Mystery makes me strong

In the land of Jianfu, a certain river terminal.

A scholar was waiting for a boat to go to the provincial capital for an examination.

He waited and waited on the pier, when he finally saw a suitable passenger ship approaching, he immediately went forward.

At this time, another smaller boat came, with a yellow flag flying, and four large characters written on it: "Express Ship".

"Scholar, take my boat." The boatman on the big boat shouted.

"Hey, Xiucai, come to my boat and make sure you get to the provincial capital safely." Huang Qi's boatman shouted.

The scholar looked at it and was about to board the big ship.

Big boats are definitely more comfortable than small boats.

At this time, a laborer at the dock whispered: "Master Xiucai, it's better to board the yellow flag ship."

"Why is that?" the scholar asked puzzled.

"The yellow-flag boat is run by the governor's family. Since you are taking the exam, don't you want to give the governor some face?" Li Gong whispered.

"It's true." So the scholar boarded the yellow flag ship.

After looking at it, Da Chuan immediately shouted: "My boat fare is 1 tael less than his family's."

The distance is long and the travel is expensive.

A trip of hundreds of miles often costs two or even tens of taels of silver. It is cheap to take a boat, but it is more expensive to take a cow or horse.

Therefore, ordinary people can't afford to go out, and even if they go to Beijing to take the exam, they often have to borrow money to prepare for it.

The scholar waved.

But I thought in my heart: "When I win the Jinshi all the way in the future, I must impeach these corrupt people who colluded with lowly businessmen and exploited the common people!"

The yellow flag boat left triumphantly.

Along the way, Xiucai didn't suffer too much, but the experience was just that.

But the speed is indeed fast.

It's not that the boat is fast, it's that it's fast to pass through various checkpoints. Most of the checkpoints don't need to pay taxes and inspections, and you can travel all the way smoothly.

There are only a few vassal checkpoints that need to be paid, and they are very polite, and they will be released in advance after paying.

Other boats must give way.

This speed will be several days faster than other ships.

Many checkpoints are deliberately tossing you, even if you pay the money, they will let you pass slowly.

In short, if there is no background, it is impossible to do this business, and even good products can be sold out.

Fortunately, the boatman was polite and thoughtful, and didn't show any embarrassment.

After all, he is a scholar.

Status is still very valuable.

"I wish Xiucai all the way to high school, and the Beijing News has won the yellow armor."

"Thanks."

Xiucai had only one feeling in his heart, it's so good, I will sit next time, so he left with his hands up.

As for impeachment, it's okay to impeach an old man, what's the old Futai doing.

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This is just a microcosm.

Wen Rensheng then continued to integrate the shipping industry in Jianfu Province.

More and more money, buy new boats, build good boats.

He also bought a government-run shipyard to improve the treatment of craftsmen in the shipyard. The so-called improvement does not mean raising it to the level of later generations like in other novels.

It's just that the actual payment is made in a timely manner, and there is no payment in arrears, no rotten money, and no rotten rice.

This is also the stipulation of the bet, and it cannot exceed this era.

Whatever this era is, he has to be like that.

Even so, the craftsmen are grateful.

These days, the craftsmen in the government-run factories are craftsmen, who shoulder heavy responsibilities and suffer heavy exploitation.

The officials dragged them away for nothing, and those with a conscience would give them some food instead of money. Occasionally, they would have to bear the hard labor of going to Beijing. That was a terrible thing.

They can only make a living by doing private work in their free time.

Kind-hearted people like Wen Rensheng are few and far between.

Only the master craftsmen in private shipyards are the core craftsmen, and those who can build a whole big ship will be paid much better.

After all, maritime merchants are not stupid. If you don't treat them well, they will die if they don't pay attention.

But it is still extremely oppressive for small workers.

Wen Rensheng continues to buy shipping companies and integrate them.

However, many shipping companies were unwilling to join the "Express Shipping Company" soon.

This is the Royal Boat Company.

The family has been passed down for four generations, and 52 large and small boats pass through thousands of miles of rivers in the province.

It can be said that it is a relatively large riverboat company.

The total cost exceeded 10 taels.

He definitely doesn't want to be annexed by the express shipping company, can't he take care of himself?

Do you have to find an ancestor to watch over your head?

The background of his family is a county king, who sends 3000 taels of silver every year.

This number is quite a lot.

Bribing a court elder is 5000 taels of silver.

3000 taels of silver are equivalent to 6000 shi of grain, which is equivalent to the harvest of 2000 to 5000 mu of land.

A county king can only own thousands of acres of land, and a prince can own hundreds of thousands of acres.

