After Zheng Yan studied the knife for a long time, he handed it to the guard and said, "Emporter, the weapon you provide is very good, but can you guarantee that the weapon will be like this sample in the future?"

Liu Dahai said: "I can assure the king of this. And the prince can send someone to inspect the goods when the goods are available."

Zheng Yan sat on the throne and pondered for a long time, and finally said, "I can pay for your weapons and armor, but I don't want to exchange it for the population."

Liu Dahai certainly understood what Zheng Jian means. In any era, the population can be classified into strategic materials. Only with a sufficient population base can there be enough taxes and military sources.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, several countries were quite etiquette in conquering each other. When one side admitted to defeat and cede land and pay compensation, the captured soldiers were generally released.

Until a person appeared, Bai Qi. After he killed 400,000 people in Zhao State in one battle, Zhao State quickly declined! From then on, there was no capital to confront Qin State! It can be seen that the importance of population size.

Zheng Jian rejected Liu Dahai's request because he did not want to make people lose their mouths. And according to Liu Dahai's meaning, their demand for the population was almost endless.

Zheng Jian said: "I have heard of the name of the Red Eye Dragon King, and I also know that his power is mainly on the sea. So I don't understand why you need so many slaves?"

Liu Dahai said: "The reason is simple. Not long ago, my Dragon King fought with the Red-haired people and took a piece of land from them! It was a very large island. So our Dragon King decided to set up a new village on this island. But there are many people under our Dragon King who are fighting, and there are not many people who can work! So we had to buy some slaves from all over the surrounding area to use it!"

Speaking of this, Liu Dahai paused for a moment, then said with a smile: "Prince, I know what you are worried about. But I didn't say that you would exchange it with the people under your rule! You can sell all the criminals in the prison to me. At the same time, when you were attacking the Nanfang Ruan family, you can also sell the prisoners of war you gained. And even the residents under their rule, you can sell them to me!

Anyway, those people are all interested in the Ruan tribe, and they are all enemies to the prince.”

After Liu Dahai said this, not only Zheng Jian, but also his civil and military ministers, his eyes lit up.

In fact, they didn't expect these things. But as superiors, they can't talk about these bad things. But if someone speaks for them, it's nothing.

Zheng Jian hesitated and said, "Then how do you plan to exchange?"

Liu Dahai said: "Prince, I just need to talk to your subordinates for such a thing! A noble person like the prince does not need to fall into such a meticulous negotiation."

Zheng Jian looked at Liu Dahai with great praise and said, "Since that's the case, I will arrange for someone to contact you. So do you have any other things now?"

Liu Dahai said: "There is another thing, that is, I hope the prince can allow me to find ore veins under the prince and dig mines. Although we have a way to make better weapons, we do not have enough ore. Of course, we will pay taxes according to the rules of the state."

Zheng Jian nodded and said, "I'll allow this matter. OK, you can step down."

On the next day, Zheng Jian sent someone to contact Liu Dahai. Then he let Liu Dahai see what it means to be like a crow like a black man in the world!

After Liu Dahai gave sufficient bribes, Liu Dahai received a fairly satisfactory exchange ratio. And if you buy weapons separately, Liu Dahai's offer also has enough profit margins.

According to statistics from later generations, it cannot be stopped since the population transaction began. Not only is the official conducting population transactions, but even the generals who fought privately plundered the population and resold it to Liu Pei.

And they obtained sufficient combat supplies from Liu Pei, including weapons, patronage, food, etc. With a large amount of material support, the originally intermittent and low-intensity war became a continuous war!

Moreover, due to the large influx of foreign food, the situation of food production cuts due to the war was covered up. Both Zheng and Ruan families used precious metals and minerals,

And a large number of slaves exchanged a large amount of supplies to continue their war.

When they could not capture the other party's population, the greedy generals turned their targets to the people of their country. As for how many people were sold to the distance, it was simply an uncountable number!

The fate of these slaves was quite tragic. Although no one deliberately abused them, they died or injured when they opened up the territory of Conglin!

In the jungle, there are many poisonous animals and plants! There are countless mosquitoes hidden in the small pond, and diseases caused by mosquito bites are one after another. As for the deaths caused by animals, the number of people attacked by local natives is even more uncountable!

The only thing that can be used as evidence is that after Liu Pei began to purchase population from Annan, the progress of Southeast Asia's development has greatly accelerated.

Time passed quickly, and another year passed, and in 1631. In this year, Wang Ya gave birth to another son for Liu Pei, named Liu Dingjiang. Yu Lina gave birth to a daughter as she wished, and was named Liu Na by Yu Lina. So Liu Pei was very happy to run between them.

However, Liu Peike did not relax his military management. The 20,000 new recruits who were hastily assembled last year were successively restored and received retraining. He has become a truly capable soldier.

Moreover, after comprehensive consideration, Liu Pei expanded the musketeer and spearman. The sword and shield hand still existed, but the expansion ratio was not large. The sword and shield hand could no longer meet Liu Pei's combat needs. They were retained more to prepare for the siege mission, which was closer to the jumping soldiers. So at this time, Liu Pei was strong!

However, Liu Pei still did not show his intention to rebel. Instead, he gathered his main forces in Taiwan and Southeast Asia to continue to carry out the mission of clearing out the natives.

Liu Dahai, while he led his disciples to wander among various countries and tribes, provoking troubles and bribing and dividing the entire Southeast Asia all day long! But this is the only way for Liu Pei's development.
Chapter completed!