The previous news about Hengshun Horse Racing is not bad, it is considered good news. I should have arrived earlier, but later because the Hengshun Carriage and Horse Company was transferred to the army in the south to take over the baggage, the focus of the whole matter naturally shifted to that side, and I didn't care about Ruoshui. Now, although I arrived late, But it’s finally here.
This news means that Blackwater's tentacles can follow the carriages and horses to the Weishui and Xiahe river basins, and then use Tianyi Company's route to enter the City of Fusi. After getting familiar with it gradually, the information on Wusi City will no longer be as poor as it is now.
Shen Hao had a premonition that after the intelligence system in Wushou City was established, news about evil cultivators, pseudo-evil cultivators, underground palaces, etc. would continue to rush in. This is of great benefit to the improvement of the blackwater system and the filling of the document library.
On the other hand, those Yin Jade maps that have been placed on Shen Hao and brought a crisis to Shen Hao all point to the City of Wan Si. Both publicly and privately, Shen Hao has reasons to learn about this legendary city of monks. .
As for Zhu Shou's private message sent from Wang Jian, it is even more interesting.
First of all, it is very interesting that Zhu Shou allowed Wang Jian to deliver this message. Zhu Shou must have put a lot of effort into Wang Jian, otherwise Wang Jian's temperament would never have helped him. Don't think that this is just "spreading a message". This is an intelligence channel from Blackwater. How can you get such treatment for someone who is just doing nothing?
There is also something interesting that Zhu Shou asked Shen Hao about.
Zhu Shou is the Yaxing Master of Fengri City. What does he do? Of course it was the slave trade. It seemed that he was asking Shen Hao about slaves. In fact, he was trying to find out the purpose and bottom line of the army's war against the barbarians.
Asking if there are any slaves in hand now, I actually want to know if there are any ideas in the army to make money. Asking whether to kill them all in one piece or to keep them in captivity is to ask the final bottom line.
I have to say that although Zhu Shou is engaged in slave trading, he still has a very vicious vision. It is estimated that many generals in the army have not considered these two issues carefully.
For more than 40 years, the barbarians are not only not a threat in the eyes of Yaxing, but also not a threat in the eyes of many ordinary people. On the contrary, the barbarians are still their source of livelihood.
What do barbarians have in abundance? One is medicinal materials, and the other is slaves. These two things were absolute huge profits in the Jingjiu Dynasty. Now that the war has only started for half a year, it has already been a heavy blow to those engaged in the slave and medicinal materials trades.
The owners of the major slave caravans can still hold on. After all, the family has a big business, and half a year can be spent gritting their teeth, so that the pot will not be revealed. But people downstream will feel uncomfortable. After a long time, they really have the problem of not being able to open the pot and not be able to eat.
Naturally, Yaxing, the only place where slaves could be traded, would bear the brunt.
There are three types of slaves in Yaxing. One is those who voluntarily sell themselves into slavery, the other is those who commit crimes and become slaves, and the last one is those who capture foreigners and become slaves.
The first two are not unusual, and most of them are members of the Jingjiu Dynasty, but they are labeled as slaves and become goods. The price of selling oneself into slavery was the cheapest. The price of being sold into slavery mainly depended on one's status. The family members of the guilty officials were more expensive, and they were ridiculously expensive.
However, the Jing Dynasty has been at peace for decades, and there are very few people who sell themselves into slavery, and the families of criminal officials are not available every day. The main stable source of slaves is actually the barbarians, with high prices and stable supply.
When Shen Hao was still on duty in Licheng, he knew that the interests involved in the slave business were absolutely huge. Later, when I learned about Huangshang, I realized that the "Knife" in Huangshang was the leader of the Slave Chamber of Commerce, so this time "Knife" suffered the greatest loss. Shen Hao even guessed that it was probably for the reason of reducing other daily costs that "Dao" transferred the transportation business on the shores of Weishui and Xiahe waters to Hengshun Vehicles and Horses, charging some intermediary fees.
The imperial merchants are already making tightening measures, and it is conceivable that other slave merchants will do the same.
Not long after Zhu Shoucai became the owner of Fengli City Tooth Shop, he was unlucky when he encountered a severe winter in the industry at the beginning of his good days. He had no way of struggling, so he could only use Shen Hao, who was on the front line of the war and a military officer. Ask some powerful acquaintances about the situation.
Although Zhu Shou was very thoughtful, it was not enough to make Shen Hao feel grudge. If he was really dissatisfied, he would be dissatisfied that Wang Jian's fellow could not withstand Zhu Shou's request, so he had sold a favor.
These are all minor issues. What really deserves Shen Hao's attention is another big issue raised by Zhu Shou's private letter: The whole country is optimistic that Zuo Yuliang can win, but what happens after he wins? How to deal with barbarians? And the land of barbarians?
Shen Hao believes that this issue is likely to secretly affect the final direction of this war. Perhaps the end of the war will be far more complicated than most people think.
First of all, Shen Hao directly ruled out the possibility of fully occupying this land after victory. Too big, too big, too big!
Small-scale occupation is of little significance, while large-scale occupation or comprehensive occupation is unlikely. Because there are many problems, the most direct one is the difficulty in effectively controlling the occupied area.
Because the teleportation array can be built within the Jingjiu Dynasty, but the foundation of the teleportation array, that is, the cornerstone, cannot be used by the barbarians, which basically breaks the foundation of large-scale regional rule. If the people are sent over recklessly, it is very likely that a few decades later, because of the emperor Shan Gaoyuan and an ambitious person, a separatist force will be created, which is a typical shooting of one's own feet.
This is also the reason why Shen Hao deduced that the Jing Dynasty did not build a city on the barbarian territory after winning previous wars.
Distance is often the biggest obstacle. If there was no sudden and magical thing like the teleportation circle in the country, the Jingjiu Dynasty would not be able to be so large and stable.
So if we win, will we adopt the method of "killing as many as possible" to destroy the growth foundation of the barbarians, as we did after previous wars, and then retreat with our troops?
Shen Hao couldn't figure it out. But he believed that this time the barbarian war would not end with just one kill like before. Because the biggest difference this time is that the Jingjiu Dynasty opened a channel from the Wanli Bamboo Sea to the middle and rear areas of the barbarians, which greatly shortened the supply line and directly extended the maximum combat distance of the Jingjiu Dynasty.
If the emperor is more ruthless this time, and if Yang Yansi and his like don't deliberately release the water, is it possible that the barbarians will be completely wiped out, and this area will be vacated in the future?
Shen Hao still shook his head. Land is the most precious. The vacancies will soon be occupied by other forces. Jing Jiuchao didn't have the ability to control such a large area without leaving the teleportation circle. Wouldn't that mean he was back to square one? Why not leave a weak barbarian tribe, lest they wipe out the land and attract another group of hungry wolves?