Now Wen Rensheng has encountered a problem. What should he do when he encounters such a ship company with a strong background and a lot of confidence?
He definitely wants to integrate.

Combine to make big money.

Monopoly has always been synonymous with high profits.

The premise is that the internal management must be done properly, so as not to be eaten inside and out.

Wen Rensheng has many kinds of gray methods, but naturally he will not use them first.

After all, the reputation of the governor must be considered.

Now that the other party is unwilling to be acquired, Wen Rensheng can just use this kind of business method to compete with it.

When he loses money to the point that he can't pay the contribution of his backer, he will have to be annexed.

Otherwise, it is courting death.

Pigs like the king of the county don't think about his business difficulties. They only know that they gave it away before, but they didn't give it away this year. If they look down on him, they will be punished.

Wen Rensheng specially dispatched the fleet to run on the same route as the opponent.

At the same time, it also distributed some shares to the relevant management.

This is very common in this era, especially those who run sea boats, all have body stocks.

Because the danger is great, this will allow everyone to work together.

As a result, everyone worked harder as expected.

What's more, Wen Rensheng specially selected loyal and reliable people.

Compared with others, because of the hard work, the efficiency can be double or even triple the efficiency of other shipping companies.

A hard worker and a fisherman have completely different results.

Even the ships and sails are the same.

While Wen Rensheng was busy with this matter, Governor Wang had someone call him over:

"Nephew, this year's rural examination is here again. I have sent someone to change your household registration to this place. You can take the provincial, urban and rural examination here. How do you handle it?"

Since Wen Rensheng wants to make full use of the existing conditions, of course he will not let go of the imperial examination.

He cannot use techniques and concepts beyond this era, but stereotypes and classics are naturally not a problem.

So Wen Rensheng said, "I'm [-]% sure."

"The rural examination is extremely difficult, especially in Jiangnan. However, Juren in Jiangnan has more official background, so I changed you. Since you have such confidence, it would be great." Governor Wang said happily.

Afterwards, Wenren was promoted to the next exam.

After the rural examination was over, he really had to understand Yuan.

The old master praised his articles: "It's smooth and unobstructed, everything is appropriate, and it's an excellent time."

He also said that he had to be among the top three Jinshi to write it.

Governor Wang was very happy, and recommended Wenren to be promoted again.

This time, he was directly promoted to the provincial magistrate. Although he seemed to be a deputy, but there was a governor behind him, so the magistrate also listened to him.

This is where the name differs from the reality.

In the 17th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1384), he ordered the pilgrimage officials all over the world to recommend honest and capable subordinate officials. Afterwards, the Jiuqing was established to approve the sponsorship of subordinate officials, and the governors and vassals recommended the officials of the prefectures, prefectures and counties.

When Wenren is promoted to take the Jinshi examination, he can resign first, then go to the examination, and go to Qinggui Hanlin.

This is not to delay the two. It is the same as when later generations find out that it is not good after taking the university entrance examination, drop out of school and take the examination again.

Wen Rensheng naturally handles the affairs of the whole government with ease, everyone can use it, select talented people, clean up dirty officials, and the whole government can be quickly governed.

For a time, he was called a capable official.

At the same time, he multitasked and continued to expand the express shipping line.

And opened the account office business, that is, the business of piggybacking silver, where you use flying tickets to deposit silver, and use flying tickets to withdraw silver in another place.

Pay the handling fee in the middle.

This kind of thing is completely tested by credit and official background.

Don't want to do it without a background.

Once it is done, it is a profit for nothing.

You must know that the time difference in the middle can also be used to embezzle a little money for lending, but you must pay extra attention not to lose money.

With the expansion of the Kuaiji boat line, Wen Rensheng then began to gather industries in the counties, prefectures, and provincial cities along the way.

Finally, when the total value of the industry reached a scale of one million taels, it stopped developing.

Because no matter how high you are, the background of the governor and fellow acquaintances is already unreliable.

At this time, the eight major families of Shanxi merchants had a net worth of several 10 taels, and they were backed by senior officials such as deputy commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, and governor.

After doing these things well, Wen Rensheng began to develop his own private soldiers.

In fact, it is backdoor development.

He is not a general, and it is not easy to follow the way of a general for the time being, but he walks in a way that wins people's hearts and ties with him.

In the middle and early stages of the late Ming Dynasty, generals were still unable to occupy one place, and things like changing defense zones happened frequently.

A typical example is to transfer the frontier army to Liaodong to die.

Who doesn't know it's a deadly place?
But how many can resist?
This is the result of the Ming Dynasty's development of using literature to control martial arts to its peak.

Only in the last few years did warlords appear, and the emperor ordered them to stop.

