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The huge demand for slaves in the Qin State made the slave trade quickly become one of the hottest businesses, and many merchants of the Chu State broke out instantly by doing slave business. The huge demands of the slave trade, as well as the high profits, had to make Korean merchants pay attention to it again.
"The outnumbered merchants were desperately trying to open factories and produce a lot of industry. What the result is, it only relies on the two markets of Chu and Qi. Now that the Wei State is in front of us, it will be difficult for the outnumbered merchants to do business. If business is difficult to do, taxes cannot be guaranteed. With no tax revenue guaranteed, South Korea is on the rise. Han Shu said.
"Therefore, the widow thinks that the slave business mentioned in the telegram should be possible, not only can it be done, but it can also be done in a big way." Han Shu said.
And Zhang Liang on the side just listened to Han Shu's explanation quietly as an observer.
Zhang Liang calmly thought about the pros and cons of this slave trade. For now. The slave trade did have great benefits for Korea, but it was immoral to directly plunder the barbarian tribal population. Moreover, extremely cruel. Zhang Liang had seen how the Qin treated their prisoners of war and the surrounding barbarian tribes. The practice is extremely cruel and immoral. Now South Korea is doing the same. Isn't that a bit too much?
However, these are nothing to Han Shu. In Han Shu's opinion, since Qin Guo did this, there was naturally a reason to do so. And the benefits are visible to everyone. The Qin State could not only fight against the surrounding barbarian tribes, but also eliminate some security risks for itself. At the same time, it can also create many opportunities for its own army to strengthen its combat capability. Such an opportunity was very important for the Qin State.
Equally. South Korea also needs such an opportunity. Especially the constant external expansion. South Korea's economy is growing rapidly. It only represents a certain recovery of South Korea's economic strength, but a country is not only economic strength, the most important thing is force, a way to transform economic strength into force South Korea does not have, such as soldiers, most of the South Korean soldiers are trained by the soldiers of the Qin State, because South Korea is in a central area, and the surrounding wars have become very careful. And there is no object to practice with. As far as South Korea is concerned, it will not be able to raise its own armed forces through war. At the same time, the factories opened in South Korea also needed a certain amount of war stimulation to be transformed into the arsenals that South Korea needed. Because when the state stimulates the economy with large quantities of war orders. The economy tends to react accordingly. Just like the state of Qin. Successive use of war to stimulate the country's economy. The economic development of the Qin State will be so fast. Of course, the excessive use of the means of war will have the opposite effect on the economy to a certain extent. But now Shangwen is trying his best to control it.
And now South Korea's economic development is at a crossroads. Han Shu is through improper means. Especially with the help of the power of the Qin State to come to power. Naturally, it is necessary to study the Qin State in an all-round way. Plus the strong rise of Han Shu herself. It is natural for South Korea to turn in a strong direction at this crossroads. Or even be able to go up a big step. Naturally, Han Sook will not give up any good opportunity that is conducive to the rise of South Korea.
"We should encourage our merchants to go to Qin and develop their businesses there. I heard that the merchants of Chu captured a large number of Yue people from overseas and sold them to Qin, so we can naturally do the same. The widows have the idea that we will transport our industrial products to the Qin State and sell them to the Chu State through the transport ships of the Qin State, or we can make our own ships and sell them to the Chu State, and then cross the Chu State and go overseas to capture more Yue people and return to the Qin State. Such. The profit is more than twice the profit. For us Korean businessmen, this kind of trading is a huge profit, and we can quickly extract taxes. Han Shu said.
"It's hard to say anything." Zhang Liang could only say such things. Because this is too inhumane, and at the cost of destroying a place, it will bring about the rise of South Korea. Zhang Liang thinks that this is a bit too cruel.
For moral reasons, Zhang Liang believes that South Korea is going in such a direction, which is a bit too radical. Especially the slave trade, this kind of business that Zhang Liang had never heard of. This made Zhang Liang feel very tricky, and he was very worried about the future of South Korea.
And Han Shu on the side didn't think so. In her own opinion, South Korea should do just that. Moreover, this kind of business, although the Qin State did it. But what he thinks is bigger than the business that Qin Guo does. Moreover, the Qin State relied on rail transportation, but the ship transportation capacity was large. And it's against the South. There is no place for the Qin State to set foot in. This is very beneficial for South Korea.
Because Korea could build more strongholds under the pretext of capturing a large number of slaves. Together, these bases will become Korea's overseas territory. Such. South Korea has a lot of strategic space. This is unprecedented for South Korea.
