Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Li Mi continued to open the newspaper, and the next few pages were full of various advertisements.

In the beginning, only the players advertised in newspapers, and the aborigines saw the good effect of the advertisements, and followed suit one after another.

The editorial department is naturally very happy when someone comes to advertise.

This "Liangzhou Daily" also belongs to the industry of the "Wen Chao Gong's Home" trade union, and it is considered a semi-official organization that is responsible for its own profits and losses.

The governor's office will subsidize the first few pages, but to increase the scale of the newspaper and increase the income of the newspaper, it can only rely on advertising revenue.

A newspaper was divided into many pages the size of tofu cubes, and the various advertisements on it opened Li Bi's eyes.

Seeing the news of a large number of workshops recruiting workers, Li Mi asked Zhang Tianlun:

"Is Hexi so short of people?"

Zhang Tianlun nodded and said, "It's lacking. Recently, the Governor's Mansion has recruited people to lay wooden railroads, and many workshops can't find enough people."

"If you want me to say, those Tubo slaves should be allowed to work. I heard that the workshops in Tuyuhun are booming now."

Li Mi asked keenly: "Why don't the Tibetan slaves work? Where did these Tibetan slaves come from?"

Only then did Zhang Tianlun say: "It's not that these grown-ups, who have been acting up and down, insist on not engaging in slave trade in Longyou. Didn't the Hexi War capture many Tubo prisoners of war? If they insist on not letting them go to the mines, only Let them go to the ranch for labor reform."

"Can the ranch in Hexi require so many people? Now those workshop owners are all excited. How can everyone make money without using such good labor!"

"If you ask me, these Tubo slaves are all aliens. If they are not my race, their hearts must be different. They should be sent to the mines to mine until they die."

"But those above said that they are different races now, but they can be united in the future. They said that the slave trade is leaving disasters to their children and grandchildren."

Zhang Tianlun said: "Hey, these ethnic policies of theirs are leaving disasters for their children and grandchildren."

Hearing Zhang Tianlun's words, Li Mi thought to himself, the Tubo slaves, the battle of Hexi was real?And Longyou had won, otherwise it would have been impossible to capture so many Tubo slaves.

Li Mi asked tentatively: "How many Tubo slaves are there in Hexi now?"

"Twenty to thirty thousand, this group of people still have to eat, raising so many people for nothing, I don't know what the group of people in the Governor's Mansion think."

Li Mi took a deep breath. He is a minister who knows the situation in Tubo. The real number of soldiers in Tubo's host country is only 6 to [-]. If [-] to [-] Tubo slaves are really captured, then the Battle of Hexi will be really big. won.

With such a great victory, why didn't King Jianning report the victory?

Li Mi was a little puzzled, and he continued to ask: "What happened to these slaves later?"

Zhang Tianlun smiled and said: "Later, Qin Chuan thought of a way. Didn't he say that Hexi cannot use slaves? Tuyuhun is the Jimi area, so there is no such restriction."

"Several governors in Hexi also found that they could not afford to support so many Tubo prisoners of war, so they followed suit and implemented a policy of returning prisoners of war. Some Tubo prisoners of war were sent back to Tuyuhun."

Li Mi is also a very smart person, he immediately said: "Then those workshop owners went to Tuyuhun to open workshops, and then bought these Tubo slaves to work, right?"

Zhang Tianlun nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I heard that five geomasters jointly opened a coal mine in Tuyuhun, bought more than 2000 Tubo slaves at once, and made a lot of money every day."

Li Mi silently kept these experiences in his heart, and he decided to take a stroll around Hexi to see King Jianning's family background.

Just as Zhang Tianlun and Li Bi entered the city, the governors of the three Hexi counties were meeting remotely.

Zeng Mu of Jiuquan, Cui Tao of Zhangye, and Xue Hu of Wuwei, these are the three giants of Hexi that players call.

Li Yan did not appoint the Hexi Jiedu Envoy, so these three people sat down to discuss the affairs of Hexi now.

The Big Three have used remote conferences to hold many meetings, and every time they encounter problems that Hexi needs to coordinate, they will use this method to solve them.

It was Cui Tao who proposed to hold a meeting today. He said directly:

"Everyone is busy, so let me get right to the point. Today's topic is how to deal with the Tibetan captives."

Among the three towns in Hexi, Zhangye received the most prisoners from Hexi, followed by Wuwei, and Jiuquan had the fewest prisoners.

So Cui Tao directly started the topic and said: "This boy Qin Chuan wants the captives to go there, saying that he wants to reform the captives in Tuyuhun, but actually sells these captives as slaves to merchant players!"

"The [-] Tubo captives sent back to Tuyuhun were sold by him! Now he is still asking for captives from us, and I want to impeach him to King Jianning!"

Zeng Mu and Xue Hu looked at each other, Cui Tao insisted not to engage in the slave trade, but Zhangye's finances really couldn't afford to keep so many captives.

Later, Qin Chuan came to his door and said that a camp for prisoners of war had been built in Tuyuhun, and asked Zhangye to send some prisoners back to Tuyuhun.

