Xuande

Chapter 821 Those who are strong in soldiers and horses are "virtuous"

After the official announcement about hunting the natives was posted, it quickly caused a sensation.

Someone specifically read and explained government laws to the illiterate people. After that, the matter was discussed in the streets and alleys, and the government's policies on slaves were discussed. Then someone asked the government if they could cooperate with the government and provide help. Everyone Together they attacked the native tribes and divided the captured natives [-]-[-].

Of course, four or six points are fine, if not, three or seven points are also acceptable, this is the minimum requirement.

Below this limit, the big guy might as well take a greater risk to arrest the natives by himself, instead of cooperating with the government. Now it mainly depends on the strength and record of the government, so everyone will suffer a little bit. Is it a loss?

Unexpectedly, Fazheng was very sincere, saying that as long as everyone strictly abides by the requirements of the Dutian Law and the Slave Restriction Order, then the government is willing to give up the profit in the matter of arresting the natives.

There are people in the government who have experience and weapons and equipment, but the profits from the captured natives are only [-]%, and the remaining [-]% belong to you.

It's still [-]% to [-]%, but the government only needs [-]%, and [-]% belongs to everyone. How about it, is the government very sincere?
To be precise, there is no trace of Dutian decree and slave restriction order in Rinan County. It is a bit difficult for them to fully implement Dutian decree and slave restriction order in a place where the emperor is far away. Do it, do it now.

Han slaves need to be released in real terms and abide by the requirements of the Dutian Law. On this basis, the government can satisfy you as many native slaves as you want, as long as you are willing to pay a small amount of security deposit.

After collective consultations among some large-scale local families, they are quite interested in the idea of ​​cooperation with the government.

Mainly, they also know that the Dutian Law is simply a decree to help them increase their land in Rinan County. As long as their heads are not broken, they will definitely not oppose the Dutian Law.

These families are in Rinan County, who dares to say that they can safely manage a farm with tens of thousands of acres of land?
Even if there is so much land, they can't develop it. They are always facing extortion from the government and attacks from the natives. Who has the spare time and money to develop those wastelands?

Everyone is not a person with spare time and money, and it costs a lot of money to raise slaves, not to mention that it is difficult to obtain slaves from Han people or natives in Rinan County.

But the situation is different now. Han slaves staying at home is more or less a disaster. The government must try to intervene to influence everyone to do their best. But the native slaves are different. For native slaves, the government doesn't care about anything except a tax.

Moreover, the government is willing to cooperate with everyone. They can even cooperate with the government to capture native slaves and bring them back for use. This is a novel experience for everyone.

More importantly, the government can indeed do it.

Different from the previous government, the current government has money, soldiers, strong martial arts and good fighting skills. The previous achievements are in everyone's eyes. They easily eliminated the Tuwang District Company and no one was blinded.

And there is another point of discussion on this matter.

"Don't forget, except for Rinan County, the entire Jiaozhou is in a similar situation, even in Yangzhou and Jingzhou. The land there has not been developed and a large number of manpower is needed. The imperial court issued a slave restriction order and Han slaves were strictly Restrictions, so much land needs to be developed, and Han slaves cannot be used, can't they only use native slaves?
Now we are a little bit tired and suffer a little bit, but we caught those natives, in addition to using them for ourselves, we can resell them to Jingzhou and Yangzhou. The people there must also need these natives to help them plow the fields. Land, the so-called rarity is the most precious, we might still be able to rely on these natives to make a fortune, what do you think? "

A flexible-minded family representative talked about this matter, and everyone felt it and thought it made sense.

So they all agreed with this idea, thinking that they could send people to cooperate with the government to catch the natives. As many as they caught, they could use it first, and then catch more later, and they could also cultivate a skilled arresting team along the way.

After the skilled capture team is trained, they will be able to start the business of capturing slaves stably. At that time, these slaves will be sold to Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places. The local families with a large amount of land will definitely be willing to buy them.

what is this?
This is a business opportunity!
This is a great opportunity to make a fortune and reach the pinnacle of life!

Each of these natives would bring them plenty of wealth, provided they could catch enough of them and find a suitable outlet for them.

They sent it.

With such ambitions, the big families agreed to Fazheng's request one after another, and decided to cooperate with Fazheng. They sent people, labor, money, and brought their own food. Together with the government's army, they went into the dense forest to find soil. The location of the tribe, and then launched an arrest operation.

