However, what Matsudaira Nobutsuna did not expect was that his actions would bring a new round of strife to the Japanese country.

The labor output target of 300,000 is enough to make everyone from the Tokugawa family to an ordinary foreign daimyo go crazy. According to the calculation of the so-called 300 feudal domains of the Edo shogunate, (originally the so-called 66 kingdoms, but now it is the so-called shogunate system, and there are more than 270 feudal lords of all sizes, and there are almost 500 feudal lords of all sizes, plus those branch domains, there are almost 500. Even a small name can be divided into thousands of indicators! With these thousands of labor export indicators, the idle labor force in the country is no longer a hidden danger to public security, not to mention a large number of overseas Chinese remittances and the import of cloth, silk, etc., which can make life much better in their own territory! What prince wouldn't make a big deal to fight for such a thing? Even the Tokugawa Shogun himself had a headache over how to distribute and use the three imperial families in the family and his own direct banners. This is because these 300,000 laborers will undoubtedly have to engage in the most arduous and even dangerous manual labor when they go to Nanzhong, and the rate of personnel attrition is extremely high. In other words, it is unknown whether another 300,000 people will be recruited after a year! Then, now we have a little more posts in hand, which will also lay the foundation for continued recruitment in the future.

What made the daimyos, shoguns, and even the public families headed by the emperor even more excited was that the number of mercenaries recruited by the Japanese kingdom jumped from no more than 30,000 to 50,000. This is undoubtedly at least double the number of posts!

Although this large discount was also a small one, it made the Tokugawa shogun and the daimyo princes in the Wa kingdom smile knowingly, indicating that we understood the conditions. This condition is, "Originally, the upper limit was 30,000 soldiers, but now Jun's grace is vast, and the worries of friends have been raised to 50,000 posts." However, the 20,000 soldiers must be recruited by His Majesty the Emperor, and the Emperor will be in charge of the payment of food and wages. ”

There is a saying among the monks and nobles in the Wa Kingdom that the Royal Highness born to the current emperor is actually the seed sown by His Royal Highness the Li family when he went to Japan to help quell the Kyushu trend. Otherwise, why is it that for many years, the wife of the Li family, even after the death of His Royal Highness the Li family, the general himself personally allocated money and grain from the inner treasury to cover the daily expenses of the emperor's family? Isn't that afraid that the son of his own family will have a hard time outside!

Now, the recruitment of 20,000 soldiers must be handed over to the emperor's family, which is just to let the emperor's family have some money and food! "The ministers of the public family, accompanying His Majesty the Emperor to sing the wind and the moon, and writing and singing are all good. As for recruiting soldiers, let's share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor! ”

A group of foreign daimyo led by Uesugi Dingkatsu, the lord of Yonezawa Domain, have set their sights on the recruitment target of 20,000 mercenaries in the hands of the emperor's family.

Uesugi has not had a good time over the years. As the nephew of Nagao Keitora, their Uesugi family was sealed in Aizu by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's monkey during the Taiko Land Inspection. The annual height of the stone in Aizu is 1.2 million stone. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and after the death of the monkey, the Tokugawa family ascended to the throne. They were transferred to Yonezawa, which was only 300,000 koku high per year. If it weren't for Uesugi Keikatsu sending troops to participate in the Osaka Winter Battle, the Uesugi family would have rushed to the street first

After the death of Uesugi Keikatsu in 1623, the lord of the Yonezawa domain was succeeded by Uesugi Jokatsu. After Uesugi succeeded to the throne, the Uesugi family was much weaker than before, but in order to maintain the dignity of Lao Tzu's reign, Uesugi had to maintain a large group of retainers and samurai. It is said that at one time there were more than 6,000 samurai of the Yonezawa Domain. This is the figure of Uesugi Keikatsu when he was in Aizu, and after the transfer of the fief to Yonezawa in 1601, the number of fiefs was sharply reduced from 1.2 million to 300,000, but the number of samurai did not decrease. Three-quarters of the source of food and money has been reduced, but the number of people who eat has not been reduced. It's no wonder that Uesugi won't worry!

Now that Hachiman Bodhisattva is blessed, the heavens have sent down a good opportunity to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and if you don't grab it, Uesugi will really have to find a way to jump into the sea!

In order to be able to get more mercenary quotas from the emperor, the Uesugi family also let go of the samurai who were idle all day long in his feudal domain, wielding swords and guns, and sending them to the battlefield to be consumed. He did not hesitate to go to the treaty port to find a merchant to borrow usury, and bought a lot of expensive gifts in front of the emperor to dig up the door and set up friendships.

