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Chapter 671

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Wang Zongze was a head of the Du of the Yanei Army, the governor of the Yiwu Army. Unfortunately, although he persisted until the end of the raid against the Yiwu Army by Li Quanzhong, the general of Jie was killed and finally had to obey the orders of General Ya to surrender. However, he was also very lucky that all the officers of the Yiwu Army from Du level and above were executed directly after the war by Li Quanzhong. He happened to be the Du head, and all the officers of his level and above were executed. He was the same level and below saved his life.

Originally, after Wang Zongze surrendered, he saw that the new Yiwu Army Jie Zheng Li Quanzhong did not kill them, and it was estimated that Li Quanzhong still planned to keep them. He also thought that it would take ten years to carry soldiers and knives to eat this dead head. Over the years, General Jie Zheng has also changed many. He has beaten Pang Xun and attacked Li Keyong, and he is also experienced. After ten years of serving in the army, he finally became a commander of a hundred people from the ninth grade.

Wang Zongze didn't care much about who to work for. Even if he knew that the current rebellion of the four towns in Hebei was now, if Li Quanzhong was in the army, it would mean he became a rebel. But he didn't think it was anything. Life in troubled times was like grass. After ten years of being a soldier, he didn't know what else he could do except carry guns and eat food. He had no land, no skills and capital to do business. Seeing that the world became more and more chaotic, what else could he do besides being a soldier?

However, after more than two months of training in the prisoner camp in Dingzhou, he was suddenly escorted to the road today.

At first, everyone thought they were going to be divided into various camps. Later, they saw that the sport was wrong at all, and many people were worried that Li Quanzhong might have to execute them. Wang Zongze smiled, but he was not worried about this at all. Although life was as cheap as a dog in troubled times, veterans like them, especially not tooth soldiers, were also equally precious wealth. No one was willing to kill them easily.

After walking for three days, they finally arrived by the Hutuo River, where a fleet was waiting for them. When they arrived here, they found that it was not only their escorts, but the three thousand Yiwu Army soldiers who were left in the last battle, but almost all the other Yiwu Army soldiers were escorted, with a total of seven or eight thousand people. On the farther river bank, there were more people, but those were not soldiers, but all the people. Men, women, young and old were. Wang Zongze soon discovered that these were the families of the soldiers of the original Yiwu Army, and many were even the homes of the powerful and powerful merchants in the two states of Yiding.

However, at this time, these people were tied into long strings by ropes, standing by the river bank, shaking with the north wind.

Wang Zongze felt a secret in his heart, and he didn't expect that he would actually find such a result.

Li Quanzhong actually drove all the soldiers and soldiers in Yiding and the local eunuchs with identities were killed. He pulled up his clans. What was he going to do? Don't he want Yiding and the other two states?

He couldn't understand. No matter how powerful a warlord was, he could not do this.

He suddenly became confused, wondering where Li Hezhong was going to load them on the ship?

Outside Wuji City on the north bank of the Hutuo Water in Dingzhou, Li Quanzhong and Liu Rengong stood there, looking at the river bank from afar. They watched many people jump off the fleet, counted the escorted people in Dengzhou and loaded them onto the ship one by one.

"Master, do you really want to sell all the Yuan Yiwu Army?" Liu Rengong asked in a deep voice.

Li Quanzhong and Liu Rengong were originally subordinates of Li Maoxun and his son. Now, Li Quanzhong betrayed Li Keju by forming an alliance with Liu Yue. In addition, this raid on the two states of Yi Ding, he finally finally owned the three states of Yi Dingying and became the new commander of the Yi Wu Army. Liu Rengong was assigned to Liu Yue's subordinates, but he also officially owned the territory of Mozhou.

If possible, Li Quanzhong was unwilling to sell the Shangyuan Yiwu Army. Originally, he killed the officers above Dutou, and the rest planned to train for a period of time before dispersing them into his army to strengthen their strength. However, this time Liu Rengong went to Liaodong to bring back many merchants. They were doing population transactions and were willing to exchange canned food, cattle, sheep, potato vermicelli and other supplies for their character.

