"Your Majesty, you can be regarded as coming back, and I am a little helpless to disturb me this big night." Cen Tianshi came to the door as soon as Li Xuanqing came back, but he said with a little sad face: "The emperor's trip to Hokkaido can be regarded as the envy of Weichen, fortunately, I will be retired after this year, or I will go to Hokkaido to retire if I don't go back." ”

"Mr. Cen, what's wrong?" Li Xuanqing asked a little curiously. Recently, the empire has been thriving, the war in the northwest is over, all kinds of trade are going well, even the development of the navy in the Western Ocean is very fast, according to their plan, they will be able to reach the Persian Governorate smoothly by the end of August at the latest, and even with the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense have recently been dividing the domestic military districts, everything is very stableWhy does Cen Tianshi look a little distressed? So Li Xuanqing poured him a cup of tea and said with a smile: "Could it be that there are any troubles that have not been done recently?" ”

"But there are troubles, but I can't find a good way to solve it for a while, isn't this going to the emperor to complain." Cen Tianshi said with a wry smile: "Recently, the industrial layout of the Central Plains has reached a critical moment, not counting the southern line railway presided over by the Northwest Tuoba Siji, there are still two railways under construction inside, such a large-scale industry and infrastructure construction requires a lot of labor, but we are now the time when large-scale prisoners of war are settled into the people, and the prisoners of war under our control are decreasing on a large scale almost every month." Although some of these people continue to participate in various infrastructure work after they settle down, on the one hand, a lot of them have been lost, and on the other hand, because they have become their own people, they cannot be suppressed to the greatest extent, so now all ministries are complaining, and there is no manpower to start many projects. On the one hand, it costs a lot to recruit workers from the private sector, and on the other hand, the labor force of the private sector is also limited, so you can't all go to work, and no one farms, right? ”

"Haven't you been working on large-scale projects to use machines as much as possible? What do you think? No effect? Li Xuanqing was a little surprised, but he could also understand Cen Tianshi's distress. Today's empire is vast, and the population is very scarce in various places, and the population of 80 million is diluted in the land that has even doubled the area compared to later generations, and the early industrial development almost all needs manpower to operate, and labor-intensive industries can intercept the profits of the industrial chain as much as possible in all links on the one hand, and on the other hand, they will also allow all strata to enjoy the dividends brought by industrial development as much as possible, but today's situation is the situation that Cen Tianshi said, There is already a severe shortage of labor.

"To inform the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to conduct a thorough survey of the country's industrial industry, for some enterprises that can replace manual operations with machines can provide certain subsidies to help them enter mechanization as soon as possible. On the other hand, in this way, I will go to Changqing Hall early tomorrow morning, and I will ask Tianxiang to help you find a way, at least the personnel of the prisoner of war brigade must not be less. Many dangerous or heavy jobs still need to be filled by prisoners of war. However, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce should also introduce measures as soon as possible to rectify these industries, because prisoners of war cannot always be available, and these types of work will have to return to the right track sooner or later. Li Xuanqing also wanted to suddenly conjure up the population base that dominated the world in later generations, but even if the population growth was stimulated by various policies, there was no way to forcibly raise it. So after thinking about it, there was only one way, so after Cen Tianshi left, Li Xuanqing fell into a long silence alone in front of the Qianqiu Palace. I'm afraid that the rise of the Tang Empire in this life is destined to step on the bodies of many other surrounding tribes.

Early the next morning, Li Xuanqing met Xu Tianxiang, Cen Tianshi and others in the Changqing Palace, and began to study and solve the problem of labor shortage in the Central Plains and other places. However, it is obvious that the General Staff has a certain understanding of the shortage of labor within the empire, so not long after Cen Tianshi spoke, Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng, Wang Houchun and others beside him looked at each other and said: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, our General Staff has also been considering this matter recently, and our opinion is to let the National Guard transfer about 100,000 prisoners of war originally in the Indochina Peninsula to the Central Plains in advance, solve the imminent problems on the Central Plains side one step in advance, and then manage the prisoners of war across the country as a whole. Prisoners of war were used for labor-intensive and other types of work, and the normal recruitment system was used for other ordinary jobs, so that the existing prisoners of war could be used to the maximum, at least within our empire. ”

