After this battle, the main force of the natives of the three counties was solved, and the natives of the three counties no longer had the strength to confront the slave hunters head-on, so they could only retreat step by step and keep fleeing.

The slave hunting team is transferred to a full-scale hunt and hunting operation, just like a hunter chasing his prey.

The prey that has lost too much blood cannot escape for a long time, and can only wail and bleed while exhausting the last strength in the endless escape, and after all the desire to survive has exploded, it falls to the ground with no more breath.

The cunning hunter ended up winning outright.

After the middle of the first month of the third year of Zhenguan, the native settlements in all counties of Jiaozhou were discovered and destroyed on a large scale, and a large number of young and strong men and women of the native people were all caught by the slave hunting team, and few could escape.

After the end of February, the number of natives in Nanhai County, Yulim County, Hapo County, Jiaozhi County and other counties decreased on a large scale, and there was a situation where there was not enough to catch them.

Thousands of natives were caught every day, but after late February, the number of natives caught dropped dramatically, and on the least day, only 32 natives were captured in Hepu County alone.

Therefore, the local government urgently judged that it was because of everyone's overzealous arrest that a large number of natives were quickly arrested, so that the reserves of natives in various places were insufficient, and it could even be said that they were exhausted and could not be sustainably arrested on a large scale.

The rest of the natives are either dead or hiding in the more barren mountains and old forests, which are more difficult to find and capture, and if they want to continue large-scale arrests, not only will the difficulty increase on a large scale, but the results will also decline on a large scale.

In the past few months, the slave hunting teams of more than 30 counties in Jiaozhou and Central Plains have also suffered certain losses.

There are also many people who have died or died in battle due to various diseases and poor living conditions, and there are more than 500 people in total, but everyone is addicted to the pleasure of capturing the natives, and they don't care much about such small losses.

After the end of the large-scale hunting, this casualty was also mentioned, and everyone began to deal with the aftermath of their companions, and some accompanying doctors also began to pay attention to some diseases in the Lingnan area and began to look for treatment.

And the government side thinks more.

Local inventories are in short supply, and it is more difficult to continue to arrest them in depth, so if you want to obtain a large number of natives more efficiently, you need to find another way.

Either go to other states and counties to explore, but you need to risk disunity.

Or, as Liu Bei said, go to sea by boat, go to the south or west of Rinan County, go to those places that are not part of the borders of the Han Empire to find more native settlements, and obtain higher profits in a way that does not affect unity.

In those places, it belongs to whoever is fast, and there is nothing that affects unity, although it will be more difficult, but the harvest will be greater.

After consideration, the county government prepared to organize its own hunting teams to go to sea, and gathered the private forces and government forces to go overseas to find more natives to bring back and sell, so as to provide sufficient labor for the local farmers who were in urgent need of labor.

Then earn enough to get paid.

Not to mention, these days, with the increase in the number of natives arrested, the demand for natives in various places is also rising, and there is no peak in sight.

Not to mention that the Jiaozhou branch, which is itself a big clan in the Central Plains, can afford to buy a large number of slaves, even ordinary individual farmers will choose to buy some slaves to help reclaim wasteland after obtaining thousands of acres of land.

They also had some relocation subsidies from the imperial court, which were enough for them to buy three or four, five or six native slaves to help reclaim the wasteland, which was also a very important means of production for them.

The profit from the sale of the local people is really much.

Not to mention individuals, the local government also earns a lot.

The price of a young and strong male native in each county of Jiaozhou varies, but the general range will not vary too much.

For example, a native can sell it for 30,000 yuan in Jiaozhi County, while it is slightly cheaper in Ninan County, about 25,000 to 27,000 yuan, and in Nanhai County, it is more expensive, about 31,000 yuan.

The price of the natives is mainly determined according to the different supply quantities of the local natives, and is greatly affected by the market.

Then the price difference between men and women is also relatively large.

The price of a female young native is about 60% to 70% of the male native person, and under normal circumstances, female native people cannot sell it unless they are particularly strong.

However, there are some exceptions, such as the fact that these female natives will be sold as special goods to some particularly wealthy buyers, and some large families with other ideas will buy these beautiful natives at a higher price.

Anyway, in remote prefectures and counties, the imperial court does not care about the purpose and content of the natives' sales, as long as they tax the government, it is your freedom to buy and sell, and it is also your freedom to buy and do, and the government does not intervene in the management of the natives.

This gives some wealthy and large households full room to operate, and they are free to do things that they cannot do in the Central Plains.

