Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 691 The Great Voyage ([-])

Summer of Republic 480 (690)
Goguryeo New Home (Anadelsky District)

In the land of ice and snow in the far north, the Goguryeo people migrated to the north bank of the glacier, where they established villages and repopulated.

The glacier only melts in summer, and there is a large lake upstream. There is a fishing ground established by the Goguryeo people in the lake. Every summer, when the lake ice melts, the Goguryeo people will row boats to fish in the big lake.

In addition, the Goguryeo warriors, under the leadership of the new king Gao Qiqiang, often rowed boats to capture the aboriginals as slaves on the land across the strait.

The Goguryeo people named the other side of the strait Dongtaoyuan (Alaska, USA) and this side of the strait Xitaoyuan (Chukotka Peninsula).

As you can tell from the name, the Goguryeo people regarded this place as a paradise and decided to settle here.

"This place is so remote, it should be impossible for the Yan people to discover it." Gao Qisheng, who stayed in the royal city, was responsible for managing the tribe.

It's said to be a royal city, but it's actually just a snowy village, surrounded by a circle of stones and wooden fences, nothing more.

There are only more than 1000 people left in Goguryeo, but they are invincible in the land of peach blossoms.

The surrounding indigenous tribes are very loosely organized and don't know how to fight in formation. They still use wooden spears and stone spears, and they don't even have bronze utensils.

The indigenous people in the land of peach blossoms were helpless against the Goguryeo people armed with iron spears, iron swords, iron knives and long bows.

After the Goguryeo conquered the surrounding indigenous tribes, they did not massacre them, nor did they capture them all as slaves. Instead, they required them to pay regular tribute of food, mainly dried meat.

Because the land carrying capacity of this bitter cold land is very low, even if slaves are captured, they will not be able to feed them. There is not much food, so there is no need to capture too many slaves. Just enough slaves will be enough.

Facts have proved that even slavery requires a certain amount of productivity. If the productivity is too low, even if you want to implement slavery, you will not be able to implement it.

Each system has corresponding productivity requirements. The parliamentary republic of the Republic and the autocratic monarchy of the Central Plains have even higher productivity requirements.

In the early tribal alliance era, each tribe did not capture slaves on a large scale, but only forced other tribes to surrender and pay tribute or perform human sacrifices. This is a big reason.

Productivity is too low, if slaves are captured, they will not be able to feed them, and if they are captured, they will starve to death. It is better to pay tribute or human sacrifice.

Compared with capturing slaves, the Goguryeo people were more concerned about finding food sources, mainly looking for waters with rich fishery resources. Capturing slaves was just something they did incidentally while looking for food sources.

The Goguryeo people's ships searched for fishing grounds and traveled all over the land of peach blossoms (the eastern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula + the western coast of Alaska).

In the waters of Dongtaoyuan, the Goguryeo people discovered many strange sea creatures and named them according to their appearance, such as sea lions, dolphins, and seals.

The local indigenous tribes live in houses made of ice, use elk sleds as transportation, and wear thick fish or bear skins.

Occasionally, you can see snow-white giant bears (polar bears). The Goguryeo people named them snow bears (polar bears). These snow bears are also the hunting objects of the Goguryeo people.

Under the conquest of the Goguryeo people, the surrounding indigenous tribes regarded the Goguryeo people as the "common masters of the world", the "Three Emperors" and the "Five Emperors", including the Emperor Gao Qiqiang, the Emperor Gao Qisheng, and the Emperor Gao Chengxin.

At this moment, Goguryeo's status in the Land of Peach Blossoms is like the Yanhuang tribe's status in the Central Plains, and other tribes can only tremble.

On this day, the eldest princess Gao Chengxin gave birth to a baby boy, named Gao Sheji.

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When the Goguryeo people built their new home in the land of peach blossoms.

Yan Guo
Chang'e City

A large amount of cotton was moved to the dock, and everyone looked at the white gold in these cages in shock.At this moment, cotton is very expensive due to its scarcity, more expensive than gold.

In the dock, a man in his 30s with a scar looked at the cotton unloaded from the ship with burning eyes.

