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

Chapter 471: Sinicization and the Fear of the Kushan Nobles

"In this year, you have fought two consecutive battles and captured more than 30,000 Indians." Hu Hai said in surprise, not knowing whether he was amazed at Zhang Yong's fighting ability or at the Indians' poor fighting ability.

Zhang Yong also said in embarrassment: "There are too many captives. It is impossible to take care of them all. There is not enough land in the local area. We cannot continue to distribute the land equally. Besides, the local people are unwilling to share the land with these captives."

According to the practice of the Han Dynasty, at this time they should find a way to recruit these captives into the army, then expand the territory, kill the noble officials in the city land, distribute the land to the soldiers who surrendered to them, and use this snowball method to strengthen their own strength.

However, Zhang Yong believed that there were too few Han people in India, and he dared not continue to divide his troops to capture cities. He could not expand his original territory because the land was not enough. Moreover, the feudal consciousness on the Indian side was beyond Zhang Yong's imagination. He regarded these captives as Indians and as the same people as the people in Tammosuldi City. Logically, these people had the same experiences and would have empathy, but reality told him that he was overthinking.

But the people of Tanmo Sudi City did not regard these captives as their own kind. They regarded them as the defeated and slaves. There were even many leaders promoted by Tanmo Sudi City who asked Zhang Yong to reward them with slaves, which made Zhang Yong speechless for a while. He did not want to treat the Indians as slaves, but they wanted to enslave their own people. It can only be said that the slaves are the ones who want to be slave owners the most.

Ji Yuze said with surprise: "There are 30,000 prisoners here. That's good. We don't have to worry about having nothing to bring back this time."

The Tianzhu Trading Company dispatched 20 cargo ships, of which 5 were 15 tons and the other 5000 were 10 tons. They carried 30 bolts of silk, tens of thousands of porcelains, 50 catties of tea, 3 catties of white sugar and rock sugar, catties of spices from Southeast Asia, and tens of thousands of steel products. Of course, even with so many goods, they could not fill their cargo holds. They also brought bolts of cheap linen, because according to Hu Hai's data, the price of Tianzhu linen was about three times that of the Han Dynasty, and there would be a huge market for these linens.

For maritime trade, three times the profit is certainly not high, but their fleet cannot be loaded entirely with luxury goods, because this will directly impact the luxury goods market in India. 3 pieces of silk can be sold for 3 coins per piece in India, but if they transport 30 pieces of silk to India, I am afraid that the price of each piece of silk will not even be 3000 coins. This must take into account the local silk market in India and the sales time.

The reason why they jointly established the Tianzhu Trading Company was to control the pricing of goods and monopolize the luxury goods market in Tianzhu.

But other shareholders were unwilling to reduce their cargo volume. These 20 merchant ships were equivalent to 20 shareholders, and each merchant ship had its own interests. In order to protect the interests of all, they could only transport goods to Tianzhu in a high-low combination.

Of course, it was even more troublesome for them to go back. The Han people could always fill their ship's hold with everything from luxury goods to cheap handicrafts. But it was more troublesome for India. Apart from a small amount of gems, gold, silver and spices, their other goods were several times more expensive than the Han handicrafts. It was almost impossible to fill their ship's hold with these goods.

At the beginning they discussed transporting people from India to various vassal states in Southeast Asia. They contacted more than 1 vassal states along the way. Almost every vassal state needed labor. With Ji Yu and his men raising the price, they were even willing to buy an Indian laborer for 3 coins. If there was an Indian bride, 5 to coins could be negotiated, but they had to have a good impression. If the Chinese didn't like the bride, they wouldn't pay. These vassal states were not fools. They were worried that people from the Indian trading companies would go to India and bring some ugly people to fool them.

So when Ji Yu heard that there were 30,000 captives here, he was extremely surprised. As long as these people were transported to Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of dollars in profits would be made. They didn't even need any organized personnel, they could just take these people away when they left.

