After Wen Rensheng finished recommending them, Governor Wang called these people together.
"You are all recommended by my nephew, and I believe in your abilities. As long as you do well, I will recommend you to be a ninth-grade miscellaneous official based on your merits..."
Hearing this, the accountants kneeling on the ground all burst into tears of gratitude.
If you really become an official, you will reach the sky in one step.
How difficult it is to go from civilian to official.
The only route that ordinary people can know is to take the imperial examination.
Everyone understands the difficulty of the imperial examination.
Many great talents who are knowledgeable about the past and present may not be able to win the imperial examination in their lifetime, or even become a scholar.
But they may become officials, no, even becoming officials is good.
Wen Rensheng looked at these people and shook his head in his heart.
The governor Wang's words made him angry when he heard them.
With so many people, how is it possible to recommend them one by one?
And they don’t know how difficult it is to do it well.
But it is life-threatening.
Land, this thing, is enough to make people take risks.
If they don't dare to attack the governor, why don't they dare to attack specific clerks?
These people are honest in nature, they will definitely not think of this level, and they will definitely check and clean up carefully.
It’s too easy to offend people.
Originally, their character is to offend people easily, otherwise, they would not be in trouble.
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is already very corrupt.
However, for Wen Rensheng, there are still 5% outstanding people in this rotten Ming Dynasty.
There's just no one organizing these people together.
If these 5% of people can be organized together, then they will definitely become very powerful.
The population of Ming Dynasty is between 100 million and 200 million.
5% is 5 to 10 million.
The rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty only relied on 60,000 soldiers and 200,000 soldiers.
In the meantime, the savage Jurchens were constantly captured to make up for the losses. At least tens of thousands of people were lost before and after.
If these 5 million people gathered together, Wen Rensheng believed that they would be invincible.
Just relying on the most traditional and backward ideas of loyalty and filial piety is enough to crush everything.
The question is how to bring these people together?
Then we need to develop ancient logistics.
But transportation in ancient times was too poor. The only good transportation was water network transportation.
For example, why did it cost so much to build a canal?
The cost of land transportation is more than 20 times that of water transportation.
To transport grain, a large cart requires two mules and a driver, and can only pull 700 to 1,000 kilograms, and no more than 2,000 kilograms at most.
The vehicle also needs to be repaired from time to time. If it cannot run 100 miles, the wheels and other parts must be repaired.
A driver with two mules can travel up to 60 miles a day. It takes more than half a month to travel hundreds of miles, and requires a lot of food.
The same ordinary boat can also carry 2,000 to 7,000 kilograms of things. It only needs 2 people, or even one person can punt it if the current is smooth.
Not to mention that the sea can be sailed by the wind, which does not require manpower and is more economical.
People definitely eat less than mules, and the maintenance period of boats is much shorter than that of cars.
After all, one has to constantly rub, collide, and roll on the rugged road; the other is traveling on a gentle waterway, so as long as it doesn't hit the rocks, it won't be a big deal.
Therefore, those who march must take the water route if there is a water route. Unless necessary, such as a sneak attack, few generals insist on taking the land route.
So Wen Rensheng thought of a way.
Establish maritime logistics along the coast.
Establish river transport logistics along the river.
Don't touch it by land.
There are too many forces involved in the land route.
In comparison, river transportation and sea transportation are relatively rare.
After all, you need a boat to set up a jam on the water, and it needs to be a better boat. Ordinary squires can't do this.
Just like no one in future generations can set up cards in the sky to collect taxes...
After the logistics is established, among these 5 million people, Wenrensheng may gather 200,000 people.
After all, there are still many densely populated cities along the river and coast.
It can be said that these people are more public-minded than selfish, are willing to serve until death, and are willing to save the Ming Dynasty.
Even if Ming sucks, they are still willing.
In the final analysis, it is the years of loyalty and filial piety that have penetrated into their hearts.
There are still many people loyal to the Ming Dynasty, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and some generals from generation to generation. What is the You family, the Ma family...
The He family.
Cao family.
Those generals, although they drank the blood of their soldiers, they were still willing to risk their lives to save the Ming Dynasty.
It's a pity that they couldn't concentrate. They could only be implicated by those trash, holding them back on the battlefield and leading to collapse.
As a result, the overall situation seems to be a lot, but when it comes to the battlefield, it is necessary to attack more with less.
After settling this matter, Wen Rensheng left the governor's mansion.
He went to find a shop to seek refuge with himself.
What kind of store are you going to open?
The first is the blacksmith shop, the second is the carpenter's shop, and the third is the cloth shop.
These are all related to shipbuilding.
Of course he is still in the northwest now, and sooner or later he will move to the southeast.
