During the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of regular tax collection was extremely low, and the number of corvee labor, miscellaneous items and additional assignments varies, and it was also different in each period. The key is to look at the administration of the government.

Compared with ordinary people, literati and officials enjoyed the privilege of exemption, officials were officials, and gentry at home, and were affected very little. The gentry on the border and coastal areas participated in foreign trade in large quantities, especially the latter. Tax exemption and smuggling caused them to hoard a lot of wealth. In addition to satisfying their extravagant life and ensuring the maximization of interests through a series of means such as bribery and bribery, the rest were often buried in the cellar, and the people were circulated, and the imperial court held very little money.

Banks, Chen Wen had made plans for a long time, but the capital was too small before, and the gentry who had the vast majority of private silver reserves was really a bit too much of a loss.

It’s nothing else. It hurts people with your original intention, and no matter how you have the means, it may not be possible. It is unrealistic to expect the Confucian scholars to be mentally retarded. They are very smart and time travelers can play with them. It will take them not long to figure out the tricks, and thus achieve the goal of maximizing interests with more powerful capital. As for their enlightenment, Chen Wen only thought of two words when it comes to this matter - haha.

Nowadays, Chen Wen is no longer the same as before. He holds the territory of the two provinces, has tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of military households under his command. Although these military households have been out of poverty for a relatively short time, they have a certain foundation with this base, especially the strong deterrence power of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as endorsement, and have used some financial means to accelerate the recovery of people's livelihood and the expansion of military force.

The central bank is preparing to come to power. Many places in the areas occupied by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have official property, so it is enough to hand over directly. The key is personnel training, which takes time. However, it is not difficult to consider digging some talents from private private ticket accounts. Many ticket accounts owners are willing to help Chen Wen, even if it is just to get familiar with it.

The preparation took time, and Chen Wen did not rush to return to Jiangxi. On the one hand, Jiangxi had been eaten by the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The digestion was gradually absorbed by the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The first thing he got was more population size and military size, and the division of land was also on the one hand; on the other hand, Jiangxi was indeed nothing, and the surrounding forces had not yet made any movement, and those who were constrained were still constrained. Those who had just changed their sects also needed time to reintegrate the internal and external environment; on the other hand, Chen Wen also had other things to do.

The army was expanding significantly, and the gap in weapons and equipment was huge. After Chen Wen arranged these important government affairs, he rushed to the Military Industry Department workshop.

When they entered the Military Industry Department workshop, the craftsmen stopped their work and came to express their gratitude to Chen Wen. Such a passionate scene was never before. Even if Chen Wen raised their wages, adjusted their salary structure, and effectively increased their income, it would not be like today.

The craftsmen were grateful to Chen Wen for exempting their craftsmanship and assigning them to private households. In this way, even if these craftsmen signed a decades-long contract, they were still very different from the craftsmanship's identities that were notorious for generations. The improvement of their status still made them grateful to Chen Wen for his good governance.

After walking around, especially after roughly seeing the expanded workshop, Chen Wen came to Xu Yi's office to listen to the report.

The foundation of the hydraulic workshop has been initially formed. While continuing to explore and expand production capacity in the past few months, the Military Industry Department has made every effort to manufacture military weapons to keep up with the progress of military expansion.

In terms of armor, Chen Wen has decided not to continue to produce cotton armor and to invest the spare capacity in other aspects. The production of armor has the existence of hydraulic forging hammers, and the construction of armor leaves is extremely fast. According to Chen Wen's plan, heavy infantry and cavalry equipment are equipped with a full set of armor, and the firearm team and other units are equipped with half-body armor. The preliminary assembly of the battle barracks will be completed around April and May next year.

As for helmets, face armor and other production speeds are even more amazing. It is estimated that the assembly will not be completed at that time and then begin to equip local garrisons.

In terms of weapons, bird guns were eliminated from the war barracks as early as last year. The military equipment was basically Lumi guns. Since the turtle dove-legged guns are heavy convex guns and the loading speed is slow, Chen Wen did not plan to eliminate Lumi guns in all, but instead loaded them in a certain proportion. The same is true in the Spanish quaternary formation, which can be learned from them.

Others, cold weapons, artillery and other products are being produced step by step, with varying speeds, but the production speed of grenades has suddenly accelerated with a technological innovation.

