Win the Ding 1617

However, what Matsudaira Nobuzuna did not expect was that his deeds brought a new round of struggle in the country of Wa.

The labor output index of 30 is enough to make everyone from the Tokugawa family to an ordinary daimyo crazy.According to the calculation of the so-called 66 vassals of the Edo shogunate, (there were originally 270 countries, but now it is the so-called shogunate system, there are more than 500 vassals, large and small, plus those branch vassals, there are almost 30 .) Even if it is a small sample name, it can be divided into thousands of indicators!With these thousands of labor export indicators, the idle labor force in the country is no longer a hidden danger to public security, and there are also a large number of overseas remittances and imports of cloth, silk, etc., which can make life in your own territory much easier!For such a thing, which prince would not make great efforts to fight for it?Even General Tokugawa himself has a headache about how to allocate and use the Yusanjia in the family and his own banner.Because these 30 workers went to Nanzhong to engage in the most arduous and even dangerous physical labor, and the rate of personnel attrition was extremely high.In other words, after one year, it is unknown whether they will continue to recruit another [-] people!Then, fighting for more posts now will lay the foundation for continued recruitment in the future.

What made the domestic daimyos, generals, and even the public officials headed by the emperor even more excited was that the recruitment of Japanese mercenaries jumped from the original limit of no more than 3 to 5.This is undoubtedly at least double the number of posts!

Although it is said that this large discount is also a small one, it made the Tokugawa generals and daimyo princes in Wa country smile knowingly, expressing that we understand the conditions.This condition is, "Originally, the upper limit was [-] soldiers, but now you have a great grace, thinking about the worries of allies, and raised it to [-]. However, you must hand over [-] soldiers to His Majesty the Emperor for recruitment, food and other matters, Controlled by the Emperor's officials."

There is a saying among the monks and aristocrats in the country that the highness born by the current emperor is actually the seed sown when His Highness Li Jiada came to Japan to help calm the Kyushu crisis.Otherwise, why over the years, the wife of the Li family, and even after the death of His Royal Highness the Li family, the general himself allocated money and food from the internal treasury to the emperor's family for daily expenses?Isn't that because he is afraid that the son of his concubine will have a hard life outside!

Now, the recruitment of [-] soldiers has to be handed over to the emperor's family, which is just to let the emperor's family have some money and food benefits! "The ministers of the public family are good at singing the wind and the moon with His Majesty the Emperor, and writing waka. As for recruiting soldiers, let us share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor!"

A group of foreign daimyos headed by the lord of the Yonezawa Domain, Uesugi Jokatsu, set their sights on the [-] mercenary recruitment target held by the Emperor's family.

Uesugi Dadakatsu's life has not been very good these years.As the nephews of Nagao Jinghu, their Uesugi family was sealed in Aizu by the monkey Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Taiko inspection period.The annual stone height in Aizu is 120 million stone.Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. After the monkey died, the Tokugawa family took over.They were transferred to Yonezawa, which is only 30 stones high each year.If Uesugi Jingsheng hadn't sent troops to participate in the Osaka Winter Battle, the Uesugi family would have rushed to the street first

After Uesugi Kagekatsu passed away in 1623, the lord of the Yonezawa domain was succeeded by Uesugi Takakatsu.After Uesugi Dingkatsu succeeded to the throne, the strength of the Uesugi family was not as good as before, but in order to maintain the dignity of Lao Tzu's reign, Uesugi Dingkatsu had to maintain a huge retainer group and samurai group.It is said that there were more than 6000 samurai in the Yonezawa domain at one time.This is the number when Uesugi Kagekatsu was in Aizu that year. After Yonezawa was transferred to Yonezawa in 1601, the fief decreased from the original 120 million to 30, but the number of samurai did not decrease.The source of money and food has been reduced by three-quarters, but the number of people who eat has not decreased.It's no wonder Uesugi Dingkatsu doesn't worry!

Now blessed by the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, another good opportunity has come down from the sky to increase income and reduce expenditure. If you don’t grab it, Uesugi Dingkatsu will really find a way to jump into the sea!

In order to get more mercenary indicators from the emperor, the Uesugi family also went all out to send away the samurai who had been idle all day wielding swords and guns in their feudal domain and sent them to the battlefield to be consumed.He did not hesitate to go to the treaty port to find businessmen to borrow usury loans, bought a lot of expensive gifts, and went to the emperor to poach the door and make friends.

However, the Uesugi family is not the only one with similar ideas.All of a sudden, the daimyos who came and went to visit His Majesty the Emperor, Mother and Son, were running endlessly.In the end, it was Tokugawa Iemitsu General Takechiyo who came up with a superb method to prevent the occurrence of such things that might allow foreign daimyos to collude with the government and strengthen their power.

