Chapter 336: Business is Business

When they had weapons, they were jackals, slaughtering women and children, and even daring to oppose the officers and soldiers, but after being exposed to arms, they were lambs.

The loose stone fort quickly collapsed under the bombardment of the six-pounder guns, and the people inside had no hope of survival, and the captives who were kneeling on the side in despair were immediately shouted to clean up the battlefield, and no shells that could be found could be wasted. Since the first battle, the Jiang army's results have been a complete victory, losing two ships and nearly 100 soldiers on Jeju Island.

Everyone's hearts were full of anger, and it was a dignified battle, the other party was vulnerable at all, and it showed that there was such a victory with conspiracy and trickery at that time, and this idea made the soldiers even more hot, and the prisoners who squatted there moved a little slower, and the soldiers on guard directly stabbed them with a shot, or drew their knives and cut them.

Basically, they didn't fight, they killed as soon as they started, the captives were as fast as rabbits, the stones and shells were cleaned up and piled aside, and the people in the stone fort were all bloody and blurry, only three or four people were killed, and they survived the shelling, but their bodies were also scarred.

Surviving from the shelling does not mean surviving, the Tieding officer over there turned his head to look at Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng stretched out his hand with some impatience, and the officer immediately understood this meaning, and his hand rose and fell, completely relieving the pain of these fateful people.

Several children of the Xia family, who were counting the number of people in the back, ran over in small steps, and after giving a salute, they said respectfully:

"Report to your lordship, there are 1,600 households and 4,200 people in the Xiajia Dingkou on the island, and there are still 500 people on the boat, and there are 3,100 people who have just been injured."

These children are Xia Cuiyu's personal entourage, and they have been following Jiang Feng to Incheon, and they are also a little homesick on weekdays, but today they are a little complacent, no matter how senior the people in the clan are, they have to talk to themselves with a smile and respectfully.

Presumably he will also have a lot of status among these people in the future, so everyone's faces are a little happy, Zhang Liang heard the number of three thousand and one hundred people, and looked at the remaining 1,000 or so captives in the field, where he bowed his head and thought about it, and said with a smile:

"Master, let's sell it this time, no matter what, there will be 30,000 taels of silver in the account!"

Hearing Zhang Liang's words, the people around him, especially the people of the Xia family, gasped, and their faces became ugly.

When several children of the Xia family were about to grit their teeth and say a few words, Jiang Feng's face sank, and he said angrily:

"Ridiculous, how can these people sell, keep the land for farming, and keep it for us to drive a boat to make money, are you confused?"

Although these words sounded quite awkward, the people of the Xia family were still relieved, Zhang Liang obviously didn't take such a reprimand seriously, and with a smile, Jiang Feng turned his head and his face became serious, and said formally:

"All the households of the Xia family must lay down their weapons, go out of the secret places and live in the houses, if there is any hiding and avoiding the punishment of the widows, tonight, go and do it!"

Hearing the order, the children of the Xia family immediately ran to do this matter, and after getting permission, they also called the children who were familiar with each other in the household to search together, and saw that the matter here was almost done, and the captives were driven towards the shore, Jiang Feng greeted Zhang Liang, and prepared to take the guards back to the ship for the night, who knew what would happen on the island at night.

The guards followed behind the two, Jiang Feng walked in front, Zhang Liang followed behind with an iron gun, the dress of the two people did not see any big difference from ordinary soldiers, but there was a bloody aura on their bodies, Jiang Feng even had a smile on his face, looked around, and the Xia family members who ran into the mountains were all back to the houses near the port, knowing that these people actually took in Xia Cuiyu's Dengzhou Jiang family army, they were not too afraid in their hearts, and the people at sea were always bolder, A change of master is just a change of place to live.

However, after seeing Jiang Feng's eyes, everyone involuntarily knelt on the ground, and didn't even dare to look up, where Jiang Feng walked, the ground was full of kneeling crowds, and the whole front was quiet and abnormal, only the voice of the Jiang family army officer in the hinterland shouting loudly and scolding the prisoner came faintly.

The rest is the sound of the collision of the armor on the guards, when he arrived at the port, Jiang Feng actually had a drunken feeling, and when he stepped on the warship, he was still thinking, no wonder countless people fought for the superior swords, and the blood flowed like a river, this kind of heartbeat above everyone, how to say that, it is very pleasant.

The clerks and tents of the Huifeng have already begun to calculate how the current ships will take all the people on the island away, because this time the ships are mainly transporting troops.

