MTL - Number of People-Chapter 2648 Guizi scroll is undercurrent surging, anxious

  For the time being, the Raiders on the Grassland will not rise to the will of the country, as long as the Chahars and Tumeds don’t attack Dazhou on a large scale.

  The kind of small-scale raids and plunders, it is still difficult to make Da Zhou think of doing something on the grassland, because the price is too high.

  Until the traffic difficulties and logistical support are not completely resolved, the money spent on conquering the grasslands is like flowing water, and it is hard to solve the Jianzhou Jurchen issue.

  In the eyes of the imperial court, the Chahar and Tumot people are far less threatening than the Jianzhou Jurchen, but Liaodong is indispensable, so they will spare no effort to solve the Jianzhou Jurchen first.

Now it’s hard to catch my breath. Feng Ziying’s ten-year plan for the development of Liaodong does not require much money from the imperial court. As for the interests on the grassland, it is not enough for these interest groups to move their minds.

  Whether it is the gentry and merchants in the south of the Yangtze River or the businessmen in Shanxi and Shaanxi, they all have their own goals now.

The eyes of Jiangnan merchants are still aimed at Haimao and Nanyang. Baluoyuan Island (Palawan Island) on the Luzon side has officially entered the development stage. The coastal plain of the island is fertile, and the cultivation of rice and sugarcane has begun to take shape. .

Three crops a year and the huge profits of sucrose produced by sugar cane also aroused great interest from Jiangnan and Guangdong and Guangxi merchants. Therefore, starting from Baluoyuan Island as a pilot project, it has always attracted the attention of Jiangnan merchants and Guangdong and Guangxi merchants. It also aroused the interest of the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty in many islands further south, because there were more lucrative spice planting benefits there.

It turns out that everyone is still a little worried that Nanyang is too far away. Once the merchants or the people who migrated there are invaded and attacked, it will be difficult for the court to respond in time. After the threat of Jianzhou Jurchen disappeared, the imperial court was already considering exchanging some of the Denglai Navy and Fujian Navy with the Guangdong and Guangxi Navy, so as to get familiar with the sea conditions in Nanyang as soon as possible and form an anti-Nanyang navy as soon as possible. The deterrence of all parties.

Dongfan has become a model. Salt, rice, gold sand, and big wood were originally the four major specialties of Dongfan, but now sugarcane planting is rapidly catching up, and sucrose has replaced gold sand as one of the four major specialties. It began to supply Jiangnan and the capital continuously .

The merchants in Shanshan and Shaanxi focused more on physical industries such as iron smelting, iron making, cement, and shipbuilding, especially in Jiangnan and Guangdong and Guangxi where shipbuilding was originally relatively developed, but with the development of Dengzhou, Yuguan, Dagu, etc. With the rapid rise of the local shipbuilding industry, the shipbuilding industry in the north has gradually been able to keep pace with the south of the Yangtze River.

  In the two major industries of steel and cement, the north has formed an overwhelming advantage over the south.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, Wantong’s steel production in Dazhou in the past three years has accounted for more than 70% in the north, while only 30% in the south, and more than 90% in the cement production capacity. At present, the only cement company in the south of the Yangtze River The factory is located in Xuzhou, and it was also invested and built by Shanxi businessmen.

With the popularization of the use of cement, the demand for cement in various places is also increasing. It is also necessary to build new cement factories in Jiangnan, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi. Therefore, merchants from Shanshan and Shanxi are also moving south in large numbers, and they are in Guangzhou, Jinling, and Suzhou. Cement plants were set up in Nanchang, Nanchang and other places so as to be closest to the consumption area and maximize profits.

Under such circumstances, the two major powers that can control the imperial court in Dazhou are currently not very interested in the grassland. Their eyes are all on the industrial upgrading in Nanyang and the local territory. When they stabilized, Feng Ziying provided them with a test site in Liaodong that was wider than the grasslands. Of course, they were more willing to operate in Liaodong.

When the Liaodong battle report was sent to the capital city, the imperial court immediately announced the shocking news to the outside world. Nurhachi died of illness, Jianzhou Jurchen and even the entire Quanzhen family surrendered. Liaodong was unified and completely incorporated into the Great Zhou Dynasty. Jurisdiction, including the so-called "capital" Hetuala of the Jurchen in Jianzhou.

From the capital city to Jinling, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuchang, and Guangzhou, newspapers and periodicals all over the place quickly published the news, and many literati also began to write about such a war based on the various information they had. Specific experience and significance of victory.

  Without the confidant of the Jianzhou Jurchen, Da Zhou is like a dragon and a tiger freed from shackles, and can advance his strategy in any direction according to his own wishes.

  After many years of painful financial constraints, the imperial household department can also usher in a respite period, and can plan for the next imperial court vision according to its own intentions.