Zhang Yong looked at Ji Yu and the others hesitantly, because he found that even Hu Hai kept staring at him, which obviously meant that their status was not low.

Hu Hai told Zhang Yong about the establishment of the Tianzhu Trading Company and introduced the identities of Ji Yu and others. From now on, this city will belong to the Tianzhu Trading Company.

Zhang Yong was surprised and asked, "The court won't accept Tianzhu?"

Ji Yu said: "For the time being, the imperial court has no such plan. Tianzhu is still a foreign land."

Zhang Yong's morale was a little low after hearing this. He wanted to make great achievements and have his wife and children honored, but he didn't want to become a thug in the so-called caravan.

Hu Hai immediately encouraged him, "The imperial court cannot control the affairs of Tianzhu for the time being, but as long as our influence in Tianzhu grows, the imperial court will definitely pay attention to us. At that time, your achievements will also be noticed by the imperial court."

Wang Fen said: "Since you have won battle after battle, why don't you take advantage of the victory to expand your territory?"

Zhang Yong smiled bitterly and said, "I only have over a thousand men in Tianzhu, with more than 200 men managing this city. There are less than 800 warriors who dare to fight. With this amount of manpower, how dare I divide my troops to capture the enemy's city?"

Wang Fen said: "We brought 5000 people this time, 3000 of them are to be stationed in~~~What is this city called?"

Zhang Yong said: "Take a look at Sudi City."

Wang Fen was about to say something, but found that the name was extremely difficult to pronounce. He frowned and said, "What kind of name is this? It's not easy to remember at all. Now that this city has been owned by our Tianzhu Trading Company, it should have a Han name. This place is west of our Han Dynasty, so doing business here needs to be stable. Let's call it Anxi City. When the territory is expanded in the future, we will call it Anxi County. It's much easier to remember."

Ji Yu smiled and said, "Anxi is a good name. It has the aura of a great man."

Several other owners also approved of this name. The name "Tanmo Sudi City" was neither easy to remember nor to say, but the name "Anxi" was very catchy. So the Tianzhu Trading Company decided on the name.

Wang Fen continued, "Speed ​​is of the essence in war. I have already wasted a lot of time and the enemy may have already recruited soldiers. General Zhang, please hand over your Indian army to me. I will use these Indian natives as the vanguard and the Han army as the core force to eliminate these enemies who want to capture Anxi."

Zhang Yong hesitated and said, "Why don't you let me lead the troops to fight?"

He already knew the fighting power of the Indians. With an army of 3,000 Han people, he was confident that he could destroy the enemies from all four directions. However, he had no confidence in Wang Fen. When there were tens of thousands of people, they were endless. It was simply a fantasy to want to command them like an arm.

In the battle under Anxi city, both sides fought badly. Zhang Yong had only commanded 200 people before. Later, he could barely command thousands of soldiers, but commanding tens of thousands of people was beyond his ability.

In that battle, he simply divided his army into four parts: front, back, left and right. Then he gave general orders to the generals of three parts, and the rest could do nothing. It was impossible to launch a precise attack based on the specific situation on the battlefield. In fact, not long after the war began, he lost the ability to command the other three parts.

His troops fought on their own, and he would have been defeated without a doubt in the Han Dynasty. However, the Indians were more weak, and in this situation of fighting each other, they were still defeated by Zhang Yong's three troops. Of course, this battle also made Zhang Yong self-aware. He understood that it was not that he was good at fighting, but that the Indians were too weak to fight.

Although Wang Fen is now the steward of the Duke of England, he is not at all confident in letting such a merchant command the army. He is not worried about not being able to win the battle but about causing too many casualties.

Ji Yu smiled and said, "Manager Wang is the grandson of Wang Jian, a famous general in the Warring States Period. If there were no war in the Han Dynasty now, I'm afraid he would have become an officer in the army now."

