A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 630: Extra Southeast Asia

Tianyazhou, this is the name Wang gave to Borneo, which means the ends of the earth. This is not an island, but an archipelago.

When Wang's fleet arrived here, the food and water sources were already exhausted. For a long time, this was the farthest place controlled by the Zhuxia civilization.

The Wang family purchased a piece of land from the local king with sugar, salt, silk, porcelain, and tea, and established a stronghold here. Later, after more than a hundred years of construction, it was built into a city.

The two sides got along well at first, but after seeing the Wang family build a prosperous town here, the natives regretted it.

This town was even more gorgeous than where King Tu lived at that time. King Tu repented and led a large number of natives to attack the Wang family.

However, it was quickly defeated by the Wang family and suffered heavy casualties, while other nearby earth kings took the opportunity to annex it.

This earth king learned the lesson of the previous earth king, but obtained Wang's goods, tools, and even some weapons through trade.

After obtaining a large amount of goods and weapons through transactions, the strength of this earth king rapidly expanded, and he merged with the other three surrounding earth kings.

After communicating with the Wang family, his knowledge also increased a lot, so he changed the tribe into a kingdom, declared the establishment of the kingdom, and established itself as a kingdom.

The Wang family also relied on various supplies and weapons to control the war. If one side won a big victory, they would secretly sell more supplies to the defeated side in the name of others.

There is a castle built on the mountain on the west side of the port, with a fort built on the mountain. There are two hundred soldiers stationed in the castle. These are regular soldiers sent from the Central Plains. After serving for five years, they can be transferred back to the Central Plains for promotion.

Many people fled to Wang's territory and became Wang's subjects.

In the end, the Wang family's strength had surpassed theirs. Worried and frightened, the two countries secretly united with other islands to divide the Wang family, but they did not expect that they would be destroyed by the Wang family in a battle.

At a more favorable price, various local products, gold, silver, spices, etc. were traded with the Wang family in exchange for weapons. They even later voluntarily ceded land and ports in exchange for advanced weapons in the hands of the Wang family.

After the Wang family grew stronger, the two kingdoms also became turbulent. The Wang family did not attack these two kingdoms, but the continuous oppression and war between the upper classes of the two kingdoms and the lower classes made the people at the bottom miserable.

The largest port here is Jihui Port, with a permanent population of 50,000. It is also the largest city in Tianya Prefecture.

After becoming the king, the earth king began to aggressively conquer the surrounding areas. The other earth kings around him were no match for him, and many of them were defeated. Some other earth kings discovered the reason for his strength, so they continued to trade with the Wang family.

After the Wang family established China again, they would exile some people to Tianya Island every year, and these people also continued to increase the number of Chinese here.

In this way, the strength of both sides is always relatively balanced, and the Wang family also takes this opportunity to develop rapidly.

Of course, you can continue to serve here, but you will no longer serve as a military attache.

In the end, the war caused heavy losses to both sides, and it was stopped after the war was unable to continue. However, the hatred between the two sides grew deeper and deeper, reaching the point where it could not be resolved.

In addition to some exiles, a number of immigrants are sent here every year. Since Emperor Zhaozong Wang Shiheng, he has vigorously developed overseas territories.

There have been no slaves in the Central Plains for a long time, but slaves still exist widely overseas. This cannot be canceled by your next order.

The origin of slaves is very complex. Some are defeated captives, some are sold into slavery, and some are captured captives. Those natives were very cruel to slaves, cutting off their hands and feet at every turn, and even killing people as sacrifices to gods. The Chinese master was kind-hearted and could not see them suffering, so he spent money to buy a large number of slaves and let them farm or work on the plantations.

In order to prevent these slaves from resisting or escaping, the Chinese masters adopted a cross-use method, basically placing these slaves near surrounding tribes that had enmity with them.

Of course, basically all slaves do not want to escape. After all, among the Chinese, although they are slaves, they are at least human beings. The Wang family does not allow the Chinese to exploit slaves excessively.

These slaves are paid for their work. Although it is not high, it is at least higher than before in the tribe.

And these slaves were also the fastest naturalized group of people. They quickly learned the language of Zhuxia and accepted the culture of Zhuxia.

Zhang Han had just gotten off the passenger ship, and before he had gone far, a native pulled up a yellow sports car and asked in fluent Chinese: "Master, do you want to take a ride?"

Zhang Han, who was carrying his luggage, was sweating profusely because of the heat. He asked the driver to help carry the luggage up without any courtesy, and then got on the rickshaw.

Although the indigenous driver looked a little thin, he pulled the cart very smoothly. The whole road was very prosperous, and the streets were full of Chinese-style buildings. Soon we came to a hotel, and the fare was very cheap, only five copper coins.

Zhang Han was a native of Guangnan. After obtaining meritorious service, he was released as an official. Because anyone who wants to be a high official in a feudal territory must start as an eighth-grade official, and if you want to be promoted quickly, overseas is the best place.

Since Zhaozong began to explore overseas, the imperial court has paid great attention to overseas affairs.

Although overseas is far away, many places are indeed far beyond the Central Plains in some aspects, the most important ones are land and population.

In recent years, the population of the Central Plains has been booming, and there have been signs of overpopulation again, so the royal family has also begun to emigrate vigorously.

At the same time, Emperor Zhaozong also began to wage war with other countries to seize more land. It seemed that Emperor Zhaozong was militaristic and a coward, but in fact he was passing on internal conflicts through war and overseas expansion.

At the same time, it also prevents the army from degenerating and corrupting, and at the same time enhances the prestige of the royal family through military victory.

Accelerating overseas immigration is a multi-purpose thing.

After the prosperity and development of the country, the population has exploded. According to incomplete statistics, ten years after Emperor Zhaozong ascended the throne, the population in various parts of the Central Plains has exceeded 200 million. There is an overpopulation. Many people have no land to farm, and a large number of people have become tenants.

Even because there are too many tenants, we can only keep lowering prices and raising rents. This was something the royal family did not want to see, so they began to emigrate overseas vigorously.

At the same time, overpopulation has also caused the gap between the rich and the poor to continue to widen. A large number of beggars and gangsters have appeared in cities around the world, causing many public security incidents.

So the imperial court ordered the arrest of beggars and gangsters in the city and forcibly emigrated these people overseas.

Immigration was carried out not only overseas, but also in the Northern Wasteland (Siberia), the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, the Fuso Islands, Northern Yinzhou, etc.

It can only be said that the family wealth left by our ancestors is too strong, and it is enough for trouble.

(End of this chapter)