"The recruitment of 2 mercenaries was selected and recruited by the shogunate from various feudal vassals on behalf of the courtiers. The matter of money and food is still handled by His Majesty the Emperor's appointees." In other words, His Majesty the Emperor's 270 mercenaries Well, that's our face, we have to make a good selection within the entire territory of the Wa Kingdom, choose the strong and strong man, so as not to lose the emperor's face. (Of course, the subtext is that these [-] people, more than [-] feudal vassals, and I Tokugawa Iemitsu's direct banner have a share. No one should try to take advantage of it!) As for the matter of money and food, since the general said If His Majesty the Emperor sends someone to control it, then we dare not disobey the general's wishes.

"Old Zhongxin Gang, Matsudaira, worked hard for the country and worried about state affairs. You should rest. However, it is the true nature of my courtiers to be loyal to the king. After you return to the country, you should quickly arrange the recruitment of labor and the employment of volunteers from the Kanto countries. And will Laborers and volunteers from all over the country gathered quickly and transported them to the sea from Kawagoe City. This order must not be mistaken!"

This order seems to be quite severe, but in the eyes of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, it is worth ten thousand stones.The order clearly stated that the recruitment of laborers and mercenaries from various countries in the Kanto region was entrusted to him to handle, that is to say, this part of the right was put in his hands.Moreover, Kawagoe City, as his fiefdom, has become a gathering place for laborers and mercenaries to be transported out of the sea, which undoubtedly put a lot of money in his pocket.Dozens of 10 people passed by his fief, and the consumption of these people, the import, landing, and transshipment of the materials and related money and food they needed had to first pass through your territory of Matsudaira Nobuzuna. This is undoubtedly Tokugawa Iemitsu Classmates are the best rewards for their capable subordinates, although they are also generous to others.

In just a few years, Kawagoe Castle has become the second largest city and the largest trading port in Japan after Edo.This is something Matsudaira Nobutsuna could never have imagined.

At this moment, he has to face the trouble of his peers coming to grab business.

"Your Highness, as your strongest ally and most powerful partner in the West, our Ottoman Empire is also willing to sell you strong slaves at the cheapest price!" Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire sitting next to Matsudaira Nobutsuna Ibrahim, the representative of Grand Vizier Koprulu, heard the interpreter quietly translate the conversation between Li Shouhan and Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and couldn't help but feel happy.After Nobutsuna Matsudaira kowtowed to thank him, he also stood up and knelt down in front of Li Shouhan's seat according to the etiquette of the Central Plains, saying that what these dwarfs can do, so can our Ottoman Empire!

You must know that the current Ottoman Empire spans the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, rather than the countries established by the white skins in history. , all claim to span the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.With such a vast area, naturally, there are all kinds of people who do not obey the rule. These heretics, heretics, traitors, and thugs have always been the largest source of slaves in the Ottoman Empire.For example, during the mopping up campaigns carried out by Grand Vizier Koprulu in the Balkans, thousands of prisoners were often captured when a castle was taken down.For these captives, the historical tradition of the Ottoman Empire is to sell them as slaves.The difference is nothing more than skilled craftsmen, aristocratic women with status, and whether they are literate or not.Whether the body is strong or not, because these will directly affect the price.

In Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo", the beauty Heidi was acquired by Monte Cristo from the chartered slave traders of the Ottoman Emperor.Because of her noble blood and status, Monte Cristo bought her freedom from slave traders with a whole emerald equivalent to two thousand bags of coins.And she was sold for a thousand sacks by Fernand, who had betrayed her father and her country.Therefore, population and slave trade are also the essence of a long-standing traditional culture among European white skins.

Today, Ibrahim is obliged to carry forward this cultural tradition for the benefit of the Ottoman Empire and the Koprilu family.Anyway, whether it is the pagan prisoners of war in the Balkans, or the heretics and rebels in the empire who oppose the Coprulu family, sooner or later they will all be slaves.Rather than feeding them with food and water, it is better to use the rest of their lives to exchange some benefits for the empire early.

"The mountain people who are good at raising horses, cattle and sheep in the Balkans, the Nubians in Africa who are as black as charcoal and stronger than camels, the Arabs in the deserts of West Asia, and the people on the European plains, the Ottoman Empire can be thousands of people. Tens of thousands are provided to you. It is much cheaper and more cost-effective than hiring labor!"