After Xu Tianxiang's words were finished, Yang Tiancheng nodded and said: "What Tianxiang said is good, I communicated with Yang Yi some time ago, not counting the northwest, there are at least nearly 800,000 prisoners of war in the hands of the National Guard, but at present, there are about 200,000 roads in Tibetan areas, and the rest are scattered in central and southern China and the Central Plains, but in general, they are basically resettled on the spot." In this way, the utilization rate of prisoners of war is not reached, and in some places there is a shortage of people to the point that local officials are panicking, but in some places even ordinary jobs use prisoners of war. ”

"This is no problem, the General Staff and the Cabinet will be unified with Yang Yi at that time, but this is only to tap the internal potential, and cannot fundamentally solve the problem." Cen Tianshi nodded and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that in this way, the original plans in various places will have to be replanned." ”

"The cabinet will first make internal arrangements according to Tianxiang's method. Today I want to talk about another method, of course, this is actually only a temporary solution, but if we can use it well, at least for five years, there will be no major labor shortage in the Central Plains. Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "By the way, in fact, this is also a kind of business, to be precise, it is human trafficking, but I haven't figured out how to implement it yet, and I have to take it out because of Mr. Cen's urgency, and when the time comes, you can negotiate a suitable charter by yourself." ”

Li Xuanqing's words aroused everyone's curiosity, and even Hu Xiaosi, who was originally sitting here thinking about other things, turned his head and smiled: "Human trafficking? Could it be that the emperor meant to let Tianxiang command the army to be a human trafficker? Hey, no, that's the idea that the emperor won't fight, right? ”

"I can't hide anything from you." Regarding Hu Xiaosi's words, Li Xuanqing also smiled slightly, but asked another question, and said with a smile: "Didn't you Xuanyingwei organize people to rob gold and silver treasures some time ago?" I heard that Xiaohu's Flying Eagle Brigade was abducted, how effective was it? ”

"Haha, don't worry, the emperor can rest assured, this time I guarantee that I can solve the urgent need of Qian Zhuang, I have robbed the treasury of nearly five kingdoms on the poisonous peninsula, this way is a lot of trouble, several times if it is not for the Flying Eagle Brigade to force the attack, we really can't escape." Hu Xiaosi laughed and said: "At present, the party has been in contact with the navy, and when the warship picks them up, the emperor, you have to award them a big medal." But when Hu Xiaosi said this, he immediately smiled: "The emperor doesn't mean to set his eyes on the body poison, right?" It's a mess of porridge, and there's a lot of religion. ”

"Yes, I'm just eyeing this treasure land." Li Xuanqing got up and said with a smile: "The place of body poison has now been changed to Tianzhu, but although the name has been changed, the place and its people are also very suitable for use as prisoners of war." Li Xuanqing resounded in later generations, although the Tianzhu people in later generations are too poor in terms of diligence, but how to say that their huge population base is enough to offset everything, and the most important thing is to grasp it.

"Let the navy go out to arrest people everywhere on the peninsula, and then notify the major domestic merchants with ocean-going trade qualifications, so that they can also participate, and then the National Guard will set up a special containment point at the Xihai County port, and you will calculate the price according to the capitation." Li Xuanqing said: "When it is large-scale, the prisoner of war brigade can be expanded into a specialized labor company, and then they will send people to build various large-scale infrastructure projects in China." By the way, the accounts should be counted separately. ”

"Isn't it a bit unreasonable to involve the National Guard and Navy in this kind of human trafficking? The impact on the domestic people is also not good. Before Xu Tianxiang could speak, Cen Tianshi frowned and said, "Why don't you leave it to the people to deal with?" Anyway, the Ministry of Finance, even if there is a gap every year, does not care about the income from this kind of human trafficking. ”

"No, sir's move is inappropriate, if the matter of human trafficking is handed over to private individuals, if there are small people in the middle who also have this idea for the people in the empire, wouldn't it be a trap for their own people?" Wang Houchun shook his head and said: "I think this kind of thing will have to draw up a long-term charter with Yang Yi, and then promulgate and implement it." ”

"This matter is indeed reasonable, and some things still need the government to intervene to deter the petty people. Moreover, it is necessary to clearly inform all merchants who can obtain human trafficking into the country that all transactions must strictly follow the National Guard's management methods, and only then can they get the assistance of the Imperial military on the side of poisoning. Li Xuanqing nodded.

