Section 80 Prosperous and joyful Wa Kingdom
If the world asks where are the most powerful people living the most now?
The answer is Wakoku.
The Zhao fleet was wiped out of pirates, selling expensive goods such as silk, perfumes, spices, and precious stones to all parts of the country in exchange for the abundant silver and sulfur here, as well as slaves.
Attacking the islands of the South China Sea and fighting the lazy and slippery South Asian monkeys, Zhao Yue naturally would not let his precious Han subordinates fight hard for the castle with their lives, and the loss would be too slow. Fire. The medicine is not polite to rush on.
Can be high-energy fire. The medicine was limited to the supply of raw materials in this era, and the manufacturing quantity was limited, so it could not be widely used in the war against the south, nor could it be used in large quantities by the soldiers when attacking fortifications, so they could only use more black fire. Medicine.
Sulfur is black fire. The main ingredient of the drug. The New World required a lot of silver to mint silver coins. The quality of the sulfur in the Wa Kingdom is quite high. There are many silver mountains, so they naturally become the focus of attention.
At this time, Goryeo and Wa were indeed small states for the populous Great Song Dynasty, with a population of only three or four million, perhaps even less.
Compared to this population, the land of the four islands of the Japanese Kingdom is very large, so large that too much land is not cultivated, and too many silver mountains are not exploited. The armies led by the magnates of the Japanese kingdom everywhere were no more than a few thousand, and only a few hundred. The daimyo wanted to keep his interests, wanted to be rich, wanted to occupy more territory, and needed people too much.
Well, there are difficulties, there is a need, and the rain will come in time.
The Han nation is the most loving.
The Cangzhao fleet came with thousands of prisoners of war and slaves, and they were sold with goods, which were expensive, but slaves were cheap. As much as you buy expensive goods, you can buy slaves of the same value.
Of course, as a nobleman of the Japanese country, you will live a good life, and you are not willing to spend a big son on luxury. Naturally, not a single slave can be bought. The well-spirited Japanese magnates had slaves and cultivated more fields and mines. Suddenly he quickly became rich and powerful.
The slaves were young and strong. There are few railways in the country. Swords and guns are not worthy, and slaves will not be rationed in case of rebellion, but there are people who have strength, and it is also considerable force to equip these people with sticks.
For example, you are a small daimyo with only a few hundred samurai under him, and he has been bullied all the time, and he has survived in the cracks, but he has thousands of slaves at once, and his force suddenly skyrockets. Unexpectedly, you took down the powerful neighbor who bullied you and turned into the overlord of this place, and the benefits are self-evident.
As for the heavy casualties of slaves, what does it matter?
With a vast territory and more wealth, it is enough to buy slaves.
The Japanese do not know how to pity life, especially the life of other races.
Honest, docile and kind ordinary Han immigrants who are stupid under the control of Confucianism are really not good at using slaves. However, the wolf-like widows are very handy in using slaves. The butcher's knife on the whip is not merciful.
These slippery and lazy South Asian monkeys just eat this set, obedient and obedient.
Ambition, greed, and extravagance are not stoppable by God.
With examples, the Japanese nobles see the benefits. Slaves from the trafficking became a sought-after commodity. Although the price of slaves has risen, 10,000 are still sold out in a blink of an eye, and 20,000 are still sold out quickly
After rounds of civil wars, the surviving Japanese magnates who won the hegemony were too good. There were vast and useful slaves to exploit, they had troops, they had vast fields. There are mines, there are material strengths. Indulge in the extravagant goods of silver and sulfur that can be harvested endlessly, and get drunk and dream to death.
The emperor who doesn't have much real strength. Now few powerful people take him seriously.
The island nation has quietly had hundreds of thousands of slaves, and they are steadily becoming more and more slowly. No one thought that under the ferocity of their perverted ferocity, they would force the slaves to rebel
There are always wise men, and the Japanese are good at intrigue and trickery, but even if he sees through the crisis, what can he do?
The interests are different, and it is difficult to unite the hearts of the people.
If the magnates want to maintain their strength and interests, they will have to continue to spend money on ready-to-use slaves. If you don't buy it, when your own people give birth and grow, they will soon be surpassed by their opponents, and the crisis will come immediately.
People live in the present, if it is difficult to live now, who can take care of the future?
The future will be solved by posterity.
Once the dominoes arranged by Zhao Yue began to fall first, the chain reaction behind them would be powerless to crack in the state of the Wa Kingdom in this era.
On the other hand, the Cangzhao Group's sale of slaves was also a helpless strategy.
The natural conditions of the Nanhai Islands are too superior, there are endless grains, fruits, and seafood, and the wild people of this island do not worry about life, and they have nothing to do but give birth to children, and the population is quite large.
The young captives who were caught, and the most robust and usable ones were singled out, and there were too many to be used.
The hardest, most tiring and dangerous work of reclaiming wasteland, planting sugar cane, paving roads, mining, building water wharves, burning cement, turning sand, enclosing salt pans, and building salt factories is used to train the lazy and slippery slaves, so that they will not live up to the precious life of God's gift.
If you are human, you have to eat salt.
From the relatively high-quality and low-cost refined salt to the salt-deficient Liao, Jurchen, and Goryeo, it is a long-lasting and stable profiteering.
Slaves first contributed to the salt industry, an important source of commodity wealth.
Budai Salt Field is located in the southwest coastal area of Taiwan, where the terrain is flat, there are natural and vast lagoons, sandbanks, shoals, the climate is obvious in the dry rainy season, and the sunshine is strong, so most of Taiwan's salt pans are distributed here, and there are now 6 salt farms in artificial salt, namely: Tainan County Tainan Salt Farm, Chiayi County Budai Salt Farm, Beimen Salt Farm, Changhua County Lukang Salt Farm, Qigu Salt Field and Kaohsiung County Kaohsiung Salt Field.
