Chapter 33 Sejong Chapter 34 Triggered by 'Labor Export'
Chapter 2158 Sejong Chapter 34 is caused by "labor export"
The turbulence in Central Asia needs to continue to ferment if it wants to have a major impact on the Han Empire. After all, the distance is too far. In a short period of time, from the perspective of the Han Empire's sphere of influence, only the two kingdoms of Bei and Kang were deeply affected by it.
As well as Gaochang Road, at most including Hexi Road, its influence is difficult to radiate further east.
The distance in space means that the vast Central and East Asian continent is enough to accommodate 2, 3 or even more land powers. However, under the Han Empire system, for the central court, this reality has never been
It was psychologically difficult to accept it for a while.
The results of the Sixth War between Han and Yi also reached Tianting in late September through the communication channels between sects and vassals, and through the empire's postal system that extended to the east and west.
The imperial court was also shocked by this, because such a large-scale war broke out in a foreign land, and Anxi was so prosperous. From the perspective of imperial civilization, we should be proud of this, because the Anxi Dynasty was nurtured by the Han Empire.
, but from the perspective of the central court, we cannot but consider its impact or threat to the security of the northwest of the empire.
What is worrying is that Anxi and the empire have the same origin. If there is an unexpected change, with this name, it will be easier to be accepted by the internal strata of the empire than foreign invaders.
However, this level of concern was not clearly expressed, and it only ended with the imperial court sending envoys to congratulate Anxi on his great victory.
There are three reasons for this. First, the inertia of the sect-vassal relationship is still there, and it is far from time to break up and consider how to deal with it after the break;
Second, the powerful Central Empire has its unavoidable self-confidence and even arrogance. Ships as big as mountains cannot be shaken by the mere storms Anxi has set off in the foreign lands of Central Asia;
Thirdly, in the second half of the sixth year of Jianlong's reign, the imperial center's main focus was on the Andong Kingdom in the northeast when dealing with relations with feudal states. Even if it was interested in Anxi, it could not take care of it for the time being.
Something big happened in Anton Kingdom!
There is no doubt that if something happens to Anxi and Anton at the same time, the imperial court will definitely give top priority to Anton. This is determined by historical and geographical factors.
After all, Anxi is located in a distant foreign land with a large number of foreign forces and pagan civilizations to suppress and block it, but Anton is not like that, how could it be!
Although the Northeast is regarded as a remote, bitter and cold barbarian place in the eyes of many Zhongzhou scholars, it is undeniable that it is the traditional sphere of influence of China. Although it is on the edge, it is also an important part of Chinese history and an important supplement to culture.
For thousands of years, from that bitter and cold region, countless states and forces emerged that had a great influence on the Central Plains dynasty.
Even if we put aside history and just look at the empire itself, after decades of sinicization and great development, Anton cannot be ignored by the empire. It is a huge military and political force.
According to incomplete statistics, by around the fifth year of Jianlong's reign, the population under Andong's jurisdiction had exceeded 2.2 million. A large number of Han Chinese towns had sprung up along the Heishui and Duck river basins. Hundreds of barbarian tribes came from Baishan and Heishui.
, walked out of the wild old forest and became a naturalized Andong Zhimin.
This is the Northeast, excluding the Liaohe Plain and half of the Northeast Plain. The population is as high as it has ever been in thousands of years, and population means the development of civilization and the progress of productivity.
Of course, the rapid increase in Anton's population is not only related to the population recruitment policy that has been adhered to since the period of King Liu Xu of Qin, but also related to the progress of grain production, which is the basis of population growth.
Anton has been focusing on the development of basic grain production. However, due to Anton's bitter and cold geographical and climatic conditions, there are not many food crops that can adapt to the growth. Large-scale planting is even more difficult. As for the development of grain seed technology,
Breakthrough is not easy either.
Therefore, for a long time, Anton needed to import grain from the empire to meet his basic needs, and Anton's grain business was booming for decades.
The fundamental change in the situation occurred around the seventh year of Yongxi's reign, when a Sogdian merchant from Kangju named Tuji brought his caravan and traveled thousands of miles to the Andong Kingdom by chance.
After learning about Anton's desire for cold-resistant food crops, he took the initiative to speak to the Suihua government, saying that he knew that Ghaznavids had a cold-resistant crop that met the requirements, and expressed his willingness to find it for Anton.
Fortunately, the Anton official responsible for the reception did not ignore the information provided by this Western Region businessman and reported it directly to the royal court.
After King Anton Liu Wenyuan learned the news, he also became interested, and finally summoned Tulu into the palace to listen to his introduction. After some questioning, Liu Wenyuan made the decision on the spot and gave him a hundred gold as a fund, allowing him to return to Kangju and serve as his wife.
Anton brought the grain called "rye".
The stimulating effect of real money and silver was strong, which gave Tulu enough motivation and also forced the merchant's "supernatural power" to come out. Two years later, Tulu's caravan once again traveled thousands of miles east, and other commodities were traded.
