Chapter 43: Great Development (2)

This year, the Tatar tribes who had lived well on the steppe, especially those small and medium-sized tribes near Yunzhou County, all suffered!

I just got up early in the morning, and the water didn't have time to put it, and the next moment a group of red-eyed cavalry of the strange tribe rushed into the tribe with a roar and slashed and slashed, and after the tribe's resistance was completely broken, one by one the young men were tied into sugar gourds and carried south.

Since the Yunzhou County Governor issued a bounty, such a scene has been played out every day in the small and medium-sized Tatar tribes near Yunzhou County.

At the same time, a large number of laborers were added to the mine, which was originally short of manpower, and the problem of ore shortage was gradually solved.

It wasn't until the lack of labor was replenished that it was found that in this reward, the county guard yamen gave a reward of nearly 300,000 taels of silver!

This also means that those red-eyed Yunzhou County tribes have caught nearly 30,000 young people back!

The Tatar tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles in the northern steppe outside Yunzhou County were directly plundered!

The major tribes in the territory are making a lot of money, when they received the news that the yamen of Yunzhou County stopped offering bounties, they all felt sorry, originally they had already set their eyes on a large tribe with a population of 20,000 more than 700 miles away, ready to play a joint operation, take down this tribe and make a fortune, but I didn't expect the yamen to not accept it.

I had no choice but to give up this tempting idea, and they all told the yamen that as long as the prince needed it, the major tribes would definitely die for the prince! In the future, if there is such a good matter, it is necessary to notify them as soon as possible!

An absurd human trafficking has replenished a large number of laborers in Yunzhou County, where labor is scarce.

The major iron-making workshops in Yunzhou County began to produce iron at full capacity, and the terrifying amount of iron production made the cost of iron in Yunzhou County to a very low level, so Feiyun Trading Company began to dump a large amount of iron in Guannai.

With its low prices, all kinds of iron tools produced in Yunzhou County are rapidly expanding their market share at an extremely terrifying speed.

A large sum of money was sent back to Yunzhou County, and the people in the county became rich, and the yamen also had a large amount of taxes.

By the way, the commercial tax in Yunzhou County is very high, and the commercial tax of up to 2 out of 10 makes the businessmen who were originally accustomed to the commercial tax of 30 out of 1 complain.

But this is another order from the Yunwang Mansion, and if you want to continue to do business in Yunzhou County, you can only obey it.

Fortunately, in addition to the merchants who are already doing local business in Yunzhou County, most of the merchants are doing the business of transporting materials from the customs to Yunzhou County for sale, and this kind of business has a characteristic, that is, it is extremely profitable.

In other words, the local people in Yunzhou County have always been able to buy high-priced goods, and they are reluctant to give up such a huge profit even if the tax is high.

When the people are rich, and the yamen is rich, what will happen?

The Yamen began to invest a lot of money and began to develop infrastructure.

The rudimentary walls were torn down and rebuilt, and the muddy roads in the city had to be rebuilt.

The people in the city also want to live a good life when they have income, they also want to repair their mud houses, and they also want to buy more good things.

As a result, a large number of commodities such as soap, milk powder, and mirrors appeared in the shops of Feiyun Commercial Bank, and there were many rich commodities that only you could not think of without them.

In this way, a large amount of silver flowed into Zhao Jun's pocket, and the yamen also added a large amount of taxes.

It has also made greater efforts to develop infrastructure.

As a result, the labor shortage has appeared again!

The yamen offered a high price of two taels of silver a month, but they couldn't find any workers!

On that day, the tribal leaders who received the news poured into the county guard's yamen with smiles on their faces, and they left the county guard mansion with even happier smiles on their faces.

On that day, the young men of the various tribes fed their horses, picked up their scimitars, their eyes were red, and they rushed out of the border again with a roar and a waving scimitar under the orders of their tribal leaders.

On that day, the leader of a large Tatar tribe more than 700 miles away from Yunzhou County suddenly felt a chill in his neck, looked up at the south in a bit of a daze, and the news that came back last year suddenly appeared in his mind.

A man-eating demon appeared in the south, and a large number of small and medium-sized tribes were eaten by this silent demon.

