Chapter 253: Returning to the Slave Hunting Industry

Regarding Cui Yu's suggestion, not only did Li Su nod again and again after hearing it, but Yan Bei, Li Ke and others also felt good, after all, dismantling and arresting people as slaves can not only deter other natives, but also not make Li Su too cruel. Come on,.! Only Li Zhen felt a little uncomfortable, after all, in his opinion, only by eliminating these natives from the ** can it be regarded as a real breath.

decided on the disposal of the natives of the eight tribes, and then Li Su discussed with everyone the way to attack these tribes, and at this time Lu Qing proposed a very good way, that is, a small part of the army from Keelung City, and then spend money to hire friendly acquaintances around to fight, first, it can reduce casualties, and second, those tribes live in forests and mountains, and the Han army is really difficult to adapt, so it is better to use these familiar fans who are familiar with the terrain as the main force.

For Lu Qing's method, Li Su praised loudly, the armed forces in his hands were not much, so naturally they could not be used in the fight with these natives, so as long as he could reduce the casualties of his own people, spending some money was nothing.

After the matter was agreed, Li Su handed over this matter to Lu Qing to handle, after all, he was the head snake here, and the head and the head were very familiar, so he was also very relieved to deal with Li Su. In addition, Yanbei volunteered to join the team of clearing the eight native tribes, mainly responsible for logistics and other work.

For Yanbei's careful thinking, Li Su also understood very well that he wanted nothing more than to take the captured natives into his own hands, and then pick out the best of them and send them to the plantation under his name. Although Yan Bei's approach was a bit shameless, Li Su didn't stop it, because he knew that Yan Bei would definitely send the best one to the plantation of his Qi Palace.

However, although Yanbei is shrewd, Cui Yu and Wang Guo are not fools, although they are not from the Qi Palace, but relying on their good relationship with Li Su, they also have the cheekiness to squeeze into the Qing army, of course they don't want to rob Yanbei, and even if they rob them, they can't rob people, but after Yanbei robs the first batch, they can pick out the better ones among the rest, which is much better than the passive distribution.

Lu Qing is really a rare talent, two days after Li Su explained the matter, the dispatch of troops was almost ready, Keelung City only sent 1,000 elites this time, and hired 4,000 local elites. Don't look at the appearance of these natives, but the contradictions between tribes and tribes are also very acute, and there will be annihilation at every turn, plus they have no concept of country and nation, so as long as they spend some money, people from other tribes are naturally very willing to make some extra money, and they can also eliminate a few strong enemies by the way, which is simply killing two birds with one stone, and there may even be natives who secretly laugh at the Han people for being stupid.

Li Su didn't pay much attention to this dispatch, after all, the other party was just a group of natives, and they were scattered into eight tribes, unable to respond to each other, plus hiring so many natives, it can be said that it was a matter of nine out of ten, so when Lu Qing set out on the expedition, there was no decent ceremony held in the city, but Li Su went to the city gate to toast a thousand soldiers with a glass of wine, and then set off.

In fact, as Li Su expected in advance, the strength of a few native tribes was indeed not worth mentioning, and they didn't even use the thousand people brought by Lu Qing to do it, but the four thousand native elites were enough to wipe out the eight tribes one by one. It's just that there are some problems, such as the battles between the natives generally end with the extermination of the clan, after all, the productivity of the natives is low, and there is no surplus food in the clan to feed the prisoners of war, so they generally do not leave a living mouth.

For this battle, although Lu Qing emphasized repeatedly to the local soldiers in advance, but in the end, there were still people who had old problems, and they were slaughtered when they caught them, which made Lu Qing very angry, so he had to use the 1,000 people under his command as a military law team to stop the killing of the local soldiers.

In this way, there was a strange scene on the battlefield this time, a native soldier finally knocked down the opponent, and just wanted to go up and kill with a knife, but at this moment, suddenly a Han soldier ran out from the side, first used a shield to block the weapon of the native people, and then loudly scolded two sentences in the native language, and at the same time did not forget to kick the enemy who struggled to stand up, and finally with the native people, with a rope to catch the other party.

Although the actions of the Han soldiers are very dangerous on the battlefield, but as the so-called people die for money, in order to increase the enthusiasm of these soldiers to catch slaves, Li Su has long made a promise that every time he catches a native, he will be classified according to the strength level of the opponent's body, and it is precisely because of this that they will be so desperate.

In just a few days, Lu Qing had swept away five tribes and captured more than 10,000 slaves, all of which were sent to Keelung by Yanbei, and then Li Su came forward to organize people from various plantations to conduct auctions. Li Su was used to selling slaves when he was in Dengzhou, but it was usually Yanbei who came forward, and he planned it behind the scenes.

