Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 318, Cannibalism
In the capital, at Liu Jin's mansion, Liu Jin was lying comfortably on his master's chair. After working at the Miyun Iron Works for more than a month, he finally managed to make the Miyun Iron Works look good, and he could safely sell the iron works. The factory was handed over to Huang Jinquan to take care of it, and as for himself, he returned to the capital again to enjoy a corrupt life.

"Teacher, some slaves from Datong have recently appeared in the capital. All of them are captives of grassland people. I heard that they can be sold for eighty taels of silver each."

Beside Liu Jin, Tong Yuan was reporting to Liu Jin with some information in his hand.

"Prairie captive?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately regained his energy.

"Yes, the last time the little prince went south to attack Datong, he lost his troops at the Datong City Pass, killed tens of thousands of people, and thousands of others became captives. Unexpectedly, he was trafficked here in the capital, and all of them went to those coal factories and cement factories. Inside the factory."

Tong Yuan nodded and said.

"Will anyone want a slave of eighty taels of silver?"

Liu Jin thought for a while and then said, in Liu Jin's view, Daming was short of everything except people, food and silver, but no shortage of people, eighty taels of silver was enough to hire many people to work for him .

"Of course, there are a lot of people who want it, and they are all robbing people."

Tong Yuan said it as a matter of course, then thought for a while and said: "Master, you may not be there yet. Now there are large and small workshops, cement factories, coal factories, four-wheeled carriage factories, special freight forwarders, etc. around the capital. There is a need for manpower everywhere, and you can see the revelation of recruitment everywhere, and the wages are going up again and again."

"However, many factories and workshops still cannot recruit enough people, and when the farming season is busy, the recruited people will go back to farming, so that the owners of many factories and workshops are anxious to death."

"These grassland captives are all strong and fit, and they are perfect for working. Eighty taels of silver is not expensive at all. Everyone wants as much as they have."

"That's what it is~"

"I understand~"

When Liu Jin heard it, he immediately understood.

These workshops and factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area have already begun to have the momentum of the budding of capitalism, especially in many industries under Liu Jin's command.

The germination and development of capitalism will inevitably bring about a large demand for manpower. The British in history relied on the sheep cannibalism movement, driving a large number of farmers into the city and becoming cheap labor in factories.

In the colonial era of great voyages that followed, the demand for the development of colonies, especially the development of the Americas, led to the rise of the slave trade, and cheap slaves also helped capitalism complete its primitive bloody accumulation.

"Is the damned capitalism about to start turning into a beast now?"

Liu Jin couldn't help thinking this way in his heart.

Once the current labor shortage trend is not resolved, these emerging capitalists in the Beijing-Tianjin area will definitely try their best to get enough manpower, whether it is driving rural farmers into the city, or using a large number of slaves, in short, the problem of labor It must be resolved.

But the process of solving the employment problem will inevitably be accompanied by countless blood and tears, especially if the slave trade rises, it will inevitably be heinous.

Liu Jin could already imagine some scenes in his mind. In order to obtain enough manpower, the emerging capitalists of the Ming Dynasty tried every means to get farmers into factories.

At the same time, he extended his evil hand to the grasslands in the north, Korea and Japan in the east, and will extend to a wider area in the future, and the slave trade will inevitably rise gradually.

"Once the huge empire of Ming Dynasty becomes overly capitalistic, its power will be far beyond that of the small British island. In the future, the whole world may become a slave farm for the Ming people."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin shook his head slightly. It's still early. Capitalism can only be regarded as the embryonic stage, and even the most primitive accumulation has not yet been completed.

"Teacher~"

Tong Yuan looked at where Liu Jin was in a daze, and reminded him softly.

"Oh~oh~"

Liu Jin came back to his senses, thought for a while and said: "Order, all the industries below are not allowed to buy these slaves, not any slaves, we only use our own Ming people."

Regarding slaves, Liu Jin knows that slaves can promote the primitive accumulation of capitalism, but too many powerful countries have been destroyed by slaves since ancient times. The once mighty Roman Empire was destroyed by slavery.

Even the Westerners of later generations began to suffer from the sequelae of slavery, and the white Gallic chickens were about to turn into black black-bone chickens.

As a time traveler, Liu Jin knows this very well, and many industries under Liu Jin's command will become the benchmark and banner leading the development of this era, so slaves should not be used, and everyone should be led to increase productivity and develop technology Go ahead in terms of technology, instead of using a large number of slaves to reduce costs.

Technology is the primary productive force.

"Yes, teacher~"

Tong Yuan nodded solemnly, then he thought for a while and said, "Men, is it possible to start construction on the concrete road leading to Miyun from the capital?"

"It's just winter, so it's easier to recruit workers. Although construction is more difficult in winter, after spring, it will be more difficult to recruit people even if the wages are high."

"Organize people to repair it, but it doesn't need to be too extensive, it's generally enough."

Liu Jin thought for a while and nodded.

"In addition, the first phase of construction has been completed at the Changlu Salt Field. Teacher, would you spare some time to go over and see how the salt should be dried? The people below still don't have a clue in their minds."

Tong Yuan began to report many things to Liu Jin one by one. Now there are many industries under Liu Jin's command. On the capital side, there are Xishan Coal Industry, Cement Factory, and Miyun Iron Works. On the Tianjin side, there are Tianjin Port, Tianjin Cement Factory, Tianjin The shipyard and so on, and now the Changlu Salt Farm is being built on the Changlu side, and Liu Jin is also building a textile factory on the Beijing side.

It can be said that the current Liu Jin is definitely an out-and-out capitalist, with a huge industry under his command and many things to be busy with.

"You arrange a time and I will go to the Changlu Salt Field~"

After thinking about it, Liu Jin decided to go to the Changlu Salt Field to take a look. Originally, he thought that sun-drying salt was actually very simple, and with such a magical tool as cement, it would not be difficult to build a salt field.

I didn't expect the people below to have the plan given by Liu Jin, but it was still out of the question, and I still had to go there in person. The investment in the Changlu Salt Works was even greater than that of the Miyun Iron Works. The tax revenue of the imperial court is two million taels of silver.

If it doesn't make money, it is estimated that Emperor Hongzhi will eat Liu Jin, but Emperor Hongzhi occupies the majority of the Changlu Salt Field.

"I'm too busy, I feel like I'm at a loss for what to do. After getting out the steel bar, I have to build the Qianqing Palace for Emperor Hongzhi, build a textile factory, and get the spinning jenny."

It took a full half an hour before Tong Yuan reported all the things and left Liu's residence.

When Tong Yuan left, Liu Jin also felt that his head was big, and there were too many things to be busy with. Then he looked at the two letters on his desk, and his head became even bigger. There were still two girls to deal with. .

　I saw in the comments that there was a reward for killing prairie people in the dynasty, so I went to check it, it seems that there really is~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)