Since I want to compete with my peers for business, I naturally want to talk about how cost-effective my goods are.Lord Ibrahim despises those dwarfs from the Japanese country very much. They are not as tall as the thighs of the Kenyan female slaves that this envoy gave to His Royal Highness, and they come to compete with me for business? !

"Five young and middle-aged male slaves, in exchange for a piece of armor! Or other equivalent commodities!"

"One firecracker, equipped with twenty rounds of ammunition, only needs five young and middle-aged slaves! If it is old and weak women, it will be six!"

"One breastplate or leather armor, three slaves!"

Accompanied by Ibrahim's proposal to exchange slaves for all the supplies needed by the Ottoman Empire to make up for the trade deficit of exporting raw materials and importing goods, similar cries or bargaining voices began in the east from West Asia to the west to The Danube plain, south to the vast expanse of the African continent, rang out.It is not only the lowly slave traders who carry out this traditional trading activity of the European nobles, but also the proud nobles, kings and dukes, bishops and popes also take out the prisoners of war and heretics in their hands and let them go through the heavy burden. manual labor to wash away his sins.

And on the famous romantic Mediterranean coast, not only European gentlemen and nobles, but also romantic Turkey, many large seaports along the coast, driven by the booming slave trade and transshipment activities of the population, have become a prosperous slave trade port.Tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, food, weapons, armor, gunpowder, medicine, spirits and so on were unloaded from sea ships one after another.These commodities circulated quietly, and soon became hard currency in the hands of slave traders.It is used to trade with those guys who specialize in capturing and trafficking slaves.

The slave traders on the port are considered the end of this human trade chain. They are engaged in trading activities while trafficking slaves in the company offices located in the port.In the Balkans, in the Danube Valley, in West Asia, and in North Africa, Ottoman governors, French nobles, German electors, and Arab chiefs all turned their enemies and peaceful residents into prisoners of war under swords and guns. Long-distance trafficking turned into slaves in the slave trading market near the port.Get back what you need.In particular, the Grand Vizier Koprulu of the Ottoman Empire, because he possessed almost inexhaustible Japanese mercenary resources, was able to fight in southern Europe in the Balkans and in the Italian peninsula. The sources of prisoners of war and slaves are increasing day by day, gradually entering a virtuous circle of development: because there are mercenaries in hand, they can be invested in various battlefields, so the results of the war will be much more than before.With these victories (population, gold and silver, territory), the power of the Coprulu family can continue to be developed, and more mercenaries are needed.

However, not long after, the merchants engaged in the slave trade of the Southern Guangdong Army pointed out, "This kind of long-distance trafficking, the loss rate on the road is too high!" Either reduce the purchase price, or find a way to reduce the loss rate!As a reasonable and reasonable need, it was naturally agreed by the Grand Vizier and the senior officials of France, Germany, Italy, and the Vatican.Therefore, the slave traders in Nanzhong can choose the islands they think are suitable along this slave trade or sea trade route, build warehouses, and build them into bases for replenishment of ships, so that the slaves can get a short respite opportunities to avoid excessive death rates.

Ever since, in the Persian Gulf, along the coast of the Red Sea, over the islands and harbor cities, the black and red flags representing the Southern Guangdong Army and the Phoenix flag representing the Li family flew up.According to Li Shouhan's wishes, the firm began to buy land from those chiefs and emirs through slave and commodity trade. Whether it is cotton and wheat or pure desert, as long as you are willing to sell it, I can get it. exchange with you.

"These ports and deserts in the Persian Gulf region should be passed down as the property of our Li family. No matter how poor or difficult, we must not give up!" This is what Li Shouhan warned his children at the Li family's family banquet.The Li family's sons and daughters are used to his arrangement, and these similar words have also been tested.

And Tianzhu, which faces Nanzhong across the sea, made full use of its geographical advantages.Sovereign Lords, Sultans, and emperors of the Mughal Empire turned groups of heathen prisoners of war into slaves, stuffing people into the cabins like the fish pots produced in Nanzhong, and then, one ship after another The slaves of the slaves soon crossed the ocean and arrived on the island controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army. They were asked to come out to get some air, and then they were stuffed into the cabin and passed through the Managa Strait to Lijiapo to complete the delivery.

Through such activities, the population and labor gap of the Southern Guangdong Army was filled.Officials, factory owners, and plantation owners everywhere were even pleasantly surprised to find that not only did the conscription cause trouble to the labor force because the lord was going to fight in the Central Plains, on the contrary, because of the influx of a large number of Japanese laborers, French slaves, and Tianfang slaves, Income, the labor force of their own enterprises has shown a growing trend.

However, the new Japanese laborers are often educated by those labor leaders who have been naturalized, or who have been here for some years and are trying to complete the achievements of naturalization.