The government can achieve a major political goal—stability—at no extra cost.

Stability is more important than anything else.

As for some side effects brought about in order to achieve stability...

unimportant.

From mid-December of the first year of Zhenguan to the middle of the first month of the second year of Zhenguan, in one month, the government-civilian joint arrest team relied on the local people's overwhelming mobility and vigorous enterprising spirit, and everyone worked together to destroy seven in succession. Eight native tribes successfully captured more than [-] native men and women.

Moreover, these natives are young and strong, young and old, as long as they are caught, they can be regarded as qualified laborers regardless of gender. After a little training and various methods of taming, they can be thrown into the land to work.

The cost is low, the expenditure is small, and the output is high. As long as these native slaves can survive for more than three years, this business will make a profit.

Seeing the efficiency of the blasting operations against the natives doubling, and seeing the rising enthusiasm and efficiency of the people of Rinan County, both Gan Ning and Ma Chao admired Fazheng's head.

How is this guy so smart?
Law is quite proud.

"You can understand this kind of thing after just thinking about it. If we only rely on the government and the army, we don't know how long we will fight with these natives. We will be dragged to death by them. We must think of an effective long-term plan. , this plan can help us reduce our burden. We cannot be on guard for native raids all year round. The mistakes we made before must be corrected.

Just before, it was easy for those who had a lot of land to obtain slaves, but now it is not the case. It is difficult to obtain Han Chinese slaves, so we can only replace them with native people. Let us set an example for them and guide them. When they have skilled slaves After the team, the natives have become wealth, and there is no need for the government to bother to deal with it, and the people will naturally deal with it. "

"Spend the least amount of money to do the most things. In the future, there will be no native troubles in Rinan County. You, Fa Xiaozhi, are definitely the number one hero. I think that in a few years, you will definitely be the governor of Jiaozhou. By then, Jiaozhou If you develop well, before the age of 30, you will definitely be able to return to Luoyang to become a high-ranking official, and then, don't forget today's hand in hand."

Gan Ning said something half-joking and half-serious with a smile, Fazheng was fascinated after hearing it.

"Jiaozhou Inspector, I can't imagine returning to Luoyang... we all have the possibility, General Gan, you are one of His Majesty's earliest subordinate officials, so it is more likely that you will return to Luoyang to serve?"

"You can't say that. Although it is possible to return to Luoyang to serve, but after all, you are a general, and you must go out to fight to get the most merit. If I return to Luoyang, I can only say that I am old. I can't move anymore, so I want to go back, and with my temperament, what can I do if I go back?"

Gan Ning grinned: "Although Luo Yang is good, but with my temperament, it's better to stay outside. After all, there are many restrictions under the emperor's feet. Although it is prosperous, how can it compare to this wilderness of the vast ocean?

By the way, speaking of it, doesn't His Majesty hope to find someone to go sailing and find foreign countries?I'm really interested. I plan to submit a form to His Majesty to see if His Majesty will allow me to go to sea with him. "

"Does General Gan want to go to sea?"

Fazheng smiled: "Although I don't understand all of Your Majesty's views on the future, I can understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts. However, sailing on the sea is a difficult thing after all, and there are many dangers. If you are not careful, you will be buried." Fish belly, although General Gan is good at water, a person is too small and insignificant in this vast ocean."

Saying this, Fazheng couldn't help but cast his gaze in the direction of the sea.

When he set out to Ninan County, after Fazheng passed the seasickness period, he often stood on the deck, smelling the salty sea breeze, and feeling the endless sea. I have to say, for him who grew up inland, It's a very novel experience.

In the wilderness, you can also feel the insignificance of the individual, but more of a sense of down-to-earth. On the sea, when you look around, all you can see is the sea. At this time, you will have a strange sense of emptiness. and unreal feeling.

Fazheng doesn't like the sea, but he can understand Liu Bei's yearning.

And Liu Bei was still very happy after learning the news that Xianglin County was restored and District Company was killed.

Later, he felt very satisfied after learning about Fa Zheng's method in Ninan County to mobilize local forces and the government to attack the natives.

Fazheng's ability to do this shows that he fully understands his own meaning, and he understands his intention to mobilize non-government forces to act independently.

