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

Chapter 507: Buddhism Enters Han Dynasty and Hu Hai Takes the Blame
When Zhao Ang and the others heard that Zhao Wu didn't want to take them in, they were a little dissatisfied and said, "Hu Hai is rich and powerful and knows how to support Zhuzi and others. We are our clan members. With us in your workshop, you can feel more at ease."

Zhao Wu said helplessly: "All the work here is technical. It's hard for you to do these jobs without the skills of a blacksmith."

Zhao Wu's workshop is just a small one with dozens of people. He can take care of it by himself, and he doesn't need his brothers to come and see him. After thinking for a while, Zhao Wu said, "Father, the court has built a kerosene factory in Longxi County. We need a large number of transport vehicles to transport fierce fire oil and refined kerosene, especially kerosene, which needs to be transported to various counties in the Han Dynasty. Transport vehicles are in short supply. A special kerosene transport vehicle only costs 3 coins, but the monthly freight can earn more than 3000 coins. If you work harder, you can earn more. You can get your money back in one year. Why don't I lend money to the four brothers to buy kerosene vehicles? With this job, you don't have to worry about going to the reclamation."

His father became hesitant at this time. A kerosene truck cost 30,000 coins, and four people cost 120,000 coins. He was reluctant to let his son lend so much money.

But Zhao Ang and the other three's eyes lit up and said, "Brother Wu, let's make a deal. If we really make money this way, we will return the money to you this time next year."

After Zhao Ang and his friends left, Zhao's father said in dissatisfaction, "I asked them to come here to help you look after your workshop. Didn't Hu Hai make his fortune in the same way? Not only did you refuse, you even lent them money. All my good intentions were wasted."

Zhao Wu said: "Father, my situation here is completely different from Hu Hai's. No one dares to mess around here in Guanzhong, and even if Han officials dare to mess around, I am not without connections, so my workshop does not need anyone to watch over it.

Second, my workshop needs skilled craftsmen. Even now, there are still craftsmen who scrap parts. Brother Zhao Ang and his friends have always brought Zhao Li with them. They only know how to farm and have no mechanical skills. The factory dare not let them use the precious steam machinery. They can only do manual labor in the workshop. If I give Brother Zhao Ang and his friends a low salary, Brother Zhao Ang will think that I look down on them, but if I give them a high salary, my original craftsmen will be dissatisfied. So I would rather support Brother Zhao Ang and his friends to find a job for themselves. You should not bring relatives here in the future. They don’t have the skills.”

Zhao Wu's last sentence made his father return home angrily. He thought that his son was looking down on him.

The 22nd year of the Han calendar, January 15th, South Korea, Xinzheng.

Zhang Buyi brought his second brother Zhang Piqiang and pointed to a fortress in the middle of a primeval forest and said proudly: "This is the territory that my brother conquered this year. It has allowed our Han territory to advance hundreds of miles westward."

Zhang Pijiang smiled and said, "Brother, you are so brave. If you were in the founding period of our Han Dynasty, you would definitely be a fierce general." Although his brother only defeated a few indigenous tribes, Zhang Pijiang still praised him generously.

Zhang Buzhi and his second brother Zhang Pijiang have a very good relationship because there is no conflict of interest and no other bloody plots. Half a year ago, after Zhang Pijiang came to Korea, he took his second brother to get together and led him to tour Korea under his governance, as if to show off his governance ability. Zhang Pijiang originally wanted to continue to go to Tianzhu, but Zhang Buzhi and the brothers only saw each other for several years, and they wanted to be together for a while longer, so he insisted on letting him go.

Then Zhang Buyi said, "This is Linzhongbao built by Han. There is a teak forest of hundreds of miles around. This is the best wood for making seagoing ships. Each piece of this wood can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars. It can be said that this forest is a growing piece of gold. Second brother, why don't you just stay in Nanzhong? I will give you Linzhongbao. You can use Linzhongbao as a starting point and continue to expand westward and northward. When the time comes, let my father ask the emperor to grant you a vassal state. Then the two brothers will develop Nanzhong together and establish a vassal state together."

Zhang Piqiang smiled and shook his head, saying, "I just want to travel around the world and see the different civilizations in the world. I have no intention of opening up other vassal states. Besides, it is enough for my brother to inherit the Zhang family's foundation."

