"I don't know if the little marquis has discovered that there is a big hidden danger in our islands in the East China Sea now? If this matter is accidentally ignored, it can easily cause a certain disaster in the future! Yang Ku, who was still gloomy just now, suddenly turned pale, and a trace of worry appeared on his face.

For himself in just a few years to create such a foundation, Wang Ze himself is also very satisfied, now all over the East China Sea to be prosperous, people are flourishing, seeing that a strong country can be established, but now the sheep dry said that there is still a lot of trouble.

Therefore, Wang Ze was a little surprised in his heart, and he asked, "Is Mr. exaggerating?" Now we have a lot of soldiers, and the naval army is invincible, and now the first war has basically wiped out all the troops of the Japanese state, so that we have all the land, how can the land be doubled? ”

Saying that, Wang Ze said with some pride: "In addition, Baekje and Silla, who have other intentions on the side, have been greatly injured by us, and they dare not look south, it can be said that we are now in a very safe period, how can there be a big hidden danger?" ”

"Lao Tzu said, 'Misfortune and blessing are relied upon, and fortune and misfortune are lurking', how can the little marquis only see the good side of things, but ignore the other side that may cause harm?" Yang Wei retorted unhurriedly.

After standing up, he pointed to the area of the East China Sea on the map and said to Wang Ze in a deep voice: "Since three years ago, after Zai Zai followed the little marquis to the East China Sea, we don't know how many thousands of slaves we have looted from the Wa Kingdom, Baekje, and Silla countries over the years!" ”

"Looking through the slave account books of the past yesterday, I found that the dead slaves are not counted, there are still nearly 500,000 young and strong slaves who are still registered today, although half of them are young women who are distributed to the people and soldiers as concubines, but now there are still 300,000 young and strong slaves on the entire islands of the East China Sea!"

To be honest, Wang Ze really didn't know how many slaves he had now, and he was a little surprised when he heard Yang Ku's introduction: "I didn't expect that we already have so many slaves!" ”

For Wang Ze's surprise, Yang Ku still smiled helplessly and said: "In fact, last year and this year, we also transported a lot of Japanese slaves to the land of Sanqi, these are still not included, and there are about 40,000 Futu monks who were transported from Changguang County in the East China Sea islands!" ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ku said worriedly: "The total population of the islands in the East China Sea has only exceeded one million people so far, of which more than 200,000 are children under the age of ten, and among the remaining more than 700,000 people, more than half are women, and the young and strong men from Han Ming are only more than 300,000!" ”

"Most of the Han people under our rule come from the land of Sanqi, because the people are fierce, good at dancing with knives and guns, and they are not afraid of any mistakes made by these slaves on weekdays, but in the future, these men will fight in all directions with the little marquis, in case these hundreds of thousands of slaves take advantage of our army to go out in the rear, wouldn't it be a disaster?"

In fact, Wang Ze also knew that when Yang Ku counted the men from all over the East China Sea, he did not include the regular army in Wang Ze's hands, but as the scale of the war launched by Wang Ze became larger and larger, even the militia often had to go to war with the army, and Yang Ku's words were not alarmist.

Wang Ze thought about it and said to Yang Ku: "Some of the tens of thousands of Futu monks must just covet the preferential treatment of monks who are exempt from taxes, and I don't think they are very loyal to the Futu sect, I think we can selectively release some of the Futu monks as civilians, such as Whale Island, Sakhalin Island and even Jiangkou, these places can be resettled!" ”

At the beginning, it was the monks of Qizhou who attacked Wang Ze in the Battle of Jinan, and now the Futu monks who are serving hard labor in various parts of the East China Sea are basically monks from Qingzhou and other places, so there was no deep hatred between the two sides.

In addition, these monks have been serving hard labor for more than three years now, and many of them have become believers in the Haotian God Sect, and the most important thing is that Wang Ze now needs a large population to develop the islands in the East China Sea, and some of these monks can also destroy the position of some undetermined elements.

It is good to say that the vast majority of these people are irresolute elements, and they are very tolerant of division and disintegration.

However, the number of slaves from the three kingdoms of Wajin, Baekje, and Silla, which had the largest number, was too large, and Wang Ze had also taken certain precautions against this situation before.

