BXBX NOVEL Chapter 230: The slaves are also in demand!
Small days are passing slowly, and this business has to be dealt with. In order to occupy the Ryukyu plan, Li Yin held a military meeting for several days to discuss various deployments, trying to implement everything in place.
"After arriving in Ryukyu, the first thing you do is to look for a deep-water port. This time, more than ten thousand craftsmen will go with you. After you find the deep-water port, you will build a military port near the port. There will be your temporary station in the future. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Your Highness!" Xia Guangyi stood up and said loudly. This time the fleet was led by him and Sun Dongxu. Ten treasure steam ships, three treasure transport ships and some supply ships set off for Ryukyu together. Such a large fleet will undoubtedly It is the first case in history.
The meeting was over, everyone dispersed, Li Yin was about to go back to the palace, when a soldier dressed as a scout hurried over and said, "Your Highness, this is a letter from General Niu."
"Niu Jinda\'s letter?" Zhu Youzhi read, "Is there something wrong with Songzhou again?"
Li Yan tore open the letter, scanned it, and said, "It\'s not a bad thing, it\'s a good thing. This Tuyuhun sent us slaves."
The content of this letter is that Murong Shun brought 40,000 slaves to Songzhou, waiting for Li Yin to trade.
Both of them knew about the deal between Li Yin and Murong Shun. So he laughed and said, "This Murong Shun seems to be keeping his word."
"Exchanging these slaves for the position of a khan is indeed a good deal. Murong Shun is not a fool." Li Yin tore up the letter and threw it into the trash can.
Since Murong Shun came on time. Li Yin couldn\'t neglect him either, he set off for Songzhou on the same day, and of course he also brought his artificial gemstones with him.
In two days, Li Yin arrived in Songzhou. At the foot of Songzhou city, he saw Murong Shun whom he hadn\'t seen for more than half a year. "Murong Khan, long time no see."
"Your Highness!" Murong Shun was still as humble as before. He got off his horse, walked up to Li Yin and saluted. He had to say that the gems Li Yin gave him sold him at a good price in Persia. With the money, he bought a lot of grain and horses from Persia to build his own The army, but these troops only have about 5,000 people, which is far from enough for him to stabilize the situation in Tuyuhun, with the help of Li Shimin\'s army. Although he defeated the armies of King Tianzhu and King Zun, they hadn\'t been completely wiped out, and the Tang army who helped him wanted to retreat, so he was really anxious now.
Li Yan looked at the servants under custody of the Tuyuhun army, and said, "Are these the slaves of this transaction?"
"Yes, Your Highness. According to your request, these slaves are Han people and their descendants who have been plundered by Tuyuhun over the years. There are a total of 43,000 people, and all of them are here." Murong Shun said Tuyuhun Turned upside down and found all the Han slaves.
From the appearance of these people, Li Yin knew that his words were true. So he said: "Very good, I am very satisfied with these slaves. Of course, I will keep my promise, this is the other third of the gem." Li Yin opened the gem and put it in Murong Shun\'s hands .
After getting the gemstone, Murong Shun felt relieved. He was also afraid that Li Yin would not fulfill his promise. After all, now that Tuyuhun is at a disadvantage, it is not impossible for Li Yin to forcibly kidnap these servants.
"I hope we can continue the transaction next time." Li Yin was overjoyed, he liked this kind of no-cost transaction very much.
Nodding to Li Yinzheng, Murong Shun left with the Tuyuhun soldiers, and the Songzhou garrison immediately took over the 40,000 slaves.
Niu Jinda regretfully said: "Your Highness, what kind of honesty are you talking to these people? As long as you give an order, I will immediately lead people to **** these slaves down."
Li Yin smiled, and said: "General Niu, war can\'t solve all problems. Sometimes things can be done with a little trick, so why trade the lives of soldiers?"
Niu Jinda was stunned when he heard the words, and had a new view on Li Yin.
Having obtained more than 40,000 slaves, Li Yin was in a good mood. He did not stay in Songzhou, but returned to Yizhou with these 40,000 slaves.
"Your Highness, give us all these servants in Taoyuan!" Tong Yu said in an almost pleading tone. Since Li Yin has added a lot of machinery to Taoyuan, new factories are blooming everywhere in Taoyuan, and various types of factories have been established. , mortals like Taoyuan can use their knowledge, and almost all the machinery that Li Yin can buy has been moved here. Now Tong Yu no longer mentions that mechanical equipment restricts their research, but the establishment of these factories requires a lot of manpower to operate these machines.
Tong Nian came here as soon as he heard about the slaves, he said: "Your Highness, now the Tang Chamber of Commerce has opened soap, shampoo, glass factories, these factories need many slaves, otherwise they won\'t be able to open at all Ah, you must give these slaves to me, Your Highness."