Therefore, according to the basic principle of opening the three and seven houses, the government can obtain 9 million yuan from the sale and transaction of 1,000 people at a time, and after deducting various costs and expenses, the government's legal tax revenue will be more than 6 million yuan.

This is definitely a huge amount of money compared to the tax revenue of the entire county or state government in the past, and it can rank among the top three in all kinds of income.

The imperial court will contribute part of the money in supporting the construction of various parts of Jiaozhou, but it will also require the local governments to bear part of the expenditure, and the imperial court will not invest in it all.

Therefore, for the local government, how to obtain this part of the expenditure is also a headache.

But now, this problem is no longer a problem.

As long as there are people who need natives, and as long as there are natives to arrest, the government will not lack this funding.

The fact is that the entire Jiaozhou natives together are not enough for the development of Jiaozhou's wasteland, and it seems that it can still be supported at present, mainly because the supply capacity of the supply side and the demand on the demand side have not been opened, and the imperial court has not officially organized a large-scale migration of people to Jiaozhou, and the ability of the joint slave hunting team of the official and private people in Jiaozhou has not been fully matured.

The fact is that the entire Jiaozhou natives together are not enough for the development of Jiaozhou's wasteland, and it seems that it can still be supported at present, mainly because the supply capacity of the supply side and the demand on the demand side have not been opened, and the imperial court has not officially organized a large-scale migration of people to Jiaozhou, and the ability of the joint slave hunting team of the official and private people in Jiaozhou has not been fully matured.

Once the demand on the demand side is fully opened and the ability of the United Slave Hunting Team is fully mature, that is the real peak at that time.

Liu Bei is now also examining this issue, and is considering how to gradually liberalize the demand for cheap labor in the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains, and he also needs to worry that the demand for this cheap labor is too high, which will lead to a larger-scale hunting operation, so that the natives in the surrounding areas will be swept away.

Of course, he didn't think there was any moral problem with this, and moral problems were not even a problem in the development period, and people who made money and made red eyes had no time to care about any moral problems.

He was just worried that the population of the major civilizations in the surrounding area would not be enough and that one day he would be completely wiped out by the Han Empire, so that he would be completely extinct.

He wants the Han Empire to take a sustainable path of exhausting and fishing, so that the Han Empire can enjoy this "demographic dividend" for a longer time, and will not sweep away the entire East Asia, Southeast Asia and even South Asia within one or two hundred years, so that the demographic dividend will not be exhausted?

However, judging from the current situation, because the production technology is not at home, if you want to develop, you really have to fill it with human life, so whether the demographic dividend is the first to dry up, or the Han Empire is the first to launch a technological revolution, that is a debatable question.

However, the Han Empire finally began the beginning of an export-oriented national strategic action, how could it be able to step on the brakes at this time?

Liu Bei has no interest in this, he only wants to know now that in addition to Southeast Asia, there are other places where he can obtain a larger "demographic dividend" to help the Central Plains and remote prefectures and counties to develop.

He looked around, and soon found several good directions.

The Nanban in the south of Yizhou, Goguryeo, Buyeo, Sanhan and even Japan in the northeast of Youzhou, the Western Regions countries west of Liangzhou, and even the Xianbei people who fled west before.

At present, the "demographic dividend" in these three directions can be obtained by the Han Empire in a relatively easy way, and it will also cause some strategic security threats to the Han Empire.

Therefore, according to the level of threat, Liu Bei decided to order the Yizhou Assassin Mansion and the Xishu Military Region to learn from the "advanced experience" of Jiaozhou, and carry out slave hunting operations in the southern counties of Yizhou to obtain a large number of native slaves for the agricultural development of Shuzhong.

The western part of Liangzhou is mainly exploration, and military operations should not be launched for the time being.

The northeastern part of Youzhou can use some military means to launch an all-round blast against several small countries there.

But before that, there is a small problem that Gongsun Du needs to solve.

After Liu Bei conquered the Xianbei people a few years ago, he handed over the three counties of Liaodong County, Xuanwu County and Lelang County to Gongsun Du for jurisdiction, and asked Gongsun Du to recruit troops in the three counties and train the army, so as to solve the worries of Liu Bei, who had no time to take care of the land of Liaodong at that time, and suppress those guys who were ready to move a little.

Facts have proved that his choice is not wrong, Gongsun Du is very talented in military affairs, relying on the land of the three counties to pull up more than 10,000 regular troops, and after more training, it has become a strong army, and it has some combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Gongsun Du himself was also a small war maniac, fighting in the south and in the north, and for several years, he suppressed Goguryeo, Buyeo, Dongwofu and other countries or tribal associations.

