by this indignant cry, thousands of Zheng family pirates really knelt together, kowtowed and begged Song Xiance to take him in.

In addition to those single and poor men who have enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry, there are also some small boat owners and cargo owners who still have property in Fujian. The industry moved to the north and took refuge under Mao Longtou's command!

Mao Jue, who was hiding behind him, was delighted to hear these yells!

If Zheng Zhilong and others released by Mao Jue represent the superstructure on the sea in Fujian, these people are the bottom of the food chain for living on the sea. Regardless of their humbleness, they are as humble as mud, but they represent the widest range. Not to mention the old sailors in the sea, these small ship owners and cargo owners, if replaced by a concept of later generations, they are grassroots dealers.

Dongjiang really does not lack business oligarchs like Zheng Zhilong and Shi Daxuan. What is lacking are small boat owners like these, first-level dealers who can open up channels in various cities and counties. Jiangnan's industrial and commercial development is also supported by such people.

But the mouth was almost unhappily closed, and the scene had to be done enough. With his hands raised high, Mao Jue finally made his debut, and he repeatedly pressed his hands down in a vain manner.

"Everyone is a Ming man! The rough man we fought with Jiannu outside the customs can understand the suffering of a Ming man best. Don't be afraid of me. I, Mao Jue, promise to let you go if I say let you go!"

"If you want to enter my Dongjiang, you have to abide by my Dongjiang's rules! Everyone, you can think about it, and you will not make things difficult for you if you want to leave!"

After a while, Mao Jue must give these nurses more money, it's really a job!He was still persuading him in a foolish way, but the nurses on the other end had already taken the lead, kneeling on the ground suddenly, kowtowing their heads overwhelmingly.

"Thank you, Mr. Mao, for taking me in!"

"The high official will be the little master from now on, and the little one kowtows to you!"

I couldn't help but burst out laughing, these tens of thousands of South China Sea pirates fell into Mao Jue's trap!

Chapter 331. Mao Grandet

"Take care, Mr. Mao! Farewell, villain!"

At the bow, those small boat owners and small capitalists bid farewell with tears, just like the little San'er who was reluctant to part with the master.Standing on the port to see him off in person, Mao Jue was as majestic as the chubby "father" on the Korean Peninsula in later generations, with a friendly but majestic smile, stretched out his hand to say goodbye, and the little bosses from Fujian who saw him even more It is gratitude, and fascination.

These people can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, Mao Jue gave them the right to open stores in Tieshan and Nagasaki.It is estimated that according to the resentment of being abandoned this time, from this autumn to next spring, Dongjiang's industry and commerce will spring up like a wave of mushrooms after rain.

On the other side, the Dongjiang Fleet also ushered in a new recruitment. About 700 Zheng family pirates joined Mao Jue's fleet. Compared with the original fishermen and sailors who became monks in the Dongjiang River, these people were more disciplined and controlled the Dongjiang battleship. They are not as good as they are physically, but they are really good players who have plunged into the ocean, and the furthest one even sailed to the Persian Gulf with the ship.

Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the South China Sea, has been defeated. Now Mao Jue is ambitious. Once he goes south to the sea area of ​​Fujian, these people will be of great use.

But at this time, regardless of how old the sailors are, a group of pirates are completely new. Wearing the blue armor of the Dongjiang Navy, they feel a little uncomfortable, like monkeys scratching up and down.This head leads the newly issued quilts to make a bunk, and the other end is led by the muttering old Dongjiang sailors to line up to shave and take a bath in the bathroom on the ship. Everything about Dongjiang makes these Hu Jian visitors look around like a curious baby.

But they are not new for a few days, and this year they have been fighting for more than half a year. Both the Dongjiang navy and the army are exhausted. The crusade against the Tokugawa family will have to be delayed for a year. Jue planned to be a class teacher, and they would also have to enter Dongjiang for formal training at that time.

Even though the training of the navy is not as heavy as that of the army, it is enough for these sloppy pirates to pick up their skins.

Today is to send the last batch of captives to the south by boat, send them to Dengzhou, and then jump around wherever they like. Seeing the sailboat gradually disappear on the sea level, Mao Jue couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, don't look This time the war with Zheng Zhilong went well, and it cost him a lot of brain cells. Fortunately, it was resolved smoothly. What Mao Jue wants most now is to go to Kyoto with a few girls in his arms to soak in the hot springs, and then return by boat Sakhalin Island, and then go to find his Zijin Mine. I am used to the snow-capped Sakhalin Island. In summer and autumn, the beauty here should be too beautiful, right?

But just as Mao Jue had a good plan, he had already thought about which hot springs to go to, but Cheng Yaojin came out halfway, and just as he turned around from the port, a black shadow rushed towards him Come here, before Mao Jue could react, he bowed deeply.

"I, Yuan Chonghuan, send money!"

The corner of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he exclaimed in disbelief.

"How many?"

"50 shi of grain, 50 taels of silver, nothing less!"

Lao Yuan's face was as serious as the pig iron plate of Tieshan Iron Foundry, and his expression seemed to have returned to that of the second year of Chongzhen, which made Mao Jue regain the feeling of wanting to strangle him to death.

I'm used to treating Japan as a bank! Mao Jue was full of reluctance when he was suddenly asked to pay back such a large mortgage, and cried out sadly.

"How could there be so many?"

It's a pity that this old Yuan came here with an abacus, and the abacus beads were pulled out for him on the spot.

