Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2247, Resources of Winter City

Everything in Winter City in summer seems to be cherishing this short warm time. For this kind of cold city, summer is short and precious, and it is worth cherishing.

The most famous teahouse in Winter City, Liji Teahouse, here, Liu Jin chose a place by the window, ordered a pot of tea, and some snacks unique to Liji Teahouse, while looking at the bustling and lively Liji Teahouse, while Listen to the conversations of these tea drinkers in the teahouse.

Cold Winter City has always been the place where the Ming Empire exiled criminals. This was originally the capital of the Siberian Khanate, but was later destroyed by the Ming Empire and incorporated into the vast area ruled by the Ming Empire.

To the east is the vast and boundless Siberia region. The land is vast, but it is extremely cold and inaccessible. It is uninhabited for hundreds or thousands of miles. Only a very small number of primitive fishing and hunting tribes live in it.

To the west is the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Asia and Europe. When you come over the Ural Mountains, you enter Europe.

In the past, the land in the west also belonged to several khanates formed after the split of the Golden Horde, and they were all destroyed by the Ming Empire one after another.

As a result, the vast land in the west is also uninhabited, and the endless fertile land has become a grassland, covered by a large number of forests.

There was no human settlement for hundreds or thousands of miles. After the Ryazan Principality, villages and towns began to appear one after another, but the number was still very small and the population was very sparse.

To the north of Winter City is the Arctic Circle, where it is extremely cold and desolate; to the south is the Central Asian Province of the Ming Empire, which was originally a place of the Kazakh Khanate, after it was brought under the rule of the Ming Empire.

The Ming Empire established dozens of settlements, large and small, and moved over 10 people here, which is considered to be the direction with the largest population in the Quartet of Winter City.

But even in the most populous direction, compared to the vast land area of ​​Central Asia, it is still sparsely populated. Only the urban areas where immigrants are concentrated have people, and most of the areas are desolate grasslands and forests.

Cold Winter City in such a location is undoubtedly a place that no one wants to come to, and it is also an ideal place to exile criminals.

Exiled to Cold Winter City, even if you want to escape, you have nowhere to escape, and you don't even need to be arrested. There are thousands of miles of no-man's land around you, enough to make you disappear forever in it.

A large number of criminals have been exiled to Cold Winter City. Over the years, the population of Cold Winter City has already exceeded 30 people. This number is nothing compared to other cities in Ming Dynasty, but here, it is absolutely right. Quite a big city.

The scale of Winter City has been expanded again and again, and Yanran already has the appearance of a large county in later generations.

Maybe it's because they were basically exiled to Cold Winter City, so the folk customs here are extremely tough. Liu Jin saw two fights when he just drank a cup of tea at the teahouse. There was a fight.

There wasn't much quarrel between the two parties at all, so they rolled up their sleeves and started to fight when they didn't like it. They punched to the flesh, their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, and then they went back to their respective homes and went to their respective mothers.

The surrounding residents seem to be familiar with this. In Winter City, fighting is commonplace, and some routines and rules have even been formed.

For example, a single duel is a single duel, and other people cannot intervene, otherwise it will become a group fight. Once it becomes a group fight, the government will arrest people, and it will inevitably be punished by the official.

Another example is that fighting is a fight, but you can't use a knife. If you use a knife, you will die, and that's a big deal.

Generally speaking, those exiled here are all guilty, not to mention heinous, at least they are not easy targets for bullying. Fighting is fine, but if someone is killed, the other party’s family may retaliate, no need Doubting this, the most indispensable thing here in Winter City is ruthless people, otherwise they would not be exiled to Winter City.

Except for the people fighting and arguing on the street, even the people drinking tea in this tea hill seemed very vulgar, and they all spoke in a loud voice, for fear that the people around them might not be able to hear them.

People who drink tea in a teahouse still have to pay attention to their quality.

In the Beijing-Tianjin area, rich people and scholars usually go to teahouses to drink tea. After all, the consumption in teahouses is not cheap, and the money for a pot of tea is enough to drink how many pots outside.

Who would go to a teahouse to drink tea with such a person who has no wealth or leisure, wouldn't it be nice to make a pot of tea at home?

