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Chapter 746: Isn¡¯t it just that there is a shortage of people?  We have plenty!

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    However, what Matsudaira Nobutsuna did not expect was that his actions would bring a new round of fighting in Japan.  The labor output quota of 300,000 is enough to drive anyone from the Tokugawa family to an ordinary daimyo crazy.  According to the so-called Edo shogunate's three hundred feudal lords, (it was originally the so-called sixty-six kingdoms, but now it is the so-called shogunate feudal system. There are more than 270 feudal lords, large and small, plus those branch vassals,  There are almost more than 500.) Even a small foreign name can be divided into thousands of indicators!  With these thousands of labor export indicators, not only the domestic idle labor force is no longer a security risk, but also a large amount of remittances, cloth, silk, etc. are imported, which can make life in your own territory much easier!  Which prince would not make great efforts to fight for such a thing?  Even General Tokugawa himself was troubled by how to allocate and utilize the three imperial families in the family and his own direct banner.  This is because these 300,000 workers who went to Nanzhong will undoubtedly have to engage in the most arduous and even dangerous physical labor, and the personnel attrition rate is extremely high.  In other words, it is unknown whether another 300,000 people will be recruited after one year!  So, securing more positions now will lay the foundation for continued recruitment in the future.  What makes Japanese daimyo, generals, and even the emperor and the public even more excited is that the number of Japanese mercenary recruits has suddenly jumped from the original limit of 30,000 to 50,000 as the starting line.  This is undoubtedly at least doubling the number of posts!  Although this huge discount has a small disadvantage, it made the Tokugawa generals and daimyo princes in the Japanese country smile knowingly, showing that we understand the conditions.  This condition is, "Originally, the upper limit was 30,000 soldiers. However, due to your great kindness and concern for our allies, it has been raised to 50,000 soldiers. However, you must hand over 20,000 soldiers to His Majesty the Emperor for recruitment, food and salary, etc.  It is controlled by the emperor¡¯s personnel.¡± There is a saying among the monks and nobles in the Japanese country that the current highness born to the emperor was actually sown by His Highness the Li Family when he came to Japan to help quell the Kyushu trend.  Seed.  Otherwise, why have the wives of the Li family, and even after the death of His Highness the Li family, the general himself personally allocated money and food from his inner treasury to provide for the daily expenses of the emperor and his family over the years?  Isn't that because he is afraid that his son, a concubine, will have a hard life outside?  Now, the recruitment of 20,000 soldiers has to be handed over to the Emperor's family. This is just to let the Emperor's family have some money and food benefits!  "It's a good job for the ministers of the public family to accompany His Majesty the Emperor, sing the wind and the moon, and write Japanese songs. As for recruiting soldiers, let's share the worries for His Majesty the Emperor!" Led by the Lord of the Yonezawa Domain, Uesugi Sadakatsu  A group of foreign daimyo have set their sights on the 20,000 mercenary recruitment quota in the hands of the Emperor's family.  Uesugi Sadakatsu¡¯s life has not been very good these past few years.  As the nephew of Nagao Kagetora, the Uesugi family was sealed in Aizu by that monkey Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Taiko Inspection period.  The annual stone production in Aizu is 1.2 million stone.  Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After Monkey died, the Tokugawa family came to power.  They were transferred to Yonezawa, which was only 300,000 stone tall per year.  If Uesugi Kagekatsu hadn't sent troops to participate in the Osaka Winter Battle, the Uesugi family would have been the first to attack. After Uesugi Kagekatsu's death in 1623, the lord of Yonezawa Domain was succeeded by Uesugi Sadakatsu.  After Uesugi Sadakatsu succeeded to the throne, the strength of the Uesugi family was greatly reduced. However, in order to maintain the dignity during Lao Tzu's reign, Uesugi Sadakatsu had to maintain a large group of retainers and samurai.  It is said that the number of Yonezawa clan warriors exceeded 6,000 at one time.  This was the number when Uesugi Kagekatsu was in Aizu. After the fiefdom was transferred to Yonezawa in 1601, the fiefdom dropped sharply from the original 1.2 million to 300,000, but the number of samurai did not decrease.  The source of money and food has been reduced by three-quarters, but there has been no shortage of people to eat.  It¡¯s strange that Uesugi Sadakatsu doesn¡¯t worry!  Now, with the blessing of Hachiman Bodhisattva, God has sent down another good opportunity to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. If he doesn¡¯t grab it, Uesugi Sadakatsu will really find a way to jump into the sea!  In order to win more mercenary quotas from the emperor, the Uesugi family also took the risk to send away the samurai who spent all day idle with swords and guns in their domain and sent them to the battlefield to be consumed.  He did not hesitate to go to the treaty ports to borrow money from merchants at high interest rates, bought a lot of expensive gifts, and went to the emperor to find connections and gain friendship.  ¡°However, the Uesugi family is not the only one with similar intentions.  For a time, the daimyo who came and went to pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor, mother and son, kept running around.  