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

Chapter 427 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

Time flies, and another year has passed, and the time has come to the winter of the 319th year of Marquis Yan ([-]).

Shi Le defeated the Youzhou refugee armed forces, called himself King Zhao, and became the most powerful in the Hu regime. After becoming Queen Zhao, Shi Le began to build a large number of Buddhist temples. He wanted to use religion to appease the people, so that the people could farm and pay taxes at ease So he rebelled and prepared to attack Cao Yi in Qingzhou.

As for Zu Ti, without support, he continued to conquer the refugee armed forces in Yanzhou, Yuzhou.

On the other hand, in Guanzhong, Emperor Liu Yao of Dazhao asked Shi Le to hand over military power unconditionally, and at the same time led the army to conquer Qianliang, which had just been founded, in order to force the Zhang family of Liangzhou to surrender.

In the south, the Jiankang court finally completely pacified the refugee armies in Jingzhou, and the entire Jingbei area became the private fiefdom of the Langya Wang clan, Wang Dun, and the Langya Wang clan's power was at its peak.

In Yizhou, Li Xiong, the leader of the Cheng Han Dynasty, personally conquered Nanzhong, and the Jin army was defeated again. Another five counties in the Nanzhong area were occupied by Cheng Han.

Not only is the Central Plains in turmoil, but so is the grassland.

Yuwen Xianbei and Duan Xianbei joined forces to attack Murong Xianbei and wanted to seize the Yanbei grassland.

Murong Xianbei immediately formed an alliance with Shi Le, the king of Zhao, who was not stable.

Dai Guo attacked Qiang Hu, and Qiang Hu asked his ally Liu Yao for help.

In Qingzhou, Cao Yi, the leader of the refugee uprising army, formed an alliance with the State of Yan and conducted population trade with the State of Yan. A large number of Qingzhou population was transported to the State of Yan, and Cao Yi received a lot of luxury goods.

Yan Guo was even reluctant to sell weapons and equipment to his ally Cao Yi, but prioritized the excess luxury goods.

These luxury goods were originally intended to be sold to the aristocratic families of the Jin Dynasty, but the aristocratic families have traveled south one after another. Most of them have lost their strength and their ability to consume luxury goods has dropped a lot, so some of the luxury goods produced before It can't be sold out, just used to exchange population.

A large amount of silk, Yanli, and fine wine poured into Qingzhou, and Cao Yi also built a manor for himself that used Yanli (glass) as a material.

The population of Qingzhou has dropped sharply from 200 million during Sima Yan's time to 80 today.

The demand for slaves in Yan State is huge. They captured slaves in Goguryeo, bought slaves from Xianbei people in the Yanbei grasslands, bought slaves from warlords in Qingzhou, captured indigenous people in the Spice Islands as slaves, and turned the people of Yan State into slaves.

Even with a multi-pronged approach, the slave market in Yan State is still in short supply.

After hundreds of years of hard work by Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo, the two genius doctors and the team of doctors, the death rate of Yan State's land reclamation in overseas miasma areas has dropped from 80% to 50%. It is also much better than before, and the miasma in the Spice Islands is particularly serious, so the death rate is even as high as 70%.

In the nearly 30 years since the start of the Janan Rebellion to the present, the country of Yan transported a total of 300 million immigrants to the Spice Islands and Fruit Islands, but only 50 people survived.

Even if there is not one out of ten, the nobles and guilds of the Yan Kingdom must persevere in transporting people overseas in order to expand their own strength, and they don't care about the life and death of the immigrants at all.

The country of Yan does not deceive the old and the old with the clearly marked price of the population. The population price of the grassland is lower than that of the Central Plains. The main reason is that the grassland people do not understand the language and it is more troublesome to manage, so the price is also lower.

Moreover, the grassland regime and the Central Plains regime have different needs for goods.

