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Chapter 249 Northern Strategy

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    Zhu Youxiao read all the reports at this time, waved his hands and said indifferently: "It doesn't matter whether Anfei Yanggu lives or dies. But if there is a severe drought in Liaodong this year, we must make preparations early. First, we must  Prepare military ration supplies, and secondly, prepare to deal with Nurhaci¡¯s attack!¡±

    Sun Chengzong took the report from Zhu Youxiao, put it away and said: "I have written this matter to Mr. Fang Ge and the British Duke. I think they will be prepared!"

    Zhu Youxiao nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said with a cold light in his eyes: "Tell the Ministry of Household Affairs that from now on, only food is allowed to be exchanged for slaves in the Jiubian Mutual Market, and nothing else can be exchanged for food. In addition, notify Xiong Tingbi and let Mao Wenlong  Increase the intensity of harassment against North Korea from the sea. If possible, try to go deep into the interior of North Korea, mainly to destroy North Korea's water conservancy facilities and farmland. On land, we will shrink our defenses and severely crack down on smuggling. The Royal Commercial Bank will also cooperate with the action.  Then smuggle food to the grasslands and Liaodong!"

    Sun Chengzong didn't understand what Zhu Youxiao was going to do at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood Zhu Youxiao's intention, and couldn't help but admire and feel chilled by the little emperor's strategy!

    When natural disasters are about to occur in the grassland and Liaodong, while blocking the lifeline of food, exchanging food for slaves, and at the same time allowing the Ming army to shrink its defenses, this is a complete effort to make room for the grassland tribes and Nurhaci in Liaodong.  !

    The magic touch was to have Mao Wenlong step up his harassment of North Korea. Because North Korea had surrendered to Hou Jin, then Hou Jin would definitely squeeze North Korea without food. But with Mao Wenlong constantly harassing North Korea, with North Korea's strength, it would definitely  It is too busy to take care of itself, unable to provide any support to Hou Jin, and may even ask for help from Hou Jin. In this way, North Korea will not only fail to become Hou Jin's granary, but will become a burden to Hou Jin!

    Even though Hou Jin was also suffering from disasters, he was unable to squeeze out enough food from North Korea, and even had to help North Korea defend its coast. Then North Korea was purely worthless to Hou Jin, and it was a pity to abandon it because it was tasteless to eat!

    Of course, if there is really no food, Hou Jin can also raid and plunder the Mongolian tribes and eat from these Mongolian tribes. However, after this winter's white disaster, the Mongolian tribes may not have a hard time.  Even if I rob, I'm afraid I won't get anything!

    What's more, after the Tianqiyuan and Ming army fought on Houjin's territory, Houjin had to be prepared for Ming to stab him in the back when he went out to rob. In this way, Houjin's military strength would definitely be unable to  Concentrate, in the future, as long as Jin's army is divided, both the grassland and the Ming will be at a disadvantage!

    In fact, in this case, the Mongolian tribes and Houjin on the grassland could just sit back and recuperate until they get through this disaster year. However, Zhu Youxiao played the trump card of exchanging food for slaves!

    This will inevitably bring hope to those major tribes in Houjin and the grasslands. They can capture the weak tribes and exchange their people for enough food. In this way, they can not only protect their tribes, but also make their own  The tribe grows!

    This is Zhu Youxiao's usual profit-driven method. Driven by this invisible force, Sun Chengzong believes that as long as the drought in Liaodong can last until May, the entire Liaodong and grasslands will be full of wars, whether it is the Hou Jin Dynasty or the Mongolian tribes.  , they will all go out to rob slaves, and then bring the slaves to exchange for food with Ming Dynasty!

    Don¡¯t think this is impossible. In the process of white slaves selling black slaves in later generations, white people rarely participated in the capture of black slaves. Most of the black slaves sold to Europe and America were local African tribes who plundered each other.  Then sell it to white people!

    Zhu Youxiao believed that African blacks could kill other tribes for profit, and that the Houjin and grassland tribes would do the same for survival. As long as the Ming Dynasty prepared enough food, they could obtain more slaves, and these slaves would  It will make Ming¡¯s infrastructure construction faster!

    That¡¯s right!

