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The more than 3,000 people and merchants in the city of Shimajin were all tied hand and foot, and they were driven out of the city in a long line, and gathered outside the city gate.

Cui Jin walked in front of these people excitedly, and the more she looked, the more satisfied she became. These captives are now trophies belonging to their fleet, more than 3,000 captives, and most of them are young men and women. Such young men and women can now fetch an excellent price in the slave market.

One such slave is worth several horses, especially those who are strong and fluent in Chinese, and one is worth hundreds of dollars.

However, instead of taking it and selling it, Cui Jin prefers to auction it within the fleet, so that they have the opportunity to buy it quickly. Although his territory is still in southern Liaoning and has not yet been obtained, the Cui family's family business in recent years has also been quite large. Participated in the manufacture of perfume soap soap tooth powder, one of which is a share, and the Cui family also opened a lot of department stores, relying on the relationship with the Li family, they can always get hot goods for sale, making the business of the department store very good.

Today, Cui's department store is the family's largest industry, and the Cui family plans to open more branches in Daozhou in the future, but opening more stores requires not only capital, but also manpower. And now Li Qincheng and others are opening up wasteland in Lingnan, Vietnam and other places to build sugarcane plantations, and the Cui family also wants to get a piece of the pie, but they can get sugarcane plantations, which require more labor.

In addition, since the beginning of this year, the Li family has begun to plant cotton in Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, Suiyuan and other northwest border areas. This cotton Jin knew that it was just an ornamental flower in the palace, but Li Chao had already started planting and training cotton, and used cotton to produce beautiful white cloth.

The Li family called it white cotton cloth, which was very small in the market, but it was more expensive than silk. And quilts, pillows, and jackets made of cotton have become things that the aristocracy and big families compete for in winter.

The prospect of cotton cultivation is suddenly vast, and it seems that it is no worse than that of sugar cane. Compared with planting mulberry and raising silkworms, it is much more popular.

The Cui family also wants to build a cotton tea plantation in the northwest, but whether it is planting sugarcane in the southeast or cotton in the northwest, this is a labor-intensive industry, even if it requires less labor than the Li family's mineral smelting industry, but the demand is still amazing.

If they want to get a piece of the pie in these industries, the Li family has no objection, but if there is no one, then even if the Li family asks them to do it, they can't do it.

Nowadays, the demand for slaves in the slave market is increasing, and the price of slaves is rising, and the three thousand slaves here are still such high-quality slaves, which are quite valuable.

Even those slave men and women who are fifty years old are still worth a lot of money, and they can still work for their masters for ten to fifteen years. And those slave children are worth just as much. Boys and girls will be sent to train for a period of time, so that they can learn Chinese and even artisan skills, women are smart and beautiful to learn to wait for people, and ordinary people learn weaving and other skills, and then send them to the workshop in the future.

It can be said that the biggest gain from taking Shimazin this time is these populations.

Without a single knife or shot, not a single Goguryeo was injured, which undoubtedly minimized the losses.

In the propaganda of the Central Plains, the Goguryeo people were a group of ferocious and brutal barbarians. They live in the wild and bitter cold land of Liaodong, and they do all kinds of evil things.

They were in the company of wild beasts, they drank blood, they invaded the territory of Liaodong, and killed and enslaved the Han people there.

However, these Goguryeo people in front of them are very ordinary.

Even like ordinary northern Han Chinese, they are also black-haired, black-eyed and even yellow-skinned, and they are undoubtedly closer to the Han than those Turkic people and Sogdians in the Western Regions.

The old men were also thin and withered, the boys were innocent and young, and the women even wore their hair in a bun similar to that of the women of the Central Plains.

The Goguryeo merchants wore silk round-necked robes and soft-footed heads, and even spoke the same way as the Han Chinese.

The marines who surrounded these people were also looking at these legendary barbarians with curiosity. There were even some doubts on the faces of the teenagers.

The horse shook his head and breathed.

Lu Gao rode on a horse and looked at these Goguryeo people, Fan Yang Lu was the most familiar with the Goguryeo people, they were very close to the Goguryeo people and lived next to each other. In the past, the Lu clan also often traded with the Goguryeo people and had close contacts.

The children of the other families are taking their men and searching for booty from street to street and house to house.

No chaos, no arson, no murder.

It's not so much that they're robbing, it's that they're moving.

Relocation as a whole.

A house of belongings, food, and goods was removed, and then someone registered one by one, and someone else was responsible for sorting them.

Finally, the loot is distributed and stacked everywhere.

"There's a lot of food."

A mountain of grain is taking shape, rice, wheat, millet, and jerky.

"There's a lot of money."

