Lang Chau, South Vietnam.

On a hill two or three hundred meters above sea level, the flames of the destroyed Yue people's cottage were gradually extinguished. After a short rest, 100 troops under the banner of "Luo" and 1,200 black, thin and short South Vietnamese natives surrounded the cottage from all directions. Judging from the strength of the resistance of the Yue people from the beginning, this cottage is just a small settlement of three or four hundred people.

Luo Zi banner, this is Zhong Xiangjun. The latter was awarded the title of Duke of Luo.

The black and dilapidated cottage wall in front of him has just undergone a baptism of earth-shattering thunder, under the light of the torch, almost none of the bamboo buildings near the cottage wall are intact, and the partially collapsed bamboo buildings are still sprinkled with red blood around them, and there are corpses lying down.

The Central Plains Army's 'rule' over South Vietnam was extremely cruel and high-handed.

Almost none of the clans in the territory can escape the fate of being purged and relocated. The fate of the former will not be mentioned, and if the latter is unwilling to go, there is only one way to punish and confiscate slavery. Even those families who have volunteered to do so must relocate.

For ordinary people, in addition to changing customs, they are also given high-pressure rule. Whenever someone is found to be a "bandit", then the whole family will suffer, and the people at the bottom are also vigorously encouraged to supervise and report each other, otherwise the system of joint sitting will be implemented, and it will not be a single family that suffers.

The purpose of Wang Anshi's implementation of the 'armor protection system' was to enhance the armed forces of the Central Plains and the ruling power of the Zhao and Song courts over the people. But at present, the Central Plains army, the Sanruan Division, has completely withdrawn from the front-line battle, and its control territory is limited to the Red River, and the rest of the land is actually controlled by the soldiers and horses of Fang, Wang, and Zhong. Under the rule of the Quartet, the system of protecting the armor was implemented, but only the functions of controlling the people's power, ensuring enslavement, and implementing population management remained. There is no need to mention the military function of the training of soldiers and peasants.

The army of the Central Plains marching south carried out a thorough purge of South Vietnam, which had existed for 200 years, in a posture of destroying everything!

The eradication of politics and culture. A large number of families were either purged or forcibly relocated, which would directly cause a fault in the South Vietnamese civilization. Although the South Vietnamese civilization that uses the Chinese language has many similarities with the Central Plains, those 'cultural people' have a backbone in the back of their heads, and this alone must be cleansed from the land of South Vietnam.

It's a cruel way, but it can't be helped. Emperor Lu didn't want to go back and forth to level the Vietnam War again and again. The native families of South Vietnam, who have already absorbed too much from the independence of the country, have too deep-rooted hostility to the Central Plains to be able to make peace with words. The mistakes made by Ming Chengzu in the official history, Emperor Lu will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Just like after San Ruan led his troops to break through Shenglong City, the magnates in the city who didn't have time to escape, as well as the magnates who were captured during the subsequent pursuit, all cut off Ruan Xiaoqi's brains.

At the beginning of this war, this was a battle of "extermination of the species and the destruction of the country" between the Central Plains and South Vietnam.

Of course, the arrival of the same Central Plains army did not change the social strata of South Vietnam, and they brought new life to the lowest slaves of South Vietnam. You must know that there are still a large number of slaves in Nanyue, most of whom are "domestic slaves", which are no different from the slaves and maids who had no freedom in life at all during the Wei and Jin dynasties in Middle Earth. After his death, Li Qiande, who was called Renzong by the South Vietnamese superiors, only forbade the private slaves to pierce ink (黥字), which means that the slaves of all families inside and outside the capital are not allowed to pierce the chest and feet, and the offender has no official.

But now the masters of these slave heads have either been purged or relocated, and they are also free. In a sense, they have moved from slaves to free farmers.

Just when Emperor Lu commanded the army of the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, and in the following days, the soldiers and horses of the three feudal domains of Fang Wang Zhong entered South Vietnam one after another, and the regular army under Li Qiande had long been wiped out, but Li Qiande was repeatedly escaped from the pursuit by 'good luck', and has been respected by the rebel forces in South Vietnam.

Therefore, the fighting here must continue. To make more natives resent war in the war, and to squeeze out the rebels as much as possible.