The application of knowledge, accumulation of experience, and use of machinery have effectively mobilized the enthusiasm and creativity of craftsmen. With these, the Military Industry Department has begun to gradually build the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang into an iron and steel army that is armed to the teeth.

Chen Wen listened to these reports and was quite satisfied with the production speed. With the introduction of Jiangxi, the raw material production area, whether to build another workshop nearby has become a question that needs to be considered.

"It is better to choose a site to establish a branch factory in Jiangxi to facilitate the transportation of raw materials than to transport it from Jiangxi to Jinhua for production. It is more efficient to transport the produced weapons back to equip the troops. But the king also has problems, such as management, training craftsmen, and initial investment in building branches. There are still many problems. The officials thought that they should focus on completing production tasks now."

Today's military industry workshops mainly rely on rough processing of hydraulic machinery, and then craftsmen do fine processing and assembly. They also use more traditional methods to manufacture, and then use hydraulic machinery to complete the next steps, such as artillery.

The use of hydraulic machinery has greatly increased the production capacity, but if you want to establish a branch, you must choose places that can effectively utilize hydraulic resources, and rely on hydraulic machinery produced in Jinhua to build workshops. However, in this way, it will inevitably occupy more production capacity and affect the construction of weapons and equipment.

Hearing this, Chen Wen nodded and said, "The motion to establish a branch is temporarily shelved. Let's first completely arm the army. Those gaps are all major matters that concern human life. It is indeed not advisable to move lightly now."

Always surrounded by the Qing army in several aspects, the civil and military officials of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang all have a great sense of crisis. Prioritizing the army requires a fixed mindset. Now it is not when the horse is flew into the south mountain and turns a sword into a plow. Faster equipment of the troops may very likely mean the level of casualties on the battlefield, and should not be ignored.

Speaking of this, Chen Wen suddenly remembered something. This was arranged by him when he was in Jiangxi before. It was not very difficult and should be developed now.

"When you say that, according to your request, the Military Industry Department has made it."

Xu Yi brought out a box like a monkey offering treasure, which contained a modified musket and something Chen Wen wanted.

After seeing these two separate objects, Chen Wen skillfully installed the thing on the musket, then held the gun body with his left hand and the right hand near the trigger. His left arm was straightened, his right arm bent, and he took a pose and took off the thing again.

"This is what I want, how fast does the production speed?"

"When it comes to the king, this thing is not very technically difficult, and it is quickly produced. It is just..." Speaking of this, Xu Yi shook his head with a wry smile. "It just needs to be modified to the musket, otherwise it cannot be installed at all. You know, the Military Industry Department is now in three shifts, and people are resting and machinery is constantly, so it is really difficult to ensure the production of this thing and the musket transformation task."

This is indeed a problem, and Chen Wen did not make things difficult for Xu Yi. Anyway, it is not available for the time being, so there is no need to squeeze out the production capacity of other weapons and equipment.

Next, Xu Yi brought another box, which contained a short-barrel pistol, which was loaded with a flintlock pistol. A flintlock pistol. This kind of thing was not uncommon for the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it was just not common because it could not be used as the main weapon in combat. However, this flintlock pistol looked a little different.

"Is this a lightning gun?"

The electric gun is another masterpiece of Zhao Shizhen, the firearm expert in the late Ming Dynasty who made the Lumi gun. He absorbed the ideas of the Lumi gun and the Folang machine cannon and used the rear-mounted gun to increase the rate of fire. The so-called "lightning" word "lightning" is obtained by the word "lightning" and "lightning", which describes the fast firing rate of this weapon.

However, while inheriting the advantages of the amazing fire rate of the Flang machine cannon, the electric gun also inherited its shortcomings, that is, the poor airtightness leads to a shorter range and poorer use. At this time, Xu Yi turned it into a handgun-style weapon, and this creativity instantly ignited Chen Wen's idea.

"This thing is very good, the output doesn't matter, and it doesn't require too much, but it must be done as meticulously as possible to ensure the effect of the weapon is the first priority."

After being recognized by Chen Wen, Xu Yi was very happy. In recent years, the Military Industry Department mainly followed Chen Wen's guidance to develop weapons. This "self-decision" or independent research and development has been recognized. Even if it does not require too much output, it is enough to prove the necessity of independent research and development.