Copper coins, gold and silver were searched from house to house, as well as gold, silver and copper coins found from the treasury and shops, and silk silks.

All kinds of goods in the Goguryeo shops, furs, ginseng, medicinal herbs, cloth, grain・・・・・・・

In the end, even the furniture was moved.

How much loot can be gained by emptying a town of 3,000 people?

There were several mountains piled up outside the city.

"We sent it."

Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but sigh.

He also participated in robberies in previous wars, but it was impossible to rob so cleanly every time, and each robbery was often accompanied by arson and murder**, etc., and in the end, many belongings were actually burned.

and many other possessions were kept privately.

But this time, all the loot was handed over to the public, and the search was carried out in batches, and after the first search, another team searched again, and then a third team searched for the last time.

Plough three feet.

In particular, the captives had to be interrogated, and the underground cellars could not escape.

"How do you divide so much loot?" Cheng Yanjin asked.

Li Chao pinched his chin, this harvest is indeed amazing.

People, livestock, money, grain, and goods.

"Are they all registered?"

"Yes, they are all registered in three categories."

A group of aristocratic gentlemen all came over, waiting for Li Chao's distribution plan. They didn't think about splitting it evenly, after all, each family contributed differently.

"There has to be a fair way to distribute the spoils of war, which is the way to do it for a long time. As for my distribution method, it is very simple, first hand over all the loot to the registration and statistics, and there is no private collection. After the statistics, we will count our costs. ”

The words cost make those people a little baffled.

However, Li Chao insisted that robbery is of course also a commercial activity, and naturally there are operating costs.

The ships dispatched, the crew, the soldiers, and the ammunition and weapons consumed are all costs.

These are all to be calculated first.

The cost of each ship is calculated daily according to the size and rank of the ship, and the wages of each crew, sailor, and marine, according to their position and seniority, are also calculated.

Then there are the equipment consumed, the food consumed, etc., which are also costs.

All this was calculated, and then it was deducted from the spoils of war first, and the crew's wages were given to the crew, and the ship's expenses were given to the captain・・・・・・・

"Do you have an opinion on this?"

When everyone saw that Li Chao was so clear, they didn't think there was any problem.

"Well, there is another cost, that is, those who perform special and meritorious in their actions must also be rewarded, and this bonus must also be regarded as a cost."

"We agree."

"Also, the management of the entire fleet, who is responsible for directing the development of action plans, etc., should also take a copy, which is also considered a cost."

"That's fine." The gentlemen are not against it.

"Very well, now, let's deduct this cost of our expenses from the spoils of war first."

The accounting room immediately pulled out the abacus and began to calculate the money according to these operating cost items set by Li Chao.

In the end, according to this result, it was deducted from the loot.

The rest of the loot is still abundant.

"Now, the rest of these are the benefits of our operation after deducting the costs, and of course, these cannot be directly divided. According to the rules, we still have to pay 10% of the tax to the imperial court. ”

The bookkeeper pulled out the abacus and deducted another 10% from the rest.

At this time, Cheng Yanjin's face couldn't help but be a little exciting.

The emperor stipulated that 10% of the loot should be owned, but Li Chao just told him what operating costs and expenditure items, and the rest was given to the imperial court as a tax, which is actually equivalent to giving the imperial court a lot less taxes.

"We're tax evasion?"

"No, we're reasonably tax avoidant." Li Chao said with a smile that tax evasion and reasonable tax avoidance are two different things. As a citizen of Datang, of course, you have to pay taxes in accordance with the law. However, reasonable tax avoidance is also to quickly strive for legitimate rights and interests.

"Reasonable tax avoidance, that's a good point." Cheng Biting Jin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"We also have a way to avoid taxes, which is that we don't sell the leftover loot, but divide it ourselves through internal auctions. This way, we don't need to sell for cash, and we can pay one less transaction tax. Of course, if you still have to sell the loot after the internal auction, you still have to pay taxes to the imperial court, but if you don't sell them after you get it, you don't have to pay taxes. ”

Cheng Yanjin gave Li Chao a thumbs up, Li Chao could find these vacancies.

"Just a little loot, what else to sell, direct internal auction, and then everyone will share the money, we are an internal adjustment, of course we don't have to pay taxes."

But there are dozens of them, and although there are a lot of loot, there is not much to share.

"Wen Yuan, while the news from Beisha City hasn't been known so soon, let's hurry up and send people to sweep around again, destroy those Goguryeo villages, arrest all the people back, and make a fortune."

Of course, Li Chao will not let go of the surrounding Goguryeo people, although there are more than 3,000 people in Shimajin, but the population of the surrounding countryside will only be more and not less, this is a lot of money, and it cannot be wasted.