In the end, it was Tokugawa Iemitsu General Takechiyo-san who used superb methods to prevent the possibility of collusion between foreign daimyo and the public to increase their power.  "The recruitment of 20,000 mercenaries was carried out by the shogunate from among the various vassals, and the work of ministers has been done. The matter of money and food is still handled by His Majesty the Emperor's ministers." In other words, His Majesty the EmperorThe 20,000 mercenaries are our face. We must carefully select them throughout the Japanese territory and choose strong and brave men, so as not to lose the emperor's face.  (Of course, the subtext is that these 20,000 people, more than 270 vassals, and the banners directly under me, Tokugawa Iemitsu, all have a share. No one can even think of taking advantage of this!) As for money and food, since  The General said that His Majesty the Emperor will send personnel to take control of this matter, so we dare not disobey the General's wishes.  "Matsuhira Matsudaira, Nobutsuna, has worked hard for the country and worried about state affairs. He should have rested. However, it is the true nature of a minister to be loyal to the king. After you return to the country, you should quickly organize the recruitment of laborers and volunteers from various countries in the Kanto region. And  Workers and volunteers from all over the country gathered quickly and transported them to the sea from Kawagoe Castle. This order must not be mistaken! " This order may seem quite severe, but in the eyes of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, it is worth ten thousand stones.  The order made it very clear that the recruitment of workers and mercenaries from various countries in the Kanto region was left to him, which meant that this part of the power was put in his hands.  Moreover, Kawagoe Castle, as his fiefdom, became a gathering place for laborers and mercenaries to be transported to the sea. This undoubtedly put a huge fortune in his pocket.  Hundreds of thousands of people passed through his fiefdom. The consumption of these people, the import, landing, and transshipment of the materials and related money and grain they needed all had to pass through your Matsudaira Nobutsuna territory first. This is undoubtedly Tokugawa Iemitsu.  The classmate treats me as the most capable subordinate, although it is also generous to others.  Within a few years, Kawagoe Castle has become the second largest city and largest trading port in Japan after Edo.  This is something Matsudaira Nobutsuna never imagined.  At this moment, he has to face the trouble of his peers coming to grab business.  "Your Highness the Duke, as your strongest ally and most powerful partner in the West, our Ottoman Empire is also willing to sell strong slaves to you at the lowest price!" The Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire sitting next to Matsudaira Nozuna  Ibrahim, the representative of the Grand Vizier Koprulu, could not help but feel happy when he heard the interpreter Li Shouhan quietly translate the conversation between Li Shouhan and Matsudaira Nobutsuna.  After Matsudaira Nobutsuna kowtowed and thanked him, he also stood up and knelt down in front of Li Shouhan's seat according to the etiquette of the Central Plains, saying that if these dwarfs can do it, we in the Ottoman Empire can do the same!  You know, the current Ottoman Empire actually spans the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, rather than the countries established by white-skinned people in history. They took advantage of the geographical advantages and put the toll stations built at the crossroads  , all claim to span the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.  With such a vast territory, naturally, there are all kinds of people who disobey the rule. These heretics, heretics, traitors, and thugs have always been the Ottoman Empire's largest source of slaves.  For example, during the raids carried out by Grand Vizier Koprulu in the Balkans, thousands of prisoners were captured after a castle was taken down.  For these captives, the historical tradition of the Ottoman Empire was to sell them into slaves.  The only difference is whether a skilled craftsman, a noble woman with status, or not is literate.  It just depends on whether you are strong or not, because these will directly affect the price.  In Alexandre Dumas¡¯s novel ¡°The Count of Monte Cristo¡±, the beautiful Heidi was acquired by Monte Cristo from a slave trader licensed by the Ottoman Emperor.  Because of her noble blood and status, Monte Cristo bought her freedom from the slave traders with a piece of emerald equivalent to two thousand bags of coins.  And she was sold for a thousand bags of coin by Fernand, who had betrayed her father and her country.  Therefore, population and slave trade are also the essence of traditional culture with a long history among European whites.  Now, for the benefit of the Ottoman Empire and the Koprulu family, Ibrahim has the obligation to carry forward this cultural tradition.  Anyway, whether it is the pagan prisoners of war in the Balkans or the heretics and rebels within the empire who oppose the Koprulu family, they will all be destined to be slaves sooner or later.  Rather than feeding them with food and water, it would be better to spend the rest of their lives in exchange for some benefits to the empire.  "The mountain people in the Balkans who are good at raising horses, cattle and sheep, the Nubians in Africa who are as black as charcoal and stronger than camels, the Arabs in the deserts of Western Asia, the people on the European plains, the Ottoman Empire can all be counted in thousands  I¡¯ll provide you with tens of thousands of dollars. It¡¯s much cheaper and more cost-effective than hiring labor!