Chapter 194
The Liu family is doing their best to rescue disasters, and from any perspective, it is actually a dead end.
What is a situation of death?
So many refugees have flocked to Laizhou. If there is no effective treatment, these people will not be willing to starve or freeze to death. In the end, it will only cause civil rebellion and cause local degeneration again.
Even if the Liu family does their best to provide disaster relief, they will eventually spend all their money and food. If you have no money and food these days, you will have nothing.
So when the other party sets this situation for them, they will be in a dilemma no matter what.
But in the end, Liu Bu was allowed to break the situation with Fan Yongdou's move.
It is actually the most appropriate to use the money plundered from Fan Yongdou for disaster relief.
There are so many refugees and refugees on the Jiaodong Peninsula. If we count it strictly, it will be a contribution from him, Fan Yongdou. The millions of wealth he has accumulated are accumulated from the flesh and blood and corpses of countless people.
So now it is considered to be taken from the people and used for the people. At first, Liu Bu was a little confused and thought that what he did was too amazing. But later he saw that all the money was spent on the people. He went to various places to inspect the resettlement sites they set up in Laizhou. Most of the refugees in most of their resettlement sites could wear warm clothes, eat enough, and have a place to live, which made him feel relieved.
There was no phenomenon of people starving to death and freezing to death in the wild. All the homeless and disaster victims entering all over Laizhou will be resettled by the government. When Liu Bu saw this, he felt that there was nothing to worry about.
Others were plotting against their Liu family, but they finally broke through the situation with their army and successfully broke the enemy's calculations against them.
The Liu family has also successfully completed the transformation, and their current structural composition is also very good.
Liu Yuanqiao, the patriarch of their family, served as the prefect of Laizhou, and was in charge of the two prefectures and five counties. The local military power was basically in the hands of their father and son.
Except for the direction of Pingdu Prefecture, their military power is not in control. However, with the strength of their Liu family army, they are invincible in Laizhou. The guards in Pingdu Prefecture have no choice but to fight them.
Their business has also changed. With such a strong army and so many servants, they must have enough business and income to support this.
In the past, they relied on business, and they relied on this canal to do business, but they were one of the super vampires in the Grand Canal.
But now Liu Yuanqiao no longer holds a position in Linqing Tax Customs, so he cannot use his position to conduct large-scale smuggling, tax evasion, and it is even more impossible to play with his equivalent exchange as before, leaving their Liu family's fleet unobstructed throughout the canal area.
Of course, their Liu family's business can still be done. They still need their huge fleet to transport materials on the front line of the canal, but it is impossible to get so many huge profits and amazing profits like before.
However, they have now obtained two pillar industries. The first is their salt. In the past, their salt was just inferior salt, but now they can produce high-quality salt themselves, which can allow them to make huge profits and huge profits. Salt is a must for people's livelihood and has always been monopolized by the state and is very profitable.
On the other hand, they are their high-altitude wines. Only the winery in the Liu family can manufacture such high-altitude wines. They are very popular on the market. It is said that caravans from all over the country are directly holding silver, driving carriages, and waiting for the wine to be transported at the door of their winery, which is very easy to sell.
Just the things like wine and salt have brought them a lot of profits.
In addition, they can no longer do huge profitable business and transactions through the canal, but they can still sell supplies to eat overseas through their Liu family’s dock here in Fushan.
This is Qingdao.
They own the best high-quality wharf here. They purchased various Ming specialties such as silk, porcelain, tea, and raw silk collected from all over the country, and then transported them to North Korea and Japan through the Zheng family's fleet, and even transported them to various parts of Nanyang for sale.
This is also a huge oil and water road that can make them rich. If this can be done, it can ensure their family's wealth and support so many people.
And they also had a majestic plan, that is, after so many wars here, a large number of refugees were generated. They began to register these refugees and then arranged them to farm in various places.
At present, their Liu family's factory is basically full of people. These people are actually working for them for free, only food and accommodation, and no wages. For example, their clothing factory produces so many cloths and so many clothes, and they can sell them abroad.