However, Zhang Pijiang thought about it and reminded: "Brother, there are too many Indians in Korea now. You have to be careful that they may take over the host."

Zhang Buyi smiled and said, "Second brother, you are worrying too much. The Indians are just laborers of our Han country. They are only helping us, Korea, to develop South China. Moreover, the Indians are weak in military force. How can they become the host?"

To be honest, Zhang Pijiang never thought that he wanted to experience the Indian civilization, but he saw it in Nanzhong in advance.

Hu Hai and other people from the Tianzhu Trading Company plundered wealth in Tianzhu. In addition, other Han merchants came to Tianzhu for trade, so that a large amount of gold and silver was lost by the Tianzhu people. The currency in circulation also changed from gold and silver to silk and cotton cloth. Silk is equivalent to gold, and cotton cloth is equivalent to silver. As for the copper coins of Tianzhu, because the Han Dynasty had Luzon copper, it was not cost-effective for the Tianzhu Trading Company to transport copper coins. This saved the Tianzhu copper coins. Otherwise, the Tianzhu people would have been fleeced by this Han merchant. They could only use linen to trade.

When gold and silver in India became very scarce, the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants encountered a big problem. Although they could also transport spices and gems from India, how much space could these things take up?
If they returned empty-handed, what were they risking their lives to come to India for? The most taboo in maritime trade was such empty-handed trade. In order to ensure their own profits, the sea merchants transported laborers from India to the Nanyang region.

These Indians know how to farm, forge iron, do carpentry and stonemasonry, and they even have superb construction skills. They know a lot, are in low demand, and are cheap, so there is no need to worry about their casualties. Compared to the pampered Han people today, these Indians are simply perfect cattle and horses in the eyes of the Nanyang princes.

As a result, all the major vassal states in South China put forward demands on the merchants to purchase Indian laborers. Because the demand was so great, the price of Indian laborers was driven down to 3 coins per person.

The Han Dynasty's maritime merchants were also overjoyed. They had been worried that they could not find enough Indian specialties to fill their ship's holds. Now, the Indian people were the best specialties. So last year, the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants transported nearly 10 Indian laborers from India to Southeast Asia, creating a huge market of more than 30 billion for these Han Dynasty's maritime merchants.

South Korea is one of the shareholders of Tianzhu Trading Company. This year, Tianzhu Trading Company brought 100 million yuan in profits to South Korea, tens of thousands of Tianzhu laborers, and more than 3,000 Tianzhu brides. With these hardworking Tianzhu laborers, the construction of South Korea was in full swing, and the construction of cities, roads, docks, etc. was not left behind. Moreover, because of the large number of Tianzhu brides, the imbalance between men and women in South Korea has been improved, and the people of the Han natives are more and more willing to stay in South Korea.

It can be said that because of the emergence of India, South Korea entered a period of rapid development. Now it has established six counties and twelve townships, and reclaimed more than 200 million acres of land. Now the core territory of South Korea is the size of a county, which is almost half the area of ​​old South Korea. The logging, agriculture, fishery, handicrafts, and construction industries in these counties and townships are developing rapidly, so the development of South Korea now really cannot do without these Indians.

Of course, because of the presence of a large number of Indian workers, Korean architectural features also absorbed the characteristics of Indian architecture, that is, the large number of tower-shaped buildings.

Because of the Indian brides, many Indians have become middle-level managers in South Korea. In terms of status, these Indians are higher than the natives of South Korea.

At the same time, because Hu Hai destroyed Buddhism in India, a large number of monks came to Korea to preach by sea or even by land. These monks came to Korea with great luck, as they came to a blank land for preaching.

The Han Dynasty had been a secular country since ancient times (although the power of sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty was briefly revived, it was always subject to the royal power), especially in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that had just passed. In order to invest more resources in the military, each country swept away the already weak sacrificial power. For example, when Ximen Bao governed Ye, the first thing he did was to send a witch to sacrifice to He Bo. The First Emperor even killed hundreds of alchemists at one time. Later, when the Han Dynasty was in power, it also took action against the power of alchemists and witches. Like the Qin officials, they suffered ruthless purges from the Han army during the Qin-Han War, so that the alchemists now only dare to get by under the name of Confucianism and Taoism. They would never dare to sacrifice to gods and collect kickbacks.