¡± Since I¡¯m competing for business with my peers, it¡¯s natural to say how cost-effective my products are.  Mr. Ibrahim despises those Japanese dwarfs. They are not even as tall as the legs of the Kenyan slave girls that this envoy gave to His Highness the Duke, and they actually come to compete with me for business?  !  "Five young and middle-aged male slaves, in exchange for a piece of armor! Or other products of equivalent value!"  , that¡¯s six!¡± ¡°A breastplate or leather armor, three slaves!¡±Brahim proposed using slaves in exchange for all the materials needed by the Ottoman Empire to make up for the trade deficit in exporting raw materials and importing goods. Similar shouts or bargaining sounds can be heard from West Asia in the east to the Danube Plain in the west.  South to the vast land of the African continent sounded.  Those who carry out this traditional trading activity of European nobles are not only the humble slave traders, but also the proud nobles. Kings and dukes, bishops and popes also take out the prisoners of war and heretics in their hands and let them go through the difficult process.  physical labor to wash away one's sins.  On the famously romantic Mediterranean coast, not only European gentlemen and nobles, but also romantic Turkey, many large seaports along the coast have turned into a prosperous slave trade driven by the booming slave trade and transshipment activities.  port.  Tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, food, weapons, armor, gunpowder, medicines, spirits, etc. were unloaded from each sea ship.  These commodities circulated quietly and soon became hard currency in the hands of slave merchants.  Used to trade with those who specialize in capturing and trafficking slaves.  The slave merchants at the port can be regarded as the end of this human trade chain. They engage in trading activities and traffic in slaves in the company offices located at the port.  In the Balkans, in the Danube Valley, in West Asia, and in North Africa, the Ottoman governors, French nobles, German electors, and Arab chiefs all turned the enemies and peaceful residents in front of them into prisoners of war under the sword and gun, and then passed by  Long-distance trafficking turned into slaves in the slave trading market near the port.  Exchange the items you need.  In particular, the Grand Vizier Coprulu of the Ottoman Empire, because he had an almost inexhaustible resource of Japanese mercenaries, was able to freely fight in Southern Europe, the Balkans, and the Italian Peninsula.  The source of prisoners of war and slaves is increasing day by day, and they have gradually entered a virtuous cycle of development: because they have mercenaries in hand, they can invest in battlefields in various places, so they can achieve much more results than before.  With these results (population, gold and silver, territory), the power of the Koprulu family can continue to develop, and more mercenaries will be needed.  However, soon after, businessmen engaged in slave trading activities in the Southern Guangdong Army proposed, "The loss rate on the road for this kind of long-distance trafficking is too high!" Either lower the purchase price, or find a way to reduce the loss rate!  As a reasonable and reasonable need, it was naturally agreed by the Grand Vizier and the senior officials of France, Germany, Italy, and the Vatican.  Therefore, the slave merchants in Nanzhong can choose the islands they think are suitable along this slave trade or maritime trade route, build warehouses, and build them into bases to provide supplies to ships, so that the slaves can get a short respite.  opportunities to avoid excessive mortality.  So, in the Persian Gulf, on the coast of the Red Sea, over every island and every seaport city, the black and red flags representing the South Cantonese Army flew up, and the phoenix flag representing the Li family flew up.  The business began to follow Li Shouhan's wishes through slave and commodity trade, purchasing their land from the chiefs and emirs. Whether it is land that can grow cotton and wheat, or pure desert, as long as you are willing to sell it, I can get it.  Exchange with you.  "These ports and deserts in the Persian Gulf region must be passed down as the family property of our Li family. No matter how poor or difficult it is, we can't give up!" This is what Li Shouhan warned his children at the family banquet of the Li family.  The children of the Li family have become accustomed to his arrangement, and these similar words have also been tested.  And Tianzhu, which is far away from Nanzhong across the sea, has made full use of its geographical advantages.  The princes, sultans, and emperors of the Mughal Empire turned groups of pagan prisoners of war into slaves. They stuffed people into the cabins of ships like porcelain fish jars produced in Nanzhong, and then, one by one, they  The slaves soon crossed the ocean and arrived at the island controlled by the South Guangdong Army. They were allowed to come out for air, and then they were stuffed into the cabin and passed through the Manlajia Strait to Lijiapo to complete the delivery.  Through such activities, the population and labor gap of the Southern Guangdong Army has been made up.  Officials, factory owners, and plantation owners everywhere were even surprised to find that not only did the conscription not cause labor problems because the lord wanted to fight in the Central Plains, on the contrary, because of the influx of a large number of Japanese laborers, Fo Langji, and Tianfang slaves,  As a result, the labor force of our own enterprises has shown a growth trend.  However, newly arrived Japanese workers are often well educated by labor leaders who have already been naturalized, or who have been here for a few years and are working hard to complete their naturalization achievements.  "Bang!" A muffled sound hit the newly arrived Japanese laborer on the head.  Before starting work, all the Japanese workers gathered in a queue, stood on the road, and bowed ninety degrees.  This scene can be seen every day in the Li family's rubber plantation, in the mines in Nanzhong, and on docks everywhere.  It is said that thisIt is a custom of the Japanese country that whenever there is a war in their hometown, the villagers will line up on both sides of the road to send off the samurai on their way to war.  Unexpectedly, this habit was passed down by batches of Japanese workers and used on their own compatriots.  "Baga! Who is your compatriot?! I have completed the naturalization period and will soon obtain Chinese household registration! Become a glorious and noble Chinese!" The foreman of the Japanese workers, holding a strong wooden stick in his hand, stood in front of the queue  Discipline.  This wooden stick, which he calls the "strength injection stick", is used to assign tasks before and after work every day, or for workers who cannot complete the task, without saying a word, they just use it as a stick.  The person being beaten should also lower his head to admit his mistake, which means that he has caused trouble to you.  The cadres of Nanzhong Middle School stopped him when they saw it, but the person who was beaten spoke up for the attacker, saying that he made a mistake and was punished voluntarily.  The cadres of Nanzhong were confused and had to reluctantly think that the Japanese had special habits and should be properly respected.  Of course, it took time to realize that the Japanese didn't actually want to be like this. It was just that the traditional habits of their hometown were too stressful and they had a lot of inertia.  In fact, let alone the book, this is actually the case in Japan now. Many people are amazed by the textbook-like order of the Japanese in public places. But later, according to Japanese students studying in China, it is all because of the damn atmosphere, you  If you don't do this, you will be regarded as a monster.  I feel so happy when I arrive in Datang. I don¡¯t have to say hello to each other in the morning. I don¡¯t have to say hello when I eat. I can talk when I want to talk, laugh when I want to laugh, and just yell at my boyfriend when I¡¯m angry. This is the life that a person should have.  Of course, this kind of thing happened in Nanzhong decades later. The author can only sigh, no wonder there are animations like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  However, some plantation owners who couldn't stand it came to stop them: "Don't you know that my lord once said that we should treat laborers well? You beat him badly, who will cut rubber for me?! Who will pick spices for me?"  "Tell me, sir! I won't beat him until he can't do his job!" "Hmph! You guys are always beating them up to complete your workload."  Are you so anxious that you start a riot? "This plantation owner is probably a new plantation owner who came to Nanzhong from the mainland. He doesn't know much about this kind of situation. He only thinks about it according to the habits of the Central Plains, "Princes and Generals"  I'd rather have the "kind of" way of thinking, lest these workers, like the hungry people in the mainland, stomp their feet and start a rebellion. In that case, the first person to suffer losses will be his property and life.  "Rebellion, rebellion is good!" Unexpectedly, the Japanese foreman's eyes immediately burst into flames.  "The younger ones are eager to get up and make trouble for their masters! One of the younger ones' fellow villagers worked in the rubber plantation just like the younger ones. Before the eldest prince-in-law came to Nanyang and the locals rioted, he wanted to save himself.  With rice and fish, he led a few fellow villagers to rush out with rubber cutting knives and cut off the heads of seven or eight rebellious natives. Afterwards, one head was worth a year's achievements. He, the leader, was killed on the spot.  I have been issued a Chinese household registration! "The deeds of Bai Xingjiu and others have long been spread among these Japanese workers and mercenaries. In addition to working hard every day to complete their tasks, these people have nothing to do.  Instead of pricking up your ears and widening your eyes, staring at the natives and your compatriots, burning incense and praying for them to come out and cause trouble!  In this way, I can behead people and achieve military merit and complete my naturalization as soon as possible.  After hearing this, the plantation owner was full of astonishment.  I never thought that Nanzhong could do this?  Mr. Liang Guogong is really a strange person!  Being able to squeeze these coolies into such fields and make them enjoy it.  He took the power injection rod from the Japanese foreman's hand with satisfaction and looked at it carefully, "You are very good. This injection rod can be promoted in several of my plantations. Work hard, and I will promote you later.  Great job! Manage all the Japanese workers!" "Thank you for your attention, Master!" "No need to be polite! By the way, I'll report it to the county office later.  "Reply to the master! My humble surname is Gaoye, and my only name is Qiao. My younger brother has already served as a soldier in the army and feeds the horses for the artillery team. I wrote a few days ago that I must think about it."  You can achieve military success and be naturalized as soon as possible! " "Okay! All of you in the Takano family are loyal to Mu Tianchao. If you work hard, the Duke of the country will see it. " " But no one knows.  The father-in-law also encountered new troubles.
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