After the official notice about hunting natives was posted, it quickly caused a sensation.
Someone specifically read and explained government laws to the illiterate people. Afterwards, the matter was discussed in the streets and alleys, and the government's policies on slaves were discussed. Then someone asked the government whether they could cooperate with the government and provide help. Everyone Together they attacked the native tribes and divided the captured natives 50-50.
Of course, a score of 4 or 6 is fine, but if it is really not possible, a score of 37 or 37 is acceptable. This is the minimum requirement.
Below this limit, you might as well take greater risks to capture the natives, without cooperating with the government. Now it mainly depends on the government's strength and record, so everyone will suffer some losses. A loss, right?
Unexpectedly, Fazheng was very sincere and said that as long as everyone strictly abides by the requirements of the land transfer law and the slave restriction order, the government is willing to give in to the matter of arresting the natives.
There are people in the government who have experience and weapons and equipment, but the profits from the captured natives are only 30%, and the remaining 70% belongs to you.
It’s still 30-70, but the government only wants 30%, and 70% goes to everyone. How about it? Is the government very sincere?
To be precise, we haven't seen any traces of the land transfer decree and the slave restriction order in Ninan County. Today, Emperor Gao is far away, and it is really difficult for them to fully implement the farm transfer decree and the slave restriction order, so I won't go there. It can be executed, and it can be executed now.
Han slaves need to be released in real terms and comply with the requirements of the land transfer laws. On this basis, the government can satisfy you as many native slaves as you want, as long as you are willing to pay a small deposit.
After collective consultations among some large-scale local families, they are quite interested in the idea of cooperation with the government.
Mainly, they also know that the land transfer law in Ninan County is simply a law that helps them increase their land. As long as their heads are not broken, they will definitely not oppose the land transfer law.
With families like these in Ninan County, who dares to say that they can safely run a farm with tens of thousands of acres of land?
Even if there is so much land, they can't develop it. They are always facing extortion from the government and attacks by the natives. Who has the spare time and money to develop those wastelands?
No one has spare time or money, and it costs a lot of money to raise slaves, not to mention that it is difficult to obtain whether they are Han slaves or native slaves in Ninan County.
But now the situation is different. It is somewhat of a disaster for Han slaves to stay at home. The government must try every means to intervene and influence everyone to dominate. But the situation is different for native slaves. According to the requirements of the land transfer law and the slave restriction order, the For native slaves, the government does not care about anything except collecting a tax.
Moreover, the government is willing to cooperate with everyone. They can even cooperate with the government to capture native slaves and bring them back for use. This is a novel experience for everyone.
More importantly, the government can indeed do it.
Different from the previous government, the current government has money, soldiers, strong martial arts and good fighting skills. The previous achievements are in everyone's eyes. They easily eliminated the Tuwang District Company and no one was blinded.
And there is another point worth discussing about this matter.
"Don't forget, except for Rinan County, the entire Jiaozhou is in a similar situation, even Yangzhou and Jingzhou. The land there has not been developed and a large number of manpower is needed. The imperial court issued a slave restriction order and Han slaves were strictly Restrictions, so much land needs to be developed, and Han slaves cannot be used, can't they only use native slaves?
Now we are a little tired and suffer a little loss, but if we capture those natives, in addition to using them for our own use, we can also resell them to Jingzhou and Yangzhou. The people there must also need these natives to help them cultivate their fields. Earth, as the saying goes, things are rare but valuable, by then we might be able to make a lot of money from these natives, what do you think? "
A flexible-minded family representative talked about this matter, and everyone felt it and thought it made sense.
So they all agreed with this idea and felt that they could send people to cooperate with the government to capture the locals. They could use as many as they caught first. When they caught more, they could also cultivate a skilled arresting team.
After a skilled capture team is trained, they will be able to stably engage in the business of capturing slaves. When the time comes, these slaves will be sold to Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places. Local families with large amounts of land will definitely be willing to buy them.
What's this?
This is a business opportunity!
This is a good opportunity to make a fortune and reach the top of your life!
As long as enough natives can be caught and suitable sales can be found, every native can bring them enough wealth.
They sent it.
With such ambitions, the big families agreed to Fa Zheng's request one after another and decided to cooperate with Fa Zheng. They sent people, effort, money, and brought their own food. Together with the government's army, they entered the dense forest to search for soil. to the location of the human tribe, and then launched an arrest operation.
