When Cheng Jingming was exploring in Central America, Li Quan's trading fleet had successfully returned to Manila.

This time he brought back not only silver and goods, but also a number of animals, the more economically valuable ones being turkeys and alpacas.

The turkey is a very woody meat, and the chicken thighs and wings taste good. But it was large, fast-growing, and a free-flowing meat-producing machine, which could provide more meat for the small people in 17th-century China.

This time, only a year later, Li Quan found new changes.

From Luzon to Taiwan, and from Taiwan to the southeast coast, there were significantly more Japanese people in major ports. Japanese women, in particular, are all over the port brothels.

When supplying in Fuzhou, Li Quan couldn't help but ask: "Why are there so many new Japanese all of a sudden?"

The port supply merchant said with a smile: "The Japanese shogunate organized a woman to the Celestial Empire to make money." Many Japanese ronins also went to sea with them, walking the streets and alleys with knives all day long, and kneeling down to beg for work when they saw rich people. These Japanese ronins are quite good, and the wages are cheap and obedient. It's a pity that nothing else, only the home nursing home. There are also maritime merchants who recruit them as crew members and recruit them to India as bodyguards. ”

"The Japanese Imperial Court organized women to work as prostitutes overseas?" Li Quan was quite surprised and felt that this operation was too angry. ’

In the past, many Japanese women went to sea, but they were all recruited by the colonists, and at most the local lords were involved. This time, the shogunate personally went down, and it did break through the lower limit.

The cause was the Great Fire of the Ming Dynasty a few years earlier, in which two-thirds of Edo Castle was burned down. The mansions of 500 small names, the mansions of 700 flags, the houses of countless samurai, 300 temples, 400 markets, and 100,000 people, were burned down by that fire.

Edo Castle, with a population of nearly one million, has plummeted by a quarter, and there are countless people who have home. The city has been rebuilt for several years, and it is still being completed, and the streets are full of home.

The Japanese shogunate finances were easy, and the treasury had long been full. Even Iwami Ginzan, which was forbidden to be mined, was forced to reopen, and the exploitation of the common people was intensified. At that time, in the face of China's occupation of Tsushima, the Japanese shogunate could only fight with words.

And in the face of increasingly minor smuggling, the shogunate elders also completely lay down. Since there is a law prohibiting it, let's join it, and the old and middle schools whose territories are far away from the coast share the profits of smuggling through power. One solid called the real fragrance, and then started to use his crooked brains, that is, to transfer the surplus labor to China.

So this year, the shogunate, together with the local lords, exported many men to China on a small scale. Some of them were shipped to Chinese ports to work as prostitutes, and the shogunate and the dainos took a share of the skin. Some of them were shipped to Chinese territory and sold to single Chinese immigrants outside of it.

Ronin, as a stabilizing factor in society, are also being exported to China, and there are generally few ronin from Edo. Because of this small fire in the next few years, all the houses of the Edo ronin were burned down, and there were no houses, there was a lack of jobs, and there were fewer than 100,000 ronins begging with knives, and there was no possibility of a riot at any time.

A few years later, Edo Castle was rebuilt, and those ronins could still do odd jobs and live just by taking care of food. Now that a small number of buildings have been repaired, there is a chance to move bricks to make ends meet, and the ronin is becoming less and less unemployed, so he simply throws it to China.

The political departments of Fujian and Zhejiang previously issued an order to allow Japanese ronins to go ashore again. Japanese ronins who have not yet landed are given eight months to look for work, and those who do not have an employer cannot apply for temporary documents. After eight months, they found an employer, either sent back to Japan, or broke up the immigrants to Siberia. ，

Luzhou's fleet passed through Ningbo and found that the situation was even more obvious outside of it, because the port of Ningbo was the closest to Japan.

Ningbo's wealthy families go out and often take Japanese ronins as followers.

Moreover, it also customizes equipment for Japanese ronin. Use bamboo chips to imitate the Japanese Nanban armor, before wearing the armor, the ronin has turned into Japanese generals, it seems that Gribluff people, in fact, what kind of protection do these armors have.

What you want is not that effect, taking a group of "Japanese generals" out of the house, the Chinese tycoons feel that they have no face. 1 also has a specific title: Japanese general slave. 1

Abbreviated as "She General" and "She General".

In addition, many Japanese men with good looks were also bought by rich and noble families to take concubines and concubines. It is called Oriental Ji and Fuso Ji, and before the orchid trend, Fuso Ji became popular again.

Some traffickers returned to their old jobs, buying young orchids and fusang girls, and training men from the country according to the training standards of Yangzhou's skinny horses. In a few years, the profit is tens or hundreds of times.

The general and Fusang Ji trend is extending from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces to Jiangsu and Guangdong.

Local officials have been dismissed and asked the imperial court to give a control standard. Of course, the local government has not yet responded, but some policies need the cooperation of the central government, such as throwing the Japanese ronin to Siberia.

An official ship came to the Xiahai Station, and the Xiahai Station Officer received the official document and immediately sent it to the county office.

The rest of the official documents were transferred to sea ships and sent to other ports along the coast.

The official document of the imperial court reads as above:

First, those Japanese ronins who have no Chinese trading company or private employment contract cannot go ashore. However, the duration of the employment contract must be less than eight years. 2 Seventh, the Japanese ronin before going ashore must apply for a temporary certificate and must take a Chinese name.