So in Liu Fuqi's plan, they would open a series of factories. Others seemed to have gathered more than 100,000 yuan to eat, but under Liu Fuqi's clever arrangement, they entered the Liu family's factory to work, which was equivalent to collecting more than 100,000 workers in various places. As long as these workers generate output value at that time, it would be amazing.
Of course, the Liu family's factory is very large at present, but it cannot accommodate so many people, so they can only support these people for the time being. As long as they wait until next spring, they can arrange more people to farm, and this whole game of chess will be alive.
If they revitalize this game of chess, they will not carry a burden of more than 100,000, but will have a population of more than 100,000 and a free labor force.
With the Liu family's personality, it is impossible to directly turn the other party into a slave like Jiannu. He will still pay his salary, but the salary is very low, which is as low as it is equivalent to not having money, which also ensures that people basically survive.
If they achieved this, their Liu family would probably be the top Shandong tyrants like the Lu Palace, De Palace, and Confucius Palace.
So now Liu Bu knew how smart and foresighted his father was, and he had been making him all the time. Their alliance with the Zheng family was not the meaning of getting the dowry or the money and grain of the Zheng family, but the ability to cooperate with the Zheng family in trade and earn more money.
You should know that the Zheng family’s father and daughter are both one of the top giants of the Zheng family and are in charge of a lot of money and power. In this regard, they can open the door to convenience. Therefore, only the things they produce when they open factories and the products they acquire from various places can be sold overseas.
In this way, even if the transformation of the Liu family did not rely on canal business, and even if they did this part of the business, they could make a lot of money and silver. You should know that the powerful people of this era did not pay taxes, and no one dared to collect taxes from them.
The wharf they own is their own, and there is no official department to enter. At the same time, the Laizhou Bay area where they are located is actually a major coastal defense center and a major border defense center.
There were still naval troops here in the past, but because of the Wuqiao mutiny last year, they also suffered huge losses. Some of their navigators were even carried to Liaodong by Kong Youde and others and surrendered to Jiannu. So for the time being, there was a situation where there was no defense in their place.
This provided them with a convenient door for sea smuggling trade. Originally, if they had no navy here, they would instead surrender to Jiannu, and they would be in a very dangerous situation. However, since the Zheng family formed an alliance with them, Zheng Zhibao promised to send some fleets to provide protection for them, which greatly enhanced their safety.
After he heard that there was no defense here, he sent a fleet to protect the safety of their area. Of course, it was just a cruise and was not under the jurisdiction of Denglai. This fleet was under the command of Zheng Zining.
Zheng Zhibao was also very interested in Liu Yuanqiao's suggestion that he would send ships to the north and follow the example of Mao Wenlong, who was so powerful in the world, to serve the imperial court. In fact, he also had the heart to make achievements. If he could make achievements, he would be very willing and willing to make achievements. If it were someone else's words, he would think it was unreliable. You should know that Mao Wenlong had someone chopped his head, his men had a mutiny, and even caused a mutiny in Wuqiao, which ended up without any good results. However, this was planned by Liu Yuanqiao, so he was very lucky.
In his eyes, there is nothing that Brother Liu can't do.
In fact, the Zheng family fleet has been moving in the south and rarely extends to the north, so they dare not extend their hands directly to the Bohai Sea for a while.
We must understand the terrain, hydrology and monsoon conditions here before we dare to put forces here. They are experienced sea veterans and will not send fleets here casually. At that time, many situations that they don’t even recognize waterways will occur.
However, Zheng Zining had already started working. She sent many detection ships to the area to collect local hydrology and various intelligences, and prepare for her fleet entry.
Another one is that after Jiannu obtained the fleet that Kong Youde and others carried over, he thought it was flying in the sky, which was very amazing. In fact, he was gradually preparing to cross the sea to attack the Denglai area.
Who knew that after Zheng Zining ordered their large warships to go around here, the other party was frightened and never dared to come again, because their largest warship was more than twice as small as the Zheng family's warship. After seeing such a huge warship in the Zheng family, they never dared to act rashly again.
Chapter completed!