Chapter 711: Slave Legion

Li Yang naturally didn't fancy this small amount of money, but just asked the businessman to engrave the words "Miyakojima Military Chess" on each pair of military chess, so that everyone could understand that military chess originated from Miyakojima. The little merchant naturally agreed www.biquge.info and then left happily with his own hundred taels of silver, and from then on he told people about his experience, and he was proud of his own vision and the kindness of the island owner.

Soon military chess became the most popular game in the entire Ryukyu Islands and spread to the wider world. Of course, that was all later, and what bothered Li Yang the most now was the problem of the source of soldiers.

"No, there are no soldiers now, and when the time comes, I will only rely on these two thousand men and horses in my hands, and I'm afraid that the bone of Ryukyu Island will not be easy to gnaw." Li Yang sat in the conference hall, and the following officials from Miyakojima's party were all present.

"Island master, why don't you collect all the slaves and put them into the army, under the pretext that Miyako Island does not allow the existence of unfreedom." Li Wen suggested on the side that he had never had a senseless sense of morality, and that he would do it as long as there was interest.

"There aren't many slaves on Miyakojima, and besides, these slaves are the ones who do the heaviest work, and their recruitment into the army will affect production." Li Yang shook his head and vetoed.

A group of people are frowning sadly, Wang Bao is even more anxious that his buttocks keep moving, he is the patriarch of Miyakojima and the figure who started with Li Yang, but his younger brother is also a mixed up in the army, but since he became a tax officer, he has been collecting taxes every day, there are no big fluctuations, he can collect as much as he wants, and he has never made any surprising suggestions for the development of Miyakojima.

Wang Bao, who felt that he had not contributed much to the development of Miyako Island, couldn't sit still at this time, and he held back his words: "We don't have slaves on Miyako Island, others have them, and we can also recruit slaves from other countries." After saying that, he regretted it, how could someone else's slave let you recruit unless you bought it, but the cost would be too great.

But the speaker has no intention of listening, Wang Bao naturally doesn't know when he speaks, but Li Yang knows how much power a person will burst out when he yearns for freedom.

"Great, Wang Bao should take credit for your first credit today!" Li Yang patted the handrail and stood up and said, "The clerk wrote down my order." ”

"Miyakojima slave management system: all slaves are thrown to Miyakojima, and if they pass the examination, they can enter the army, and after two years in the army, they will be converted into free soldiers, and enjoy the same treatment as normal soldiers; Those who do not qualify can become freemen after four years of labor. Spread the order throughout the region. Li Yang commanded.

The order is concise and to the point, although it has an impact on the slave owners in his territory, but after all, there are not many slaves in his territory, and the prisoners are naturally not among the orders, and the spread of such an order is absolutely fatal. In the past, countries attacked each other, and slaves were still slaves after changing rulers, but now this order has completely changed the fate of slaves, and Miyakojima will slowly see results.

The order was quickly drafted, and in addition to pasting it to various places in Miyako and Yaeyama with a big red list, Li Yang also asked Wang Guangzong of the Chamber of Commerce to do everything possible to spread these orders abroad. Many slaves were illiterate, so they passed it on by word of mouth, so that everyone knew about Miyakojima's new initiative, and it became a topic of conversation after dinner.

All he needed to do was give a light order, and then sit and wait, which was Li Yang's favorite way to strengthen himself. It is said that if you take advantage of the situation, if you get there, it will be like a high-rise building, irresistible.

A week has passed, and a new camp has been established, after all, the slave legion still needs to be distinguished from the ordinary legion, otherwise the slaves will lose the motivation to move forward, and their veterans will be angry. It is impossible to exist in a society without classes, but in a society with classes, the most important thing is to give everyone the hope of being promoted to the next class.

Today, the new camp will welcome their first residents. A slave who escaped from an island close to Li Yang's territory. Now these kingdoms close to Li Yang are either newly incorporated into the rule of the Nanshan Kingdom, or they are struggling to survive, and their control has been greatly weakened, and the army is mainly based on the defense of the turtle and shrink the city, so as long as the slaves working in the field run out, they have a great chance of escaping to the sphere of influence of Miyako Island, and Li Yang has already arranged for a cavalry team to patrol the border, and as soon as he sees the fugitive slaves, he will immediately protect them.

It can be said that the time is still short, many slaves do not know about this new measure of Miyakojima, and it is believed that the tide of slave escape will intensify as time goes by, anyway, the relationship between Li Yang and these countries in the north is stiff enough, and it has reached the situation where there are too many debts and no worries about lice.

After a few months, the overseas Gouyu Island has begun to take shape under Wang Hu's day and night management, the two dockyards have begun to be repaired, and the teak trees and steel for shipbuilding have also been dragged over one ship after another. But these are all within the scope of the normal plan, what surprised Li Yang the most was that in just over half a month, the number of slaves who defected to him increased exponentially, from a week after the order was issued, there were small groups of four or five slaves who came to defect, and then there were more than a dozen groups of slaves in one day, each group of more than a dozen people, and in the middle there was a group of forty or fifty people who were slaves in a mining area, and they escaped together after killing the overseers, and more than 60 people were originally on the road, and more than 20 people lost their precious lives.

Li Yang felt a little emotional, and in the future, the road from the north to Miyako Island would become a free and bloody road, and he could be regarded as a pioneer in the slave liberation movement. In addition to making decisions on the land route, the caravans that went to sea also took on the task of promoting the slavery system on Miyakojima, but this had to be done secretly so that the entire fleet would not be able to return if they were caught.

Now the barracks of the slave legion are already lively, and more than 600 slaves who have passed the assessment have entered this barracks, and the number is still increasing. These slaves finally lived a relatively free life, and they were very happy, and they were not trained in the early stage, but only focused on recovering their bodies, so they unconsciously overindulged.

"Tell everyone to assemble on campus." Li Yang said to the soldiers at the gate of the barracks. Some veterans had already been sent into the slave corps, and they were all ready to serve as officers.

Soon, all the people were gathered on the school grounds, and there was no imaginary noise, because these slaves saw very clearly and knew that the person on the stage was the lord of Miyakojima and the person who rescued them, Li Yang, and they did not dare to make a noise.