Eighth, if there is an employer, the Japanese ronin who has not yet landed will be centrally managed. A small part was sent to Xuzhou for registration, and a large part was sent to Chengdu for registration.

Seventh, the ronin registered in Xuzhou will be sent to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate next year. The ronin registered in Chengdu will be sent to the Kang-Tibet region next year. Those ronin, migrated to the village, each village receives at least 10 ronin.

In the Bailongjiang and Kang-Tibet regions, the imperial court first established post stations, and then developed Han villages and towns with post stations as the center.

That policy was equivalent to planting ten Japanese immigrants around each station. In remote and bitter cold places, the ronin also made trouble, and they must have no Chinese names, and over time they will be assimilated into Han.

It not only solves the problem of ronins on the coast, but also empties the frontier population. 1

Generally in the Lixing'an Mountains area, the Han people are willing to go at all, and the number of exiled prisoners is enough, and those ronins are considered waste.

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Li Quan (Yakutsk).

Zhang Tingxun has been hiding outside there, and I have been promoted to the head of Li Quan alive, and I have grasped the military and political power. My territory, in theory, is smaller than the whole of Fujian Province.

But what can really be managed is Li Quancheng's eight-cent acre.

The number of soldiers increased to 8 people every year. Xu Shao soldiers married indigenous wives, and before the change of guard, the wives and sons stayed in Li Quan, and came back to reunite after the last change of guard, and handed over to the comrades-in-arms to take care of them in peacetime.

There were also many exiles who were assigned to them, and in the past few years, there were only eight of them, and they all married indigenous wives one after another.

Counting the minor children and indigenous wives, Tan Junqing does not have a total of less than 200 people.

Women and men have dystocia, and babies are broken, which is very rare in the hot Li Quan, and military doctors can only slightly reduce the data. Zhang Tingxun's indigenous wife gave birth to a son and a boy, and the boy died when he was half a year old.

In addition, several indigenous tribes of the living land often fight for pastures.

Zhang Tingxun is in charge of mediation, the root cause of tribal wars is because of the increase in population, but the pasture is enough to distribute, to put it bluntly, it is not a contradiction between man and land. In this case, this small population cannot be relocated to Li Quan to settle down, and the outside is mainly fishing and farming, and it cannot accommodate fewer people at all.

The number of natives directly governed by Zhang Tingxun has not slowly increased to 150, and they all live far away from Li Quancheng.

Next year, 10 Japanese ronin immigrants will be allocated.

At the same time, the surrounding tribes also ended learning farming techniques. We exchanged ivory, fur and other goods for Han farming tools and seeds, and potatoes, wheat and other crops ended the promotion, which minimally improved the lives of indigenous tribes. The soldiers and supply teams who came to change guards last year brought Zhang Tingxun an order to send troops. I had to lead my army west along the Lena River, run 1300 miles away, and take the Cossack stronghold [Oryokminsk] outside there. 11 As soon as the river thawed this year, Zhang Tingxun led the army to set off.

Because of the war, last year's rotational rest soldiers left, and Zhang Tingxun did not have a hundred regular troops in his hands. Several tribes in the distance, the indigenous people who have not yet reached Li Quancheng, sent 200 people as auxiliaries and people's husbands.

We took a boat all the way west, and we cast our nets to catch fish along the way.

Khabarov's bastard was of no small use, but he taught the small family how to grow food in the permafrost, and also taught the Han how to make Cossack ships. Li Quan also did not have Han craftsmen, and on the basis of Cossack ships, combined with the Han shipbuilding technology, he was very suitable for sailing in the far north.

Best of all, it can be disassembled. Running on your shoulders before going ashore and reassembling when you encounter a river is extremely practical in sparsely populated Siberia. The lightweight mast can be thrown at any time, and you can use it when you cut one when you get into the water.

That modified Cossack ship was called a "deer ship". A small deer boat that can accommodate 80 people.

Large deer boat for one or four people.

The indigenous auxiliaries who accompanied the army all rode in birch bark boats, the traditional boats of the indigenous Siberians. More than 100 small and large ships rushed towards Oryokminsk.

The ultra-long distance of 1300 can be reached in a month, and you can stop to rest on the way, and by the way, cast nets to fish to increase supplies. "Hey!"

It's another net of spills, and there is always no gain.

Siberia, which is inaccessible, is very rich in fish. The latter mentioned that there are no excellent fishing nets, and the local aborigines lack many net-making materials, so the fishing methods are very primitive. The twine-rope fishing nets brought by the Han people are a sought-after commodity for the natives, and they can bring us a lot of fish.

On the shore, 200 indigenous auxiliaries took out traditional dipping sauces and slaughtered fresh fish alive to eat yusheng.

As for the Han soldiers, they honestly cooked fish soup.

As long as there are no conditions to eat cooked food and drink boiled water, soldiers are forbidden to eat raw food and drink raw water. That decree was written to revoke Xiaotong's military law, and no exception could be made only under extreme conditions.

The Lena River has not yet been renamed Lujiang.

Zhang Tingxun looked at the sparkling river, and his thoughts had already flown to Nanjing. After that battle, I should be promoted and transferred, and I have to go back to Nanjing to see first, my mother and original wife are still waiting for me.

Siberia is really tough, but after a few years of work, you can move up slowly. Once transferred, 100 percent of the soldiers will be promoted, which will make fewer and fewer soldiers willing to stay on a permanent basis.