Since the Luzon Mansion's tolerance went to the countryside to inform the manors, the landlords of these manors have become sad.

The Luzon Palace is very large, including the Luzon Archipelago, the Sanbao Islands and the Medan Islands in the south. The Luzon Palace in the north alone is as big as three Taiwan islands, and the Luzon Palace is said to be as big as three Shandong provinces.

But such a large territory is vast and sparsely populated. When Spain surrendered, the imperial court allowed them to leave. The Spanish all left, with their families, and evacuated the Catholic clergy who preached here. One Luzon Island is as big as three Taiwan islands, but the imperial court only set up two counties here, one was Cagayan County on the plain of the Cagayan River Basin to the north, and the other was Luzon County to the south.

Such a large island and such a fertile plain, there is very little manpower. Especially after the imperial court took over Luzon, it moved a large number of indigenous people out of Luzon, which greatly reduced the population and labor shortage here.

The imperial court used the land here to replace the land of the landlords of the Central Plains, causing many landlords in the Central Plains to send their children to operate, but no one is available to them. Now everyone has finally found a solution, but the imperial court reiterated that the ban on slaughtering slaves. Isn’t this their life?

Because Luzon is close to the Central Plains, and after decades of development by Spanish people, it is better than other places in Nanyang. Many landlords have chosen to replace the land here. A large number of landlords have built plantations after plantation here, and even many rich peasants have come here to settle down and buy property. Everyone built manors, bought cattle and sheep, bought farm tools, got loans, and bought Kunlun slaves. But now the court has come like this, which makes everyone panic.

Zhao Jizu had 1,000 acres of land in Luzon, and his land was exchanged for three acres. More than 300 acres of land in Shandong were exchanged for this thousand acres. If Zhao Jizu's brothers thought the land here was worthless and would have used these land to save him and not let him go back to divide the property. In addition, Mr. Zhao compensated him a little more, he would not have obtained so much land. More than 300 acres of land in Shandong could be considered a considerable landlord.

Many of his neighbors are only three or four hundred acres of land. Only in remote places, especially in Kagayan County, which is more prone to typhoons, can the land be changed more.

Zhao Jizu had already bought sixty Kunlun slaves one after another, and the landlords next to him also bought more or less forty or twenty or twenty or twenty.

After receiving the notice, everyone immediately rushed to the carriage to visit each other, asked each other about their words, and found a solution.

The Kunlun slaves in our hands are not only a huge fortune, but also the foundation for everyone to establish themselves here.

But everyone connected each other and gathered together for a long time, but they could not find a result.

There are also some calm people who say that since the court has sent us here, they must know our difficulties. The court has always been more particular about doing things, and they are reasonable in everything. It is impossible to say that slavery is prohibited, so we really have to force us to the desperate situation. Listening to the official officers who came to notify them, there is still room for this matter. I don’t think we need to worry, and we can guess it, so we should wait for the meeting to listen to the results.

This will only make everyone feel relieved.

But everyone really has no other way. Some people say that we have to hide Kunlun slaves, but everyone can only smile bitterly. Where can we hide so many living people? Can we hide for the rest of our lives? Do we still have to work?

After jumping up and down for several days, Zhao Jizu did not get any results to make him feel at ease. When the last three days came, he could only clean up. He changed into a long robe and black boots, tied his belt and wore a headscarf, and asked Lao Wang to prepare a carriage and take him to Luzon Port.

After leaving the door, Zhao Jizu took a carriage to the intersection, where there was a pavilion. He waited for a while and then saw several neighbors from his fellow townsmen coming soon. Everyone said a few words and walked with them.

Everyone was worried, but only one person was more relaxed. This person was Tang Yuanwai from Tangjiatun, which was across the river in Zhaojiazhuang. Tang Yuanwai was much older than Zhao Jizu and was over 50 years old. His hometown is Tangshan, Hebei. His family has some land and is also doing some small business.

