Chapter 1121. slave trade

Originally aimed at West Asia, the tactics formulated by the Great Min were ploughing warfare.

Ploughing in spring and summer, attacking in autumn and winter, preparing food and grass for the army on the spot, and then sending troops in winter to sweep away the core area occupied by the Arabs, the Syrian province of the Roman Empire, and wipe out the Arab Empire and return it to its most primitive tribal form.

Hundreds of years later, the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Mengyuan Dynasty, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di used such a policy to completely eliminate the central power of the Northern Plains, and then continued to use political means to divide and win over the Mongolian grassland, so that Mongolia was divided into the tribal form before the unification of Genghis Khan, although this policy has ups and downs, but in the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the Mongolian grassland, which has always been the heart of the Central Plains, has not formed a unified regime that is enough to subvert the Ming Dynasty.

The Arabs of today are also somewhat similar to the Mongols at that time, the leaders of each sect are the descendants of the golden family, each leading one side, and there are many contradictions between each other, as long as Hussein, who can call for tolerance of all sects, is eliminated, the Arabs themselves have to fight.

But who would have thought that Hussein was really capable of launching such a large-scale internal and external attack, although in the end it was still a failure, but after more than half a year of hard fighting, the tired Fujian army still had a huge supply deficit, and Li Jie was also powerless to fight.

Therefore, under the worried eyes of the ministers, Li Jie did not mention the matter of sending troops in winter at all, and only discussed with the ministers the general framework of several policies, such as redividing Juntian, recruiting peasants from Tianzhu for reclamation, and where to transport grain to fill this big shortfall, and then broke up the meeting.

Fortunately, King Min was sensible, holding the wat board, and the ministers came out of the hall with a happy mood, but today they are destined to not be able to return home, piles of things need to be dealt with, the central officials in front of the Grand Palace are brightly lit, and the officials who work overtime can be seen in every corridor hurriedly running around.

It's no wonder that the emperor has a short life, he is afraid to stay up late, if it is not for the good welfare, the workload can really be comparable to that of IT migrant workers, there are still a lot of documents in the mobile palace that have not been reviewed, and it is a mountain when he returns to the palace.

Fortunately, compared with other emperors of previous dynasties, Li Jie still has two treasures, coffee and Wu Meiniang, Li Jie's sigh, light footsteps sounded behind him, in the turquoise glass cup, a large bowl of Arabic coffee mixed with milk and honey was placed in front of Li Jie, smelling the fragrant smell is refreshing.

also moved a chair to sit next to Li Jie, just like a good table in later generations who helped copy homework, Wu Meiniang stretched out her arms and pulled on the table, and the piles of "summer vacation homework" in front of Li Jie were a little less than half.

Most of the twists and turns are played by officials at the county order level, hundreds of states and tens of thousands of counties under the rule of Damin, even if they are filtered by the prime minister, the land, cultivation, harvest of criminal names and ******** in the county are still a lot, the most headache is the series of lawsuits fought by several county officials, and the imperial court is actually playing a contradiction handler many times, which is also the reason for the irrepressible chaos in the world after more than ten years of encountering the mediocre emperor, the accumulation of contradictions erupts, and it is only after more than ten years that it is as irrepressible as a volcanic eruption.

These things are actually irrelevant but the most troublesome, watching Wu Meiniang under the lamp, seriously studying the twists and turns of several county officials for herself, Li Jie's heart rose a lot for a while, and he couldn't help but reach out and grab the back of Wu Meiniang's white hand.

It's a pity that Wu Meiren didn't even glance at it, and she shrank her hand very arrogantly, so that Li Jie was empty.

"Hasn't Your Majesty been enjoying the exotic scenery lately? What are you looking for me, a ruthless yellow-faced woman? ”

Hearing the news of the kiss and hurried back, Li Jie really said something heavy to Wu Meiniang, and he also took Anna to play the role of a good wife and mother and rushed over to rescue Li Chenxi, no matter how shrewd and capable a woman is, it is still a woman, and it is more difficult to make a woman not jealous than to ascend to the sky.

Suddenly retracted his hand, Li Jie rubbed the back of his head, shook his head with a wry smile, but did not speak, maintaining a big family with so many wives and concubines, like the halo of the protagonist in the novel, there is no harmony in dozens of harems, and women also have their own small contradictions, sometimes men have to endure some women's small tempers, but they must not follow anyone's will and say bad things about another person, so that a bowl of water can be leveled.

Li Jie's policy was indeed successful, I didn't expect him to help scold Anna a few words, just venting the depression in her heart, Wu Meiniang was much more comfortable, Yu Guang looked at Li Jie's deflated appearance, and the corners of the Iron Lady's mouth actually showed a slight smile.

Tofu can't be eaten, but after a small episode, Li Jie was also in a much happier mood, drank a big sip of strong coffee, and also flipped through the recital to catch up with his homework.

But the first piece of the book made his face droop again, and it was Zheng Sen, the head of the household department, who opened his mouth to apply for an application for the capture of 20,000 stone wheat and a number of camel meat for the Arabs outside the city.

Because of the development of agricultural rice farming, the pig industry, which does not occupy the mountains and forests, is also prosperous, and pork jerky can account for a large proportion of the supply of the Fujian army.