However, the Uesugi family is not the only one with a similar idea. For a time, the daimyo who came and went to meet His Majesty the Emperor's mother and son traveled endlessly. In the end, it was Tokugawa Iemitsu Shogun Takechiyo who came up with superb means to prevent this kind of thing that might allow the foreign daimyo to collude with the public family and grow their power.

"20,000 mercenaries were recruited, and the shogunate selected and recruited them from among the feudal domains on their behalf. The matter of money and food is still handled by His Majesty the Emperor's close ministers. "In other words, His Majesty the Emperor's 20,000 mercenaries, that is our face, we must choose it well in the whole country of the Japanese Kingdom, and choose the strong and good man, so that we can't lose the emperor's face. (Of course, the subtext is that these 20,000 people, more than 270 feudal domains, and I'm a member of Tokugawa Iemitsu's direct banner.) Don't even think about taking advantage of it! As for the matter of money and food, since the Great Shogun said that it would be in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor, then we would not dare to disobey the Great General's wishes.

"Matsudaira old Zhongxin Gang, working for the country and worrying about national affairs. Should have rested. However, loyalty to the king is the true nature of my courtiers. After you return to Japan, you should quickly take care of the recruitment of laborers and the employment of volunteers in the Kanto countries. And the laborers and volunteers from all over the country were quickly assembled and transferred to the sea from Kawagoe City. This order must not be mistaken! ”

This order seems to be quite severe, but in Matsudaira Nobutsuna's opinion, it is worth ten thousand stones. The order made it very clear that he would be entrusted with the recruitment of laborers and mercenaries in the Kanto countries, that is, he would put this part of the power in his hands. Moreover, Kawagoe Castle, as his fiefdom, became a gathering and transshipment outlet for laborers and mercenaries, which undoubtedly put a lot of money in his pocket. Hundreds of thousands of people passed through his fiefdom, and the consumption of these people, the import, landing, and transshipment of the materials and related money and grain they needed had to pass through the territory of your Matsudaira Nobutsuna first, which was undoubtedly the best reward for Tokugawa Iemitsu's right-hand man, although it was also generous to others.

Within a few years, Kawagoe Castle had become the second largest castle and the largest trading port in the country after Edo. This is something that Matsudaira Nobutsuna could never have imagined.

At this moment, he has to face the trouble of his peers coming to grab business.

"Your Royal Highness, as your strongest ally and strongest partner in the West, we in the Ottoman Empire are also willing to sell strong slaves to you at the lowest price!" Ibrahim, who was sitting next to Matsudaira Nobutsuna and the Ottoman Empire's Grand Vizier Koplulu, could not help but be overjoyed when he heard the interpreter quietly translate the conversation between Li Shouhan and Matsudaira Nobutsuna. After Matsudaira Nobutsuna kowtowed to thank him, he also stood up and knelt down in front of Li Shouhan's seat according to the Central Plains etiquette, saying that what these dwarves can do, we in the Ottoman Empire can do too!

You must know that the current Ottoman Empire is serious across Europe, Asia and Africa, rather than countries established by the white-skinned people in history, which has a geographical advantage, and the toll booths established at the crossroads are claimed to span the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. With such a vast territory, naturally, there were all kinds of disobedient people under the rule of the territory, and these heretics, heretics, traitors, and thugs have always been the largest source of slaves in the Ottoman Empire. For example, in the sweeps of the Balkans carried out by the Grand Vizier Coprulu, thousands of prisoners were often taken after a castle was taken. The historical tradition of the Ottoman Empire was to sell these captives into slavery. The difference is only that skilled craftsmen, noble women with status, and literacy or not. Whether the body is strong or not, because these will directly affect the price.

In Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Heidi is bought by Monte Cristo from the Ottoman Emperor's concession slave traders. Because of her noble ancestry and status, Monte Cristo bought her freedom from the slave traders with a whole piece of jade equivalent to two thousand bags of coins. And she was sold for a thousand bags of coins by her father, who betrayed her father and her country. Therefore, the population and the slave trade are also a long-standing traditional cultural essence among the white skins of Europe.

Today, for the benefit of the Ottoman Empire and the Koplulu family, Ibrahim is obliged to carry forward this cultural tradition. Anyway, whether it is those pagan prisoners of war in the Balkans, or those heretics and rebels within the empire who oppose the Copleurus family, sooner or later it will be the fate of slaves. Rather than feeding them with food and water, it is better to use the rest of their lives early to exchange some benefits for the empire.

"The mountain people in the Balkans who are good at raising horses, cattle and sheep, the Nubians in Africa who are as black as charcoal and whose strength is greater than a camel, the Arabs in the deserts of West Asia, the people of the European plains, the Ottoman Empire can provide you with thousands of them. It's much cheaper and more cost-effective than hired labor! ”

Since I want to compete for business with my peers, I naturally want to say how cost-effective my goods are. Lord Ibrahim despises those Japanese dwarfs very much, and the thighs of those Kenyan slave girls who have not yet arrived at this envoy to His Royal Highness have come to steal business with me?!