As soon as the imperial court limited the land to acquire land, Tang Yuanwai immediately handed over all his excess land. He chose to replace the land in Luzon and replaced it with one thousand acres. He left more than 300 acres of land at home, and his sons were unwilling to come overseas. Tang Yuanwai was very courageous and directly distributed the land in his family to several sons, and then brought his wife and youngest daughter to Luzon.

When Mr. Tang came, he only brought about a dozen people. After he arrived here, he bought Kunlun slaves earlier than everyone else. Zhao Jizu bought 60, but Mr. Tang bought more than 200. Mr. Tang bought this Mr. Tang, no matter the elderly, weak, men and women, and he didn't buy it all for himself, but for training.

Tang Yuanwai bought slaves from India. He bought a few Indian slaves from the Spanish manor at a high price. These slaves stayed in Luzon for a long time and could not only speak Spanish but also speak Cantonese. He used these people as supervisors of newly bought Indian slaves, asking them to supervise them, train them, teach them to speak and do things, and especially teach them Chinese.

Mr. Tang used the supervisors to apply many Indian slaves who had just bought them but were unruly and could not understand Chinese. They quickly trained to obey and stick them to them, and could understand and even speak simple Chinese.

In this way, those Indian slaves were promoted and then sold to other Han landlords or merchants, and they could immediately sell them. With this shrewd mind, Tang Yuanwai's neighbor Zhao Jizu and other new immigrant landlords were still busy for their own manors, and when they were only out and not in, he had already started to make money.

Tang Yuanwai was very smart. It is said that in his early years he was just a poor man who was carrying work at the Tianjin Wharf and pulling on the canal. Later, he worked hard to save some money, then he went to buy goods and became a peddler, and went to villages to sell goods. After the capital was more, he bought mules, bought goods and traded with the Mongolians. Later, he had more capital, and he also had his own mule team, and even went outside the pass to trade with the Jurchens.

Just like this, little by little, little by little, Tang Yuanwai had already had hundreds of acres of land and several shops in his hometown when he was fifty.

Tang Yuanwai had never read a book, but he usually looked like an old gentleman who was well-educated and polite.

He is smart and has a good sense of doing things.

Several sons refused to come to Luzon, but Tang Yuanwai felt that this was actually a great opportunity. He didn't care about his age and even came to Luzon with his wife and daughter.

It is said that after he came, he saw that the land here was fertile, and ran to the Luzon Prefect's Office and asked the official to buy more land. However, the official did not agree, so he would not mention it for the time being.

But in a blink of an eye, Tang Yuanwai began to discover the serious shortage of people here again. When he discovered that many slave traders came to sell, he immediately realized the business opportunities inside. He found that many slave traders came, and they were unruly at the beginning, and they could not understand and speak Chinese, which made many Han landlords who wanted to buy slaves dissatisfied. So Tang Yuanwai quickly started to do their current business.

Unlike the owners of the manors such as Zhao Jizu who were thinking about how to buy slaves and build houses to grow crops, Tang Yuanwai had contacts with officials from the prefecture and county, and was also familiar with the merchants at the port. He called him brothers. He even bought a shop in the port and hired people to do business there.

Everyone is worried about the court's official documents, but Tang Yuanwai is not. He clearly understood that the court had so much effort, of course he wanted to firmly control the overseas territory of Nanyang. However, the court kept moving the indigenous people of Nanyang to the Central Plains and sent them to the workshops and mines. On the other hand, he tried hard to encourage Han people to immigrate to Luzon, and even came up with a way to restrict land and replace the landlords to let the Central Plains landlords come to build plantations and develop them.

But when they came, no one could hire them. Now they could only buy slaves to farm. Will the court not know? The court must know this, but will the court directly take away their slaves because of this violation of the law prohibiting slavery? It will definitely not be released. If the person is released, who will farm.

Doing that will be of no benefit to anyone.

Therefore, he believed that the prefect convened the farmers to attend the meeting this time, and there must be a better solution.

Perhaps the final result will cause some losses to the landlords, but he believes that it will never be as bad as it needs to be worried.

