Chapter 4783 The place of chaos
Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Japanese have sent a large number of envoys to the Tang Dynasty to the Central Plains to learn all the advanced knowledge of the Central Plains dynasty's systems, economy, architecture, medicine, etc., which promoted a huge leap in the social development of the Japanese country.
The far-sighted people of the Japanese state began to try to implement the "policy of ordering the country" on their territory, which meant that the many forces that were originally separated from the local areas were autonomous according to their regions and formed administrative divisions such as the "prefecture and county system" of the Central Plains Dynasty.
However, this policy involves too many local customs and interest disputes, and requires a huge expenditure of manpower and material resources as well as interest reconciliation. Therefore, it is just a concept and has not yet been implemented.
But the basic system has begun to take shape, that is, the "country" throughout the Japanese country. However, before the final integration was completed, it had to come to an abrupt end due to the sudden invasion of the Ezo people...
The area where Zhuzi Kingdom is located is located at the southern end of the Japanese Kingdom, relatively close to the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo. It has had frequent trade with these two regions since ancient times, so it is considered one of the more prosperous areas in the Japanese Kingdom. Wu Meiniang represents the Royal Navy and prohibits the Yuan family. It seems that it is not bad in Baoning to have a sect attached to it and stay in the ancestral land and drive it to Zhuzi country.
At the very least, there is a glimmer of hope left, and no army will be sent to kill them all in the future. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?
Yuan Xiancheng said with a bitter face: "You don't know something. Now the Japanese country has been fully invaded by the Eni people. The Eni people are overwhelming all the way from north to south. The Japanese are retreating steadily. Now more than half of the Japanese are crowded on Kyushu Island. How can it be tolerated as 'the last place of ancestral home'? Outsiders get involved? If the Yuan family is placed here, they will definitely be regarded as the same deadly enemies as the Eni people. They may not dare to oppose the arrangements of the Tang people, but they will definitely fight to death with me secretly... The descendants of the Yuan family are afraid. There will never be peace.”
Yu Baoning was silent, it seems that the Yuan family is very likely to be involved in the endless war with the Japanese country, and their descendants will never have peace... But what does this have to do with me?
He looked at Yuan Xiancheng and said: "Today, in order to help you Yuan family, I was scolded by Lady Wu in public and ordered to return the money I received from you. I took the risk, worked hard, and even lost face in the whole thing. Nothing was found, It’s really depressing. It’s just me. I have made a friend like you, but I used my family’s connections and power for your matter, and in the end I got nothing and couldn’t explain it to my family.”
Yuan Xiancheng spread his hands, helpless: "What can I do? The entire family's wealth accumulated over the past century has to be dedicated to the Navy with both hands. If there is no more money to thank Mr. for his help, even how to survive after going to Zhuzi Kingdom becomes a problem. The problem is that this kind of kindness will always be remembered in the hearts of Yuan's descendants, and they will repay it in the next life and the next life. "
Yu Baoning thought about it and could only sigh helplessly. Who would have thought that Wu Meiniang would not only want all the money of the Yuan family, but also send the Yuan family to the Japanese country with one stroke? Just as Yuan Xiancheng said, they needed the navy to transport them to the Japanese country. It was difficult to hide a piece of gold under the eyes of the navy when they boarded and disembarked from the ship. The tribesmen, generals, and slaves totaled thousands. How do people survive in Tsukushi Country?
You can’t go farming...
I felt more and more unlucky in my heart. I thought I could extort a huge sum of money from the Yuan family, and befriend Wu Meiniang with the wealth accumulated by the Yuan family over the years, and indirectly please Fang Jun and eliminate the previous feud. This is the best of both worlds. Unexpectedly, the Yuan family's wealth was swallowed up by Wu Meiniang in one gulp, and she couldn't even touch a hair of it.
His face inevitably turned cold, and he said without salt or coldness: "Our two families have been in contact with each other for a long time, and the trade between us is not only a year or two. There is always a bit of love, and I feel sorry for not being able to help you." Feeling guilty, what else can you say about being grateful? It’s just that you will be surrounded by wolves in Japan and it will be difficult to survive, so you should make preparations in advance.”
Yuan Xiancheng's eyes lit up: "Please give me some advice, sir!"
Nowadays, the Yuan family is at the end of its rope. They have no land and no money. They have been sent to a poor and remote place like Zhuzi country and they don’t know how to survive. Since Yu Baoning said to "make preparations early", there must be a way. he.
"The soldiers and slaves under your command must all be capable of fighting, right?"
"I dare not say that I can conquer and fight well. Even today, the slaves have been scattered, some have fled, some have died, and the remaining ones are all loyal and righteous soldiers."
The trees fell down and the hozens dispersed. Since the tragic death of Yuan Gaisuwen and the destruction of Pingrang City, the Yuan clan, which had once been glorious and prosperous in the past, naturally declined. After escaping from Pingrang City, it was pursued by the Tang army and had to escape into the mountains and ravines to survive. The soldiers and slaves had already Just one out of ten.
But precisely because of this, the remaining soldiers and servants are all loyal elites, and this is also the last bit of family wealth left by the Yuan family.
Yu Baoning took a sip of tea and said: "Don't say that I don't miss our old friendship. When you leave, I will give you hundreds of Tang knives, hundreds of spears, hundreds of bows and crossbows, and hundreds of war horses to provide you with everything." The clan has established a foothold in the Zhuzi Kingdom.”
