What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

Originally, according to the idea of ​​the Wu family, if poor relatives come to the door, you have to spend some money to get rid of it. The Fujian Palace is rich and powerful, and a hair is thicker than a person's waist when they are pulled out casually. They can get some cheap ones no matter what.Unexpectedly, Li Yue didn't play cards according to common sense at all. When he heard that it was the Wu family who came, he didn't care about the New Year's rules, so he asked someone to kick him out directly. , wishing to be at odds with Li Yue.The Wu family felt that it was impossible for them to stay in Minyue for the rest of their lives. Li Zhi’s health was not good, and it was estimated that power would be delegated to the prince in a few years. Li Hong was soft-hearted. I can go back too.At that time, they are the prince's cousins, how can they not compare to Li Yue, the uncle who is far away from the prince?The feudal lords of the Tang Dynasty were easy to grasp. In the end, Li Yue must be charged with treason.

Li Yue can't be bothered to pay attention to the Wu family, there are many people exiled to Minyue, even if many people still have the idea of ​​being pardoned one day, they still have to live seriously here.Everyone has to be prepared with both hands. Even if you want to speculate, you have to work hard yourself. Speculation is not just lying in the sky and you can lose money. It can be said that if you want more benefits, you actually have to Take more risks.The Wu family didn't want to come up with anything, they just dreamed of getting rich overnight, and that's not what they dreamed of.

For Li Yue, even if the Wu family is powerful in the future, they are nothing but clowns now!He's actually focused on other things now.

Li Yue's fiefdom is very large, and part of it borders Yunnan. Before that, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were exiled to the border of Guilin County and Yunnan.

Today's Yunnan is at the time when the six imperial edicts were separated. Among the six edicts, the Mengshe imperial edict is the closest to the Tang Dynasty. During the Yonghui period, people were sent to the court to become ministers. However, the reason why the other five imperial edicts often tend to be Tubo There is no other way, they are indeed tough people, but because of the split, they can't actually mobilize many troops. Facing Tubo who is in full swing at this time, it is difficult for them to fight back. , Maybe by the time Datang reacted, they had been wiped out by Tubo.This is also the sadness of a small country, and it’s okay if you don’t want to be a fool. Even because Tubo is more brutal, Datang is more reasonable anyway, so they have to stand more on Tubo’s side.

There are actually a lot of good things in Liuzhao, but the productivity there is actually relatively low. Even if there are any good things, there are often not many good things.It seems that there are many well salt mines over there, but their production capacity is insufficient, which directly leads to the fact that the people of Liuzhao can't eat enough salt for themselves, let alone sell it outside.Therefore, after the sea salt from Minyue flowed into Liuzhao, it almost immediately destroyed their well salt market, and there was no need to mine well salt there. Qiang, the most important thing is that the price is really very cheap. Just dig some medicinal materials or get some skins, and you can exchange for enough sea salt for the whole family to eat for a period of time.

After doing business with Minyue for a period of time, Liuzhao found that compared to other transactions, population transactions were more cost-effective.Liuzhao is not a country now, it is six large tribal alliances formed after many years of mergers. The leaders of Liuzhao are actually the leaders of the alliance. They cannot be the masters of everything. The leaders of the various tribes below are also very powerful. of.There are really many good things in Minyue, not only all kinds of daily necessities, but they are also willing to sell commodities such as ironware to Liuzhao. With enough ironware in their own tribe, not only can they cultivate more land and hunt more prey, Similarly, a larger force can be organized and have more say in the nearby tribes.Under such circumstances, each tribe is naturally willing to increase transactions with Minyue for their own benefit.It's a pity that their products are rarely valued by the merchants in Minyue. On the contrary, the slaves they sell are not bad!

There is no way, Minyue is really short of people. As long as people in the territory have a Datang household registration, then they have to follow the rules set by Li Yue. There must be sufficient security in the mine, and there is a death quota every year. If there are too many, then the business will be closed for rectification, and sufficient pensions must be given, and the same is true for other industries, because the existence of Li Yue's own industries has set a benchmark in Fujian and Vietnam. If you give too little, those who are actually Yue people who don't have much local concept will not mind going over mountains and mountains to work in Li Yue's property.Therefore, the workshop owners on the ground in Minyue had to maintain a considerable wage level in order to ensure that the workers in their workshops would not run away and maintain a certain degree of enthusiasm.