"Five young and middle-aged men ** subordinates, in exchange for a piece of armor! Or other goods of equivalent value! ”

"One firebolt, equipped with twenty rounds of medicine, only five young and middle-aged slaves! If it's an old and weak woman, that's six! ”

"One cuirass or leather armor, three slaves!"

As Ibrahim proposed to exchange slaves for all the goods needed by the Ottoman Empire to make up for the trade deficit of raw materials and imports, similar shouts or bargaining sounded in the vast land stretching from West Asia in the east, to the Danube Plain in the west, and to the African continent in the south. It was not only the lowly slave traders who carried out this traditional trade of the European aristocracy, but also the proud nobles, kings and dukes, bishops and popes who took out their prisoners of war and heretics and let them wash away their sins through heavy manual labor.

On the Mediterranean coast, which is famous for its romance, not only the gentlemen and aristocrats of Europe, but also the romantic Turkey, many large seaports along the coast have become prosperous slave trading ports driven by the booming slave trade and transshipment activities. Tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, grain, weapons, armor, gunpowder, medicines, spirits, and so on were unloaded from ships. These commodities, which circulated quietly, soon became hard currency in the hands of slave traders. It was used to trade with those who specialized in the capture and trade of slaves.

The slave traders in the port were at the end of this human trade chain, trading and trading slaves in the offices of the companies located in the port. And in the Balkans, in the Danube Valley, in Western Asia, in North Africa, the Ottoman governors, the nobles of France, the electors of Germany, the sheikhs of Arabia, turned the enemies in front of them, the peaceful inhabitants into prisoners of war under the sword and gun, and then, after long-distance trafficking, into slaves in the slave trading market near the port. Swap back for what you need. In particular, the Grand Vizier Koplulu of the Ottoman Empire, because he had an almost inexhaustible resource of Japanese mercenaries in his hands, was able to let go of the southern Europe, in the Balkans, and in the Italian Peninsula to fight a special battle, and the source of prisoners of war and slaves in his hands increased day by day, and gradually entered a virtuous circle of development: because he had mercenaries in his hands, he could invest in various battlefields, and then he obtained much more results than before. With these results (population, gold, silver, territory) it will be possible to continue to grow the power of the House of Copleurus, which in turn will require more mercenaries.

However, it was not long before the merchants of the Nanyue Army engaged in the slave trade said, "This kind of long-distance trafficking, the attrition rate on the road is too high!" "Either reduce the purchase price, or find a way to reduce the attrition rate! As a reasonable and reasonable need, it was naturally agreed by the Grand Vizier and the high-ranking officials of France, Germany, Italy, and the Vatican. Thus, the slave merchants of Nanzhong could choose the islands they saw fit along this slave trade route, build warehouses, and build them as bases for the supply of ships, so that the slaves could have a short respite from the high mortality rate.

As a result, in the Persian Gulf, on the coast of the Red Sea, on islands and over port cities, the black and red flags representing the Nanyue Army and the phoenix flag representing the Li family were floated. The merchant began to buy the land from the chieftains and emirs through the slave and commodity trade according to Li Shouhan's wishes, whether it was cotton and wheat cultivation or pure desert, as long as you were willing to sell it, I could exchange it with you.

"These ports and deserts in the Persian Gulf region should be passed on as the family property of our Li family. No matter how poor and difficult it is, you can't give up! These are the words that Li Shouhan told his children at the Li family's family banquet. For his arrangement, the children of the Li family have become accustomed to it, and these similar words have also been tested.

Tianzhu, which faces the south and central across the sea, makes full use of its geographical advantages. The princes, the sultans, and the emperors of the Mughal Empire turned groups of pagan prisoners of war into slaves, stuffed people into the cabins like fish porcelain jars produced in Nanzhong, and then, boatload by boatload of slaves, soon crossed the ocean, arrived on the islands controlled by the Nanyue army, let them come out to breathe, and then stuffed them into the cabins, through the Manraka Strait, to Lijiapo to complete the delivery.

Through such activities, the population and labor gap of the Nanyue Army was filled. Officials, factory owners, and plantation owners everywhere were even pleasantly surprised to find that not only did they not have the trouble of conscription because the lord wanted to fight in the Central Plains, but on the contrary, because of the influx of a large number of Japanese laborers, franc machines, and heavenly slaves, the labor force of their own enterprises showed an increasing trend.

However, the newly arrived Japanese laborers are often well educated by those who have already been naturalized, or who have been here for some years and are trying to complete the naturalization merits.