He was amused as Zhao Jizu and the others were still sighing and worried. If the imperial court really came to release slaves, then Luzon would be over sooner or later. Zhao Jizu was still too young, but he squinted his eyes and looked at the young man, who was in his early twenties, 1.8 meters tall, and was very thick. He was a Shandong man. I heard that he had taken the exam, and although he had no prospects in the imperial examination, he had at least studied.

Even if it was an illegitimate child in the outdoor room, those were not very important. He found out that the thousand acres of land in Zhaojiazhuang belonged entirely to Zhao Jizu, which was enough. Moreover, he often observed this neighbor and saw that he was still steady and concise in his work.

There are a thousand good land in Zhaojiazhuang, sixty slaves and ten servants, and such conditions are very good.

Mr. Tang was thinking in his heart that he might be able to marry Zhao Jizu and marry his youngest daughter to him, so that his youngest daughter can be trusted, and he also has a reliable son-in-law who can help with him.

My daughter is sixteen this year. Originally, he told her to marry her in his hometown in Hebei, but the man was still an officer. Her father was a battalion commander and her son was also a sergeant commander. She had a bright future. Unfortunately, she was just promoted to sergeant commander, but she was still discussing the marriage here, and the child there died in battle.

Before her daughter got married, she became a poor family. But there were rumors that her daughter had bad horoscopes and was too tough to kill her fiancé.

This incident caused her daughter to seek death. Mr. Tang came to Luzon and brought her daughter.

The Luzon Government Office and the Luzon County Office are both in Luzon Port, which is the original Port of Manila. Mr. Tang has a shop in the city, with the front and back houses.

These days, my wife and daughter have lived in the city. Mr. Tang paid attention to Zhao Jizu and the more he looked at him, the more he felt that this young man was good.

"After a while, everyone enters the city, so they will go to my shop to rest for a while. It will be opened in the afternoon. Everyone will have a rest in my shop, and lunch will be there. After the meal is finished, they will go to the meeting together in the afternoon."

"How can I be so embarrassed? I'm so troubled by Uncle Tang. Why don't you find a restaurant and I'll serve as a host. I'm often troubled by Uncle Tang to help!" Zhao Jizu said hurriedly.

"What trouble is it? We are all from Zhongyuan. When we get here, we are a family. It is appropriate to take care of each other." Tang Yuanwai smiled while stroking his long beard.

Luzon Government Office.

The young Luzon prefect Huang Zongxi was sitting in front of the case wearing a thin long gown, looking through the case file. Huang Zongxi officially left the Senate after the new year and came to Luzon.

From a fourth-rank senator in the parliament to a fourth-rank magistrate in Luzon overseas, many people think that this is a demotion. But what many people don’t know is that this Luzon prefect was actually requested by Huang Zongxi.

Huang Zongxi was not willing to stay in the Senate all the time. He felt that he wanted to be a parent and do something practical. He wrote a letter to ask to work in Nanyang or Central and Southern regions. Liu Jun was also a little surprised when he saw his request, but after finally confirming that he did have this idea, Liu Jun finally personally appointed him as the prefect of Luzon.

Others think that the emperor demoted Huang Zongxi's position and demoted Nanyang thousands of miles away from the capital, which was even further away than being demoted to Hainan Island in the past. However, Liu Jun trusted Huang Zongxi very much, so he handed over such a large stall to him. The prefect of Luzon was in charge of the entire Philippine archipelago. However, there were few people now, so he only set up a palace.

Liu Jun was interested in Huang Zongxi's enthusiasm for young people.

The Luzon Mansion is now in parallel, with the Luzon Prefecture Office, the Luzon Mansion Parliament, and the Luzon Censorate Office, each in charge. In addition, the Seventh Fleet is specially stationed in the Luzon Archipelago, and there are three indigenous people on the island to coordinate the defense garrison.

"Have you done the afternoon meeting preparations?"

"Ask the adults, they are all ready. The venue is located in the Grand Theater of Luzon, and the police station is responsible for all the security work." A young official replied in Mandarin.

