Chapter 548: Out of the Cave
Of course he won't do anything with the lives of the Aoren, not because of how kind he is, but because the Aoren can't afford to toss it now. There are only a few million Austrians in the three provinces of Dali, which is already a very large number among the more than 100 provinces.
No one, still playing.
Dong Junwen was able to seize power in a few years, which is nothing more than two hands, one is to take advantage of the situation, and the other is to supply. Borrowing the momentum, it is naturally borrowing the remaining power of Dong Guo, although Dong Guo is gone, but Dong Min is still there, among the Austrians who have survived today, one out of every three people is Dong Min, which is a huge and incomparable force.
Thanks to his father Dong Gongming, and the important ministers of Dong Guo, although their efforts could not change the fate of Dong Guo, they left a solid foundation for those who survived.
Dong Junyi can subdue folk immortals like Kumamoto and Valan, and he can seize power from his sister, and the honor guard is nothing more than the shadow of his ancestors. Compared with his sister, his identity has more advantages. The eldest prince, this includes the two identities of the eldest and the son, it is the tradition of the Dong State to establish the chief, not to mention the son, there has been a queen in Aozhou, but the number is very small, and people are still used to the emperor controlling the empire, not the empress.
With these two advantages, in front of Dong Junmai and Dong Junyi, his advantages have been magnified a lot, as long as he is not stupid, he is a natural successor. In fact, Dong Junwen is not only not stupid, but also smarter and more capable than his younger siblings.
The supply is even simpler, and among the Dong people who survived, the proportion of nobles was very small, especially on the side of the Dali Three Islands, all of whom survived on rafts and floating islands. No matter how crazy these Dong Min have been, in their hearts, they will thank the two of them.
Dong Guo's secretary thunderstorm, Dong Guojun's king Dong Gongming.
The people are the most realistic, no matter how grateful they are to these two in their hearts, until they have their full stomachs, everything is. Although it has been better these years, everyone's life is still very sad. Dong Guo is rich, even if it is just an ordinary small people, there is no need to worry about livelihood, there is a room to live, and meat is the most basic.
But when it comes to Dahlia, don't mention any of this. The Chu people themselves are not having a good time, how can they make the Austrians feel better? The poll tax will kill people.
Although a gold coin is not much, Dahlia really has no money, even if the local aborigines are looted, it is not enough for a year's poll tax, so the tax can only be paid in kind. Fortunately, the people of Da Chu also knew that the Ao people had no money and accepted taxes in kind.
But the tax in kind is not enough, it is in a state of half-starvation and half-fullness, and people will freeze to death in winter, and a gold coin is enough to cause chaos. Dahlia is not clean, this is Da Chu's strategy, and people are not prepared to let the Aoren live in peace. It is all too easy to stir up disputes between the aborigines and the Austrians.
When the Austrians landed, all their eyes were red, and they killed people when they saw them, and robbed things when they saw them, and this feud was big. As long as Da Chu leans a little towards the original residence, it is enough. For example, the aborigines did not have a poll tax and regularly issued small quantities of ironware.
It sounds good, it can be regarded as compensation for the loss of the year, but the iron pot you issued is actually made of fine iron, and with a little smelting, you can build weapons, which is beyond words.
In recent years, Da Chu has not lacked iron tools, but he has not been extravagant enough to use fine iron to make pots, you can't do it yourself, distribute it to the aborigines, and deceive fools?
The life of the Austrians used to be better than that of the Great Chu people, and the level of education was also high, far from being comparable to the aborigines.
No one makes a move to look at each other, and the Aoren makes the first move, so what are you waiting for, let's do it.
Although there were no major wars, battles in villages and towns occurred every day, coupled with a shortage of food and clothing, and no medical care, which caused the Austrian population to decline instead of increasing.
Da Chu is killing people with soft knives, not only the Dali Mishima, but also the one hundred and eight provinces where the Austrians are located are all following this path. Except for the Romon Islands, where there are no aborigines, the other 107 provinces are all like this.
In fact, there is no shortage of islands overseas in Dachu, but when the province was established, all the islands found were aborigines, although the total population was not as large as the Austrians, but it brought countless troubles to the Austrians.
Many of the Austrians have already given up, and if the current situation continues, in less than a hundred years, the population of the Austrians will be reduced by half, and in a few hundred years, the Austrians will really become a tribe.
Dong Junwen also put a lot of thought into this, and the first thing to solve is the poll tax. Dahlia was close to the sea, and he mobilized labor to build salt pans by the sea, and dried countless snowflakes and sea salt, which was much better than the salt made by Dachu. Only the salt of Shengong City can be compared with it, Shengong City is not short of money, salt production is purely to solve the problem of high salt prices in Dachu, and when the price of salt comes down, Renault ordered people to shrink the output of salt fields to prevent a large number of salt workers from losing their jobs.
Salt is a big part of the tax revenue in the Great Chu world, and it can even rise to the standard of strategic materials. Not only the Great Chu needs, but also the tribes in the north, the small countries in the northwest, and even Luo Ji needs it.