"Bang!" A muffled sound slammed into the head of the newly arrived Japanese laborers. Before going to work, all the Japanese laborers gathered in a line, stood on the road, and bowed ninety degrees. This scene can be seen every day in the Li family's rubber plantation, in the mines in Nanzhong, and on the wharves everywhere. It is said that this was a custom of the Wa Kingdom, and whenever there was a war in their hometown, the villagers would line up on both sides of the road to see off the samurai. Unexpectedly, this habit has been well passed down by batches of Japanese laborers, and has been used on their own compatriots.

"Yaga! Which one is your compatriot?! Lao Tzu has completed the naturalization period and is about to obtain a Chinese household registration! Become a glorious and honorable Chinese! The head of the man, carrying a sturdy wooden stick in his hand, lectured in front of the procession. This wooden stick, which he called the "power injection stick", is assigned to tasks before and after work every day, or laborers who cannot complete the task. The person who was beaten also bowed his head and admitted his mistake, indicating that he had caused you trouble.

When the cadres of Nanzhong saw it, they stopped it, but the beaten person spoke for the beater, saying that he had made a mistake and was voluntarily punished. The cadres of Nanzhong were inexplicable, so they had to reluctantly think that the Japanese people had special habits and should be properly respected. Of course, after a long time, I realized that in fact, the Japanese people did not want to do this, but the traditional habits of their hometown were too stressful and inertia. In fact, not to mention this book, in fact, the same is true in Japan now, many people are amazed by the textbook-like order of the Japanese in public places, but later, according to Japanese students in China, it is all forced by the damn atmosphere, if you don't do it, you will be treated as a monster. When I arrived at the Tang Dynasty, I was about to die, I didn't have to say hello in the morning, I didn't need to say that I started to eat, I talked when I wanted to, I laughed when I wanted to laugh, and I scolded my boyfriend directly when I was angry, this is the life that people should have. Of course, this kind of thing happened in Nanzhong, and it's been decades later, and the author can only sigh, no wonder there are anime like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

However, there are also plantation owners who are not used to seeing it, and come up to stop it: "Don't you know that the lord once said that he should be kind to the laborers? You broke him, who's going to cut the rubber for me?! Who's going to pick spices for me?! ”

"Tell the master! The subordinates have a sense of proportion! I won't beat him to the point where he can't work! ”

"Humph! You bosses, in order to complete the workload, are often beaten and scolded every day. Aren't you afraid to beat them up and riot?! ”

This plantation owner, probably the new owner who came to Nanzhong from the mainland, did not know much about this kind of situation, and his mind was full of the way of thinking that "the prince and the prince would have a kind of Xiangning" according to the habits of the Central Plains, lest these laborers stomp their feet and rebel like the hungry people in the interior, in which case, his property and net worth and life would be the first to suffer.

"Rebellion, rebellion!" But I didn't want this widow to make a head, and a small flame immediately appeared in his eyes. "The little ones wish they would rise up and make trouble for their masters! One of the younger villagers, like the small ones, worked in the rubber plantations. Before the rebellion of the Turen in Nanyang, in order to keep his rice and fish, he led a few fellow villagers to rush out with rubber cutting knives and cut off the heads of seven or eight rebellious natives. Afterwards, a head was crowned with a year's merits, and he, the leader, was issued a Chinese household registration on the spot! The little one wants to follow him! ”

In addition to working hard every day to complete their tasks, these people all pricked up their ears and widened their eyes, staring at those natives and their compatriots, burning incense and praying for them to come out and make trouble! In this way, I can cut off people's heads and make military merits, and complete my naturalization as soon as possible.

When the owner of the plantation heard this, he was full of astonishment. I can't imagine that this Nanzhong can still do this? Liang Guogong is really a strange person! Being able to squeeze these coolies into such a field also makes them happy. He took the power injection stick in the hand of the Japanese man with satisfaction and looked at it carefully, "You are very good." This infusion stick, can be promoted in a few of my plantations. Do a good job, I'll promote you to be a big boss when I turn around! Manage all the Japanese laborers! ”

"Little thank you for the attention of the owner! Thank you for the cultivation! ”

"No need to be polite! By the way, what's your name? I'll go back and report to the households in the county. ”

"Back to the master's words! The small cheap surname is Gao Ye, and the single name is a Qiao character. The younger brother has already served as a soldier in the army, feeding horses for the army's artillery team. A few days ago, I wrote a letter saying that we must find a way to make military merits and become naturalized as soon as possible! ”

"Good! You Takano family can be regarded as all of you have a loyalty to the Mutian Dynasty. Do a good job, Grandpa Guo will be able to see it. ”

However, no one knew that Grandpa Guo had also encountered new troubles.

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