In fact, most of the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty were not from Africa, and their main source of origin was the indigenous people in Nanyang.
When Arab merchants sailed to Datang to do business, they arrested and sold them along the way.
But this made Li Yunze even more angry.
He doesn't like the Kunlun slaves from Africa, and the natives from Southeast Asia are even more evil.
No one knows more clearly than him how the Nanyang natives treat the Chinese people.
After driving away the Arabs who came to do business, Li Yunze still felt angry.
He wandered back and forth in the residence of Zhou Bao's Jiedushi, his hands behind his back. After a while, he made up his mind and summoned the naval commander in the army.
"Listen," Li Yunze said with a sullen face, "This festival will allocate funds and materials to you, summon shipwrights from all over the country to repair and build shipyards, and build large sailing ships. No matter how much manpower and material resources are spent, this festival will will continue to support it.”
Of course, the navy generals were overjoyed by things like this to enhance their strength. They repeatedly praised Jiedu as a man who knew the military and knew how important we and the navy were.
Waving his hands to make everyone stop clapping, Li Yunze followed up and said, "You will recruit more people to strengthen training. Once the army is formed, we will go south immediately."
The navy generals beat their chests loudly and vowed to Li Yunze that they could win the land of Lingnan for Li Yunze.
In their original words, "Jiedu just sits back and waits for us to get the news of winning Lingnan. If there is anything wrong, the generals will have to raise their heads to see us."
Lingnan in this era is not the world-class urban agglomeration of later generations.
Jiangnan has not yet been fully developed, let alone Lingnan.
Not only the products are not abundant, but the population is not large.
Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Lingnan area has always been the role of the melon-eating masses. After the Central Plains Dynasty was established, they had only one way to surrender.
"What are you talking about here?" Li Yunze scolded with a frown, "Do we need you to attack Lingnan? We have already sent troops south this season."
The navy generals looked at each other. They did not attack Lingnan but still expanded the navy on a large scale, especially the sea fleet. Is this for a reason?
Emphasizing land over sea has existed since ancient times. The reason is naturally that China has been a big land country since ancient times.
A general asked unconvincedly, "Jiedu wants me to wait until we go north to the land of Yanliao?"
"Stop guessing." Li Yunze pointed out directly, "After you form an army, use Lingnan as your base, and the fleet will go south to various parts of Southeast Asia to escort immigrants to occupy land and islands."
"Besides that." Li Yunze squinted his eyes, a stern look flashed in his eyes, "There is one more thing. You must clean up the local villains thoroughly to make sure there are no traces left!"
They are all martial artists, so of course they understand the meaning of Li Jiedu's words.
Although I don't know how those Nanyang natives offended Li Jiedu, it doesn't matter to the navy generals. Having a clear opponent is better than anything else.
After all, the same thing applies to the navy when swords and guns are put into the library and horses are released into Nanshan. No one will keep a navy that costs a lot of money but has no rivals.
Building navy ships costs a lot of money, and what's even more exaggerated is that these ships cannot be used for a lifetime after they are built. They usually have to be replaced after more than ten years or sometimes even a few years.
If a war breaks out or something hits a reef, there will be nothing left if a ship that has cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to build sinks into the water.
Now that Jiedu has pointed out their opponents and promised to support the Navy at all costs, what else is there to say? They can just go to Nanyang Ping.
This is not over yet, Li Yunze is very clear about the needs of warriors in this era.
He had to satisfy the needs of the warriors before converting his army to men of good families.
"You will inform the navy officers and men that anyone who obtains the head of an indigenous person will be rewarded with five bolts of silk."
Because of the lack of copper mines, the Tang Dynasty used silk as currency in addition to copper coins.
The currency value of silk has always been very stable, generally fluctuating around the exchange rate of one piece of silk for two copper coins.
In other words, an indigenous head is worth ten thousand dollars!
The eyes of the navy generals brightened instantly.
If it was for work before, now it is for making a fortune for myself.
Li Yunze is also short of copper.
As a precious metal, copper is not only expensive, but also produced in small quantities.
In comparison, silk fabrics are much simpler and more convenient.
The development and scale of the textile industry in the modern world are unimaginable by people in the Tang Dynasty.
Just like the chemical fiber silk silk purchased by Li Yunze, just using part of it and sending it over would be enough to affect the inflation of the Tang Dynasty.
The chemical fiber fabrics he customized in the textile factory were no worse than real silks, and they looked more beautiful. No one would object to using them to pretend to be silks.
For Li Yunze, in the modern world, it is ridiculously cheap. The almost inexhaustible supply of chemical fiber fabrics can be transported in exchange for cleaning up all the Nanyang indigenous people in this era. This business is really too cost-effective.
He does not need the navy to help him conquer the world, the soldiers and horses on land are enough.