The riot of the Arabs has already made the upper class of the Great Fujian angry, but these captives are still pretentiously picky, the Fujian army is so short of food, there was also a prisoner riot last month, more than a dozen truckloads of pork jerky were thrown directly into the Tigris River, so that the always good people are angry, simply cut off more than half of the Arab prisoners' supplies, and only one meal of batter is distributed to the prisoners every day.

Zheng Sen didn't like these Arabs very much, but he was the head of the prisoner camp, and it was his responsibility for the prisoners to riot and starve to death, and he was forced to do his best to say good things for the Arabs.

There was not much food in his hand, Li Jie simply left this letter in the middle and did not send it, dropped it aside, opened the next book, but made Li Jie's eyebrows even more raised, the book was Tessifon patrolling the city of the imperial history Jiang Choufu, the impeached Arab prisoners were not strictly managed, invaded the farmhouse near the city of Tessie, and colluded with the local hooligans and ruffians to kill people and sell goods in the city, and burned a shop, which should be severely punished.

Scrolling down further, there are all kinds of edicts about the impeachment, supply, and controversy of these captives, and Li Jiewu is worried about it.

It seems that these Arabs must be dealt with as soon as possible! Li Jie thought secretly

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It seems that the fastest force to heal society is the merchants.

The king of Min had only returned to Ctesiphon for a few days, and seeing that the riots in his territory had been quelled, and the commercial order of Fujian had become the main theme of East Mesopotamia, he had completely forgotten how many shops, people and goods had been lost in the previous riots, and the merchant groups poured into Ctesiphon like flies that saw carrion.

It was a big market, with iron farming tools, grain, tea and cloth from the Orient for the Persian tycoons, Persian carpets, camels, cheese, goats, and all kinds of needs and sales once again intertwined to form a lively market.

The prosperity of industry and commerce also brought vitality to the local area, and during the war, the Persian ethnic groups, who were idle at home and relied on receiving the lowest relief food from the Great Fujian, also hummed a small tune, carried tools to the leather shops on the edge of the city, and continued to support a better life with their own hands.

China has always practiced the basic national policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and for more than 2,000 years, every time the land is annexed, a large number of surplus people have no way out, and when the world's population is surplus and land is insufficient, all contradictions will burst out, like a huge powder keg, the dynasty will be blown to pieces, and a new round of power reshuffle will be carried out at the cost of the destruction of a large number of people, and then enter this strange circle.

As everyone knows, human society, only the primary, secondary and tertiary industries continue to be complex to build, in order to have a future, is not valued by the Chinese scholars, and now has fed the population of the third layer of Fujian.

However, the most lively commercial industry in Ctesiphon is still the human market.

The gongs jingled, and more than a dozen people with ugly faces, and dog skin plasters on their foreheads, and they didn't look like good people, and they shouted strangely on a high wooden platform, which immediately attracted a large number of vendors from other places, eagerly surrounding them.

Although the development of industry and commerce is to be commended for providing the country with a great deal of wealth, the ultimate goal of the capitalists is to pursue maximum profits, and what kind of profits can be compared to the exploitation of slaves who do not want wages?

Even if the legislation of the Great Min even includes the slaves in the scope of protection, they must not be ****, and the slaves must be free and released after working for the master for ten years, but the guys who work for ten years without money are still very profitable, and the martial arts of the Great Min are extremely strong, and the war has brought quite a lot of prisoners, although it is very disgraceful, the slave industry is still one of the pillar industries of the upper Fujian.

How prosperous is it? Through the Ancient Tea Horse Road or the Silk Road, there are tens of thousands of foreign slaves imported into the Tang Dynasty and Tibet every year, and there are countless white or black faces walking and running on the streets of Luoyang, Chang'an, wearing green clothes and hats, not only in such big cities, but also in the countryside of Zhongzhou, in the fields, and in the large estates of the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, the tenant farmers who work are also slaves from Southern Tianzhu, Persia, the Caucasus or Greece.

Because of the existence of Damin, it has pointed out a new way out for the Tang people in China, why should he be a grandson in his country facing the loess with his back to the sky? Go to the Tang people of Damin, but they are people! Every year, the light and strong Tang people who flow into the territory of Fujian seem to be absorbing the blood of the Tang Dynasty all the time, but the local government is afraid of the prestige of the King of Fujian, and does not dare to detain the Tang people too strictly, in order to maintain production, the number of slaves imported by the Tang Dynasty every year also shows an increasing trend.

Where there is demand, there is a business opportunity, so the slave traders who come to Ctesiphon are also like carp crossing the river.

"Colleagues from all over the world, come to my Kang Shifu slave shop today, and everyone has already taken a big advantage! Our Kangshifu slave shop cooperates with the official of Damin to provide the cheapest and best quality slave source for the first time! Come to our Kangshifu slave shop, you can't buy it, you can't buy it, you can't buy it, you can't buy it! ”

There is really the end of the general department store promoter in later generations, but the black and black Tianzhu guy shouted so lively that it was almost up to the sky, with his words, several thugs also pulled out a large group of strong white slaves like pulling iron chains and leading animals, and flaunted the chest muscles of slaves, who knew that just after the first glance, the slave traders who were still full of interest just now dispersed with a hula, which caught the shouting Tianzhu guy off guard.

Sitting in the teahouse opposite, Li Jie, who saw this scene, also knocked his head sadly......