Chapter 189 Liaodong Commercial Road

In addition, after more than half a year of preliminary construction, the port infrastructure in Hong Kong has been equipped with the conditions for initial use, and Yu Xiaotian has also begun to implement a set of methods he has done in Fujian in Guangxi, Guangdong, and began to charge fees for all merchant ships going abroad.

And the fees, including those in Fujian, have all been raised to 3,000 taels of silver per year. You can go to sea without paying. Hey hey, then the possibility of your ship going back after going to sea is very low.

Although such a fee price is really not low, it is still affordable for sea merchants. The wool comes from the sheep. After paying this money, they naturally have to find a way to earn it back, and these things should be sold to Europeans or people in the Nanyang area, so it is enough to raise the price.

In addition, in the past, because of the pirates in the Liangguang area, the probability of being robbed after the sea ships went to sea, but now the coast of Liangguang has been controlled by Yu Xiaotian's sea wolves. On the Liangguang Sea alone, Yu Xiaotian has invested hundreds of large and small anti-smuggling ships, with more than 10,000 personnel, as long as he pays the money. After that, safety can be basically guaranteed on the southern sea.

In this way, even if the sea merchants are reluctant, they can only pay money to buy a road. In fact, it is still good for them.

However, for some sea owners with backers behind them, Yu Xiaotian's behavior obviously violates their interests. They often never pay taxes in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has always collected very low taxes on business, and for them, they rarely touch their interests.

Now Yu Xiaotian suddenly proposed to pay money to go to sea. Don't go to sea without paying the regulations. They often have many ships on hand. One boat is 3,000 taels of silver, and ten boats are 30,000 taels of silver. They feel that this money is wronged, so some people really don't pay it.

But Yu Xiaotian's men don't care how hard your backs are and how hard they are. As long as they don't pay the money and don't get the flag to the sea, then I'm sorry, they will ignore you first and follow you after you go far away. These big men who do sea trade found that their ship is missing after a while. There was no trace of people with goods and boats, and then I realized the problem.

They have the intention to sue, but now they don't know where their ship happened and how they disappeared. In addition, Daming has never officially opened commerce and went to sea to do business, which is itself a matter of smuggling. There is no place to sue, and the government will not accuse Xiaotian for this.

Yu Xiaotian did this, which really offended many people with good hands and eyes. Many people began to move around and stabbed into the capital.

At the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the government and the opposition had increasingly impeachment and criticism of Yu Xiaotian. Originally, he was on the coast of Xiaotianping and Jingliang. At the beginning of September, Chongzhen still praised Yu Xiaotian and praised Yu Xiaotian, promoted him to the same governor and was promoted to a first-class official.

However, after the end of September, there was a large number of impeachment between the government and the opposition. There were also many officials in the court who pointed the finger at Yu Xiaotian. Many people reported that in the past year or two, Yu Xiaotian had been extremely domineering. In addition to occupying Taiwan Yuandao for his private property, he plundered people everywhere and enriched his Taiwan. The population of Yuan Island.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian embraced the sea and charged high fees for ships connected to the sea before he could go to sea. According to this, he collected countless wealth. In addition to Fujian sailors and Fujian land divisions, he also raised tens of thousands of private troops with the intention of rebel.

Some people also started to say that the sea wolf under Yu Xiaotian is currently provocation at sea. At the end of last year, it occupied Jeju Island of the * dynasty. In the middle of this year, it even went south to the Li Dynasty in Vietnam and captured a large area. If it goes on like this, it will raise tigers. It is better to ask the court as soon as possible. It's good to cut it out so as not to harm one side in the future!

The ninth year of Chongzhen was another sad year for the imperial court. Although Chongzhen was promoted to the southeast of the governor of Luxiang, the northwest of Hong Chengchou, and several provinces to suppress the exiled civilian army. However, during the ninth year of Chongzhen, there was another drought in Shanxi.

There are not only severe droughts in Shanxi, Henan and other places. In Nanyang, Henan Province, it is very common to eat easily. Tree bark and grass roots are eaten up by hungry people, countless people starve to death, and there is starvation everywhere on the road.

After Chongzhen heard this, he issued an order to allocate money for relief, but the whole Shanxi and Henan disaster areas only allocated 3,500 taels of relief silver. These 3,500 taels of silver, in the face of millions of people waiting for relief, are really pitiful and a drop in the bucket.

In April, the slave chieftain Taiji sat north and south outside the customs and ascended the throne. At the end of May, he sent troops south again to prey and entered the customs from Xifengkou and other places. In July, the slave army invaded the land of Beijing, breaking through Changping, Shunyi, Baodi (now Tianjin), Dingxing, Ansu (now Xushui, Hebei), Dacheng, Xiong County and Anzhou. Wait for Kinki Prefecture and County.