This man's name was Wang Zhi, and he was a pirate businessman. He usually robbed people along the coast of the Tang Empire, or in small countries in the South China Sea such as the Moroyou Kingdom. Occasionally, he would also go to the coast of Tianzhu to rob people.

The plundered people were packaged and sold to guilds, such as the Taoyuan Guild.

"My dear, this is more money than me making from robbing!"

Wang Zhi's eyes almost bulged out. Zheng He made more money from this cotton trade than he risked his life for robbery.

Zheng He found a dumping market for the spice merchants of Xingfan Kingdom. From now on, the spice merchants of Xingfan Kingdom can sell their spices to Dashi, and then obtain gold from Dashi, and then use the gold to obtain gold from Cotton Kingdom. Buy cotton, then sell the cotton to Yan State, then buy handmade products from Yan State, sell the handmade products to Xingfan State, then buy spices from Xingfan State, and then sell the spices to Dashi.

During this period, you can also buy dwarf black slaves in Tianzhu and engage in the black slave trade, which can also make a lot of money.

The republic's black slave trade purchased almost [-] black slaves every year, and the demand was still increasing.

Slaves from the Central Plains and grasslands generally worked in the black soil of the Northeast and had to endure the cold.

Slaves from Tianzhu and the Spice Islands generally opened up wasteland in the Spice Islands and needed to endure humidity and heat.

After decades of reclamation, the coastal areas of Xingdao (Sumatra Island) have been cleared, and Xingfan Kingdom is now going deep into the interior of Xingdao to reclaim land.

As Xing Fanguo went deeper into the interior of Xing Island, the conflict with Mo Luoyou, the last country on Xing Island, became more intense.

The Moroyou Kingdom did not dare to be an enemy of the Xingfan Kingdom, so it continued to shrink its territory and gave up its territory to open up wasteland for the plantation owners of the Xingfan Kingdom.

Even so, the Xingfan Kingdom was still not satisfied and allowed the pirates to plunder the Moroyou Kingdom and rob its population.

They also sent out troops from time to time to attack, forcing the Moroyou Kingdom to cede territory to compensate people again and again.

In addition, some citizens of the Republic also began to open plantations in the coastal areas of Yuedao (Malay Peninsula), buying slaves to open up wasteland and produce raw materials.

As soon as the cotton came ashore, it was snapped up by many textile workshops. Even the nobles of the Yan Kingdom in the Blackwater Basin sent stewards to find those textile workshops that had snapped up the cotton and order clothes made of cotton in advance.

This year, the Republic implemented the policy of "returning land to nobles" in the Blackwater Basin, abolishing the chieftain autonomy system that had lasted for hundreds of years in the Blackwater Basin. Those nobles of the Yan Kingdom who did not have fiefdoms went to the Blackwater Basin to serve as hereditary lords.

Chieftains who were willing to voluntarily give up the position of leader were granted the citizenship of the Republic, and at the same time received a large amount of money rewards. Chieftains who were unwilling to give up the position of leader and refused to transfer the territory to the hereditary nobles of Yan State were brutally suppressed by the army of Yan State. All the tribesmen here were demoted to slaves.

After hundreds of years of assimilation and integration in the Yan Kingdom, most of the chieftains in the Blackwater Basin were willing to exchange their ancestral territory for citizenship in a republic.

Only a few were unwilling, but they were quickly suppressed.

The nobles of the Yan Kingdom obtained this fertile black land and had a huge need for land reclamation.

Many of them only obtained their nobility status after the [Republican Reform], so they do not yet have their own hereditary territory. Now that they finally have a territory in the black land of the Northeast, they naturally need to manage it well.

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Land reclamation, reclamation, reclamation, throughout history, the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets is a history of reclamation.

The Great Reclamation of Que Island in Sanhan, the Great Reclamation of the Black Land in the Northeast, the Great Reclamation of the Spice Islands, the Great Reclamation of the New World, and so on, etc., their footsteps have never stopped until now... —— "General History of the World·Song·Li Qingzhao"

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