"These are really... the reborn parents of my Yuan family! You can give so many weapons to me, which is equivalent to the rebirth of the Yuan family!"
Yuan Xiancheng was so grateful that tears filled his eyes. Ever since the city of Pingrang was destroyed and Goguryeo fell, the Yuan family had been like a rat crossing the street, everyone was shouting and beating them, and they were the enemy of the whole world. How could anyone have ever taken the initiative to lend a helping hand? What's more, it is the most sophisticated ordnance of the Tang Dynasty. With these ordnance, it is enough to arm an elite force of more than a thousand people. It is not difficult to gain a foothold in the Zhuzi Kingdom.
"Who said it was given to you?"
Yu Baoning's face turned dark. He didn't get a single hair from you, and then he had to put on so many weapons and equipment?
Do you think I look like a fool?
"When the Yuan family entered Japan, they were surrounded by wolves and almost in desperation. It is conceivable that they would inevitably fall into a war with the surrounding Japanese people. How to find a way to survive was extremely urgent. Farming was too slow, mining was too tiring, even if the sea Trade is also limited by its scale and it is difficult to achieve great results. Why not simply use war to support war? ”
Yuan Xiancheng misunderstood Yu Baoning's intention and was a little embarrassed. He quickly asked: "How to support war with war? I would like to hear the details."
"Nowadays, the development of the Tang Dynasty is changing with each passing day. Not only the infrastructure design and construction in various places are in full swing, but also mining, smelting, water conservancy and other industries are booming. These require a lot of manpower. But every citizen of the Tang Dynasty is extremely precious. , it is impossible to dig underground in the dark mines, let alone smelting iron next to the hot blast furnace, so now those who undertake these hard tasks are war criminals, prisoners, and slaves..."
Yuan Xiancheng was enlightened and suddenly understood: "Trading Japanese prisoners to the Tang Dynasty?"
Yu Baoning stroked his beard and nodded: "Although the imperial court has never explicitly legalized the slave trade, because it urgently needs a large population to support domestic construction, it turned a blind eye and adopted a tacit approval strategy. The number of slaves imported into the country next year will not exceed 100,000." ”
Yuan Xiancheng's eyes twitched, gritted his teeth, and sighed dejectedly, because the most slaves imported into the Tang Dynasty in recent years were Goguryeo captives, among which the "Silla maids" were even more famous. The maid is too embarrassed to go out...
But he also understood what Yu Baoning meant. Since the Yuan family lacked the means to survive after going to the Japanese country, they could simply rely on these thousands of elites to initiate a war to capture the surrounding Japanese people, and then transfer to the Tang Dynasty.
The Yu family in Luoyang served as the Yuan family's partner in the Tang Dynasty...
Sure enough, Yu Baoning couldn't hide his excitement: "You, the Yuan family, are responsible for arresting people in the Japanese country, and I, the Yu family, are responsible for selling in Datang. The price must be the highest in the industry. When the money for the ordnance supported by the Yu family is repaid, I will be rewarded." What do you think about sharing the profits between the two families?”
Yuan Xiancheng only thought about it for a moment and then agreed.
If the three kingdoms of Tang, Goguryeo, and Japan are talking about the combat effectiveness of their armies, they should be ranked in this way. The Tang people are undisputedly the best in the world, but in addition to the fact that their soldiers are really powerful in individual combat, their ordnance and equipment also have a great advantage. The Heng Dao, Mo Dao, armor, and crossbows produced by the Tang Dynasty are all top-notch. The best at the bottom, the elite soldiers of the Yuan clan, equipped with the standard equipment of the Tang army, will definitely be crushed against the Japanese who are short in stature and lack weapons.
It is indeed difficult to survive in the Zhuzi Kingdom deep in the Yuan clan and surrounded by Japanese invaders. However, if the captives can be sold to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for more living supplies, military equipment, then it will be a completely different situation. This deal can indeed be done.
What's more, Yuan Xiancheng has no choice...
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"So that Mrs. Wu can know that Yuan Xiancheng has agreed."
After Yuan Xiancheng calmed down, Yu Baoning immediately returned to report to Wu Meiniang.
Wu Meiniang was still sitting behind the bead curtain and said calmly when she heard the words: "This is a good thing. In the future, the trade with the Yuan family will be the responsibility of the family. But at this time, after all, there is Qian Tianhe, the company will not get involved, and the court will I will not interfere, and all consequences will be borne by the family.”
The Tang Dynasty did not encourage the slave trade, nor did it oppose it, but from a national level it would never encourage such a thing. This was the responsibility of a great country and something that Chinese culture could not tolerate. Nowadays, aristocratic families are engaged in the slave trade in private to make huge profits, but no one knows whether there will be legislation in this regard in the future, and neither the firm nor the Fang family will openly participate in this kind of thing.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Wu, I know what to do."
Yu Baoning doesn't care about the consequences of this kind of thing. He only cares about whether he can eliminate the rift with the Fang family and whether he can use this to open up a way to make huge profits. As long as both goals are achieved, he will be the hero of the Yu family. .
The province's own brother wrote to him from Chang'an every three days to reprimand him... However, he very much agreed with Wu Meiniang's intentions. He didn't even know that Wu Meiniang, although the "Eastern Datang Company" has continued to expand in recent years, extending its trade tentacles to the East, The various foreign countries and island countries in Southeast Asia rarely adopt strategies of massacre against the local indigenous people. Instead, they support some groups, suppress some groups, win over some groups, and sit back and watch from the other side with huge force and enjoy the fruits of the war.