A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 588 Control Overseas

Wang has been observing the Liu Song and Sui dynasties. Compared with Daqian, the population of Liu Song and Sui dynasties was much lower than that of Daqian.

After some investigation, Wang discovered that no matter it was the Liu Song Dynasty or the Sui Dynasty, the lives of the people at the bottom were much worse than during the Daqian Dynasty.

More resources are occupied by aristocratic families, and there are only so many social resources. If the powerful and aristocratic families have more to eat, the common people will naturally have less to eat.

In addition, neither the Liu Song Dynasty nor the Sui Dynasty made the cake bigger, and agricultural technology did not advance by leaps and bounds. The population decline was natural.

When people eat less, their quality of life will naturally decrease, followed by a decrease in life expectancy, an increase in the infant mortality rate, and a naturally smaller population.

The most obvious data is that during the Da Qian Dynasty, the average life span of the people could reach about fifty-five years, but by the time of the Liu Song Dynasty, it had dropped to forty years old. The Sui Dynasty was almost the same as the Liu Song Dynasty.

(The author previously inquired about the average life span of people in the Tang Dynasty. The number listed above reached sixty years before the Anshi Rebellion.

The evidence listed is the data of 5,300 epitaphs, but this is not the data of ordinary people at all. In which dynasty did ordinary people still have epitaphs after their death?

The so-called conclusion of the epitaph survey can only be the average lifespan of the nobles, and will never be the average lifespan of ordinary people. )

In the Liu Song and Sui dynasties, although the emperor suppressed nobles, powerful families, and wealthy families, they would never reach the level of the Daqian royal family.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, people from the Wang clan began to enter the Central Plains in large numbers. After all, Daqian had been destroyed for three hundred years, and the royal families of the previous dynasties were just a wealthy family in the land of Huaisi.

Among them, the number of people who need the protection of black birds has also increased five times, and the consumption of luck has naturally also been five times, requiring more than 5,000 luck.

Even in the past few hundred years, because the Wang family has never been an official and only has some literary names, according to the family evaluation, it can only be regarded as an ordinary county magistrate, not comparable to those Guanlong nobles and Guandong aristocratic families.

Although the taxes in the Sui Dynasty were very heavy, at least the world was peaceful and the people's lives were easier.

The most populated area overseas now is the Fuso Islands. Although the Fuso Islands are under the rule of the Wang family, most of them are barbarians.

Even though the Wang family controlled the Fuso Islands, the luck value gained only increased by 500, but compared with consumption, they were still unable to make ends meet.

More importantly, luck has been consumed over the years. As the Wang family continues to develop, the population is also growing. At that time, there were only a thousand direct descendants of the Wang family, but now, the number of direct descendants of the Wang family is close to 5,000.

Although Wang focuses on overseas, he has always paid close attention to the Central Plains. In the past during the Liu and Song Dynasties, they were the royal family of the previous dynasty and could only keep a low profile, but now they don't have to worry so much.

The main island of Fusang is the largest, with Yingzhou in the north, Penglai in the east, and Fangzhang as the smallest island. After three to four hundred years of development on the two islands of Penglai and Fangzhang, the population of Zhuxia is about one million, barely equal to the original indigenous population here.

As for the number of collateral members in the fifth server, the number has already exceeded 100,000. The number of members of the clan and royal family who followed the Wang family to expand overseas at that time also exceeded one million.

In addition, over the years, the Wang family has not shown any supernatural power. It is just an ordinary member of the noble family. If it were not for the name of the former royal family, I am afraid that it would not even be ranked as a county official.

This is still the result of Wang's conscious population control.

As for Fusang Island and Yingzhou Island, they are complete city-state tribes.

The Wang family actually controls about two to three million Zhuxia people. At the same time, the Fusang indigenous population is much larger, and the vast majority of them live on Fusang Island.

The Wang family has opened up a waterway in the South China Sea, reaching as far as Tianzhu. At that time, a branch of the Silk Road came from Tianzhu. This waterway is also the main source of wealth for the Wang family. Since the opening of this trade route, the Wang family will transport silk, sugar, lacquerware, tea and other materials to Tianzhu for trade by sea, and then transport Tianzhu's specialties back.

Through various trades, the Wang family has had plenty of money in recent years.

At the same time, the Wang family has not always been safe and sound these years. Maritime trade is very risky, and the biggest risk is naturally the storm. The Wang family has wind flags, so there is no need to worry about this, but on the other hand, pirates and natives are It must be faced.

You want to come and do business with them, but sometimes they plan to eat you and your goods.

Therefore, when they first opened up the sea route, the Wang family fought all the way. The large island southwest of Ryukyu is called Luzon Island, and the island further south is called Borneo. There is also the Rongzhou Strait here.

At that time, the Wang family first traded with the natives here and purchased land with cloth, sugar, and lacquerware. But later, after these natives saw Wang's wealth, they began to want more wealth.

Naturally, Wang refused, and then the natives broke the contract and sent troops to rob the property. Naturally, the Wang family would not tolerate them and strangle these natives.

After frightening the natives, they established settlements and supply depots one by one.

After more than two hundred years of development, there are settlements and supply points established by the Wang family from the Ryukyu Islands to Tianzhu. Each small settlement has two to three thousand people, and the large one has tens of thousands.

Wang led the people to reclaim land in these places, plant rice, and build docks and ports so that ships could dock and simply repair ships.

Over the years, the relationship between the people of Zhuxia and the local natives has been good and bad. Basically, they have to fight every ten years. Although the natives are not Zhuxia's opponents, they are familiar with the environment. If they can't fight, they will go to the jungle. Drill.

The people of the Xia Dynasty could not find them in the jungle, so the Wang family trained soldiers who could adapt to the local environment, and on the other hand, they divided the natives, winning over some natives and attacking others.

Later, they directly hired Fuso natives on the Fuso Islands, and then after some training, they were driven to fight with the local natives.

In order to motivate these Fusang natives, the Wang family promised them that as long as they made military exploits, they would be rewarded with land here, and allowed them to join Zhuxia and become Zhuxia people.

Over the years, the Wangs adopted a hierarchical division between Zhuxia and Tu people in Fusang. After absorbing some Fusang natives and giving generous salaries to high-ranking officials, those Fusang natives will naturally die for them.

When the Fusang natives make great achievements, they will receive identity recognition, and at the same time they will receive manors, land, serfs, etc. as rewards from the Wang family. Let them live a noble life directly.

This is very attractive to the lower-class Fusang natives. After all, in Fusang, where social relations are still very primitive, there is basically no way to rise, and the Wang family now gives them a way.

These Fusang natives who have become Zhuxia people will double the pressure on their original kin and help the Zhuxia people attract the hatred of the local natives. Of course, it also makes more and more native people willing to fight for the identity of a Zhuxia person.

This kind of governance model allowed the Wang family to control the entire Fusang with a population of less than one-twentieth at the beginning.

It is also through this method that it not only consumes the natives of the two places, but also allows the Wang family to gain a firm foothold in Rongzhou, South China Sea, and its strength becomes stronger and stronger.

(End of this chapter)