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If you say open, then open, I don't want to lose face?

Zhao Han replied: "Ten taels of silver per horse is considered as the shipping fee for you, and it will be transported to Fuzhou and handed over to Zheng Zhilong. If more than 50 horses die, the Dutch will not be able to land in any port in China in the future!"

"Of course, great king, if too many horses die, we will re-ship them to make up for them." Matthias was very happy.

The money of the war horse does not matter. The main purpose of the Dutch is to do business with China in person.

Zhao Han doesn't care about it, who is he doing business with?

If the Dutch occupy Malacca and buy horses from the Dutch in the future, the price will definitely be much cheaper.

Moreover, the Dutch can fight naval battles and can compete with Zheng Zhilong!

That guy Zheng Zhilong has been pretending to be deaf and dumb.Except for selling the six warships to Zhao Han at a low price, the other warships were not willing to hand over, as if they had to wait until Zhao Han proclaimed himself emperor before making a statement.

Zhao Han added: "I want ten Dutch shipbuilders, and as long as they are excellent, don't use ordinary goods to fool me. If the shipbuilders' skills are too bad, I will ban trade with the Netherlands at any time."

Matais immediately agreed: "There is no problem, we will meet His Majesty's request."

The Netherlands has nothing else, and there are too many shipbuilders to involve.

Today, there are about [-] merchant ships at sea in the world, and the Netherlands alone accounts for a quarter.The combined tonnage of the merchant ships of Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain cannot be compared with that of the Netherlands.

In the Dutch capital alone, there are more than 100 shipyards.

Merchant ships from various European countries place orders in Dutch shipyards because Dutch shipyards are the cheapest.

Zhao Han only needs ten shipbuilders, and the Netherlands does not need to send top-notch shipbuilders, but only needs to reach the average level in Europe, and there are no commercial secrets at all.

Compared with the opening of Guangzhou and Fuzhou, ten shipbuilders are nothing.

The two sides reached a friendly exchange on this, and the Portuguese were ruthlessly abandoned by Zhao Han.

Over there in Macau, come step by step.

Chinese schools have been opened and Portuguese children must attend school.In 30 to [-] years, the Portuguese will be able to register as householders and make them give up their beliefs and become Chinese without any coercive means.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were many official families who were Central Asian Green Cultists left over from the Yuan Dynasty.

They read the Four Books and Five Classics, take the Jinshi examination and become officials. Not to mention their beliefs and beliefs, they become Han Chinese, and even their appearance is mixed to become Han Chinese.

Before Matais left, Zhao Han made another final reminder: "Remember, merchant ships from any country come to China's ports for trade. Tariffs must be paid directly in silver or in Datong silver dollars. Taxes in other currencies are not allowed! If there is no silver, There are no Datong silver dollars either, so you can exchange them at a bank near the wharf.”

The Jiangxi Mint has minted more than 600 million silver dollars.

Only a small part of silver comes from mining, and most of it comes from taxes.After receiving the broken silver, it was melted and used to mint coins. The Datong silver dollar has been generally accepted by the market.

Although it contains a lot of impurities, merchants also recognize that it is worth a tael of silver.

More than 600 million silver dollars and a large amount of copper coins were minted, and the grain bank was finally renamed the bank.Moreover, Datong Bank was spun off from the Finance Department and became an institution directly under the jurisdiction of the Dudufu.

Eight riyal silver coins from Portugal, and silver horse sword coins from the Netherlands, these currencies can be circulated among the people, but Zhao Han's official department does not recognize them.

Including the British fleet, when they come to Guangzhou to do business, the tariffs are firstly exchanged for silver dollars or silver in the bank.

The Dutch envoy left, and Zhao Han went to the meeting.

Huang Shunfu spoke first: "The land tax must be changed. Especially in Jiangnan Province, there are not many people who grow food, and the land tax can no longer be collected in kind, which is very inconvenient for the common people."

Fei Chun has resigned from his position as the director of the Finance Department and is now in charge of Datong Bank full-time. He is now equivalent to the governor of the central bank.

But this central bank is different from the central bank of new China, because it not only issues currency, but also operates banking business itself, and is still operating grain business.

Fei Chun said: "Banks have also been established in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, but all the food has to be transported from other provinces. The last summer harvest, the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River planted cotton, and it has not yet gathered for picking. Many summer grain and land taxes are in arrears, and they have no money to pay the taxes. Fortunately, it was a newly occupied land and suffered from floods, so this year’s summer grain was simply exempted. But this year’s autumn harvest, farmers in the south of the Yangtze River have to exchange cotton for money, then use the money to buy grain, and then pay taxes after buying grain.”

Li Banghua said: "Extremely cumbersome."

