Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang skillfully fended off General Kim Jong-sik's request.

One reason stands in the way...... How can the children decide the major matters of marriage by themselves?!

General Kim Jong-sik kept laughing, he didn't care, he just begged Crown Prince Jang Zhansheng to look at the color photo, and said that he invited the most professional photographer and colorist on Liuqiu Island to take it.

Navy Second Lieutenant Zhang Zhansheng had to take a look...... A girl with big eyes and a big face, and the colorist used exaggerated color modulation in post-processing, and her green, pink, and red clothes and accessories were too messy.

Maybe it's because he is used to refusing, General Kim Jong-sik doesn't care about Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang's refusal, and just asks His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to see the jade photos of his princess.

General Kim Jong-sik put away the photograph and talked about the deep friendship between Goryeo and the Federal Empire.

Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang knew in his heart that this guy had some bad intentions.

After going around in a big circle, this guy proposed to unite the navy of the Federal Empire to "recruit" black labor in eastern Africa, and then go to Europe to "recruit" white labor through the Nankai region and Liberty Island.

They also have world charts and globes in their hands......

Labor is the most scarce "commodity" at the moment, not to mention the Federal Empire, even in the Great Song Dynasty.

Some farmers who own small plots of land are slowly giving up their farmland, and they find that they can't earn more than those who work in the cities after their hard work to grow food!

The reason is very simple, grain prices have been very stable for several years, and they have always not been able to rise, even if there are droughts and floods, overseas shipments can always bring in a large amount of grain to bring down the price!

However, the daily necessities needed by yeoman farmers are increasing, and their daily expenses have risen.

Big livestock is much cheaper, and ordinary people can buy it, so they grit their teeth and buy it, because farmers know that having a big livestock is very useful for growing food...... But then it came that livestock feed should also be bought, because that kind of livestock feed is not only cheap, but also fatty, which is far better than feeding in the old way.

Not to mention things like salt, rice, and vegetables, matches, kerosene lamps, cotton clothes, socks, canvas shoes, and all kinds of spices are cheap, and you can afford to buy them even if you grit your teeth, and you can't do without them slowly.

Originally, the advanced city had to walk and walk, and it was not appropriate to take it for four or five days, but now there is a four-wheeled carriage, and it is only a dozen dollars to sit on, which saves time and effort, and you can sit on it as soon as you grit your teeth.

In this way, the previous situation of living a good life by planting a few acres of grain is gone, and it can only be said that it is barely enough to make ends meet, and life is tight...... Unless the family's fields are expanded, water conservancy is rebuilt, and large livestock are used exclusively for concentrated farming, then the income can be increased.

However, the fields in their own families are generally ancestral, and in their generation, they can only have so many acres, more than a dozen acres and at most dozens of acres, and there is no way to concentrate them.

In the end, someone couldn't bear it anymore and made a decision, so it was better for the whole family to go to the city to work...... It's best to go to the main island to work!

In this way, some small farmers in the coastal areas of the Great Song Dynasty who owned their own fields either rented their fields to others or sold them directly, and went all out to develop in the cities!

Of course, it's still more rented to someone else...... After all, selling the ancestral land is an uncomfortable thing.

Whether it was rented or sold, the land did not disappear for no reason, and slowly it was concentrated again in the hands of large households, who began to reorganize water conservancy and buy large livestock.

However, the whole family of the yeoman farmer has gone to the city, and even if the land is concentrated and large livestock are used, it still needs labor, especially low-cost labor...... What the Federal Empire had experienced in agriculture began to appear again in the countryside of the Great Song Dynasty.

Originally, it was possible to recruit laborers from Korea and Japan...... Labor in the Great Song Dynasty was much more expensive because the Federal Empire always advertised it in the newspapers, and it seemed that it was always recruiting.

However, it wasn't long before the labor of Korea and Japan was not cheap, and they relied on the fact that they could speak the Great Song dialect or know how to grow grain, and they had to pay more!

Many small and medium-sized farmers have done the math and found that the cost has increased a lot...... Naturally, they began to buy black or white slaves from Hui traffickers who needed to be trained for a long time, as the Federal Empire had done.

The Great Song government allowed the sale of human beings and recognized lifelong slavery, which was much more expensive than selling to the Federal Empire...... The Federal Empire only allowed slavery for five years, after which it was necessary to return the personal freedom of the family, and it was to be paid according to the wages of a free citizen, so it could not be sold at a high price.

The second climax of the slave trade began...... This is an unexpectedly linear response.

In the past, Korea was a complete exporter of labor and minerals, but in recent years, they have also begun to grow a large number of cash crops in their country, especially the cotton varieties of the Union Empire, and gradually began to process cotton yarn and cotton cloth.

The same is true in Japan.

The Great Song Dynasty, the Goryeo Kingdom, and the Japanese Kingdom all stole the spinning and spinning machinery of the Federal Empire...... As for the hand-cranked Jenny machine, hand-cranked hosiery machine, hand-cranked handkerchief machine and other small pieces, they appeared in the cities and villages of the three countries at almost the same time.

There is no way, the wood and iron structure and the mechanical structure of spinning and spinning cloth using hydraulic power are too simple, and it is impossible to prevent those laborers who come to work to spread the skills they have learned around a long time ago.

For a time, the textile market of the Federal Empire was also hit by the three countries, and their wages for labor were low, and the cost of sea transportation was lower...... A considerable number of sweatshops and sweatshop owners in the Three Kingdoms really made a lot of money.

By the time the Federal Empire began to adopt steam power, the gang was dumbfounded...... No matter how much they squeeze the blood and sweat of labor, it is not as cost-effective and time-saving as steam power, and if they dare to give low wages, they will definitely run away, and they will no longer care whether they are out at sea!

Passenger ships to the Federal Empire can be found in every coastal city in the three kingdoms, and if you are determined to leave, it is not impossible, and the Indian shipping company also has a policy that the ticket can be owed first...... In the future, you can use it to work for other industries in the Indian Group of Companies to pay back!

So, such sweatshops and sweatshop owners waited for the Federal Empire to sell their steam-powered engines, and at the same time had to find ways to save labor costs.

As a result, the method of purchasing black and white slaves previously adopted by the Federal Empire began to be imitated by those who had intentions in the three countries.

More interested people think that buying from Huihui traffickers still increases the cost...... Why don't we go to Africa and "recruit" ourselves ?!

Soon, the idea went so far as to rise to the level of the national level.

It is true that Goryeo is now far richer than before, but it is hateful that Japan is the same...... If you don't find some good business opportunities, you really can't leave other countries behind.

They don't care about the breadth and wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, because people were like this hundreds of years ago; They also don't care about the strength and prosperity of the Federal Empire, because people do have the ability to do so, and they have to obey it...... However, if it is a country that is guarding by its side, it is still at the same level as itself, and if they surpass themselves, then they really can't stand it.

Therefore, General Kim Jong-sik took the opportunity of condolences to say to Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang that the Goryeo Navy needed to be stationed in the Marbury area, the beautiful island, the Namkai region, and the military port of Liberty Island in the Federal Empire.

General Kim Jong-sik had a haha on his face, but his eyes were seriously watching the reactions of Hou Dongfang and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

As long as a few military ports were allowed to settle in the Federal Empire, Goryeo would be rich......

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