The Yiwu Army that Li Quanzhong took was guarding the Feihuxing Road directly to Weizhou, Datong Army in Hedong. As a new warlord, Li Quanzhong now has no shortage of soldiers, but what he lacks is weapons and food. After discussing with these merchants from Liaodong for a long time, Li Quanzhong thought for a long time, and finally decided to capture the original Yiwu Army, his family, and the ten wealthy merchants who refused to sincerely submit to him, and then traded them with the merchants in exchange for food, even arrows, armor, etc.

Ten thousand original Yiwu Army, including three thousand fangs, seven thousand squad soldiers, two thousand cavalry and eight thousand infantry. Li Quanzhong sold them. With these Yiwu Surrender Army, who were originally loyal to the court, Li Quanzhong was always worried that they would turn against the water when the court attacked. Now, they exchanged them for important supplies, save trouble and get what they needed.

Ten thousand soldiers, family members, and the many large clans and merchants who refused to serve, all of them had a population of 50,000.

The 50,000 population was sold at once, which was something that Li Quanzhong, the governor of the New Yi Wujun, made him hesitate several times.

The population of 50,000 is 50,000 yuan per cavalry among the Yiwu Army's teeth soldiers, 45 jin of infantry soldiers, and 40 jin of military soldiers. 10,000 jin of fangs sold for 370,000 yuan, which is almost the price of one person and one horse.

The remaining people are thirty-talented men each, and twenty-talented women each. The less-degree men are 15-talented men, 10-talented women are 10-talented women, and 10-talented elderly people are 10-talented.

In the end, the forty thousand people sold 800,000 guan, plus 10,000 soldiers, and 50,000 people sold 1.17 million guan.

Although the price is very low, Liaodong merchants did not pay directly, but paid for military supplies that Li Quanzhong urgently needed.

The vegetarian potato vermicelli, yam vermicelli, lotus root powder, fish, beef and mutton, canned poultry, etc. are much cheaper than the market price, and they are completely sold to Li Quanzhong at the factory price. The most important thing is that Li Quanzhong purchased a batch of military supplies from Liaodong merchants.

Among them, there were 3,000 sets of iron armor and 10,000 sets of leather armor. Although these iron armor and leather armor were only 50% new, they were still considered rare military supplies. The price offered by Liaodong merchants was not high, with 50% new iron armor and 50% new leather armor. In addition, they also purchased 20,000 spears and 10,000 horizontal knives.

Although in the end, the two sides combined. Li Quanzhong's 50,000 people were easily given to Liaodong merchants. He had to pay a million guan to subsidize them. However, he already felt it was worth it. Moreover, the Liaodong merchants did not need to pay the debt immediately. Instead, they signed an installment contract and shared it into the fourth quarter of a year. Although they had to pay in installments and had to pay an additional interest of 200,000 guan in the end, Li Quanzhong felt that it was still good.

After all, he didn't take out a penny and got three thousand iron armors, ten thousand leather armors, ten thousand knives, and twenty thousand spears. Moreover, there were also a lot of food. Besides, he sold 50,000 people, and all the property, fields, houses, etc. of these people were all his. After all, it was still very cost-effective.

Originally, he wanted to buy some more bows and crossbows, but unfortunately, the Liaodong merchants said that these were restricted weapons.

This is a deal that both parties are very satisfied with. Li Quanzhong eliminated the risks, solved the hidden dangers, and made a fortune. He also obtained another sum of food and weapons.

The merchants in Liaodong also made a fortune. The armies were just old-style equipment that was replaced from the middle of the year. When the royal palace was handed over to them, they were not expensive. They sold them to the Hebei army and earned 30% after one transfer. In addition, the profit from installments was 10%. By exchanging goods, these people could make another profit when they were sent to Liaodong. Although the prince had already strictly ordered that the population was not allowed to be traded. In fact, Liaodong had a huge demand for the population, and it was difficult to find people in various workshops and other workers, and they had to pay a large amount of introduction fees in the end. Of course, the royal palace would finally reduce taxes and refund these employers and give subsidies to promote them to find ways to introduce more migrant populations.

The population of 50,000 is not a decimal place. Liaodong merchants rented a large number of ships to transport them.

Wang Zongze had no family, so he had already had a full meal and was not hungry for the whole family. Therefore, when he heard the people on the boat tell him that they had been sold to Liaodong by Li Quanzhong, he just sighed in his heart.

However, the young crew member on the ship quickly told him good news. Although they were sold by Li Quanzhong, they were not actually slaves. Because of the money they bought them, the Liaodong government would return it to the merchants through tax cuts, tax refunds and subsidies. Then after they arrived in Liaodong, they were still free people.

