Chapter 518: Human Trafficking

Liaodong's military affairs, on the whole, were a strategic offensive posture, and Governor Zhang Bingwen did not move his nest when he arrived in Shenyang. Liaodong in these years is really a bitter cold place, and no one wants to stay in that place. Guan Ningjun had no choice, stayed in Shanhaiguan, afraid that the emperor would settle the account, so he ran north, built a city in Tongliao, cut off the connection between Jurchen things, and did some wool business by the way. In these years, as long as you have silver, you are not afraid that you will not be able to buy things, even in Tongliao, Guan Ningjun is quite good.

The remnants of the Qing army retreated all the way north and are currently active in the Heilongjiang River Valley. The Dengzhou battalion temporarily stopped continuing the offensive, not because it didn't want to, but because it was weak. Liaodong is still too big, and an army of tens of thousands of people will not be sprinkled out without a single bubble. Therefore, we can only take it step by step, push forward a little, settle the immigrants, stabilize it a little, and then continue north. In the past few years, more than 5 million people have immigrated to Liaodong from Beizhili, Henan, Shandong, Jiangbei and other provinces. This number seems to be a lot, and if you go to the northeast, you will know that it is really pitiful. Is there a shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty? To be honest, it is lacking. The cause of the civil uprising in the Central Plains was a natural disaster, but it was actually a man-made disaster.

Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it is not important to Chen Xie. It was important to move the population out of several provinces that had been severely affected. This work was previously done by the Dengzhou battalion, but now it is being done by local governments. When did the government become so diligent? It would be a mistake to think so, and it is the interests of officials that are really promoted. The current situation is such that merchants from all over the country can get silver as long as they send people to Liaodong. A person, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman, old or weak, as long as he has a breath left in Liaodong, he can get a reward of fifty silver yuan. After deducting the expenses along the way, this business is still very profitable.

Driven by interests, under the seduce of the land. On the one hand, the government and businessmen were highly motivated, and on the other hand, a large number of people from the Korean side fled to Liaodong. There is also a source of population is actually Dongying, which is also a country with many individuals and few places, a large number of ordinary people who can't even eat enough to eat, are deceived by unscrupulous profiteers to go to Liaodong to work on the ship, and young men and women give five silver yuan for settling in. Then the young men and women who had been selected got on board the boat with joy. Pulled to Liaodong, because it was a foreigner, the receiving staff on the Liaodong side refused to give the full amount, and only willing to give twenty silver yuan. In this way, there are still many businessmen who are very happy to continue to do this business. In principle, the Dongying people in Liaodong could not be allocated land, and they were centrally managed by the government, and they usually worked in the farms. The food is enough to eat, and the wages have to be paid to the government. After ten years, you can obtain the status of a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. The treatment of women is better, there are bachelors in Liaodong, and there are many people who spend thirty silver yuan to buy one from the government and go back to be a daughter-in-law. The price of a good appearance is higher, and the highest can be sold for a hundred silver yuan, and the rich people buy it back to be concubines.

Japanese women in these years, to be honest, that's it, the little short legs are too bad. Fortunately, there are a large number of singles in Liaodong. Just have a daughter-in-law, and no one cares about that. Because the human trade is thriving. Now there are nearly 100,000 Dongying people in Liaodong.

Some merchants were even more bastards, colluding directly with the Dutch and selling natives from Nanyang to Liaodong. This kind of businessman is basically very miserable, the Nanyang monkey is too lazy, and the Liaodong government refuses to accept it at all, and the woman can make do with it. All men returned their tickets, and no one wanted to stay as slaves. After a period of time, only the women from Nanyang were now shipped to Liaodong. When I arrived in Liaodong, I unloaded the woman and loaded it with the specialties of the Ming Dynasty. You can also make a lot of money on this trip. Therefore, there are many businessmen doing this business now, and all of them are maritime merchants in Fujian. Before the end of last year, a Spanish ship arrived in Lushun and dropped off more than 500 women under the age of 18, opening the prelude to the trafficking of human beings by Europeans to Liaodong.

Chen Xie's plan is to immigrate 10 million to Liaodong, which is the least. Without people, no amount of land is useless, Liaodong is operating into a big granary, and this plan will not change. Compared with the land of the Central Plains, Liaodong is called grasping a handful of fertile soil that flows oil. The population north of the Yangtze River, the population to Liaodong, the population south of the Yangtze River, the population to Dayuan, or the future to Nanyang, this plan will not change. As for the landlords of the Central Plains, whether they can find tenants in the future, Chen Xie does not care at all. Taking advantage of the greed of merchants and local officials, they continued to emigrate from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia, Beizhili and other provinces.

The imperial court also knows these things, but it is happy to see them happen. These people are in the local area, they don't have a bite to eat, and now this drought is very severe, and the local government is eager to get rid of the people. As for the interests of the landlords, who can take care of them now? Over the years, I have been scared of the rogues, and the government has no room for negotiation at all, and it is possible to get rid of it as much as possible. If you have objections, you can take out food to help the people, and it is easy to discuss, otherwise don't mention this topic.

