Chapter 2839
"It shouldn't be easy for you to find these people from the Jurchen tribe. If you only teach them military skills, it would be a waste of resources, right?"
After listening to Chen Yixin's introduction, Bai Kesi also expressed his own opinion: "Since these people and the tribes behind them have the idea of attaching themselves to our country, can they be allowed to play more roles?"
Chen Yixin smiled and said: "Lao Bai, we have actually thought of what you said. You will know it later."
Chen Yixin deliberately kept it secret and was not in a hurry to elaborate at the moment. Instead, he took Bai Kesi and his party to the officers' mess for lunch and inspected the base's logistics facilities.
After a brief lunch break, the group took a carriage out of Jinzhou Camp and headed to the official business center.
Although Haihan currently controls a large area north of Jinzhou, Jinzhou is still Haihan's financial and trade center in Liaodong. Most of the goods entering and leaving Liaodong are collected and distributed in Jinzhou, so there are a large number of commercial institutions. Gathered here. In order to integrate resources and facilitate management, the Northern Region Management Committee established the Liaodong Investment Promotion Bureau. This business center is a trading organization under the Investment Promotion Bureau.
The function of the business center is to publish supply and demand information for various commodities across Liaodong, and at the same time provide merchants with supporting services such as contract signing, settlement, transportation, and warehousing. The most important thing is that this is an official organization, and the business activities it participates in are equivalent to official endorsement, and merchants do not have to worry about some uncontrollable risks in the business process.
The business center interfaces with local governments and obtains first-hand information. Therefore, even those powerful business groups cannot be as timely as official agencies in collecting and summarizing business information from various places. This also provides business opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing them to compete with large businesses on the same starting line.
At present, there are nearly a hundred merchants of all sizes stationed here, covering almost all walks of life related to people's livelihood, and the monthly trade volume is also showing a gradual increase trend. Although it is not yet comparable to the Denglai area in Shandong, both the officials and participating merchants are very optimistic about the development prospects here.
However, this model is nothing new in Haihan, and it pales in comparison to the scale of commercial operations in the south. Even Ning Zijing felt that there were still many areas for improvement after listening to the introduction.
But what Chen Yixin wanted to show Bai Kesi and others was not the operational level of the business center, but something else.
After sitting down in the reception room, Chen Yixin ordered to go down, and soon several people were brought in. Judging from the clothes and appearance of these people, they all belong to the tribe outside the Guan Dynasty, and there are even Manchus with money rat tail hair, but their expressions are very respectful.
"These people are all from the Jurchen tribe and have received military training at the Jinzhou Camp. However, it was later discovered that they were more talented in other fields, so we arranged for them to switch careers to business."
Chen Yixin briefly introduced the background of these people, and then named one of them named Bachtan and asked him to talk about his experience and current work.
Bachtan looked to be in his thirties, and when he spoke he spoke in Mandarin Chinese. Although he had a heavy accent, you could basically understand what he said. Bakhtan is not a Jurchen, but Jilie Charming. This ethnic group lives in the coastal area in the direction of the Sea of Japan and the Strait of Tartar, and the area of its territory even exceeds that of the Jianzhou Jurchens.
However, because the Jiliemi tribe lives far away from the middle-earth and is in a bitter cold area that is not easy to farm, their civilization has been stuck in the age of fishing and hunting for a long time. Of course, their strength cannot be compared with that of the Jianzhou Nuzhen who established the Jin Kingdom on their own.
After the late Jin Dynasty changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty and officially established the country, a large area of territory outside the customs that originally belonged to the Ming Nuergandusi was annexed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Jiliemi area was naturally not immune. Bakhtan's tribe had been drafted by the Manchus twenty years ago, and young men were drafted into the army at a ratio of one in every three men to serve in the army.
At that time, the soldiers of the Qing army were divided into three levels: bannermen, armored men, and Aha. The bannermen are Jurchens, with the highest status; Aha is composed of Han, Korean and other slaves, with the lowest status; and the armored men in the middle are soldiers of various non-Jurchen tribes, and Jilie Charming belongs to this group.
However, the long-term battles did not bring back wealth and honor to the Jiliemi tribe. Most of these war dividends went to the pockets of the Eight Banners Manchus. The Jiliemi tribe did not receive any actual benefits except for the large number of men lost in the war.
Under such circumstances, the Jiliemi tribe's anti-war sentiment gradually grew, and they were no longer willing to cooperate with the Qing court's conscription measures. But this not only failed to win better treatment for them, but also attracted punishment from the Qing court. The number of Jiliemi tribes being drafted increased, and after enlisting in the army, they were often sent to the most dangerous areas to carry out high-risk operations. Task.
By around 1648, joining the army was almost a dead end for the men of the Jiliemi tribe. At this time, the Qing army was clearly on the weaker side in the military confrontation in the Liaodong region. More and more people in its ruling area began to notice this trend, and many people were secretly contacting Haihan.
It was Ji Liecharming, a prisoner of the Qing army, who built a bridge between Haihan and the Jiliemi tribe. Although the process was somewhat tortuous and took several years of contact, the two parties finally established a trade relationship.
For the Jiliemi tribe, they did not gain any significant benefits from being attached to the Manchus for more than ten years. On the contrary, they lost a large number of men and seriously affected the tribe's reproduction. The Haihan people are willing to provide various living supplies to the Jiliemi tribe. Without the need for war, the Jiliemi tribe can obtain everything they want through trade channels, even strictly controlled materials such as salt, iron, tea and sugar. Under such circumstances, it is self-evident who is the worthy partner between Haihan and Manchu.
However, it was quite troublesome to carry out trade activities between the Haihan and Jiliemi tribes during this period. The jurisdictions of the two sides were still separated by Manchu territory, so goods could not be transported by land. Haihan had to make a large circle from the sea. Departing from the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, crossing the Sea of Japan and arriving at the territory of the Kiremi tribe.
Later, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties gradually lost to Haihan's offensive and took the initiative to apply for an armistice and negotiate a peace. The two sides established trade relations at the border. Haihan encouraged Jilie to join in. As for his identity, as long as he spends a little more money, it is not difficult to get a bannerman. With the business resources specially provided by Haihan, businessmen like Baktan could quickly gain a foothold in the market and even began to establish connections with high-level officials in the Qing Dynasty.
Thanks to this special status, Bakhtan could enter and exit the two countries smoothly, so he sold Haihan not only Manchurian specialties, but also a large amount of intelligence information.
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