The crew member was not very clear, which made Wang Zongze a little confused and he couldn't believe it. Although they only sold one horse, each of them was dozens of trumpets. How could the Prince of Andong from Liaodong spend such a sum of money to get them away and then make them free people?

He couldn't understand this, but the people on the boat were really good to them. Wang Zongze, his colleagues and subordinates were not abused at all. Not only could he eat enough, but no one beat or scolded him. Even on the boat, because he was Dutou, he was appointed to manage the people on the boat.

Hundreds of people on the boat stayed under the deck, and Wang Zongze, the crew members and caravan managers on the boat, stayed at the bow. The merchants did not tie him up, but were very polite to him and even answered his questions seriously.

The huge fleet sailed northeastward. After leaving the Yiwu Army territory, it entered Youzhou territory. However, after the Lu Long army along the coast saw the fleet of these Liaodong merchants, no one came up to check it, and let them go north and finally set sail into the sea.

After getting along with the crew of the caravan on the ship these days, Wang Zongze has already understood and believed that they did not go to Liaodong as slaves, to build roads and cities, or to do hard work. According to the caravan, after they arrived in Liaodong, they would arrange different jobs according to their respective abilities and craftsmanship. Not only did they have a good salary, but they could even get land as long as they had a good performance for a certain period of time. If they had no wife, the government would even help introduce them to marry their wives.

He told his subordinates in the cabin these situations, but few of them were willing to believe it. Based on past experience, if the defeated prisoners cannot be reorganized into the army, the days ahead will definitely be miserable. Generally, they will be sent to the military camp to farm or go to mine to mine, and nine out of the ten people will be exhausted.

After floating on the sea for a few days, the fleet finally arrived at Liaodong Bay along the coast, and then went upstream along the mouth of the Liaohe River and entered the Liaohe River. After walking for a few more days, the fleet finally stopped on a large pier.

As soon as the ship stopped, the merchant on the ship shouted loudly: "Liaodong City has arrived!"

To the expectations of Wang Zongze and his subordinates, the soldiers of the Yiwu Army were greeted by neither the troops coming to take over the escorts nor the guards of the caravan.

Li Jing, the prince of Andong in Liaodong, personally brought a large number of civil servants and generals to welcome these piglets sold by Li Quanzhong. At one time, 50,000 Han people moved to Liaodong. This was extremely shocking for the entire Liaodong region.

"Brothers, are you hungry?" After Li Rang took the people to count the number of people, he wrote documents to the caravan. Then he smiled and brought many people to the steaming food.

The food prepared was very rich, not only fresh river fish, seafood, but also rice and egg flower soup. Every ten people even gave a large can of camping for ten kilograms. Once opened, it was covered with oily braised pork cubes. "Eat quickly!"

Wang Zongze stared at the tall white rice piled in the bowl in front of him. This was obviously the new rice that had just been harvested. Then he looked at the large canned braised pork in front of him, weighing at least ten kilograms.

The others around were also stunned. Wang Zongze reached out and grabbed his thigh. A burst of pain came. This was not a dream! There were many tents temporarily set up in the open space on the pier. More than 50,000 people got off the boat. They all had a hot meal here first to calm down and then arranged for them to register.

Many people pinch their faces and pinch their legs, and they are immersed in incredible ways.

Prince Anton came to greet them and the slaves in person. The food provided was even better than the food used by some officers and landlords. It was not like receiving prisoners, but like welcoming triumphant soldiers.

After Li Jing destroyed Goguryeo, in order to stabilize the situation in Liaodong, he implemented an important plan, which was to move all the Goguryeo people to the Peace, Ji, Tan, and Equal Places of Ziqing, and mainly moved them to the five prefectures of Ziqing Qi Denglai. Then he moved the Han people from Ziqing Qi Denglai and other places, as well as the Han people recruited from other places to the Liaodong area.

However, the implementation of this plan has been smoothly implemented. Although the migration of Goguryeo people from Liaodong to the Central Plains, there were originally more than one million Hu people of all ethnic groups in Liaodong. Now even if they only move Goguryeo people first, they will have fewer million people at once. Liaodong was originally sparsely populated, and there were fewer millions of people. In addition to the southern Liaoning region, the entire Liaodong is now empty, and even the Liaodong city, the center of Liaodong, is only tens of thousands of people left.

