Prince Regent Li Hui and Chung Wangjun after taking Seoul.

North Korea's 100 officials are happy.

The people of North Korea are happy.

Other regions are even more rumored, and they have submitted one after another, and there is no local rebellion.

It took only three to five days to stabilize the situation in North Korea, purge the rebels, and establish a firm rule.

Subsequently!

Li Hui put the most important energy on the construction of the king's manor.

The first is the Incheon Plain, south of Gyeonggi Province, which occupies an area of about 800 square kilometers, of which about two-thirds are plains and one-third are hilly and mountainous, and the usable arable land area is just over 1 million mu.

Then there is recruitment, frantically recruiting peasants and workers, at least 500,000 people, if 800,000 or 1 million are recruited, it will not be too much, anyway, the more people, the better.

Then there is the vigorous construction, such as the construction of high-standard farmland, the construction of pasture farms, the construction of castle fortresses, the construction of various factories and the construction of Incheon Port, etc., hundreds of projects have been started almost at the same time, and the demand for manpower is endless, and the workers are given a salary of no less than 100 wen a day, two meals a day, free work clothes, and warm sheds to live in, so it has a great attraction to the young people of the whole North Korea, including some North Korean young people on Jeju Island, also choose to return to their homeland and work for the king's manor, after all, there are more opportunities here, and if they perform well, they will also have the opportunity to become a farmer of the king's manor, which is undoubtedly very attractive to them.

But such a large-scale construction consumes hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every day, as well as grain, meat, steel, cement, sand and gravel, machinery and equipment, tractors, diesel, etc...... Every day, a huge amount of resources are consumed and devoured.

It is estimated that the total construction cost of the King's Manor will not be less than 100 million silver dollars.

And this is all borne by Xujiazhuang - you must know that there are 1,100 collective estates in the south of the Ming River, which are under intense construction, but the budget of each manor is only more than one million silver dollars, which is nearly a hundred times worse than the investment in the king's manor.

The importance of the King's estate and the supply of resources are also given higher priority.

It can be said that in order to pave the way for his son Xu Jiayuan, and in order to make his life better in the future, Xu Yuan still took out his eyes without blinking, reflecting the fatherly love like a mountain.

It's just that this project and practice have brought a lot of ripple effects immediately.

For example, in the White Castle, Fang Qingyan, Xia He and other women were quite dissatisfied, this Li Shujing was obviously the last to become Xu Yuan's concubine, but the son she gave birth to, but she was the first to have a king's manor, is this appropriate, is this fair, is it a little too partial?

In the face of women's dissatisfaction and protests, Xu Yuan had to say: "Don't worry, you don't have to worry, I have an arrangement, every child will be well arranged, the number of king's manors, there will definitely not be only one, but how to arrange it, this must be kept secret, can not be disclosed for the time being, at least wait for the completion of this king's manor in North Korea, and the operation has achieved certain results, proving that it is a successful model, and then promote, three years, give me a three-year observation period, and then see how to promote it after three years." ”

What's more, now Xu Yuan has no money in his hands, and he is about to become poor, and he has no way to build a new king's manor, so he has to save up for a while.

"Well, anyway, my three sons must have the King's Manor, and they must be bigger and better." Fang Qingyan said.

"Husband, the little Qijia Han I gave birth to you, he will definitely be able to be a king in the future, right?" Xia Ho Road.

"Husband, since Li Shujing's child Jiayuan can be the king of North Korea, then my child Jiahua, is it possible for him to be the king of Japan?" Tamako Ono asked.

"Japan is bigger than Korea, although there are not many plains, but it is no problem to build two king's estates, my child's family, can I get one?" Noriko Ono asked.

"Don't ask."

Xu Yuan shook his head: "This kind of thing can't be too loud, otherwise it will cause opposition from countless forces, I can only guarantee that as long as it is my children, when they grow up, the treatment will only be better than Jiayuan, not worse than Jiayuan, my promise will always reassure you, right?" ”

"That's pretty much it."

"Yes."

"Thank you, husband."

Fang Qingyan and the other women said, and they all immediately relaxed their hearts.

Problems within the family have been solved.

It's just that for external forces, it's not that Xu Yuan can easily settle it with a coax and a promise.

For example, Houjin, next to North Korea, inquired about the great changes that had taken place in North Korea, and learned that the whole of North Korea basically fell into the pocket of Xujiazhuang.