"Is your factory important? Don\'t you want the farm anymore? Hey, Your Highness, there are still a lot of manpower gaps in the farms and farms. You should consider the old slaves first, right?" Jin Daqian said with a flattering smile, Now the affairs of the Wangfu are basically handed over to Rongda, and he is devoted to the farm and the farm of the Wangfu.
"What farm is important, how can you sell things without a chamber of commerce?"
"What do you eat without a farm? See you are fat now."
"Without Taoyuan, can you build a glass factory? Who taught you the technology!"
"Little bunny, why are you talking to me? You won\'t recognize your father when you come to Taoyuan, right?"
"Ouch..."
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Li Yin sat in the Yizheng Hall of the palace and looked at the three guys who were about to fight speechlessly. All three were very important, and no one was more important than the other, but there was still a question of priority.
"Stop arguing. The industrial foundation of Taoyuan has just been established. It does require a lot of manpower. The planting of rubber grass, cotton, and diesel trees in the farm also requires a lot of manpower. This is the raw material that cannot be relaxed. As for the glass factory and the like Take your time, don\'t worry, you can\'t make money at once." Li Yin analyzed.
At the end of these words, several people understood what Li Yin meant. Tong Nian was defeated. He had a bitter face, while Jin Daqian and Tong Yu both showed triumphant smiles.
"For this batch of slaves, Jin Daqian will share 25,000, Taoyuan will share 15,000, and the remaining 3,000 will be given to the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, which is enough for you to use temporarily. That\'s enough." Li Yin assigned the three of them.
This number made several people very satisfied, but Tong Nian didn\'t say anything anymore because he got Li Yin\'s promise.
"These slaves are assigned to you. You must insist on using the point system, and you must not abuse them. You must strive to let them integrate into the life of Yizhou." Li Min\'s policy on these slaves has always been lenient and not cruel. They, because this will make them have the will to resist, the method he uses is gentle assimilation, so that they will eventually become a part of Yizhou. Maybe hundreds of years later, they will completely forget their own nationality and become an indispensable part of Yizhou. part of the split.
"Your Highness, don\'t worry, except that they don\'t have freedom, all treatment is no worse than recruited people." Tong Yu said.
Nodding his head, Li Yin scanned the three of them one by one. Now the work of the three is closely related to each other. Taoyuan provides technology and equipment to Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, Shengtang Chamber of Commerce provides Taoyuan with funds and raw materials, and the farm provides two The provision of food in one place means that the three departments influence each other, and they are also the first group of people to follow Li Yin, especially Jin Daqian. Although he still bears the name of a general manager, he has actually become the logistics of the palace industry. steward.
"Jin Daqian, how are the livestock that caused it now? There haven\'t been mass deaths, have they?" While the three of them were there, Li Yin asked about the business.
"No, no." Jin Daqian hurriedly said, "These livestock are all fine now, and some of them have begun to give birth, especially the hens, which have already begun to lay eggs. I will send a batch to the palace in a few days. , and cream, which is now producing milk."
"Really?" Li Yin laughed, "Don\'t forget, send some to the palace as soon as possible." Li Yin had a new idea in his mind.
Jin Daqian said: "Yes, Your Highness."
Li Yin turned to Tong Nian and asked, "How is the operation of various industries in the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce?"
"Returning to Your Highness, in the first half of the year, the total amount of goods purchased from the Chamber of Commerce in the specialty store has reached one million guan, well salt has the highest profit, and sales in the first half of the year have reached 10 million guan, and new types of edible oil and white sugar are very popular in Yangzhou. Welcome, it has sold three million guan, as for the newspaper industry, it is still a little surplus, and the total sales of agricultural products are also around 500,000 guan." Tong Nian said like a few treasures.
After a rough calculation, the total annual income of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce is about 40 million guan, and according to Shangguanyi’s statistics, last year’s various infrastructure construction, transportation, and purchase of raw materials consumed a total of 32 million guan. All the money from Quan and Yanjingkeng has been spent, and Li Yin is also under great pressure now. Why are there so many mouths waiting for him to eat? Fortunately, these slaves don\'t need wages, otherwise Li Yin would really be unable to make ends meet.
However, these industries are emerging industries, which are not known in many places. Li Yin believes that these industries will make more and more money.
"Well, it\'s okay, these transactions are still mainly gold and silver, right?" Li Yin mainly accepts precious metals in transactions now, and he will gradually phase out such bulky things as copper coins, but now the Tang Chamber of Commerce\'s money tickets are more and more circulating. It has become more and more widespread, and it has almost reached the role of banknotes among merchants. Many merchants also use money to directly trade with each other. This is the reason why Li Yin is eager to build up gold and silver reserves. He is now printing money. , What if there is no precious metal of equivalent value?