The whole capital division was in an emergency again. In August, when Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang heard the news, he resolutely raised an army to go to Beijing for rescue, but when he went to Kaifeng, he was stopped by the officials, because his move was a great taboo of the Ming royal family. The Ming emperor was afraid that these princes would take the military power to rebel, so Chongzhen issued an order to abolish Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, as a common people.

This time Jiannu entered the customs, which was a heavy blow to Daming. Since the last time Jiannu broke through the customs, Jiannu has seen Daming's weakness and thought that Daming could not be better. Before, they did not dare to think of facing the throne, but now Daming's weakness has made them more and more bold.

In Jiannu's mind, the last trace of awe of the Ming Dynasty had already disappeared. By this time, Jiannu had raised his mind to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

This time, Jiannu entered the customs was another test of Daming, but the result of their test this time was quite ideal. After the construction slave army broke through the customs, it entered the land of Beijing and defeated more than ten prefectures and counties around Gyeonggi. The Ming army was defeated repeatedly and could not stop the front of Jiannu at all.

This time, the entry of Jiannu's customs dealt a heavy blow to the foundation of Daming, which greatly shook the Daming building. At this time, people with some vision in the world have seen that Daming has reached a situation of wind and rain, and the Ming Dynasty may not be able to protect it.

However, it is still unknown who will die in the Ming Dynasty, but some people think that the Ming Dynasty will not be so unbearable. After all, the 300-year foundation of the Ming Dynasty is here, and although the construction of slaves into the customs is seriously damaged, under the auspices of Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng and others, several provincial capitals of the exiled civilian army However, it has achieved results for the first time. Gao Yingxiang, the first thief, was ambushed by Sun Chuanting, who was the governor of Shaanxi at that time, and was defeated in the Black Water Yu. Gao Yingxiang was captured alive and sent to Beijing.

Yu Xiaotian has been paying attention to these news. He originally thought that his appearance had had a certain impact on the current situation and would affect the fate of many people. However, now it seems that his influence is still limited to the south, for the Central Plains and the north. Fang, his influence is not that great.

At least Gao Yingxiang's fate did not change because of his appearance. Gao Yingxiang still died in the hands of the Ming court and the government.

Yu Xiaotian knows that this is also related to him, and it can even be said that he has a certain responsibility.

Because since he returned to Fujian from Denglai, his subordinates who stayed in the Denglai area quickly opened the business road with Jiannu, began to input a large amount of salt tea outside the customs, and began to do business with Jiannu.

In fact, Jiannu is very poor at this time. Although they have plundered Daming's wealth over the years, they seem to have made a lot of money.

But in fact, for Jiannu, the impact of the small glacier period on the northeast area is beyond the imagination of many people. In the Liaodong area controlled by Jiannu, the shortest frost-free period is only three months a year, and the longest time is not more than five months, so Liaodong is an absolute bitter cold. The ground is no exaggeration.

Such a short frost-free period makes it impossible for Liaodong's agriculture to develop at all. It can only grow one season of grain every year, and it also depends on whether God is willing or not. There is often little grain harvested. Agriculture is in an extremely shrinking state and cannot meet the needs of Jiannu at all.

This is also why the wild boar Pinurhachi massacred the Liaodong Han people outside the customs, and even did not show mercy to the Han people who submitted to them. It was because they were short of food and did not have enough food at all that they came up with such a way to kill all the Han people to reduce the number of people who ate.

So Jiannu can only solve their problem of eating by spending money. As long as there is money, some people are willing to do this business, especially some rich businessmen in Shanxi. Over the years, they have exported a lot of grain outside the customs and really made a lot of money. Jiannu often plunder a large amount of wealth from the customs. Not long after returning home Then he returned to those Jin merchants.

Therefore, if it weren't for these traitor Jin merchants who exported a large amount of grain outside the customs in order to make black money, more than half of the Jiannu could be starved to death just by famine.

To some extent, the Ming Dynasty finally fell. These damn Jin merchants played a great role, and after Jiannu entered the customs, they were really good to Jin merchants, which was a reward for their kindness to them in those years.

Now that the Seawolf Group has opened up the business road with Jiannu. Although Yu Xiaotian is jealous of Jiannu's money, he still has the principle. Even if he has hoarded all kinds of grain like a mountain now, he directly crossed out the grain export on the trade list.

(Brothers, help! Let me make a breakthrough this month! Thank you very much!)