Zhoushan Island, Dinghai County.

Surrounded by Wang Chaoxian and others, Zhao Ming came to the county yamen. An official brought out a booklet and explained: "Master, this is the civil book of Dinghai County. There are 6,200 households and a population of more than 76,000. This is on the book. The military and civilians who came to the island recently have not been registered!"

There are more than 10,000 households registered in Jintang Island, with a population of only more than 60,000. There are more than 6,000 households registered in Zhoushan, but more than 70,000 people, which makes Zhao Ming confused. However, after thinking about it carefully, he will understand that the people of Jintang Island fled from the south of the Yangtze River. Some of the original family members of more than a dozen may have only two or three people on the island. The people of Zhoushan have not experienced the war, and many families have several brothers, so a household has a much larger population.

Zhao Ming asked: "Although those who came to the island recently have not registered, the government has to issue food relief, so there must be a number, right?"

The official hurriedly said: "You can only estimate one thing, and the total should be more than 400,000!"

Generally speaking, if the population of a county exceeds more than 100,000, it is a superior county. Most of the population of medium and lower counties is only tens of thousands, and only the densely populated Jiangnan area is an exception. For example, Wujiang County has a population of hundreds of thousands.

Dinghai used to be considered a medium-sized county, but now hundreds of thousands of people are pouring in. If Jintang Island is added, Zhao Ming's population will probably exceed 600,000.

Originally, a place that could only be kept tens of thousands of yuan, but now even after land reclamation, it only has more than 200,000 people at most, and the food problem of most of the population cannot be solved.

Zhao Ming pondered: "Mr. Chen, the island population must be counted as soon as possible and then evacuated and resettled!"

Chen Mingyu said: "Don't worry, the general. The humble minister first organized the 20,000 troops into four guards, each guarding five thousand households, and the rest of the people were organized into thousands of households to manage the population."

Zhao Ming nodded. In a year and a half, his strength grew too fast from being alone to managing more than 600,000 people.

Faced with such a big mess, Zhao Ming was actually a little confused.

Those who can lead one hundred people are elites, and those who can manage six hundred thousand people are talented people in a thousand.

Zhao Ming obviously does not have such ability. If he relies on his personal energy, even if he is exhausted, he will not be able to manage so many people.

As a high-energy centralized country in the world that can manage tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people, China is still very good at managing, and has long since derived many means and physical fitness.

These more than 600,000 people are spread across the Zhoushan Islands and Chongming Sands. The original social structure has been destroyed. The system of relying on gentry and family to carry out grassroots management collapses, which makes people feel like a mess. However, as long as they are included in the military household system, restrained by the system, and do things according to the system rules, it is not difficult to manage more than 600,000 people.

Chen Mingyu nodded, "I understand, but this matter still requires the cooperation of Magistrate Zhou!"

Zhou Zhixian County was named Zhou Zishan. He was not an official in the military households. He was a civilian household. He was appointed directly by the court. He was not under the command of the Ministry of Command, but obeyed the orders of Zhejiang Provincial Administration and History. He was two different teams.

Although Zhao Ming couldn't control him, the situation has changed now and the central government has lost control of the local area. Even if Zhao Ming wants to kill him, the central government has no choice.

Zhou Zhixian had heard Huang Binqing's mercy earlier. Now that he heard Zhao Ming, he didn't think anything was wrong. He immediately took the initiative, "I am willing to serve you!"

Zhao Ming nodded slightly: "I will write to the court to include Dinghai in the garrison. At that time, the magistrate Zhou will also be transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Ministry."

After hearing this, Zhou Zishan was happy, "In the future, only the general will follow the leader!"

Zhao Ming nodded and then said, "Let's go, let's go to Huang Dashui's mansion to take a look!"

The group came to Huang Binqing's mansion, and the blood and corpses inside had been cleaned up.

In the yard, the soldiers were cleaning up boxes of property. The clerk was busy counting them. The soldiers of the Pacification Division stood by with spears to maintain order and supervise the soldiers.

Zhao Ming strengthened the tutoring department, selected elite soldiers, and appointed many nerds to serve as tutoring officers.

These people must be familiar with military law, be stubborn, assume the role of a military police, inspect the military discipline of the entire army, and ensure that Zhao Ming's orders can be implemented, and have great rights.

At this time, Li Zhongming saw Zhao Ming coming in, hurriedly collected his tobacco pipes and walked over to salute, "Master!"

Zhao Ming saw the property piled up in the yard and smiled and said, "Old Li, how are you getting?"

Li Zhongming said excitedly: "Master, Huang Binqing is really a rich man." As he said that, he pointed to the box in the yard, "This is only a part. Bei Zhi also found a silver cellar in the backyard, full of silver!"

Although the money is good, it is not easy to spend it now.

Zhao Ming was not very excited, just asked, "How many are there?"

Li Zhongming said: "It is estimated that at least 400,000 taels."

"Four hundred thousand taels?" Zhao Ming took a deep breath. This was more than he had entered the Yangtze River. Unexpectedly, Huang Binqing was still a billionaire.

Zhao Ming remembered that he had seen one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty, which was equivalent to more than 600 yuan in later generations. Of course, inflation now may not be accurate, but based on this calculation, Huang Binqing's silver alone is worth more than 200 million yuan, and with other property, it is estimated that it will cost 400 million yuan.

Huang Binqing's annual salary is about 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, which can be said to be a huge corrupt person.

Chen Mingyu said: "Huang Binqing relies on the benefits of Zhoushan to conduct smuggling trade, but he doesn't want to save so much wealth!"

The money is left after the expenses of raising 10,000 soldiers, maintaining the navy, and subordinates. There is so much left. How much is the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong?

Zhao Ming really wants to steal him.

At this time, Chen Mingyu suddenly reminded: "The general told the public that Huang Binqing died in battle and now he has directly confiscated his family's wealth. Will it be possible?"

Zhao Ming frowned slightly when Wenyu heard the slightest, but then waved his hand and killed everyone. Could it be that he would give Huang Binqing a lot, "In the battle of Jintang Island, the soldiers have made contributions to the war, take out some of them to reward the soldiers!"

Many people can see that Zhao Ming's merger with Zhoushan, but as long as the reason is reasonable, and Zhao Ming is okay, he will not be too serious if he doesn't treat them unfairly.

After all, Huang Binqing was dead, and his confidant was also dealt with by Zhao Ming and exiled. The rest of the people made a living. Now they have divided the money and are so idle that they will stand up for Huang Binqing.

Chen Mingyu nodded, and Zhao Ming then asked: "How is the reserve of the grain warehouse in the city?"

Li Zhongming said: "The account book contains 60,000 yuan, but I don't know if there are any differences!"

Chen Mingyu was delighted, "If you have this amount of food, you can last until the summer harvest. How many months can you last after the summer harvest?"

Zhao Ming frowned. The food was always insufficient. Two seasons of rice could not satisfy the consumption of more than 600,000 people. Half of it was eaten, the fields were not ripe, but the food at home was eaten, and the situation was a little awkward.

Zhao Ming pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Mr. Chen just said that summer harvest is coming soon?"

Chen Mingyu nodded, "It should be enough to collect it in twenty days at most!"

Zhao Ming narrowed his eyes, "Since entering the Yangtze River at the end of last year, I have been entangled by Huang Binqing and have no power to pay attention to Jiangnan. Old thief Hong is afraid that he will forget him. It seems that it is time to visit him."

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Chapter completed!