Chapter 115: Hire-Hands and Slaves
"Yao Fei, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 21st Regiment, was fined for two months and demoted by half a grade to set an example! The rest of the towns, if you want to use the topic to play, you can! But you can spread the big stall yourself, and you are responsible for filling it up, and the funding of the imperial court will only be given to the part that has been budgeted in advance!" Li Kang said lightly, "But the premise of all this is that the plan of the imperial court must be completed!"
"The lord is wise!"
At this point, Yao Fei's matter came to an end.
"Well, let's talk about it again, whether to officially divide the landing site into an administrative district and send administrative officials!"
From Shennong Town to the landing site, the big river stretches for hundreds of miles, during which boats are feasible, the river surface is wide, there is no rapids and rapids, and there is no waterfall to block it, it is indeed an excellent waterway, and it will be treated in the future, and it can definitely play a huge role.
Therefore, the banks of the great river are definitely going to be in the bag, it's just that there is no need for it now!
However, this time the topic did not involve the military, and all the representatives of the military were quails at this time, and they did not have the passion to fight just now.
The civil officials used their brains to think about it, no matter what attitude they held, there was always a reasonable reason, who let Li Kang suddenly attack and didn't give them time to prepare!
"Isn't it too early?" said the ruling Guan Zhong, "Now that the interior of Huaxia is still in a state of ruins, it can be described as a mess, and the energy is no longer enough, and then pumping out valuable resources and manpower, is it too hasty to operate a landing point that is not very necessary?" Therefore, Zhong thinks that it is better to use the landing point as a pure transit station according to the plan in advance!"
"What the ruling lord said is very true, it is better to wait for the internal catch first, and then seek other things. When the time comes, not to mention a landing site, it is not impossible to build a town every ten miles along the coast!" said Yu Wenkai, director of the Construction Division.
Although the others did not speak, they all nodded, and apparently no one objected.
This is completely inconsistent with Li Kang's imaginary war of words, in his heart, he is inclined to follow Yao Fei's idea.
"Then the first phase of the landing site project will be left to its end?" Li Kang asked with some reluctance.
"That's not necessary! The lord can order the other side to lower the specifications to the level of the previous plan, and then make up for the missing materials, and send a commissioner to supervise it!" Guan Zhong said quickly.
Although giving up halfway is not Li Kang's style, but style belongs to style, reality is reality, and when the two contradict each other, style naturally has to compromise with reality.
"Then, in Yiwu's opinion, who should be sent to this commissioner?"
"The three adults of the Construction Division can do it!" Guan Zhongdao.
"Then let's work hard and take a trip to the landing site!"
"No!" Yan Rang bowed in response.
After talking about the landing site, the next step was the routine report, there were no outstanding incidents, and each talked about it, and there were few arguments, so it was quickly over.
Time passed little by little, and the towns of Huaxia only cared about development, and they felt that they did not hear what was going on outside the window.
On February 12, the second year of Huaxia, after a long journey of more than ten days, the first batch of 100 bags of grain -- a part of which could be withheld for personal use at the landing site according to regulations -- finally arrived in Xin'an Town.
Although there is not much food, this is a good start after all, so under the great joy, Li Kang is very bold to wrap a big red envelope for each of the foreign affairs personnel who are far away in the City of Atonement.
The arrival of the first batch of grain was just a splash on the calm lake, and the excitement of the people lasted for two or three days, and soon calm was restored.
There are more than 12,000 registered people in China, and nearly 4,000 indigenous hired workers who are not registered.
Therefore, the arrest of slaves has never stopped, and it just so happens that the Second Brigade cannot practice real skills by training alone, and after Li Kang's suggestion, Qi Jiguang ordered that the officers and soldiers under his command should be dispersed according to the tun and the team, and take turns to go out to hunt slaves.
Moreover, in order to let the soldiers see blood, Qi Jiguang also specially ordered that the indigenous tribes should not be accepted to take refuge, and the prisoners could only be surrendered after causing a certain amount of casualties.
In this order, Li Kang's deep malice is hidden.
Because he found that the active attachment of the natives is indeed conducive to the rapid spread of Huaxia's influence to the surrounding areas, and there is no need to die, but the shortcomings are more obvious!
Because they took refuge on their own initiative, they can no longer be classified as slaves, and can only be used as hired laborers, after all, Li Kang has always claimed to be a civilized person, and he can't do it too inauthentically, and some rules still have to be followed.
Hired workers, as the name suggests, are hired workers, this is to give money, and moreover, you can't force them too tightly, force people to death, it's not good, pay back the pension - no matter how much, it always means - more importantly, people are free people, unhappy, you can leave, although you can retaliate back afterwards, but after all, troublesome, how can there be slaves that are easy to use, cheap, efficient, and no human rights!
In the end, only by conquest by force can the policy of reducing the number of soldiers be implemented in a righteous and bright way!
In order to achieve this ultimate goal, in addition to turning as many natives as possible into slaves, Li Kang also had a hand of preparation, he was ready to set up a cannon fodder unit with natives as the main soldiers when the population of China reached 100,000, and then pulled out every day to fight with the natives, northern barbarians, and the armies of the sixteen countries in Hedong.
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A team of ten people walked through the cold jungle.
Although it is now February, the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, the tail of winter has not completely disappeared, and the aftermath is still the same.
"It's spring, and it's still so cold! What the hell!" said the younger of the two who walked in the front, "Boss, why don't you come here today?"
This is a slave hunting team looking for indigenous tribes, usually if they find a small tribe, they will do it themselves, if they find a large tribe, then naturally they have to temporarily avoid the edge, and wait for the recruitment of people to come back to find a field.
But today their luck is obviously not very good, when the sun sets in the west, there is still nothing, and the climate is not very cool, no wonder some people complain.
"Yes, head, let's go back and meet the chief, maybe they will have a harvest?" After the people in the back heard the complaints in front, one of them immediately followed.
"yes, yes... I heard that after we return to Mozhai Town this time, the Tun Elder will invite Zhang Gui to come to our Tunli to say "The Legend of Heroes", I can't wait, last time I just listened to the champion Hou Huo to go sick and seal the wolf Juxu, he was assigned a task, and I didn't have time to listen to the story of Hu Zhuang Hou Chen Tang killing the Hun Zhi Zhi Shan Yu, now I think about it It's a pity..."Another soldier said aloud.
"What are you arguing about? Is there any discipline among the Chinese soldiers?" Jiang Hongyi frowned and shouted, and after everyone shut up, he said to the person who just talked about "The Legend of Heroes": "Director Zhang will really give a lecture after we go back?"
"Boss, what I said is true, this is what I overheard Xiao Li, the head of the tun heard!"
Jiang Hongyi was a little entangled, because he really wanted to listen to Director Zhang's lectures, and...
Looking up at the sky, Jiang Hongyi said uncertainly: "Why don't you go back?"
"The boss is wise!"
"Hahaha... Let's go!"
Hu Sen, the deputy of the team, walked up to Jiang Hongyi with a wry smile on his face, and said: "I said Lao Jiang, that is, you are so used to them, we have just come out of Mo Zhai Town, go back now, you just wait to be trained by the black-faced tiger!"
"Hehe... If you train you, you can't kill me!" Jiang Hongyi didn't care, and said, "I don't want to miss Director Zhang's class!"
Hu Sen shook his head helplessly, he knew Jiang Hongyi's true thoughts, he just thought that it was unkind to capture slaves and hurt the peace of the heavens, but this was the will of the lord, and his small team was powerless to change at all, so he had to make some small moves and grind foreign workers.
"It's so stubborn!" Hussen sighed under his breath.