Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 903, Guaranteeing the Firm in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Too deceiving!"

Hearing the report from his subordinates, Murendek Khan became angry immediately.

"Order to kill all the wise people!"

He was really angry, he was only tentatively attacking the Ming people in the Hezhong area, and he didn't dare to get involved in the Western Regions, but he didn't expect the Ming people's revenge to come so fast and so ruthlessly.

[-] cavalry swept across the Dayuzi Grassland. Wherever they passed, it was like locusts crossing the border, destroying everything, burning, killing and looting.

As Murendek Khan's order was conveyed, the entire huge Kazakh Khanate was shaken throughout the country.

As a nomadic people, the Kazakh Khanate has always burned, killed and looted other tribes. When was it treated like this.

The Hux tribes began to gather quickly and pressed towards Dayuzi. It was inevitable that blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and Daming people pay the price in blood.

On the Dayuzi Grassland, Han Yi's [-] cavalry swept across the fertile grassland like a gust of wind, and behind the [-] cavalry was a huge transport team.

This huge transportation team is the Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm that provides logistics support and services for the Ming Army. Well, this firm is also jointly established by Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin, Yingying Gong, Cheng Guogong, Ding Guogong and others.

The Daming Logistical Support Firm is a private firm, but it undertakes the logistical support tasks of the Daming Army, and is responsible for transporting grain, grass, arms and weapons for the Daming Army.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, is very aware of the importance of logistical support for marching and fighting, especially with the gradual rise of thermal weapons, logistical support is even more important.

Therefore, this Daming logistics support firm was also established separately to serve the Daming military.

Since it is a private firm, it must not be able to generate electricity for love. It still has to undertake the task of logistics support for the Ming army for the purpose of profit. In exchange, the Daming logistics support firm has obtained the benefit of handling the spoils for the military.

Wherever the Ming army goes, there must be a Ming logistics support firm. They are responsible for transporting the things seized by the Ming army in the war. The captured slaves are sold to the firm at a uniform price. After selling it to a commercial bank and converting it into real gold and silver, the Ming army can reward it for meritorious service and directly reward real gold and silver. Of course, sometimes too many slaves and supplies are captured, and slaves and supplies will also be rewarded.

On a grassland in Dayuzi, more than a thousand employees of the Ming Dynasty logistics support firm were also wearing armor, carrying muskets, bows and arrows, and scimitars on their waists. Difference.

All of them are strong and tall, with calm eyes. In the hinterland of the Kazakh Khanate, there is no trace of worry, as if they are strolling in the garden, very casual.

The staff of the Daming Logistics Support Firm mainly come from two parts, one is recruited, trained and trained, and the other is the retired soldiers of the Ming Army.

The compulsory military service system is implemented, and ordinary soldiers will retire in four years. The imperial court has given many options for the retirement arrangements of soldiers.

Those who go to the local government to serve as officials can become local police officers, tolerances, etc., such as Liu Rong, the mayor of Longtou Town, belongs to this category.

There are also those who can enter the commercial firms under Liu Jin's command, which is also a good way out. Many commercial firms opened by Liu Jin basically have the shares of the current emperor and prince, and they can be regarded as eating the emperor's food.

Many of these firms involved businesses outside the Ming Dynasty, and these retired soldiers were required to form escorts, advance teams, etc., to protect and develop the interests of the firms overseas.

The guys in front of me belonged to this kind of people. They entered the Daming Logistics Support Firm, and their income and treatment were not bad. The key was that they could follow the army, and they needed to obey the command of the army at special times. They could also make meritorious service.

Of the more than a thousand guys in front of me, more than half of them are soldiers who have retired from the army. These soldiers have been trained in the army, and they can become very good guys with a little training.

These people were riding tall horses one by one, and the distribution was relatively scattered. Among them was a huge team. This huge team was divided into three parts.

One part is slaves, all of these slaves are women and children left over from the Ming army's raid on the Dayuzzi grassland. These people were all tied tightly with ropes, and then loaded into four-wheeled carriages.

These four-wheeled carriages have been specially modified, they are very wide and long, and there are iron cages on them, which are full of fearful women and children.

There were dozens of women and children in each four-wheeled carriage, and it was very uncomfortable to squeeze each other, but there was no way for anyone to do it. The tears were all dried up, but there was still nothing. role.