Catching slaves and trading slaves was not invented by Li Su, as early as the end of primitive society, there was slave hunting, and the slave hunting industry in the Tang Dynasty was also very prosperous, and Silla maids and Kunlun slaves were high-end goods in short supply. However, the ancient industry of catching slaves and trading slaves was truly carried forward in the hands of Li Su, whether it was the northern grasslands or the Goguryeo Three Kingdoms in the northeast, the prosperous slave fishing industry had Li Su's shadow behind it.

However, with the demise of Goguryeo, the slave hunting industry in Dengzhou has now begun to decline after a period of madness, and Li Su has to find new sources of slaves, one of which is north of Yingzhou, that is, the Northeast Province in later generations, where there are Khitan, Xi, and Jurchen ancestors such as the Yan Yan, these ethnic minorities are collectively called Hu people by the Tang people. As a traverser, Li Su was well aware of the harm that these two ethnic groups brought to the Central Plains Dynasty in later generations, especially the Jurchen people, and he could not let them develop no matter what.

Therefore, after his guidance, coupled with the help of Anton Du Hu Zhang Jian, many Dengzhou slave hunting teams have entered the north of Yingzhou and began to collude with the local Tang army, openly and secretly capturing the local Hu people. It's just that it is only one of the sources of slaves in Li Yu's plan, and there is another slave source waiting for him to develop.

However, the slaves in Dengzhou can only be supplied to the Tang Dynasty, and they are barely supported, and there is no surplus slaves at all. However, now Li Su wanted to build a sugarcane plantation on the big island of Liuqiu, which required a lot of manpower, and it was certainly not enough to rely on immigration and hiring local natives, and employment would also increase the cost of the plantation, so almost all plantation owners thought of buying slaves.

However, slaves are not something that can be bought if they want to, and the natives on the flow are limited, and for the stability of the island, it is not suitable for a large number of captures, otherwise it will be a matter of outweighing the losses if you provoke the hatred of the natives and make trouble with Li Su everywhere. As for the eight tribes, it was they who provoked Li Su first, so they stood at the highest moral point by capturing them as slaves, and with the participation of other natives, there was no need to worry. However, it is clear that these slaves alone will not be able to meet the needs of the island.

"Prosecutor Cui, do you understand what this king means?" Li Su was in the Qi Palace, Keelung, and there were only two people in the palace, him and Cui Wei, and Li Su was asking Cui Wei with a serious face.

"Your Highness, your subordinates understand!" Cui Wei said excitedly, "Your Highness wants the lower officials to come forward and organize those outlaws who have surrendered from the island to become a professional slave hunting team on Liuqiu Island, and then go to Java and other places to capture slaves, so as to supplement the labor gap on the island." ”

"Yes, this matter is extremely important to the development of Liuqiu, you must not disappoint this king!" Li Su said with a smile, although this Cui Wei is very important because of the relationship between Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue, but Li Su is still a little worried about his own talent, so he gave this to him first, which can be regarded as a small test.

Cui Wei obviously also understood that this was Li Su testing himself, and he also knew some news from Cui Yu, knowing that the King of Qi in front of him was very optimistic about the flow of the gods, so someone would need to govern here sooner or later, and although that Lu Qing was also talented, he was a leader of the army after all, with His Royal Highness the King of Qi being such a smart person, he would naturally not let a person combine military and political power, that is to say, at that time, there will definitely be a need for a supreme chief executive to manage the flow of information, and in the current situation, He is undoubtedly the most likely and qualified person to sit in that seat.

Cui Wei thought of this, his heart couldn't help but be even more excited, since he was sent to Liuqiu last year, he thought that his career was ruined like this, and even his life might be lost here, but he didn't expect the peak to turn around, although Liuqiu was barbaric, but it was valued by King Qi, and his future development was unlimited. And his future is far more ambitious than doing that assassination in Datang.

Li Su looked at Cui Wei with a happy face below, and couldn't help but nodded, talking to this kind of smart person is labor-saving, as long as you start up, people can guess their following arrangements, no wonder this Cui Wei can be a high position in the history of the state assassin?

After sending off the ambitious Cui Wei, Li Su sat alone in the hall and pondered. The first thing to come to Liuqiu is to meet his uncle Yang Xuan, and then integrate his forces, now the periphery of Liuqiu has all under his control, although there are still some natives inside, but it is not a problem, with the development of Liuqiu, it will definitely encroach on the living space of the natives step by step, so they either integrate into the life of the Han people, or they are eliminated by the general trend.

In addition, the plantation is also developing in chaos, and the slave capture has just been arranged, but these are far from enough, there is still a most basic problem on Liuqiu Island that has not been solved, but this problem is beyond Li Su's ability, and it is necessary to wait for Wang An, who is out, to come back, and then after the two of them discussed, it can be finally determined, calculate the day, Wang An should be back soon, right? .

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