The Red River Delta has been taken from all sides, but South Vietnam still has more mountainous areas waiting to be conquered. The latter is also where the resistance of the indigenous South Vietnamese is now concentrated. If this is the case, there will be no more major battles of tens of thousands of people on the land of South Vietnam, and more of a skirmish will be seen in the war in front of them.

In the eyes of the Central Plains army, this is the law and order war that Emperor Lu said.

The South Vietnamese were the main force of the battle, and although the latter was short in stature and lacking in strength, there were always some brave personalities. As long as they are true to their word and the rewards and punishments are clear, these people will have enough motivation to fight for the Central Plains.

Putting on cotton armor and holding knives and guns, such an indigenous vassal was enough for the South Vietnamese rebels to flee with their heads in their hands.

"Li Ming, you take someone over there and occupy that high corner tower! Sun Dalang, you lead people to move forward head-on. The others continue to look around, everyone stay vigilant! ”

Even with the natives as a shield, Zhong Xiangjun is not safe. Everything has to be done with care.

Halfway through, the screams of men and the cries of women broke the silence. After the blood and fire, a large group of captives were grouped into the camp of the Central Plains army with this army of soldiers and horses, and the latter were captives, that is, slaves that could be bought and sold.

The appearance of manpower trading houses on the borders of South Vietnam caused the armies of the three feudatories to fall into a great incentive. Those captives are no longer just waste of food, but real money.

The mining exploration team of the Ministry of Industry has discovered a high-quality copper and iron ore in Qiongzhou and a high-quality coal mine in the coastal area of South Vietnam, both of which require a lot of labor to develop. There are also the Ryukyus, as well as the copper and iron coal mines in western Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hubei Province, and even the construction sites in Shanghai and Hong Kong, no matter how many captives there are, both men and women have been digested.

Men go to work as coolies, and women sell to miners in the mines. The work in the mine is dangerous, but the wages of the regular miners are also high. And there are many miners who can't marry a daughter-in-law, which just solves the worries of the former. If it doesn't work out, can it be thrown into the market?

There is a market for horizontal and vertical captives, and there is money to be made in wars. This gave the soldiers and horses of the three feudal clans enough motivation to fight. And as they continued to penetrate into the lofty mountains, more and more South Vietnamese barbarians fell into the depths of the mountains where they had lived for generations, or surrendered to the foot of the Central Plains.

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February 25 of the second year of Hongwu.

From a Tianfang merchant ship from Guangzhou to the brand-new Wusong Port, a group of local workers were busy surrounding it, driving the machine and pulling the sling, and one after another brand-new large animal pulley cranes stood on the wharf of Wusong Port. Under the joint operation of dozens of workers, the cargo on this Tianfang merchant ship was unloaded in half a day.

After a few months, Faisal bin Abdulaziz came to Wusong Port again. In the past, it was just a simple estuary road, but now, it has replaced Tonghui Town and has become the first place in the Shanghai-Hong Kong area. The so-called "people in the market and miscellaneous summers, treasures should be things in the southeast", it is not nonsense.

Last year, Faisal spent thousands of dollars to buy three shops in Wusongkou, and in less than half a year, the market price has doubled.

But this is not an important reason why Faisal rushed to Shanghai and Hong Kong.

The real reason is Emperor Lu, who has arrived in Yangzhou.

The latter inspected Huainan hydraulic engineering along the way, which took more than half a month, and it was about to come to an end. In the next few days, I will definitely inspect Shanghai and Hong Kong.

This is not only a major event for Shanghai and Hong Kong itself, but also a major event for these businessmen. No matter how good it is, no one is willing to welcome it in order to be praised by the Chinese emperor.

Not to mention that when the emperor went on patrol, the dignitaries and nobles he carried along the way, and even the accompanying internal affairs office, were all first-class high-rollers.

This time, Faisal took out all the fine products in his hands, and even bought a batch of high-quality gems and BMWs at a high price in Guangzhou before leaving.

Gemstones, which have always been the fist product of Tianfang's trade with China, although the total amount is far less than that of spices because of the quantity limit. But look at those sea merchants, who doesn't have a batch of fine gems in their hands? In the usual sense, these are the means by which they communicate with the Chinese nobles.

BMW, especially the good-looking BMW, has been a hot commodity in the Chinese market recently.

Especially the nobles on the Yidu side, everyone is willing to spend a lot of money to buy high-grade horses. It's not just about finding good horses.