Houjin's high-level panicked and immediately sent a letter to Wakda, the liaison representative who stayed in Harbour City, asking him to protest and negotiate that Xujiazhuang could not directly rule the Korean Peninsula, otherwise Jin's interests would be seriously damaged, and he would never accept this status quo.

Inside the conference room.

Zhao Jinfu, the rotating consul, asked Wakda, "What will you lose?" Xujiazhuang did not build the king's manor on the land of Liaodong. ”

"But with the king's manor, our Eight Banners Army, we will not be able to catch young and strong slave workers in the future, and we will not dare to invade North Korea again, we will lose the source of slave labor, we will not be able to dig out more gold from the Laogou gold mine, and it will be difficult to cut down more trees, which will actually damage the interests of Xujiazhuang and the owner!"

Wakda said with a worried look of thinking about Xu Jiazhuang.

"You are quite good at thinking about us, but this kind of kindness is not necessary, in the future, the Korean people are the people of Xujiazhuang, none of them can be caught, none of them can be killed, your Houjin's looting and development path can be stopped, North Korea is not so young and strong, it has become a consumable material for your consumption, this road is not sustainable, our intelligence department has investigated the intelligence shows that this year, your Houjin army, captured a full 500,000 North Korean young people, but in the process of burning and looting everywhere, about 800 Jurchen young people were killed in battle, More than 400 people died and were wounded, and in late June, a great uprising of 100,000 slave laborers broke out, and you slaughtered 100,000 slave laborers at the cost of 1,500 killed...... The sum of these losses is close to 3,000, so now the Jurchens can use the young and strong, will never exceed 25,000 people, if you go to Korea again next year to plunder, even if you are killed by the loyal army of 3,000, you are also in danger of dying, and you can no longer bear any big losses, am I right? ”

Zhao Jinfu looked at him and asked.

Wakda's face suddenly turned pale, Xu Jiazhuang's intelligence is too powerful, and he actually knows everything about Dajin's situation.

"Zhao is in power, Dajin's labor force is insufficient, and if he doesn't plunder the population, there is only a dead end! For the sake of our allies, give us a way to live! ”

With a plop, Wakda had to kneel on the ground, put down his pride and backbone, and pleaded bitterly.

"Of course there is, and there is far more than one."

Zhao Jinfu said: "For example, if we offer higher wages, improve the working environment, recruit those poor North Korean people, do not beat or scold, eat enough, work no more than 10 hours a day, and have one day off a week, as long as we strictly abide by these regulations, we will definitely be able to recruit tens of thousands of North Korean workers." ”

"This can't be done, the cost of our cutting down trees and mining is very high, if the working conditions are improved, whether it is cutting trees or panning for gold, it is not profitable, we should be hungry, we have to be Jurchen people, we can't do this." Wakda smiled wryly.

"Then cooperate with Guan Ningjun, contract the land, forests, and gold mines to Guan Ningjun for development, you sit and collect rent, Guan Ningjun's labor force is relatively sufficient, and he has the ability to help you develop Liaodong, you don't have to do anything, and you can earn millions of silver dollars every year."

"No, no, no!"

Wakda's head shook like a rattle: "The Guanning army has the heart to destroy us, once in the process of developing Liaodong, they have earned a lot of income and eaten the sweetness, they will definitely not want to pay rent and dividends, but kill us all, they eat this piece of food, we dare not do anything to lure the wolf into the house." ”

"Then there is only one last plan, we can establish eight family manors in Borneo in Nanyang, and house the old and weak women and children of your Jurchen tribe, under the management of our Xujiazhuang, each family manor can accommodate at least 10,000 people, and a maximum of 30,000, you can be completely allowed to place all the old people and children in the family manor, leaving only the Jurchen young and strong and the women to stay in Liaodong, reduce the consumption of food and other materials, and let you travel lightly to develop, and in winter, you Jurchen young and strong, you can also go to Borneo, Reunite with your families and breed a new population. ”

"In this way, your food consumption will be reduced by at least fifty percent, and all kinds of expenses will also be reduced by fifty percent, and you can go to the warm Nanyang for the winter to spend the winter, and then return to Liaodong when the snow melts, and recruit people to continue to operate, this should be a very good solution, if this plan, you are still unwilling to agree, then we are really powerless, of course, you can continue to do your own thing, if you want to plunder, if you want to kill, you can kill, but the loyal army will not be polite, and the Guanning army will not be polite, as long as you have that strength and grasp, You are still the overlord of Liaodong. ”

Zhao Jinfu said indifferently.