"It's time to change," Zhao Han nodded, "Starting from Jiangnan Province, all food taxes in the future will be converted into silver or copper coins. If it's copper coins, only five or more will be accepted, and ten will not be accepted! "

Pang Chunlai said: "In my opinion, the real situation is different in different places. There should be rules, how much money is collected, and how much grain is collected. In the hands of the people, if you have money, you pay money, if you have food, you pay food, but it is up to the people to choose. "

Li Banghua nodded and said: "Indeed, in some poor places, money is not enough, and it would be a bad thing to convert the land tax into silver."

Zhao Han thought carefully for a while, and said: "The payment of money and food depends entirely on the people's willingness. This policy can be implemented. But it can't always be like this. Let's set a time limit. For places that have been governed for more than ten years, all land taxes will be paid with money in the future. If After ten years of governance, if the local people have no money to pay taxes, then the local officials have failed in their duties!"

"I agree." Huang Shunfu seconded.

Zhao Han also said: "The bank will gradually reduce the grain business in the future, and hand over the grain transportation and trade to the merchants, and Datong Bank will be responsible for setting the grain floor price."

The idea of ​​the country's unified collection and purchase of grain is very beautiful.

But with the expansion of the territory, limited to the ancient storage and transportation technology, this thing is really difficult to do.Moreover, as time goes by, corruption will inevitably breed, and it is not easy to check.

Xiao Huan suddenly said: "However, local governments or banks still have to keep some granaries and grains, and treat them as regular warehouses."

Li Banghua said: "This statement is justified."

Changping warehouses are used for relief during disasters, and can also be opened to release grain to stabilize rice prices.

"Then it's settled like this, and we will change it later if there are problems." Zhao Han accepted the proposal.

The territory expanded to several provinces, and with the feedback from local officials, Zhao Han discovered more and more problems.The previous policy could be implemented in one or two provinces, but it would be unrealistic in a few more provinces.

"Is there enough food to fight this year?" Zhao Han reconfirmed.

Fei Chun smiled and said, "It's definitely enough, but it's best to stop entering troops within three months."

Pang Chun said: "JAC can be taken in two months."

Li Banghua said: "There are mainly three enemies in the prefectures and counties of the Jianghuai River. One is Luo Rucai from the direction of Lu'an, the second is the Cao thief from Xuzhou, and the third is the salt thief from Rugao. Wars are easy to fight. After the battle, the Cao army He and Yanhu have to be resettled, they were all forced by the government to rebel."

Zhao Han said: "Except for Luo Rucai, if the other enemy generals are willing to surrender and hand over all their property, they will all be treated as civilians and they will be given land."

"Who knows if all the property has been handed over?" Chen Maosheng asked.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Escort his whole family to other prefectures and counties to divide the land and settle down. How much silver taels can he bring with him? He has kept a few hundred taels privately, and I don't bother to pursue it. If he hides too much, I will behead him!"

Pang Chunlai sighed: "Let's see if they are willing to surrender. Surrendering is the best, so as not to cause more killings, but also save a lot of military rations."

Chapter 344 [Cao Cao]

"Brother, brother, does this suit look good?" Zhao Zhenfang ran in bouncing around.

Zhao Han was cooling off by the pool. Although it was the autumn harvest season, the autumn tiger in Nanjing was even hotter.

Fei Rulan and Pan Qimei also came in, and they were each wearing new clothes. It seemed that they had just gone out to visit a clothing store.

Fei Rulan was better in tube top Perot shirts all in one color, with sleeves reaching to the wrists.Zhao Zhenfang and Pan Qimei were both wearing half-sleeved sleeves, their snow-white arms were exposed.

Don't think that ancient women dressed conservatively. From the paintings left by the Song and Ming dynasties, we can see that women in summer dress very openly.

There are sleeveless shirts, and both arms are completely exposed.You can still see a tube top inside, and you don't even wear a tube top, which vaguely reveals that.

Of course, this is in my own yard.

When going out, they will wear an extra bijia (double-breasted vest with no sleeves and collars).

Fei Rulan smiled and said, "The clan brother (Fei Ruyi) also moved to Nanjing and opened a clothing store, please let us be the first batch of customers."

"It's pretty." Zhao Han praised.

Zhao Zhenfang was holding a bag of melon seeds in her hand, sitting by the pool and knocking non-stop: "I heard that eldest sister is going to Gaoyou?"

Zhao Han nodded and said, "When Gaoyou is captured, my brother-in-law will go over there to be the county magistrate."

The eldest sister's matter has been settled, and Xu Zhiyuan has reconciled with his original partner.His original wife married Zheng Yu, and followed Zheng Yu to Fujian to be an official.

In addition, the Xu family is temporarily split into three branches.

One stayed in Jiangnan, one moved to Fujian, and one moved to Hunan.This kind of big family will continue to be dismantled in the future, not only the Xu family, but many big families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will also be dismantled.

Fei Yinghuan, Lou's family, and Fei Rumei's family were all in Zhejiang at this time, and Fei Yinghuan's official position was the prefect of Jinhua.

Fei Rulan sat by the pool for a while, feeling terribly hot.Then he got up and left, and came back with Xiyue after a while, and put a few bowls of "milk ice" on the tray.

