The first half of the 49th year of Qianlong was still a stable year. At least the Yellow River and the Yangtze River did not produce water. Although there was a locust plague in Qilu, it was limited to the scope of Jinan Prefecture.

It is rare that there are no large-scale refugees in Yunyang this year.

Peng Gongchang continued to do his old job.

He solicited people from Daba Mountain and Yunyang in Sichuan and Shu, and sent them to Ruzhou Prefecture from afar.

The latter's coal-joint industry is like a bottomless pit that can never be reached, swallowing labor with big mouthfuls.

And now there is a Beihai Business Company, whose strongholds on Sakhalin Island have expanded from one to three. Recently, they are planning to set up a stronghold in the Hokkien land to test the attitude of the Japanese.

Under this circumstance, Peng Gongchang's current "labor power export" business is in full swing.

But in fact, he did not pull away many people from Dabashan and Yunyang Prefecture. These places contain millions of refugees and shantytowns, and he only pulled away three or five thousand people a year, which was not worth mentioning at all.

But with this "profession", Peng Gongchang was able to travel easily and freely across Daba Mountain and Yunyang Prefecture, becoming a nobleman in the eyes of the big brothers.

Because Peng Gongchang brought them not only money, but also some cloth, iron, salt and sugar that are difficult to buy even if you have money in the mountains!

Although Changshun, who has already achieved the title of Dusi in Yunyang Town, is also doing the same business, due to his identity limitations, he has given more real money and silver. Therefore, Changshun's importance in the eyes of the leading brothers in Yunyang Prefecture is far less than that of Peng Gongchang.

Food is the most important thing for people. First of all, you need to have enough food for labor export.

Although Peng Gongchang doesn’t take away many people every year, these people have to be raised by Peng Gongchang for a while before going to their destination.

The shortest time was the young and strong laborers who were sent to Ruzhou. It was half a month and only twenty days long. They saw that they were not sick, and then they slowly replenished them in half a month. At the same time, they also taught them some rules. These people transformed into mineral workers in the hands of the Zhao family, and they were still the kind of mineral workers who signed a contract to sell their bodies.

Actual identity is equivalent to slave labor.

But the Zhao family not only did not harshly exploit these people, but treated them very well, which could easily win people's hearts. They were even better than those of the locals in Ruzhou.

Among the 1,000 miners who went to Nanyang before, 70% of them were these people.

It can be said that the loyalty of these people is completely comparable to that of students from technical schools.

If the latter is the foundation of the Zhao family's civilized governance, these "slave labor" are the guarantee of the Zhao family's military power.

Then there were a group of teenagers aged 12 or 13 to 15 or 16. Their number was not large, so Peng Gongchang relied on them to develop the intelligence network.

The establishment of contact points one by one is their presence behind them. Although many young people, as part of them, they have no idea that they are already ‘rebelling’.

Peng Gongchang will take at least half a year to train these people.

Then there are overseas immigrants.

This is a new demand that has only emerged in the past two years, but the quantity has rapidly expanded.

Peng Gongchang "buyed" these people for the Zhao family, and then the Zhao family came forward to raise them for three or five months to replenish their fatness and strengthen their bodies. He died halfway.

Long-term sea transportation is a huge burden on the human body, especially those who have never taken a sea boat. Even if you set sail from Fukuyama, the sea route to Sakhalin Island will be more than 1,500 nautical miles. It takes at least half a month to sail the boat.

Even a healthy person can survive this section of the sea on a crowded and bumpy sea boat, let alone a group of shanty townsmen who have never taken a boat, never left the sea, or even fall into malnutrition for a long time.

If they are not well- nurtured and provide certain nutritional ingredients, there will inevitably be some people here who cannot see the end of the journey.

At the same time, while caring for these people, the Zhao family will also introduce them to some situations in the relocation site, teach them necessary living and hygiene regulations and some measures to prevent problems.

Regardless of men and women, you must learn to shoot guns and fire cannons.

On Sakhalin, every immigrant there is precious and cannot be wasted.

Fortunately, the shanty towns bought from Dabashan and Yunyang were not single in the housewives, no one in the age of the age, had their feet bound.

A woman with small feet can't survive in those two places.

Peng Gongchang and his son attached great importance to this matter because both of them knew that after these people were raised, that was the basis for the Zhao family to rebel and seize the world.

In recent years, as Zhao Liangming became more and more confused, the Zhao family's foundation became stronger and more powerful, and the influence became more and more powerful. The two of them believed that the scene of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty would really become a reality.

Because it's too incredible and unimaginable.

Therefore, once the Zhao family breaks out, it will have the greatest surprise effect, and the Qing Dynasty will be the most caught off guard.

Similarly, as the father and son became more and more proud of their relationship in Dabashan and Yunyang, they became more and more aware of why Zhao Liang called these two places two large medicine powder buckets and why they were so sure that chaos would break out in these two places.