    Using slaves instead of conscripting corvees to complete heavy and time-consuming labor such as building roads, rivers, and city walls has gained great recognition among the Ming bureaucracy and the landlord class, because in this way the court will save a lot of money  , the landlord class can farm their land with peace of mind!

    Of course, the current Ming landlord class has not thought about using slaves to farm the land, and Zhu Youxiao has not guided them in this direction, because the Ming Dynasty now has a population of 100 million, making it the most populous country in the world.  But the land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the vast majority of ordinary farmers are just tenants who rent land!

    Even though Zhu Youxiao has regained a lot of land from the royal relatives and wealthy gentry and businessmen in the past year or so,The fundamental problem of land concentration has only been partially alleviated, but it is far from being solved!

    In this case, if the landowning class of the Ming Dynasty found that it was cheaper and easier to cultivate the land with slaves, then millions of farmers would be driven off the land when the Ming Dynasty did not have enough industrial capacity to absorb these farmers.  , if something like this happens, it will definitely bring disaster to the Ming Dynasty!

    Therefore, even in Zhu Youxiao's imperial village, tenants were used for farming, and those slaves were all used for infrastructure construction. Even Zhu Youxiao was ready. If someone discovered that slaves were used to farm the land,  benefits, and if he starts doing this, he will directly issue an imperial edict declaring that the private sale and use of slaves in the Ming Dynasty is illegal!

    Of course, these are all things for later, because judging from the current situation, the number of slaves in the Ming Dynasty is still very small. According to the report from Dongchang, the Ming Dynasty absorbed a total of 30,000 Mongolian slaves and slaves in the past year.  Two hundred thousand Korean slaves, of course there are also a small number of Japanese slaves and Western slaves, but the number of these slaves is too small and can be ignored!

    Among these slaves, only a few Korean women and educated young men were sold to wealthy families as maids and servants. The rest were scattered along the two main roads from Beijing to Shanhaiguan and Beijing to Nanjing that the Ming Dynasty was planning.  To build roads, there were also 30,000 slaves left in Beijing to build the city walls!

    However, according to Zhu Youxiao's plan, all major cities in the Ming Dynasty were connected by arterial roads, all water conservancy facilities were repaired, and all rivers were cleaned. After careful calculation of these projects, more than 200,000 slaves were simply not enough to complete these projects.  The project requires at least one million slaves!

    Zhu Youxiao has not counted the slaves needed for the construction of overseas territories that Ming Dynasty may occupy in the future. It can be said that for a long time in the future, Ming Dynasty will become the place that consumes the most slaves in the world. I don¡¯t know if this will happen.  It will bring the world-wide trend of slave trading to the Ming Dynasty!

    While Zhu Youxiao was wandering in his thoughts, Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, I have just calculated that if we start to purchase slaves on a large scale from now on, by the end of the year, there will probably be 20 slaves in the grasslands and Korea sold to the Ming Dynasty.  And this does not take into account that if there is a severe drought in Liaodong, the later money will also be included, which is a big expense!"

    Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said: "Sun Aiqing, by the end of the second year of Tianqi, there will be millions of slaves in Ming Dynasty. This is indeed a big expense, but it is worth it, because these slaves will use  Their lives made the Ming Dynasty the most powerful country in the world. Some people in future generations may say that since the Year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty has introduced more than one million slaves, which has increased the country's national power. However, among the millions of slaves, countless people have died.  It is said that the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was built on the bones of countless slaves!"

    Sun Chengzong's expression changed after hearing this, and he quickly said: "Your Majesty, please don't taint yourself like this. Our Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of heaven. Those slaves can only come to our Ming Dynasty to survive. How can we say that the Ming Dynasty only prospered with their corpses?"

    Zhu Youxiao smiled nonchalantly and said: "Forefathers let future generations judge. How can we care about what future generations say? In short, the Ming Dynasty will continue to prosper. Only if we continue to move from victory to victory can we ensure that the Ming Dynasty will continue to prosper."  Ming people will not be bought and sold like pigs and dogs, this is my responsibility, and it is also your responsibility!"

    Sun Chengzong, who had already seen how cruel this world was, felt like he understood Zhu Youxiao at this moment. He suddenly realized that the little emperor in front of him, who was only seventeen years old and had just married a wife, was as tall as a mountain.  A feeling of having to look up!

    "Perhaps this is the real holy king and hero!" Sun Chengzong thought in his heart!

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