No. 393 Domination of the East China Sea 1
Fortunately, at this time, the Zhe family took the initiative to revoke the restrictions on their commercial activities in Fuzhou City, which can be regarded as giving these family owners a face.
And the stewards who came to discuss the matter of renting a shop this time have all changed their faces. Those who did not dare to do it at the time. But the stewards, who all seemed very arrogant, had become scapegoats for the loss of the Lord's family.
Cai Dao's soda factory in Fuzhou City has also become another cause of labor shortage on Hedong Road, because although the work in this factory is very hard, the supervisors sent by Cai Dao treat these recruited workers as real people, and it is definitely much easier to pay them than to dig in the soil.
It is precisely for this reason that more and more poor people, driven by the villagers, have flocked to the city of Fuzhou, even if it is a border city that may be involved in war at any time.
However, the achievements of the Fold family in this regard have given these people great confidence.
Because, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhejia family occupied and took over the central dynasty here, Fuzhou City has never been broken by foreign races or rebels.
With the Zhejia army here, Fuzhou City is naturally as safe as a rock.
Also, under Cai Dao's reminder, the Zhejia family built a large-scale simple house in the western part of Fuzhou City. The houses in this large area are not for sale, but for rent. The potential target is naturally the temporary residence of the farmers on Hedong Road, who have no family property.
Originally, in this matter, Cai Dao planned to use his money to buy a not too important area of Fuzhou City and build a large-scale slum, but the person who was too ghostly was so ghostly that he saw the benefits of renting a house from the matter of renting a shop, so he did not agree to Cai Dao's request. Except for the wasteland outside the city and the land for the construction of factories in the city, Cai Dao was never granted a piece of land.
Although the one-time income of this money is small, it is also a very considerable income over time.
But Cai Dao didn't care about the rent, he cared about the quality of the construction of these newly built slum houses.
Fortunately, Zhi Kexing is still a bit of a conscience, and the level of building houses under his subordinates naturally can't catch up with Cai Dao's. After the model house was built, when Cai Dao's subordinates came back to report, they said that the craftsmen in Fuzhou City were also veterans, and the houses they built under the same materials were not much worse.
For this reason, Cai Dao deliberately took the initiative to sell the method of making bricks to the Zhejia, which can be regarded as supporting the people.
The changes in these things are only some of the places where Cai Dao was influenced within the Great Song Kingdom.
Overseas, the Cai family's fleet has begun to dominate the entire East China Sea.
After Yiju Island, Jeju Island became the second island occupied by the Cai family. At this time, Jeju Island was not the territory of Goryeo, but an independent country, Tamna.
For such a big country, Cai Dao naturally chose to ignore it, anyway, they are not a subject country of the Great Song Kingdom, destroy their country, kill their king, and lead their people. These so-called people of the Tamna Kingdom, the men were all sold to the nobles of the Great Song Kingdom as slaves, and in this regard, Cai Dao's people did this business privately with the Cao family. As for whether the Cao family kept these slaves for their own use or sold them to other families, it was not Cai Dao's concern.
And those young women were assigned to Cai Dao's subordinates as concubines. As the Cai family's fleet grows larger, more and more crew members are being absorbed. The need for these crew members was no longer sufficient to buy young women from the Wa Kingdom. Therefore, Cai Dao asked Cai Sansi to turn his target to Goryeo, and together with the Takagi family, he used Tsushima Island as a base and began to frantically raid the coastal areas of Goryeo.
However, the purpose of the two forces was different, the Takagi family mainly obtained property, while the Cai family's fleet obtained manpower. Anyway, the consistency of Korean sticks is not a good thing. Because, whether it is now or in the future, the Goryeo State is only a vassal state of the Great Liao State and the later Jin State, or it is more appropriate to say that it is more appropriate.
History has proven countless times that the worst is not the devils or the northern nomads, but these two devils - the Goryeo sticks.
In addition, Jeju Island was an extremely important breeding base for horses in ancient times. The Mongolian horses that Cai Dao bought from the Tatars have now arrived on Jeju Island. Through this base, the Cai family also secretly got in touch with the Jurchens in the north of Liao.
Of course, in order to prevent the premature rise of this brave nation, Cai Dao had his subordinates adopt the principle of division when they were in contact with these uncivilized aliens.