Thousands of such four-wheeled carriages formed a long dragon, moving towards the east continuously.

Behind the four-wheeled carriages full of slaves, there are also four-wheeled carriages. These four-wheeled carriages are different from the front ones loaded with slaves. These four-wheeled carriages are also specially modified. The carriages are very wide and long, requiring several horses to pull them.

It was filled with all kinds of things, all of which were snatched by the Ming army from the Dayuzi Grassland. The Ming army was responsible for the cleaning, and those who were doing logistics were responsible for taking all the things that could be taken away as much as possible. Walk.

At the end of the team, there are even larger herds of cattle, sheep, and horses, numbering hundreds of thousands, divided into squares, and then followed the team while grazing grass and being driven eastward. go.

That is to say, it is just midsummer now, and the whole Dayuzi Grassland is full of water and grass. Otherwise, so many cattle, sheep and horses have been seized, and the people in the logistics support firm really have no way to transport them all back.

Kill them all, it will stink soon if you don't finish eating them in summer.

If you rely on four-wheeled carriages for transportation, the number of four-wheeled carriages required is extremely large, which is why last winter, the cattle, sheep and horses captured by the Ming army could only be digested on the spot.

In winter, there is no way to drive cattle, sheep and horses for long-distance transfers. The cold temperature alone is enough to freeze countless cattle and sheep to death, not to mention that cattle and sheep also have to graze in winter.

There is no problem in summer, there is grass and water everywhere, as long as you learn how to drive cattle, sheep and horses, you can bring back no matter how many cattle, sheep and horses you have.

The huge team marched towards the east, accompanied by the cries of women, the screams of children, and the roaring of cattle, sheep and horses.

There were quite a few teams like this, and they quickly digested what the Ming army had gained on the Dayuzzi Grassland.

In the Western Capital City of the Western Regions, some fast-moving teams have already arrived in the Western Capital City. As these teams arrived in the Western Capital City, the entire Western Capital City began to become extremely noisy and lively.

There are many slave traders gathered in the western capital city. Whenever there is a war, it is the time when these slave traders make a fortune.

Last winter, the Ming army captured hundreds of thousands of people in the Western Regions alone. Almost all of these hundreds of thousands of people were sold to slave traders, and then sold to the southern provinces of Ming Dynasty, where they went to cultivate plantations.

The slaves bought for more than [-] taels of silver can be sold for more than [-] taels of silver as soon as they are transported to Nanyang. The profit is so great that many slave trading houses in Ming Dynasty sent people to the Western Regions.

"It won't work this time. They are all women and children. I haven't even seen a grown man. Such slaves are worthless."

A slave trader looked at the women and children in the four-wheeled carriage, and immediately couldn't help but said in disappointment.

Women and children are the least valuable things. Women in the Western Regions are better, because people in the Western Regions are generally fair-skinned and plump, so they can still be sold at a good price.

In various parts of Ming Dynasty, with the improvement of Ming people's living standards, and the fact that they can eat and drink enough, as the saying goes, these women from the Western Regions can also sell for a good price.

Many people like to sell a few women from the Western Regions to be their concubines. Of course, not only the Western Regions women, but also Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Middle Easterners, and Persians are also in demand.

Women are more or less valuable and profitable, but children, and they are all small wheels that are no higher than the wheels, this is definitely a loss-making product.

Whether it is the plantation owners in Nanyang or the buyers from all over the Ming Dynasty, they don't like this kind of food, because it is too small to do any work, but it needs to spend food to raise it, and it will take several years to raise it. To be able to do some work.

"Women are better. These children will definitely have to pay. Even if they are brought over, it is not easy to sell them, unless they find a place to raise them for a few years. It can be sold for a good price.”

Someone also nodded and said.

"This time there is no other way. The Duke of Australia has ordered bloody revenge on the Kazakh Khanate. Wherever the army passes, all men who are taller than the wheel will be killed, leaving only women and children, so I want strong men. It's basically unrealistic."

"It's better to buy a woman. If you are lucky, you can buy a beautiful one, and you can still make a small profit."

"Yes, I heard that there is a strong demand for women from the Western Regions in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan."

"The demand over there is very strong, but the people there are too poor, and they are not lucky. The best place to sell is the Beijing-Tianjin area. The demand here is strong, and the people in the Beijing-Tianjin area have plenty of silver."

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(End of this chapter)