Guo Kang rejected most of Tuhuan's proposals, and only kept the lamp that was indeed a "powerful brick to fly".
Because he feels that the focus now is on teaching and experimentation. After all, he is not a professional, he just knows some small experiments. When more people participate in research, people smarter than themselves will surely stand out and technological breakthroughs will soon be achieved.
The current equipment is too crude, so it is better to wait for them to study it for a while. Local scholars must be more familiar with the materials and techniques of this era than he is. Even if they polish and streamline it a little, it may be better than the current situation.
In this case, scarce funds should be used mainly to allow participants to conduct research and summarize experiences. Rather than starting right away and building a giant wonder, it would be better to build a small research facility first. Every time there is an improvement, spend money to upgrade and renovate it. This is the best strategy during the period of rapid technological growth.
In this way, it won't take many years to figure out the highest level that can be achieved in this era, and the rest will slowly wait for breakthroughs in materials and processes.
In this period, you can use the plan discussed by Tuohuan to stack power and scale. If you really want to build a wonder, it's better to wait for that time, not now.
As for the Slavic slaves who are getting married...this is indeed useful.
Tuohuan heard Guo Kang talk about his concerns, and also considered the problems that would arise if technological research and development failed to catch up with Western Europe. However, he was confident in this and believed that he would not lose.
For example, as we all know, slaves were a major feature of Rome.
Although slaves have basically appeared in every civilization, it is really rare for slaves to become the main economic pillar like the Roman Italian region, where the number of slaves was so large that slaves became the main economic pillar.
In fact, in Guo Kang's previous life, with the deepening of research, a group of scholars believed that slave society was actually a characteristic of Rome, or even just a few regions such as Italy. In the process of fighting everywhere, the legion gathered a large number of slaves from the entire Mediterranean world here, which created such a wonder.
In other places, the two conditions of "consistently winning and being able to capture prisoners" and "liking to use slaves" may not be met at the same time.
One example is that in Seris, people once believed that the Shang Dynasty was a slave society. But with the rapid development of archaeological technology, scholars have gradually discovered that this does not seem to be the case.
The Shang army did fight all day long and often captured prisoners, but they did not often "use" prisoners; This word in oracle bone inscriptions means to kill for sacrifice.
Therefore, the people of the Shang Dynasty seemed neither greedy for money nor lustful - they did not like to capture male slaves to work, nor did they like to capture female slaves to play with. Instead, they killed all men and women to worship their ancestors, regardless of whether they were high or low.
In this case, it would be impossible for him to accumulate as many slaves as Rome did...
Therefore, this kind of case may be very rare and not a universal rule.
Even the Purple Horde Khanate, although it was restored in every aspect, could not recover its slave manors. Most of the slaves were resold not long after they were captured.
Italian commercial countries, such as Venice and Genoa, have many trading stations along the Black Sea coast. Under the rule of the Purple Horde Khanate, many commercial city-states lost their military and tax privileges, but the Khanate was very welcoming of trade itself. Old friends like Venice still have many preferential treatment.
These men were skilled slave traders and had been specializing in this trade for hundreds of years. They had a sales network all over the Mediterranean and could sell slaves quickly to reduce the cost of hoarding.
But the main problem was that Slavic slaves were too cheap.
During the long-term trading process, slave merchants developed a complete set of evaluation methods.
For example, the most valuable ones were Circassian slaves in the Caucasus. Tianfang Sect slave traders believe that these people are the most beautiful and smart. They were very popular in the harems of sultans and emirs everywhere - both men and women.
Unfortunately, the Purple Horde mainly obtained Magyar, German and Slavic slaves.
The Magyars are moderately priced, while the Germans are highly differentiated - their men, especially experienced mercenaries, are very popular with the princes of the Tianfang Sect. The sultans often signed contracts with them, allowing them to free themselves as long as they fought for a few years, and were even willing to provide spoils of war as rewards.
But on the contrary, slave traders did not like German women. Mamluk merchants thought that they were too rigid and lacked femininity, and it was difficult to find buyers willing to offer their prices.
However, the Purple Horde Khanate itself also likes to recruit German and Mazar prisoners of war, and these mercenaries often do not choose their customers very much. In reality, not much makes it to the market.
And the Slavs…
The price of better Slavic slaves is only a quarter of that of Circassian slaves. In the event of large-scale sales, the value will continue to depreciate. This kind of price is really frustrating.
The Purple Horde Khanate and the Mamluks had not been able to negotiate well before. One of the main problems was that with the reform of the Beiya Army, the number of Kipchak, Bulgar and Tatar slaves on the grasslands decreased sharply.
Under the new system, no one could reorganize other people's tribes and organize them to serve as soldiers, while at the same time selling their relatives, wives and daughters as slaves. In this case, everyone must rebel...
Later, the Purple Horde Khanate went south into the Greek area, annihilating the Western European mercenary groups entrenched there, and the Principality of Achaia and Athens they established, and easily defeated the Neapolitans who tried to infiltrate there.
Tuo Huan told Guo Kang that the largest number of his mother's supporters were not around Dadu, but in Athens and Morea. Therefore, it is conceivable that these places no longer serve as sources of slaves.
As a result, most of the slaves came from Slavic areas.
In addition to fighting against Poland, Lithuania and the rebellious Rus Principality, there are also a large number of unattended villages in the area. Almost all the residents in these places are part-time bandits. The Purple Horde Khanate was not polite and often took the initiative to destroy these settlements and sell the people inside as slaves.
On the land of Eastern Europe, various wild Slavic settlements can often be found beside various river forks and among the woods. The Purple Horde Khanate has been arresting them for decades, and they have not seen a decrease so far. The slave traders themselves found it strange that they could not catch all the Slavs.
Of course, this situation makes the Slavs even cheaper.
Mamluk merchants have been very speechless, thinking that they are shoddy. This market is full of low-end products, so how can anyone buy them?
But Zi Zhang had no choice but to explain to them that there are still slaves everywhere. These are all Slavic slaves. If you don't want them, you have no other choice...
Now, the only good news is that there is another market. You can send them across the ocean and sell them to Javanese dollars.
Although it seems far away, the Indian Ocean shipping routes are very mature. Moreover, there are various supply stations along the way and buyers who wish to purchase can sell items along the way. Javanese merchants were also active and could be found on the Red Sea and in East Africa.
The Purple Horde Khanate has always hoped that the other party would buy more, but this trade route is currently full of obstacles.
The sale of Slavic slaves is directly related to the income of the northern frontline military government and the interests of the legionnaires. Seeing that everyone's slaves could hardly be sold, the Khan's court was always anxious.
Therefore, seeing that Guo Kang's research required the use of Slavic slaves, Tuohuan was immediately moved.
With the help of Rome's advanced slavery system, it was easy to surpass the backward feudal countries of Western Europe in the speed of scientific research and the efficiency of experiments. It would be even better if these devices could be mass-produced, which would give the unsalable Slavic slave labor a place to go.
Moreover, these technologies will be profitable in the long run, and the Khan can afford it. Therefore, he even hoped that Guo Kang could use it more, as long as it was convenient.
After looking at the character card, and counting the label points that will be collected soon, Nurhaci should be able to achieve four stars soon.
The effect is to change the existing items such as drumsticks, blades, amulets, diamonds of true love, etc., to your own names in the column for gifts given by characters. I plan to change it to Irish, Zhu Ya, Iron Armor, Edict, etc. Let’s look back and see how much I can change.
(End of chapter)