But it’s different for those who don’t have a household registration in the Tang Dynasty. In this era, those who have a household registration are good citizens, and those who don’t have a household registration are savages or slaves. He said, that’s not the case. Naturally, you can’t be too harsh on those who serve you personally. Little tricks, you don't even know.However, it’s different in workshops outside. Let them do a lot of high-risk businesses, which can save a lot of expenses. If they die, they just buy another one, which is much cheaper than pensions. up.In addition, it is agreed to do things like build bridges and pave roads. Li Yue in Minyue adopts a contracting system. You pay a deposit and bid to contract a road section. I will pay according to the progress of the project. As long as the quality of the process is guaranteed, Well, I don't care how you make it, so how much extra money you can make is up to you.

Therefore, Li Yue's side is purely relying on monopoly and technical differences to make money, while most businessmen make money by reducing labor costs. Their demand for cheap labor is almost endless. Over the years , has been buying labor in large quantities.They don't care about the source of their labor at all. Whether it is a errant slave sold by a big family or a slave from a small neighboring country, they will not refuse anyone.After the rise of maritime trade in Minyue, they even began to find ways to purchase labor from Goguryeo and Wa. It is said that some people even hooked up with tribes like Khitan.

This is not a later generation. Human trafficking is legal in this era, and Li Yue has many slaves in his own house. Therefore, Li Yue just pretended not to see this kind of labor importation, and Datang did not ask the slaves. It doesn’t matter what the source of these slaves is, as long as they can contribute to the construction of Minyue and shine. As for their human rights, it’s still the same sentence, and people in their own country don’t care about it. Well, who has so much leisure time!

It's like Lingnan was called Baiyue back then, but when it comes to tribes, there are really thousands of them at the peak period, and it's similar in Yunnan. Some villages have two or three big cats and small cats for various reasons. However, if one is accidentally wiped out by other villages, the people in the village will become the winner's spoils of war.Now, in order to make money, the big tribes on the side of Liuzhao have started to instigate wars again. At first, they are targeting those relatively remote small tribes and villages, and then there are conflicts before Liuzhao.

These businessmen don't care at all about the bloody wars they caused. In fact, they are happy, and the fight is good. After the fight, no matter who wins or loses, they can buy a large number of prisoners of war.Moreover, after a man died, it was difficult for a woman to hold on. After only the old, the weak, women and children were left in the village, it would soon be annexed by other tribes, and then they could buy a group of slaves.Except for the elderly, no matter men, women or teenagers, they will not refuse anyone. Men can go to build mountains and build roads, women can sell to bachelors without wives, and those who are more dexterous can work in workshops. As for teenagers, let them have a conscience. Do some light work first, and then do heavy physical labor after raising them for a few years. The unscrupulous ones are sent directly to the mines. Those mines are relatively low, and the small ones can go deeper, and the efficiency is naturally higher.After everyone tasted the sweetness, some bolder businessmen were not even satisfied with the fights between the tribes, and began to directly spend money to hire people to rob slaves.

At the beginning, Liuzhao didn't feel much. After all, they have always fought like this. However, the elites at the top quickly realized something was wrong. These days, population is a resource. Whether they win or lose, their population has not increased, but has suffered a lot of loss.In particular, the emergence of sophisticated iron weapons has increased the casualties in combat. Each family is very sensitive to its own strength, and it has lost so many young and strong at once, even if it is a lot of supplies and money, but these It was impossible to immediately transform it into hard power. Immediately, one by one, they began to try their best to restrain the people below, not allowing them to make any more troubles.