The monks who were forced to flee to Nanzhong were overjoyed when they discovered that the Han Kingdom did not have a real sacrificial class. They thought it was as if Sakyamuni had blessed them. After learning Han culture, the monks began to change their Indian mythology and began to adapt to the local development of the Han Dynasty.

And their choice was surprisingly similar to the choice of Buddhism in history. After these monks learned about the various schools of thought of the Han Dynasty, they discovered that the time when Lao Tzu appeared was close to the time when their Sakyamuni Buddha appeared, and that Lao Tzu disappeared without a trace after leaving Hangu Pass, unlike other schools of thought, which have relatively clear historical records.

So these monks said that after Laozi left Hangu Pass, he came to India and taught them Buddhism, where he met Sakyamuni Buddha. So according to these monks, Buddhism and Taoism have the same origin, except that Buddha is originally Taoism.

However, the monks' statements did not stand up to scrutiny. Korean Confucian scholars were dismissive of this statement, but ordinary people did not understand this. They thought that Buddhism was also a branch of Taoism. At the same time, Buddhist teachings advocated equality of all beings, which was similar to the moral culture promoted by the Han Dynasty in the past 20 years. The people thought they were their own people, and since they already had a need for faith, Buddhism began to take root in Korea.

At the same time, the native Indians in Korea also believed in Buddhism, and there were several small temples in Korea. Ordinary people liked to listen to the stories told by these monks, and many older Han people (mostly exiled Han people) also believed in Buddhism.

What's more, monks appeared in Kuaiji County along with the ships of the Tianzhu Trading Company, and began to spread in a small area, so a magical thing happened. Because Hu Hai destroyed Buddhism, Buddhism was introduced to the Han Dynasty more than 200 years earlier. And this is what Zhang Pijiang was worried about. The Han Dynasty must first educate people before reclamation, and what these monks are doing now is also a kind of education to some extent. Now there are nearly 20,000 Tianzhu people in Han, which is close to one-tenth of the entire Korean population. If this situation continues, is Korea a vassal under the Han Dynasty, or a country in the Tianzhu civilization?

On January 25th, the 22nd year of the Han calendar, South Korea, Xinzheng Wharf.

Hu Hai led his fleet to Xinzheng again. Zhang Buyi held a grand welcome ceremony in his palace and personally served Hu Hai wine.

Including the transported population, Hu Hai brought nearly 4 million yuan in income to Zhang Buzhi every year, which was higher than South Korea's annual fiscal revenue. Faced with such a God of Wealth, Zhang Buzhi had to take him seriously.

After drinking, Hu Hai laughed and said, "This time, I have brought three thousand Indian brides for Master Buyi again, and each of them is very pretty."

Zhang Buyi was overjoyed and said, "Brother Zhao can be regarded as a matchmaker for my Korean youth. If Feihai Bank has any needs in Korea in the future, I will definitely not shirk my responsibilities if I can."

Hu Hai smiled and said, "Then I would like to thank Master Buyi."

Then Zhang Buyi smiled and said, "Come, let me introduce you, Brother Zhao. This is my second brother, Zhang Pijiang. He is studying at Chang'an Mozi College."

Hu Hai said with a smile: "Master Pijiang is very capable. Those who can graduate from Mozi Academy are the elites of our Han Dynasty."

Mozi Academy was established early and teaches the most practical skills. It is equivalent to the Wudaokou Technical School in the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Pijiang said calmly: "You are not as good as Mr. Zhao. Your name has spread all over the Han Dynasty in the past two years."

Zhang Pijiang was somewhat curious about Hu Hai, but he did not want to have too much contact with him. He was curious because he, as the last emperor, had been doing better and better in the Han Dynasty over the years, and now he had become a man who stirred up the world. Just for this reason, he admired Hu Hai very much. Among the dozen sons of the First Emperor, all of them were unknown, but only Hu Hai dared to jump like this. This courage alone was not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Of course, Zhang Pijiang also despised what Hu Hai was doing now. The Tianzhu Trading Company had been burning, killing, looting and plundering in Tianzhu and doing all kinds of evil. Now they were even kidnapping people as slaves. He had already seen that the so-called Tianzhu laborers were just another way of saying slaves. What Hu Hai and his men were doing was the slave trade. Naturally, he didn't want to get too close to the head of a slave trade.