As for the losses that arise in the process of immigration, who can take care of it? At most, the officials on a business trip are distressed, and they will pass after a sentence or two. After a busy trip, hurry back to run the next one. The prosperity of human trafficking has led to a lot of chaos. But who is full of this and can hold on to it? Even if it's the government, look at those hungry people, I can't wait to send them away as soon as possible.

So now it's a one-stop human trafficking, where the government is responsible for collecting the population, and the merchants are responsible for transporting it to the locality, and everyone makes a fortune together. Because of this matter, Chen Xie, the governor of the three provinces, has an unexpectedly good reputation in the northern provinces.

As for the cost of immigration, it is actually quite a lot, but in fact the wool comes from the sheep. An immigrant to the Northeast can get tools and shelter, and then you go to open up the wasteland. If you get half of the land you open up, you don't have to pay taxes for three years. The other half has to be cultivated obediently, which is equivalent to renting the land of the government and paying half of the annual rent. Fifty percent of the rent, this is also a conscience price. So, the resistance of immigrants is not great. There is a hard and fast rule that the land that is opened up shall not be wasted. If it is not caused by force majeure, the appearance of wasteland will be recovered by the government.

The construction of administrative institutions in eastern Liaodong is roughly the same as that in the interior, with 100 households living in forts. Shitun is a township, take care of each other, establish an early warning mechanism, once there is a crisis, immediately light the beacon, and the people of each tun come to help. Relying on this mechanism, under the premise of self-protection of the garrison and the people, the Qing army has been constantly harassing small groups in the past two years, and there are few times when they take advantage.

The situation in eastern Liaodong is becoming more stable, while the situation in Mongolia is more ambiguous. It is not a question of whether or not a war can be fought, but is determined by the natural conditions on the grassland. After Duoduo mastered the Chahar tribe, he continued to try to advance eastward, but after being blocked several times by Wang Ben's troops and the Horqin grassland, he slowly abandoned this plan. The Duoduo stopped, and after the Dengzhou camp stabilized its position, it advanced westward in turn. Because of the prosperity of the wool trade, many small Mongolian tribes continued to break away from Chahar and attach Horqin to the east.

Wang Ben's tactics were very steady, step by step, with the cooperation of He Xian's cavalry, approaching the west little by little. The Horqin tribes, who saw the huge benefits, were also very cooperative with the operation of the Dengzhou battalion. In the past two years, the living space of the Chahar has been continuously compressed, and Duoduo has to continue to retreat north. The reason why a large number of small tribes fled directly led to this consequence. It is estimated that in two years, Duoduo will have to cross the Hanhai and go further north.

Because of the effective operation of the Dengzhou battalion, the so-called nine sides of the Ming Dynasty rarely have a chance to play a role now. On the contrary, it was the businessmen who showed their skills, going back and forth to pour all kinds of materials and make a fortune. This is also a major reason for the loss of the job of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, and now he has gone to Sichuan, and continues to hunt down Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and when these two goods escape to Burma, the entire Ming Dynasty should also stop.

Chen Xie and Liu Qing talked about resting in the middle of the night, and they were invited into the palace by Zhu Youzhen early the next morning. Zhu Yujiao has been staying in the palace recently, and Chen Xie can only obey the meaning of Queen Zhou. After entering the palace, Chen Xie didn't see Zhu Yujiao, and went directly to see Zhu Youzhen. Comrade Emperor was very cordial when he saw Chen Xie coming, in fact, the two were about the same age.

The two sat down and talked, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't wait to speak: "Sihua, yesterday you talked about the cultivation of the prince, and I was deeply touched when I heard it. I grew up in the deep palace, and I don't know the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, and I listen to the people around me. This status quo must be changed. "When it comes to this, Chen Xie feels that the egg hurts. The last emperors of the Ming Dynasty were more strange than the other. When it comes to the issue of education, it's really a weasel cub, and a litter is not as good as a litter. Let's put it this way, none of the last emperors of the Ming Dynasty are psychologically normal. Speaking of this phenomenon, civil officials bear a great deal of responsibility. The favorite emperor of civil officials is the kind of emperor who doesn't care about anything and gives everything to civil officials. But this is obviously very unrealistic, once you feel that the emperor is uncomfortable in front of you, which emperor doesn't change his tricks?

The phenomenon of Daming cannot continue. That's why Chen Xie brought up the issue of the cultivation of the prince, of course, he said a few words before leaving, and then he didn't mention it again. Unexpectedly, Zhu Youzhen was very concerned, and he didn't sleep well all night thinking about this problem. With the gradual stabilization of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen also began to reflect on this problem.

Zhu Youzhen hopes to find a good way from Chen Xie, instead of herding sheep like before. When it came to this matter, Chen Xie was also quite entangled, thought about it and said: "The minister just thinks that it needs to be changed, but how to change it, this is a heavenly thing, and non-ministers can say it in vain." Please also ask Your Majesty to take back your order and let the minister go. (To be continued......)