The government can achieve an important political goal—stability—without spending extra money.
Stability is more important than anything else.
As for some of the side effects of achieving stability...
unimportant.
From the middle of December of the first year of Zhenguan to the middle of the first month of the second year of Zhenguan, in one month, the joint government-civilian arrest team relied on the overwhelming mobility and enterprising spirit of the local people, and everyone worked together to destroy seven consecutive cases. Eight native tribes successfully captured more than 2,000 native men and women.
Moreover, these natives are young and strong, young and old. As long as they are caught, regardless of gender, they can be regarded as qualified labor force. After a little training and various taming methods, they can be thrown into the land to work.
The cost is low, the expenditure is small, and the output is high. As long as these native slaves can survive for more than three years, this business will make a profit.
Seeing the efficiency of the blasting operations against the natives doubling, and seeing the rising enthusiasm and efficiency of the people of Rinan County, both Gan Ning and Ma Chao admired Fazheng's head.
Why is this guy so smart?
Fa Zheng is quite proud.
"You can understand this kind of thing after just thinking about it. If we only rely on the government and the army, we don't know how long we will fight with these natives. We will be dragged to death by them. We must think of an effective long-term plan. , this plan can help us reduce our burden. We cannot be on guard for native raids all year round. The mistakes we made before must be corrected.
Just before, it was easy for those who had a lot of land to obtain slaves, but now it is not the case. It is difficult to obtain Han slaves. They can only use natives to replace them. Let us set an example for them and guide them until they have skilled slaves. After joining the team, the natives became wealth, and there was no need for the government to bother to deal with it. The people would naturally deal with it. "
"Spend the least money to do the most things. In the future, there will be no native trouble in Rinan County. You, Fa Xiaozhi, will definitely be the number one contributor. I think, in a few years, you will definitely be the governor of Jiaozhou. By then, Jiaozhou will be the governor of Jiaozhou." If things develop well, you will definitely be able to return to Luoyang and become a high-ranking official before the age of thirty. By then, don’t forget to work together today.”
Gan Ning smiled and spoke half-jokingly and half-seriously. After hearing this, Fazheng felt fascinated.
"I can't imagine the Governor of Jiaozhou returning to Luoyang... It's possible for all of us. General Gan, you are one of His Majesty's earliest subordinates. You are more likely to return to Luoyang to serve, right?"
"You can't say that. Although it is possible to return to Luoyang to serve, after all, you are a general. You must go out to fight to get the most merit. If I return to Luoyang when, I can only say that I am too old. I can’t fight anymore, so I have to go back, and with my temper, what can I do if I go back?”
Gan Ning grinned: "Although Luoyang is good, but with my temperament, it is better to stay outside. There are many restrictions under the emperor's feet. Although it is prosperous, how can it compare to the wilderness of this vast ocean?
By the way, speaking of which, doesn’t His Majesty hope to find someone to sail to the sea and find overseas countries? I'm really interested. I plan to send it to His Majesty to see if His Majesty can allow me to go to sea with him. "
"Does General Gan want to go to sea?"
Fa Zheng smiled: "Although I don't understand all of His Majesty's views on the future, I can understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts. It's just that sailing on the sea is more difficult and dangerous. If you are not careful, you will be killed. Fish belly, although General Gan is good at water, a person is too small and insignificant in this vast ocean."
Saying this, Fazheng couldn't help but cast his gaze in the direction of the sea.
When he set out for Nichinan County, after he got over his seasickness, Fuzheng often stood on the deck smelling the salty sea breeze and feeling the vastness of the sea. It must be said that for him who grew up inland, It's a very novel experience.
You can also feel your own insignificance in the wilderness, but you still feel more down-to-earth. But above the sea, all you can see is the sea. At this time, you will have a strange feeling of emptiness. and a feeling of unreality.
Fazheng doesn't like the sea, but he can understand Liu Bei's yearning.
Liu Bei was still very happy after learning the news that Xianglin County was recovered and Qulian was killed.
Later, he felt very satisfied after learning about Fa Zheng's method in Ninan County to mobilize local forces and the government to attack the natives.
If Fazheng can do this, it means that he fully understands what he means. He understands his intention to mobilize civilian forces to act independently.
