"Thousands of barbarians were killed."
Liu Yu was also quite speechless. He finally found some slave laborers to do some hard work, but why did you all get killed? Didn't it mean that slaves and servants were precious resources in the Jin Dynasty?
"Basically kill them all, except for a few clever ones left behind." Zhang Tong said simply.
"Spring farming is about to begin. Wouldn't it be nice to leave some work behind? Why kill them?"
Liu Yu looked very sorry.
"General, if you don't know something, there's nothing we can do about it."
Zhang Tong saw the change in Liu Yu's expression, and felt happy. It seems that Liu Yu in Qingzhou is very fond of these slaves who are not good at farming. Although he doesn't know what the Qingzhou people want them to do, as long as there are people If they are willing to take these savages, the scholars in Lelang and Daifang counties will have a very good living.
Of course, this is also the real reason why Zhang Tong came in person.
Later, Zhang Tong told Liu Yu the reason for the incident.
Since Goguryeo incited the Haoqian people in the east of the two counties to follow the bandits last year, Lelang led the two counties to capture a large number of Haoqian people, a total of 4,000 to 5,000 people. However, it was soon discovered that these Haoqian people were The Bao people are too barbaric and stupid. They basically work less and eat more, especially farming work. If you don't fool the supervisor, it is difficult to detect them.
After winter, the two counties, which had already had a bad harvest for a year, began to lack food. Under the heavy snow and ice, these Haoqiang people raided many times, and finally had no choice but to kill them all.
When Liu Yu heard this, he realized that it was mainly because of lack of food that he killed these slaves. In this era, he has heard too many tragedies or cruel things caused by lack of food.
For example, he knew that disasters and food shortages occurred every year in the Central Plains, resulting in a large number of refugees, which in turn turned into riots comparable to the rebellions of Zhuhu.
The Wuhuan people in western Liaoning and the Xianbei people in the grassland often reduce the food given to the elderly when they lack food supplies every winter, hoping to leave food for the young people in the tribe.
Liu Yu's current plans are almost all centered around food.
Of course, Zhang Tong's two counties were short of food, so everything would be easy to handle. As long as Le Lang led people from the two counties to Liu Yu's pirate ship, it would be difficult to get off again.
Liu Yu immediately told Zhang Tong in detail his plan to exchange grain for captive slaves.
"General, we don't have many prisoners anymore. How can we replace them?"
Liu Yu glanced at Zhang Tong and said with a half-smile.
"Mr. Zhang, without these three thousand slaves, wouldn't there be others? Muji people, Goguryeo people, Baekje people, Buyeo people, and Mahan people, aren't they all the same people who can be slaves? And I I heard that the Baekje and Mahan people are much easier to use than the Haoqian people. Not only do they know how to farm, but they are also quite obedient and docile. They are really excellent talents."
Zhang Tong's eyes lit up, but he soon said sadly.
"What the general said is indeed feasible, but in this case, we have to take the initiative to raid and capture. To be honest, the weapons, armor, bows and arrows used by the soldiers in Lelang's two counties are already in short supply, and the unpredictable Goguryeo people are in short supply. I don’t know when it will appear, but without the replenishment of ordnance and weapons, it really won’t be possible.”
After Zhang Tong finished speaking, he looked at Liu Yu eagerly.
So you are waiting for me here, Liu Yu said in his heart.
Liu Yu understood that it was not nonsense that Zhang Tong said that the situation in the two counties was so difficult. Historically, after Zhang Tong led more than a thousand Han people to defect to Murong Xianbei in Liaodong, thousands of Han families remained in Lelang and Daifang counties. Under the leadership of Haoqiang, he had no choice but to surrender to Goguryeo, but his own strength was not bad. In addition, Goguryeo was later destroyed by Murong Xianbei. This allowed the Han people in Lelang and Fang two counties to retain great autonomy until AD. Early fifth century.
"These are all small matters. As long as Mr. Zhang can decide, I, Qingzhou, can first use swords, arrows, armor, and salt as a deposit and deliver them to the scholars of the two counties. Once the barbarian slaves are captured, they can be converted into compensation."
Liu Yu waved his hand and said generously.
Zhang Tong was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded in agreement.
As for whether the scholars in the two counties of Lelang and Fang had the ability to capture slaves who could pay for their debts, Liu Yu was not worried at all. After all, he could fight against Goguryeo with thousands of households farming and fighting, and there were also a large number of Qingzhou If they can't handle the surrounding Haoqi, Baekje, and Mahan barbarians with their military support, they will immediately surrender.
Zhang Tong is not worried about this. Since the Three Kingdoms era, in order to supplement the labor force, Shu Han suppressed the barbarians in Nanzhong to establish rule, Sun Wu went into the mountains to hunt Shanyue people every year, and Cao Wei moved inward to the Ronghu. In Liaodong, barbarians in the nearby mountains were often raided. Zhang Tong was born in Liaodong, and he was very familiar with these methods of raiding and capturing barbarians as slaves.
