Chapter 1302 The Qilin of the Qin Family
San Francisco.
As soon as Qin Lang got off the boat, he saw groups of slaves on the pier.
"Those are all Mahanu who just arrived from Baekje." The eldest son Qin Jun came to greet him, and there was nothing strange on this young man's face. It seems that Qin Lang has no objection to handing over the duties of Wu'an Governor and Lu Song Governor to his two younger brothers.
"How much did it ship?"
"After we received Grandpa's letter, we immediately organized the ship to go north. There are Generals Su, General Niu, and General Xue in Baekje to take care of them. Our affairs went smoothly."
The Qin family organized a huge fleet to arrive in Baekje, and when it passed, it was full of food, grass, clothes, medicinal materials, etc. needed by the Tang army stationed in Baekje, and was warmly welcomed by Su Dingfang and others. Of course, the Tang army stationed in Baekje would not refuse the Qin family's proposal to buy Baekje slaves.
In fact, Emperor Li Yin was firm in his attitude and refused to rule Baekje under the auspices, but wanted to implement direct rule. The emperor was very dissatisfied with Silla's behavior of playing with fire and rebelling against the Baekje people, so the orders issued to the Baekje Tang army were also very simple.
All the people of Baekje were moved.
Before, they planned to give some preferential treatment to the upper class of Baekje who surrendered, such as moving to Liangjing and other big cities, and even granting some idle official ranks, allowing them to keep their floating wealth and bring it to the Central Plains. Now Li Yin is not polite to them.
Those who belong to each other can still move to the Central Plains, but don’t think too much about official property and so on. Just try to keep a little bit of floating money. Don’t even think about becoming an official after passing.
As for those prisoners of war, they were directly sold into slavery.
Even for ordinary Baekje people, those who voluntarily surrender can move to the Central Plains to open up wasteland. If they surrender after being captured, they will not be slaves.
Compared with Li Shimin's lenient policy towards Human in Li Shimin's era, this strategy is undoubtedly much harsher. Even the people in Goguryeo and Liaodong were not so strict at the beginning, but Li Yin did not listen to the persuasion of ministers. Since these Hanman dare not know The sky is high and the earth is thick, so there is no need for him to be polite to them.
Although this decree made the current situation on the peninsula a little turbulent, and the Baekje people began to resist more fiercely, but Li Yin didn't care about it.
The soldiers on the front line don't care about these, just fight.
Break down the stubborn walled city, then tie up all the young and old and send them to the port wharf, and sell them all as slaves. The emperor has ordered half of the money they get as rewards to the soldiers.
This is very motivating to the soldiers.
The enthusiasm of everyone to attack the city and pull out the stronghold to capture the prisoners is unprecedentedly high. Of course, the Qin family is welcome to bring the supplies that everyone needs to buy slaves.
What's more, the price offered by the Qin family is very good, and they didn't deliberately lower the price by relying on their power.
Su Dingfang and other military generals took care of them, so the Qin family's fleet traded smoothly there. When Qin Lang returned to Luzon, the Qin family had already shipped back three batches of Baekje slaves.
"Because there are too many slaves, the price is not expensive now. The military is unwilling to spend too many troops guarding them, and even less willing to waste food to support these people. We are early in the past, and the quantity is also large, so the price is quite affordable. Especially After we proposed to sail directly to the two cities of Sibi and Xiongjin, the military became more enthusiastic, which saved them the energy of escorting them to the mouth of the Xiongjin River, so we used to have cheaper prices for recruiting people.”
It was Ah Huang who led the team to buy people, and Qin Jun also went there.
"We brought back 20,000 people in each batch, and there were basically no deaths at sea. Now that the three batches have been shipped back, more than 60,000 people have been shipped, and the next batch will soon arrive in Hong Kong."
The Qin family solved a relatively big problem for the Tang army stationed in Baekje, with such a large amount of business, and they didn't bargain much, they didn't pick and choose, and they were even willing to sail the boat to Xiongjin and Sibi inland. The generals in charge of the two cities, or Tangjin Port, were very happy to install people.
In addition to being happy, I also made a request to the Qin family, hoping that the Qin family can help them buy the disabled and weak people in the resettlement camp first. Most of these people are prisoners of war, and some are civilians, but basically they are all victims Injured or ill.
Either widows or children who have no family.
This kind of one is not easy to sell. They are generally those strong prisoners of war, some skilled craftsmen, or young women are more popular, and secondly, they are also a family. This kind of people will be easier to control and not easy to escape. wait.
In order to prevent these people from dying and wasting in the end, the general almost gave these people away to the Qin family as if they were free. He only hoped that the Qin family would pack them up and take them away, so as to save both food and guards. Food is wasted on these people.
"How many of those people are there?"
"There are more than 20,000 people. In fact, we bought these people without spending money. It is a bonus, because most of them have injuries and are very weak. After we bought them, we temporarily raised them in hundreds of thousands of people. Ji, give them medical treatment and recuperation, wait for two or three months to recover, and then transport them back."
Qin Lang nodded.
After all, there is an ocean across.
Qin Lang did not spend a lot of money to buy these injuries, old and weak, but he had to spend a lot of money to transport them back. Most of them died at sea, and he had to spend money on medicines over there. There must be a lot of money for medical treatment and nutritional supplements for them, and there will definitely be a high death rate. It is estimated that two-thirds of them can be shipped back by then.
But in general, the Qin family is still capable of taking over this group of people, and they won't lose money in the end.
"How is the situation in Baekje now?"
