Chapter 902, Guarantee Firm in the Late Ming Dynasty
"That's too much!"
After hearing the report from his men, Mulundekh Khan immediately became angry.
"Send the order, kill all Ming people!"
He was really angry. He was only tentatively attacking the Ming people in the Hezhong area. He did not dare to touch the Western Regions at all, but he did not expect the Ming people's revenge to come so quickly and with such cruelty.
Twenty thousand cavalry swept across the Great Yuzi Grassland, destroying everything they passed like locusts crossing the border, burning, killing, looting, and even pointing directly at the Kazakh Grassland, the hinterland of the Kazakh Khanate.
As Mulundek Khan's order was conveyed, the entire huge Kazakh Khanate was shocked.
As a nomadic people, the Kazakh Khanate has always burned, killed, and plundered other tribes, but when was it that they were treated like this?
The Hux tribes began to gather quickly one by one and pressed towards Da Yuzi. They were bound to pay blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and make the people of Ming Dynasty pay the price in blood.
On the Great Yuzi Grassland, Han Yi's 20,000 cavalry swept across this fertile grassland like a gust of wind. Behind the 20,000 cavalry was a huge transport team.
This huge transportation team is the Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm, which specializes in providing logistical support and services to the Ming Dynasty army. Well, this firm was also jointly established by Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin, Duke Yingying, Duke Cheng, Duke Ding and others.
The Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm is a private trading firm, but it undertakes the logistics support tasks of the Ming Dynasty military and is responsible for transporting grain, ammunition, weapons, etc. for the Ming Dynasty military.
Liu Jin, who came from a later generation, knew very well the importance of logistical support in marching and fighting. Especially with the gradual rise of thermal weapons, logistical support became even more important.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm was independently established to serve the Ming Dynasty military.
Since it is a private business, it must not be able to generate electricity for love. It must still make profits and undertake logistical support tasks for the Ming army. In exchange, the Ming Logistics Support Company has the benefit of handling spoils for the military.
Wherever the Ming army goes, there will inevitably be Ming logistics support firms. They are responsible for transporting the things captured in the war by the Ming army. The captured slaves are sold to the firms at a uniform price. The spoils obtained, as long as they are not used, are also unified.
After selling it to a trading bank and converting it into real gold and silver, the Ming army can reward them based on their merits and directly reward them with real gold and silver. Of course, sometimes if there are too many slaves, materials, etc. captured, they will also reward slaves and materials.
On a grassland in Da Yuzi, there were more than a thousand clerks from the Ming Dynasty's logistics support firm. They were all wearing armor, carrying muskets and bows and arrows, and had scimitars on their waists. Their equipment was no better than that of the Ming army.
Difference.
All of them are strong, tall, and have calm eyes. They don't have a trace of worry in the hinterland of the Kazakh Khanate, as if they are strolling in the courtyard, very casually.
The clerks of the Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm mainly come from two parts. One part is through recruitment, centralized training and training, and the other part is the retired soldiers of the Ming Army.
The compulsory military service system was implemented, and ordinary soldiers had to retire after four years. The court gave many choices when it came to arranging the retirement of soldiers.
Some people who go to work as local officials can become local police officers, public servants, etc. Liu Rong, the mayor of Longtou Town, belongs to this category. Because he has performed meritorious services, he can still be a minor official.
You can also work in a trading firm under Liu Jin's command, which is also a good way out. Many of the trading firms opened by Liu Jin basically have the shares of the emperor and the prince, which can be regarded as enjoying the royal food.
Many of these trading houses are involved in business outside the Ming Dynasty, and these retired soldiers are needed to form escort teams, advance teams, etc. to protect and develop the interests of the trading companies overseas.
The guys in front of me almost fall into this category. After entering the Ming Dynasty Logistics Support Firm, the income and benefits are pretty good. The key is that they can also follow the army. In special cases, they need to obey the army's command. They can also make meritorious deeds.
More than half of the more than a thousand buddies in front of us are soldiers who have retired from the army. These soldiers have been trained in the army for a long time, and with a little training they can become very good buddies.
Each of these people rode tall horses and were relatively scattered. In the middle of them was a huge team. This huge team was divided into three parts.
One section is slaves. These slaves are all women and children left behind when the Ming army raided the Great Yuzi Grassland. These slaves were all tied tightly with ropes and loaded into four-wheeled carriages.
These four-wheeled carriages were specially modified and were extremely wide and long. There were iron cages on them, filled with fearful women and children.
