"Master, don't the great scholars from the south of the Yangtze River hate you the most? Why do you come here so shamelessly to give away money and beauties?"
Yuzhu smiled slightly and said: "They are afraid of losing their vested interests. Although they hate me to death, they still believe in my promises. After all, as long as it is something I have promised, so far, the breach of trust rate has been zero."
"Yes, Master, you always mean what you say!" Niu Tai rubbed his head, hehe hehehe.
"With my power and status, I can say bluntly: the so-called contract is equivalent to a piece of waste paper." Yuzhu smiled faintly, "But, I never bother to do that."
"Master, this slave doesn't understand." Niu Tai is uneducated and doesn't understand at all. What is a contract?
If we want capitalism to sprout, we must strictly restrict large landowners from obtaining excessive profits from the land.
At this time, there are two methods. One is to send out armed land reform working groups to forcibly confiscate the land and property of the landlords. The other is to use the scissor gap between industry and agriculture to make the income from growing food on the land less and less.
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Let the money rotate and make the money generate money. This is the right principle!
National capitalists are obviously a more progressive force than big bureaucrats and big landowners.
What the big landowners were like thousands of years ago is still the same today, with no change at all.
However, the big capitalists are different. Fierce competition requires them to work hard to improve production efficiency and reduce production costs.
In large-scale industrial production, large areas of wasteland are actually cheaper to level than paddy fields.
The big landowners in Jiangnan, fearing that their interests would be damaged, chose to invest in Yuzhu in advance.
With Yuzhu's character, it is definitely impossible to do the kind of thing of killing the goose and seizing the eggs.
You know, faith is ten thousand times more precious than gold!
Never increase land tax, OK, I can build industry, you scissors. I can also increase the current ridiculously low 5% commercial tax to 20%, right?
If we are not allowed to increase taxes, I can still import a large amount of grain from Southeast Asia and carry out grain dumping in specific areas!
There is too much food to eat, and even if the grassroots people suffer losses, they still have enough to eat. However, the losses of the big landowners are extremely heavy!
Do it for several years and see if you sell the land?
All in all, his outstanding knowledge determined that Yuzhu had N ways to get rid of the big landowners in Jiangnan without breaking his face.
Jiang Sheng was true to his word. After negotiating the terms, he took the initiative to send three ships, a total of eight million taels of silver, and five unparalleled beauties.
Yu Zhu actually doesn't care much about the amount of money, because he is the one who issues the invoice number!
As we all know, financial capitalists are the most profitable and richest of all capitalists.
Uniting all the forces that can be united means that when the strength is not enough to conquer the world, the big landowners in Jiangnan remain neutral, which relieves the pressure on Yuzhu.
Yuzhu just needs that they don't side with the Eight Banners nobles.
In human terms, I don't need your help, I just need not to cause any trouble.
It is worth mentioning that the wealthy families in Jiangnan really spent a lot of money this time.
The five beauties they sent to Yuzhu were all as beautiful as Xiuyun.
Let's put it this way, they are completely inadequate to describe their amazing beauty!
When the old emperor was alive, Yuzhu pretended to be a lecher. However, after pretending for a long time, he became real.
Anyway, Yuzhu is not a good person.
Corruption is definitely not allowed. It is inevitable to bully the powerful by taking advantage of power. He is lustful, hehe, of course he is lustful!
Yuzhu pointed out the beautiful girl he liked the most and ordered her to sleep with him that night.
Unexpectedly, the pretty girl refused.
I saw her bowing gracefully and saying coquettishly: "To be honest with you, Zhongtang, I am the legitimate daughter of the Chen family in Haining. How can I sleep with her without knowing it?"
Hey, is this a question of status?
Seeing that the beautiful girl was particularly pretty and delicious, Yuzhu wanted to temporarily win over the big families in Jiangnan, so he smiled and said: "Well, you will not be missing from the concubine documents."
What happened to the legitimate daughter of the Chen family in Haining? Do you still want to be my first wife?
However, Mei Niu said: "I still need to serve tea to Mrs. Beizi."
Yuzhu understood that the beautiful girl in front of him was actually not willing to be a concubine, and deliberately wanted to delay the time of losing her virginity.
Mrs. Beizi naturally refers to Xiuyun, not Cao Chun.
It was obvious that the beautiful girl in front of him should have inquired about Yuzhu's family affairs in advance.
Yuzhu was too lazy to talk nonsense, and pointed directly to the next beautiful girl, past the most pleasing girl.
"I accept my order." This beautiful girl agreed without any pretense.
Yuzhu immediately ordered: "The four of them will serve you from now on."
In just one sentence, Yuzhu suppressed the other four beauties and turned them into girls serving concubines.
She was already sent to be a concubine, and you still dare to put on airs, huh, is your master a fool?
Mixing sand, beating sticks, poaching corners, and disintegrating the so-called allies, Yuzhu is simply too good at it!
The big family in the south of the Yangtze River sent five beauties instead of one at the same time. Apparently they wanted to sow more and reap less. As long as one of the five was favored, they would be satisfied.
I'm afraid that if none of the five of them fall into Yuzhu's eyes, that would be a shame.