Wanyan Wugunai, the founder of the Wanyan tribe, has passed away for nearly twenty years, and Wanyan Impeachment, the father of a generation of Tianjiao Wanyan Aguta, also died of illness two years ago. Now it is Wanyan Yingge and Wanyan Aguta who jointly rule the entire Wanyan tribe.
The people sent by Cai Dao naturally did not cooperate with the Wanyan tribe, and the selected targets were naturally those tribes with more strength and wiser leaders. Moreover, Cai Dao also persuaded these tribes to take the initiative to move to some areas near the sea.
On the one hand, these tribes can unite and fight against the Wanyan tribe together, trying to slow down, or even stop, the pace of this royal tribe to unify the entire Jurchen tribe. On the other hand, it can also prevent the army of the Liao State from taking them on the knife.
Because the combined power of these tribes is not less threatening than that of the Wanyan tribe, it is bound to attract the jealousy of the Liao State.
At the beginning, due to the problem of language communication between the two sides, the people sent by Cai Dao were not able to persuade the successful tribes to move to the seaside. It took two full years for Cai Dao to send people to gain the trust of many tribal leaders.
Cai Dao not only sold these tribal leaders food and other necessities for the winter, but also sold them a large number of weapons. Of course, these come at a cost.
For example, the tribe that was persuaded, sometimes, they would cooperate with the Cai family's fleet to plunder the Goryeo Kingdom. The property went to these tribes involved in the operation, and the population was ransomed by the Cai family's fleet.
During the whole process, the Cai family's fleet did not send a single soldier ashore, and all of them were desperately trying to get these raw Jurchens.
In order to better control these raw Jurchens, Cai Dao also sent some people ashore to teach the main leaders and children of these tribes the sinicization and Chinese. On the one hand, it is convenient to strengthen the exchanges between the two sides, and on the other hand, it also allows these Jurchen tribes to completely get rid of the shackles of the Khitans.
These tribes who took the initiative to accept the advice of the Cai family's fleet and moved to the seaside did not take long to reap huge benefits from it.
These tribes get three benefits,
First, not only could they get all kinds of sophisticated cold weapons from the Cai family's hands at half the price, but they didn't have to worry about the cold and food.
Second, they no longer have to be exploited by the Khitans. In the past, the harvest of these tribes was simply not enough to feed all the people in the entire tribe, but now, whether it is what they get through war or prey through hunting, the Cai family has given an extremely fair price.
Thirdly, the safety of the entire tribe has also been greatly guaranteed.
This is because, thanks to the efforts of these tribesmen and the raided Goryeo slaves, the Cai family built a small city for each tribe that moved here.
These cities are small in size and very simple in structure, but they are unusually strong in defense. Not to mention anything else, even the city wall itself is not something that ordinary siege equipment can break.
These cities all have one characteristic - there are only two gates, east and west.
The east gate is close to the sea and there is a small pier outside the gate.
The west gate is designed with a jack gate, once it falls, it is difficult for outsiders to raise this gate. If you want to break through this city gate, why don't you find a way to break through the city wall?
Such a design has been baptized by war, and the effect is amazing.
In the seventh year of Yuanyou, because the Goryeo Kingdom was repeatedly invaded by these Jurchens on the border, it gathered a large army and took the initiative to attack a city closest to the border of the Goryeo Kingdom.
A small city with less than 1,000 men besieged by an army of 50,000 is more appropriately called a fortress.
During the war, except for a few tribes by the sea, most of the Jurchen tribes in the surrounding area chose to stand by and watch.
First of all, there is the comparison of the forces of the two sides, and the difference is too much.
Even if these tribes moved here, even the elderly and children combined, there were less than 3,000 people. To outsiders, this is a war that is extremely asymmetrical, but already doomed.
However, among the Jurchen tribes, there is an exception, and it is the Wanyan Department under the rule of Wanyan Aguta. When the Goryeo Kingdom had just sent troops, Wanyan Aguta had already received this message, and he sent people to contact the leaders of these tribes overnight. If they were willing to submit to the Ganbu, he could send someone to help them defeat these weak Goryeo sticks.
Unfortunately, all of these tribal leaders chose to refuse.
The reason is also very simple.