Qin Jun didn’t stay in Baekje for long, but he also met Su Dingfang and Niu Jianhu, and he still has some understanding of the real situation in Baekje today.
"Not so good. Baekje people have a strong will to resist, and there are Silla people behind them. Now the court says that it has conquered Baekje and established seven prefectures and thirty-seven counties. In fact, the court only occupies Si The major cities of Baekje, Bi, Woongjin, and Dangjin, control the estuaries of several major rivers such as the Han River and the Woongjin River. As General Su went north and General Wang Wendu moved east, there were only 20,000 people left behind in Baekje. It’s a bit difficult for several big cities and strongholds, let alone sweeping up and encircling the rest of the cities.”
"Old Huang also said that Baekje may not be able to calm down for a while, and there must be some fights."
"General Niu Jianhu said the same thing, but he felt that there was nothing to worry about. Take it slowly, just like General Cheng Chumo fought against the peace in Tonghai back then. Relying on strongholds and fortresses, just push slowly, and it may cost a lot. Years, but it can always be smoothed out."
Qin Lang believed in their judgment, and in fact he thought so too.
Originally, the prime ministers of the imperial court proposed to restrain Baekje, which was also the strategy Li Shimin had confessed to Li Yin back then, but Li Yin refused to listen to the persuasion.
The strategy of the prime ministers is to advance slowly, destroy Goguryeo first, then slowly eat away at Baekje when they turn around, and finally return to the country. After all, even if Baekje was conquered and the king was killed, the Tang army only occupied a few cities. Baekje is not a big place, but it has a population of several million.
Relying on only tens of thousands of Tang troops, it is unrealistic to want to take full control all at once, and if the upper echelons of Baekje are restrained first, they can also be used to contain Silla's ambitions.
Datang let Baekje fight with Silla, and at the same time gradually strengthen the control of Baekje, such as stationing troops and emigrating. When the time is right, it will not be too late to reform the land and return it to the people. This approach is the safest .
However, Li Yin chose the most direct and intense method of swallowing whales, which caused the people of Silla to panic. Coupled with the canonization of the new king, Silla finally crazily stood against Tang.
This makes the Tang army not only lose an important ally in the peninsula, but also gain a new powerful enemy. These are all unwise actions, but Li Yin doesn't think so.
"The general over there also asked us if we want to buy land. It's very cheap, almost like giving away for free, but there is one rule that the land cannot be abandoned after buying and selling, and you have to plant it after buying it. It can be exempted from land tax for three years. If the land is reclaimed, It can be exempted from tax for ten years, but there is a rule that within ten years, the fields can only grow grain, and all the grain harvested in the field, except rations, must be sold to the garrison.”
Qin Lang shook his head, "We don't need the land of Baekje."
Land is cheap, but farming is the problem. The Qin family has to send people to cultivate and manage the land they bought. Now the situation in Baekje is not stable, and the cost of farming is not low. Besides, what the Qin family lacked most was land. There are still countless unoccupied islands in Luzon, and there are not many plains suitable for farming.
Because of the emperor's aggressive strategy, the Tang army had no plans to detain Baekje, and even planned to move all the Baekje people away. So now Baekje will face a serious problem, that is, there will be no ally in the peninsula in the future, Silla, who will provide money and food. Support, it is also difficult to collect money and food in the country.
I want to wait for the immigrants from the Central Plains to come over, and it will be difficult to scale up in a while, and it will be difficult to supply.
So the military hopes that a powerful family like the Qin family will set up commercial settlements in the past, and it doesn’t matter if the land is sold cheaply. Anyway, after all the Baekje people are taken away, the land here will be unowned.
The main task of the military now is to fight wars, and there is no time for self-sufficiency in military settlements. It would be 100,000 times more cost-effective to recruit a big family like the Qin family to set up commercial settlements than to transport grain from the Central Plains.
"Grandfather, I actually have a suggestion. We are now transporting salt, sugar, grain, tea, medical cloth and other goods needed by the military to Baekje for slaves. In fact, there is no need to transport them back immediately. These slaves stay in the resettlement camp for a while. After a long time, the body is not good, and it will be shipped directly back, and there will definitely be some casualties..."
Qin Jun suggested that the Qin family can rent some land from the military at a low price, or buy some land at a low price. Anyway, the price is almost the same as Baijian now, and it can be sold in the future.
"We screen the slaves we bought first, and the healthy ones can be shipped back directly, or we can simply screen and divide the slaves in Baekje, and send them to various farms to recuperate and farm, and wait until they are healthy again. Bring it back."
In Baekje, while doing business and recuperating, at the same time, careful screening and distinction can be carried out, so that before people are transported back to Luzon, they can already arrange the receiving places, workshops, mines, farms, etc., to make the best use of their talents.
Even in Baekje, Chinese language training can be carried out first, so that after coming to Luzon, they can integrate into it faster.
"We bought land to build the Shangtun manor. When a group of people recuperate and train, they will be transported back to Luzon, and we can buy another batch of supplements in Baekje. Even in the future, we can directly collect these Baekje slaves. Transported to Luzon, you can directly continue to cultivate a new village."
Qin Lang patted Qin Jun on the shoulder.
"Well, yes, I am very happy that you have been able to think about the problem in this way. Well, this matter will be done according to your ideas. In terms of specific implementation, you can ask the next family elders to fill in the gaps. This matter is up to you Responsible."
"Thank you, Grandpa." Qin Jun said a little excitedly.
(end of this chapter)