As for Yuzhu, he deliberately promoted one to be a concubine and demoted the other four to girls.
Although it is not the best result, it is the least bad result, and everyone can barely accept it.
After all, there is still one concubine left, and Yuzhu has already given her face.
After Jiang Sheng came again, he refused to leave. After all, the big families in Jiangnan, after spending so much money at once, must gain some real power, right?
Yuzhu heard the song and knew its elegant meaning, so he followed the trend and appointed Jiang Sheng as the general office of the New Army Camp Affairs Office.
The Battalion Affairs Office is a temporary organization within the New Army, and its scope of duties is similar to that of the New Army Secretariat.
The officeholders of these temporary agencies are called superintendents or general offices with particularly high grades, deputy chiefs are called general managers, those with lower qualifications are called assistant chiefs, and those who are responsible for handling daily routine affairs are called sitting chiefs.
The General Office of the Battalion Affairs Office is equivalent to the Secretary-General of the New Army.
He is given enough face, his status is high enough, and he can participate in many secrets.
As Yuzhu got older, he paid special attention to the concept that investment and income are directly proportional.
Since the big businessmen in Jiangnan are so optimistic about his prospects and even go to the extent of letting things go, Yuzhu must also show sincerity.
Otherwise, who will be willing to invest heavily in you in the future?
The 8 million taels of real gold and silver invested by Jiangnan's big families were enough to pay the 50,000 new troops for nearly a year. They are indeed full of sincerity!
The great warlord Yuzhu has more than three years of military pay in his pocket, and he does not need a penny from the court. What is the nature of this?
Use as much time as possible!
The later the war starts, the better it will be for Yuzhu!
Yuzhu did not regard Jiang Sheng as an outsider at all. On the first day Jiang Sheng took office, Yuzhu took him to see the actual drill of the 8-pound army artillery.
Because no prior notice was given, when Jiang Sheng and Yuzhu rushed to the drill ground, a foreign artillery instructor was conducting live-fire training.
"Openfire!"
Following the order from the foreign artillery instructor, twenty 8-pound field army cannons opened fire almost simultaneously.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The artillery position was immediately enveloped in white smoke.
I saw twenty huge solid bullets with bases quickly leaving the gun barrel, flying into the air, and smashing viciously into the densely packed wooden pile area.
"Click..."
"Boom..."
Within the reach of the naked eye, densely packed wooden piles were smashed to pieces and were in a mess.
Yuzhu knew that Jiang Sheng did not understand military affairs, so he explained: "Those wooden stakes replace the enemy's dense military formation."
Jiang Sheng couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, my dear, the cannonball is still so powerful from a hundred feet away, it is really a weapon of divine punishment!
The European cannon smoothbore cannons of this era were just like the muskets lined up to shoot. There was no accuracy at all.
The artillery firing method trained by foreign instructors is to divide all artillery into two batches and fire salvos in batches to increase the lethality of the artillery.
The huge power of the Army God shook Jiang Sheng's heart, his face was as pale as paper, his hands were trembling slightly, and his legs were weak.
However, after the shock, Jiang Sheng wiped away cold sweat and secretly felt grateful.
This big investment was really done right!
Seeing Jiang Sheng's embarrassment, Yuzhu couldn't help but smile.
In fact, due to the limitations of cast iron technology, this cannon can only fire less than forty times in a row before it must stop firing.
Wait an hour for the barrel to cool down naturally before firing again.
Of course, Yuzhu deliberately brought Jiang Sheng here to broaden his horizons. As for the disadvantages of artillery, hehe, there is no need to tell him.
"Brother Jusheng, I wonder if the Green Camp soldiers in Jiangnan were defeated on the spot after being bombarded by this artillery?" Yuzhu asked Jiang Sheng with a smile.
Jiang Sheng was the eldest son of the Jiang family in Jiangnan. His family had a great business and great influence. He had seen the actual training of the Green Camp soldiers.
However, Jiang Sheng is not stupid. Yuzhu obviously used the Green Camp soldiers as a cover, and was actually talking about the Eight Banners soldiers.
As we all know, in order to prevent the Green Camp soldiers from causing rebellion, the Qing government ordered that all Green Camp soldiers in each province, except for the navy, were not equipped with artillery!
"Alas, with such a heroic army in the middle hall, we can conquer the world!" Jiang Sheng also cooperated in playing charades.
The saying that the world can be obtained is actually like searching for something in a bag!
The wealthy people in Jiangnan, who spent so much money on Yuzhu, certainly hope that the rising tide will lift all boats.
If Yuzhu proclaims himself emperor, everyone can follow him to become a marquis and worship the prime minister!
After coming out of the artillery, Yuzhu led Jiang Sheng to the infantry training ground.
I saw rows of new recruits undergoing formation training under the beating of sticks by non-commissioned officers.
The queue of new recruits is actually not much to see.
However, Jiang Sheng's attention was quickly attracted by the neat movements of the demonstration class.
"It's really an iron army!" Jiang Sheng actually didn't understand it, but felt that it was extremely rare to have neat steps and consistent actions.