Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1214, Violence

"Drive~Drive~"

On the vast grassland, the king of Chu, Mao Lun and others are happily hunting on horseback.

After defeating Addis Ababa, the king of Chu also directly declared that Ethiopia belonged to the state of Chu, and everyone in the territory must be loyal to the king of Chu. At the same time, he also sent people to start taking over various places in Ethiopia, and asked the leaders of various tribes to come to Addis Ababa Ba came to see himself.

"Hey~"

With a sound, an antelope fell down, and soon a soldier carried the antelope to the side of King Chu and Mao Lun.

"General Mao, you are good at archery. One arrow pierces through the head, and it hits a hundred shots. You have already hunted dozens of prey."

The King of Chu looked at the antelope in the hands of the soldiers, and his eyes widened slightly.

Since the Ming army changed its military system, its combat power has soared. It can be seen from the level of Mao Lun's archery alone. It can be seen from Mao Lun's archery level. When riding a horse and bending a bow to shoot arrows, the accuracy is frighteningly high.

"Haha, so-so, so-so, there are many people in the army who are better at archery than me."

Mao Lun smiled and said modestly.

He did not tell lies either. Daming now implements a compulsory military service system. The soldiers have nothing to do when they are full every day. They just conduct all kinds of training. The training intensity is very high. Riding and archery is a must for every soldier. , at least half an hour a day to contact archery.

Mao Lun has been in the army for many years, and his level of archery has been practiced day by day. He is not born with archery skills. Of course, there are also talents in this.

"King of Chu, you are occupying such a large land all at once. It is said that it is easy to conquer the country, but it is difficult to occupy the country. As far as I know, there are less than [-] Han people in the whole country of Chu. If you want to rule such a vast territory, It's not an easy thing."

Mao Lun pointed to the vast grassland in front of him.

This is the alpine grassland of Ethiopia. Although it is located in the tropics, the climate here is very cool because of the high altitude. Coupled with the abundant rainfall, the grassland here is also extremely fat and very suitable for grazing.

"General Mao's words are right, I am also worried now."

"Although our Ming Dynasty has many colonies and vassal states overseas, there are too few Han people in each vassal state and colony. Even Ning, which has the largest population, has only a few hundred thousand Han people."

"If you want to rule a huge territory for a long time, you need a lot of wisdom."

King Chu nodded and said.

He is very clear about the situation in the vassal state. The biggest problem is to confirm that the lack of Han people is not a problem.

"This plateau, although we have killed their king and their army now, the local Kunlun slaves may not obey my king's rule."

"Even if they obey the king's rule, these Kunlun slaves have no hope. They really can't support the wall with mud."

"What does your lord say?"

When Mao Lun heard this, he was a little surprised. He had only been here in Africa for a short time, and he didn't know enough about it.

"General, you have only been here for a short time, and I'm afraid you don't know enough about this place yet."

"General, look at the land in front of you. These lands are very fertile. Not only are they suitable for pastures, but they are also very suitable for farming."

The King of Chu turned over, drew out the sword of the guards around him, dug up the turf, dug up the soil and said, "Please look, general, the land here is deep, loose, and very fertile. The land is extremely fertile."

"If this kind of land were placed in our Ming Dynasty, it would already be fertile and fertile. I don't know how many people it can support."

"But here, it is a barren land. There is no one to cultivate it, and no one to graze it. It is so barren, what a waste of everything!"

King Chu shook his head while speaking.

It was only after he came to Africa that he realized what it means to be reckless.

Except for the desert area, Africa is basically a very fertile land, coupled with abundant sunlight, heat and rain, it is actually a very suitable area for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

However, on this ancient and fertile land, a decent country has not been established, nor has a decent civilization been developed.

Except for Ethiopia in East Africa and the Sultanate of Adal, because of the influence of the Arabs, some Arabs immigrated here and established a few so-so countries with the mixed descendants of the local Kunlun slaves. It's pitch black, and they're all in a very primitive tribal stage.

This puzzled the Daming people who immigrated to Africa for the first time.

Obviously the land here is very fertile, and the pastures here are very fertile, why don't people here farm or breed?
Mao Lun also turned over and got off the horse, but the sword handed over by his hand kept digging the soil on the ground, nodding while digging.

"It is indeed a good land, better than the land in my hometown in Shanxi."

"Such fertile fields are left barren like this, what a waste of everything!"