Although he has been harassed by barbarians recently, it is still easy to pick up these skills again as long as the sword and gun is strong.
Later, Liu Yu and Zhang Tong began to discuss the specific price, which was also the issue that they were most concerned about.
Although the size of each mu of land and the kilograms of grain per stone in the Western Jin Dynasty were very different from those in later generations, if converted into a market system, the average yield of corn per mu at this time was only 230 to 40 kilograms, which is about two shi.
At the beginning, the price for Liu Yu's dismissal was three stones of corn for each strong Nannu slave, and one stone of corn for each child. As for the young female slaves, they could start with three stones of corn, and the maximum could be converted to ten stones. After all, Liu Yu was worried about what to do. How to deal with the growing team of "bachelor soldiers" under his command?
As for other old and weak slaves, of course they will not accept them. The Qingzhou Army is not a charity, so how can they want these burdens.
After listening to Liu Yu's quotation, Zhang Tong gently shook his head and immediately made suggestions on the price.
"General, this price is too low. To capture a male barbarian slave with three stones of corn, to capture a nannu requires a county soldier. Counting the rations of a county soldier, plus the calculated loss of weapons, armor, and arrows, Oh, by the way, we also need to add the food rations given to the slaves after they were captured. In this way, one nannu only has three stones of corn, which is really too low." Zhang Tong quickly expressed his opinion.
"Mr. Zhang, two kilograms of millet for a county soldier is more than seven hundred kilograms a year, which is only six stones. As long as you capture two Nannu slaves, you can ensure the food you need for a year. This price is not low, and It doesn’t take more than two or three months to catch two or three slaves, and you can continue farming in the rest of your free time.”
It's a small place like the Korean Peninsula, but it's about the same size as Qingzhou. You can cover it all in two months.
"General, this is not how this account is settled."
As soon as Liu Yu finished speaking, Zhang Tong said immediately, obviously already prepared.
"The soldiers in this county all have families. Their parents, wives and children still need to be supported, and some funds must be set aside to pay for the casualties. After all, this is a war, isn't it?"
Finally, after several discussions, Liu Yu and Zhang Tong finally decided on a nannu price of five shi of millet. The prices for children and female slaves remained the same, but they added one shi for rations for each child regardless of gender. This shi was paid to The payments made by the Yamen Offices of Lelang and Daifang counties were not paid to the county soldiers who sold the prisoners.
This result is basically that both sides are happy. Zhang Tong can first bring back a large number of weapons, armors and arrows when he returns this time, and then he can lead the lords of the two counties to capture Hunu for a living. This is comparable to what happened in Lelang and Daifang. The harvest of the county's farmland is much better, and the nearby savage-like Hao Qinnu and Fuyu slaves are nothing more than walking money bags in the eyes of the fierce frontier fortress soldiers of the two counties.
Liu Yu was also very satisfied. Although the purchase price of a slave seemed high, almost as much as an ordinary horse, the daily salt, cloth, weapons and armor needed by Lelang and Daifang counties would be You need to buy it from Qingzhou, so you can earn nearly half of it back and forth without losing money.
However, both of them were a little worried about how many barbarians there were around Lelang and Daifang counties, so they wouldn't be able to close the deal quickly.
Finally, Liu Yu was a little worried about whether the Goguryeo people would suddenly increase their troops and go south to interfere. If that happened, the deposit Liu Yu paid in advance might be wasted.
"General, on this matter, please don't worry. The Goguryeo people have already started a war with the Northern Fuyu and Murong tribes. It will be impossible to go south for a while. Even if they send troops, they will only be one or two thousand people, plus the vassals. There are no more than 10,000 people from Wuji and Yiqian, and they are definitely no match for our armored soldiers from the two counties."
Zhang Tong entered an optimistic state in advance.
At this time, he had completely forgotten that Lelang and Daifang counties were short of armor and arrows, and the ordnance was severely depleted. Now he thought that the more Goguryeo barbarians would come, the better, and it would save him the need to lead the army. It’s time to search deep into the mountains and old forests.
Five days later, Zhang Tong returned to Lelang on a large ship owned by the Qingzhou Navy. Also returning with him were a large number of ordnance such as a thousand collar armors, five thousand knives, and one hundred thousand arrows. Here comes Wang Li.
In order to identify the quality of the delivered slaves, it is of course necessary to send someone to inspect them. Otherwise, if they are passed off as inferior, wouldn't it be a big loss? After all, according to the "arms" deposit paid in advance this time, at least 10,000 slaves are needed to make it. After deduction, this is not a small amount.
