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Shimazu Hisaki knows very well that they can't win without money, but now smuggling can't be done, just their family territory, even if they add the territories of several other families, the financial resources are still not able to compete with Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, even if the latter is not divided into clans and retainers, the territory directly under the jurisdiction alone amounts to four million stones, not to mention the commercial center of Osaka and the gold mountain of Sado Island, and what do they have? What else can you do besides farming and fishing?

Money, now money is everything!

"It's simple, you don't have a gold mine, but you have another treasure trove!"

Li Junshen said mysteriously.

"Li Jun, please advise!"

Shimazu Kuki said very sincerely as he lay on the ground.

"People!"

Li Jun said: "You have someone, or your enemy someone, at present, we are mining and building roads and wharves all over the Ming Dynasty, but the common people live a comfortable life, and they don't like to do these dirty jobs and tiring work, so they all use a large number of slaves, and now the cheapest brown slave can be sold for ten dragon yuan, and the strong black slave can even be sold for fifty dragon yuan." You Japanese people are better at work than the brown slaves, and they are more obedient than the brown slaves, it is estimated that there is no problem in selling them for fifteen dragon yuan, and fifteen dragon yuan is enough to buy a nine-pound cannon flowering shell, and you can also buy thirty rounds of fixed ammunition, you can arrest people to trade!

Anyway, you must have captured a large number of enemy soldiers in the battle, and if you kill these soldiers or let them go, you might as well exchange them directly with us, why don't you do the best of both worlds? ”

Shimazu hesitated.

He didn't have any burden of conscience about this, the human trade was completely legal and ethical these days, and he was worried that once he did this, those shogunate soldiers would definitely not surrender when they knew about it, and they knew that they had to cut their balls as slaves to the Ming Dynasty.

"Is it okay for a woman?"

He asked, bewildering.

"Woman? Women are not worth much, unless they are beautiful, but as far as you women are concerned, how many of them are beautiful? Even if it's a girl, it has to be the inferior, who will spend more money to buy it? What's more, now that this kind of business is occupied by the Koreans, a lot of Goryeo girls are waiting, who will like you women like black monkeys? ”

Li Jun said disdainfully.

"I'll report to my brother before making a decision."

Shimazu Hisaki said.

What else is there to repay for this? Shimazu Tsunaka, who was commanding the army to attack Mihara Castle on the front line, agreed without hesitation, and specially asked to buy heavier cannons, Kobayakawa Takakeishu's castle is too strong, and the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon cast by Kang Mazi in his hand is really not easy to blast open, after all, this thing is actually a nine-pounder cannon that is up to the sky, and he hopes to buy a batch of larger ones from Yang Feng, such as the Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon.

As for the price......

With a population of more than 20 million, do you need to care about this issue?

In this way, this evil trade was finally officially launched, but it was still a secret, after all, once the shogunate army knew about it, they would definitely fight to the death, of course, this kind of secrecy is just a meaning, in fact, even the other feudal lords soon knew about it. At this time, the coalition forces are all responsible for their own logistics supply, Shimazu Tsunagui does not have enough ammunition, the Maori family, the Hosokawa family, the Nabeshima family, etc., they don't have enough ammunition, and Shimazu has no money, and they don't have money! What's more, there are also those Tosa, Hiroshima and other feudal domains that joined later, of course, they also have to buy new arms, why don't they do it if they can exchange people? Who of these guys would take a few untouchables who didn't have a surname seriously, and there weren't enough prisoners on the battlefield, so they could just take civilians directly from those territories directly under the shogunate and the feudal domains loyal to the shogunate.

What a big deal!

Paper can't contain the fire, how can this kind of thing be kept secret for a long time, the shogunate has spies in various ports, and the teams of prisoners of war who are strung with ropes and loaded on ships in Shimonoseki have no stealth function, as long as they are not fools, they can guess their ending, and it is not news that Daming is now full of Yan slaves.

Upon learning of this, the shogunate immediately made a lot of publicity in the army to boost the morale of the soldiers and prevent them from surrendering.

But at the same time, Yanagisawa Yoshiho also began to quietly contact Zheng Cheng to see if he could also exchange arms in this way, after all, although the shogunate's money is quite abundant, it can also be saved! As for Zheng Cheng, although he did not run this kind of business, as a friend, he also enthusiastically introduced him to a company specializing in this kind of business, and the latter quickly fought with Yanagisawa Yoshiho, and then Yanagisawa Yoshiho provided him with slaves, and he paid Zheng Cheng for the arms on behalf of Yanagisawa Yoshiho, and in this way, the shogunate trade channel was also established. At this time, after getting the first batch of flintlock pistols and cannons, the shogunate army also began to train its own new army under the guidance of a group of retired officers of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's still not enough!"

Yang Feng said with some dissatisfaction.