"Go and check again, be sure to prepare well, and don't make any mistakes before the time comes." Huang Zongxi said.

"Yes, I'll check it again right away."

Huang Zongxi has been in office for three months. He has not made any big moves in the past three months, but in fact he has been preparing for a big move.

Before leaving Beijing, he was summoned to meet the emperor. The emperor talked a lot with him, and finally the focus was on one thing, which was the slave issue. Now slave transactions have begun to appear in many places, especially in overseas areas. Due to the huge increase in demand, slave transactions have become more and more prosperous in overseas territory.

The emperor's words are still echoing in Huang Zongxi's mind. The court will never change the fundamental national policy of prohibiting slavery.

Huang Zongxi asked at the time that if slavery was strictly prohibited overseas, overseas development might be difficult to make progress.

The emperor smiled and gave him a solution, a solution that surprised Huang Zongxi.

The Han Dynasty still forbids slavery, and this national policy will never waver.

but.

The imperial court allowed the hiring of migrant workers.

This sentence doesn't sound special, but after careful consideration, Huang Zongxi savored the profound meaning.

Hiring workers and slaves are two fundamentally different concepts, but the result is the same and can solve the urgently needed labor problems for the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty allowed landlords and merchants to hire laborers. As long as the slave trade was replaced by labor exports, it would naturally be legal and reasonable for slave traders to become labor intermediaries.

Slave dealers become labor intermediaries, and slave markets become labor markets.

Those slaves naturally became migrant workers.

Labor intermediaries only need to register in the labor market and pay the prescribed taxes and fees to promote their own people in the labor market.

Employers such as landlords and factory owners can hire foreign workers from registered labor agencies in the labor market and pay labor agency fees to these agencies.

After paying the agency fee, they can hire these migrant workers.

At this time, these people were not slaves, but migrant workers, and they became employers in those employers.

They enjoy the right to avoid abuse, beating, etc., and enjoy wages, holidays and other benefits.

In other words, the landlords paid a large amount of labor fees and had to pay wages after hiring people back. However, the court allowed the landlords to count this labor fee as prepaid labor wages.

The court stipulated that employers had to pay workers a minimum living expenses every month, and the money was deducted from their wages. When migrant workers worked until they deducted their labor agency fees and monthly living expenses, they became completely free workers.

From then on, these migrant workers have enjoyed the right to freely choose to accept or refuse employment.

In a word, the imperial court does not allow the current slave trading and slave use, but it is not completely banned. Instead, it has changed the way to strictly control this demand.

Slave dealers, slave markets, and slave buyers must be supervised and controlled by the court, and corresponding taxes must be paid in each link.

The court gave more rights and interests to those slaves. They could enjoy the minimum rights and interests when working in the Han Dynasty, without being abused, beaten and scolded, and had basic living security. When the salary they earned was enough to repay their labor agency fees and monthly living expenses, they became completely free hired workers.

The imperial court used this method to avoid the oppressed and miserable slave class.

There is oppression, there is resistance.

Liu Jun knew very well that the slave system was extremely serious, and such oppression would inevitably lead to a lot of trouble.

When slaves become employers, the cost of employers has increased, but this cost is not high, but it solves the problem of difficulty in hiring. At the same time, the court can also get many benefits, get more labor, protect production, and avoid many troubles caused by slavery.

Only by leaving a line of work and having room for room for stability can we be more stable.

It is legal to directly allow slave trade to be sold and stored, which seems to be more troublesome, but it will cause more social conflicts. Every oppressed slave may become a time bomb.

Let everyone enjoy the minimum protection of rights and interests, allow them to eat enough, have the minimum freedom and dignity, Liu Jun believes that this will make the country of the great man more stable.

Liu Jun believes that it is worth it to make the landlords and merchants pay a little more labor costs, but the country can be more stable.

Huang Zongxi has been preparing for this matter since he took office for three months.

Investigate, survey, grasp various data, investigate the underground slave market, grasp the slave traders, slave ships, and even establish slave files in Luzon.
Chapter completed!