How could they have imagined that this was a precursor to Jia Rong's plan to launch an attack?

After returning to my hometown.

Above the Longjiang River, there is an island somewhere in the center of the river.

It was originally a place where pirates lived.

Half a month later, the Rongyao Group sent a fleet to occupy it, wipe out the pirates, and build many houses.

And began to build fortresses, all of the bastion type.

This place is only a hundred miles away from Jinling City.

If something happens, we can get there in one day.

As for whether they would be discovered, throughout the Dream of Red Mansions, bandits were everywhere, and it was hard to see what officials could do.

In the middle and late periods of the dynasty, the laziness of officials was frightening.

There were sects in the Qing Dynasty who rebelled and entered the imperial city, only to be repulsed by the prince and his men.

The ministers clearly knew about it beforehand, but none of them reported it. This is so absurd.

In later dynasties, unless the ministers' own interests were involved, it was difficult, difficult, difficult to expect them to take the initiative to work.

Of course, if their own interests are touched, for example, if the refugees are trying to eat a large local household, they will immediately mobilize quickly and kill no matter how many people they want.

As for the pirates occupying Jiangxin Island, the prefect of Jinling was not informed, and the government officials immediately suppressed the pirates. The advantage was the 200 taels of snowflake silver paid by the pirates every month.

In this way, it would be more convenient for Lin Daiyu to go home.

Yangzhou and Jinling are very close.

Lin Ruhai is still alive all these years, relying on the new drugs developed by Rong Pharmaceutical Company to hang on to his life and has not died.

Zhao Han chose to return to Jiangnan and serve as the magistrate of a nearby large state, and also provided cover for Jia Rong and others.

At this time, refugees were everywhere in the north and bandits were everywhere.

The scale of Rongyao Company organizing refugees to go overseas is getting bigger and bigger.

People are being bought everywhere.

From 20 taels per person, it dropped sharply to 3 dou meters per person.

That's how outrageous.

There are also people who give away their children for free just to prevent them from starving to death.

Accept them all.

This is what agricultural society is like.

Belittle labor force.

I don’t know that labor force is the most precious wealth.

Because the most important resource that an agricultural society can develop is land.

There is always not enough food to put it into the market to meet everyone's needs.

In fact, the land was annexed, and most of the grain was buried in the annexers' granaries.

The problem is that the annexers do not fully participate in the market and do not sell much food. This is the fundamental drawback of the small-scale peasant economy:

The annexers have a large amount of grain, but most of it is not put into the market and is stored in cellars and granaries.

People who are short of food have no labor force and time, but cannot rely on labor to exchange for food from the annexers.

If you can only rob with violence, what else will you do?

This is the root cause of the so-called land annexation, which led to the collapse of the dynasty. Once the land is divided equally, ordinary people will have land and can produce their own food.

However this is not stable.

What is truly stable is to establish a business mechanism that allows acquirers to transfer the anchor of wealth from food to something else.

Grain can be put into the market in time and transformed into basic materials for economic circulation.

If you want to establish this kind of commercial circulation, you have to build it on the basis of technology, sea transportation, land transportation, water transportation. In short, you need to be able to distribute food as evenly as possible everywhere and sell it at a relatively stable price.

In this way, as long as the population does not exceed too much, it will be stable.

The premise is that there will be no war.

However, the war came at a time when no one was aware of it.

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Capital.

On the first day of March, there will be a great meeting.

"I have written this report. I have heard that someone has been trafficking people overseas on a large scale recently."

"There are many hidden dangers, one of which is: loss of population, no one to farm the land, and insufficient taxation."

"Secondly, people overseas have no ties and have no idea what they do."

"Three, the exodus of people and all kinds of beggars are detrimental to the dignity of our dynasty."

"My former minister, Xia, sent me a memorial to order all the county governments to strictly investigate the outflow of people and prohibit them from going to sea at will."

At this time, a doctor from the household department said: "According to Liu Yushi's remarks, how can the refugees make a living since they can't go to sea and have nowhere to settle down?"

"Even if you starve to death at home, it will be a safe death of hunger. It is better than living overseas without a body, and it is better than gathering a crowd to rebel." Liu Yushi said righteously.

The doctor was stunned when he heard this.

There is no excuse.

"What Ai Qing said is true. It is decreed that refugees are prohibited from going out to sea at will. Violators will be severely investigated."

The emperor thought that this was indeed the case and immediately issued an order.

Among the ministers, only a few people thought it was inappropriate, and most people thought it was good.

Because this allows them to charge higher rents for their land.

If all the people go to sea, who will use 80% to rent their land?

Not many people know that this is equivalent to adding a lid to a pressure cooker.

In other words, they know it, but they don't care. They always feel that they can still suffer the people. They are not afraid of some infamy, as long as they don't lose money.

However, these people did not expect that their stick would hit the vital part of Rong Pharmaceutical Company.

What is the foundation of Rongyao Company?

The goal is to absorb labor from the mainland and continuously colonize and reclaim the islands outside.

Now it is explicitly prohibited for refugees to enter the sea, which is extremely destructive.

Because the dynasty at this time was still capable of execution.

Soon, government officials in coastal counties began to get busy.

Refugees need to pay more to go overseas...

In the past, when a refugee boarded a boat, the prefect was eager to send him away, but now each one costs five taels of silver, and some even ask for twenty taels.

Isn't this a scam?

To attract one million refugees a year would cost 20 million taels, which Rongyao Company simply could not afford.

Even if I can use it as military expenditure, wouldn't it be better to beat you?

Moreover, many officials who wanted to climb up the mountain sent people to guard the pier, drive away the refugees, and prevent them from getting close to the pier.

There are still few channels for refugees to go to the sea, and many are afraid of trouble. Due to the strict ban by the government, more than 100,000 people could escape from the sea in a month, but now less than 10,000 people can leave.

"Fight, we must fight!" Jia Rong said harshly.

"Fight in the name of Wang Bolun, he has surrendered to us." Jia Lian followed.

Then they prepared to send out two fleets.

A fleet set off first and approached the capital from the north.

This was to allow the imperial court to mobilize troops from the south.

Sure enough, the court was soon shocked.

Pirates come ashore.

Directly plundering people everywhere. In the past, they were refugees, but now they are taking away blacksmiths, carpenters, and scholars...

Many ministers were shocked to find that the land near the capital was quickly depleted of people.

Not to mention 80%, not even 10%.

The crowd quickly requested that troops be mobilized to help the king.

The Minister of War said: "The opponent is likely to attack the east and attack the west, and attack the north from the south. Compared with the capital, Jiangnan is richer. Why don't the pirates attack Jiangnan?"
Chapter completed!