There were four-wheeled carriages, and each four-wheeled carriage contained dozens of women and children. It was very uncomfortable to squeeze each other, but no one could do anything about it. I cried all my tears, but there was still nothing.
function.
Thousands of these four-wheeled carriages formed a long queue, moving continuously towards the east.
Behind the four-wheeled carriages filled with slaves, there are also four-wheeled carriages. These four-wheeled carriages are different from those in front of them. These four-wheeled carriages are also specially modified and specially used to carry goods.
Each of the wheeled carriages was very wide and very long, requiring several horses to pull them.
It was filled with all kinds of things, all of which the Ming army had snatched from the Dayuzi grassland. The Ming army was responsible for cleaning, and those who worked in logistics were responsible for taking away everything that could be taken away as much as possible.
Walk.
At the end of the team, there were even larger herds of cattle, sheep and horses, numbering hundreds of thousands, divided into squares, and then following the team while munching on the grass, they were driven eastward.
go.
That is to say, it is midsummer now, and the entire Dayuzi grassland is rich in water and grass. Otherwise, such a large number of cattle, sheep and horses have been seized, and the people from the logistics support company really would not be able to transport them all back.
Killed them all. It's so hot in summer. If you don't eat them all, they will stink very quickly.
If you rely on four-wheeled carriages for transportation, the number of four-wheeled carriages required is an extremely large number. This is why the cattle, sheep and horses captured by the Ming army last winter could only be digested on the spot.
In winter, there is no way to drive cattle, sheep and horses over long distances. The cold temperature alone is enough to freeze to death countless cattle and sheep. What's more, cattle and sheep also need to eat grass in winter.
There will be no problem in summer, there is grass and water everywhere. As long as you learn to drive cattle, sheep and horses, you can bring back as many cattle, sheep and horses as you want.
The huge team marched toward the east in a mighty manner, accompanied along the way by the cries of women, the frightened screams of children, and the roars of cattle, sheep, and horses.
There were several teams like this, and they quickly digested the Ming army's gains on the Great Yuzi Grassland.
In the Western Capital City of the Western Regions, a fast-moving team has already arrived at the Western Capital City. As these teams arrived at the Western Capital City, the entire Western Capital City began to become extremely noisy and lively.
There are many slave traders gathered in the Western Capital City. Whenever there is a war, these slave traders make a fortune.
Last winter, the Ming army captured more than 100,000 people in the Western Regions alone. Almost all of these 100,000 people were sold to slave traders and then sold to the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang provinces to cultivate plantations.
Slaves bought for more than 20 taels of silver could be sold for more than 50 taels of silver once transported to Nanyang. The profits were so great that many slave trading firms in the Ming Dynasty sent people to gather in the Western Regions.
"It won't work this time. They are all women and children. There is not even an adult man in sight. Such slaves are not valuable."
A slave trader looked at the women and children in the four-wheeled carriage and couldn't help but said in disappointment.
Women and children are the least valuable things. Women in the Western Regions are better off, because people here generally have fair skin and plump figures, so they can still be sold for a good price.
In various parts of the Ming Dynasty, with the improvement of the living standards of the Ming Dynasty people, coupled with the fact that they can eat and drink enough, as the saying goes, these women from the Western Regions can also be sold at a good price.
Many people like to sell a few women from the Western Regions to be their concubines. Of course, not only women from the Western Regions, but also Koreans, Japanese, Tianzhu, Middle Easterners, and Persians are now in demand.
Women are still somewhat valuable and profitable, but children, and they are little wheels that are no taller than wheels, are definitely losing money.
Neither the planters in Nanyang nor the buyers from all over the Ming Dynasty like this kind of thing, because it is too small to do any work, but it requires food to raise it, and it takes several years to raise it.
Only then can I do some work.
"Women are better off. These children will definitely have to be compensated. Even if they are brought over, it is difficult to sell them. Unless they find a place to raise them for a few years and wait for them to grow stronger.
It can be sold at a good price.”
Some people also nodded and said.
"There is no other way this time. The Duke of Australia has issued an order to take bloody revenge on the Kazakh Khanate. Wherever the army passes, men taller than a wheel will be killed, leaving only women and children. So you want to be strong.
It’s basically unrealistic.”
"It's better to buy women. If you are lucky enough to buy a beautiful one, you can still make a small profit."
"Yes, I heard that there is a strong demand for women from the Western Regions in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan."
"The demand there is very strong, but the people there are too poor, and they have not had good luck in the past. The best place to sell is the Beijing-Tianjin area. The demand here is strong, and people in the Beijing-Tianjin area have a lot of money."
