Chapter 427: Competition in the Central Plains (5)

Author: Immortal Grass Bean Curd

Chapter 427: Competition in the Central Plains (5)

Time flies by, and another year has passed, and it has come to the winter of the 109th year of Yanhou (319).

Shi Le defeated the Youzhou refugee armed forces, called himself King of Zhao, and became the most powerful person in the Hu regime. After becoming Queen of Zhao, Shi Le began to build a large number of Buddhist temples. He wanted to use religion to appease the people, so that they could farm and pay taxes with peace of mind, and not be immovable.

So he rebelled and prepared to attack Cao Yi in Qingzhou.

As for Zu Ti, he continued to conquer the refugee armed forces in Yanzhou, Yuzhou without support.

On the other hand, in Guanzhong, Emperor Liu Yao of the Great Zhao Dynasty demanded that Shi Le hand over his military power unconditionally. At the same time, he led troops to personally conquer Qianliang, which had just founded the country, in order to force the Zhang family in Liangzhou to surrender.

In the south, the Jiankang court finally completely pacified the refugee armed forces in Jingzhou, and the entire northern Jingzhou area became the private fiefdom of the Langya Wang family and Wang Dun, and the Langya Wang family's power was at its peak.

In Yizhou, Li Xiong, the leader of the Cheng Han Dynasty, personally conquered Nanzhong. The Jin army was defeated again, and five more counties in the Nanzhong area were occupied by the Cheng Han.

Not only the Central Plains are in turmoil, but the grasslands are also in turmoil.

Yuwen Xianbei and Duan Xianbei united to attack Murong Xianbei, hoping to seize the Yanbei grassland.

Murong Xianbei immediately formed an alliance with King Shile of Zhao, who was not yet stable.

Dai Guo attacked the Qiang and Hu, and the Qiang and Hu asked for help from their ally Liu Yao.

In Qingzhou, Cao Yi, the leader of the refugee rebel army, formed an alliance with the Yan State and conducted population trade with the Yan State. A large number of Qingzhou people were transported to the Yan State, and Cao Yi received a large number of luxury goods.

The Yan State was reluctant to sell even weapons and equipment to its ally Cao Yi, and instead prioritized the extra luxury goods.

These luxury goods were originally intended to be sold to the aristocratic families of the Jin Dynasty. However, as the aristocratic families migrated south one after another, most of them lost their strength and their ability to consume luxury goods dropped a lot. Therefore, some of the luxury goods produced before were

There's so much left to sell, it's just used to replace people.

A large amount of silk, Yanli, and fine wine poured into Qingzhou, and Cao Yi built himself a manor that made extensive use of Yanli (glass) as materials.

The population of Qingzhou has dropped sharply from two million during Sima Yan's time to 800,000 today.

The demand for slaves in Yan State was huge. They captured slaves in Goguryeo, bought slaves from Xianbei people in Yanbei grassland, bought slaves from warlords in Qingzhou, captured indigenous people in the Spice Islands as slaves, and turned the people of Yan State into slaves.

Even with multi-pronged measures, Yan State's slave market is still in short supply.

After hundreds of years of hard work by the two miraculous doctors Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo, as well as a team of doctors, the mortality rate of the Yan Kingdom in the overseas miasma areas has dropped from 80% to 50%. Due to the difficult conditions, the mortality rate of the slaves was 70%, but

It is much better than before, and the miasma is particularly severe in the Spice Islands area, so the mortality rate is even as high as 90%.

In the nearly thirty years since the beginning of the Janan Feng Rebellion, the Yan State has transported a total of 3 million immigrants to the Spice Islands and Fruit Islands, but only 500,000 people have survived.

Even if not even one out of ten can survive, the nobles and guilds of the Yan Kingdom will continue to transport people overseas to expand their own strength, without caring about the lives of the immigrants.

The Yan State has a clear price tag for population. The price of population in the grassland is lower than that in the Central Plains. This is mainly because the people in the grassland do not understand the language and it is more troublesome to manage, so the price is also lower.

Moreover, the grassland regime and the Central Plains regime had different demands for goods.