"I learned how to relieve heat a few days ago." Fei Rulan said with a smile.

Milk ice can be divided into milk and goat milk. Milk is added to the ice, and condiments such as jam are added, which is not much different from modern ice cream.

The method of making ice with saltpeter existed in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Cold drink shops in night markets in the Song Dynasty did not close until midnight.

When Fei Rulan and the others came to Nanjing, they didn't enjoy much else, but tried all kinds of street snacks and drinks.

Zhao Han scooped up the ice cream with a spoon, and it felt icy in the mouth, and the heat immediately disappeared by three points. He commented: "The taste is too sweet, you can put less sugar."

"I think it's just right." Pan Qimei said, licking the ice cream.

Zhao Zhenfang nodded again and again: "Yes, it's just right, it won't taste good if it's not sweet."

Zhao Han could only agree that the sweetness was right. Looking at the people in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the women drinking milk tea all over the street.

Women are all the same in ancient times and modern times.

Everyone was eating cold drinks when Zheng Sen suddenly came to see him.

The kid ran to the pool, first winked at Zhao Zhenfang, and the younger sister immediately rolled her eyes back.

Zheng Sen cupped his hands and said, "Commander, my father heard that the Shanghai Navy does not have enough warships, so he is willing to sell [-] warships at a low price."

"I have a heart." Zhao Han was neither happy nor angry.

The warship that Zheng Zhilong is willing to sell must not be small, but it is not big, so it can be regarded as a medium-sized ship.But there is almost no ocean-going capability, and the Dutch shipbuilders have to be recruited to build them slowly using Western-style shipbuilding methods.

Both Chinese and Western sea ships have their own advantages.

If you want to improve your combat effectiveness, a western-style warship is better.This has nothing to do with shipbuilding technology, but is determined by the hull structure.

Zheng Sen hesitated to speak.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Your father wants to be an official?"

"He always wanted to be an official." Zheng Sen said helplessly.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "I want to be an official, but I don't want to part with the Nanyang trade, and let the merchant ships of various countries pay him protection fees. Can he take advantage of all the benefits in the world?"

Zheng Sen sighed, "My father won't listen to persuasion."

Until now, Zhao Han has not appointed Zheng Zhilong as an official, and his identity is the Daming Coastal Defense Guerrilla.

Seeing that Zhao Han's territory is getting bigger and bigger, Zheng Zhilong is a little anxious.

Zhao Han was not in a hurry, and let Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch wait until he took up more land inland.

The autumn harvest is over and the grain is in storage. It is time to send troops.

……

The South Court Army did not move for the time being, and half of them stayed in Guangdong to guard against the enemies of Guangxi.Half of them entered Fujian to suppress bandits. There are a large number of bandits in the mountainous areas of Fujian, and they must continue to be suppressed to stabilize.

Middle School Army——

Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu, as the main lieutenants, landed in Taixing and Tongzhou (Nantong) and occupied the salt-producing areas of the Jianghuai River. The enemy was the salt lords and Yanhu rebels there.

East Court Army——

Fei Ruhe and Wan Sitong set out from Yangzhou along the Grand Canal, with the strategic goal of capturing Huai'an.Then divide the troops to advance eastward, help Zhang Tieniu block the north, and then occupy the salt-producing areas together.

West Court Army——

Li Zheng and Xiao Zongxian were the main lieutenants. Starting from Jiangpu County, they first captured Fengyang Mansion, and the ultimate goal was to reach Xuzhou, mainly fighting against the uprising soldiers.

North Academy Army——

Huang Shun and Fei Yinggong were the main lieutenants. They first attacked Luzhou Prefecture, and then went to Lu'an Prefecture, mainly fighting against Luo Rucai.

In addition, Huang Yao, the head of the Northern Military Academy, continued to suppress the chieftains in Shizhou Prefecture, and now he has farmers and soldiers in his hands.After these farmers and soldiers have seen blood in actual combat, next year they will be expanded into a mountain division with 7500 people, which will be responsible for the southwestern operations in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

……

Luzhou.

Luo Rucai was already going crazy, he had been besieging Fucheng for three months, but he was still unable to capture the city.

You must know that the soldiers of Luzhou have already been taken away, and the defenders of the city are all the townspeople and citizens!

General Yang Chengzu said: "King Zhao Tianwang is about to call, whether to surrender, fight or leave, you have to make a decision first."

Luo Rucai sighed: "The surname Zhao will not tolerate me, and surrender is impossible. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are two bastards, they are both thieves, but they refuse to fight together. If they join forces, plus us, what is the world?" Can't go?"

"They all want to be emperor." Yang Chengzu shook his head.

"Being the emperor? The mud on the trousers hasn't been wiped clean yet," Luo Rucai sneered, "I want to be the emperor, but I can't tolerate me. Now I have to face that Zhao alone."

Among the rogue bandits in the late Ming Dynasty, Luo Ru was an outlier, ranking second in military strength for a long time.