The Tang Dynasty court is very short of money, but the richest man Li Chao is very short of people.
The Bashang Li family has more than 8,000 industries in the country, involving all aspects, and owns more than 300,000 slaves and workers.
But Li Chao is still there sighing for a long time, "There is a shortage of people" Li Chao is ready to expand the mineral smelting and manufacturing industry, but this aspect is the most manpower-intensive.
The mineral mining technology of this era was too backward, and it was completely piled up by people.
But Li Chao has no one in his hands.
No wonder it is said that the Tang Dynasty could not develop capitalism, and no one developed a fart industry.
Especially in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court now practiced the equalization of land system, searched for people everywhere, and then divided the land and granted land, and also engaged in the large-scale development of the frontier.
Nowadays, in various states and counties, even a beggar is rarely seen, unless it is a madman and disabled, or someone with a little complete hands and feet, even if it is a big fool, it will be taken away.
The imperial court married those young and strong, gave them land distribution, rented seeds and farm tools, and let them reclaim the land.
Even those orphaned teenagers were either arranged by the imperial court in collective farms, or directly handed over to those people for foster care or adoption.
The Tang Dynasty now has a population of more than 50 million, but the imperial court still has a lot of land to be granted, because there are too many vacant lands and wastelands in the frontier.
The Juntian system is simply the sworn enemy of industrial and commercial development.
The policy of the imperial court was obviously that kind of classical agricultural system, wishing that all the people were nailed to the land and self-sufficient.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the concurrent was not serious, there were few landless peasants, and there were no displaced people.
Especially after the imperial court sealed the princes, after replacing the land in the Central Plains with the border land, the slaves were pardoned on a large scale, and the hidden households, tenant farmers, and slaves of the former heroes were also registered and divided into land, which made the current labor shortage more and more aggravated.
Li Chao felt that he had cheated himself.
In the past, there were no immigrants and pioneers, no looting of hidden households, no slave release, there were many narrow people in the Central Plains, and there were still many landless people, and it was not so difficult for Li Chao's workshop to recruit workers.
But now, although Li Ji has more than 8,000 industries in the country, there are more than 300,000 workers.
But it has reached the limit, and many workers are actually female workers and juvenile children.
But Li Chao wants to develop mineral smelting and manufacturing, but the original methods will not work.
In the trading houses and some small handicraft workshops, some female workers and child laborers are used to make up for it, but these smelting and manufacturing industries cannot use child labor and female laborers.
Just negotiated a big deal with the imperial court and got a ticket to enter this mineral smelting and manufacturing industry in a big way, but Li Chao is still facing a big problem, labor shortage.
The people can get the fields, who don't want to work in their own fields, how good it is for a family to live together with their wives and children.
Who wants to go to work in the industrial mines.
It seems that the British entered the industrial age when they engaged in sheep and cannibalism.
In the final analysis, the germination of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty was due to the population explosion in the late Ming Dynasty, coupled with the serious land annexation, and a large number of landless peasants poured into the towns, which led to the rapid development of handicrafts.
At the end of the day, you still need a population.
But now the two major systems of the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system and the immigration and reclamation of the frontier have become a problem for Li Chao to develop industry and commerce.
It became a bottleneck.
Digging up a big mineral will take thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
From mining, to mineral processing, to smelting, to manufacturing products, the entire production chain is a labor-intensive industry.
Without enough people, Li Chao's layout can't be opened.
Even if Li Chao wants to develop his own territory, he also needs a lot of people.
Where do you get people?
The people of the Tang Dynasty don't count on it, now a beggar has been given land by the government.
For the imperial court, the Tang Dynasty has just laid down so much Xinjiang soil, and there is a shortage of people.
Those frontier lands were empty and empty, and they were given to landless peasants, and after a few years, the imperial court had an extra piece of cooked land, more grain output, and more taxes.
These displaced people got married and had children, the population of the imperial court also increased, and the national power also increased.
Anyway, Li Chao told Li Shimin over and over again, and now the emperor firmly believes that this is a national policy.
Daddy.
Li Chao regrets it now, this is a pit for himself.
He is now the largest feudal lord in the Tang Dynasty, the largest industrial and commercial owner, and a big landlord, but no one.
Li Chao regretted that he hadn't made the surrendered Turks in Mo Nan into slaves, otherwise, for some money, he could have bought them to work in the mines.
"The slave trade seems to be going to be the most lucrative business in the future."
Li Chao said to Ma Zhou.
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After listening to Li Chao's complaint about the labor shortage, Ma Zhou also came to such a conclusion.
Li Chao gritted his teeth, "I am ready to unite the major families and establish a trading company." ” "Trading Company" Ma Zhou wondered, didn't the Li family already have a trading company, the South China Sea Trading Company, the Baodao Trading Company, the Silk Road Trading Company, the Northern Trading Company, the Silk Tea Trading Company, there were many.
These trading companies were basically owned by one side, some specialized in maritime operations, some specialized in trading with the Turks, some traded with the Western Regions, and some traded with various parts of the southwest.