Zhang Yong suddenly realized that the Wang family followed the Duke of Ying, and it was natural for a general to have several military talents. So Zhang Yong handed over the leadership of the Tianzhu Army to Wang Fen.

He brought shopkeepers such as Hu Hai and Ji Yu to inspect the captured Indians.

Thirty thousand prisoners were too many. Zhang Yong was afraid of a riot and did not dare to let them enter Anxi City. Instead, he set up a simple prisoner camp outside the city. He cut some wood and built some shacks with simple straw. These were where the prisoners lived. The prisoners were not dissatisfied with anything, as this was their original living environment.

Zhang Yong selected thousands of local Shudras as supervisors, and stationed a Shudra army of a thousand people to intimidate the captives. On a daily basis, these captives reclaimed the land under the command of the supervisors. After the land was reclaimed, it would be rewarded to the Indian soldiers who joined the army.

Zhang Yong did not allow local residents to enslave these Indians, but these Indians who supported Zhang Yong won two major battles for him, so he had to reward them. The reward method was very simple. For each victory, the soldiers would be rewarded with 10 acres of land.

Zhang Yong had no way to make detailed rewards, so he could only use this simple system of granting land based on military merit. However, this was a first for this piece of Indian land. After the land was awarded, the morale of the Indian soldiers was greatly boosted, and many Indian soldiers and officers even ran to Zhang Yong to ask when they would counterattack the enemy. It can be seen that as long as the rewards were in place, the Indians would dare to fight.

Zhang Yong took Hu Hai and others to inspect the prisoner camp. The situation here was basically in accordance with the tradition of the Han Dynasty. Ten people lived in a large shack. All the shacks were horizontal and vertical. 100 people were in a village, people were in a district, and people were in a division. The entire prisoner camp was divided into three divisions. Of course, in order to prevent these prisoners from connecting, Zhang Yong tried to let soldiers from several different cities mix together. At the same time, the leader could only manage a hundred people at most. When they went out to do things, there were military supervisors to supervise them and try not to let them form organizations. There were public facilities such as dry toilets, wells, and large canteens in the prisoner camp. From a distance, it looked a bit like a military camp.

Of course, there were not many people in the prisoner camp at that time, only a few prisoners who suffered from heatstroke, prisoners who were cleaning the camp, and cooks.

Zhang Yong said helplessly, "Only after leaving the Han Dynasty did I realize that many of the simplest truths don't make sense. These Indians have very bad living habits. They urinate and defecate anywhere and are very unhygienic. Even if there is a dry toilet, they don't use it. I was worried about the plague in the camp, so I used military law to punish these Indians for a month. The captured Indian prisoners were responsible for cleaning the dry toilets in the entire camp and Anxi City. Finally, things got better." Ji Yu nodded and said, "We need to cultivate good habits for them now. When they are on the ship, they must have good hygiene habits, otherwise if there is a plague, everyone on the ship will die."

The Han Dynasty's ships had also been hit by plagues, and almost everyone on board had died. In the territories of the princes, countless people had been struck by plagues and suffered from acclimatization.

People in this world may not know the reason, but Xu Fan knew that not urinating and defecating anywhere, washing hands before and after meals, and drinking boiled water are just a few extremely simple hygiene habits that can reduce more than 90% of the plague. So when the Han Dynasty began to colonize Southeast Asia, the Han Monthly News fully promoted these living habits and knowledge of disease prevention, and popularized them throughout the Han Dynasty.

It's not that there were no slack princes, but it wouldn't take long for a plague to break out in a vassal state that was negligent in hygiene. However, in the vassal states that took the best epidemic prevention measures, nothing really happened. After several lessons of death, the hygiene conditions in these vassal states naturally improved.

Nowadays, Han sailors are considered to have the best hygiene habits, and they often clean at sea.

Hu Hai asked: "How many of these prisoners can understand Chinese?"

Zhang Yong shook his head and said, "Few people understand. Only a few supervisors in Tianzhu can understand what we say."