Cui Tao immediately agreed and sent [-] Tibetan captives to Tuyuhun.

But what people didn't expect was that Qin Chuan took over these prisoners and sold them to the workshop owners who poured into Tuyuhun.

The [-] Tubo prisoners of war were sold off in an instant, and the Tuyuhun Affairs Department made a lot of money and opened a large number of workshops.

Now the local merchants and players in Zhangye couldn't sit still.

Before these merchants and players took a fancy to these Tubo captives, they proposed to the Governor's Mansion to auction these slaves many times.

After the Hexi War ended, Cui Tao selected [-] laborers from the prisoners of war to build and level roads for Hexi, but he still refused to auction off the remaining Tubo prisoners of war as slaves.

He yelled that the slave trade is the root of all evils, and our Tang Dynasty is an advanced productive force, and we cannot engage in backward slavery.

He also shouted that slavery is poison, which will restrict industrial production in the future, and firmly refuses to engage in the slave trade.

But you, Cui Tao, don't do it, Qin Chuan does it in Tuyuhun's workshop.

For the same contracted mine, the cost of mining with the people of Tang Dynasty is several times higher than that of mining with Tubo slaves.

Although the mines employing Datang people are safer, individual miners are more enthusiastic about their work.

But in this era when you can sell money as long as you dig out the ore, it is obvious that slave mining is a more economical choice.

So when Tuyuhun acquiesced in the slave trade, many labor-intensive industrial and mining players rushed to Tuyuhun to set up workshops.

Seeing Cui Tao furious, Zeng Mu, who has always been a good man, said: "Don't be angry. Thinking about the good, Qin Chuan has indeed solved our burden. There are more than 1 people eating and drinking for free in the prisoner-of-war camp. I really can't support it." .”

This time, Cui Tao didn't continue to speak. In fact, sending the prisoners back to Tuyuhun was also because the expenses were too high.

Those prisoners of war who built roads and houses were fine, at least they were working, and those prisoners of war in the prison camps were eating and drinking for nothing.

Zeng Mu said: "Old Cui, if you want me to say, don't engage in the slave trade, this is the consensus of our three towns in Hexi, and Lao Xue and I support you."

"But we don't do it, as long as Qin Chuan doesn't do it on our land, we can't control him."

"Besides, those who bought these slaves were mine owners and the like, and your pillar industries in Zhangye are not like these."

"Qin Chuan, if you want to go, then go."

Xue Hu also said: "We in Hexi only need to keep pace. Tuyuhun is the Jimi area, and we can't control it."

Cui Tao sighed and said: "I know everyone thinks I'm stubborn. Of course, the slave trade is a good way to get quick money. There are so many industries in Longyou that lack people. As long as this opening is opened, it will definitely become a local source of income soon. pillar."

"But everyone knows the situation in Longyou Hexi. Hans and Hus live together. Hexi has been operating since the Han Dynasty. Longyou Tang Dynasty has only been in operation for how many years. If you go to the street and look, it is because there are more Han faces, or Hu How many faces are there?"

"If the slave trade is really opened, will there be unscrupulous businessmen who force the local people to be slaves?"

"And everyone knows that slaves can only do some labor-intensive work. We in Hexi always need to upgrade our industry. If we eat the fruits of slavery now, it will take more manpower, material and financial resources to resolve the residual poison in the future."

After Cui Tao finished speaking, Zeng Mu and Xue Hu were also silent.

Cui Tao mentioned these issues before, and this is why both Zeng Mu and Xue Hu supported Cui Tao and did not engage in slave trade in Hexi.

The northwestern region of the Han Dynasty was a period of sharp confrontation between Han and Hu.

Several Qiang rebellions actually dragged down the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Datang's inclusive solution to ethnic issues made the boundaries between Han and Hu in Longyou less clear.With strong cultural centripetal force, even the countries in the Western Regions took the initiative to Sinicize.

Starting the slave trade at this time is tantamount to digging out the bomb of racial issues again.

Obviously, Cui Tao's concerns are also correct.

Zeng Mu said: "The remaining Tubo prisoners of war will not be given to Qin Chuan. In addition, we will write together to prohibit Tuyuhun from increasing the slave population."

Xue Hu also said: "We can't control Tuyuhun, we can still manage local workshops, let Facao go around again, and those workshops that signed long-term slave labor contracts will also be cracked down!"

Hexi once again unified the consensus, and Cui Tao started the next topic.

"Zhan Yaguang said that the wooden rail railway is progressing smoothly, and the [-]-kilometer short-distance experiment has been completed."

Xue Hu's eyes lit up and said, "So fast?"

Cui Tao nodded and said, "All villages are very active in building railways, but just laying the tracks with wood wears out too quickly. Zhan Yaguang proposed to nail a layer of iron sheets on the wooden tracks. But the cost of this plan has gone up."

Cui Tao pinched his temples with a headache, Zhangye was waiting for a lot of things, and in the final analysis, he was short of money.

This sum of money costs money, and many workshops have not yet been taxed, and the autumn harvest tax has to be turned over to the court.

Xue Hu also sighed and said: "If it's really not possible, how about issuing railway bonds?"