In fact, there were always opportunities in the late Ming Dynasty, but they lacked core advantages, making it difficult for them to make a successful comeback.

Only the sea route is the most likely opportunity to make use of existing technology, manpower, and materials to make a comeback.

Other methods, to be honest, the probability of error tolerance is too small.

He was knocked to pieces by accident.

Only the Jurchens cannot compare to the sea.

It will take at least 50 years for them to catch up, and as long as they continue to attack, they will not have the time or opportunity to catch up. They can just attack all the shipbuilding places on the sea.

The only way for the other side to control the sea is to move the border and ban the sea.

In fact, there is a way to break it, which is to connect with the inland river network and build a large fortress.

Why was the Liaodong Fortress destroyed?

Because it was a road transport, it was besieged by long trenches dug on land. Without external aid, it was naturally broken.

But with the help of sea and inland river transportation and constant foreign aid, there is no need to worry about being forced.

You must know that in the 13th year of Chongzhen, Jincheng was besieged for more than half a year and was only broken after the reinforcements were eliminated.

Later, under the coercion of Wen Rensheng, more than two dozen shipping companies finally invested in ships, manpower, private ports, etc., and finally formed a shipping company.

There are no exceptions, because the exceptional Wen Rensheng will not be selected.

Wen Rensheng named it: "Express Ship Line".

Then someone gave these people a yellow flag with their names on it. This is the background of the late Ming Dynasty, so there is no taboo.

In my Qing Dynasty, this color could kill your entire family.

Such an exaggeration.

From now on, just put such a flag on the bow of the ship.

Anyone who passes through various water checkpoints, private checkpoints, and banknote checkpoints, except those set up by eunuchs and feudal lords, can also pass through water checkpoints set up by nobles, officials, and gentry without any obstruction.

Relying on this, you can reduce a lot of costs.

At the same time, by avoiding inspections, passenger traffic will increase significantly when transporting people and goods.

Who doesn’t want to be able to ride on a ship that has a good background, is reliable, and can pass the customs smoothly?

"You take turns to reorganize, and the personnel who are not in business will be gathered here in batches, and I will check them one by one..."

Wen Rensheng said again.

Then everyone brought their shopkeepers, clerks, sailors, handymen, bodyguards, guards... one after another in rotation.

There were 23 large and small shipyards, and the number of people suddenly increased. According to verbal statistics from shipowners, these people totaled about 3,500 people.

There are three to four hundred people in the big one, and only twenty or thirty in the small one.

The main reason is that there are many escorts and guards, but not many sailors and clerks. This can also show the scene of the end of the world.

Greatly increased operating costs.

After all, guards do not work, they only provide security. If it is a peaceful year, only one-tenth of the manpower is needed, which can save a lot at once.

But that's not possible now. If there aren't enough escorts and guards, then you'll have to wait to be robbed.

Water ghosts, bandits, liars, river pirates, etc. will eat you up.

Then Wen Rensheng did some cleaning.

It took two days to find 35 traitors, 220 greedy people, and 422 scoundrels. Finally, a total of 1,200 people were found who were honest and willing to work, smart and motivated, and somewhat loyal, and barely qualified.

Among them, more than 100 loyal and kind-hearted people were identified based on their character, and these owners put them in purchasing and supervision positions.

All in all, after some cleaning and rectification, and a new batch of supplements were recruited, the business efficiency of the 23 boat shops immediately increased significantly.

On this day, Wen Rensheng reported what he had done to the governor Wang.

When Governor Wang heard this, he immediately laughed and said: "Since you are short of guards, just allocate 200 people from my camp to serve as guards. It will be considered as an occupation."

When Wen Rensheng heard this, he immediately agreed.

At the same time, he also knew that this was a major drawback.

What is Zhanwu? It means that the governor has a direct command camp, and the soldiers inside are paid by the imperial court.

Now he is being dragged into working as a private businessman.

The state spent money to support them, but private individuals used them for labor.

It is most common in the capital camp. The corruption of the capital camp begins with occupation, and the person who occupied the most is the emperor himself, who used it to build palaces and mausoleums.

Such noble eunuchs also followed suit.

As a result, the capital camp was in great disarray.

This is also normal. When the imperial court looked at peace, it spent high military pay. As a result, the soldiers were just idle there, and of course they couldn't bear their inner impulses.

They don't want to be unable to defeat others in the future. They only know that doing so can save taxes. If they want to requisition civilians, firstly, they have to give them food. If they don't give them, they will easily become unrest. Secondly, they will take up farming time and affect production.

So the Jingying camp was used. You must know that this labor force is hundreds of thousands, and they are all young and strong.

How troublesome it is to recruit laborers from other places to do this.

However, Wen Rensheng knew it and still did it.

Naturally, he had other plans.

Because he wants to pay double pay to these standard battalion soldiers and provide them with more training.

Turn public soldiers into private soldiers.

So he selected 200 soldiers from the governor's Biao camp, all of whom were good-natured and conscientious people.

And they were given the first month's silver, 2 taels, upon arrival.

In fact, these people knew it well, and it would have been fine if they had not issued it, because the yamen would have issued it.

The premise is that the yamen will not default on payment.

Sometimes Biaoying will be in arrears, if the governor is ineffective and not taken seriously.

In short, Wen Rensheng gave them extra money and ordered them to perform exercises every three days according to the characteristics of this era.

They only provided enough food, and there was no queue or daily training.

Those are all time-spanning.

Daily exercise is even more impossible.

I just hope that they will take the initiative to work hard when they have enough to eat in their spare time.

During the drill, I still practiced the Yuanyang Formation and Qi Jiguang's Art of War.

Of course, when you get to the north, there is another way to form a car formation.

It's just a chariot formation, why can't it defeat Donglu?

The reason is very simple. It is not that the law is not good, but that the equipment is not good and the pay is insufficient.

The vehicle array needs to be coordinated with firearms, but the firearms often explode. How to use this?

As for the express shipping companies and cargo escorts, with the background of the governor's office, there were still some people who didn't open their eyes at first, but after a few lessons, it became smooth.

Relying on his reputation as governor, he can still be used within the province.

Express Trading Company soon began to rise to prominence, and its business volume increased significantly.

Stealing a lot of business from others.

Taking away someone's wealth is like killing your parents.

Naturally they were unwilling to do so.

However, considering the background of Express Trading Company and the fact that their scale is not too big, many people still choose to tolerate it.

This is an official battle.

The bigger the official, the bigger the wealth.

Of course Wen Rensheng knew that this method could only be used locally.

When you go to Beijing, many people can go directly to Tianting.

A sixth-grade or seventh-grade censor can overthrow the ministers in the cabinet, let alone a governor?

Therefore, this rule cannot be directly applied to that place.

It depends on who can mobilize the imperial power better.

That one is a little blurry.
Chapter completed!