Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 129 Overseas Expansion ([-])
Five years later

Penglai Island (Jeju Island)
The island is about the size of a county in the Central Plains.

There are more than 1 Danhan people living on the island, but these Danhan people are divided into many tribes and are not united, so they were divided and disintegrated by the royal family who came to Penglai Island for colonial rule, and they were defeated one by one.

To win over some Danhan people and let these Danhan people attack other Danhan tribes, this is the consistent method of the Wang family against the aborigines, and it has always been very effective. With the cooperation of this method, often only a few hundred elites of the Wang family are needed Private soldiers can slowly conquer those indigenous groups with a population of tens of thousands or even more than [-] in ten or even decades.

"Ow—"

A group of several hundred Danhan aborigines rushed out from the central plateau of the island. The leader of them was wearing coarse linen clothes, while the rest were still wearing animal skin clothes.

Their goal was a wooden village ahead.

On the wall of the wooden village, fifty archers threw arrows at the Danhans.

shhhhhh!
A dozen Danhan aboriginals were hit by arrows, and four aboriginals died on the spot.

Fifty private soldiers of the royal family in light armor of the Han army rushed out from the wooden village, presented a frontal formation, and directly charged at the leader of the natives of Danhan.

"kill!"

Wang Hongguang, the son of Wang Changnian, led five cavalrymen out of the wooden village, chasing and killing the defeated Danhan aborigines.

After all the natives fled, some of the natives who had no time to escape were captured as slaves.

Over the past 30 years, the Wang family has developed the islands near North Korea and more than half of the islands near Mahan.

Therefore, two years ago, the Wang family began to develop Penglai Island located in the southeast of Mahan, temporarily built a wooden village on the island, and transported slaves from Luoyueyuan to reclaim the wasteland, and at the same time captured the aborigines on the island. Prepare to enslave them and build stone castles.

Current royal information:

[Children: 20 people

Personal soldiers: 100 people
Security team: 1000 people
Farmland: 60 mu (21 mu of Luoyueyuan, 15 mu of Taohuayuan, [-] mu of Taxiang, [-] mu of Liaodong Islands, [-] mu of Korean Islands, and [-] mu of Yinmin Islands)

Shareholders: [-]

Slaves: [-] (after reclaiming the wasteland, they will slowly be transformed into tenant farmers)]

In the past ten years or so, refugees from the Central Plains have emerged everywhere, so the Wang family also took the opportunity to capture many refugees and become slaves. In addition, they completely turned the entire Jianren group into slaves, so the Wang family has no shortage of people.

The 60 mu of land has already been cultivated by [-] tenant farmers, but the extra [-] slaves have no land to farm, and these slaves have to consume the royal family’s food for nothing every day.

Therefore, it is imminent to develop new fertile land overseas.

The Wang family has no shortage of people, but it lacks ships to transport people overseas.

At present, the Wang family can only transport 5000 people into Penglai Island every year, and among the 5000 people, more than 1000 will die of various diseases or acclimatization during the voyage. After the remaining 3000 slaves arrive on the island, there will be More than 1000 people died of malaria, acclimatization, indigenous attacks, hunger, cold, etc., and only about 2000 people managed to survive, reclaim fertile land, and become royal tenant farmers.

With a death rate as high as three-fifths and a year-long flight route, the Wang family's overseas reclamation of wasteland is extremely costly and extremely inefficient.

As for selling these slaves to other tyrants, it is unrealistic. There are more than 500 refugees in the Kanto counties. If you want tenant farmers, you can easily get them, and you don't need to buy them at all.

Originally, there were more than five slaves in the Wang family, but most of them died overseas. Even Wang Changnian, who was in charge of slave transportation, was killed in a battle with the natives. 15 mu of fertile land was acquired.

"Young Master, our fleet is here."

When Wang Hongguang was still leading his private soldiers to scalp the native Koreans, a private soldier of the Wang family pointed to the sea and said to him.

Wang Hongguang put the bloody scalp on the sackcloth on the ground, and then ran to the beach thinking about it.

"Cousin." There were twenty ships in the fleet, and when the leading ship landed, a dark-skinned girl got off the ship.

The girl's name is Wang Lian, the concubine daughter of Wang Changsheng, and she is responsible for transporting food, clothes, salt, horses and other supplies to Penglai Island on weekdays.

At present, Penglai Island has just begun to reclaim wasteland, so the pioneers on the island cannot be completely self-sufficient, and the Wang family needs to transport supplies from the manor.

