At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 454: Chaotic Shipping and Maritime Trade
On April 15th, the 17th year of the Han calendar, Xinzheng Wharf, South Central Korea.

A sudden rainstorm comes and goes quickly. The Han people who have lived in Nanzhong for several years have adapted to the unpredictable weather in this land. There is usually a small pavilion near the farmland to shelter from the rain. If there is no pavilion, farmers will bring raincoats and hats in advance, put them on to shelter from the rain when it comes, and continue to work after the rain stops.

After the rain, the sky cleared up and there were no clouds in the sky. A few sailboats were faintly visible near the pier. The people who saw this scene became excited.

In this isolated country, Lao Tzu's vision of a society where people can hear each other's chickens and dogs but live without any interaction with each other until they die can be said to have been realized in this land.

However, such a social environment was not as good as everyone imagined. Instead, it was somewhat dull from top to bottom, especially for the Korean nobles. They were originally the upper class of the Han Dynasty, and when they came to this wild land, even if they lived a little better than the tribal leaders of the savages at most, there were no entertainment facilities, and their lives were not even as good as those of ordinary citizens of the Han Dynasty.

The farmers in the Han Dynasty could still adapt to this kind of life, but it was very difficult for these nobles. In this case, the overseas fleet was their source of information.

An hour later, five ships slowly approached the shore. Then, the depressed Han people got off the ships one by one. Many of them had not even adapted to the transition from the bumpy sea to the stable continent, and they lay down on the side of the dock and vomited.

At this time, a group of doctors in white clothes appeared and said, "Move those who are feeling unwell to the clinic. The others should go wash and disinfect first, so as not to be infected with the epidemic."

The staff around listened to the doctor's words and took the immigrants away in different categories. Those who were nervous were taken to see a doctor, and those who were in good condition were taken to wash. South Korea has been established for six years and has a complete health system and epidemic prevention system. There are hundreds of doctors and nurses in the small country.

In the vassal states of South China, the most important thing is the issue of epidemic prevention, because if you are not careful, it can really cost lives. In the years since the founding of South Korea, thousands of people have died from various epidemics.

Therefore, the countries in South China attach great importance to various hygiene habits and facilities. The first thing built in this area is the toilet. Various drainage ditches and sewage canals are also built very deep and large. The punishment for various uncivilized behaviors is also very severe. Those who litter anywhere will be sentenced to three days of corvee labor, and those who urinate or defecate anywhere will be sentenced to fifteen days of corvee labor.

Because there were too many areas to be developed, the vassal states in the south generally used corvée labor instead of punishment. People who had only chopped wood for a few days rarely littered or urinated anywhere. In terms of living habits, the people of the vassal states in the south were generally more civilized than those of the Han Dynasty.

When Hu Hai walked out from the boat, he was surprised to find that it was Zhang Buyi, the prince of Han, who came to greet them not far away.

"Damn it! They actually let Master Han come to greet us."

Zhang Buyi said, "There is nothing going on in the South. I would like to ask Mr. Zhao about what happened in the Han Dynasty. How is my father doing?"

Hu Hai said: "Prime Minister Zhang is still teaching and educating people, and he often publishes articles in newspapers and magazines. In terms of learning, other masters of the Han Dynasty are far behind him."

When Zhang Buyi heard that his father was living such a good life, he actually felt a little resentful in his heart.

After Zhang Liang retired from the position of prime minister, the emperor promised him that he could rebuild the Kingdom of Han. However, Zhang Liang directly threw this task to his eldest son Zhang Buzhi.

When Korea did not have an inch of land, he was directly appointed as a prince. Then he brought his uncles, relatives and friends to rebuild Korea in this unfamiliar land.

The political atmosphere of the Han Dynasty at that time was to promote external expansion, and to tell young people like Zhang Buzhi that spreading the fire of civilization was the destiny of the Han Dynasty, and this task was in the hands of young people of their generation. They were asked to follow Taigong's example and expand the four directions.

Therefore, Zhang Buyi was extremely excited when he received the appointment from his father. At that time, he was still a student of Dahan. The atmosphere on campus was relatively pure and they had no doubts about their mission. Now that his father had given him this important task, he naturally had to complete it well.