What the Navy has to do is to help Middle-earth in this era solve future troubles.
Not only the natives of Nanyang, but also the Angsa bandits.
As a time traveler, if you cannot let this blue planet become the back garden of Middle-earth, that would be a complete failure.
After arranging the navy matters, Li Yunze finally felt better.
In the following days, he sat in Jiangnan to promote the cleanup and rectification of Jiangnan.
Compared with the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was much easier to clean up Jiangnan in the late Tang Dynasty. At least there were not so many scholars who did not pay taxes.
Li Yunze knew that reading was a good thing, but treating reading as a bargaining chip was not a good thing.
With the strong control of the warriors, Li Yunze's firm determination and strong banknote ability as the backing, the rectification work in various places in Jiangnan was proceeding smoothly.
During this period, although some local powerful families, temples, etc. were unwilling to withdraw due to their interests being harmed, and launched various actions in a desperate struggle, they were of no use in the face of absolute strength.
The most intense part of their struggle was to physically eliminate Li Yunze.
Because everyone knows that the source of everything comes from Li Yunze. As long as he is killed, the Xuanwu Army, which has no successors, will soon fall into civil strife. Naturally, no one will seize the temples of powerful families and so on. benefits and then distribute them to the poor
Guizhou leaders.
There were so many assassinations against Li Yunze that it was even said that many powerful families and temples jointly offered a reward of 100,000 yuan just for Li Yunze's head.
Li Yunze, of course, responded to this kind of competition with his own financial resources with financial resources.
He directly doubled the price to 200,000 yuan and posted notices everywhere to inform the assassins that as long as they could identify the person behind the scenes, they would not only be pardoned but also receive double the reward.
None of the powerful temples in the south of the Yangtze River had ever encountered such a thing. In a panic, Li Yunze seized the opportunity and destroyed several of them one after another.
Then they come to their senses and fight back by raising prices again.
Of course Li Yunze is fearless. Even the family that has been passed down from the Three Kingdoms era cannot compete with him for financial resources.
No matter how much wealth there was in the agricultural era, it could not be compared with that in the industrial era.
The two sides continued to increase the price of each other, and the final price even increased to as much as one million yuan.
In the end, the temples of powerful families in the south of the Yangtze River couldn't add any more, because countless red-eyed warriors and civilians were frantically looking for their traces.
Even the servants they originally regarded as their confidants, the dead soldiers in captivity, the clansmen in the family, and even the second and third brothers, etc., all directly chose to sell out for huge sums of money.
If you report the big house that controls the family business, not only can you get away with it, but you can also get a huge reward. Anyone would do this.
With the destruction of many temples of powerful families, the land in the south of the Yangtze River gradually became quiet.
After making arrangements to build school buildings in various places in the south of the Yangtze River and promoting the implementation of the Three Houses Law, Li Yunze set off westward and followed the river to the land of Jinghu.
Again, the land of Jinghu in the late Tang Dynasty is not the land of Jinghu in later generations.
The Jinghu Lake area in this area is not highly developed, and there are large forests, lakes and swamps everywhere.
As for the various wild animals scattered throughout it, they are countless.
Li Yunze saw groups of jackals, tigers and leopards, and crocodiles crawling all over the shore.
In later generations these were protected animals, but here they are overrun.
The existence of these ferocious beasts is also a threat to local people.
So Li Yunze ordered the army to clear up the enemy along the way, and the result was that the army's meat supply was greatly increased.
In addition, he also ordered the burning of dense forests, filling in puddles and swamps, expanding roads, etc., to improve the local living environment as much as possible.
In front of humans who move in groups, if all kinds of ferocious beasts do not escape, they will only end up on the dinner table.
As for the vassal towns, prefectures, and counties along the way, they are basically just looking at the scenery.
There was no way, after sweeping across Jiangnan, Li Yunze already had the attitude of dominating the world.
His invincible reputation and his willingness to take revenge made the weak towns along the way unable to resist.
Li Yunze didn't come to fight, he came to Jinghu to promote reclamation.
The population in the north was so large, especially in Guanzhong, that it was unable to allocate Yongye fields, which directly led to the demise of the Fubing system.
Of course, the unscrupulousness of the powerful families and the temple royal family caused the soldiers to go out to fight for the country for many years. After returning home, they were shocked to find that their own fields had been occupied. This was also an important reason for the demise of the military system.
A simple summary is that the north has more people and less land, while the south has a lot of undeveloped fertile land.
In particular, the land of Jinghu Lake is extremely rich. In later generations, there was a saying that "if Huguang is cooked, the world will be sufficient." '
As for the black land in the northeast, it is far from being developed.
Li Yunze planned to relocate the excessive population in the north to the south of the Yangtze River, to Jinghu Lake, and to the black land of the Northeast.
From now on, it will spread out in all directions until the end of the world.
