This year, the Tatar tribes who originally lived well on the grasslands, especially the small and medium-sized tribes near Yunzhou County, all suffered!
I just got up early in the morning, and I didn’t even have time to put out the water. The next moment, a group of strange tribal cavalry with red eyes rushed into the tribe and started slashing and killing them. After the tribe’s resistance was completely broken down, the young men were tied up one by one. The candied haws led him to the south.
Since the Yunzhou County Sheriff's Office issued the reward, this kind of scene has been happening every day in the small and medium-sized Tatar tribes near Yunzhou County.
At the same time, a large number of labor forces were added to the mines that were originally short of manpower, and the problem of ore shortage was gradually solved.
It wasn't until the missing labor force was replenished that after counting, it was discovered that in this reward, the county governor's office had given out nearly 300,000 taels of silver!
This also means that the red-eyed Yunzhou County tribes have captured nearly 30,000 young men!
The Tatar tribes within hundreds of miles of the northern grasslands outside Yunzhou County were directly plundered!
The major tribes within the territory were making a lot of money. When they received the news from the Yunzhou County Yamen that they would stop offering rewards, they all felt regretful. Originally, they had already targeted a country with a population of 20,000 more than 700 miles away. A large tribe, ready to play a joint battle and make a fortune by taking over this tribe, but unexpectedly the Yamen refused to accept it.
They had no choice but to give up this tempting idea and expressed to the Yamen that as long as the prince needed it, all the tribes would die for the prince! If there is such a good thing in the future, we must notify them as soon as possible!
A ridiculous human trade has added a large amount of labor force to Yunzhou County, where labor is scarce.
The major iron-making workshops in Yunzhou County began to produce iron at full capacity. The terrifying amount of iron production drove the cost of ironware in Yunzhou County to an extremely low level, so Feiyun Trading Company began to dump a large amount of ironware into the customs.
With low prices, various ironware produced in Yunzhou County are rapidly expanding their market share at an extremely terrifying speed.
Large sums of money were sent back to Yunzhou County. The people in the county were rich, and the Yamen also received a large amount of tax revenue.
By the way, the commercial tax in Yunzhou County is very high. The commercial tax as high as 2 out of 10 made the merchants who were used to 1 out of 30 complain.
But this is an order from Prince Yun's Mansion. If you want to continue doing business in Yunzhou County, you can only obey it.
Fortunately, except for the merchants who are doing local business in Yunzhou County, most of the merchants are engaged in the business of transporting materials from the customs to Yunzhou County for sale, and this kind of business has a characteristic, that is, it is extremely profitable.
In other words, the local people in Yunzhou County have always been able to buy high-priced products, and they are reluctant to give up such huge profits even if the tax is high.
When the people get rich and the yamen get rich, what will happen?
Yamen began to invest a lot of money to develop infrastructure.
The crude city walls were torn down and rebuilt, and the muddy roads in the city also had to be rebuilt.
The people in the city want to live a good life once they have income, repair their mud houses, and buy more good things.
As a result, a large number of products such as soap, milk powder, mirrors, etc. appeared in Feiyun Trading Company's shop. There are so many products that you can't imagine that they don't sell them.
In this way, a large amount of money flowed into Zhao Jun's pocket, and the Yamen also received a large amount of tax revenue.
Infrastructure construction has also been carried out more vigorously.
So, the labor shortage appeared again!
The Yamen offered a high price of twenty taels of silver per month, but they couldn't find any workers!
That day, the tribal leaders who received the news rushed into the county governor's office with smiles on their faces. That day, they left the county governor's office with even happier smiles.
On that day, the young men of each tribe fed their horses, picked up their scimitars, and with red eyes, shouted and waved their scimitars under the orders of their respective tribal leaders and rushed across the border again.
That day, the leader of a large Tatar tribe more than 700 miles away from Yunzhou County suddenly felt a chill on his neck. He looked up to the south in confusion, and the news that was sent back last year suddenly appeared in his mind.
A man-eating demon appeared in the south, and a large number of small and medium-sized tribes were completely eaten by this silent demon.