His entourage took care of it, and he himself went to the Suihua government with the rye seeds that entrusted his dream of wealth.
The person who received Tulu was the same farmer two years ago, and in the past two years, everyone else had almost forgotten about it. Only this person was thinking about Tulu, and no one else. If Rye is true to what Tulu said, then it is
It is related to his own future.
Therefore, Farmer Cao was overjoyed for Tulu's return. After inspecting the wheat seeds and finished products, he couldn't hide his excitement and quickly reported the matter. But this time, the handling efficiency was even higher, and Tulu was more efficient.
Gao Efficiency was interviewed by Liu Wenyuan.
In the end, Liu Wenyuan allocated a thousand acres of royal land outside Suihua City, paired it with farmers, and gave it to Tulu to try growing rye. He also promised that if he succeeded, he would not hesitate to receive thousands of gold and honors.
Tulu's trip not only brought a large amount of rye seeds, but also a group of farmers with planting experience. They readily agreed to the order of Liu Wenyuan, King of Anton, and thus opened the door to the development of rye on the Dongsongnen Plain.
The beginning of large-scale planting.
Twenty years later, rye has become the main ration for the people of Andong. Although it has a rough texture and a bitter taste, it can fill the stomach after all. In the northeastern region with a special climate, one can find a kind of wheat that can be grown for a long time and harvested in large quantities.
Food crops themselves are a rare thing.
In the midst of many white disasters, freezes, and floods, unpalatable rye was a life-saving ration that brought countless Anton people back to the world from hunger and cold. Coupled with Anton's traditional livestock, soybeans, and fisheries
, by the Jianlong era, from the perspective of food security, Anton had gotten rid of its dependence on external food.
Of course, from within Anton, the ruling class is increasingly exploiting and squeezing the lower class people. This trend is even more obvious than within the empire. After all, starting from Anton King Liu Wenyuan, he has been working hard to strengthen the country.
Each class draws blood, and this pressure sinks layer by layer, and will eventually fall on ordinary people.
If it weren't for the introduction and successful spread of rye, Anton would have run into problems long ago under Liu Wenyuan's militarized rule. But even so, the class contradictions within Anton were worse than when the Qin King Liu Xu ruled thirty years ago.
Much more sharply, in terms of domestic political management and the ability to reconcile yin and yang, Liu Wenyuan is not even a little bit worse than his father.
But even so, the cohesion of the more than two million people in Andong is not comparable to that of Anxi. One of the most critical factors is that more than half of the population in Anton are Han, and other barbarian tribes have also been domesticated for a long time.
, there is no such contradiction in religious beliefs as either self or the enemy.
Of course, during the Liu Wenyuan era, the attractiveness of the Andong Kingdom to the people within the Pass had greatly declined. Therefore, to maintain a rate that exceeded the natural growth rate of the population, some "special" measures had to be adopted.
There are always some low-cost or "zero" cost businesses in the world, but most of them require trampling on the moral bottom line and legal principles. As for the endless black business on the Nanyang route, how could Anton State stay out of it?
Moreover, due to the short distance and lower risks, many businessmen engaged in the "immigration" business have their final destination is the country of Anton, and the Anton government is not stingy in this regard. This time, the incident in Anton also
Because of this industry.
There are many routes to Andong, such as sea transportation, river transportation, and land transportation. It can be said that there are many channels and all are direct. However, Zeng Hui, the "broom star" of Andong Kingdom, has focused on combating this matter starting from the Bin Mansion.
, after he took control of the Liaodong Road and carried out a series of severe rectifications and attacks on the border areas, the black industry leading to Andong declined. Even after the sect-vassal conference, immigration restrictions were relaxed from the upper levels of the imperial court, but on the Liaodong Road,
Zeng Hui's high-pressure policy was always implemented.
This has also caused the growth of the immigrant population in the Andong Kingdom to almost stagnate in recent years. Therefore, in the past few years, apart from the Andong Kingdom, those who once hated the country were those who were wandering around the borders of Andong and Liaodong.
A businessman in the black and gray industry.
Many people wished they could eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, and they have carried out assassinations against Tangtang Fengjiang, but there was really nothing they could do against him. Therefore, in the sixth year of Jianlong's reign, Zeng Hui served in Liaodong for eight years at a rare age.
, many people are eager to see Zeng Hui become an official, and even hope that he will be promoted to the capital to become prime minister.
However, the incident of Anton's "immigration business" was not in Liaodong, but in Yanshan South Road. In May of Xia, Xia Song, the newly appointed inspector of Yanshan South Road, issued a memorial and revealed the matter directly to Tianting.
First, Xia Song arrested more than a dozen businessmen engaged in "labor export" at Tianjin Customs. After torture, he found out that a business that actually carried out human trafficking under the banner of "immigration" tore away the veil of mystery and classified them.
The evil truth is exposed.
In addition to giving a detailed report on the investigation process of the case, Xia Song also gave an emotional and stern remonstrance to Emperor Liu Wenji, fully describing the serious drawbacks of human trafficking to the country and the people, and requesting the imperial court to strictly rectify it.
