Chapter 549: The New International Economic System

From the beginning of the partition to the thirty-third year of the Xia calendar, the first batch of the top ten princes of Kunlun Continent combined had a population of less than 1.5 million, but this was because only the number of local Han people was counted, and the number of local Kunlun slaves was not counted.

After ten years of uninterrupted expansion into the interior, the once seemingly powerful Kunlun Nu tribes continued to perish, and the territories of the ten princely states were also constantly expanding, and the foreign trade of Kunlun Nu once became the economic pillar of many countries.

In addition, while exporting a large number of Kunlun slaves to the outside world, the ten major princes themselves also began to adopt local Kunlun slaves on a large scale as a very important labor supplement because of the extreme scarcity of adult labor.

Ten years later, all countries also owned a large number of Kunlun slaves, and if you count these Kunlun slaves, the combined population of these vassal states is about three million, which means that the number of local Han Chinese is almost the same as the number of Kunlun slaves.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone was located in Kunlun Continent, because they were afraid that the number of Kunlun slaves plundered locally would be too large, it would be very likely to cause a backlash and be detrimental to their own country, I am afraid that the number of Kunlun slaves in these princely countries would continue to increase a lot, after all, the way they wanted to obtain Kunlun slaves was too convenient.

In addition to exporting Kunlun slaves, these vassal states also purchased large quantities of white slaves from the Roman Empire, most of whom were prisoners of war captured by the Roman Empire in battles with the Persian Empire, as well as the Davarns, Berbers, and Germans.

At this time, although the Roman Empire was still in decline due to Christian strife, plague, and foreign invasions, it was still the most powerful empire in Ctessy.

At this time, Tessian was not like the Germanic peoples who had dominated the mainstream for hundreds of years, and there was a custom of exchanging prisoners of war with each other, and if these prisoners of war were left in their own country as slaves, there would be great hidden dangers, and the Roman Empire preferred to use dark-skinned Kunlun slaves.

However, to kill these white prisoners of war, it was too wasteful for the Romans to be reconciled, so after the waterway trade routes in Yemen were completely opened, the Romans quickly found a good way to do business, that is, to sell these white slaves to the Sethlus in the east.

In fact, there have always been many white nomadic tribes in ancient China, such as the Yueshi people in the Qin Dynasty, the white Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, the Xianbei in the west, Ding Ling, and even in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were still a large number of white nomads such as the Turks, and there were also many whites among the slaves used by the nobles of the Central Plains.

These white slaves were soon welcomed by the Han Chinese, whether they were sold within the Xia Kingdom or resold to the Sui Empire, they could be sold for a good price, and in the later period, some generals of the Roman Empire even took the initiative to attack some barbarian tribes north of the Danube, such as Bulgaria, Avar, and Lombard, in exchange for wealth.

This caused a peculiar phenomenon, the Xia vassal states of Kunlun exported a large number of Kunlun slaves to the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire exported white slaves to the Xia and these vassal states, and the slave trade between the two sides was booming.

Even this kind of trade provoked Du Sheng to complain to Wang Ze more than once that his good military base in the Zhiyuan Islands was about to become a transit point for the slave trade.

Although the white slaves were very uncooperative in the Roman Empire, after leaving their hometowns for thousands of miles, they were cleaned up by the slave traders of the Xia Kingdom, and they had to be obedient one by one.

Even many Han merchants who have bought white slaves feel that these white barbarian slaves are no worse than Kunlun slaves, and the price is also cheap, although the appearance is ugly and the body hair is scary, but we Han people are still afraid of these guys?

White people are not inherently dominant in size, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties until the Song Dynasty, the average height of Han people was much higher than that of whites in the same period.

Xia Guo vigorously promoted a series of high-nutrition foods such as fish, meat, poultry, eggs, and milk from Wang Ze when he was in the cottage of Changguang County, so that at this time, the people around 30 years old in Xia Guo were almost almost less than 1.7 meters in later generations, and many people were about 8 feet tall, that is, more than 1.8 meters.

In addition to the extremely high living standards of most people, this is also related to the fact that most of the people of Xia come from Sanqi and other northern regions, and Xia is located in the cold region of the northeast in the later generations.

Good genes, cold climate, and good living standards have caused the Xia people to be generally taller, and compared with the average height of more than 1.6 meters for white people at this time, the yellow-skinned Han people are really tall and big.

Even at this time, a sacrificial Taoist priest of Haotian Daomen openly proposed in the temple that when Nuwa Niangniang created people, the Han people were noble people pinched out of loess, and they could be called golden people.

And the white people are much worse than the yellow race, but they are stronger than the Kunlun slaves, so they can be temporarily determined as the silver race, and the worst Kunlun slaves can of course only be the black iron race.

Although this theoretical analysis was not adopted by most Taoist priests, this idea quickly spread throughout the Xia Kingdom, and the Xia people quickly accepted this view, even many Romans living in the Xia Kingdom thought it was very reasonable.

The population of Hermes-Epitek in Kunlun has increased very slowly.

Few of the people of Xia were willing to take the risk of crossing the ocean to live in the distant Kunlun continent, and even if these vassal states offered a high price, they could only attract thousands of Han people who were not living well every year.

It was not that there were no vassal states that wanted to extend the free slave policy to Kunlun, but they still dismissed this idea under Wang Ze's restrictions.