I have to say that Han Shu's idea is bold. And it's ahead of its time. Han Shu's idea is estimated to be the first upper-level ruler to have the idea of expanding foreign colonies among all the current high-level leaders. Although Qin had Shangwen's idea of expanding overseas. But Shangwen's ideas were not largely based on overseas colonies. Rather, it is to obtain abundant overseas resources, especially oil, rubber, diamond and other scarce resources. As for the expansion of overseas colonies, he really didn't think that far ahead. Moreover, the upper echelons of the Qin state were not very interested in expanding overseas colonies.
The state of Qin was on the western border. He was surrounded by some steppe nomadic tribes. These tribes are scattered across the vast grasslands. The vastness of the land made the upper echelons of the Qin state, especially the traditional geographical limitations, think that the government land was far more valuable than the conquest of the sea, and the Qin state was currently doing the same. It was under this influence that Qin's railway strategy was launched. For the ocean. The people of the Qin State are not very concerned at the moment.
In this way, although the Qin State developed the ship transportation industry earlier. But he did not seize the opportunity to sail. On the contrary, South Korea, which is extremely disadvantaged in all aspects, was the first to realize this aspect. And the upper echelons are deliberately encouraging it. Although it was only a slave trade to expand overseas colonies, the idea was relatively simple. But it is the best opportunity for South Korea to seize a historic opportunity to rise rapidly. Under the leadership of Han Shu's generation. South Korea has seized the opportunity to rise for the second time in South Korea's history.
Han Shu felt a little dull at Zhang Liang's answer, so she stopped talking. She thinks that Zhang Liang's thinking is a bit conservative. It was the first time that Han Shu had such an evaluation of Zhang Liang.
Jang Liang did not feel this way, and he still adopted a passive attitude towards the slave trade, which he believed would have many disadvantages for the future development of Korea. But how to persuade Han Shu, he is really difficult to convince. Because, the state considers interests, not morality. That kind of morality is just a moral cloak for profit, nothing more.
In this way, the idea of overseas colonies was established during a dialogue between the monarchs and ministers in Korea. Although the relationship between the monarch and the minister is not very tacit, it has been carried out under the strong promotion of the king.
Subsequently, South Korea began a series of preparatory stages. Zhang Liang was not at all willing to participate in this matter. Therefore, Han Shu did not let Zhang Liang participate. Instead, some of the more radical young South Korean ministers were involved in the development of the plan. For the slave trade. Han Fei's attitude is also extremely ambiguous, he wants South Korea to rise quickly, but he doesn't want to rise through this method. So, he is for and against. But as long as the queen agrees, it doesn't matter what the rest, because no one cares what one or two important ministers think.
In addition to fighting a border war between neighboring countries, a tariff war, South Korea has to fight. South Korea still has a lot of wars to fight in the future. As for how much to fight, it depends on the interests.
However, young South Koreans are now very motivated to join the army.
"We're going to join the army. Why not let us join the army. A group of young Koreans shouted loudly at a South Korean Guards garrison camp.
"Stand back, hurry. Shoot if you don't let me. A South Korean sentry looked nervously at the crowd with a rifle loaded with a bayonet.
"We're going to join the army, not attacking the barracks." The young man shouted loudly.
"We've never been so active in the military before." The young man shouted loudly.
"Yes, yes. Let's join the army. Join the army. The young man exclaimed. South Korea's previous conscriptions were all with universal. Mandatory. This general compulsion is not yet the kind of compulsory soldiering. It's the kind that fights temporarily. That is, many people are cannon fodder. The mortality rate is high.
However, South Korea followed Qin in issuing military salaries. And there was a strict control of the military and a vigorous arming of weapons. This has led to a rapid downsizing of the military. There has been a rapid improvement in the quality of servicemen.
The military is also efficient. And it's spending money on training. Equip weapons. The large investment of these resources has forced the government to carry out targeted repression in peacetime. South Korea is currently taking this approach.
Because of this, the size of the army in South Korea is not very large. And the number of soldiers called up each year is very limited. Because factories need a lot of labor to work. It is under consideration for the recovery of the Korean economy. There is no mass conscription of soldiers in South Korea. Moreover, there is no corresponding system and regulation to stipulate.
But now. Sudden outbreak of war in South Korea. Especially the encouragement of victory. The enthusiasm of the people to join the army and fight suddenly soared. This is a good thing for South Korea, but it is a test for the South Korean military. A harsh test, and it came too suddenly.