After capturing Li Huamei and other pirates, the fleet never encountered any other accidents and returned to Hangzhou smoothly. At this time, it was the ninth day of the lunar month in the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the New Year had passed.
However, the Lantern Festival has not arrived yet, so the city in Hangzhou is still very lively.
This time, Ye Yaoying and Zhou Shiqi were still leading the team to the dock to welcome Shang Yi and his party. Seeing that Shang Yi's cheek was injured, everyone was shocked and hurried to greet him. Shang Yi simply said that it was a minor injury.
, it doesn't matter, so I took it there.
After landing on the dock, Shang Yi disbanded the army and temporarily held the pirates he captured and custody, and Li Huamei was handed over to Alisandra for custody. However, after being beaten by Shang Yi that day, Li Huamei's attitude was also
It was obviously much more honest, so Shang Yi also felt that this butt was really effective. As for the immigrants who came with the boat, Shang Yi also asked them to get off the shore, intending to let them celebrate the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou.
Then I sent them to Taiwan to settle down and ordered people to arrange accommodation and diet for them.
The officials in Hangzhou now have rich experience in resettling refugees. With the Qing army's invasion of the south, a large number of people from the north fled south with their families, so a large number of refugees fled to Zhejiang to take refuge, which was basically very proper.
It is no problem to accept these 6,000 people.
After dealing with all these matters, Shang Yi and Ye Yaoying returned to his governor's yamen residence.
At this time, Shang Yi's other wives and concubines, including Zhu Mu-chan, who had not yet officially passed by, were waiting for his return at home. When Shang Yi and Ye Yao-chan walked into the house together, everyone couldn't help but burst out.
But like Chen Yuanyuan and Zhu Meiyu are still a little reserved, and they stop a few steps away from Shang Yi. Only Lin Fengwu has received a lot of Western concepts since childhood, and she has always been cheerful and generous, so she is not embarrassed.
Rushing to Shang Yi, shouting, "Mr., you're back." Then he pounced on Shang Yi's open arm. Shang Yi also picked her up and turned her around for several times.
She kissed her forehead and then put her down. It made Chen Yuanyuan and Zhu Mai look envious and regretful. Why didn’t I take the lead just now? Otherwise, the one who is being held in Shang Yi’s arms is me.
However, after Shang Yi put down Lin Fengwu, Chen Yuanyuan immediately threw herself into Shang Yi's arms without hesitation. Shang Yi also picked her up, turned around several times, and then smiled and said, "I like this kind of thing."
Is it?"
Chen Yuanyuan also felt sweet in her heart and said, "I like it."
Then Yan Yi came to Zhu Meishi again and said, "My mother, I'm back. Are you okay?"
Now Zhu Mei has always lived in Shang Yi's mansion, and her subordinates have regarded her as Shang Yi's wife, but the two have not officially got married yet, and Zhu Mei is still a little bit of a princess's conscience. Therefore, although
He ran out, but stopped very far away, far less enthusiastic and proactive than Lin Fengwu and Chen Yuanyuan. However, after Shang Yi hugged Lin Fengwu and Chen Yuanyuan, he came to him, and Zhu Mai finally couldn't control himself.
The relationship also threw itself into Shang Yi's arms and said, "Husband, I miss you so much."
Shang Yi also picked her up and turned her around for a few times, and then kissed her cheek twice. Although Zhu Mo was ashamed, she was really happy.
After expressing his longing for everyone, everyone went into the house to sit down. At this time, the wives and concubines found the wound on Shang Yi's face. They screamed and came to Shang Yi one after another.
Visiting the sound of orioles and singing of swallows also made Shang Yi confused, and then he felt that the beauty was not so easy to enjoy. And all day, Shang Yi also spent the gentle village.
The next day, Shang Yi immediately recruited officials to investigate the progress of administrative work in Zhejiang during this period.
In fact, Shang Yi often goes out to fight like this, and officials have long been used to it. With Ye Yaoyang and Zhou Shiqi in Hangzhou, there will be no trouble. Moreover, all work is being carried out step by step. Two major points:
The land was almost half completed after the land was investigated, and the land found inventories exceeded the total land output in Zhejiang Province before the investigation. Therefore, it can also be seen how serious the land annexation and hidden real estate were in the late Ming Dynasty.
In terms of the details of commercial tax and customs collection have also been formulated, and it can only be officially implemented after Shang Yi determines it.
Although these work was underway and the process of inspecting the land was also subject to some resistance and opposition from local powerful forces, after severely punishing several major players who took the lead in resisting, other powerful forces finally understood that they were
Unable to compete with the merchant army, some of them chose to be unable to provoke or hide. The whole family left Zhejiang, but most of the powerful men could not leave, so they had to accept it honestly.