It is because the local government officials have exploited and bullied the shantytowns too much.

First of all, the local officials, "extra-tubes and tubes", cruelly exploited, and the public was filled with grievances.

Then there are the local landlords and local tyrants. These people are powerful and powerful, and they see that the government is impatient with the hangren people. But why don’t they collude with local officials and soldiers and work together to pull out the sheep and fish the people?

In a county, the country's money and food are no more than a thousand taels, but the people are burdened with tens of thousands.

Not to mention anything else, this is already very common in Yunyang.

Most of the local clerks and servants are well-known and familiar with the gentry. The two are connected with each other, and there is no wind and waves. When there is a shanty town, it is just a matter of knocking bones and sucking marrow. Today, I am ordered to investigate a certain village, and tomorrow I am ordered to investigate a certain matter. The shanty towns in the mountains are abused by them, and there is nothing to tell and nothing can be done.

The official has no existence in his eyes. This innate political flaw represents a lot of interests in the eyes of landlords, gentry and clerks. How can they let go?

He often uses trivial matters to frame refugees.

If a servant gives a vote, he regards it as a rare item. If a lawsuit is used for hundreds of times, a vote will definitely break several companies.

There are also some bad gentry and clerks who often take advantage of the long journey of the mountain people and the steep mountain roads, and they don’t want to pay their “money and grain” to the county town by themselves, calling themselves “grain interceptors” and deceive the farmers in the mountainous areas.

I don’t know how many shanty townsmen were unable to make a living under cruel pressure, so they could only go to the wood factory, iron factory, salt factory, gold factory, paper factory, charcoal factory, ear factory, forest farm and other places in the mountains to work.

These factories vary in size, with only a few dozen people in small factories and thousands or even tens of thousands in large factories.

For example, the wood factory is divided into large log factory, beam panel factory, monkey material factory, etc. Among them, a large log factory in Chen Xianzhi's family in Yunxi has no less than three or five thousand people who have transported water and land.

These workers were subject to double oppression and exploitation by landlords and factory owners, and their labor intensity was very strong and even livestock could not bear it.

For example, the transporter of the Fangpan Factory carries a "beam weighs two or three hundred kilograms, and the upper and lower slabs are in the middle of the steep slope. The factory's name is a mule. The real one is not even a real mule.

The husband traveled for more than 30 or 40 miles a day, but he didn't stop the shop. He brought his own iron pot and dried food, and stayed in a rock house in the shade of trees.

Sadly, even these cattle and horses are not as good as those, and the workers are threatened by unemployment from time to time. Whenever the food prices rise, the factory owners will shut down the factory and shut down the work.

Therefore, the Peng family, who are extremely kind-hearted in Yunyang and Dabashan, are very popular in various places.

Even if they hadn't had strict requirements when selling people, they wouldn't know how many people could be pulled away.

The life of the shanty townsmen in the mountains is too hard.

So many desperate shantytowners have made their best efforts.

Sometimes they go to "eat big" with "a lot of money" and force the landlords and gentry and factory owners to provide food; sometimes they pick up weapons, seize the landlords and wealthy merchants' food and property equally; they even gather publicly to raise trouble, attack the towns, and attack wealthy merchants and big merchants.

Even if there are officers and soldiers who are pursuing them, the small ones resist arresting and resisting officials, the big ones raise their backs, and the big ones are openly supporting the situation. There are also many Yunyang and Dabashan.

Li Shan, Yao An, Zhang Le, Zhou Kun, Wang Fu and other five strong men, why are they jumping around again and again in recent years and being beaten to the ground by the Qing Dynasty again and again? But after how long does it take to jump around again?

That's because they have already had contact with the refugees in Yunyang.

Therefore, in recent years, even though the Ruzhou area has flourished due to the rise of mines and more and more surplus laborers have entered the mines to work, they are not worried that no one can be used.

There are some people in Yunyang who dare to work hard when they give them some food.

“…Dada…”

Zhao Liang knocked on the handrail with his finger. If he only listened to Peng Gongchang's words, he would have thought that the refugees in Daba Mountain, Yunyang would be about to revive.

But he still has Changshun’s report here.

Changshun, who has been to Yunyang Town for several years, also mentioned the increasingly frequent incidents of forceful arrests.

But it's not big.

In that place, the shanty townsmen made trouble more and more popular among the big dealers.

There must be people who dare to sacrifice their lives to kill, but not many.

You only need to see that the "grain interceptor" still exists, and you should know that the situation in Yunyang Prefecture has not reached its peak.

However, Zhao Liang believes that under such cruel political oppression and economic exploitation, a large-scale peasant war will surely break out.

Even if there is no White Lotus Sect involved, this chaos is inevitable.

And why didn’t the White Lotus Sect get involved?

What a great opportunity.
Chapter completed!