But he did not expect the task of development would be so arduous. In his fantasy, as long as he led his men to open up in the wilderness of his bag, cities would emerge, and the surrounding land would be reclaimed and quickly grown with various crops. Within a few years, Nanzhong would become as fertile as the inland of the Han Dynasty. He would become famous throughout the world and become a role model for all the young people of the Han Dynasty. After that, he would achieve success and be recorded in history like Taigong.

But the reality is that he has been rolling in the mud for the past few years, and even suffered from acclimatization several times, but he relied on his youth and strength to get through it. There is too much rain in Nanzhong and it is too wild. What's more important is that the local savages can't even farm. He worked hard for five years, and this new Korea only has three cities and dozens of villages. The total population does not exceed 5, 10% of which are savages from Nanzhong.

After five years of practice, he finally understood why Taigong could go down in history. Reclaiming wasteland is really not a job for humans. Although he was prepared to endure hardships, the harsh environment in Nanzhong was 5 times more severe than he had imagined.

The Dongyi people, a wild land, were transformed into the State of Qi, famous for its wealth, under the development of Taigong and his descendants. If Taigong did not leave his name in history, who would?

His father, who was nominally the Duke of Korea, had only visited this land once the year before last and returned after living there for less than half a year. He also said that Korea was the fiefdom he left for himself, and that his future depended on his own hard work.

Zhang Buyi was speechless.

Then Hu Hai told Zhang Buzhi about the expo, and finally asked his men to carry two boxes of books and said, "These are the periodical news of the major monthly magazines of the Han Dynasty this year. The articles of the major masters of the various schools of thought are all in them."

Zhang Buyi said excitedly: "Thank you, Mr. Zhao." Reading some of the Han books and monthly reports has become one of the few spiritual food for Zhang Buyi.

He was a naughty student back then, and would get dizzy and have a headache whenever he read. The teacher said he was a rotten wood that could not be carved, and that he would only be a playboy in the future, and was worried about the future of the Zhang family.

As a result, in the past few years since he came to Nanzhong, he has developed a good habit of reading books all the time. He has read through thousands of books in Nanzhong. The boring environment of Nanzhong has forced him to become a well-educated person.

At this time, Zhang Buyi's uncle Zhang Zhong coughed, signaling them not to talk about personal matters.

Zhang Buyi finally reacted and said, "I wonder how many immigrants and goods Zhao Jun brought with him?"

Hu Hai said: "The 1100 immigrants are all citizens of our Han Dynasty."

"Ok!"

"Each of them is an expert in farming, and many of them are proficient in carpentry and stonemasonry," Hu Hai immediately added.

In recent years, the Han Dynasty has continuously granted fiefs to princes in Southeast Asia, and even transformed many feudal nobles in the inland areas of the Han Dynasty into princes in Southeast Asia. Now there are fifty vassal states of various sizes in Nanyang.

What these vassal states lacked most was manpower. Firstly, there were not many people in Nanyang, and secondly, there was not much civilization in Nanyang. The locals only knew how to hunt and could not even farm.

Therefore, the farmers from the Han Dynasty who came to this land were considered talents. The major vassal states in Southeast Asia were short of blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, and farmers. It could be said that they were short of everything.

The immigrants of the Han Dynasty needed to be distributed to hundreds of vassal states in the world. Even though the Han Dynasty had to emigrate hundreds of thousands of people every year, only a few tens of thousands of people could actually be allocated to Southeast Asia. If further divided among the vassal states, they could only get a few hundred immigrants every year, and occasionally thousands of immigrants were considered a lot.

But this amount of immigrants was too little for a vassal state. Although there were many barbarians in Nanyang, they needed to be taught by Han people before they could do anything, so the population shortage in the major vassal states was very serious. A living person cannot be suffocated to death by urine, so the vassal states of the Han Dynasty tried every possible way to get more people under their rule.

The princes of Liaodong emphasized the fertile local soil, that a chopstick could sprout if you stuck it in, and that the grain production capacity was high. The grains were painted as tall as trees, pigs were painted the same as cows, the pheasants in the suburbs of Nanzhong were painted as densely as those in farms, and the black carp in the Liaohe River were as densely packed as stones on the road. There was even a picture of people crossing the Liaohe River by stepping on fish heads. There were also things like roe deer being beaten with sticks, fish being scooped up with ladles, and pheasants flying into rice pots. The most exaggerated things were, which attracted a large number of farmers to farm there. Liaodong, in particular, seemed far away, but was only a few hundred miles away by sea. In the entire Han Dynasty, except for Qianzhong, Liaodong was the closest to the Han mainland among all the princes. With such exaggerated propaganda, hundreds of thousands of Han farmers went to Liaodong to reclaim wasteland every year.

The princes of the Western Regions were prominent because of their vast territory, sparse population and rich resources. As long as you went there, you could get hundreds of acres of land, and there were endless agates and jades to pick up in the mining areas. In addition, there were caravans from the Western Regions coming to Chang'an City every year. When these caravans went back, they not only took away the silk of the Han Dynasty, but also often took away adventurers from the Han Dynasty. Every year, tens of thousands of Han people went to the Western Regions to venture into the world.

The princes of Southeast Asia could only highlight the abundance of spices and sandalwood in their territories. In order to increase the population, the major princely states in Southeast Asia gave the fleets that came here an almost permanent business. For every Han citizen transported to their princely states, they were willing to pay 5000 coins to each owner of these fleets.

Money is also the best commercial lubricant. Originally, these captains of the Han Dynasty were very distressed. The vassal states in Southeast Asia were small and poor, and the goods they needed were extremely limited. They could not even fill one-third of the ship's hold, and a large amount of empty warehouses were wasted.

This is a very sad thing for these captains. The risk of maritime trade has always been the highest among all industries in the Han Dynasty. Even the coal industry, which is known as the bleeding black gold, does not have a higher mortality rate than their sailors.

They are risking their lives to make money, but end up with so many empty positions. This is not empty positions at all, this is just a waste of their lives.

They could only load up with more spiced sandalwood on their return trip to increase their lost profits.

But five years ago, the Lord of Luzon promised these captains that he would pay 5000 coins as a reward for every young and strong man transported to his country of Luzon.

This incident caused a sensation in the entire South Seas region. The captains of the Han ships were so excited that their eyes were filled with tears. Their vacant positions were finally useful.

At that time, the civilian fleet helped the Kingdom of Luzon transport 30,000 young people. Chen Sheng spent a small part of the money he earned from mining over the years, but the effect was extremely significant.

These new immigrants helped the Kingdom of Luzon to reclaim land, build kilns and mines, and became craftsmen in copper smelters, greatly accelerating the development of the Kingdom of Luzon.

With such a good example, the major vassal states in Southeast Asia naturally followed suit. According to the distance between each major vassal state and the Han Dynasty, they took out money ranging from 3000 to 5000 as fees for these captains to help them recruit immigrants.

The major princes of Nanyang were not short of money. They generally built cash crop gardens in Nanyang and planted spice palm trees. Now these cash crop gardens have entered the harvest season. Every year, a large amount of spices and palm oil are transported from the vassal states in Southeast Asia to the Han Dynasty, earning huge profits for these princes.

These Nanyang princes are not short of money, what they lack is people who can help them make money. Now they can use 5000 coins to exchange for a skilled young and strong laborer, and one of their own, so of course these princes are happy to do so.

Before long, the entire Han civilian team was helping these Nanyang princes transport people. Their annual transport volume exceeded 10 people, and they earned 5 million yuan from those Nanyang princes. This directly opened up a new industry, while also providing sufficient and high-quality labor force for Nanyang's development, and solving immigration difficulties for the Han court, achieving three goals at one stroke.

When the Han Dynasty imperial court learned about this matter, it was a good idea to save the imperial court's immigration expenses. Prime Minister Xiao He immediately issued an order, asking the local county magistrates to cooperate with these captains to help the imperial court with immigration.

Of course, some opportunistic practices soon emerged. The farmers in the Han Dynasty were generally wealthy. If their family did not have too many people and was too poor, they would generally not come to Southeast Asia, especially the coastal areas that the captains approached, which were relatively wealthy places in the Han Dynasty, making it even more difficult for them to recruit immigrants.

So they began to recruit immigrants from the land of Baiyue, washed off the tattoos of these Baiyue people, simply taught them the common sense of the Han Dynasty, and made up an identity for them to impersonate Han people, and immigrate to the vassal states in Southeast Asia.

What's more, these captains directly recruited immigrants in the Nanyue Kingdom, which shortened the journey by half and doubled the profit. However, Zhao Tuo valued the few Han people in his territory to death, so these captains could only get some local tribal people to make up the numbers.

