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Li Mi continued to open the newspaper, and the next few pages were filled with various advertisements.
In the beginning, only players published advertisements in newspapers. The aborigines saw the good results after publishing the advertisements, and they also followed suit.
When someone comes to place an advertisement, the editorial department is naturally very happy.
This "Liangzhou Daily" also belongs to the "Wenzhao Gongzhijia" trade union industry, and is considered a semi-official organization that is responsible for its own profits and losses.
The governor's office will subsidize the first few pages, but in order to increase the scale of the newspaper and increase the newspaper's income, it can only rely on advertising revenue.
A newspaper was divided into many pages the size of tofu cubes, and the various advertisements on them opened Li Mi's eyes.
Seeing news about a large number of workshops recruiting workers, Li Mi asked Zhang Tianlun:
"Is Hexi so short of people?"
Zhang Tianlun nodded and said: "Yes, the governor's office has recently recruited manpower to lay wooden track railways, and many workshops are not full of manpower."
"If you ask me, those Tubo slaves should be allowed to work. I heard that the workshops in Tuyuhun are booming now."
Li Mi asked keenly: "Why not let the Tubo slaves work? Where did these Tubo slaves come from?"
Zhang Tianlun then said: "It's not like these adults, who are both responsible and established, are unwilling to engage in slave trade in Longyou. Didn't many Tubo prisoners of war be captured in the Hexi War? They were unwilling to let them go to the mines.
Let them go to the ranch and undergo labor reform."
"Can the ranches in Hexi require so many people? The workshop owners are very excited now. How can we make money without such good labor!"
"If you ask me, these Tibetan slaves are of a foreign race. Their hearts must be different from those of my race. They should be sent to the mines to mine until they die."
"But those at the top said that they are alien races now but can be united in the future. They said that engaging in the slave trade would leave disaster to future generations."
Zhang Tianlun said: "Bah, these ethnic policies of theirs are leaving disasters for future generations."
Li Mi heard Zhang Tianlun's words and thought to himself, Tubo slaves, is the Battle of Hexi real? Moreover, Longyou also won, otherwise it would be impossible to capture so many Tubo slaves.
Li Mi asked tentatively: "How many Tubo slaves are there in Hexi now?"
"It's twenty to thirty thousand. These people still need to eat. I have to feed so many people for nothing. I don't know what the people in the Governor's Mansion are thinking."
Li Mi took a breath. He was a minister who knew the situation in Tubo. The real number of fighting soldiers in the east of Tubo was only 50,000 or 60,000. If 20,000 to 30,000 Tibetan slaves were really captured, then the battle in Hexi would be really big.
Won.
Such a great victory, why didn't King Jianning report the victory?
Li Mi was a little confused and continued to ask: "What happened to these slaves later?"
Zhang Tianlun smiled and said: "Later, Qin Chuan came up with a solution. Didn't he say that slaves cannot be used in Hexi? Tuyuhun is a Jisi area and there is no such restriction."
"Several provincial governors in Hexi also found that they could not afford to support so many Tibetan prisoners of war, so they implemented a policy of returning prisoners of war to their hometowns. They sent some Tibetan prisoners of war back to Tuyuhun."
Li Mi was also a very smart man. He immediately said: "Then the workshop owners went to Tuyuhun to open workshops, and then bought these Tubo slaves to work, right?"
Zhang Tianlun nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I heard that five Kanyu masters jointly opened a coal mine in Tuyuhun and bought more than two thousand Tubo slaves at once, making a lot of money every day."
Li Mi silently kept these things in mind, and decided to wander around Hexi more and take a look at King Jianning's family background.
Just when Zhang Tianlun and Li Mi entered the city, the magistrates of the three counties in Hexi were meeting remotely.
Zeng Mu of Jiuquan, Cui Tao of Zhangye and Xue Hu of Wuwei are what players call the Three Giants of Hexi.
Li Yan did not appoint an envoy to Hexi, so these three people sit down to discuss the affairs in Hexi.
The three giants have held many meetings via remote meetings. Every time they encounter a problem that requires coordination in Hexi, they will use this method to solve it.
It was Cui Tao who proposed the meeting today. He said directly:
"Everyone is busy, so I'd better get right to the point. Today's topic is how to deal with the Tibetan prisoners."
Among the three towns in Hexi, Zhangye accepted the most prisoners from Hexi, followed by Wuwei, and Jiuquan received the least prisoners.
So Cui Tao started the topic directly and said: "This guy Qinchuan took the captives there, saying that he wanted to reform the captives in Tuyuhun, but in fact, he sold these captives as slaves to merchant players!"
"The 10,000 Tibetan prisoners sent back to Tuyuhun were sold by him! Now he is still asking for prisoners from us, and I want to impeach him to King Jianning!"
Zeng Mu and Xue Hu looked at each other. Cui Tao insisted not to engage in slave trade, but Zhang Ye's finances really couldn't afford to raise so many prisoners.
Later, Qin Chuan came to visit and said that a prisoner of war camp had been built in Tuyuhun, and asked Zhangye to return some prisoners back to Tuyuhun.
Cui Tao immediately agreed and sent 10,000 Tibetan prisoners to Tuyuhun.
