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Chapter 1474 There is no Ezo land, there is only Lushun Island (first update)
Chapter 1483

Fur plus silk from the Song Dynasty, porcelain, and various books and scriptures from the Song Dynasty were sold to Japan and North Korea.In exchange for gold and silver from the Wa country, as well as Korean ginseng and other specialties...

This way of tossing and turning back and forth often results in huge profits ten to twenty times the same amount of money.This made Wan Bin, the treasurer of Song Wanhong Trading Company, who is currently in charge of overseas and Liaodong trade, really excited, as if he was pumped every day.

The wealth income obtained every month is enough to make another millionaire in the Song Dynasty. However, all the income obtained has not been turned into dividends, but will continue to be invested.

Become various resources, even slaves...

Hearing this word, Wan Bin immediately became unhappy, and retorted towards the teacher.

"Actually, this can't be regarded as a slave. What Wan did was to call those poor and helpless people, let them go to that vast and peaceful land, let them cultivate and harvest here.

Every year, they only need to contribute [-]% of their income, and the rest is completely their own. This is simply happier than those tenants in our Great Song Dynasty. How can they be called slaves? "

"Besides, those guys were originally Liao people. They escaped and came here. If you take them in, you have to worry about whether they are specially arranged by Beiliao or internal agents."

"Speaking of which, quite a few people here were specially arranged by Beiliao people, but they have all been eliminated one by one, and they have all been driven to the north of Ezo to mine."

"Besides, so many prisoners of war you have captured, staying here will be a disaster after all. Now they are all handed over to Wan. They can still mine mines for Song Dynasty, and the large amount of iron they get can directly support Liaodong. Where can you find the best of both worlds?"

Seeing Wan Bin's plausible appearance, Zhong Shidao and Na Zongze could only look at each other in silence.He kept smiling wryly and shaking his head, because it was really hard to refute.

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Last year, the offensive and defensive battle of the Liaodong Peninsula finally started with the display of artillery in front of the cannon, which enabled the Liaodong Army of the Song Dynasty to achieve a great victory with less victory and more victory.

The number of prisoners of war alone reached more than [-].With such a huge number of prisoners of war, it was a big headache for the Liaodong Army of the Song Dynasty to deal with this group of prisoners of war from the Northern Liao Dynasty who were enemies of the Song Dynasty.

Even if it is to offer prisoners, it would be a big deal to pull hundreds of people with official positions and throw them into Bianliang, Tokyo. What should we do with the rest?
As a result, Wang Yang, the boss behind the treacherous Wanhong Trading Company, encouraged the emperor, and the emperor Zhao Xu also felt that releasing so many strong laborers to go back would be tantamount to embarrassing Da Song himself.

Therefore, I agreed with Wang Yang's opinion and transferred those prisoners of war to Wanhong Trading Co., and Wanhong Trading Co., Ltd. will contribute free capital and use those prisoners of war to build various infrastructures, cement straight roads, houses, and docks in the Liaodong Peninsula for the Song Dynasty. wait.

But the number of people was too much, so Wan Bin set his sights on the land of Ezo.The so-called Ezo land is a desolate big island north of the big island of Wa country.

Wang Yang had already told Wan Bin that the big island was sparsely populated, and no political power had been established.Let Wan Bin choose an appropriate time to set up an ocean trade base exclusively for Wanhong Trading Company there.

Ezodi, also known as Hokkaido in later generations.Once inhabited by the Ainu people.In another historical time and space, until the end of the [-]th century, the Matsumae clan of the Wa Kingdom crossed the sea to build Fukuyama Castle and occupied the land.

Soon Hokkaido became a direct jurisdiction of the shogunate.In the first year of Meiji (AD [-]), the new Meiji government decided to set up Hakodate Court in Ezo, and then changed its name to Hakodate Prefecture.

In 86, Ezo was renamed Hokkaido, with [-] counties in eleven countries.After the establishment of the Hokkaido Development Mission in July of the same year, the development of Hokkaido began in earnest.In [-], the pioneer mission was abolished, and Hakodate, Sapporo, and Nemuro prefectures were established to replace the pioneer mission.In [-], the Hokkaido Office was set up instead of the three counties.Due to the policy of the Meiji government, many Japanese people moved from various places in the interior, and the upsurge of pioneering poured into various places in Douai.

In [-], when the Meiji government requested a new name for "Ezodi", Matsuura Takeshiro used the "north" (きた) in the north and "カイナー" (the Ainu's name for the local area) "カイ", and "道" (どう), which is often used in Japan for the territory, were merged into "きたかいどう", translated into Chinese characters as "North Kay Road", and finally adopted.

However, in consideration of the "Tokaido", "Nankaido", and "West Kaido" of the five Jiqidao in the era of the legal system, it was changed to "Hokkaido" (ほっかいどう).

But now, it can be said that it is nearly 700 years ahead of time for the Wa Kingdom to develop Ezo.

Before, Wan Bin had gone to Ezo land many times to investigate, and had left a team of more than a hundred people stationed here, and built a small pier here.

According to Wang Yang's naming method, this place was named Lushun Island, and the construction of Lushun Port (that is, the location of Hakodate in later generations) began to be built in the south of Lushun Island.

Then began to explore the island of Ezo, and contacted the Ainu people on the island of Ezo. For those local Ainu people, it was easy to obtain these aboriginal people who were poor in food and clothing by using food and warm clothes. great affection.

Among the less than [-] Ainu people on Lushun Island, more than half of the tribes began to gather in the direction of Lushun Island, attracted by the attractive food, warm clothes, and comfortable houses. Come over, and through their own labor, exchange for the supplies they urgently need from Wanhong Trading Co., Ltd. in Song Dynasty.

These simple, honest, hard-working Ainu people became the helpers of Wanhong Trading Company to develop this huge island.

And Wan Bin even invited a lot of literate people to start teaching Chinese on Lushun Island. The old driver Wang Yang told him repeatedly that only the books were written in the same language and the cars were on the same track. , homotopy.

Only then can we assimilate those alien races, turning them from alien races into our own people in Song Dynasty.Especially for these barbaric and uncivilized alien races, it is even simpler.

If they can meet their needs in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and can also influence them through culture and language, then the so-called Ainu will disappear in a few years, and they will only think that they are also from the Song Dynasty. people.

With the addition of the aboriginal people of Lushun Island, the construction of the docks and towns here was accelerated. Wan Bin began to brandish the money in his hand, and recruited a large number of manpower and craftsmen along Jingdong East Road to Ezo Land.

However, after nearly [-] prisoners of war were captured, Wan Bin couldn't help but be overjoyed.After all, slaves, oh no... prisoners of war are completely different from those islanders. After all, islanders need money to work.

But the prisoners of war are all lean and strong laborers, and their endurance is much stronger than those of the islanders.

(End of this chapter)