Chapter 253 Revisiting the Slavery Industry

Regarding Cui Yu's suggestion, not only did Li Min nod his head after hearing it, but Yan Bei, Li Ke and others also felt good about it. After all, breaking people up and making them slaves would not only frighten other natives, but it would also not make Li Min look too cruel.

Only Li Zhen felt a little unsatisfied. After all, in his opinion, only by wiping out these natives would he truly be relieved.

After deciding what to do with the natives of the eight tribes, Li Min discussed with everyone how to attack these tribes. At this time, Lu Qing came up with a very good idea, which was to send a small army from Keelung City.

Part of the army then spends money to hire friendly familiars from the surrounding areas to fight. Firstly, it can reduce casualties. Secondly, those tribes live in forests and mountains. It is really difficult for the Han army to adapt. It is better to use these familiar familiars as the main force.

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Li Min praised Lu Qing's method loudly. He didn't have much armed force in his hands, so naturally he couldn't use it in a fight with these natives. So as long as he could reduce the casualties of his own people, it would be useless to spend some money.

Nothing.

After the matter was agreed upon, Li Min handed the matter over to Lu Qing. After all, he was a local boss here and knew everyone well, so Li Min was very relieved to have him handle it. In addition, Yan Bei volunteered to join the team.

Among the teams that wiped out the eight native tribes, he was mainly responsible for logistics and other work.

Li Min was also very clear about Yan Bei's little thoughts. He just wanted to take the captured natives into his own hands, and then select the best among them and send them to the plantation under his name. Although Yan Bei's approach was somewhat

It was shameless, but Li Min didn't stop it, because he knew that Yan Bei would definitely send the best portion to his plantation in Prince Qi's Mansion.

However, although Yan Bei is smart, Cui Yu and Wang Kuang are not fools. Although they are not from Prince Qi's palace, they shamelessly squeezed into the suppression army by virtue of their good relationship with Li Min. Of course, they do not want to fight with Yan Bei.

Bei grabs people, and even if they rob them, they can't rob others. But after Yan Bei grabs the first batch, they can pick out the better ones among the remaining people. This is better than passively waiting for distribution.

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Lu Qing is indeed a rare talent. Just two days after Li Ming handed over the matter, preparations for sending out troops were almost complete. Keelung City only sent a thousand elites this time, and also hired four thousand native elites. Don't look at this.

The natives all look similar, but the conflicts between tribes are also very sharp.

Rui, they are prone to genocide at every turn, and they have no concept of country or nation, so as long as they spend some money, people from other tribes are naturally very willing to make some extra money, and they can also eliminate a few powerful enemies by the way. It is simply

Killing two birds with one stone, some natives may even secretly laugh at the Han people for their stupidity in making money.

Li Min didn't pay much attention to this dispatch. After all, the opponent was just a group of natives, and they were scattered into eight tribes, unable to respond to each other. In addition, they hired so many natives, it can be said that

It was a sure thing, so when Lu Qing went out to fight, there was no decent ceremony held in the city. Li Min went to the city gate and toasted a thousand soldiers with a glass of wine, and then set off.

In fact, it was exactly what Li Min had expected. The strength of the several native tribes was indeed not worth mentioning. They did not even use the thousand people Lu Qing led to attack. The four thousand elite natives were enough to kill them one by one.

Eight tribes were exterminated. However, there were some problems. For example, battles between natives usually ended with the annihilation of their tribes. After all, the productivity of the natives was low, and there was no extra food in the tribe to feed prisoners of war, so they usually

No one will be left alive.

Regarding this battle, although Lu Qing had repeatedly emphasized to the native soldiers in advance, in the end, some of his old habits showed up and he was killed easily after catching them. This made Lu Qing very angry and had to kill a thousand of his men.

The people acted as a military law force to stop the murderous behavior of the native soldiers.

As a result, a strange scene appeared on the battlefield this time. A native soldier finally knocked down his opponent. He was about to go up and kill him with a knife. But at this moment, a Han soldier suddenly ran out from the side and used his shield first.

He held the native's weapon, then yelled a few words in native dialect, and at the same time did not forget to kick the enemy who was struggling to stand up, and finally worked with the native to catch the opponent with a rope.

Although the actions of the Han soldiers were very dangerous on the battlefield, as the saying goes, people are dead to wealth. In order to increase the enthusiasm of these soldiers to catch slaves, Li Min had long made a promise that every time he captured a native, he would be classified according to the strength of the opponent's body.

, all have different amounts of rewards, and it is precisely because of this that they work so hard.

In just a few days, Lu Qing had wiped out five tribes and captured more than 10,000 slaves. They were all sent to Keelung by Yan Bei's hands, and then Li Min came forward to organize people from various plantations to auction them.

Selling slaves was something Li Min was used to doing when he was in Dengzhou, but Yan Bei usually took the initiative and he planned it behind the scenes. Although this was the first time he moved from behind the scenes to the front, he did it well.