Over the past year or so, Wang Ze has also transported some Japanese slaves to Whale Island, Sakhalin Island, and even the more remote places of Zhenhai and Jiangkou to strengthen the construction there.

However, after all, the number of Han people in these places is too small, and it will be difficult to control if there are too many Japanese people, and Wang Ze only dared to send a total of more than 40,000 slaves to these two places, so he did not dare to transport them again.

Now Wang Ze has conquered the Wa Kingdom and obtained more than 200,000 people, including more than 100,000 young and strong slaves, and plundered more than 200,000 people from Baekje and Silla, as well as more than 100,000 slaves, plus nearly 100,000 slaves before, which is a huge number.

Such a large number of slaves is a big cake for the Donghai Xia regime that is still in its infancy, if it is completely digested, it can save Wang Ze several years of development speed, but another big problem is that if you eat too much, you may have indigestion.

Wang Ze thought about it for a long time and didn't have a good idea, if he continued to increase the amount of Han people imported from the Central Plains, there would not be so much land available for reclamation.

It's not that there isn't enough place to settle a large number of Han people, but because there are many dangerous mountains and very little flat land, and now the three largest plains of the Japanese country are basically divided, and the rest are left with more mountains and forests, and if the mountains and forests are destroyed too much, it is easy to cause a large number of casualties after the typhoon comes.

In addition, most of the immigrants Wang Ze is transporting now are Sanqi immigrants, most of these people have inherited the kindness of Wang Ze's father and son, and have also been ruled by Wang Yong for more than a year, so it is easy to adapt to the laws of the East China Sea, and it is relatively easy to integrate with other people as a whole.

If a large number of people are relocated from other places, it will be difficult for them to adapt to the environment of the East China Sea, and as a result, contradictions will arise, and it will easily create space for some careerists to operate, which will be very detrimental to the stability of the East China Sea regime.

In this way, even if a large number of Han people are needed in the East China Sea now, Wang Ze feels that the speed of population migration is a little faster, and the speed of immigration will be greatly reduced in the next year or so.

Since it is impossible to move a large number of people from the Central Plains, but to learn from the Tartars to implement the strategy of reducing the number of soldiers, Wang Ze can't make up his mind, it took a lot of effort to capture these slaves, and the speed of development in the East China Sea is so fast, and several cities have been established in just a few years, and it is also quickly built by relying on these slaves.

In addition, Wang Ze did not want to kill these slaves, because there was too little labor in the East China Sea today.

Most of the men under Wang Ze's rule were militia members, and nearly half of the militia often had to fight with the army in the past year, especially after the war against the Japanese state began, a large number of men went to the front line with the militia army, resulting in a huge labor shortage in various parts of the East China Sea.

If Wang Ze hadn't vigorously promoted and supported many agricultural machinery workshops a few years ago, increased help for ordinary people to purchase large machinery, and promoted agricultural mutual aid groups to ensure agricultural production, I am afraid that a large part of the cultivated land in various parts of the East China Sea would have been abandoned this year.

The lack of a large number of labor is a big limitation for the workshops with great manpower demand, which is also one of the reasons why the penetration rate of large-scale hydraulic and animal-powered machinery in the workshops under Wang Ze's rule is extremely high, after all, the labor cost is too high.

Due to Wang Ze's strong support, not only these workshops in Wang Ze's hands are using large-scale hydraulic and animal-powered machinery, but even many newly opened small private workshops have begun to purchase large-scale water-powered and animal-powered machinery.

This thing is that the initial investment is more money, and then as long as the regular maintenance several times a year costs a little money, on average, the larger the scale of the house, the lower the unit cost of investment.

However, the limitations of large hydraulic machinery are very large, and the cost of animal power machinery is much higher than that of hydraulic machinery, at this time, those alien slaves greatly make up for some labor gaps, and if they really want to kill a large number of Wang Ze, they are really reluctant.