Li Jing made a simple plan. According to the area of ​​Liaodong, if he wants to completely control Liaodong and turn it into the territory of the Han people, he must at least control the proportion of Han and Hu to June 4th and even July 3rd. He needed to immigrate to Liaodong by one to two million people in order to achieve the dominant advantage of the Han people in Liaodong and have the strength to start the Northeast.

To stabilize Liaodong, he would station 100,000 troops in Liaodong.

He also needs to mine, build roads, and build cities in Liaodong. The most important thing is to reclaim more land in Liaodong so that Liaodong can produce and supply grain for more than 2 million people, avoiding the trouble and high costs of supplying from outside.

Everything is needed, a large population.

After destroying Goguryeo, Li Jing not only failed to solve the "labor shortage" and "population shortage" but also exacerbated the situation even more.

It is precisely because of such a strong population demand, especially the demands of the Han people, that Li Jing had to support Li Rang's new plan half-openly and half-deadly, that is, when the caravans return, they find ways to bring back the population. As long as they bring people back, the government will buy their slaves who are not slaves in disguise through tax cuts, tax refunds, subsidies, etc. Even if they use this huge expense, they will block the population gap.

Even for this, Li Jing finally had to take out a large amount of armor that had been replaced by the warriors. Originally, this batch of equipment was planned to be replaced with the towns of Hebei and even other towns in the Central Plains to be used specifically for human beings.

Therefore, after hearing the caravan sent successfully made a deal with Li Quanzhong of 50,000 people, Li Jing couldn't help but be excited.

"Big meat buns, eat them as much as you want!" On the dock, a merchant in silk came with a group of men, knocking the gongs loudly, and a load of steaming big meat buns were placed in the temporary camp. This is the boss of a large fleet on the Liaohe River, which is specially for the newly opened Liaohe River transportation. The tower near the water will be the first to get the moon. When I heard so many young and strong people arrived in Liaodong, I immediately rushed to recruit workers.

"Chairman Zhang, you're so inauthentic." Another group of people arrived, but these were the contractors who were responsible for several important roads under construction in Liaodong. They needed even more manpower to build roads.

There was still a fight here, and businessmen arrived there, "Come to our steel mill!" The boss of the steel mill slapped Wang Zongze on the shoulder with eager hands, "Eat four meals a day, rice every day, and two meals of morning and evening with meat every day. Even if it is an apprenticeship period, you will have a monthly salary of two jin per month, and you will also have a bonus if you learn quickly!"

Seeing that Wang Zongze was still feeling too little, the boss quickly added, "In Dengzhou, you can buy 400 kilograms of white rice for two jin of money. You can make food and accommodation for a month, and you can earn rice for a year if you work for an apprenticeship for a month. If you become a first-level technician, you will get a salary of 1,000 yuan per month. If you become a ninth-level master, you will have a high salary of 100,000 yuan per month."

More businessmen came to hear the news, just like cats that smelled fishy.

Not only were the businessmen coming in a hurry, but the officials from the newly built prefectures and counties in Liaodong also came along with their own civil servants, offering numerous preferential conditions, attracting these new immigrants to settle in their prefectures and counties.

"Go to Shencheng. Regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, each person will be divided into 100 acres of land. Even if it is not a man or a woman, each person will be divided into 50 acres. The government also rents oxen and horses to pick up horses, rents seeds and provides loans!" A seventh-rank Shencheng County Magistrate wearing a green official robe stood at the bustling dock like the New Year, and loudly publicized the benefits of settling in the county to these new immigrants regardless of the identity and image of officials.

The arrival of a population of 50,000 makes Liaodongcheng Wharf as lively as the Lantern Festival.

The officials and caravans of various prefectures and counties all rushed to recruit workers and the scene was as fierce as a battle.

From the beginning of being happy, it soon turned into Jianbaqi Zhang.

In order to grab people, many bosses even broke out in small-scale violent conflicts. In one day, dozens of boss fights occurred.

On the next day, Yuezhou businessman Xie Cheng took ten huge Mingzhou ships to the Liaodong Wharf. At first, the merchants thought that another group of strong competitors had come. As a result, they were extremely surprised to find that the Yuezhou businessman Boss Xie actually brought 30,000 people from western Zhejiang at one time.
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