Chapter 547 The string that prevents the army from corrupting must be tightened at all times!
It is true that Zhu Youjian has the ambition to be able to own a large consortium. It's just that small people like Huang Zongxi and others really can't get into Zhu Youjian's eyes now.
Are you kidding me? No matter how capable Huang Zongxi, Luo Shihong and others are, they will only be able to integrate into a small group with an output value of one million taels in the short term. With such a size, if you want to compete with the uterine delivery system with an output value of 40 million taels.
Wrist, even if it is possible, it still has to go a long way.
To be honest, what Zhu Youjian is most worried about now is that the uterine delivery business system is too large and there are no qualified opponents to compete. Over time, the entire system will become large and inefficient. Therefore, from the perspective of healthy development,
Consider it necessary to raise a wolf-like competitor for the uterine delivery system.
However, in the entire Ming Dynasty, it seems difficult to find a qualified competitive wolf as a training target. At present, if the Shanxi merchants and Jiangnan gentry group are regarded as a whole, their total capital is at the level of tens of millions of taels of silver dollars.
The consortium. However, they are not a whole, and their organization is quite loose. They cannot form an overall competitive force like the uterine delivery system, so in the short term, it is impossible to find a competitive wolf among them.
In addition to these two consortiums, are there any other consortiums in Ming Dynasty? Of course there are, such as Eunuch Capital, which Zhu Youjian specially supports, and their capital size is not small now. But this group of people is a bit disappointing to Zhu Youjian,
Although they have money, their vision and courage have never improved. Now these guys have no idea of making a big difference in the manufacturing and commerce industries. Most of the money in their hands has gone to investment in restaurants, shops and other industries.
Based on their virtues, it is estimated that sooner or later they will become some kind of real estate investor consortium!
The capital of the eunuchs who cannot hold up the wall is of no use. After thinking about it, it seems that only the Damu family has the possibility to become a qualified competitive wolf.
After fighting for more than half a year, the Southeast Naval Battle finally came to fruition. In July, Ren Shuangyou, Fang Ruocheng, and Zhang Mingzhen fought an unprecedented naval battle off the coast of Fuzhou with a combined fleet composed of the Zheng family, the Dutch, and the Spanish.
The final result was that the Dutch and Spanish could not bear the losses and fled from the naval battle, while the Zheng family had to completely hunker down in Fuzhou and Xiamen ports.
In the second half of the battle, the Zheng Cai fleet in the north also went south to join the battle. However, their combat mission was not to directly fight the three-party joint fleet, but to regain control of the Penghu Islands.
After retaking the Penghu Islands, the Ming Dynasty Navy completely controlled the sea control of the Taiyuan Strait. The Ming Dynasty Maritime Corridor mentioned by Zhu Youjian was almost controlled by the navy. In the future, the war and trade initiative in this sea area will be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
, it will be difficult for other military forces to find a place.
The direction of the war was extremely unfavorable to the Zheng family. Faced with this extremely unfavorable situation, they once again turned to peace talks.
"Let Zheng Hongkui, the representative of the Zheng family, come to Dengzhou for peace talks. This time, I have to trouble Lord Sikong to go to Dengzhou and finalize the recruitment matters with the Zheng family. The principles of recruitment are similar to the conditions I gave you years ago. Zheng Zhilong is still a feudal lord.
It's just that he has to retire from active service and no longer hold military power! Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Sen and other Zheng family generals can continue to serve in the army, but they have to go to the Naval University to participate in a six-month general officer training course, and will be awarded formal military positions after graduation. The Zheng family's
Five thousand soldiers and horses were selected and mixed into the current order of the navy, and 10,000 selected infantrymen continued to remain in the army. The remaining soldiers and horses were all restored to civilian status, and the Zheng family commercial agency was responsible for their accommodation and resettlement.
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"Your Majesty, the Zheng family has been completely crippled. Why do they still give such good recruitment conditions? According to your Majesty's regulations, the Zheng family can still continue its maritime trade business with an annual income of tens of millions of silver dollars." Wu Di
After listening to Zhu Youjian's instructions on the peace talks, he couldn't help but become anxious. After fighting for more than half a year, in the end he didn't get back the most valuable asset of the Zheng family. Wasn't his efforts in vain?
The cabinet now has a clear understanding of the size of the Zheng family's economy. Grandma's legs, this family really has a running business of over ten million taels of silver a year! They are simply as rich as the country. How could this be possible?
How can you make a lot of money by continuing to tolerate them?
"Prime Minister, our court is not a bandit. As long as they comply with the laws of the court and operate law-abidingly, no matter how much money they make, or even more money than the palace system, they will be tolerated. This is from a righteous perspective.
From a practical point of view, the role of the Zheng family in maritime trade is irreplaceable for the time being. The Ming Dynasty needs a large-scale maritime merchant gang to communicate with Nanyang, Japan, and the southeastern coast. Without the Zheng family, this would be impossible.
There will be a gap in the commercial trade in the Dao sea area, which can only be filled by overseas shipping groups. Other maritime merchants in our country do not have the ability to replace the Zheng family for the time being."
"Your Majesty, why don't you let the navy temporarily take over the maritime trade transportation of this trade route? Anyway, the navy is not short of ships now. Without the Zheng family behind the enemy, the ships will be idle."
"Absolutely not! An army is an army and must not be used as a caravan. Their mission is to conduct naval battles and border patrols! The Ming Dynasty army learned a very profound lesson from participating in business. The Guanning Army and the border troops in the Nine Towns were disabled, and business participation was an important reason.
First, we must not repeat the same mistakes again. The army cannot participate in business, and the navy cannot participate in business. Without the Zheng family, will the navy have no rivals? The Kazuto stronghold on Taiyuan Island is still there, and the west side of Luzon Island is still there.
The Francons are also watching with eager eyes! This is just the hostile force in the coastal waters of the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the whole world, the hundreds of warships in the navy are simply not enough."
Zhu Youjian sternly rejected the bad idea put forward by Wu Gang and asked the navy to run the transportation. What did it sound like? It was easy to open this hole, but it was difficult to close it. When the navy gained huge benefits from participating in maritime trade, then let the navy do the transportation.
They hold back their hands and feet, fearing that it is impossible and erosion will be inevitable.
The string that prevents the army from rotting must be tightened at all times. Once there is a sign, it must be eradicated in time, otherwise the consequences will be endless. Sometimes, Zhu Youjian really admires the Anglo-Saxons of later generations. Anyway, in ancient and modern history, people like them
It is really rare for that nation to be able to maintain its army for a long time without large-scale erosion. Whether it was the era of the Empire on which the sun never sets, or the later era of the Emperor of Japan, as a long-term world hegemon, their army actually
It's really hard to understand that it didn't collapse like other imperial armies. Anyway, Zhu Youjian didn't have that confidence in the Ming Dynasty's army!