Zhang Yong and his men had ruled Anxi for a year, but the only people who understood Chinese were the Indians living near them. These captives had never seen Zhang Yong and his men, nor had they ever heard Chinese. With no one to teach them, how could they understand Chinese?

Hu Hai frowned and said, "This won't work. Those princes of the Han Dynasty who don't understand Chinese will lower the price. It will be difficult to manage them if they don't understand Chinese culture, whether in Tianzhu or in Nanyang."

Ji Yu said: "This is easy. We can open a night school to teach them Chinese. If they can learn it, we can give them some rewards."

Then Zhang Yong took Hu Hai and others to the place where they captured prisoners and reclaimed wasteland. At that time, India was still in the late slave-owning period, and the development of the native land of India was much worse than that of the Han Dynasty. It was just that the climate and environment brought them more food.

Under the supervision of the overseers, these captives worked hard to cultivate the land with the simple farm tools in their hands. From time to time, some of them were lazy, and the overseers would punish them with their whips.

Ji Yu frowned and said, "The land is too poorly cultivated, and the prisoners have no desire to work. They are basically slacking off."

Ji Yu had also helped Ji Xin to open up wasteland before. These captives had to rest three times after digging the land once. The efficiency of the Han people in opening up wasteland was at least three times that of these Indians, which made him very dissatisfied.

Hu Hai said: "This is inevitable. How can the efficiency of clearing wasteland for oneself and clearing wasteland for others be the same? If the efficiency of slaves is the same as that of self-cultivating farmers, I am afraid that our Han Dynasty would still be in the era of slavery. If we want to improve their production efficiency, we must first give them advanced tools, and secondly, divide the land. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which of the overlords did not start by dividing land with farmers? Those stingy monarchs were all swallowed up."

Hu Hai said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter to us. These captives will go to Southeast Asia. There are many wastelands in Southeast Asia, and the princes are willing to give them fiefs. By then, they will become like the farmers in our Han Dynasty, coming out to farm before dawn and not going back until dark."

Hu Hai's positioning of Anxi has never changed. It is a commercial base. It only matters if the local area is stable. He doesn't care about anything else.

On the contrary, Ji Yu was the chief steward of the Guangyang Duke's Mansion. Ji Xin's fiefdom was developed under his management. He regarded Anxi as a fiefdom, and he was not satisfied with the attitude of these Indian captives.

Zhang Yong said a few good words: "The climate here is also a major reason. It is too hot. If you work too hard, you will easily get heatstroke. It is the same as in the Nanyang region. Even the farmers in my Han Dynasty become lazy when they arrive in Nanyang. Those farmers who work too hard are more likely to get heatstroke. In my South Korea, there have been several deaths from heatstroke. As a result, Gongzi Yi had to build a large number of pavilions beside the farmland for farmers to rest."

Zhang Yong might have stayed in Korea for too long and had seen a lot of the South China natives slacking off at work, so he became accustomed to the behavior of these Indian captives. After all, they really knew how to farm. The South China natives would make a lot of messes when farming, risking a rabbit that would make them chase for a long time, their hoes would break when hoeing the ground, and their plows would be pulled crookedly. In short, there were all kinds of accidents that were hard to describe. Now these captives were at most slacking off at work, but at least they wouldn't break the tools. As long as there was a comparison, these captives also became handsome.

After the bosses of the Tianzhu Trading Company toured Anxi, everyone was very satisfied. They had thought it was a shabby little town, but unexpectedly it was done quite well.

Half a month later, Wang Fen brought good news. The four forces hostile to Anxi were all wiped out by Wang Fen. The trading company's territory in Tianzhu expanded tenfold, expanding Anxi's strategic buffer zone. Rich spoils of war were also seized. The property of the nobles in these four cities exceeded 3000 million coins. Each of them could get million coins. Before selling the goods, each of them made a lot of money. In addition, they also captured a group of good-looking Tianzhu brides, which was another huge fortune.