Hu Hai also discovered this and soon realized that what he had done had caused disdain from Zhang Pijiang, a scholar who had just graduated from the academy. He felt aggrieved and disdainful.

As expected, the students trained by the Han Emperor are so hypocritical. If this Tianzhu Trading Company belonged to him, Hu Hai, he would accept it no matter how bad his reputation was or how much others looked down on him. He even engaged in the slave trade, so why would he care about his reputation?

But the reality that made Hu Hai screw up was that more than 90% of the shares of Tianzhu Trading Company belonged to the powerful people of the Han Dynasty. What they did in Tianzhu was approved by all the shareholders of Tianzhu Trading Company. The so-called labor trade was not only done by the people of Tianzhu Trading Company, but it could even be said that all the sea merchants from the entire Han Dynasty who went to Tianzhu could do it.

The work was done by all the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants together, and the money was earned by everyone together. Even in the Indian trading company, he earned less than one-tenth of the money. As a result, all the evil deeds and all the bad reputation were put on his head.

My dear, do all the hundreds of ships running between India and the Han belong to me, Hu Hai? The 100,000 Indians transported by the Han this year were all done by me, Hu Hai. These hypocrites of the Han made money but refused to admit it, and let me take the blame. What a bunch of hypocritical hypocrites.

Even your brother is using Indian laborers, and Korean people are marrying Indian brides. You don't despise your brother, but you despise someone else.

Of course, Hu Hai had gone through more than a decade of setbacks, and although he was furious inside, he remained expressionless. He did not make trouble for himself with Zhang Pijiang, but continued to chat with Zhang Buzhi about the affairs of Tianzhu.

Zhang Buyi said, "I saw in the monthly report that the Han Dynasty has begun to replace wooden tracks with iron tracks. This year alone, 200 miles have been replaced."

Hu Hai was somewhat surprised and asked, "Master Buyi is also planning to build railways in South Korea?"

Hu Hai helped Chen Sheng build a hundred miles of railway tracks. The material cost alone was 5 million coins, plus the transportation and laying costs, Chen Sheng paid more than million yuan for the hundred miles of railway tracks. You should know that Chen Sheng had the Luzon Copper Mine as collateral.

Although Zhang Buzhi made some money in Tianzhu, it was far from the wealth he gained from the Luzon Copper Mine.

Zhang Buyi smiled awkwardly and said, "The people of a small country like South Korea cannot afford railroad tracks, but the wooden tracks replaced by my country should be cheap. I have already sent my men to buy them, but the transportation volume is large, so I would like to ask Mr. Zhao to help me buy and transport these second-hand wooden tracks back to South Korea."

Hu Hai smiled and said, "That's easy. When I come to Korea again, I will help you transport the wooden rails to Korea."

After Hu Hai left, Zhang Pijiang said, "Brother, you should not get too close to Hu Hai. He has a very bad reputation."

Zhang Buyi said calmly, "Without Hu Hai transporting laborers from India, do you want me to go to India to transport laborers myself?"

"Korea was founded late. Among all the principalities, Korea is the weakest. Now that India is helping Korea develop, are you going to give up this path? Do you know that when we open up the wilderness, no matter how well prepared we are, people will die for various reasons? Since Korea was founded, the year with the highest number of deaths was a year with thousands of people dying accidentally, including more than a hundred people from the Han Dynasty.

And now, because of these Indians, not a single Han Chinese citizen has died of an accident this year. How do you think you should choose between these Indians and the Han Chinese people?"

Zhang Pijiang was speechless. Slavery was the system that the emperor opposed the most. The Han Dynasty spent more than ten years to completely eliminate the slavery system within the Han Dynasty. No one in the world dared to plunder the people of the Han Dynasty as slaves. He knew that the emperor also had shares in the Tianzhu Trading Company. What Hu Hai did was obviously tacitly approved by the emperor.

(End of this chapter)