It wasn't until last winter that the demon finally disappeared, but the small and medium-sized tribes to the south were all but swept away.

Could it be that the demon has reappeared?

A bad premonition came over the tribal leader, and the uneasiness made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Soon, however, the unsettling premonition became a reality.

On that day, the large number of cavalry that gathered on all sides made the chief understand that there were no demons in this world, but the traitors from the south who had taken refuge in the southerners, and they had returned to the steppe and pointed their scimitars at them.

The battle ended quickly, and there was a huge difference in combat effectiveness between those with bone arrows and those with iron arrows.

In just one day, this large tribe of 20,000 people became history and turned to dust.

The united tribes of Yunzhou County returned to Yunzhou County with a smile on their faces and nearly 10,000 young and strong laborers.

Their journey has not stopped, and just after Tanma sent back the news, less than a hundred miles away from this tribe, the traces of a large tribe were found again, and according to the clues, it should be that another tribe has migrated to camp nearby.

The number should be around 30,000.

The red light bloomed again, where is the large tribe, it is simply a silver that can walk around with white flowers!

Plundering and development always coexist, when the environment you are in cannot allow you to develop peacefully, relying on plundering others, whether it is labor or materials, can make a force develop rapidly.

In the battle of blood and fire, Yunzhou County, which was originally the most desolate state and county in the Great Song Dynasty, began to develop quietly.

And the development of Yunzhou County means that other forces that are close to him and have no need to scruple will become the nourishment of Yunzhou County.

Zhao Jun knew this very clearly, and he didn't bear it at all.

In his opinion, this is the way it is in this world, the law of nature.

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Yunzhou County has tall city walls, wide streets, countless shops, and rich money in the trouser pockets of the people.

Everything is better than it was five years ago, and everything is worth it.

In the development of Yunzhou County, it is inevitable that there will be some defects, which are a side effect of rapid development.

Demographic issues.

The population of the original Yunzhou County is less than 100,000, even though the people have begun to have a large number of children because of the improvement of life in recent years, but the population is still not more than 130,000, and in order to develop, in order to make up for the lack of labor, the number of Tatar slaves who have been captured in these years has reached a terrifying number of nearly 200,000, which is twice that of Yunzhou County.

This is a terrible statistic, but also a very significant security risk, which had to be ignored because of the labor shortage.

However, with the development of Yunzhou County, the labor gap is not only small, but the gap in all walks of life continues to expand.

The slave trade is also expanding rapidly in this situation, and there are more and more Tatar slaves in Yunzhou County, and this security hazard county guard yamen can no longer continue to ignore it.

Just last year, the bill signed by His Royal Highness King Yun himself came into effect.

If a Tatar slave has worked in his post for more than three years, the county guard yamen will pay him according to the minimum wage standard of Yunzhou County, and when the salary he earns is enough to save five taels, the slave will redeem his free body from the government and apply for the status of a civilian in Yunzhou County and settle in Yunzhou County.

The minimum wage in Yunzhou County is increasing every year, from the initial five coins of silver to the current monthly minimum wage standard has risen to one or two months.

According to this criterion, the average slave knows that after the first condition is met, the longest slave will have a minimum of one year, which is enough to obtain freedom.

However, due to the fact that the first condition was met to meet the daily necessities of the slaves and they also needed to pay for themselves, the process of accumulating the ransom silver was also postponed.

But even so, a slave only needs to work for the Yunzhou County Yamen for a maximum of five years to be free.

However, if he made a significant contribution to the work of the yamen during the slave period, the county warden himself signed the commendation order, and the slave who received the award was directly freed.

With the enactment of this law, a slave was freed and became a native of Xinyunzhou.

And Yunzhou County, which originally had a huge safety hazard due to a large number of animal slaves, also fell into stability because of the implementation of this law.

So far, the entire Yunzhou County has a population of 300,000, of which about 200,000 have household registration, and there are 100,000 slaves who work day and night in the mines to mine ore, filling in the missing labor force in all walks of life, and working desperately to gain freedom in the future.

And at this time, the Cloud King's Mansion ......