As a reborn, Wang Ze knew that these honest and capable Kunlun slaves in the eyes of the people of Xia Kingdom were not born like this, and the people of Xia Kingdom had never seen how much training these Kunlun slaves had to go through to develop such a character.

In fact, the earliest slave traders who sold Kunlun slaves did not sell adult Kunlun slaves, but after obtaining young Kunlun slaves, they cut off their tongues, and even castrated some people, so that they would be sold to the outside world after more than ten years of training to develop a docile character.

At this time, many of the Kunlun slaves exported by the ten major princely states were adult men who plundered, although these Kunlun slaves were scared at first, and they may be more obedient, but after these people are free, it is very likely that they will unite with the Kunlun Nu tribes outside and attack these vassal states.

In addition, these Kunlun slaves belong to a category of people with low IQ after all, and it is okay if the number is a little smaller, but if the number exceeds a certain level, it will become a very serious problem.

Wang Ze wants to plant the banner of the Han people all over the world, if these vassal states of Kunlun are still all composed of Kunlun slaves, how will the Han people here live in the future?

Although everyone in later generations boasted that the mixed-race race in South America was very beautiful, Wang Ze did not want his Han people to become mixed-race people, and because of the quality of Kunlun Nu, there would be various strange viruses epidemic here every year, Wang Ze did not want such a tragedy in later generations.

Under such circumstances, in the face of the request of the ten princes, Wang Ze finally decided that all the criminals in the Xia Kingdom who could not meet the charge of killing their heads would choose some of the less serious crimes to be exiled to the ten major princes of Kunlun Continent, so as to enrich the population of these princes.

However, such a policy can only last for five years, and after five years, the Xia State will exile these criminals to the newly established more than twenty vassal states, after all, the newly established vassal states need the help and support of the suzerain.

As a result, whether it was the thirty-four vassal states of Kunlun Continent or the direct territories established by the Xia State in the southernmost part of Kunlun Continent and the eastern Fadao Island, a way to obtain population was added.

Other criminals who were charged with more serious crimes were exiled to Kunlun Continent, Yanfu Continent and the Eastern Ocean Continent according to the severity of their crimes, and the suddenly much stricter laws made the criminals of the Xia Kingdom suddenly frightened.

For a time, there was an ancient style of political communication and harmony in the Xia Kingdom, the road was not forgotten, and the door was not closed at night, and many old people felt very good about it, because of the development of the great navigation economy, many young people did not know how to converge, and this time it was just time to give them an education.

In addition to the happiness of those princes in the Xia Kingdom this time, there are also some people who are extremely excited, that is, the Haotian God Sect in the Xia Kingdom.

With the completion of the division of the second batch of vassal states, the Xia State alone had thirty-four vassal states in Kunlun Continent at once, and with the establishment of these vassal states, the Haotian God Sect, which was originally limited to the territory of the Xia State, occupied the entire Kunlun Continent almost all at once.

Originally, the Haotian God Sect had also developed a large diocese in Nanchen, and there were two or three hundred thousand believers, but it was a pity that after Emperor Wen of Sui unified the Southern Dynasty, Yang Jian vigorously encouraged the development of the Futu Sect because of the wisdom of the nuns, and restricted the Daomen, especially the resolute ban on the Haotian Daomen.

So the Futu Sect, which had a grudge against Wang Ze and Haotian Daomen, took the opportunity to fight back, and the only place in Jiangnan that Haotian God Sect had was quickly lost, so this time Haotian Daomen can be said to be already going abroad and facing the world, and he is very proud of it.

After a general meeting, the Haotian Daomen Tiandao Academy made a detailed report to His Majesty Wang Ze, and received Wang Ze's support, all the vassal states of the Xia Kingdom must believe in the Haotian God Sect, and establish a local religious affairs system, under the command of the Xia Kingdom Heavenly Daoist Academy.

Referring to the performance of Catholicism in Western Europe in later generations, Haotian Daomen may cause some trouble to these vassal states in Kunlun in the future, but this is also a tie between the various vassal states to maintain Han civilization, and it is also a way to connect with overseas Han civilization.

Wang Ze's division of these vassal states was not without any constraints, and all the princes and nobles of the princely states, especially the children of the lineage, must receive higher education in the Xia Kingdom.

Only the children of the descendants who have received more than four years of education from the ten designated universities of the Xia Kingdom are eligible to inherit the position of the monarch or become the ruling ministers of the country, otherwise they are not eligible for this.

In addition, it is also required that these vassal states must insist on using Han rites, using Chinese characters and Chinese, that is, they must exist as a Han civilization country, and once any vassal state violates this prohibition, Xia will mobilize all vassal states to attack this country together.

In addition, the Xia state also agreed with these vassal states to unify the currency style.

The currency made by the Xia State can be circulated in any vassal state, but the currency of the vassal state can only circulate in its own territory, that is, the currency of the Xia State has become an international currency to a certain extent, which has a great effect on the Xia State's control of the economy of these vassal states.

Among the influences on the vassal states, the last one was especially beneficial to the Xia state.

Originally, the Xia Kingdom also used gold, silver and copper as a three-level currency system, but after the establishment of the five major banks, the influence of the banknotes printed by these banks with the right to issue banknotes increased rapidly.

For the Xia State, this is just a very low-cost paper, but for other vassal states, it is a coin that can buy goods, so that a new international economic and trade system has taken shape, and the international system headed by the Xia State is also on the agenda.