So this heavy burden fell on Wang Li. After all, Wang Li's uncle was Wang Mi who had defected to the Huns and Han Dynasty. He was inevitably looked at differently by the Qingzhou Army. He himself was happy to go to Lelang for a while to relax.
When Zhang Tong returned to Lelang County, it was already the end of the first month of the fourth year of Yongjia. The children of the two counties who originally planned to continue farming also gave up the land far away from Wubao City, and all planned to set out to attack the nearby barbarians. This capture Selling slaves is much more cost-effective than farming.
February of the fourth year of Yongjia.
News coming from all sides made everyone in Qingzhou feel that the Sij room was now even more precarious.
Gou Xi, the general who supported Liu Zan as Emperor of the Han Dynasty, failed to attack Xiangyang in the south, then turned westward and occupied more than a dozen counties in the three counties of Nanxiang County, Nanyang County, and Yiyang County, completely cutting off the Han Dynasty. The connection between the two states of Jingjiang and the Jin court in Luoyang was established.
The Hun Emperor Liu Yuan, who was lying in bed and dying, in order to fulfill his long-cherished wish to conquer Luoyang before his death, ordered to recall Wang Mi, Shi Le, Liu Ling and other generals who had been looting everywhere, together with the Huns Liu Cong, Liu Yao and Zhao. Guo and others continued to besiege Luoyang, but were quickly repelled by the Jin army in Luoyang and the reinforcements from Guanzhong and Liangzhou.
Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, was repeatedly defeated by Shi Le and had to rely more on Tuoba Xianbei's military support. The entire Yanmen County was almost occupied by the Tuoba tribe.
Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, sent Duan Xianbei to defeat the Xiongnu Han Kingdom Liu Ling and Shi Le in Jizhou, and completely controlled the entire northern Jizhou. For a while, everyone in the world regarded Wang Jun as the only force that could suppress the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. , his reputation soared, even faintly surpassing that of Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, who was one of the "Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu".
Correspondingly, Wang Jun became more and more enthusiastic and had bolder ideas.
I studied in Yongjia for four years in early February.
Wang Jun secretly sent an envoy to Linzi, Qingzhou, claiming that he was visiting his daughter who was married to Linzi. In fact, the envoy entered the gate of Linzi and did not even see his wife Wang Ze, but only Liu Yu.
It turned out that Wang Jun sent an envoy here to ask Liu Yu to collaborate with the high-ranking officials in Qingzhou to write to the Jin court, so that the current emperor Sima Chi could establish the crown prince, and let the crown prince leave Youzhou, and Wang Jun would establish a government office among his subordinates. , prepare for hundreds of officials to assist.
After hearing this suggestion, Liu Yu couldn't help but feel speechless. He remembered that at this time, Emperor Sima Chi of the Western Jin Dynasty was only twenty-six years old. He didn't know if he had a son. Even if he did, he was not more than ten years old. He immediately The ten-year-old child was the crown prince, and Wang Jun was sent to Youzhou to assist him.
With such an operation, anyone who is not blind can see that Wang Jun is regarded as the person he was entrusted with.
However, in this case, how could Sima Yue, the Taifu who actually controls Luoyang, agree? Without Sima Yue's promise, the words of the current Jin Dynasty emperor Sima Chi are not as effective as a few words.
"Brother Taiwanese, it is really difficult for the prince to succeed in this plan. It will only attract criticism."
The envoy who came this time was none other than Wang Jun's other son-in-law, Zaosong Zaotaicheng. He married Wang Junzhi's Queen Shao, who was the biological sister of Liu Yu's wife.
After hearing this, Zaosong didn't take it seriously.
"Ji Xing, you don't understand. Of course the prince knows that with Sima Yue in power in the court, this suggestion of establishing a crown prince is impossible to succeed."
"Moreover, even if a crown prince is established, it is impossible to let him out of control, let alone for the prince to assist the crown prince."
Zaosong said with a clever and conceited expression.
Liu Yu was a little disgusted and said to himself, since everyone knows, then why did he do this? Maybe he came to entertain me.
"Then what does this mean?"
Zao Song smiled slightly and said quietly to Liu Yu.
"The prince has already guessed that the Tugehu people will definitely attack Luoyang in the future. By that time, whether the emperor dies or abandons the ancestral temple and flees, the prince can legitimately take over and open the government."
It turns out that Wang Jun concluded that Luoyang would definitely fall into the hands of the Huns, but he just wanted to take the opportunity to establish the crown prince to invite his name. When the Jin Emperor really fell, he could take the opportunity to show off his ambitions.
When Liu Yu heard this, he was like a hippie. Such a plan full of loopholes is useless. If you really have the ability, you can defeat the Huns and blatantly threaten the emperor.
"Brilliant, really brilliant. I don't know which master gave the advice to the prince."
Zaosong smiled conceitedly.
"Ji Xing, I'm overly praised. It's just a trick I picked up at my fingertips."