Without an army of slaves that could be used to the death, it was impossible to quickly establish six major salt farms to support Cangzhao's tight finances.
Now the coal mines managed by Zou Run's uncle and nephew have long since stopped Han people from going down the mines, and the South Asian monkeys are on the front line.
The villains of the Great Song Dynasty who performed well in the transformation of the mine were bolder and more bloody than ordinary people, and some became the technical backbone of mining experts, and the Zou uncle and nephew promoted them to be managers to deter and guide the slave miners, and those who did not want to continue to deal with the mining industry and wanted to fight the future with courage and a shot into the Southern Army.
The army is essentially a regular bandit to the outside world. Too kind and a good person should not be a soldier who expands the territory.
Zhao Yue thinks so, he is tolerant of his own people, and the villains will not be beaten to death with a stick, and they will give a way.
Of course, the heinous and the bad cannot be indulged, and this kind of person is a scourge there. But in Zhao Yue's eyes, there were too few Han people, and they would not be killed easily, so a boat of thousands of people was thrown into the coast of the Southeast Peninsula in batches.
These ferocious wolves got off the ship, in a strange environment, there was nothing but clothes and shoes on their bodies, and if they wanted to survive, they should use all their smart and fierce energy and physical strength to fight.
Fighting the heavens and the earth, fighting giant pythons, poisonous snakes and beasts, fighting for food, weapons, and living space with the local natives, how can you live to see the evil ability.
This is the way the Cangzhao clique punished the sinful Han people, the same method used by the West in the other world to develop the New World of America. It is not merciful to eliminate the sins of one's own race and seize the interests of other races.
The same is true for similar criminals in the New World.
Don't you like to burn, kill, loot, bully, beat and kill, and just want to take other people's unearned gains?
Give you the opportunity to run rampant to your heart's content, and go to the land you want to conquer in the future to be a scourge and pioneer.
The wave of immigrants came suddenly. Zhao Xin and Zhao Yue, who were located in Tainan, Taipei, and Liu Wubu, who were originally arranged in their hometown to prevent accidents, had already gone to the big islands occupied by Malaysia and Indonesia.
Lin Chong, Xu Ning and others all took turns to lead the southern army out like crazy, and frantically attacked the big islands in the South China Sea to make room for the immigrants. Xu Guanzhong and Zhao Dayou also took turns to inspect the resettlement work in Xindi.
Sam Nguyen of the South Sea Fleet was to be in charge of ocean-going trade. Zhang Shunbu is in charge of the strategy of Australia. Relying only on the large-scale attack of the South China Sea by the fleets of the four heroes such as Dongting Lake Fei Bao and others, the strength was far from sufficient.
You must know that the Malay army can be tough with the Indian Peninsula army, and its comprehensive strength is not comparable to that of the Philippine savages and the small feudal states of Indonesia.
Li Jiubu of Haitan Island was ordered to join the development of the South China Sea.
The pirate army headed by Zhong Xiang, Xue Yong, and Wang Dingliu is now guarding Haitan Island.
Historically, the people who were able to lead the people to rebel and repeatedly inflict heavy blows on officers and soldiers were only born in a boat to transport goods, but after training, he did a good job as a leader and could really suppress it.
Although Wang Dingliu is young, he is an old man of the Liangshan Amphibious Army, who followed Zhao Yue to conquer Taiwan, fought in the South China Sea and the Japanese pirates, has knowledge and experience in naval warfare, and has practiced it, leading the Haitan Island fleet, with superior warship weapons and well-trained and strong naval subordinates, who can cope with the situation.
Zhao Yue didn't dare to be careless, and always felt that Haitan Island was not strong enough.
He looked at the Water Margin and came to the conclusion that Liang Shan in the process of recruiting one hundred and eight generals and dealing with Tian Hu Wang Qing can always add one general in each battle without loss, in addition to the weaker opponent, the opponent's cadres often surrender, mainly because of the concentration of advantages, the strength that can be fought into a fist, while fighting Fang La is to disperse the main force in an unfamiliar area to unite the enemy, and the natural loss of troops will be heavy and will never be in full swing.
On the other hand, the Jin army can win more with less, and it is also concentrating superior forces to fight in one place.
The defender is always passive and needs more and stronger strength.
However, the attacker is free to concentrate his forces and hit a certain point, which makes it easier to gain an advantage and victory.
Haitan Island is now a passive defender. The Cangzhao Navy also has a lot of troops. Very disadvantageous.
Although the Great Song Dynasty naval army was backward in battleships, it still had the advantage of having more heavy ships after all.
The Yangtze River Army, the most powerful in the Great Song Dynasty alone, had nearly 10,000 soldiers and hundreds of ships. The general who led the troops is still a famous general who is proficient in water warfare and is known as the black dragon in the water.
The Huai River Naval Army, which guarded the two Huai, also had a large number of troops.
The incident of the bandit army made Zhao Ji angry and ordered the navy to encircle and suppress the pirates. If the two divisions of Jianghuai converge and attack Haitan Island together, it will be difficult for Wang Ding's six divisions to resist and prevent the officers and soldiers from relying on Haitan Island.
Losing the superiority in naval warfare and competing with several times the number of officers and soldiers on land, even if you can win, the loss will not be small.
Fortunately, the Cangzhao East China Sea Fleet is gathered along the coast and is frantically rushing to transport displaced people, and it can meet Haitan Island at any time. With Qiao Menglong's understanding of pirates, he would definitely not dare to fight easily at this time.
Zhao Yue wanted to see what kind of crazy method Jiangnan had, and he also wanted to strengthen the island's defense strength. (To be continued......)