No matter how you calculated, the ships sent by Jiang Feng this time could only take about 500 people, and the supplies at sea were also a problem, and several scribes were worried there all night.

As a result, the next day, Jiang Feng did not give the order to set off at all, but only ordered the ships to replenish fresh water and supplies on the island, and in the afternoon of the next day, ships began to appear around Damen Island, and the two large ships, Shunfeng and Huifeng, were parked at the outermost periphery and were the first to be discovered.

The soldier who was watching from the mast was shocked, and thought it was the sailor of the imperial court, but when he shouted halfway down, he also felt that something was wrong, the imperial court still did a good job of banning the sea, and there were no sea ships for a long time, and sure enough, when his shout reached the ears of the officers, there was no urgent mobilization.

These are all ships of the Jingshi Merchant Group, but the number of ships made Jiang Feng startled, it actually gathered more than a hundred ships, and if they were not compared to Jiang Feng's fleet, these ships could be said to be big ships.

This time, thirty people from the Jingshi business group came on behalf of each family, led by a middle-aged man named Chen Lei, it is said that behind his family's business is the support of the celebrant eunuch, and now everyone knows that the reclamation manor outside the gate is like a boundless treasure pot, as long as someone works, how much gold can be dug out.

However, those who rarely used slave labor did not grasp the scale well, and the Jurchen slaves captured by the previous colonization and merchant groups were almost dead, and the casualties of Korean slaves were also quite large, and things like rebellion came one after another, unlike the cowardly officers and soldiers who seemed to be sheep on the coast. The guards of Liaobian are tigers and wolves at this time, and with the acquiescence of the Jingshi Xungui and the official eunuch group, the guards in Liaobian are seriously deficient, but the officers of the guards are not worried, the military salary is much more than before, and they have more vacancies to eat, and they don't have to worry about someone checking it.

The soldiers were also willing, to go to the local food and spicy food, it is said that there is no shortage of women, a large number of officers and soldiers are transformed into the guards of the various reclamation estates, they kill people without mercy, and the owners of the manors and the merchants behind them understand that in order to maintain the efficiency and intensity of labor, the escort regiment and the original men of the reclamation regiment can not be used for labor, only more and more militarization can drive the slaves to work better, can prevent the fruits of labor from being destroyed by the rebellion.

Of course, the consequence of this change is that the number of slaves has further increased, and the fixed acquisition of Korean slaves here in Jiangfeng every year is always a bit insufficient, and the refugees who were brought in during the Shandong Rebellion are even more a drop in the bucket, and now many yamen in the Ming Dynasty are harsh and abnormal.

For the ruffians and those who have committed misdemeanors, they are often punished by exile, of course, everyone knows the place of exile, and it is not a good thing to go.

There is no even a small harassment, in fact, the Tatartan Khans in the north of the Great Wall are also wondering, why the tribes in the south of the grassland are a little inexplicable that they have lost contact, but I haven't heard any news about the Ming army recently, in fact, the various reclamation manors outside the pass are extremely depressed for labor, and each manor is cobbling together manpower to plunder the population on the grassland.

Many innocent small tribes have suffered in this way, but these people are just stuffed between their teeth, and they are not enough to use at all.

It can be seen that it is not only the capitalists who dare to take risks for the sake of huge profits, but also the landlords and merchants who have turned from sheep to jackals for the sake of profits. The so-called torrent of history began to deviate from its proper flow after it appeared in Huifeng Tower.....

Jiang Feng doesn't understand the changes he has caused, but he has also had some dealings with literati in the past, such as his father-in-law Liu Shunhua, although he tries to communicate in the vernacular, but he is also a little headache, although these representatives of the Jingshi business group are all businessmen, but most of them have a scholar's background, and when they start to communicate, they also have such and such problems, in general, it is the other party's hanging text, Jiang Feng can't understand, but after dealing with them again and again, I found that these people are becoming more and more naked, tore off the gentleness on his face and was unceremonious.

"Lord Jiang, you wrote to us, let us bring the boat over, but how can this thousand people be divided, and you don't agree to sell the four thousand people, and the boat also costs capital, how much silver does it cost for these more than 100 ships to go on the sea once......

Chen Lei's words were strongly approved by the businessmen around him, for the sake of silver, Jiang Feng's majesty and fierceness, who would care, what they meant was actually clear, they couldn't run in vain, our family had enough silver, Master Jiang, where would you go to grab some people......