The exchange ratio between gold and copper coins is: 1 yi gold = 25,000 baht coins (one yi gold in Yan State = one pound of gold in Jin Dynasty = half a pound of modern gold)

[Grassland: Yan State

Elderly people over 50 years old = 1 five baht

Adult male = 1,000 five baht

Adult female = 800 five baht

Minor male = 500 five baht

Underage female = 1,000 five baht

Children = 100 five baht coins

Adult cow = 50,000 and a half baht

Maverick = 25,000 baht

War horse = 500,000 five baht coins

Adult horse = 100,000 five baht

Pony = 45,000 baht

Adult sheep = 5,000 five baht coins

Lamb = 2000 five baht coins

…

One Yanli = 15,000 baht

A bottle of wine = 100,000 five baht

One piece of woolen cloth = 5,000 five baht coins

A set of cavalry armor = 3 million five bahts

A set of large armor = 1 million five baht

A set of small armor = 300,000 five baht

One stone of spice = 100,000 yuan]

[Central Plains: Yan State

Elderly people over 50 years old = 100 five baht

Adult male = 2000 five baht

Adult female = 2000 five baht

Minor male = 1,000 five baht

Underage female = 2000 five baht

Children = 500 five baht coins

Scholar/scholar = 100,000 five baht

Craftsman = 500,000 five baht

Doctor = 5 million five baht

…

One Yanli = 15,000 baht

A bottle of wine = 100,000 five baht

One piece of woolen cloth = 5,000 five baht coins

A set of cavalry armor = 3 million five bahts

A set of large armor = 1 million five baht

A set of small armor = 300,000 five baht

One stone of spice = 100,000 five baht

One stone of pickled fish = 15,000 baht]

Capturing scholars, craftsmen, and doctors was the main job of Qingzhou warlord Cao Yi.

The former King of Jiaodong, then Zhang Bu, then Kong Rong, and now Cao Yi, generation after generation of Qingzhou rulers persevered in human trafficking.

Whenever there is trouble, the Wang family will buy a large number of people in the nearest Qingzhou, so in the overseas islands, there are seven layers of people with Qingzhou accent.

The Shile regime mainly purchased food. As long as there was food to eat, the people would naturally not rebel.

Don't look at the fact that one stone of pickled fish in Yan State is very expensive at 10,000 yuan. This has to be compared with the price of food in the Central Plains. In the Central Plains today, the price of food in the north is 20,000 yuan/stone, and the price of food in the south is 10,000 yuan/stone.

After all, Yan Guo’s pickled fish also comes with salt, so apart from not tasting very good, it’s actually quite cheap.

The Jin Dynasty in the south mainly purchased swallow glass, wine, and spices. Even if the wealthy families fled to the south, they could not delay their own enjoyment of life. As for the life and death of the people, it was a joke.

For the aristocratic families of the Jin Dynasty, the common people were like weeds on the ground. When a group of weedy people died, another group would regenerate, endlessly, endlessly, wild fires could not burn them out, and spring breezes would blow them again.

As for the Xianbei people on the grassland, what they mainly buy is cavalry armor. Even if the tribe goes bankrupt, they still have to buy cavalry armor, so as to be ready to take over the Central Plains.

For the Central Plains, this was the worst era, extremely dark, full of killing and destruction. However, for the Wang family, this was the best era. They could easily obtain a large number of slaves, and there were many forces that bought and sold goods from the Yan Kingdom.

The population also gave the Yan State more power, and the Wang family could monopolize the business.

In the old Han Dynasty, the Wang family had to bargain with each other when selling things, and had to be careful when buying slaves. Now, buyers kneel down and beg the Wang family to sell goods, so as not to be taken advantage of by other buyers. The forces that sell slaves beg the Wang family to buy.

slave.

If this is not beautiful, the Wang family doesn't know what is.

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Nine hundred years ago, when our land in the Central Plains was sinking under the cavalry of the barbarians, the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Yan State) ushered in a period of great development. The rate of reclamation of overseas plantations increased significantly. This period of great development lasted until

During Xianbei's Sinicization Reform in the Northern Wei Dynasty, as the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty who unified the north issued the "Trafficking Ban" during the reform, the Yan State was unable to continue to obtain large-scale population from the Central Plains, and the pace of overseas plantation reclamation also gradually slowed down. - "The World"

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