Great Martial Arts Auxiliary System

Chapter 342 Workforce

After all, Yinglao's words had a great impact on Sheng Xiong, the Patriarch of the Sheng family, and he believed it deeply in his heart.

After all, there are not many people who know the deeds behind them. Although Yinglao never said it clearly, it is clear to those who understand it.

It is this kind of ambiguous words that are more thought-provoking and convincing. After all, what you think in your heart is easier to accept and believe than what others say.

Presumably, even if Ji Silian told Sheng Jia the truth, Sheng Jia would not believe it.

He even suspected that this might be Lianyue Pavilion deliberately trying to provoke the relationship between the Sheng family and the Shangguan family.

It must be known that the Shangguan family is different from the Liuyun sect. When two strong forces compete, one must be injured, and the greatest possibility is that both sides will suffer.

However, the Shangguan family, which has an official background and has elite soldiers and strong generals, seems to have a better chance of winning, and it will be me who will suffer at that time.

The Sheng family will definitely not do things that they know are against the Shangguan family and are not good for their own family.

The matter of the Wushan Iron Mine was a conversation between Shangguan Qiuyu and the eldest son of the Sheng family yesterday. After being heard by Tie Yi, he specially reminded Shangguan Qiuyu.

As the commander of the Iron Guard, Tie Yi is not only a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill, but Tie Ying, the commander of the Iron Guard, is the lieutenant of his cheap grandfather.

As the deputy commander of the iron guards, Tie Yi was naturally no different. Apart from being brainwashed to be loyal to the Shangguan family, all the iron guards were brainwashed.

Basically, if they are sent to the army, they can be used as officers. Every iron guard sent to the army can be qualified as a captain to take charge of an army of 3000 people.

Moreover, they had to be elite soldiers, not those county soldiers who were neglected in training.

Therefore, since his cheap grandfather attacked the barren state, Tie Yi had a general understanding of the barbarian forces in the barren state.

However, what Shangguan Qiuyu said yesterday made Tie Yi think that Shangguan Qiuyu wanted to cut off the Nanman's retreat, but suffered from insufficient troops and was restricted by it.

So, he told Shangguan Qiuyu the news that there were a large number of soldiers and young men in the Wushan Iron Mine.

As for the specific situation of Wushan, Tie Yi only knew the general idea, but not very clear about the details.

Shangguan Qiuyu, who was thinking about it, turned his attention to those soldiers and strong men. Isn't it often said in the 21st century that population is the primary productive force?

Southern Xinjiang is originally a place with a vast land and few people. Although the fiefdom was lightly taxed by my cheap grandfather, it attracted many people and a large number of slaves captured by the war.

However, for a Shangguan family occupying half of a state's land, the population in the fief is far from enough.

And the strong men who can be captured by the Nanman to be miners must be physically strong, so these are exactly what their family needs.

According to system statistics, there are seven iron mines in southern Xinjiang, and there are no less than a million miners in each iron mine. These are strong men and descendants of Dayu from the Barren State.

With such a large-scale workforce, Shangguan Qiuyu couldn't be more excited just thinking about it.

You know, there is no such thing as human rights in this world. These people were captured by the Nanman as miners, and they became slaves.

If I rescue them, then these people will become my slaves, and I don't need to let them go home.

They can even be bought and sold at will, and the reason why the Shangguan family fought in the Northland every year was that not only did they not become weaker, but they became stronger.

Apart from the fact that the imperial court will provide some material support, the main reason is that after each battle is won, everything on the other side will be yours.

Some of the population and supplies that the northern captives plundered from Dayu's border were often taken away by Shangguan's army, and the people of Dayu who were robbed often became their own slaves.

War is the best way to capture slaves. Dayu has a vast territory, and there will be rebellions or foreign invasions almost every moment.

After each war, the rebels, the guilty, the foreign soldiers and the common people will all become spoils of war.

They will become slaves and sold to Dayu or other foreigners who need slaves, and the Shangguan family who is the leading general.

It will naturally get a share of it, but the Shangguan family will never cash it into wealth, because it has enough fiefdoms and rewards from the court, the Shangguan family has never been short of money.

It only needs the population, so every time my grandfather or the ancestors of the Shangguan family lead a war, after the war is over, all the strong and middle-aged men will be picked up directly and sent to their own fiefdom.

Then, it became a sharp weapon for the Shangguan family to fight on the battlefield, which is why, the loss rate of soldiers in the Shangguan family's battles every year is very alarming.

However, there has never been a shortage of soldiers. The reason is that these captured slaves basically became private soldiers of the Shangguan family in the end.

Survival of the fittest, elimination of the unfit, is exactly the same, the last remaining soldiers created the myth of the Shangguan family's invincibility.

In these years, the private soldiers of the Shangguan family had no chance to fight. They entered but never exited, and the population in the fief gradually increased.

It has been greatly developed. Except that the combat power of the army has not been increased, other growths are very amazing.

But these are far from enough. Population represents productivity, and it represents soldiers.

That's why the Shangguan family moved from the north to the south in just ten years, under such a big influence.

It recovered quickly, and now it is even more powerful than before. The reason is the dividend brought about by the increase in population.

The Nanman can't be destroyed for the time being, because if no one makes trouble for Dayu, then the existence of its own family will lose its original value.

Only when the Nanman is always watching in southern Xinjiang, then the imperial court will give money and food, feed the family well, and pamper them all the time, so that the family can get more convenience.

Occasionally, even if some outrageous things were done, the court and the royal family would only turn a blind eye and close one eye if they knew about it, and would not trouble themselves.

This is what it means to raise the bandits to respect themselves.

However, since Nanman cannot be wiped out in one fell swoop, Shangguan Qiuyu will not let Nanman take advantage of it.

Aren't they iron ore deficient?Then I won't give them a piece of iron ore. If they want it, they can exchange it with their medicinal materials.

As for the soldiers and strong men of several mines, Shangguan Qiuyu would not take advantage of the Nanman people and make them slaves of the Nanman people.

At that time, Nanman will sell them to those big merchants who sell slaves, but the huge transaction will increase Nanman's strength in vain.

This is something he doesn't want to see, and he doesn't want to face.

You must know that the benefits behind the slave trade are astonishing. Those who dare to do slave business have amazing backgrounds behind them. Otherwise, ordinary people would not be able to do this business.

If those people in Nanman were sold to those merchants, Shangguan Qiuyu would not be able to lead troops to snatch them.

If that is the case, the family will provoke public anger, violate the rules, and be dealt with jointly by the people behind him.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the war was not over, so he could earn more, so naturally he wanted to earn more.And those labor forces that he has taken a fancy to, he naturally accepts them.

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(End of this chapter)