But what people didn't expect was that Qinchuan took in these prisoners of war and sold them to the workshop owners who flocked to Tuyuhun.
All these 10,000 Tubo prisoners of war were sold in an instant, and the Tuyuhun Affairs Department suddenly made a lot of money and opened a large number of workshops.
Now Zhangye's local merchants and players couldn't sit still.
In the past, these merchants and players had taken a fancy to these Tibetan prisoners and made many proposals to the governor's office to auction these slaves.
After the Hexi War, Cui Tao selected 10,000 laborers from the prisoners of war to build buildings and smooth roads in Hexi, but he still refused to auction the remaining Tibetan prisoners of war as slaves.
He shouted that the slave trade was the source of all evil, and that our Tang Dynasty was an advanced productive force and could not engage in backward slavery.
He also shouted that slavery was poison and would restrict industrial production in the future, and was determined not to engage in the slave trade.
But if Cui Tao doesn't do it, Qin Chuan will do it in Tuyuhun's workshop.
For the same contracted mine, the cost of mining with Tang people was several times higher than the cost of mining with Tubo slaves.
Although mines employing people from the Tang Dynasty were safer, individual miners were more enthusiastic about their work.
But in this era when you can sell the ore for money as long as you dig it out, slave mining is obviously a more economical and affordable option.
So when Tuyuhun acquiesced in the slave trade, many labor-intensive industrial and mining owners rushed to Tuyuhun to open workshops.
Seeing Cui Tao furious, Zeng Mu, who has always been a good man, said: "Don't be angry. On the bright side, Qin Chuan has indeed solved our burden. More than 10,000 people are eating and drinking freely in the prisoner of war camp. We really can't support it anymore."
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Cui Tao did not continue to speak at this time. In fact, the reason why the prisoners of war were sent back to Tuyuhun was because the cost was too high.
Those prisoners of war who were building roads and houses were okay, at least they were working, while the prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camps were just eating and drinking for free.
Zeng Mu said: "Old Cui, let me tell you that we will not engage in slave trade. This is the consensus of our three towns in Hexi. Lao Xue and I both support you."
"But if we don't do it, as long as Qin Chuan doesn't do it on our land, we can't control him."
"Besides, the people who buy these slaves are all mine owners. These are not the main industries of Zhangye."
"If Qin Chuan wants it, go ahead."
Xue Hu also said: "As long as we in Hexi keep the same pace, Tuyuhun is a Jisi area and we can't control it."
Cui Tao sighed and said: "I know everyone thinks I'm stubborn. The slave trade is certainly a good way to make quick money now. So many industries in Longyou are short of people. As long as this opening is opened, it will quickly become a source of local wealth."
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"But everyone knows the situation in Longyou and Hexi. Han and Hu people live together. Hexi has been in business since the Han Dynasty. Longyou has been in business for only a few years in the Tang Dynasty. If you go to the street and take a look, are there more faces of Han people or more faces of Hu?
How many faces do people have?”
"If the slave trade was really opened, would there be unscrupulous businessmen forcing local people into slavery?"
"And everyone knows that slaves can only do some labor-intensive work. We in Hexi always need to upgrade our industries. If we eat the fruits of slavery now, it will cost more manpower, material and financial resources to resolve the remaining poisons in the future."
After Cui Tao finished speaking, Zeng Mu and Xue Hu also fell silent.
These issues Cui Tao mentioned have been mentioned before. This is why Zeng Mu and Xue Hu both supported Cui Tao and did not engage in slave trade in Hexi.
The northwest region of the Han Dynasty was a period of sharp opposition between Han and Hu.
Several Qiang rebellions actually brought down the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty's inclusive plan for ethnic issues made the boundaries between Longyou, Han and Hu less clear. The strong cultural centripetal force even made the countries in the Western Regions take the initiative to sinicize.
Starting the slave trade at this time is tantamount to digging up the bomb of racial issues again.
Obviously Cui Tao's concerns are correct.
Zeng Mu said: "The remaining Tibetan prisoners of war will not be given to Qinchuan. In addition, we will submit a letter together to prohibit Tuyuhun from increasing the slave population."
Xue Hu also said: "We can't control Tuyuhun, but we can still control the local workshops. Let Fa Cao go around again and crack down on those workshops that have signed long-term slave labor contracts!"
Hexi once again reached a consensus, and Cui Tao started the next topic.
"Zhan Yaguang said that the wooden rail railway is progressing smoothly and the ten-kilometer short-distance test has been completed."
Xue Hu's eyes lit up and he said, "So fast?"
Cui Tao nodded and said: "Each township is very active in building railways, but just laying the tracks with wood wears out too quickly. Zhan Yaguang proposed nailing a layer of iron sheets on the wooden tracks. However, the cost of this plan has gone up again."
Cui Tao pinched his temples with a headache, Zhang Ye was busy with everything, in the final analysis, he was short of money.
Everything costs money, and many workshops have not yet been able to generate taxes, and the taxes from the autumn harvest still have to be paid to the court.
Xue Hu also sighed and said: "If it doesn't work, how about issuing railway bonds?"