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The population trade in the middle of the river, Lilan is actually comparable to spices!
This was unexpected by Zhao Huan. In any historical records, the four items of spices, silk, porcelain, and tea are the most profitable items.

This is already Zhao Huan's inherent cognition, which is why the imperial court mobilized many people to open up the southeast, fully grasp the Maritime Silk Road, and monopolize the spice trade.

But now, the taxes paid by the three envoys actually show that the dividends of human trade on the Silk Road are comparable to spices.

This shocked him so much that he even felt that his three views had been refreshed.

Zhao Huan asked directly: "How could there be such huge profits? There is no need to hide it, just tell me what is involved in these population trades. The historian should step down, this meeting does not need to be recorded in the historical records."

Li Gang said: "There is no need to dismiss the historian, there is nothing that cannot be said."

"The population trade in the river is indeed huge profits. According to the statistics of the third envoy, it can be roughly divided into three modules."

"The most famous among them is undoubtedly Orchid Trading."

Orchid.

People in the Central Plains should be familiar with this term.

Thanks to the popularity of Tang poetry, the term orchid is well-known in the Central Plains.

For example, "Hu Xuannv went out of Kangju and traveled eastward for more than ten thousand miles in vain."

"Hu Jichun Hotel, the pipes are clanging at night."

"The Hu girl is in the year of Yifang, the youth is the most pitiful. The slender waist is the first to learn the willow, and the charming face is the first to see the lotus."

It seems that poets can always see beautiful orchids in taverns.

But where did all these orchids come from?
Later Ming Dynasty was also very powerful, so why not see Hu Ji?

It can't be that these orchids migrated from thousands of miles away because they admired the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

This is not a later life, a girl can travel thousands of miles.

What's more, even in future generations, it is extremely unsafe for a woman to travel alone.

Zhao Huan asked: "So the area in Hezhong is transporting a large number of orchids to the Central Plains?"

Li Gang nodded and said: "According to what I know, most of these orchids come from Hezhong, Xiliao and Dongliao."

Western Liao, Eastern Liao.

Zhao Huan immediately understood that their location was further north of the administrative region of the Central Plains, that is, north of the Khwarazm Sea (Aral Sea), with Turkmenistan to the west and the Volga River to the west. Turkic tribes.

To attack these Turkic tribes and countries with the level of civilization that has completed feudalization in Western Liao and Eastern Liao, the civilized attack on barbarism is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.

A large number of orchids can be captured and sold to the Central Plains.

Most of these orchids are organized slaves sent to the Central Plains.

And it's not just a few orchids, but hundreds of thousands of young girls who are persistently sent to the Central Plains.

The Turkic people in the "Que Teqin Stele" can be said to have the deepest understanding of this.

"Because of the attack of the Han people, the former masters of the Turkic people became the slaves of the Han people, and the former wives became the handmaidens of the Han people.

Later the handmaids had the handmaids themselves.A brother does not know his elder brother, and a son does not know his father. "

All of this can be caused, of course, because in the dividends of war, a large number of Turkic tribesmen became slaves and were sold to the Central Plains from all over the world.

Kunlun slaves, Bodhisattva Man, orchids, and Silla maidservants are all products of this background. …

And this brings up another key issue.

Zhao Huan said: "If it's just Hu Ji, it shouldn't be a secret. There should be a lot of transactions behind it, right?"

Zhao Huan didn't believe it. In the bonus of war, only women were arrested and all men were hacked to death.

Li Gang admitted: "That's true. Orchid is just one of the modules, and another important module is the youth trade."

"This is the most important war dividend."

"The expansion of the internal workshops in the Central Plains requires a lot of labor. Therefore, some merchants directly purchase young and strong men in the Hezhong area on a large scale."

Zhao Huan was finally moved, no wonder Yue Fei refused to let grassroots officials be involved.

No wonder the war dividends on the Silk Road can be compared to spices!

If Orchid is just a beautiful decoration for all these superficial.

Then this young and strong slave trade is the dead bones behind the current prosperity of the Song Dynasty!

The orchid trade is just a decoration for luxury enjoyment. With or without them, in fact, the demand motivation in the Central Plains is not strong.

Whether they exist or not does not affect the nature of the feudal dynasties of Tang and Ming.

But these young slaves are definitely different.

Behind the development of this trade, it symbolizes the take-off of the unparalleled industrial capabilities of the Central Plains.

As Su Chi said, for a civilization to flourish, someone has to pay the price, and someone has to be a bully and bear the burden to move forward.

Since the underlying logic of civilization is that every country has to pay a certain price when it is extinct.

Then why can't we use foreigners as the price?
Therefore, a steady stream of slaves were trafficked into the Central Plains, but these people did not become a floating class in society, but directly entered the workshops, filling the gaps for the Central Plains civilization with their flesh and blood.

Carry out high-intensity production for the workshops in the Central Plains to reduce production costs.

Contribute flesh and blood to the infrastructure construction of the Central Plains, paving roads and building bridges.

Every outflow of spices, silk, porcelain, and tea means that behind this transaction, a large number of Hulu slaves were sent back to the Central Plains, into workshops, and into tea plantations.

As long as the industrialization process of the Central Plains is still advancing, this reverse slave trade route comparable to the Silk Road will not stop.

Yue Fei loves the people like a son, and the army will not demolish houses to death from starvation, and will not plunder to death from freezing.

But it doesn't mean that the Song army should be polite to the Hulu, and Qiu will not offend them.

This is the most direct war dividend of the Song Army's expansion of territory in the West.

It is even an important source of motivation for soldiers to launch wars.

Zhao Huan couldn't help looking at the Privy Council. Did the Privy Council consider these when they directly stationed troops in the Hezhong and Qihe areas?
Now the Song army is obviously garrisoning troops all over the world, and they are getting richer and richer.

From the Holy Roman Empire to Persia, to Seven Rivers, and then to Mobei and Northeast.

Zhao Huan had no choice but to speak, and asked the privy envoy, "I haven't heard about Hebul Khan for a long time. Han Shizhong, the commander of the Jingsai Army, had to write letters frequently before, and wanted to go all out to attack Mongolia in the north. Why did the flag suddenly stop?"

Yue Fei said ambiguously: "Probably Mongolia is no longer something to be afraid of."

Not to be afraid!

A good one is nothing to be afraid of.

Zhao Huan never dreamed that the majestic Mongolian cavalry, instead of being defeated by the soldiers and civilians of various countries in bloody battles, fell to the hands of a group of businessmen.

Obviously, the Static Serbia Army also participated in dividing up the war dividends in this area in the north.

After attacking again and again, the Mongolian people were captured and returned.

Although the industry in the north is not good, as long as the industrialization process is promoted, a large number of people will be needed.

Industrialized empires, even empires that have initially completed industrialization, are completely different from agricultural empires.

Take horse breeding as an example. In 1913, the Russian Empire had a stock of 2280 million horses.In 1914, Midi had a stock of 2000 million horses.

This number is basically unimaginable for any agricultural feudal empire.