Yang Ku shook the white feather fan in his hand slightly, and smiled at Wang Ze: "Little Hou Ye, I do have an idea, Xiao Hou Ye might as well listen to it, although the total number of these slaves is hundreds of thousands, but they come from various different races, we can use the art of division and transformation against them!" ”

"Will the plan be released?" Wang Ze was also curious about what good ideas Yang Wei would have. First Reading Network

"I remember that in the eighth year of Cheonpo, when the little marquis attacked Jeju Island, didn't he capture thousands of Tamna slaves at that time? Now there are about 2,000 of these slaves, and the little marquis can gradually select some of the well-behaved slaves from these slaves who have been slaves for a long time and have a small number of them, and let them manage the slaves of other races! ”

"In addition, we can also mix the slaves of the three kingdoms of Baekje, Silla, and Wa Kingdom, so that the power of one country does not increase, although these three countries are good and bad, but the people at the bottom are not harmonious with each other, and we don't have to worry about them joining forces."

The more Yang Ku spoke, the more excited he became, and he gestured on the map and said to Wang Ze: "In addition, there are many islands in the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou, aren't they going to be developed?" These southern islands are damp and miasma, and many places are not accessible to people, so it is only fitting that we send some slaves to clear the land! ”

Wang Ze nodded slightly in agreement: "What Mr. said is not bad, in addition, the bases on the islands of Luhan (Luzon) and Nanchang Island (Palawan) in the South Seas can also send some Japanese and Baekje slaves over, I heard that a lot of people died there some time ago, if it weren't for the doctors who accompanied the army, I'm afraid the matter would be serious!" ”

Wang Ze also knew that in the summer, severe malaria and jaundice occurred in several port bases in Nanyang, especially Yecheng on Long Island in the south and Surabaya City in Borneo (near Kuching in later generations), with hundreds of people dying of the disease.

You must know that at this time, several relatively large bases in Nanyang, that is, the average size of one or two thousand people per place, hundreds of people who died of illness meant that hundreds of others fell ill, which had a great impact on the development of the Nanyang base.

"Alas, what a good place to be! It's a pity! Yang Ku looked at the few red dots marked on the map around the South China Sea, these were all large-scale strongholds that Wang Ze had built in the South Seas.

Although the size of the stronghold is only about one or two thousand, a large number of merchant ships travel to and from the South Seas and even the Western countries every year, and Wang Ze obtains much more profits from here than the trade routes in Liaodong.

It was only because of Wang Ze's strong proposition that the islands in the East China Sea adopted a plan for the development of the north centered on Whale Island and Sakhalin Island.

For this reason, the sheep withered was once very sorry, and now the sudden outbreak of large-scale infectious diseases in the South Seas has made the sheep withered and secretly happy at the same time.

"By the way, I almost forgot!"

Wang Ze suddenly slapped his thigh as he spoke, making the sheep wither, and looked at Wang Ze strangely, and he didn't know what big things this little marquis remembered.

Wang Ze Zhengse said to Yang Ku: "Some time ago, when I was fighting for Silla, Yan Tieyi said that he was getting married, and invited me to attend his wedding. ”

Wasn't it just that Yang Ku mentioned the Tamluo slave when chatting, Wang Ze really almost forgot that Yan Xiaowu, the general of the White Wolf Battalion under his command, was finally going to get married, and the object he wanted to marry was the original Tamluo girl, and now it is completely in line with the decree issued by Wang Ze, and he can marry a Han man as his wife.

When Jeju Island was first occupied, Wang Ze stipulated that although a woman of different races could marry a Han man, she could only do so after all the conditions were met.

It was not too difficult to learn to speak Chinese fluently, to write Chinese characters, and to use Han rites, especially for many aristocratic women in Baekje, Silla, and even the Wa Kingdom, and their level of Sinology even surpassed that of Wang Ze himself.

After all, many nobles in these countries studied Sinology a lot, and they were usually proud of speaking Chinese, and those nobles who could not speak Chinese were despised in every way, so many women of different races were stuck in the rule that they could only marry Han Chinese after they had become commoners for three years under Wang Ze's rule.

Of course, if a woman of a different race marries a Han woman as a concubine, it is not within the limits of this provision, this rule is formulated by Wang Ze in order to protect the interests of Han women, if the big guys all run to marry young and beautiful foreign women as wives, wouldn't it be a disadvantage to these Han women who have helped him a lot?