Just relying on the imperial army to deal with those natives, I don't know how much time and energy it will take, how much manpower and material resources will be spent, and the risk of large-scale illness and loss of the army, such a thing, Liu Bei thinks it is too wasteful no matter how he thinks , not cost-effective.

So he calculated and figured out the possibility of non-government autonomous action, and realized how fertile soil he had created for this non-governmental autonomous action.

When people are aware of this fertile soil, people will naturally initiate actions to fight for what they desire, and spontaneously form an industrial chain.

The government only needs to ensure that this industrial chain will not hurt its own people, and keep taxing this industrial chain.

Facing the two options of internal suffering and external suffering, ancient China faced many obstacles and chose the first option with less difficulty, which lasted for more than 1000 years. The facts after the Opium War proved that this road was not easy. smooth.

Although the first path is not very smooth and will cause many problems of one kind or another, at least the backlash will occur hundreds of years later than the latter path, and it will also take hundreds of years for the backlash effects to finally appear.

At least, having had fun, enjoyed it, and experienced it is better than never having enjoyed it, suffering all the time and having to be moved by yourself.

This kind of self-impression is very unnecessary and very sad. It is something made by those guys who try their best to teach others to learn well, but try their best to make them worse.

When there is no light on the third road, when there are only two choices, the lesser of two evils is the best choice.

And the real problem is that if you want to develop Jiangnan and Lingnan, you need tens of millions of strong labor and 30 years of time. There is not a large number of natives as necessary expenditures. With the current financial situation of the Han Empire Capacity and production capacity, I am afraid that it will take more than a hundred years.

And even with such a large-scale investment of natives, when Liu Bei is alive, at most he can see the first stage of development completed.

It is not very likely to wait until the next stage.

But he could see a completely different Great Han Third Empire, a powerful country that seized from the outside the necessary means of production needed for internal development.

In this way, whether it is the grasslands or the Western Regions, whether it is the barbarians in southern Yizhou or the natives in Jiaozhou, they will soon complete the transformation of identity and nature, and they will soon no longer be an obstacle to governance and development no longer tax insulators, they...

will become a commodity.

They will change from a headache for everyone to a lucky cat and a cash cow, and thus become an existence called primitive accumulation, contributing their existence value to the next stage of revolutionary change.

Once this interesting change takes place, the survival rules of the Third Reich will begin to change from the underlying logic, and a group of people who survived by relying on a brand-new industrial chain will spontaneously maintain this new order with "Jia De Tong Yi" as the highest guidance.

A brand-new discourse power society that is very different from the Confucian discourse power society will be born.

An immoral and unkind society with the right to speak—the light of modern civilization was born here.

Of course, although Fazheng is smart, he has not yet seen such a distant future and such profound social changes.

He started to carry out his task.

Govern Nichinan County, and...lead the foreign businessmen who landed in Nichinan County into the right path, welcome them to come to do business, and reverse their impression of Nichinan County officials as wolfs and hungry tigers, so as to promote more foreign businessmen to come Rinan County, came to Jiaozhou for trade.

And Liu Bei needs to know which country these merchants come from and where they are, if possible...

Well, it should be said that Liu Hui will have his own preparations.

It is possible to arrange the spies of the East Garden to follow these foreign businessmen back to their homeland to find out what kind of place it is, how many people it has, what climate and environment it is, whether it is suitable for human survival, etc.

After obtaining these first-hand information, Liu Bei can start to prepare for a powerful navy and prepare for a pioneering journey.

If the land they own is suitable for survival, then they should develop it—since there are human beings who can live there, so can the Han people, and the fertile land is where the virtuous live.

What is a virtuous person?
Those with strong soldiers and strong horses are "virtuous".

Fazheng didn't know that Liu Bei was preparing for his own pioneering journey, and he didn't know how much all this he had done would bring about great changes to this ancient empire.

He just normally accepted the landing requests of those merchants, allowed them to land, and then designated a special area, allowing them to set up stalls and do business in that area, and then pay some business taxes along the way.

According to some methods Liu Bei proposed to Fazheng before Fazheng’s departure, Fazheng felt that these businessmen should know the rules and were willing to pay money for peace, but the previous payment had no name and no unified standard, so it was very inappropriate .

Now we should hand over a unified standard of protection... Bah!

taxes!

To pay a uniform standard of taxes!That's more than anything!

(End of this chapter)