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

Fang Heng, who came back to report to work, said suspiciously.

"Who is the lord of the Sendai Domain now?"

Yang Feng asked.

"The situation of the Sendai Domain is quite peculiar, the original lord of the domain was Date Tsunamune, but he was forced into seclusion by his retainers decades ago, and then his son Date Tsunamura was in charge, but Date Tsunamura was also forced to live in seclusion, and now it is actually Date Tsunamune's adopted son Date Tsunamu Village."

Fang Heng said.

"It's definitely not possible to fight in the south like this, and if you want the northern princes of the Wa Kingdom to take action, I remember that this Sendai Domain is very rich, right?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, their seafood is very popular, and the dried abalone here can be bought here, although there are only hundreds of thousands of stone fiefs in name, but in fact, they have the highest income among the princes of the Wa Kingdom, and they get two million stone a year."

Fang Heng said.

"Then why not sell them weapons? Immediately arrange someone to sell to them, I think they are also in need now, in short, the affairs of the Wa Kingdom will be handed over to you, how to play is up to you, but I only have one request, I want all the princes of the Wa Kingdom to be involved in this war, have you heard Chen Ping talk about the Thirty Years War in Europe? I want you to be that Richelieu, the Wa Kingdom is your German Holy Roman Empire, I don't want you to let them fight for thirty years, but at least ten years, if they fight for ten years, I will make you a marquis! ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Honor!"

Fang Heng knelt down excitedly and said.

In fact, for Yang Feng, the Wa State is not qualified to be an enemy at all, in addition to some personal feelings, the most important significance of the Wa State to him is the source of cheap labor, those Wa people are the most obedient and capable once they surrender, and what the Ming Dynasty needs most at present is all kinds of slaves. The transition from a feudal agrarian society to industrialization did require bones and blood, sweatshops, eighteen hours of work a day, everything that was bleeding and filthy, and since he did not want to inflict this misery on his fellow citizens, it was up to the slaves to accomplish this great task.

Although the slave is slightly less efficient.

After all, he's a slave.

But compared to the child and female workers in the sweatshops of early European industrialization, these slaves were not less efficient, and some female slaves could even be appropriately introduced later.

Look, how many traversers have the problem of the entanglement of the Virgin Mary, and here they can easily solve it, what can't bear to treat the workers, but they are worried that the cost of industry will not compete with those sweatshops in Europe, and what wants to make their compatriots live a good life, and what can not solve the problem of the price of industrial products.

With slaves is it.

Not to mention the whip of the overseer, even the machete of the overseer is completely at your disposal, and now some new capitalists in the Ming Dynasty dare to directly drag out and hang in the courtyard of the factory to bask in the sun when dealing with the brown slaves who do not work well in their factories, and it is even said that they have begun to take a large number of soldering irons to mark them, and some factories simply raise wolves as a deterrent, as for the eighteen hours a day work is the most basic.

But if you really want to calculate it, these capitalists of the Ming Dynasty are actually better for slaves than European capitalists for workers.

The problem of European workers not having enough to eat will not happen in the Ming Dynasty, those capitalists never care about the slaves eating too much, and even occasionally reward them with fish and meat when they are happy, just like their own domestic livestock never starve, these slaves belong to them completely after all, just like the southern black slaves under the American slavery in life, more than the compatriots in the northern factories, the slaves in the Ming factories also have a better standard of living than those free workers in distant Europe.

Of course, this does not affect the cost.

Because European workers had to rely on their own income to support their families, and the slaves in the Ming factories did not need to feed anyone at all, so that the Ming capitalists had to pay even less than the European capitalists in this regard.

As their boss, what Yang Feng needs to do is to provide them with more and better slaves.

And the real Ming people, what they need is to become officials, capitalists, scientists, engineers, artists, professors, manor owners, soldiers, and at the very least, yeoman farmers or factory overseers, in short, they want to become the elite of the country, and use the blood and sweat of slaves to support their fine clothes and food. In fact, this is like the slave republic of ancient Rome, or rather like Sparta, at least Yang Feng is very much like Sparta in the matter of raising the next generation, as can be attested to by those elementary school students, middle school students, and college students who conduct military training every ten days.

Of course, not all factories could use slaves.

In fact, the use of slaves is strictly prohibited in any arms factory, and even Emperor Yang clearly stipulates that any slave who dares to touch a gun will be directly chopped off, as for the use of slaves to fight, it is simply a great rebellion, and this order is not allowed to be changed or abolished in any later government, not only can arms factories not use slaves, those high-tech enterprises are also strictly prohibited from using, as for what kind of enterprise is considered high-tech, this is directly approved by Emperor Yang.

He didn't want to be like the Roman Empire, where he ended up being disgraced by a bunch of slaves. (To be continued.) )