"Xianggong wants to go back?" It was still ice and snow outside the window, but the room was as warm as spring. Feng Ziying sat cross-legged on the kang, while checking Tongniang's writing and arithmetic homework, she casually answered Shen Yixiu's question: "Would you like to go home?" Seeing what the imperial court means, I have been in Liaodong for almost two years, and the imperial court’s idea is that it will take three years at the worst, and I think so too. The plan has just come out, and there is still a long way to go to implement it.”

   "My concubine, Da Zhang and Wen Ruo, have been traveling here a lot these days, and they are busier than they were during the war a while ago. Does Mr. Xiang really plan to continue working in Liaodong?" Shen Yixiu was very curious about this.

"Wen Ruo and Da Zhang have helped me a lot. Although they didn't play an obvious role in the war, they have made great contributions to logistical support and civil affairs. Although this follow-up matter has little to do with the war, but in the future One year will lay a solid foundation for the development of Liaodong in the next ten years. I hope that when I leave, the third division of Liaodong will be established, the administrative structure will be established, and the layout of Fuzhou will be established. This is my hard work. I don’t want people to lose their political power, and it will end up like a dog’s tail, and it’s anticlimactic.”

After Feng Ziying checked her daughter's homework, she hugged her daughter on her lap and sat down, "After the imperial court's approval, Liaodong needs more officials, including the establishment of prefectures, and the next step is to announce the appointment of a political envoy and a punishment. The establishment of an envoy requires quite a lot of officials, and the construction needs to keep up with it. There are so many things, it is very complicated and cumbersome, and it takes time. I need to be in charge to ensure that I don’t go astray,..."

"What does Mr. Xiang mean is that it's too early for us to go back, at least until next year?" Shen Yixiu laughed, "I don't mean to rush back to Beijing, and now all the sisters have come to Liaodong, except for the winter time in Liaodong. It's too long, it's a bit boring, but everything else is pretty good, and there are so many social interactions in Beijing and China,..."

"Wan Jun's words are a little insincere." Feng Ziying laughed, "I still hope to go back earlier, but I am afraid that the court will suddenly let me go back and delay things here, so I also seize every opportunity during this period Do it first, when you really want to leave, you have to arrange a lot of things, not in the center, after all, it is difficult to grasp the overall situation, I always feel that the time is not waiting for me,..."

   "I feel that my husband always has a sense of impending anxiety, and I don't know if it's the illusion of being a concubine." Shen Yixiu smiled while hugging his two-year-old son.

Shen Yixiu's intuition was correct. Feng Ziying was indeed feeling a little anxious. According to Chai Ke's letter, Qi Yongtai's health was getting worse and worse. He was sick at home last month, and there was also a sense of turmoil in the cabinet. Many people are not optimistic about Qi Yongtai's ability to complete a five-year cabinet term.

If Qi Yongtai is unable to persist in his health, once he becomes an official, Gu Bingqian will take over as the chief assistant according to the original agreement among scholars from the Northland, Jiangnan, and Huguang. It has only been more than two years now, is Li Sancai willing to become an official?

  If Li Sancai refuses to become an official, even if Gu Bingqian succeeds as chief assistant, he will still be challenged by Li Sancai.

  If Li Sancai wins the second assistant position, Gu Bingqian's prestige and character may not be able to suppress Li Sancai, and the cabinet will definitely be unstable at that time. It is hard to say which side Guan Yingzhen, Huang Ruliang and others will lean towards.

  Once the situation becomes turbulent, it might stir up the dormant Emperor Wantong.

  In the past few years, Emperor Wantong has been quite low-key. Even though the court has not made it clear who will succeed the crown prince, Emperor Wantong only criticizes and dissatisfies him, but he does not act too violently. This is exactly what Feng Ziying is most worried about.

   In a sense, Gu Bingqian and Li Sancai have something in common.

Gu Bingqian was originally the "imperial party" during Emperor Yonglong's time, but Gu Bingqian resolutely stood on the side of Ye Fang and Ye Fang when the North and the South were divided, and he made a successful bet. Huang Ruliang and the others had too little qualifications, otherwise they would not have been able to take Gu Bingqian's turn.

Similarly, when Li Sancai entered the cabinet, he did not get much support from scholars. The scholars in the north were too close to the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River because he was born in the north. He supported him very much, but in the end he walked through Emperor Yonglong's doorway, quietly confessed his sincerity to Emperor Yonglong, and finally entered the cabinet with the final word.

  This is also the reason why the scholars have always been suspicious of him and rejected him.

  Of course, Li Sancai's access to Emperor Yonglong's doorway was just a suspicion, and there was no definite evidence, it was just a testimonial, and now that the times have changed, it can't be said.

It's just that both Gu and Li have a "previous record" of making peace with the emperor, so it's hard to say what kind of consequences will it bring if Emperor Wantong finds an opportunity to take advantage of it and tries to stir up trouble in it. misfortune.

  Feng Ziying does not like this uncertain situation, he wants to control the situation. (end of this chapter)