This is much, much stronger than the Han and Tang Dynasties.

It was also much stronger than the later Qing Dynasty.

Daming was very successful in controlling martial arts with literature.

The governor-general relies on the governor's standard battalion to control the generals. Although there are many disadvantages, at least it prevents the generals from becoming independent.

But it was precisely because of this that when the Ming Dynasty fell, there were no big feudal towns in the interior, and the internal forces could not hatch strong feudal clans.

Otherwise, becoming the trend of the Han and Tang Dynasties is also internal digestion.

Wen Rensheng first allocated food and silver to buy iron, and then supported the local gun factory to re-manufacture a batch of guns and artillery that met the requirements and standards of the time.

The musket is naturally an arquebus.

Hitting 60 steps is lethal.

But it can be used as a gun, a heavy matchlock gun.

Originally, this thing is a useful thing to deal with Manqing Baijia.

If you hit it in 20 steps, you will die, and the top three are useless.

However, the materials provided were insufficient, resulting in crude and bad manufacturing, and no one was willing to use it, or it was released early, resulting in no effect at all.

As a result, on the battlefield, there are only three thousand white armored soldiers in total, invincible.

If the musketeers really reached the level they should have reached, 5 musketeers killed 1 white armor, and the Manqing would have been wiped out long ago.

So the end of Daming is the end of the whole system.

It cannot be rescued by a certain emperor or general.

There must be a systematic transformation. For example, the rebirth of a certain vassal town is like the rise of Cao Cao in the Han Dynasty, re-clearing the fields to train troops, gathering children from poor families, and then defeating the northern grassland tribes.

Wen Rensheng's current total industrial scale is one million taels, and the annual net profit is 12 taels.

That's pretty conservative.

In fact, the profit and capital of the business this year must be at least [-]% or more, so that it can be maintained.

Because there are a lot of dividends to the people behind the scenes, the final net profit is not high.

For example, if you have 10 taels of capital, you need to earn 3 taels a year before you can share it.

Otherwise, don't open it.

If you don't earn enough points, [-]% to [-]% or even several times the profit, only a few will fall into your own pocket in the end.

And if you earn more, the accountants stationed in your store will also increase their contribution.

With the help of the power of the governor, Wen Rensheng also integrated the shipping in a large water area, and the profit was quite high, but he still had to manage it up and down, and the last thing that fell into his pocket was 12 taels.

It can be freely controlled and cannot be expanded.

It's hard.

But there is no way, unless he uses the ideas and technologies of later generations, otherwise, under this feudal system, this is the limit.

No matter how high it is, there will be princes and eunuchs coming to deal with him, and even the governor will have to cut a lot of flesh out.

How much silver and fine iron are practical to make a musket, Wen Rensheng can make up for it.

In this way, a batch of muskets were created.

In the same way, a batch of artillery was produced, which was manufactured in imitation of Western cannons.

It will take time, and you can buy naval guns for the time being.

After all, the land of Jianfu is close to Guangdong and Guangxi, and some Western businessmen come here.

Then the muskets they created can basically reach the apex of the current technology.

At least the dosage is sufficient, and the musket is heavy, so there is no need to worry about exploding the chamber.

Quite well made and has a high firing rate.

There are enough pikemen and shield soldiers in front of the musketeers.

It uses a giant shield, which can resist throwing weapons such as axes.

You must know that in addition to being able to use light and heavy arrows, white armor soldiers are also good at throwing axes.

If you really only use long spears, you will definitely be beaten to pieces by the opponent.

The morale of soldiers cannot be expected to be high these days.

The advantage of the musket is that it allows a person who has only practiced for half a year to kill an elite fighter who has been practicing for 20 years.

Mingming’s firearms and car battalion, Mingming’s white armor, but dilapidated finances, coupled with contempt for craftsmen, lead to too bad muskets, plus no training, no military pay, poor morale, too early release, He didn't play at Qi Jiguang's level at all.

The red-clothed cannons cast later were specially supervised and used enough materials, so a fortress with ten red-clothed cannons was placed, and the Manchu Qing could only be besieged for a long time.

Direct attack, the loss of too many elite soldiers, they can not afford to lose.

A strong attack must be captured, but after a siege, 10 cannons fired 30 rounds in the defending city, killing 50 people in each round, which is equivalent to killing 5 people per shell, which is a loss of 1500 people.

How can this be tolerated?
Being hit by the artillery at this time is certain death.

And the opponent can specifically fight the opponent's elite soldiers.

Unless they hide elite soldiers out of range, how can they be opponents of Jia Ding just relying on armored bannermen?
It is impossible to fight with a large formation for siege, and the personal force of the servants is brought into play.