As for the horses, because Penglai Island is full of plains and pastures, it is very suitable for raising horses. These horses are good choices whether they are used as transportation or for sale.

No tenants will be charged until the land reclamation of overseas islands is completed, and only three floors of rents will be charged every year after the land reclamation is completed.

Therefore, many slaves are very interested in going overseas to reclaim land, but the Wang family did not tell them that the death rate of going overseas to reclaim wasteland is as high as seven layers.

Moreover, for those islands that have been reclaimed, although the Wang family received less rent, those islands were either short of iron or linen, and the tenants either had no salt to eat or no clothes to wear.

If they want to eat salt or wear clothes, they can only sell the leftovers at a low price, and then buy sea salt and cloth sold at high prices by the Wang family.

For the life of the tenant farmers, the Wang family has already made proper arrangements.

"Work!"

Wang Lian was dressed in plain cloth, and raised his arms to beckon the servants and sailors to bring the supplies off the ship.

Hundreds of bags of sea salt, fifty war horses, five hundred bolts of cloth, twenty thousand shi of corn and wheat, three hundred cattle, six hundred iron plows, one thousand slaves, twenty boxes of hemp paper, five boxes of ink, several Ten writing brushes, two thousand hoes, one thousand shovels, five hundred iron axes, two hundred brand-new spears, a brand-new mashuo, thirty craftsmen, and two healers were unloaded from the merchant ship.

Just as the servants were unloading the goods, a dozen Penglai Island tenant farmers escorted a Danhan native to the beach, and they still had a few Danhan scalps in their hands.

"Look for him." Wang Hongguang pointed to a servant beside him.

Afterwards, the servant took out several money bags and handed over a lot of five baht coins to the dozen or so tenant farmers.

"Thank you, Shaojun." The tenant farmers left happily.

In order to wipe out the aborigines on the island as soon as possible and completely conquer the entire island, the Wang family mobilized the power of tenant farmers and issued bounty hunters. If you kill a Danhan native, you can get ten five baht coins, and if you capture a Danhan native alive, you can get fifty baht. Five baht.

Under such temptation, the tenant farmers also became full of martial virtues, and they often hunted and killed the natives of Danhan in the center of the island together.

In the past, when they were self-cultivators in the Central Plains, they worked tirelessly on farming and weaving cloth. Their annual income was only [-] five baht, and the average daily income was only sixteen five baht. This is not counting the government. corvee taxes, etc.

Now, on this strange overseas island, as long as you kill a native, you can get ten five baht coins without paying taxes. Isn't this more promising than working as a self-employed farmer for the Han Dynasty?
For the killed natives, because the Wang family has traditional Chinese virtues of thrift and thrift, they will not kill them and leave them alone.

A large amount of scalp and fur are used to make leather clothes and shoes, teeth, etc. can be given to beloved girls as ornaments, and flesh and blood can also be used to feed hunting dogs and other livestock, so that some food can be saved.

After all the goods were moved, Wang Lian asked Wang Hongguang again: "Cousin, are there many fur goods this year?"

"Big harvest!" Wang Hongguang said with a smile: "This year, more than 1000 Danhan people were hunted and killed, and hundreds of skins were saved, plus some dead animal skins, there are thousands of skins. You can take them back to the manor along the way."

"Okay." Wang Lian immediately ordered the servants to carry the fur goods from Penglai Island to the boat. These fur goods will be transported to the Wang Family Manor, where they will be made into leather clothes and shoes by the maids of the Wang Family Manor.

Then these leather clothes and shoes are shipped to overseas islands and sold to those tenant farmers.

Not only Penglai Island, on the way back, Wang Lian will also remove the fur stocks on other islands.

The processed products of the manor are shipped overseas for use, and the unprocessed raw materials from overseas islands are shipped to the manor for processing. This economic complementary model has lasted for decades.

The servants and maids of the Wang family have never been pure servants and maids.

After all, there are only 21 people in the Wang family, even if one person is matched with one maid, it doesn't take hundreds of people.

The main duties of these servant girls are actually weaving silk cloth in the weaving workshop and brewing wine in the brewery workshop. Only those who are extremely good-looking can serve the royal family's children. Most of the maidservants are actually just female workers, and some of them may never see each other in their entire lives. What does the Wang family look like? They work in the workshop every day to make money for the Wang family.

The same is true for servants, most of them work in ironworks or saltworks, and only a handful of them are very loyal and reliable who can serve the children of the royal family personally.

(End of this chapter)