The exchange ratio of gold and copper coins is: 1 yi gold = 2 baht coins (one yi gold in Yan State = one catty of gold in Jin Dynasty = half a catty of modern gold)

[Grassland: Yan Country
Elderly people over 50 years old = 1 five baht

Adult male = 1000 five baht

Adult female = 800 five baht

Underage male = 500 baht

Underage women = 1000 five baht

Children = 100 five baht money

Adult cattle = 5 baht
Calf = 2 baht
War horse = 50 baht
Adult horse = 10 baht
Pony = 4 baht
Adult sheep = 5000 baht

Lamb = 2000 five baht

……

One piece of glass = 1 baht
A bottle of wine = 10 baht
A piece of woolen cloth = 5000 five baht

A set of cavalry armor = 300 million five baht
A set of large armor = 100 baht
A set of small armor = 30 baht
One stone of spices = 10 coins]

[Central Plains: Yan Kingdom
Elderly over 50 years old = 100 five baht

Adult male = 2000 five baht

Adult female = 2000 five baht

Underage male = 1000 baht

Underage women = 2000 five baht

Children = 500 five baht money

Scholars/scholars = 10 baht
Craftsman = 50 baht
Physician = 500 baht
……

One piece of glass = 1 baht
A bottle of wine = 10 baht
A piece of woolen cloth = 5000 five baht

A set of cavalry armor = 300 million five baht
A set of large armor = 100 baht
A set of small armor = 30 baht
A stone of spices = 10 baht
One stone of salted fish = 1 baht]

Arresting scholars, craftsmen, and doctors was the main task of Qingzhou warlord Cao Yi.

The former King of Jiaodong, later Zhang Bu, later Kong Rong, and now Cao Yi, generations of rulers of Qingzhou have relentlessly trafficked people.

In troubled times, the Wang family would buy a large number of people in the nearest Qingzhou, so in the overseas islands, there are seven layers of people who speak with a Qingzhou accent.

The Shile regime mainly purchased grain, and as long as there was grain to eat, the people would naturally not rebel.

Don’t look at Yan Guo’s price of 2 yuan for a stone of salted fish is very expensive. This has to be compared with the price of grain in the Central Plains. In the Central Plains today, the price of grain in the north is 1 yuan/shi, and the price of grain in the south is [-] yuan/shi.

After all, the pickled fish in Yan Kingdom can also eat salt by the way, so apart from the bad taste, it is actually very cheap.

The Jin court in the south mainly bought Yanli, fine wine, and spices. Even if the aristocratic families ran to the south, they could not delay their enjoyment of life. As for the life and death of the people, it was a joke.

For the aristocratic families of the Jin Dynasty, the people are like weeds on the ground. After one group of grass-roots people die, another group will be born again.

As for the Xianbei people on the prairie, they mainly bought cavalry armor. Even if the tribe went bankrupt, they would still buy cavalry armor, and they were always ready to enter the Central Plains.

For the Central Plains, this is the worst era, extremely dark, full of killing and destruction, but for the Wang family, this is the best era, you can easily obtain a large number of slaves, and there are many forces that buy goods from the Yan Kingdom. The population of Yan also has a lot of influence, and the Wang family can monopolize the operation.

In the Han Dynasty, the Wang family had to bargain with each other to sell things, and they had to be cautious when buying some slaves. Now, buyers kneel and beg the Wang family to sell goods, so as not to be preempted by other buyers. The power of selling slaves begs the Wang family to buy. slave.

If this is not considered good, the Wang family does not know what is good.

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900 years ago, when the land of our Central Plains was sinking under the cavalry of barbarians, the empire on which the sun never sets (Yan Kingdom) ushered in a period of great development, and the speed of reclamation of overseas plantations was greatly increased. This period of great development lasted until Xianbei After the Sinicization reform of the Northern Wei Dynasty, after the Northern Wei Emperor who unified the north issued the "Prohibition on People Trafficking" during the reform, Yan State could not continue to obtain large-scale population from the Central Plains, and the speed of overseas plantation reclamation gradually slowed down. ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

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