The Tang Dynasty was short of money, but the richest man Li Chao was short of people. .

The Li family in Bashang has more than 8,000 industries across the country, covering all aspects, with more than 300,000 slaves, workers, etc. But Li Chao is still sighing there now, "It's a shortage of people!"

Li Chao is preparing to expand the mineral smelting and manufacturing industry, but this aspect requires the most manpower. The mineral mining technology of this era is too backward and it is completely piled up by people.

But Li Chao had no one in his hands.

No wonder the Tang Dynasty did not develop capitalism, and no one developed a nonsense industry. Especially in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court now implemented the equal-field system, plundering population everywhere, then divided the land and gave land, and also engaged in large-scale development of the border.

Nowadays, even beggars are rarely seen in prefectures and counties. Unless they are disabled, they are even more skilled, even a big fool will be taken away. The court will marry the young and strong, give them land and rent seeds and farm tools, and let them cultivate land.

Even the orphans and teenagers were arranged by the court in collective farms, or directly handed over to the 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 divided because there are too many empty and wasteland on the border.

The equal-field system is simply the mortal enemy of industrial and commercial development.

The court's policy was obviously the classical agricultural system, and I wish all the people were nailed to the land and self-sufficient.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it was not serious, with few landless farmers and no refugees.

Especially after the imperial court was granted great titles to the princes and replaced the land of the powerful Central Plains with border areas, and pardoned slaves and gave the hidden households, tenants and slaves of the former powerful people, which also added household registrations and divided land, which has increased the current labor shortage.

Li Chao felt that he had cheated on him.

In the past, we did not engage in immigration and pioneering, nor did we engage in plundering and slavery, and there were many people in the Central Plains, and there were still many people without land. It was not that difficult to recruit workers in Li Chao's workshops.

But now, although Li Ji has more than 8,000 industries nationwide and has more than 300,000 workers, it has reached its limit. Many of the workers are actually female workers and teenagers and child workers.

But Li Chao wanted to develop mineral smelting and manufacturing industries, but the original methods were not working. In the business and some small handicraft workshops, some female workers were used, and child laborers were still mixed. However, these smelting and manufacturing industries could not use child laborers.

He had just negotiated a big business with the court and got tickets to enter the mineral smelting and manufacturing industry, but Li Chao still faced a big problem, labor shortage.

The people can be divided into fields, and who is unwilling to work in their own fields, how good is the family, wife, children, and children living together? Who is willing to go to the industry and mine to work?

It seems that the British entered the industrial era when they were engaged in sheep and eating people.

The emergence of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty was actually due to the population explosion in the late Ming Dynasty, coupled with the serious land annexation, a large number of landless farmers flocked to towns, which led to the rapid development of handicrafts and other industries.

After all, population still needs to be needed.

However, the current Tang Dynasty's equal land system and the two major systems of immigration and pioneering border cultivation have become a problem for Li Chao to develop industry and commerce.

It became a bottleneck.

It takes thousands or even tens of thousands of people to dig a large mineral.

From mining, to ore processing, to smelting, to manufacturing products, the entire production chain is a labor-intensive industry.

Without enough people, Li Chao's layouts cannot be opened.

Even if Li Chao himself wants to develop his own territory, he still needs a lot of people.

Where to get people?

The people of the Tang Dynasty should not count on it. Now a beggar has been taken to divide the land and grant land by the government. For the court, the Tang Dynasty had just conquered so many Xinjiang territory and was short of people. Those border lands were empty and were used to equalize the land and grant land to landless farmers. In a few years, the court had a lot of mature land, more grain output, and more taxes. These refugees got married and had children, the population of the court increased, and the national strength was also enhanced.

Anyway, Li Chao told Li Shimin over and over again. Now the emperor firmly believes in this as a national policy.

It's a cheating father.

Li Chao regrets now that he is cheating on himself.

He is now the largest lord of the Tang Dynasty, the largest industrial and commercial master, and a big landlord, but no one is there.

Li Chao regretted not turning the surrendered Turks from Monan into slavery, otherwise he could buy them for mining and work for himself.

"Slave transactions seem to be the most profitable business in the future." Li Chao said to Ma Zhou.

After hearing Li Chao's complaints about labor shortage, Ma Zhou also came to such a conclusion.

Li Chao gritted his teeth, "I am going to join forces with major families to establish a trading company."

"Trading company?" Ma Zhou was puzzled. Didn't the Li family already have a trading company, Nanhai Trading Company, Baodao Trading Company, Silk Road Trading Company, Northern Trading Company, Silk Tea Trading Company, Basically, each party has one party, some specializes in running seas, some specializes in trade with the Turks, some trade with the Western Regions, and some trade with the southwest.

Why do you have to start a trading company again?

"South of the Yangtze River, there are countless barbarians and gangsters. These people are not civilized and extremely barbaric, eating raw meat and drinking blood. They not only hunt heads and kill each other, but also invade states and counties from time to time and rob passing business travelers. These people are fleas on the Tang Dynasty and are parasites."

"As a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, especially the title of the Tang Dynasty, I think it is necessary to consider the Tang Dynasty. I want to invite all major families to form a trading company, go deep into the barbarians in the south, and tame these unruly barbarians one by one."

Ma Zhou almost vomited after such a high-sounding sentence.

What kind of trading company is better to just say the slave hunting team.

He didn't expect that Li Chao would actually have such an idea to solve the problem of labor shortage.

South of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong, Jiangdong, Jiangnan, Dongshannan, and Southwest of the southwest of the southwest of the south of the Yangtze River, these places are still better, with many barbarians, but most of them are familiar and barbaric, and they are domesticated by the Han people and dare not do anything randomly.

But in Lingnan, Qianchuan, Qinghai-Tibet, and even south of Jiaozhou, the barbarians there are truly disobeying the teachings of the king and the law.

Large and wide.

However, these barbarians have always fought in the internal struggle and have many ethnic groups. Therefore, although there are often rebellions, they are difficult to become a climate. Unlike the Hu people on the grassland, they have always been strong enemies in the Central Plains.

It is precisely because of this that the Central Plains have relatively mild methods against the barbarians in the southwest and other places, and have been slowly exploring and squeezing the south.

"Isn't it good to do this?" Ma Zhou hesitated. He lives well there, but he didn't mess with you. You just attack them and arrest them as slaves. It seems that it's not very good.

Li Chao just smiled.

What's wrong with this? If you really think of the Han people, you will be corrupt scholars. In fact, the inner sage and outer kings are the core idea of ​​Confucianism. The assimilation and expansion of China is also very powerful. In the north, due to the rainfall line, the Han people could not turn the grassland into arable land, so they have been repeatedly tug-of-war 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 and Yue in the Jiangdong were barbarians. But in the end, the Yangtze River Basin was incorporated into the Chinese civilization. Later, they expanded to the south step by step, no matter what Baiyue, Liyue, or Shanyi, they were all pioneering and assimilating step by step.

"We can be polite first and then soldiers."

Li Chao said with a smile that although many Man Liao tribes live in places under the rule of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, they neither registered their local household registration nor paid taxes or served.

They live their own lives, and often, they are in the Han people without any hindrance.

The Han people lived in plains, while these barbarians lived in mountains.

At most, they nominally surrendered to the Central Plains dynasty, and occasionally paid tribute to the government. Everyone maintained this situation.

If they were forced to force themselves, the barbarians would join forces to rebel and rebellion. In most cases, the court sent troops and killed them. These people honestly admitted their conscience. The court killed some leaders, or pulled out some villages, and then captured some barbarians to become slaves for prisoners, and life continued.

Overall, the Han people in the Central Plains are constantly exploring, and these barbarians are constantly giving in.

"I plan to send someone to trade with them first, find out their situation, and then propose that they accept registration from the court, give them land and land, and allow them to accept the government's rule."

This is actually very cruel.

Originally, the barbarians lived their own lives and were ruled by their chiefs and clan leaders. But now Li Chao planned to register them and would be subject to the government's rule in the future.

The most important thing about government governance is of course that you have to pay taxes and serve in the government in the future.

"Prepare Chinese education among the Man Liao, establish schools, and let their children learn Chinese characters and Chinese."

"What if they don't agree?"

Each tribe always has its own tradition, and their traditions certainly do not include accepting the rule of the Han people, paying taxes from the Han people, and learning the Chinese characters and languages.

"All the kings under the world are kings. Can the kings who lead the earth be kings?" Li Chao said a very rascal, "Since these barbarians live on the territory of our Tang Dynasty, how can they not accept the king's transformation?"

"If you don't accept it, you should ask for it!"

If you don’t accept it, you will fight, of course not to fight until you are obedient, but to arrest them as laborers.

Li Chaoque had no choice but to do anything, and this unreasonable and brutal behavior was also taken out.

"Will the court agree to do this?"

"Why did the imperial court disagree? We defeated and captured those unsuccessful Man Liao. Isn't the land occupied by the barbarians the original Manchus the government?"

"The court does not cost a soldier or a soldier, or a piece of food, and then gets a large area of ​​land. Isn't this a good thing?"

"Besides, we caught these slaves and solved the problem of labor shortage in China. The Tang Dynasty's industry and commerce were prosperous, and the imperial court had more taxes."
Chapter completed!