On the other hand, because land taxes in most parts of Zhejiang were exempted this year, and even places where taxes were still collected, they were exempted from bad habits such as additional consumption, additional taxation, and levy. At the same time, the government will go to the village in person to purchase grain.
When purchasing, there is no cost of raising tips, fire consumption and other expenses, which greatly reduces the farmers who really farm, and reduces their personal dependence on powerful households, thus indirectly weakens the power of powerful households.
The addition of the merchant army has vigorously promoted it, which has also made the farmers very grateful to the merchant army and laid a solid mass base in Zhejiang.
Although the new commercial tax law has not been officially implemented, the principle of encouraging merchants to invest in business has been conveyed, which has also aroused the interest of many merchants. In fact, there were still many merchants in ancient China who did not understand the social division of labor.
, handicrafts removes concepts such as agriculture, but they can also recognize the benefits of starting an industry. Although the initial investment is large, they can control the production of commodities, reduce the intermediate circulation links, reduce results, and increase profits.
In the past, the imperial court had too strict control over this area, so he did not dare to get involved. Now that Shang Yi has opened this hole, many businessmen have begun to engage in the idea. Before the New Year, they had registered twelve factory workshops in Zhejiang.
Register. And there are still a group that will pass the review procedures after the New Year.
Shang Yi's old Taishan Lin Zhiyang registered three factories in one go, one of which was the clothing factory transferred to him by Shang Yi, and the other two were also established with the support and help of Shang Yi, one was the wood factory, and the other was
Silk Products Processing Factory. Most of the other factory workshops that were first registered were Lin Zhiyang's friends in business. After they learned about Shang Yi's clear attitude from Lin Zhiyang, they also invested in and set up factories.
Many people asked Zhejiang Bank for loans, and further formed a group of businessmen who were dependent on Shang Yi.
Overall, the handicraft industry in Zhejiang Province has developed greatly, and capitalist Yinya has also grown fully. If this continues, the bourgeoisie and working class in China will grow and expand rapidly.
But at this moment, Li Gefei, the head of the Business Department, submitted a document sent by the Dutch to Shang Yi, which was a letter of protest.
It turned out that after Shang Yi occupied Taiwan, he had been immigrating to Taiwan. During this year, he organized more than ten immigrant fleets, with more than 70,000 immigrants. In addition, the Han residents originally from Taiwan,
Shang Yi's residents under Taiwan had exceeded 100,000. A total of 37 villages, eight people's communes were formed, and land was reclaimed and land was built. He also settled in Keelung.
The number of people also exceeded 10,000. The distribution range also expanded from the northeast of Taiwan to the Dadu and Erlin areas in central Taiwan. That is, Taichung City and Yunlin City areas in later generations.
The expansion of the Han population has not had a huge impact on the native natives of Taiwan, because the population of the indigenous people in Taiwan is not large, and most of the indigenous people do not farm and make a living by fishing and hunting. Therefore, there are not many direct ones on both sides.
Conflict of interest. On the contrary, the large increase in the Han population also made the indigenous animal skins, bones, fish, mountain fruits, herbs and other items very popular. Moreover, the Han people provided them with a large amount of food, salt, sugar and vegetables for exchange.
In addition, Han people have relatively gentle personalities and do not like to bully the weak. Instead, they trade fairly, so the two sides get along more harmoniously.
But this attracted the attention of the Dutch people occupying southwest Taiwan, because in the agreement between Shang Yi and the Dutch, except for the territory occupied by both parties, most of the middle is public areas, and both parties can use public areas.
Freely carry out reclaiming, mining, enrolling, and preaching indigenous people. However, the other party's own development area shall not be occupied. At the same time, the Dutch are not allowed to incorporate Chinese settlements in public areas. If Chinese in areas controlled by the Dutch are to be moved to the controlled area of the merchant army
The Dutch were not allowed to stop them. At that time, the Dutch felt that there was nothing wrong with these conditions, so they agreed.
Most of the newly built villages and people's communes of the Han people are in public areas, which means that these areas are now the territory of merchants. And there are also many Chinese and indigenous people in the areas controlled by the Dutch.
Dissatisfied with the oppressive rule of the Dutch, they fled to the Chinese settlements of the merchant army to seek rescue and protection. Of course, the Han people also accepted them all.
As a result, a total of thousands of people escaped from the Dutch-controlled areas during this year. The population under the Dutch was only 30,000 to 40,000. So many people fled in an instant, because they were Han people, they almost fled.
Most of the Dutch naturally noticed it. When he saw that most of the Taiwan was occupied by the Han people. The Dutch were not fools, and immediately understood that there was a huge loophole in the original agreement, which made Shang Yi.
If you take advantage of the loopholes, if you don’t stop the attack, you will probably be occupied by Shang Yi in the entire Kita area of Taiwan.
Therefore, the Dutch Taiwanese official De Laodian sent his subordinate De Koman to Hangzhou with a letter of protest to negotiate with Shang Yi.