The world is clear and justice is given to the people.
Xia Song was a talent recommended to the emperor by Prime Minister Wang Qinruo. He once knew Yingzhou. During the continuous floods in Hubei in the past few years, he was promoted for his ability in providing relief. He was promoted to Yanshan South Road as an inspector. As soon as he took office, he caused a big event.
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Regarding the issue of "immigration business", both from a moral and legal perspective, it should be severely condemned and suppressed. Even from the perspective of ruling interests, it is worthy of careful consideration for the central government.
The expansion and explosion of the empire's population has indeed brought huge pressure on "living people" and also brought many social conflicts and class conflicts. Land has always been the most important property in the eyes of the Chinese people. After all, it refers to
Something fundamental to survival.
However, no matter how fertile the land is, it still requires labor management and cultivation to generate wealth. And all of this will ultimately fall on the population, especially the young and middle-aged people. Although the empire has basically realized the land-based tax system reform,
As a basis for tax payment, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people after more than 30 years, but in fact, from the imperial court down, the "people-oriented" approach is still inevitable in the collection of many taxes, especially in the collection of corvee.
From the perspective of the ruling class, it is impossible to ignore their importance to the population. The output, taxation and corvee required by the court all require the hands of the people to create.
Even those dignitaries and bureaucrats are also aware of "cherishing" people's power, which is financial resources, even if it is for the thousands of hectares of fertile land and ten thousand acres of fertile soil they own, even if it is to become a superior person, and to provide them with enough subordinates.
Exploitation cannot turn a blind eye to the loss of the empire's population. Strictly speaking, this involves class interests. This is also one of the conflicts between the imperial elite, the landlord class and the ruling class of overseas feudal countries.
There are two reasons why the empire has been able to persist in population export for a long time. One is that it has been a national policy since Emperor Shizu. Not to mention anything else, the Han imperial family is the top sea and land feudal country in this regard.
After enduring great pressure, I will never owe them any debt;
Secondly, under the promotion of Shizu, a group of powerful people with huge influence within the empire "went to sea" together. They had special status and power at home and abroad, and they also played a role in promoting
and promotion effect.
Compared to the two, the black interests vested around the population business are simply insignificant. It is difficult for them to influence the empire's decisions on relevant policies through the huge profits they obtain from it. At most, they can drag some bureaucrats into the water.
Do some power-money transactions.
However, over time, the problem of population loss has gradually developed into a drawback of the empire, especially the black industry engaged in the "labor export" trade, which has become a cancer parasitic on the huge body of the empire.
In the two or three years after the sect-vassal conference, with the imperial court's new treaty and national policies as guidance, businessmen in this business became more unscrupulous, and more powerful people were attracted and corrupted. The knowledgeable people in the court were deeply aware of this.
Worryingly, some local governments have already taken action, but without strong push, the effect is not significant.
As for these issues, from Emperor Liu Wenji down to the Gonggun princes in the temple, they may not be unaware of these problems, and they may not have political thoughts, but they do have multiple concerns.
What Xia Song did was to expose the matter completely, leaving it uncovered and leaving the court with no choice. Of course, compared to the bad nature and consequences of the matter itself, Xia Song also put a serious political issue on the table.
On the court table.
According to the confessions of those merchants, they were exclusively running the Andong route. At the same time, according to them, the number of people transported from various parts of the Han Dynasty to the Andong Kingdom in the past twenty years was definitely no less than 200,000, and they only accounted for a part of it.
At the same time, the trading partners of Anton Kingdom also surfaced one by one, including many high-ranking and powerful families in Anton. What is even more shocking is that there are officials in the Anton government who are specifically responsible for this matter. Likewise,
A string of Anton bureaucrats were also brought out, and this was just the tip of the iceberg that surfaced.
King Andong, he looks so ugly when he eats! King Andong, he is too restless
As for Anton, a large number of people at the top of the imperial court had a consistent attitude, full of fear and defensiveness. In addition to considerations of the interests of the empire's security and stability, this also had something to do with the "legacy relationship" that had lasted for decades.
"Conflict" related.
Although there has never been a formal struggle for the throne between Taizong Liu Yang and Qin Wang Liu Xu, in the dark, this kind of struggle has happened countless times, and it has lasted for decades.
When it came to Liu Wenji and Liu Wenyuan's generation, it was obvious that this had continued, and King Anton Liu Wenyuan had made many undisguised actions in this regard in the past thirty years.
And the imperial court had no precautions and restrictions on Anton. From the time of Taizong, the other feudal states still retained their ancestral titles in the empire, but Liu Xu's title as King of Qin had been on the back burner for decades.
As for Liu Wenji's strong promotion and appointment of Zeng Hui, it was an obvious political signal. There was a fundamental contradiction between the two parties, and it became more and more acute as Anton Guo became more powerful.
When Xia Song used the "immigration case" to pull Anton out of the country and make him a target, how could the loyal ministers and filial sons of the "Taizong Sect" within the imperial court who had long disliked Anton not aim and fire arrows?
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