Faisal had no way of knowing why. But this is a good thing for him and for the entire Heavenly Merchants.

It was very difficult for a large number of horses to be transported from heaven to China. But a small number of BMW Masters can. Not to mention that India also has good horses......

As long as there is a sales market in China, as long as they have profits, then businessmen will flock to it.

Faisal disembarked from the boat early, and instead of going straight to his shop, he sat down at a teahouse outside the docks. Faisal, who has traveled between the East and the West for many years and has even bought a property in Guangzhou, is a standard China expert, who can not only write Chinese characters, but also be proficient in Chinese.

It is clear that the role of teahouses in China is the best place to circulate information.

Sure enough, as soon as Faisal entered the seat, the attendant who went to find Dr. Bao to buy the newspaper had not yet returned, when he heard the people at the table next to him talking about the interesting story of Emperor Lu's southern tour.

That is the emperor is kind and loving, and the queen is virtuous and virtuous.

Emperor Lu has sprinkled a lot of money along the way. The first is the local material supply, which is not a request for local supplies in vain, but is all tendered by the procurement department of the Internal Affairs Office.

Sectional bidding! It's a very new idea. Tell those merchants to bid for supply along the way based on a benchmark value.

Except for a small amount of local products donated by the local government, the total size of the southward 'army' of more than 7,000 people was supplied by the merchants who won the bid for the grain, eggs, poultry, livestock, river fresh, melons and fruits needed along the way.

If something goes wrong, the merchant himself will be punished, or the family will be exterminated, and the gentry of the joint insurance will be harmed.

Not everyone can participate in the bidding casually, the latter needs the joint name of the state and county officials as a guarantee, and if something goes wrong, the joint officials will also have to suffer the crime. This may give rise to a lot of collusion between officials and businessmen, but it also ensures the purity of the group of bidders to the greatest extent.

After all, as long as this trip is proper, it will be used as an example to appear in the construction of national projects on a large scale.

As it turned out, the labor camps were not enough. Just as it turned out to be feasible on the tender side.

The emperor and his entourage entered Huainan from Qilu, and none of the three suppliers along the way made a mistake. Although the ghosts all understand that the three of them would rather lose their capital than shorten the supply of the royal car.

Although the trade was laborious and did not make any money, and even had to pour a large sum of money into it, the merchants received the honor they had coveted for a long time, and they obtained a social status that they could not normally buy with more money.

The great feudalism has not yet begun, and the title of "national scholar" has not yet dropped in price. The way for businessmen to spend money on honor has not yet been opened. In this way, the glory of being a contractor for Emperor Lu is very eye-catching. has a halo of the Son of Heaven on his head.

Emperor Lu also saved money, which is a win-win model.

Without mentioning this, let's just say why did Emperor Lu open the 'bidding and contracting' mode?

There are so many projects across the country, how can they be accomplished by relying only on labor reform? And this kind of system can only be used for a while, and when the world is peaceful and the country is safe, where are there so many labor prisoners?

Thinking about the corruption of officialdom, the tofu scum project is not only limited to the end of the 20th century, but also countless in the Ming and Qing dynasties. He remembered a post he had read in his previous life that said that in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Huanghuai River was costly, and the ordinary years also cost millions of dollars. But such a huge amount of money is really applied to river defense, I am afraid that it is two or three out of ten.

There are some specific figures and examples in the post, which are not necessarily true when I think about it now, but the impact on Emperor Lu is huge.

In particular, after the repeated vacancies of re-education through labor prisoners on the construction sites in Shanghai and Hong Kong made him soberly aware of the inadequacy of the policy of 're-education through labor prisoners'. Emperor Lu came up with the idea of transforming the Ministry of Industry from "the world's No. 1 construction company" into a simple engineering supervision and quality inspection unit.

This tender contract is his first attempt.

Although it is not possible to solve the problem of engineering corruption once and for all, as long as the system is meticulous, it can always be much better. At least it's much more reliable than simply relying on re-education through labor.

This matter has been spread in Jiangnan. A lot of people talk about it because it's not only new, but also profitable for businessmen. Faisal listened to the tender for a while, which was very fresh and exciting. And he had never heard of these things in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou is rich and has many businessmen who live there, but it is too far from the political center of China.