The inspection of the Military Industry Department Workshop was conducted for more than half a day. Chen Wen felt that there was nothing to inspect, so he was about to set off and return home. However, Xu Yi suddenly remembered something and asked Chen Wen: "King, now there are more and more hydraulic machinery in the Military Industry Department Workshop. However, after the installation task is over, if a new factory is built, there may be an overcapacity problem."

“Overcapacity?”

Now there is no need to complete the Zheng family's order. The Military Industry Department's workshop only needs to deal with the use and loss of weapons of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army. It seems that this is true. But this word suddenly came to my ears, and Chen Wen felt a sense of surprise.

"The excess is just weapon manufacturing. If there is an oversupply problem, build agricultural tools and produce other objects. If it is not possible, divide a part of the military and civilian products. The future of machinery is not just for building military weapons."

In the following days, Chen Wen spent a few days on duty during the day and went home to accompany Zhou Yueying at night. However, within a few days, he had to set off. This was a certain thing, and it would not be appropriate to drag it down. On the way, in addition to the guards, there were three carriages accompanying him. Two of them were father and daughter of Zhou's parents' room, and the other was Wang Yi's daughter.

The Zhou family was going back to their hometown, and walking with Chen Wen also brought them closer together. The little girl on the road was also very interesting. She had some innocent and stupid questions from time to time, and always made Chen Wen smile. In contrast, Wang Yi's daughter was serious in front of others, behaved dignifiedly, and at a glance she knew that she was Wang Yi's daughter. Only when she looked at Chen Wen would she be grateful.

"Jingluo Wang has the kindness of knowing me, which is what I should do."

Wang Yi's head is still kept by Lu Yuding, and Chen Wen also captured Wang Sheng, the murderer who led to Wang Yi's capture and killing him. If Chen Wen had not been busy with military affairs and could not have taken time, the burial would have been completed long ago.

Location: Wang Yi's daughter was chosen in Yin County. It is also a comfort to be buried with like-minded friends such as Feng Jingdi and Dong Zhining.

The speed was accelerated along the way, and Chen Wen and his party finally arrived at the Ningbo Mansion one day before the established date. On the second day, on the north side of Magong Bridge in Yin County, the location of the tomb of the later Three Zhongshu, Wang Yi's head, Dong Zhining's corpse and Feng Jingdi's arm were buried on the same day.

The ritual matters of Ningbo and the magistrate of Yin County have already been prepared. Even the gentry, elders and officials who should be invited have been in place. The people of Yin County have even emerged from the empty city to see the righteous act and grand occasion of the loyal and noble burial with their own eyes.

Chen Wen was reciting the sacrifice written by Huang Zongxi in his handwritten to the people of a city below the stage on the altar. After reading the sacrifice, Chen Wen shouted loudly, and several strong men selected from his personal soldiers put Wang Sheng on the abutment.

"In the fourth year of Yongli, on the banks of Siming Lake, the rebellious Wang Sheng turned against him at the fortress. Tens of thousands of royal troops in Siming Mountain were gone, and Wang Jingluo was captured. In the same month, the seriously ill Shilang Feng was betrayed by this traitor and died. In the second year, on the eve of the Battle of Zhoushan, the Tartars tried to persuade him for a year, but he had many tricks but never changed Wang Jingluo's loyalty. In the end, he was crazy about killing Wang Jingluo in Dinghai, and the beast was the one who took action."

"Today, I, Chen Wen, will pay tribute to the spirit of Wang Jinglei in heaven with this thief."

The execution began, and this time it was no longer Lingchi. On the one hand, Wang Sheng had been captured for several months. He had removed his chin and hanged it with rice soup for several months, and he was about to get out of the gastric tube and could not last long. On the other hand, in the past few months, he had torture one by one, so there was no need to do anything more.

At this moment, Wang Yi's daughter stood up, walked onto the altar, drew out a sharp blade, and stabbed Wang Sheng's heart with one knife.

Blood splashed with snow-white filial piety clothes, and even a few drops of the girl's face could not help but fall on her little face. In the extremely hatred eyes, Wang Sheng, who had been tortured, had vomited two mouthfuls of blood and lowered his head. Chen Wen asked someone to help Wang Yi's daughter down, called the executioner, chopped the guy's head down, and placed it in the center of the sacrifice.
Chapter completed!