It was not until last winter that this demon finally disappeared, but the small and medium-sized tribes in the south were almost wiped out.
Could it be that the devil appears again?
A bad premonition emerged in the mind of the tribal leader, and the uneasiness made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Soon, however, the uneasy premonition became a reality.
That day, the large number of cavalry surrounding them from all directions made the leader understand that there were no evil spirits in the world, but the traitors from the south who had taken refuge with the Southerners. They returned to the grassland again and pointed their scimitars at them.
The battle ended quickly. There was a huge difference in the fighting power between those holding bone arrows and those holding iron arrows.
In just one day, this large tribe of 20,000 people became history and turned into dust.
The United Tribes of Yunzhou County returned to Yunzhou County with nearly 10,000 young and strong laborers with smiles on their faces.
Their journey has not yet stopped. News has just returned from the expedition. Less than a hundred miles away from this tribe, traces of a large tribe have been found again. Based on the clues, it is judged that another tribe has migrated to station nearby.
The number should be about 30,000.
The red light bloomed again. Where was the large tribe? They were just white flowers that could move around!
Looting and development always coexist. When the environment you are in cannot allow you to develop peacefully, relying on plundering others, whether it is labor or materials, can allow a force to develop rapidly.
In the battle of blood and fire, Yunzhou County, which was originally the most desolate state in the Song Dynasty, began to develop quietly.
The development of Yunzhou County means that other forces that are close to him and have no need to worry will become the nourishment of Yunzhou County.
Zhao Jun knew this very clearly and was not at all intolerant.
In his opinion, this is how the world is, the law of nature is that the weak eat the strong.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye. Yunzhou County has tall city walls, wide streets, countless shops of all kinds, and the people have abundant money in their pockets.
Everything is better than it was five years ago, and everything is worth it.
In the development of Yunzhou County, some defects will inevitably appear. This is a side effect of rapid development.
Demographic composition issues.
The original population of Yunzhou County was less than 100,000. Even though people began to have a large number of children due to the improvement of life in recent years, the population still did not exceed 130,000. In order to develop and make up for the missing labor force, the Tatars who were captured over the years were The number of Tatar slaves has reached a terrifying number of nearly 200,000, twice as many as Yunzhou County.
This is a horrifying statistic and a very serious safety hazard. Originally, it had to be ignored because of the labor shortage.
However, with the development of Yunzhou County, the labor gap is not only narrowing, but also continues to expand in various industries.
The slave trade is also expanding rapidly in this situation, and there are more and more Tatar slaves in Yunzhou County. The county governor's office can no longer ignore this security risk.
Just last year, the bill to convert superior slaves into civilians, signed by His Royal Highness King Yun, officially came into effect.
If any Tatar slave has worked at his job for more than three years, the county governor's office will pay him wages according to the minimum wage standard of Yunzhou County. After the slave has accumulated five taels of wages from his wages, the slave can redeem his freedom from the government. You can also apply to obtain Yunzhou County civilian status and register in Yunzhou County.
The minimum wage in Yunzhou County is increasing every year. From the initial five cents of silver, the monthly minimum wage has now risen to one, two, and one month.
According to this standard, the average slave knows that after meeting the first condition, the longest slave will be free in as little as one year.
However, due to the fact that meeting the first condition was sufficient for the slave's daily living needs and that he had to pay for it himself, the process of accumulating the ransom money was also postponed.
But even so, a slave only needs to work for the Yunzhou County Yamen for a maximum of five years before he can become free.
However, if a slave made a significant contribution to the government at work during his slave period, the county governor would personally sign a commendation order, and the slave who received the commendation would be freed directly.
With the issuance of this bill, one slave after another became free and became a native of New Yunzhou.
Yunzhou County, which originally had huge safety risks due to the large number of livestock slaves, also fell into stability due to the implementation of this bill.
So far, the entire Yunzhou County has a population of 300,000, of which there are nearly 200,000 people with household registration. There are also 100,000 slaves working in the mines day and night to mine ore and fill the missing labor force in various industries to provide for the future. Work freely and hard.
At this time, in Prince Yun's Mansion...