"Bang!" A muffled sound hit the head of the new Japanese laborer hard.All the Japanese laborers assembled and lined up before going to work, stood on the road and bowed at ninety degrees.This scene can be seen every day in the rubber plantation of Li's family, in the mines of Nanzhong, and on the docks everywhere.It is said that this is a habit of the Japanese country. Whenever there is a war in their hometown, the villagers will line up on both sides of the road to send off the warriors.Unexpectedly, this habit was well passed down by batches of Japanese laborers, and they were used by their compatriots.

"Baga! Who is your compatriot?! I have completed the naturalization period, and I will soon obtain a Chinese household registration! I will become a glorious and honorable Chinese!" Lecture.This wooden stick, which he calls a "strength injection stick", is used to assign tasks before and after work every day, or to workers who cannot complete tasks.The person who was beaten should bow his head and admit his mistake, which means that he has caused you trouble.

Nanzhong cadres stopped them after seeing it, but the beaten person spoke up for the beating person, saying that he made a mistake and was punished voluntarily.The cadres of Nanzhong were baffled, so they had to reluctantly think that the Japanese had special habits and should be respected appropriately.Of course, it took a long time to realize that the Japanese didn't want to do this either, but the traditional habits in their hometown were too stressful and the inertia was too great.In fact, not to mention in this book, the same is true in Japan now. Many people are amazed by the textbook-like order of the Japanese in public places, but later, according to Japanese students studying in China, it is all forced by the damn atmosphere. You If you don't, you will be regarded as a monster.When I arrived in Datang, I was so happy that I didn't have to say hello to each other in the morning, and I didn't need to start the meal. I talked when I wanted to talk, laughed when I wanted to laugh, and just ransacked my boyfriend when I was angry. This is the life a person should have.Of course, this kind of thing happened in Nanzhong, and it has been decades later. I can only sigh with emotion, no wonder there are anime like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

However, some plantation owners who were not used to it came up to stop them: "Don't you know that the lord once said that you should treat the laborers well? You broke him, who will cut the rubber for me?! Who will pick the spices for me? !"

"Report to the master! This subordinate has a sense of proportion! He won't beat him so that he can't work!"

"Hmph! You bosses beat and scold you every day in order to complete your workload. Aren't you afraid of beating them so impatiently that you will riot?!"

This planter, probably a new planter who came to Nanzhong from the mainland, is not very familiar with this kind of situation, and his mind is full of the habits of the Central Plains, the way of thinking that "the princes and generals have a kindness", lest These laborers, like the starving people in the interior, stomped their feet and rebelled. In that case, the first to suffer would be his property, property and life.

"Rebellion, rebellion is good!" Unexpectedly, small flames appeared in the eyes of the Japanese foreman. "The little ones can't wait for them to get up and make trouble for the masters! One of the little fellows, like the little one, worked in the rubber plantation. Before the big son-in-law came to Nanyang Pingtu to riot, he wanted to protect himself. He led a few fellow countrymen with a rubber knife and rushed out to chop off the heads of seven or eight rebellious natives. Afterwards, he, the leader, was arrested on the spot for a year's worth of meritorious deeds. Issued a Chinese household registration! The little one is trying to follow him!"

The deeds of Bai Xingjiu have long been spread among these Japanese laborers and mercenaries. In addition to working hard every day to complete their own tasks, these people all pricked up their ears and widened their eyes, staring at those The natives and their compatriots, those who burn incense and pray to Buddha, pray for them to come out and make trouble!In this way, I can decapitate and make military exploits to complete my naturalization as soon as possible.

After hearing this, the plantation owner was full of astonishment.Unexpectedly, Nanzhong can do this?Liang Guogong is really a strange man!Being able to squeeze these coolies into such a field made them happy.Satisfied, he took the power injection rod in the hands of the Japanese foreman and looked carefully, "You are fine. This injection rod can be promoted in several of my plantations. Do it well, and I will promote you to do it later." Big head! Manage all the Japanese laborers!"

"Small, thank you master for your attention! Thank you master for cultivating!"

"There's no need to be too polite! By the way, what's your name? I'll report it to the household in the county later."

"Back to the master! My little surname is Gaoye, and my single name is Qiao. My little brother has already been a soldier in the army, feeding horses for the artillery team in the army. I wrote a few days ago that I must find a way." Make military achievements and be naturalized as soon as possible!"

"Okay! Everyone in your Gaoye family has a loyalty to Mu Tianchao. If you work hard, the Duke will see it."

However, no one knew that the Duke also encountered new troubles.