Southeast Water Network is the best place for the development of the logistics industry.
Because he cannot use leapfrog advanced technology, he can only integrate it.
Integration is to use existing technologies to come together.
He ordered Xie Changgeng to find him.
Soon we found seven or eight families who were willing to join us.
In fact, many businesses have nowhere to turn.
How can they get close to the governor?
Even officials such as county magistrates and chief clerks are unreliable to them.
They just struggle to survive, dealing with the oppression of the government servants and various gangsters, and they will be slaughtered as fat sheep one day.
Those businesses that make a lot of money are all opened by officials, nobles, eunuchs, and vassals with backgrounds.
For example, salt, silk, tea, raw silk, money chests, etc...
There is no need to find another backer from the beginning.
Wen Rensheng asked these people to take refuge in his name and gave them the posts.
If something goes wrong, just take the post to the concierge.
Now he is a scholar and a celebrity in Futai.
He did not touch the cakes of those big merchants.
They are just looking for some little shrimps to be their backers.
General bureaucrats will still give this face.
The worst thing is to eat someone else.
Anyway, businesses are like weeds. If they are cut this year, they will grow again next year.
Of course they don't care, what a terrible thing will grow out in the end.
Three large and small shops have been affiliated with each other. The highest cost is Xie Changgeng's 20,000 taels, and the lowest is only 200 taels.
A total of 50,000 taels of business capital.
He is a staff member with a Futai background, but he can still cover him up.
As for why other staff don’t do this, it’s because they take too much trouble.
They don’t want to support others every day, they want easy money. For example, if you eat dry stocks, you don’t have to worry about anything.
However, they have forgotten that in that case they will have no manpower and no support.
When Wen Rensheng was enriching stores and integrating store talents, Governor Wang also began to take action.
Clear the acres.
In just half a month, they cleared 20,000 acres of land from the eunuchs of the palace.
It will also exceed Governor Wang’s expectations.
These are all occupied official lands.
That is to say, it was originally the land of the government. The land properties of the Ming Dynasty were very complicated. There were civilian fields, official fields, imperial villas, military fields, owned by vassal kings, and occupied by eunuchs.
There is a lot of fertile land.
If the town has 20,000 acres more official land, it will be able to produce an additional 80,000 shi of fine grain a year.
The reason is simple. Those lands are along rivers, with canals and even waterwheels.
Only good land is worthy of the efforts of the eunuchs of the royal palace.
Guaranteed harvests despite droughts and floods are not empty words.
Even if you put more effort and manage it more carefully, you don’t need any advanced technology. As long as you use the things mentioned in the agricultural books of this era, you can produce one more stone per acre, which means more productivity. 20,000 stones.
In fact, agricultural technology spreads very slowly.
Even though there are agricultural books, most people are illiterate, and scholars disdain to learn miscellaneous knowledge, and they all devote their energy to the meaning of the eight-part classic in the imperial examination.
This results in the hard-earned technology being unable to spread and failing to promote social progress.
There is no greater harm to the Confucian family than this.
Although a few Confucian scholars also realize the importance of miscellaneous studies, it is difficult to change the mentality of everyone.
After clearing 20,000 acres, Governor Wang announced that it would stop.
This also brought the undercurrent that was about to move to an abrupt end.
Anyway, the two eunuchs who had enriched themselves were killed. The vassal king did not have an advantage against the governor.
What's more, the governor increased expenses for the court.
The emperor will only be happy after seeing it.
As for the saying of "kissing", in the face of 80,000 shi of grain, which is equivalent to about 40,000 taels of silver, even if you give half of it to the tenant farmers, you still have 20,000 taels. What do two eunuchs mean?
It is impossible for the emperor to remove a governor for this matter, he will only praise the other governor for doing things well.
Unless the other party provokes a larger force and causes trouble for the emperor, the governor will be unlucky.
For example, Xue Guoguan in the late Chongzhen period was very brave and proposed that "we will be responsible for the borrowings of the officials outside the country; the borrowings of the emperor's relatives and relatives inside must be made by the emperor."
Obviously it was for the sake of the court's expenses, but in the end, the nobles used the prince's illness to spread rumors to counterattack. Chongzhen himself did not take responsibility and was afraid to retreat. Instead, he secretly hated this old man, and finally killed him while someone was impeaching him.
You must know that the other party is an old minister of the Gege. Since Xia Yan was killed, he was the second minister to be killed.
There are so many such things, it’s no wonder that in the end Li Zicheng attacked BJ. No one defended him, and no ministers resisted. 90% of them knelt down and surrendered.
Chongzhen had nowhere to escape and could only hang himself.
Deserve it.
I don’t know what is good or bad, have no responsibility, and don’t know who is serving the country.