"In order to prepare for the Zheng army's attack on the sea, Kyushu Island retreated for 130 miles. More than [-] million stone territories were temporarily abandoned, and farming was missed. Now it is about to enter June, my Lord Xiaomao! It is absolutely too late for rice and wheat! "

"The Kyushu daimyo and the shogunate mobilized a total of more than [-] troops. Although they did not fight a few battles, they defended for more than four months. In particular, a small half of Nagasaki City was burned down, and the Nabeshima family was driven straight in by Commander Zheng. They all need silver repairs."

"50 taels is already the minimum, and this is on the premise of sweet potatoes and corn!"

Putting his hands on the table very seriously, Lao Yuan was expressionless as if he was reporting an unimportant matter, but Mao Jue's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and then he fell silent while pinching his chin.

The Dutch were kicked out, on the one hand, because they didn't want Western forces to affect the development of Japan, and if they wanted to close the country, they should keep it closed. On the other hand, Mao Jue just didn't want the sweet potatoes to come in.

The country of Wa is an island country with poor arable land. The existing plains and fields suitable for growing rice have been developed to the extreme. The population of the country of Wa is about 2000 million, which is almost the limit. , It is estimated that 6000 million will not be a problem. I can see this point from the Qing Dynasty. What is the prosperity of the prosperous age, there will never be more taxes! In fact, taxes have been allocated to the land in the form of corvee. The population of China in the past dynasties has been between 5000 million and 1 million. After a while, the population exploded to [-] million in the Qing Dynasty, thanks to these two high-yielding crops.

Think about it, there are 6000 million Japanese people! The dwarf army shouted the scene of Bageya Road overwhelmingly.

"Silver and grain Dongjiang expenditure! This corn and sweet potato are not imported, can you?"

After a few minutes of silence, Mao Jue asked seriously.

But Yuan Chonghuan also answered so seriously.

"Kyushu daimyo and the Maori family are now the main support of the Toyotomi family. If they are not introduced, half of Kyushu Island and half of the Maori family will have hundreds of thousands of refugees this year because they have no food to eat!"

"General Xiao Mao, when the time comes, you can take out another 200 million shi of grain to support the next autumn harvest, and that's enough!"

"you win!"

Mao Jue simply pretended to be a dead dog, and slammed down on the table.

In May and June of the eighth year of Chongzhen, for the Wa Kingdom, a cross-generational beginning opened, although they hadn't realized it yet.

The mountains and forests that had not been touched in ancient times were pulled away, and the sweet potato vines brought in from the Dongjiang River were buried, and began to reveal dots of green leaves, and there were groups of 1.3-meter-four dwarf Japanese with hoes like goblins. Plane the ground, dig out neat furrows on the originally free hillside, rub the huge corn cobs, and sprinkle them in one by one.

When Yuan Chonghuan became an official, he definitely did his best. My good guy, he not only planted corn and sweet potatoes in those desperate areas of Kyushu Island, but also promoted it throughout the western country, from the remote Iki country to the core of Enjiang and Kinki, as long as Where there are mountains, there are these new crops showing their appearance. Mao Jue has worked hard to delay for two or three years, but he still can't stop the general trend of the spread of this new species.

But things have already happened, and Mao Jue can only think on the bright side. Think about it, even if the population of the Qing Dynasty changed from [-] million to [-] million, it did not see how it became stronger. On the contrary, it was the biggest decline in the Chinese people's physique. When foreigners came to China, it was recorded that everyone was tall and healthy, neatly dressed, and polite! But at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it turned into astonishing abject poverty everywhere, and the people were skinny and dressed in rags!

One year of sweet potatoes and half a year's grain, relying on these high-yield crops, the population has increased, but the quality has plummeted, and the average height has dropped by more than ten centimeters.

If the already short Japanese were eaten more thinly and fell below the one-meter mark, thinking about the 6000 million dwarfs, it would not seem so scary.

After a bloody meal and ordering the mobilization of various materials from Dongjiang to Yuan Chonghuan for operation, Mao Jue became lazy and plunged into the gentle township he managed in the capital, and couldn't come out.

Kyoto, Erjohe City, Wuyuzhai.

With Lao Yuan, there is also Luo Ning, a little vixen, Kyoto, Tieshan, and Nagasaki, which was opened to Daming. Mao Jue has approved a note for her. There is no way for an international strong woman with a mansion in Ginza, Japan. If you want the horse to run, you have to give the horse grass. Besides, it is doomed to be short-term if you only guard the one-third-acre land in Dongjiang. Mao Jue wants to develop and grow. In the future, he will absorb Other forces are inevitable. Although I hate the Jiangnan family, Luo Ning is still pleasing to the eye. Accepting the Luo family is a great attempt by Dongjiang!

This poetic hot spring is naturally also opened by Luo Ning, this girl is really capable, this Mao Jue is even as good as Zheng Zhilong!On the other side, she actually attracted the source of tourists, and went to Dengzhou, Shandong. The first Jiangnan tour group with more than 100 scholars became the first to eat crabs. They lingered in the Tang-style Kyoto city style and hot springs. Came out of the loli-like noble girl from the Japanese country, and threw down a lot of money in the gentle village.

In the evil feudal society, Mao Jue, a greedy and shameless warlord, also enjoyed the privileged treatment of senior provincial officials to inspect and seal Taoism here. The entire typical Japanese-style hot spring pool was emptied by Luo Ning alone, and it was specially reserved for him. Several of her concubines.