Family estates?

Put all the family members of the Jurchen clan into the hands of Xu Jiazhuang?

Not to mention that the burden was greatly reduced, and in the future, they could go to Nanyang every year for the winter, and return to Liaodong in the early summer of the second year.

Then you can develop wholeheartedly, without baggage, without any drag, even if there is no slave labor, and the income will not be so small that it will not be enough.

The only drawback is that the dependence on Xujiazhuang has greatly increased, and all the family members have become hostages of Xujiazhuang, and they can only be dogs forever in the future, and there is no possibility of turning over and being the master.

Frankly!

For this plan of "Family Manor", if it was put on hold, Wakda would not even consider it, and directly and decisively rejected it.

But this time, he was inclined to agree to the plan.

After all, what's wrong with being a dog in Xujiazhuang?

And the bitter cold land of Liaodong, they Jurchens actually don't like it, and they also yearn for a warm place, if they are in the land of Nanyang, they can also have a home, and stay in Nanyang for five or six months every year, it is also very good, it is much cooler than only six months in winter, and the enjoyment of life has doubled.

The most important thing is to get rid of the burden of the family and greatly reduce the burden, you can travel lightly and resume mobility, even if the North Korea in the east can not continue to plunder, but the Mobei Mongolian tribes in the northwest, the savage Jurchens in the northeast, etc., still have human resources available, it does not mean that the road is blocked, it is really not good, higher treatment is given, no longer abuse and killing, and a group of workers can be recruited, but they earn a little less.

OK.

Wakda found the plan acceptable.

However, he did not have the right to make a decision, but with the help of Xujiazhuang's telegraph station system, he sent the content of the negotiations to Shengjing on the same day.

Soon.

Later, the Great Khan of the Jin Dynasty discussed with Dolgon, Amin, Yuetuo, Mandahai and others in the Great Palace.

In particular, the solution of "Family Manor" proposed by Xu Jiazhuang was discussed in a key way.

"Xu Jiazhuang harbors evil intentions, we must not agree!"

Amin, who had been imprisoned to death due to his crimes, was released the year before last, and now he has returned to Baylor's position, but his personality still does not change and he is tough, saying: "The family fell into the hands of Xu Jiazhuang, and we will do whatever they want us to do in the future, if we want to live, if we want to die, we will die, there is no difference between being a slave and a servant, but we are a tiger and wolf clan, and we would rather starve to death than become someone else's eagle dog!" ”

"Erbeile, if you don't adopt this plan, this year's Korean slave labor will be exhausted, and we will have no one to use next year, and it is likely that the tribesmen will have to work in person, but it will be difficult to support themselves, and if we go to loot again, once we suffer a heavy blow, Dajin will be finished, and the Guanning army will immediately destroy us, and the Jurchen clan has reached the edge of the dead clan." Yue Tuo had to say.

"We can send the old man and the disabled clan to the family manor for recuperation first, if the Xu family Zhuang is true to his word, the clan is living very well, then send some children over next year to reduce our burden, otherwise, we will really be exploited by the Guan Ning army to death, they have long been looking forward to us being in trouble, and then take away the resources of Liaodong." Dolgon said.

"Compared with the Guan Ning Army, it is better to cooperate with Xujiazhuang, and if Xu Jiazhuang wants us to perish, there is no need to cooperate at all, just nod and agree to the Guan Ning Army to send troops, we are Xujiazhuang's pawns to restrain the Guan Ning Army, as long as the strength of the Guan Ning Army is increasing, Xu Jiazhuang will not watch us decline." Dai Shan's seventh son, fifteen-year-old Man Dahai this year, analyzed.

"Wu'er is right, it's better to be a useful chess piece than to destroy the country and the clan."

Dai Shan nodded with satisfaction: "According to what the fourteenth brother said, first send the old man and the disabled to Nanyang for recuperation, if the life over there is comfortable, the materials are sufficient, and the safety can be guaranteed, then send more family members over, hey, in any case, before our Jurchen is young and strong, and it does not exceed 200,000, it is a helpless move to become the eagle dog of Xujiazhuang, we can only continue to forbear!" ”

"Yes!"

Yueto, Dolgon, and Mandahai all nodded.

Amin can only reluctantly accept this result, who let the current Jurchen decline to an extremely dangerous situation, and has long lost the confidence and capital to be arrogant and tough.