At the same time, the news that the Seris fleet had come to India again spread throughout India along with the destruction of the four cities. Now the power of the Seris people was even stronger. Their thunder-like artifacts blasted the cities of the nobles, and their thunder-like weapons could destroy any enemy in front of them. Their army was unstoppable like a steel torrent.

Now the small kings in southern India are trembling with fear at the military actions of the Seres, because they do not follow any rules at all and will eradicate their forces at any time.

For thousands of years, foreign masters have never done this. Without these local tyrants, how could these foreign masters rule India? The two sides are clearly in an alliance relationship of cooperation and win-win. But this time, the master kicked them all away and instead began to arm the Shudras. Isn't this a violation of the rules set by Lord Shiva?

The original overlord of India was the Maurya Empire. Whenever there were conflicts between these small countries, they would usually look to the overlord Maurya Empire to resolve them. But now the Maurya Empire has been defeated by the Kushan Empire, and the Kushan Empire has become the new leader of India. These small countries cannot defeat the Seres, so they sent envoys and spent a lot of money to ask to see the king of the Kushan Empire, asking them to send the empire's heavenly soldiers and generals to wipe out this group of unruly Seres.

The King of the Kushan Empire was very happy to see his younger brothers voluntarily offering tribute, and he actually planned to send an army to help these younger brothers solve the problem. After all, he knew the fighting power of the Indians, and he didn't know how strong the army that was against India could be. If South India had not been too hot, he would have led his army to sweep across the entire South India.

But as he listened, his expression became extremely ugly, and there was even a hint of panic at the back. How could this be a Seres? This was clearly a Han Chinese.

The Han army's heavenly soldiers have also reached India!
This reminded the king of the Kushan Empire of the fear he felt when he was driven out by the Han army more than a decade ago. He immediately drove away all the envoys and did not allow them to stay in his own country any longer.

At the same time, he called together the nobles of the Kushan Empire to discuss how to deal with this group of Han people who came to India from the sea.

The Kushan nobles fled for tens of thousands of miles and finally made it to the wealthy place of India. Their lives were much better than before on the grasslands, but the wealthy life also wore down their will.

In the past, their first reaction when they heard about Han people was to flee. After all, they were a nation on horseback, and as long as there were horses and livestock, anywhere could be their home.

But India was different. It was too rich. When they rushed into this prosperous land, each of them had thousands of slaves. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land, food, wealth, and beauties were continuously sent to them by the Indians. These warriors on horseback were quickly assimilated and became Indian slave owners. Now they could not bear the consequences of losing India.

The Kushans asked around for news about the Han people. When they learned that there were only a few thousand Han people in India, many nobles became jealous and proposed to strike first and send troops to wipe out these Han people. In this way, India would still be theirs.

But it was soon denied, because there was a horrifying news coming from the south. This group of Han people brought artillery, and the number of artillery was far beyond their imagination. It was said that there were hundreds of cannons and thousands of small cannons that could be held in the hands.

The nobles of the Kushan Empire knew about artillery, and they had been taught a lesson several times by the artillery in Ji Bu's hands.

Every time they fought with Ji Bu, they would first fire artillery fire at the enemy and then charge their cavalry. With just this simple set of tactics, they were able to rush from Hexi to the Western Regions.

They had fought hundreds of battles with Ji Bu, but as long as the scale of the battle exceeded a thousand people, they would inevitably fail. They had been traumatized by the artillery, and now they heard that the enemy had thousands of artillery pieces. Although they did not understand that such artillery pieces were in their hands, it did not prevent them from being afraid of the number of thousands of artillery pieces.

But soon these Kushan nobles became equal. They had already submitted to the Han emperor. If you must say it, they were also Han people.

In the end, these Kushan nobles decided to attend the princes' meeting again this year and make the Han emperor restrict the Han people's misbehavior in India.

(End of this chapter)