Something like that.

Slave-trading was not invented by Li Min. Slave-catching occurred as early as the end of primitive society. The slave-catching industry in the Tang Dynasty was also very prosperous. Silla maids and Kunlun slaves were high-end goods that were in short supply. However, the slave-trapping industry was in short supply.

The ancient industry of slave trading was really promoted in the hands of Li Min. Whether it was the northern grasslands or the Goguryeo Three Kingdoms in the northeast, Li Min's shadow was behind the prosperous slave-catching industry.

However, with the demise of Goguryeo, the slave-catching industry in Dengzhou has begun to decline after a period of madness. In this regard, Li Min had to find new sources of slaves, one of which was north of Yingzhou, that is,

In later generations, the Northeastern Province, where the Khitans gathered

, Xi, and the Jurchen ancestors Mohe and other ethnic groups, these ethnic minorities were uniformly called Hu people by the Tang people. As a time traveler, Li Min was well aware of the harm that these two ethnic groups brought to later generations of the Central Plains dynasty, especially the Jurchen people.

They cannot be allowed to develop no matter what.

Therefore, after his guidance and the help of Zhang Jian, the governor of Anton, many slave-catching teams from Dengzhou have entered the north of Yingzhou and began to work together with the local Tang army to capture the local barbarians overtly and covertly.

It's just that there is only one source of slaves in Li Min's plan, and there is another slave production area waiting for him to develop.

However, the slaves in Dengzhou can only be supplied to the Tang Dynasty, and they can barely support it. There are no extra slaves at all. But now that Li Min wants to set up a sugar cane plantation on Liuqiu Island, he needs a lot of manpower.

Immigrants and hiring local natives alone were definitely not enough, and hiring would also increase the cost of plantations, so almost all plantation owners thought of buying slaves.

But slaves are not something you can buy if you want. There are only a limited number of natives on the street, and for the sake of the stability of the island, it is not suitable to capture a large number of slaves. Otherwise, if you provoke the hatred of the natives and make trouble with Li Min everywhere, then

It's definitely a waste of money.

As for those eight tribes, they were the ones who offended Li Min first, so capturing them as slaves was the highest point of morality. In addition, there were other natives involved, so there was no need to worry. But that was all it took.

Slaves obviously could not meet the needs of the island.

"Prosecutor Cui, do you understand what I mean?" Li Min was in Prince Qi's Mansion in Keelung. He and Cui Wei were the only two people in the palace, and Li Min was asking Cui Wei with a serious face.

"Your Highness, I understand!" Cui Wei said with excitement, "Your Highness wants me to come forward and organize the desperadoes who have returned from the island to become a professional slave catching team on Liuqiu Island, and then go to Liuqiu Island.

Java and other places captured slaves to supplement the labor gap on the island.”

"Yes, this matter is extremely important to the development of Liuqiu. You must not disappoint me!" Li Min said with a smile, although this Cui Wei made Li Min very worried because of his relationship with Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue.

It's important, but Li Min is still a little worried about his own talents, so he gave this to him first, which can be regarded as a small test.

Cui Wei obviously understood that this was Li Min testing himself, and he also got some information from Cui Yu. He knew that the King of Qi in front of him was very fond of Shenliu Qiu, so sooner or later someone would need to govern this place, and although Lu Qing was talented

Not bad, but he is a leader after all.

His Royal Highness is such a smart person, so naturally he will not allow one person to combine military and political power. In other words, there will definitely be a need for a top chief executive to manage Liuqiu, and judging from the current situation, he is undoubtedly the best.

The person who is probably and most qualified to sit in that seat.

When Cui Wei thought of this, he couldn't help but feel even more excited. Since he was sent to Liuqiu last year, he thought that his career would be ruined and that he might even lose his life here. However, he didn't expect that things would take a turn for the worse. Although Liuqiu was barbaric, he was still...

With the attention of King Qi, his future development will be unlimited. And his future is far greater than being the governor of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Min looked at Cui Wei, who was beaming with joy, and couldn't help but nodded. Talking to such a smart person saves effort. As long as he gets up, others can guess his plans. No wonder Cui Wei can do it.

The high position of state governor?

After sending away the ambitious Cui Wei, Li Min sat alone in the palace and pondered. The first thing he did when he came to Liuqiu was to meet his uncle Yang Jian, and then integrated his forces. Now Liuqiu's periphery has been completely

Under his control, although there are still some natives inside, they are not a problem. As Liuqiu develops, the living space of the natives will definitely be eroded step by step. Therefore, they must either integrate into the life of the Han people, or they will be eliminated by the general trend.

Eliminate.

In addition, the plantation is also developing in an orderly manner amidst chaos. The slave capture has just been arranged by himself, but this is not enough. There is still one most basic problem that has not been solved in Liuqiu Island, but this problem goes beyond Li
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