First, they traded with the tribes of eastern Liao, and used the roads of these tribes to sell snowflake salt to the northern grasslands, all the way north to Luozhi, and all the way west to Zhenla......
In order to prevent attracting the attention of Da Chu, Dong Junwen was very careful, not seeking to make the business big, first solving the poll tax, and it only took half a year to complete the poll tax of the Dali Austrian people in an experimental transaction, and he was rich.
In fact, the best trading partner is Da Chu, but Dong Junwen knows that it is very dangerous, under his strong order, not a single grain of snowflake salt enters the territory of Da Chu, even if it is a Chu person who is a businessman, it is prohibited to trade.
With money, Dong Junwen implements the Austrian subsidy policy, calculated according to the capitation, and does not give money, at this time, Dahliia, money is not of much use, and you can't buy things if you have money.
Taking advantage of the situation and support, going hand in hand, it only took him a few years to win the trust of Dong Min, and Dong Min, who accounted for one-third of the data, trusted him, plus the visible benefits, and the remaining two-thirds of the Austrian people also began to be willing to obey his command.
Dong Junyi saw everything in her eyes and saw her power taken away, but the life of the Ao people was indeed much stronger than when she was in charge, and she didn't like the powerful, so she let it be.
A year ago, Dong Junyi proposed to return to Shengong City, although she didn't live there for a long time, but now her home is long gone, and the life of the Da Leo people has improved a lot.
In fact, deep down, I also like Shengong City a little bit, it is a magical city, countless chimneys, day and night non-stop spitting smoke, all kinds of iron tools are produced like flowing water, this kind of scene, even in Austria has never seen it.
Magical city, and amazing people. She didn't have any love for Renault in her heart, and even a trace of hatred, but it was like a magnet that attracted her.
As a result, this request was rejected by the eldest brother, indicating that Dahlia at this time was still in danger and needed more people's efforts. The high-sounding reason is very fake, but it is very effective for Dong Junyi.
In Dong Junyi's opinion, her sister's wrewdness is superficial, and she seems to be clever, but she is actually a sincere person who is not good at hiding clumsiness, and if she returns to Shengong City, it is easy to be tricked out of the situation here. Dong Junwen is very ambitious, he knows that he can't hide it for long, and he may hide it for a day.
What's more, he is still a little afraid of Shengong City, although Da Chu sent a lot of secret spies, but he is not worried, Shengong City has not been sent, but it makes him vigilant.
Shengong City is far more terrifying than Da Chu.
After descending the pothos peak, a group of people are waiting here. Dong Junwen has a habit of preparing for the worst no matter what he does, if he can't get out this time, he has already arranged the future for himself, although this possibility is not high.
"Master Lan, Master Feng, thank you so much, everything goes well. Dong Junwen walked in front of everyone and bowed to the two men who were about thirty years old and said.
The older generation of secret masters, dead or missing, can find few of them, the two in front of them, are the secret masters who have been promoted in the last five years, and today's secret masters have ascended, which is much simpler than in the past, as long as there are outstanding things and have some relationship with the secret master, you can call yourself a secret master, which also leads to today's mysterious people The secret master is a little unworthy of the name, very messy. Many people bear the name of secret masters, but they are actually worthless.
The secret master is good, no matter how difficult the Ao people are living now, as long as you are a secret master, at least you can eat a full stomach. What does this have to do with the mystic, but now it's as simple as that, in order to be fed, there are too many people who are willing to pretend to be the mystics, and would rather be killed than be a full ghost.
Standing on the left-hand side, the man with big eyes and small eyes, looking ugly, named Lan Yue, came from the Lan Shi's disciple, was a personal disciple of the Lan Shi before he died, and he was not by the side of the Lan Shi for a long time, only two years, but he was very good.
On the right-hand side, the dark-skinned one, named Feng Zhongyang, was originally just a servant of the secret master, but he was better than his own disciple.
Dong Junwen knows that he can't follow the path of the secret master in the past, as long as he has talent, it doesn't matter whether he is a real secret master or not.
These two are the most outstanding talents Dong Junwen has found, and it is with their help that he has the courage to enter the ghost cave.
"Very good, but there is an accident?" The Blue Moon Man is ugly, but his ability is not ugly, he is not a real secret master, at least according to the eyes of the arcane secret master, he is still a long way from the secret master. As a mastermind, he is still very suitable, not only has an orthodox secret master heritage, but also is very good at observing words and feelings.
"There are indeed some, in the ghost cave, there are a large number of ghost things, the number is about thousands, these ghost things have no spiritual sense, like to suck qi and blood, they are the product of the ghost king's chaotic energy, and the ghost king cannot control them. Now, in the ghost cave, there is a ghost king ban, they can't leave, if the ban is lifted, the consequences are unpredictable. "These are Dong Junwen's cronies, and they still need to contribute to the next thing, so naturally there is no need to hide it.