But those merchants don’t care about this, or the tribes below don’t care about it. They are really poor. Even after more than 1000 years, many places here are still typical poor areas. There is no way, and the transportation is inconvenient. Their agricultural technology is also not good. No matter how many good things there are in the mountains, if they take risks to get them out, they often can't be sold at any price.Now there is a new way of making money, and some businessmen even made a wonderful promise, that is, if they are willing to help catch as many slaves, they can directly take their entire stockade to Minyue as a way to go down the mountain. The Yue people joined the Datang household registration.

Minyue has indeed always had a policy that as long as the Yue people go down the mountain and pass the Ming Road in the government, they can have a household registration, and then divide the land.After all, the population of Minyue is too small. If it wants to prosper, it will naturally need more population. It will take 30 to [-] years to count on the population to grow naturally. Therefore, other sources of population are needed.Li Yue set targets for the local governments. If the Yue people on the mountain can be registered as householders, then the evaluation of local officials can be improved.

However, after these years, most of the Yue people have gone down the mountain. Even if there are some leaders who want to continue to dominate the tribe, the people below are not fools. They all want to live a better life. In the days of the Qing Dynasty, some Yue tribes even had civil strife for the sake of registering household Qimin, which led to what happened later.

If the tribes in Yunnan can be allowed to go down the mountain as Yue people, the local government will only be happy to see it.

And for these tribes who have been living below the poverty line, even the leaders of the village have a miserable life, if they can really join the household registration of Datang, it will be a good thing that can never be dreamed of. They are full of energy, they are not strong enough, and even borrowed from those merchants to buy some iron and even some weapons such as bows and arrows that are not prohibited. Even the priests and wizards in the village tried every means to get non-lethal poisonous insects and the like, to help arrange traps, make some drugs, and try to catch one by one.

It can be said that Liuzhao's side was messed up by these merchants, and even some people who couldn't survive went down the mountain and were arrested to serve as slaves to merchants.To be honest, the life of the ordinary people in Liuzhao is not necessarily better than that of the laborers in Minyue. In the past, people described a certain country as having nothing but freedom.In fact, for the people at the bottom of the Liuzhao, they don't have much freedom at all. There are leaders and priests above them, so they naturally occupy the most resources. He still doesn't get much in return, because from the perspective of the leaders and priests, it's only natural for the tribesmen below to serve him.As for labor, because a lot of work is heavy physical work, it is natural to ensure nutrition. Because of the relationship between Minyue’s extensive ocean fishing and whale hunting, meat is actually very cheap, and the most stingy businessmen will also buy some whales. The internal organs or the oil residue and leftovers left over from boiling whale oil are given to the workers below to ensure their physical strength.So, if you work as a laborer for Minyue, even if you don’t get paid, you can at least have enough to eat, and you can see the smell of oil almost every day, while working for your own tribe, it’s normal to be hungry.As long as they know the situation of labor, a fool will know how to choose.

The leaders of the six imperial edicts got together to discuss and found that according to the normal rules, they had nothing to do with these merchants. The Mengshe imperial edict sent people to Chang'an to complain, and the other five imperial edicts did not have a good relationship with Datang. After all, Most of the time they helped Tubo, but at this point, they didn't care much anymore. While sending envoys to Chang'an, they also sent people to Quanzhou, hoping that Li Yue could restrain the merchants below, and continue to toss like this. They are really going to lose their country!

Li Yue looked at the documents sent by Liuzhao one after another, and felt dumbfounded. He only knew that the merchants in Minyue had been buying labor on a large scale. As for the source of these labors, Li Yue would not ask too much, but now he found out that These businessmen seem to have become warmongers, and they have to make troubles if they have nothing to do, so people don't know what to say.

However, after Li Yue figured out the cause and effect, he didn't mean to uphold the justice. Not to mention that five of the six imperial edicts were hostile to the Tang Dynasty, even if they were not, these businessmen did not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty. He went out to arrest the slaves himself. In fact, they all did it through Liuzhao himself. If this is the case, why does he have to find trouble with those businessmen?Therefore, Li Yue directly threw the document aside, pretending that she didn't see it.

On the other side of Chang'an, Li Zhi and Empress Wu didn't know what to say after seeing the envoys of the Six Edicts crying in the court hall.