"Assistance from the military?" Xu Tianxiang nodded and immediately understood what Li Xuanqing meant, all businesses going out to sell and arrest people must need sufficient military support, but I am afraid that the control of guns and ammunition will need to be changed in the next step, and sure enough, when Xu Tianxiang was still thinking about this matter, he heard Li Xuanqing say: "All businesses who go out to participate in this matter can apply to the National Guard for necessary weapons and equipment, as for what specifications to formulate, the General Staff will formulate specific measures." What I want to say is that the circulation of firearms, weapons and controlled knives is strictly prohibited within the Tang Empire, but outside the national border, it can be managed according to the method of stationing troops overseas. ”

"Overseas garrison method? Does the emperor mean to revise the method of stationing troops overseas? Xu Tianxiang asked: "In this way, when our people and troops are overseas, the power of the people of other countries is higher, and even when necessary, they can not abide by local laws and regulations?" ”

"Yes, your General Staff will take the time to communicate with the Law Court on this matter, but this law should not be released to the public, as part of military law." Li Xuanqing said: "I don't encourage our people to do illegal things in the outside world, but if there is really anything that the military can handle, it will be carried out according to this law." ”

The discussion of Changqing Hall lasted for a whole day, and there was no record of this meeting later, but several people who participated in the meeting acted as quickly as possible after they came out, and when the cabinet and Yang Yi unified the deployment of existing prisoners of war in the country, the General Staff issued a strange order to the navy, ordering the marines to take immediate action at all bases in Tianzhu, and escort all the Tianzhu men captured along the way back to China first, and hand them over to the special detention point of the National Guard in Xihai County. Let them be escorted to all parts of the Central Plains to participate in the vigorous construction within the empire.

And after the Marine Corps began to act, this large-scale human trafficking was quickly taken care of by the merchants under the direct dispatch of the National Guard, and suddenly thousands of sails went to sea, and countless merchants began to focus on the vast land and huge population of Tianzhu, and even later, even those gangsters who couldn't get along in the country went to Xihai County and then tried to go to sea to search for people overseas, and even many of those merchants began to cooperate with these gangsters and thieves, and they came forward to arrest people. Collect people in the back yourself. In this way, a complete industrial chain of human trafficking is formed. Under the strong suppression of the marines, all the kingdoms on the Tianzhu Peninsula were surprised by this strange move of the Tang Empire, and they suddenly stopped fighting but set their sights on those low-caste two-legged sheep in their eyes. Within the kingdoms of Tianzhu, the caste system had reached its peak, and the lowliest Shudras were regarded by them as similar to livestock, and in many cases even inferior to livestock. Therefore, at the beginning, these high-level officials of the kingdom turned a blind eye to this behavior of the Tang Dynasty, and they did not pay attention to it at all. This makes the newly emerging people in Datang who make a fortune by trafficking in human beings more and more unscrupulous.

"Your Majesty, what's going on with the kingdoms of Tianzhu? It stands to reason that even if these people are not taken seriously by those in power, can they still enjoy those luxurious lives without the people? Cen Tianshi couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the huge number in the report sent by Yang Yi.

"That's not because these lowest-level Shudras are all local natives, that is, the original people of Tianzhu, as for the other high castes, they are all foreign populations, conquerors, and they naturally don't care about these natives who are not much different from slaves in their eyes." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "This is the Tianzhu report sent back by Chen Mingzheng, there are detailed records in it, and Mr. will understand it when he has time to read it." ”

Cen Tianshi hurriedly read it and said with a surprised face: "Your Majesty, why do I think this Tianzhu is a pit, we can't easily fall into it." ”

"It is an inexhaustible treasure house of my Tang Empire, not only in terms of resources and wealth, but also in terms of the total population of my Tang Dynasty." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Cen told Tianxiang and asked him to tell Yang Yi and Chen Mingzheng that at least 10 million people must be captured from Tianzhu within five years, and told them that they want both men and women, and I don't mind that I will have one more Tianzhu tribe in the Tang Dynasty in the future." ”(https:)

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