Mao Lun was also a farmer. Before the age of [-], he was farming at home. Later, the imperial court implemented a compulsory military service system, so he was conscripted and ate the imperial rations.

He also has a deep affection for the land.

In the past, when Daming had not aggressively expanded or immigrated, in his hometown in Shanxi, even if there was a little corner, everyone would have to compete and rush to grow wheat and vegetables.

In the countryside, let alone a piece of land, even if the ridge of the field is moved a little, the two families will fight and quarrel.

All kinds of memories of my hometown in the past came to my mind, and then I looked at the endless prairie in front of me. Looking up, I couldn't see any human habitation at all, and then I looked at the soil dug out in my hands.

What a waste of money!
"Why do they leave this land uncultivated?"

Mao Lun was very puzzled. If the old farmers of Ming Dynasty saw such a fertile field, they would probably want to bury their bones in it.

"The local Kunlun slaves, they are really too lazy."

"As far as the Kunlun slaves I have seen, as long as they have food today, they will never worry about tomorrow's affairs, and they can lazily bask in the sun."

"There is a vassal state in the south of our state of Chu, which is the Tang state established by the king of Tang. Because the king of Tang really can't recruit many Han people, there are only less than 2 Han people in the entire Tang state, and they are basically concentrated in the Tang capital."

"In order to run the country of Tang, the king of Tang distributed seeds of corn, wheat, and sweet potatoes to the local Kunlun slaves for them to cultivate. As a result, these local Kunlun slaves directly scattered the seeds in the ground, regardless of whether they did not care. Just do what you want."

"He vomited blood directly from King Tang's anger."

King Chu shook his head and said.

"Anything like that?"

Mao Lun slightly widened his eyes. In the view of farmers in Daming, seeds are more important than lifelines. Sometimes, even if children starve to death, they would not take them out and eat them.

For their farmer, the farmers of Daming also attach the most importance to it.

In Mao Lun's memory, it was commonplace for farmers to fight over irrigation.

Here, these Kunlun slaves leave their fertile fields uncultivated, and they don't even care about them when they are given seeds, which is simply unbelievable.

"It's not fake at all~"

"The Kunlun slaves in my Chu country are similar, too lazy to die."

King Chu nodded.

"Then what do they eat and drink?"

Mao Lun thought for a while and asked again.

"Eat whatever you have. If you hunt animals, you will eat them. Sometimes picking fruits by the side of the road can also fill your stomach."

"It is sparsely populated, the population is very small, and the natural conditions here are very good, and there are many things to eat."

"If it's just the tribal stage, there's no problem."

"However, if you want to develop, this will not work at all."

"My country of Chu is occupying these places, and I don't think there will be any troubles with the local natives, but if my country of Chu wants to be strong and develop, it will be impossible to rely on these Kunlun slaves."

The king of Chu pondered and began to think about the future of Chu.

There are too few Han people, and the local Kunlun slaves cannot be counted on, which is really a headache.

Originally, Daming had a large population, hundreds of millions of people. In the past, if there was such a fertile field, it was unknown how many people could be attracted by just giving some land.

However, over the years, Ming's continuous external expansion and immigration have acquired too much land. Among other things, the Golden Continent and Australia alone are enough to accommodate an unknown number of people.

The attractiveness of land to Ming people has dropped to the extreme, and it is difficult to attract immigrants to Chu State by relying on land.

"My lord, as far as I know, Ningguo uses a large number of white slaves and Tianzhu slaves. There are hundreds of slave ships passing through the Red Sea every month. It is said that there are millions of slaves in Ningguo. "

Mao Lun looked at the thoughtful King Chu, thought for a while and made his own suggestion.

"I also want to use Bai Nu and Tian Zhu Nu."

"But the price of slaves is very expensive. Even if a slave is wholesaled from the Mediterranean, it costs about twenty taels of silver."

"In order to come here overseas, I spent all my money. How can I have money to buy a large number of slaves?"

After hearing this, the King of Chu shook his head slightly and said, "At the beginning, I took a fancy to the frankincense and myrrh here in Chu, but these two things simply cannot support the huge expenditure of a country."

"As it turns out, the annual tax revenue of our Chu State is less than [-] taels of silver. Except for various expenses, there is not much left, and we can't do anything."

"My lord can actually learn from Huangjinzhou. Although there are not many Han immigrants here in Huangjinzhou, there are a large number of concubines. There are millions of our Han children living in Huangjinzhou for more than ten years. , They have grown up, do they still worry about no one?"

(End of this chapter)