Nowadays, production activities in various parts of the East China Sea, and even in various workshops, rely on a large number of women to participate in labor, and after the voice of these women gradually increases, the big guys have to pay attention to their feelings.

Tamna Nu was originally assigned to Yan Xiaowu as a concubine, who knew that this child was bent on marrying Tamluo Nu as his wife, even after Wang Ze promulgated this decree, he insisted on teaching Tanluo Nu to learn Sinology for three consecutive years, and even sent her to the school to study.

After three years of sinology, it is said that the Tamluo girl has successfully mastered all kinds of Han etiquette, especially for cooking tea and flower arrangement, and I heard Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan who went to visit say that the Tamluo girl who couldn't even speak Chinese at the beginning is now not bad compared with some big families in Nanchen.

Listening to Wang Ze ask about himself, of course Yang Ku also knew the relationship between Yan Xiaowu and Yan Boss and Wang Ze's father and son, they were not only Wang Ze's descendants, Yan Xiaowu was also a cavalry general that Wang Ze attached great importance to, and now how could he not participate in his wedding.

So he laughed and said: "I also received it in Xia, and it was also sent by Captain Yan in person, such a good thing of gold and jade good fate, how can I not go to the next stage, and I must go tomorrow!" ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ku remembered one more thing, and he solemnly said to Wang Ze: "Little Marquis, now that General Hu Bingchang has led a large army to occupy Pingmachuan, which already borders the Ezo people in the north, in case they have a conflict with me, I don't know how Little Marquis should deal with these people?" ”

The Ezo people, also known as the Anui people of the later Wa Kingdom, have been very declining in the later Wa Kingdom, almost on the verge of extinction, and have been called for by some so-called cultural protectors.

But at this time, the Ezo people were not the poor race of later generations, they now not only have many tribes on Whale Island, but even Sakhalin Island, including the northern part of the Pingma River to the northernmost strait, half of Choshu Island is the territory of the Ezo people, so the Ezo people are a very powerful force in the East China Sea.

As the earliest indigenous tribe of the Wakoku Islands in the East China Sea, they have fought against the increasingly powerful Wa people for nearly 2,000 years, and they are not unforgiving.

It is also because the Wa Kingdom is closer to the Central Plains than the Ezo people, so it is easier for the Wa people to obtain important manpower and advanced technology from the Central Plains, and even improve the human race through the Han people, which makes the Wa people gradually become stronger than the Ezo people, and finally expels and exterminates the vast majority of the Ezo people.

No matter how pitiful the Ezo people in later generations were, they are still a very powerful force, occupying a large area of land north of the Pingma River, and they also pose a relatively big threat to the militia in the upper tuntian area of the Pingma River.

Therefore, Wang Ze sneered: "Since ancient times, the hearts of non-my race will be different, if these Ezo people are as interesting as their fellow people on Whale Island, I will not hesitate to draw a large reserve for them, if they want to be unfavorable to us, the front car of the Japanese people is waiting for them to learn!" ”

Yang Ku smiled: "In this way, it seems that the Ezo people of Whale Island are more knowledgeable, they sold a large piece of land to us early, and also exchanged a large amount of grain and iron tools from us, I heard that they are also learning to mine coal now, and then sell it to our people!" ”

Wang Ze nodded and said, "As long as the Ezo people of Whale Island are obedient, we will let them live a better life than before, and even let them get out of their reservations and enter our city life when we become stronger in the future." ”

In this regard, Yang Ku nodded and said: "Speaking of which, the migration to Whale Island and Sakhalin Island can also be accelerated, although we can't move too many people at once, but we can take advantage of the summer to move 10,000 people here every year!" ”

"Yes, that's right!" Wang Ze stroked his palms and said, "And these people should be good at riding horses and herding!" In this way, in ten years, there will be at least two or three hundred thousand herdsmen in these two places, and then we can easily obtain a large number of cavalry from here! ”

Although a large number of horses are now bred on Jeju Island and even in other places in Samqi, the war horses produced in these places are not as good as the war horses bred in the prairie, and the war horses bred on Whale Island and Sakhalin Island in the north can be more adapted to the cold of the north.