Even though this guy has some personal problems, his heart and intentions are good.
So Wen Rensheng will not work for this man.
Of course he will only work for himself.
A brother is right when he says that you can only rely on yourself if you rely on mountains or rivers.
The Jurchens can take over the world and have many conspiracies and tricks, but the core is still their own core of 20,000 armored men, 3,000 White Tooth La, and 1,500 Gebusxi Xian.
Their advantage is to fight in infantry formations, with cavalry on both sides, fighting in formation, with powerful infantry and bows, and heavy armored infantry, in formations to attack and destabilize the enemy, and then outflank and destabilize the enemy with cavalry on both sides.
Finally the enemy retreated and were massacred by cavalry.
Every time you win a big victory, you will completely destroy the enemy. If you lose, it will be a small defeat. With the cavalry holding down the formation, you can retreat most of them calmly.
It is equivalent to retaining core troops and constantly increasing experience when playing games.
Many Bai Ya La are veterans of more than 20 years. They are in the top three and fight non-stop.
When going into battle, you can take the initiative to form a formation, discover gaps in the enemy, and shake the enemy's morale.
Throwing, shooting, melee combat, physical fitness, and endurance skills are all fully charged.
They usually enjoy the highest treatment, and internal fighting does not involve them. They have always fought professionally.
Wen Rensheng also wants to build his own core force.
Then we need to carry out dimension reduction attacks.
Use sea and river transportation to establish a large-scale logistics system and establish superior arms. Only in this way can you crush your opponents.
Using boats as riders, the loser gets on the boat and escapes, while the winner captures the city.
The most pity is that Zheng Chenggong died at the age of 39. Although he was defeated once in Yingtianxia, he was still able to recover later because he had strategic advantages.
His navy is absolutely powerful and has absolute superiority at sea.
He successfully returned to Taiwan.
The Qing Dynasty had to wait until the Kangxi period to defeat the Zheng family navy, which had declined a lot. By that time, Zheng Chenggong had been dead for 20 years.
At that time, the Zheng family was in chaos and there was really no way to fight.
Another key factor is his father, Zheng Zhilong. After all, he was only a maritime merchant, not from the same ethnic group. He did not have a clear goal, which led to the good situation being given away.
Zheng Chenggong could see Taiwan as a base and his strategic vision was ten times stronger than that of his father.
His reputation will be a thousand times stronger in later generations.
After Wen Rensheng determined his development direction, he continued to support Governor Wang and at the same time looked for a governor located in the south of the Yangtze River.
That is the governor of Jianfu.
It is most suitable for him to seek refuge.
It would be best if Governor Wang replaced him.
Thinking of this, Wen Rensheng felt that time was running out.
On this day, he went to find Governor Wang.
"Master Futai, do you want to make a great contribution to restoring the soil?" He asked directly.
"Oh, don't start provocations without authorization, the emperor will only be angry." Governor Wang has just cleared the land and received a commendation. He is expected to become the governor in the future, or return to the capital and serve as the head of one of the six ministries. Of course he does not want to Another big deal.
Wen Rensheng also noticed that this was the shortcoming of many Ming bureaucrats.
Once you have achieved success, you don’t want to keep moving forward.
They tend to enjoy a leisurely life rather than working hard.
Governor Wang still wanted to do something, so he found a soft persimmon and squeezed it.
This almost hurt his hand. Fortunately, he drove away the Wu Xun in advance.
Otherwise, the problem will be troublesome.
"What my nephew is talking about is not this place, but the governor of a place in the southeast. There are red-haired people there, occupying our island, but they have not been recovered for a long time. According to my observation, the red-haired people have too few people. , As long as they are surrounded by people in small boats, the red-haired people will definitely retreat. Such a great restoration is enough to be worthy of being a minister." Wen Rensheng said directly.
Governor Wang was moved.
“Even if we fail, it is still a good thing to stay away from this bitter cold and dangerous place in the northwest.” Wen Rensheng followed up.
Governor Wang completely understood.
He decided to do it.
So he began to mobilize the power of Beijing and add his previous achievements.
So one month later, he was successfully transferred to the position of governor of Jianfu.
When people hear that people are rising, they will naturally follow them.
As he was accompanying him, he ordered the thirteen merchants who had taken refuge in him to pack up their families, young and old, and go on the road together.
Of course some people don't want to.
If you don’t want to break up your family, don’t follow.
Wen Rensheng will not spoil them.
Since you have taken refuge in yourself, how can there be such a simple good thing?
He wants to use military law to manage the businesses that rely on him.
Just like the Manchus, they relied on barbaric and cruel military laws, coupled with the ability to feed and kidnap people, to maintain a fighting force of armored men.