Just relying on the imperial army to deal with those natives would take a lot of time and energy, manpower and material resources, and risk large-scale illness and losses in the army. Liu Bei felt that such a thing was too wasteful no matter how he calculated it. , not cost-effective.
So he calculated over and over again, and figured out the possibility of independent civil action, and realized what a fertile soil he had created for this autonomous action.
When people are aware of this fertile soil, they will naturally initiate actions on their own to fight for what they desire, and spontaneously form an industrial chain.
The government only needs to ensure that this industrial chain will not harm its own people and maintain taxes on this industrial chain.
Faced with the two options of internal discomfort and external discomfort, ancient China faced many obstacles and chose the first, less difficult option, which lasted for more than a thousand years. Facts after the Opium War have proven that this path can be followed Not smooth.
Although the first path is not very smooth and will cause many problems of one kind or another, at least the backlash will occur hundreds of years later than the latter path, and it will also take hundreds of years for the backlash effects to finally appear.
At least, it is better to be happy, enjoy, and experience than to never enjoy it, to suffer all the time, and to be moved by yourself.
This kind of self-impression is very unnecessary and very sad. It is something created by those people who are deliberately trying to teach others to learn well, but they are doing their best to make it worse.
When there is no hope for the third way, when there are only two options, choosing the lesser of two evils is the best choice.
And the real problem is that if you want to develop Jiangnan and Lingnan, you need tens of millions of strong laborers and an amount of time measured in thirty years. Without a large number of native people to invest as necessary expenses, with the current situation of the Han Empire Financial capacity and production capacity may take more than a hundred years.
And even with such a large scale of native investment, Liu Bei would at most see the first phase of development completed during his lifetime.
It is not very possible to wait until the next stage.
But he could see a completely different Third Empire of the Han Dynasty, a powerful country that seized the necessary means of production needed for internal development from the outside.
In this way, whether they are on the grasslands or in the Western Regions, whether they are barbarians in southern Yizhou or natives in Jiaozhou, they will soon complete the transformation in identity and nature, and they will soon no longer be an obstacle to governance and development. No longer tax insulators, they...
will become a commodity.
They will go from being a headache for everyone to becoming lucky cats and money trees, thereby becoming a being called primitive accumulation and contributing their existence value to the next stage of revolutionary change.
Once this interesting transformation takes place, the Third Reich's laws of survival will change from the underlying logic. A group of people who survive by relying on a brand new industrial chain will spontaneously maintain this new order with "Chiade Tongyi" as the highest guidance.
A new discourse society that is completely different from the Confucian discourse society will be born.
An immoral and unkind society with the right to speak—the light of modern civilization was born here.
Of course, although Fazheng is smart, he has not yet seen such a distant future and such profound social changes.
He began to carry out his mission.
Governing Nichinan County, and... guiding the foreign merchants who landed in Nichinan County to the right path, welcoming them to come to do business, and reversing their impression that Nichinan County officials are like jackals and hungry tigers, and encourage more foreign businessmen to come Rinan County, came to Jiaozhou for trade.
And Liu Bei needs to know what country these merchants are from and their specific location, if possible...
Well, it should be said that Liu Hui will have his own preparations.
You can arrange for Dongyuan's spies to follow these foreign businessmen back to their motherland to find out what kind of place it is, what its population is, what the climate is, whether it is suitable for human survival, etc.
After obtaining this first-hand information, Liu Bei can begin to prepare a powerful navy and prepare for his pioneering journey.
If the land they own is suitable for survival, then they can develop it - since humans can live there, the Han people can also live there. The virtuous people can live in fertile land.
What is a virtuous person?
He who has strong soldiers and horses is called a "virtuous person".
Fazheng didn't know that Liu Bei was preparing for his own pioneering journey, nor did he know how much change everything he did would bring to this ancient empire.
He just accepted the landing requests from those merchants normally, allowed them to land, and then designated a special area, allowing them to set up stalls and do business in that area, and then pay some business taxes along the way.
According to some of the methods Liu Bei proposed to Fa Zheng before his departure, Fa Zheng felt that these businessmen should know the rules and be willing to pay money in exchange for peace. However, the previous payment had no name and no unified standards, so it was very inappropriate. .
Now we should hand over a unified standard of protection... Bah!
Taxes!
You need to pay a unified standard of taxes and fees! This is more important than anything else!
(End of chapter)