Therefore, those who drink tea in teahouses, especially those who drink tea in some high-end teahouses, are all people with status, status and money. When these three or five friends chat, they often talk about some sensitive topics. Therefore, the sound will naturally be kept as low as possible so as not to be heard by others.

But the tea houses here in Winter City are different. They are all rough and vulgar. Add water.

"Let me tell you, we found another big coal mine here in Winter City!"

A burly, thick-faced, tattooed man picked up a teapot and took a sip, and then broke the news.

"Have you discovered another large coal mine?"

When the people next to him heard it, they immediately pricked up their ears.

At the beginning of Winter City, the main industry was Siberian fur. The animal resources here are extremely rich, such as mink fur, deer skin, bear skin, tiger skin, wolf skin, fox skin, etc., and the output is very large. It is big, and the quality is very good, too.

Fur trading is still one of the main industries here in Winter City. Nine out of ten residents here are engaged in this fur business.

Later, the slave trade rose again. At that time, the Ming Empire would still attack the Khanates west of the Ural Mountains. The grassland people of these Khanates often plundered the Slavs in Eastern Europe and sold them to Winter City.

During that period of time, Winter City quickly became an important slave trading point. The slave trade was very popular. A large number of Eastern European women were trafficked here, but a large part of them were bought by the people here.

Therefore, here in Winter City, Liu Jin can see many Slavic women and a large number of mixed descendants, which may be one of the other reasons why the people here are tough.

Later, with the westward advance of the Ming Empire, all these Khanates were wiped out, and the slave trade in Winter City seemed to have lost its living water, and it quickly slumped and could not develop.

However, some years later, the Ming Empire had an oil craze again. At that time, some people said that there were a lot of oil resources in the vast Siberian Plain.

This has attracted wave after wave of people to come here to explore for oil, and it has also attracted a large number of Ming dignitaries to come here to buy land and explore for resources.

Since then, resource industries have rapidly sprung up here in Winter City.

Coal resources, oil resources, and iron ore resources are extremely rich here, which also opened up the resource mining industry in Winter City.

Coupled with the existing timber industry, the main industries in Winter City are mining, timber and fur industries.

However, all kinds of resources are not in the hands of these exiled criminals in Winter City, but in the hands of the dignitaries of the Daming capital thousands of miles away.

There are large and small commercial firms here, and these commercial firms control almost all the industries and businesses here, and the exiled criminals in Winter City, their main job is to work for these commercial firms.

Mining minerals, logging, buying furs, etc., as exiled criminals, they have no way of owning their own industry.

But fortunately, here is Winter City. It is too cold in winter, it can reach more than 30 degrees below zero, and even [-] or [-] degrees below zero in extreme cases. Moreover, the winter here is very long and can last for several days. month time.

Therefore, very few people are willing to voluntarily immigrate to Cold Winter City, so these large and small commercial firms and mines can only recruit employees from these exiled criminals.

Because of the rich mineral resources, there are a lot of workers needed, but the population here is very small, so in Winter City, the wages of workers are still very good, not worse than those in the capital area.

And in the coldest time, they can rest at home without working at all, and their small days are still very comfortable.

After most of the criminals were exiled here, they lived a stable life here.

As long as you are willing to work, you will have a good income. It is absolutely no problem to support your family. You can even live a well-off life. You can even sell women. Every year, slave traders sell a large number of female slaves to Winter City. of these exiled criminals.

Most of the criminals are men, so among the population of Winter City, almost all the men are Ming people, and the women are slaves bought from Europe.

With stable jobs, good income, and women and children, these criminals are quite comfortable here, but because of this, they have become stable and gradually took root here.

In fact, regardless of the fact that fighting is very common here in Winter City, it looks like the capital of crime, but in fact, the crime rate in Winter City is very low, and there are very few major cases.

"Is this still fake?"

"If you don't believe me, just ask around and you will know. The coal mine discovered this time is very large, and it will require a lot of manpower. Most of everyone's wages can be raised again."

"This Winter City is rich in resources, either oil or coal, and sometimes large iron mines can be found!"

"Isn't it? It's good to have resources, otherwise what do we people eat!"

"That's right, that's right~ The mine belongs to those rich and powerful in the capital, but without us, they wouldn't be able to open the mine either!"

(End of this chapter)