Before that, before the rise of Gongsun Du, Goguryeo, Buyeo, and those tribal associations, and even the three Hans further south, had raided and harassed the Han border, and invaded it.

At least in these years, Gongsun Du and them have fought more than 30 battles, large and small, and none of them have been defeated, at most they are draws, and the rest of the time they are all victories, which can be described as a winning general.

Originally, Liu Bei also wanted to praise Gongsun Du, but he noticed that this guy was more or less a bit of a king of the mountain and a party of separation, so he never gave him further praise, but reserved his opinion.

Previously, Xiahoudun had accused Gongsun Du, saying that he had some bad influence on the situation in Youzhou, such as this guy often fights and likes to sweep grain on a large scale before the war, so that it causes the price of grain in some parts of Youzhou to rise.

Xiahoudun wrote to him many times about this matter, asking him not to start wars so frequently, to consult with the Privy Council more in case of trouble, and not to make decisions without authorization, especially since he often did this, which had a great impact on Youzhou's agricultural production, which was very detrimental to the development of Youzhou.

And Gongsun Du has a different opinion on this, thinking that everything is discussed with the Privy Council, won't it be in vain to delay the fighter?

Is it right to find out that the fighter plane is a great opportunity to destroy the enemy, but it turns out that you have to report to the Privy Council and not attack, and when the permission of the Privy Council comes a few months later, the battle will not be fought?

Gongsun Du also ridiculed Xiahoudun for this, saying that Xiahoudun himself would honestly govern the place if he didn't know how to fight, and don't interfere with his actions, otherwise he would go to Liu Bei to accuse Xiahoudun of interfering in military affairs, and almost turned Xiahoudun off his anger.

Liu Bei was not very happy when he knew about this, but he didn't have a seizure.

Later, according to the news sent by the secret agent of Dongyuan from the three counties of Liaodong, Gongsun Du was originally quite honest, but as he won more and more victories against foreign clans, became bigger and bigger, and his prestige became higher and higher, he became more and more convinced that he was the master of the three counties of Liaodong, and he was a great contributor to the stability of Liaodong, and should not be limited to the status of a Liaodong county guard and miscellaneous general.

In addition, there are people around him who are fueling the troubles, singing praises to him, and all kinds of patting, so he gradually feels that he should ask Liu Bei for a higher position and power.

After Liu Bei became emperor, he gave Gongsun Du a lot of benefits, such as appointing him as the general of Liaodong Zhonglang, sealing the marquis, increasing the number of food, and commanding the soldiers of the [Liaodong Battalion] to guard Liaodong, and having the qualifications and power to take the initiative to initiate battles, as long as they report to the imperial court afterwards.

This can be regarded as giving him a lot of power to act cheaply, and before Liu Bei actually appointed the three counties of Liaodong to Gongsun Du, the county guards of Xuansu County and Lelang County were also Gongsun Du's proposal to the imperial court, and the imperial court made a formal appointment, which was the special treatment given to him by Liu Bei hoping that he would guard the three counties of Liaodong with peace of mind.

After becoming emperor, Liu Bei was busy with other things for a while, and he didn't think of these things in Liaodong, so he put aside the disposal of the three counties in Liaodong, but what he didn't expect was that Gongsun Du actually made a suggestion to Liu Bei in the period after the Dutian decree was issued.

He suggested dividing the three counties of Liaodong, plus the land he had obtained through military means in recent years, such as Buyeo and Goguryeo, to establish a new state called Pingzhou, and he would make the history of Pingzhou.

And he also submitted a lot of military exploits that had not been mentioned before, hoping to submit them to the Privy Council for evaluation, and the implication in his words was that he hoped that Liu Bei would give him the title of general, and he didn't want to be this Zhonglang general anymore.

He felt that his merits were no less than those of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other generals, and he could also beat the foreign clans in the land of Liaodong into obedience and obedience, so he thought that he had the qualifications to be a general.

If only I was a general, it would be fine.

Liu Bei also thinks that Gongsun Du has this qualification, and his merits, the attack and suppression of Buyeo State, Goguryeo State and several other tribes are indeed relatively eye-catching military achievements, and he also plans to make Gongsun Du a general after a while.

But Gongsun Du brought up this matter himself, which somewhat seemed that he was a little too arrogant and disrespected himself as the emperor.

(End of chapter)