Why do you want to engage in a trading company again.
"In the south of the Yangtze River, there are countless barbarian fangs, these people are uncivilized, barbaric, and drink blood, not only hunting and vendetta against each other, but also invading the state and county from time to time, robbing the past business travelers.
These people are the fleas on Datang's body, they are parasites. ” "As a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, especially the feudal marquis of the Tang Dynasty, I feel that it is necessary to consider the Tang Dynasty.
I would like to invite all major families to form a trading company together and go deep into the barbarian lands of the south to tame these unruly barbarians one by one. ” With such high-sounding words, Ma Zhou almost vomited.
What kind of trading company, just say that the slave catcher team is not good.
He didn't expect that Li Chao would actually think of such an idea to solve the problem of labor shortage.
South of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Shannan, Dongshan, Nanxi, these places are quite good, and there are a lot of barbarians, but most of them are considered to be familiar barbarians, and they have been domesticated by the Han people, and they dare not mess around.
But in the Lingnan region, in the Qianchuan region, in Qinghai-Tibet, and even in the area south of Jiaozhou, the barbarians there are truly disobedient to the king's teachings.
The number is large and wide.
However, these barbarians have been fighting among themselves, and there are many people, so although there are often rebellions, etc., it is difficult to become a climate.
It's not like the Hu people on the grassland, they have always been the fierce rivals of the Central Plains.
It is precisely because of this that the Central Plains has relatively mild means for the barbarians in the southwest and other places, and has been slowly developing and squeezing to the south.
"It's not good to do this" Ma Zhou hesitated, people live there well, and they don't provoke you, so you attack people like this and capture them as slaves, it doesn't seem very good.
Li Chao just smiled.
What's wrong with this, when the Han family is really rotten Confucianism, in fact, the inner sage and the outer king are the core ideas of Confucianism.
The assimilation and expansion of China is also very powerful, in the north, limited to that rainfall line, the Han people have no way to turn the grassland into arable land, so they have been repeatedly fighting with the grassland people.
The expansion of the Han family was actually very powerful, in the pre-Qin period, even Chu in the Yangtze River basin was a barbarian, and even Wu Yue in Jiangdong was a barbarian, but in the end, the Yangtze River basin was incorporated into the Chinese civilization.
Later, step by step, you opened up to the south, no matter what kind of Baiyue or Slangyue, or Shanyi barbarian, you all developed and assimilated step by step.
"We can salute before we fight."
Li Chao said with a smile, in fact, many barbarian tribes, although the place where they live is under the rule of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, they are neither registered in the local household registration, nor do they pay taxes or serve.
They live their own lives, and many times, they are with the Han people who are well water and do not interfere with river water.
The Han people live in the plains, and these barbarians live in the mountains.
At most, they are nominally subordinate to the Central Plains Dynasty, and occasionally pay tribute to the government for prey skins or something, and everyone maintains this situation.
If it is pressed, the barbarians will also rebel and rebel, and then most of the results are still the court to send troops, all the slashing and killing, these people honestly admit it, and the court will kill some leaders, or by the way, pull out some stockades, and then catch some barbarian fangs as captives to be slaves, and life continues.
Generally speaking, it is still the continuous development of the Han people in the Central Plains, and these barbarians are constantly retreating.
"I plan to send someone to deal with them first, find out their situation, and then propose to let them accept the registration of the imperial court, give them land and grant them land, and let them accept the governance of the government."
This set is actually very ruthless.
Originally, the barbarians lived their own lives, ruled by their chieftains, patriarchs and the like.
But now Li Chao plans to register them in the register, and they will serve the government in the future.
The most important rule of government governance is, of course, that you have to pay taxes to the government in the future.
"Promote Sinicization education in the midst of the wilderness, establish schools, and let their children learn Chinese characters."
"What if they don't agree?"
Each tribe will always have its own traditions, and their traditions certainly do not include accepting the rule of the Han people, paying taxes to the Han people, and learning the Han language and language.
"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land.
The guest of the land is none other than the king's minister.
Li Chao said a very rogue sentence, "Since these barbarians live on the territory of my Tang Dynasty, how can they disobey the king." ” "Those who are not convinced, should be begged" If they don't accept it, they will be beaten, of course, not for the sake of being beaten until they are served, but for the sake of arresting them as laborers.
Li Chao has no choice but to lack people, and this unreasonable barbaric behavior has also been taken out.
"Will the imperial court agree to do this?"
"Why doesn't the imperial court agree, we will defeat and capture those barbarians who do not obey the teachings, and the land occupied by the barbarians will not become the government?"
"It's not a good thing that the imperial court doesn't spend a single soldier, doesn't cost a single penny or a single grain, and then gets a large piece of land" "Besides, we have captured these slaves and come back, which is also to solve the problem of labor shortage in the country, the Tang Dynasty has become prosperous in industry and commerce, and the tax revenue of the imperial court has also increased."
Ma Zhou shook his head and smiled, "Anyway, whatever you say is reasonable." t1706231537: