Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 794, the helplessness of the leader of the grassland tribe
On the vast and boundless grassland, a team is heading towards Shuanghu Town in the cold wind.

The scale of this team is very large, and the four-wheeled carriages are filled with various materials, such as rice, sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, salt, tea, and hay, bran, etc. from the grasslands. A very popular item in winter.

Every carriage was fully loaded, and the goods were piled high and high, making the horses pulling the carts constantly panting, which seemed to be very strenuous.

Fortunately, it is a concrete road. Although this concrete road is not very spacious, only enough for two cars to walk side by side, it is still much less labor-intensive than a muddy road.

The grassland was included in the territory of Daming, and Daming was also very concerned about the construction of the grassland. He invested heavily and built many small towns, as well as concrete roads connecting these small towns, which greatly facilitated the communication between the grasslands.

A large number of businessmen are also constantly traveling to and from the grasslands to do various transactions.

The more winter came, the better the business of the prairie merchants was.

Because in winter, the herdsmen have no choice but to settle down. They eat horse chews and need a lot of things. Among other things, they can make a small profit just by transporting hay from the pass to the grassland. A little hard-earned money.

In addition, in winter, the cattle, sheep and horses of the herdsmen will be frozen to death in large numbers when they encounter a snowstorm or something. At this time, these cattle and sheep can be bought at a very low price.

However, when it is transported to Beijing and Tianjin, it can be sold at a good price if it is changed hands. After all, it is meat, and there is a large population in Beijing and Tianjin, so there are not enough cattle and sheep to be consumed here.

As for whether he froze to death or not, it didn't seem to be very important anymore.

Come and go, going back and forth to the grassland can also earn some hard money.

The real moneymakers are those businesses that open shops in small towns on the prairie. They have fixed shops and specialize in this business. They don’t even need to go to the ice and snow to find herdsmen. The herdsmen themselves will come to the town to purchase what they need on a regular basis. supplies.

Those who look for herdsmen to do business on the grasslands are actually small traders, earning hard money by doing business on their own initiative.

The long convoy continued to advance on the vast white grassland. Liu Jin, Battelle, and Hu He rode tall horses, chatting and laughing.

"Mr. Liu, the newspaper said that Australia is vast and sparsely populated, with abundant water and grass. Is that true?"

Battelle's face was a bit sad. The imperial court has newly issued a policy of emigrating to Australia. According to this new policy, not only a large number of Han people will immigrate to Australia, but also the herdsmen on the grassland must migrate to Australia in a certain number every year. go to Australia.

Battelle's Naiman tribe wanted to immigrate [-] people to Australia this time, and [-] people was not a small number for the Naiman tribe, accounting for almost one-tenth of the population of the Naiman tribe.

Originally, the leaders and nobles of the grassland tribes like Battelle, Huhe, and the others had become pigs raised in captivity. Although they were still able to travel to and from the grassland from time to time, they had gradually lost control and influence over their own tribe.

Now the imperial court has to immigrate herdsmen from the grasslands to Australia, Gold Island and other overseas countries every year, which further weakens their control and influence over their own tribes. I will still remember that I am the leader.

But Battelle was powerless to change all of this.

Not to mention that my family, old and young, have moved to the capital to enjoy the blessings, which is equivalent to being hostages in disguise. Secondly, no herdsmen would be willing to follow me to rebel now.

Daming trained [-] cavalrymen on the grassland. These [-] professional cavalrymen who don't need to herd or farm, after several years of training, each of them has become the top cavalry.

These [-] cavalry alone are enough to suppress all the changes on the grassland. What's more, the Naiman tribe is similar to other grassland tribes. The rest are basically old and weak, women and children, and the young eagles have not yet grown wings.

So I can only accept all this silently. The emperor's order is the imperial decree. Regardless of whether they want to or not, all grassland tribes who receive the imperial decree must migrate to Australia in accordance with the prescribed number.

And now it is necessary to migrate to Australia in winter. It is said that Australia is in the southern hemisphere, and now the grasslands are covered with snow and snow, but it is hot summer in Australia. I don’t know if it is true or not?
Battelle has never been to Australia, not even to Nanyang, and he only learned about it through newspapers.

"Battelle, if you are free, you can go to Australia to see for yourself. I think you will like it soon."

"In the southeastern part of Australia, there are the best pastures in the world. The imperial court decided to relocate some herdsmen to Australia every year, which is also to enrich Australia."

"Australia's pastures are vast, and no one is grazing them. It would be very wasteful to keep them barren. Daming also needs wool, and needs herdsmen to help the emperor guard one side."

"It's a great honor to be able to emigrate to Australia and take care of the emperor's side."

Liu Jin looked at Battelle, he was doing nothing at home, and he came to the grassland for a stroll before the coldest time, to relax.

"Yes, yes~"

"It is indeed our honor to be able to guard the shepherd's side for the emperor. I am just worried that our herdsmen will not adapt when we go overseas."

Battelle nodded again and again.

"Don't worry, the imperial court has already arranged everything. Every herdsman who immigrates to Australia can get a large pasture. They don't need to nomad in the future. They only need to divide their pasture into several areas, and then take turns grazing. .”

Liu Jin said with a smile.

In order to attract herdsmen to immigrate to Australia, the imperial court has also spent a lot of money. Every herdsman family who immigrates to Australia can obtain thousands of acres of pastures as their own private pastures.

Of course, not only the herdsmen, if the people in the customs immigrated to Australia to graze, they would also be able to obtain thousands of acres of private pastures.

Anyway, Australia has a lot of land and few people. There is plenty of land, but there is not enough land in Australia. There is also America, and there is plenty of land. Even if there is not enough land in the Americas, you can still go to Africa.

"That's fine, that's fine~"

Battelle also nodded slightly, but he couldn't express the pain in his heart.

The reason why these tribal leaders and nobles are leaders and nobles is that the pastures and land owned by the tribe belong to them, and herdsmen are not allowed to own private pastures.

So the herdsmen graze, they have to pay taxes to their nobles and leaders, and also obey the call of their tribal leaders and nobles, and pick up the scimitar for them and ride their horses to fight at any time.

Now that the imperial court has given these herdsmen who immigrated to Australia private pastures, how will they control and rule the herdsmen in the future?

It is estimated that it will not take a few years. The herdsmen who immigrated to Australia will only have the imperial court and the emperor of Ming Dynasty in their hearts, not the nobles and leaders of the grassland like them.

They lost the last of their influence and control over the herdsmen.

"Battelle, Huhe, it's a good thing that herdsmen immigrated to Australia. Now that the prices of cotton and wool are soaring, your textile mills have also been affected, right?"

Liu Jin could see the extremely depressed mood of the two of them, so he thought about it and asked with a smile.

"It has been affected. The prices of wool and cotton are soaring. The cost of the cloth we weave is soaring. The profit has become extremely meager, and even we are going to lose money."

"The most important thing is that there is very little wool and cotton. After a while, when the cotton and wool are gone, the factories will stop."

Battelle thought for a while and said.

He and Huhe are now also one of the giants in the textile industry, mainly relying on wool to weave cloth, but in winter, sheep on the grassland dare not shear their wool and will freeze to death.

So the soaring prices of cotton and wool now have a huge impact on their textile factories.

"That's right, the herdsmen immigrated to Australia, and then they could raise more sheep and shear more wool, and the southern hemisphere is just the opposite of our northern hemisphere, even if it's winter here and summer in Australia, it will A steady supply of wool."

"Then your wool mill won't have to worry about not having enough wool."

Liu Jin nodded slightly. If you want to immigrate, you must immigrate.

With such a large pasture, there will be [-] million sheep in Australia in later generations, which is several times more than people. If such a vast pasture is developed, the wool, cattle, sheep, horses, etc. produced by it will be enough for Daming to use again. Worry about wool, meat, horses.

"The pastures on this grassland are limited after all, and there will only be more and more people. At that time, more and more cattle and sheep will need to be grazed. In the case of limited pastures, if we don't move people out, how will we come here in the future?" Catering to an ever-increasing population?"

"The imperial court wants to immigrate some herdsmen, it is also for the long-term stability and prosperity of the grassland, just like the imperial court has been organizing immigrants to go overseas here in the pass. This year alone, the imperial court has emigrated millions of people overseas."

"You have to understand the court's difficulties."

"The world is very big. If we don't occupy it now, these places will be occupied by others in the future. The grasslands in Australia, the Golden Continent, and Africa are very large, and the water plants are also abundant enough. If we don't occupy it, wouldn't it be a waste of money?"

Liu Jin said very patiently.

"I know, I know all of this. It is an honor for us prairie people to immigrate to Australia and guard the side of the emperor. I will assist and ensure the smooth completion of the immigration plan."

After listening to Battelle, he also nodded again and again, although he was not very happy in his heart. When the immigrant went to Australia, he, the leader of the Naiman tribe, completely lost his influence on his herdsmen, but if he was not happy, he still had to follow the court's rules Will to do.

(End of this chapter)