But this kind of thing cannot be hidden forever. The level of civilization in the Baiyue area is only one level higher than those savages in Southeast Asia, and their farming skills are still not very good. As long as land is allocated to them for farming, the truth will be exposed soon.

However, these captains still swore that the Yue people were also Han people, and that this was recognized by the emperor, so they had not violated any regulations.

These opportunistic captains are not human beings. On the one hand, they collect money from the princes, and on the other hand, they collect money from the Baiyue tribes, telling them that they will take them to the Han Dynasty to enjoy good lives. As a result, these people who want to enjoy good lives come to places that are more wild than their hometowns. The unrest caused can be imagined. These people were not the talents needed by the major vassal states. Because they were deceived, they became unstable elements.

Fortunately, these princes of the Han Dynasty are not pushovers. They all fought their way out of the battlefield. If these captains dare to deceive them, their counterattack will be extremely fierce.

These princes gathered the dissatisfied Baiyue people, and when those captains came again, they let the Baiyue people kill the captains directly. Everyone took revenge and complained.

Many captains were frightened, and once they immigrated there, they would never dare to go to that vassal state again.

What was originally a good immigration market was turned into a chaotic and bloody mess, with all parties suffering greatly.

After learning from their mistakes, the various forces compromised with each other. The major vassal states in Nanyang could only add a technical requirement for immigrants: 3000 yuan for those who knew how to farm, 5000 yuan for those who knew how to do carpentry, and tens of thousands of yuan for those who knew how to forge iron. If those captains dared to deceive the people to come to Nanyang, they would report to the court and let the court arrest them directly.

Having learned a bloody lesson, these captains finally dared not to deceive the Han princes unscrupulously. The immigration market, which had been in chaos for a long time, finally began to stabilize.

That's why Zhang Buzhi was dissatisfied with Hu Hai's talking about Han people. On the land of Han, everyone is a Han people.

The immigration could bring Hu Hai an income of about 600 million coins. Hu Hai's fleet also brought tens of thousands of ironware worth 1700 million coins, 800 pieces of silk, pieces of cotton cloth, pieces of linen cloth, worth tens of millions of coins, as well as various porcelains and other industrial products of the Han Dynasty. These scattered industrial products were barely worth a million. The total value of the cargo on Hu Hai's five fleets exceeded million coins, and the profit alone exceeded million. Even so, Hu Hai gave him a % reduction based on Zhang Buzhi's identity. After all, his Feihai Money House still had to operate in Korea.

Selling goods is just a side job for him. Of course, this also shows the profit of maritime trade. Even after years of expansion, the profit is still nearly doubled.

Zhang Buzhi also paid with local specialties of Korea. One thousand stones of spices were worth six million coins, five thousand stones of palm oil were worth four million coins, and five hundred pieces of sandalwood were worth ten million coins.

After this transaction, Hu Hai had to pay Zhang Buzhi 300 million coins. Of course, Zhang Buzhi did not take the money but kept a record of it and asked Hu Hai to bring more goods to compensate him next time.

Hu Hai said: "Sir, if the price of palm oil is 800 coins per stone again, I may not want it anymore."

"Why? This is fuel. It's sold to the Han people for 2000 coins per stone and there are people who want it. I have made you earn more than twice as much, and you are still not satisfied." Zhang Buyi looked at Hu Hai with some dissatisfaction, thinking that he was too greedy.

Hu Hai said: "In recent years, farmers have been planting soybeans on fertile land. The amount of soybean oil in the Han Dynasty has risen sharply. The price has dropped by another 10% this year. Only a few counties along the coast of the Han Dynasty have the habit of using palm oil as cooking oil. In fact, most people still use it as lamp oil. But this year, the court has come up with something called kerosene. The cost of producing this thing is 100 coins per stone. This has greatly impacted the lamp oil of the Han Dynasty. If the price of palm oil does not drop, no one will eat it as cooking oil, and it is too expensive to use as lamp oil. If I continue to transport it, I will lose money even if I transport it to the Han Dynasty."

"Ah!" Zhang Buyi was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. They had to plant this palm tree field several years in advance before the fruits could be produced. They had only harvested the fruits twice in total, and the price was about to drop.

(End of this chapter)