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    ""Vendetta in Java reappears, flying knives to kill and chase souls", today's newspaper men are really getting better and better at naming names. In the royal study room of the palace, Li Min flicked the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile on his face.

    Hearing Li Min's words, Wang An, who was sitting in front of Li Min, also smiled and said: "I also read this report this morning. Speaking of which, Kawashitaishi is also a true-hearted person. The slave-catching team was ambushed by the Sanhan man.  Even his own brother died and he himself became disabled. This kind of hatred is unbearable for anyone, but he chose the most direct and brutal method of revenge. This is the legacy of the ancient assassins."

    After hearing this, Li Min nodded and said nothing. In fact, he felt that Wang An's words were a bit flattering to Kawashita Ishi. Ancient assassins often targeted kings, but this Kawashita Ishi only killed the leader of a slave-catching team, and then actually  He dared to resist arrest, but was shot dead by the police in Palembang. This was far from the level of assassins in ancient times who risked their lives without hesitation.  But since the person is dead, it is also in line with the habits of the Han people in the Central Plains to give the other person a better evaluation.

    Regarding the death of Kawashita Ishi, there is one more thing to mention here. Although a place like Java belongs to Daqi in name, due to the previous plague, Daqi has little control over the place. In the past two years, it has just begun to build a few buildings.  In the port city, Daqi's official power began to slowly enter Java. However, due to limited time, the law was only adapted to the vicinity of the city for the time being.

    For example, killing is not a big deal in an ungoverned tropical jungle, as long as you can bear the consequences of killing and the other party's revenge.  But in the city, killing is a capital crime.  So relatively speaking, the city is still very safe, and Cui Zhong is too careless.  He never expected that Kawashita would dare to assassinate him in the city. Only then was Kawashita successful with one blow, but Kawashita was also shot to death next.

    "Master Wang, the number of people we have stipulated this time is a bit too small. Now rich foreigners from all over the country are flocking to Java Island. Looking at it, it is estimated that thousands of new Han people will emerge in the end. Isn't this a bit too much?  Is it easy?" Li Min suddenly asked, although he came up with this method.  However, the specific formulation was made by Wang An. Considering the current number of nearly one million natives in Java, the number of people who can eventually obtain Han household registration is at least several thousand.

    However, after hearing this, Wang An smiled and replied: "Your Majesty, don't worry. In fact, the reason why I agree with your Majesty's method is not only to eliminate the unrest in Java. I also want to pass this decree to eliminate those foreigners."  The wealthy people were recruited and given a Han identity. After all, they have a lot of wealth and resources in their hands. If they are kept inferior to others for a long time, it may make some people feel resentful, which is not conducive to future rule."

    Li Min understood immediately after hearing this.  It turns out that Wang An was interested in the wealth and resources in the hands of those rich foreigners, so he used this method to absorb them into the Han camp, and win the hearts of these people with Han household registration, so that most of the country's wealth and resources could be transferred to them.  Unify.  Accelerate development in all aspects at home and abroad.

    ¡°I see, it¡¯s really a good way to kill two birds with one stone!¡± Li Min nodded.

    However, after hearing this, Wang An showed a strange smile, pointed at the newspaper in Li Min's hand and said: "Your Majesty, you should praise this as a good way to kill three birds with one stone!"

    Li Min was stunned at first.  Then he lowered his head and looked at the newspaper, and happened to see the report about Kawashita Ishi.  He immediately slapped his head and said with a smile: "Fu Wang is right. If it weren't for your reminder, I would have forgotten the third one."

    The so-called third party between the two was deeply hidden. This started with the current slave-catching team. At the beginning, the slave-catching team was mainly composed of Han people and belonged to a hidden armed force under Li Min, the Slave-catching Association.  It was also founded by Yan Bei with the support of Li Min. It can be regarded as a semi-official organization. Its nature is similar to that of the East India Company in later generations. The association is composed of some powerful slave-catching merchants, and there are also some who do not catch slaves.  The team also relied on the Slave Catchers Association.

    However, in the past few years, in addition to the domestic development of Daqi, the first generation of slave catchers have also accumulated considerable wealth, and after so many years, they have also begun to get tired of the kind of fighting and killing.  life, so the slave catchers also began to change. The old slave catchers turned to legitimate business, and the new slave catchers began to rise.

    Speaking of slave hunting, it is also a hugely profitable industry. Many people are willing to take the risk to join this industry, thereby accumulating their first pot of gold as quickly as possible. This not only attracts a large number of Han youths, but also attracts many non-Han people.  , for example, people like Kawashitaishi and Cui Zhong, they are both non-Han, and they have also done very well in the slave catching industry. If they are allowed to develop, they may have the strength to enter the decision-making level of the slave catching association in the future.

    Slave catching association??is not an ordinary industrial and commercial association, it is a semi-official and semi-military organization. Li Min needs to have absolute control over this organization, although those non-Han slave-catching merchants may not necessarily be interested in it after entering the decision-making level.  Li Min's control poses a threat, but from the bottom of his heart, Li Min is still wary of those foreign races, so he does not want those non-Han slave-catching merchants to enter the decision-making level of the association.

    In addition, even if those non-Han slave-catchers did not have the ability to enter the decision-making level of the association, the slave-catching team in their hands was still a violent organization. Li Min was really worried about such an organization being in the hands of non-Han people, so he had to think  In order to weaken the strength of those alien slave-catching teams, there was a law to eliminate the Javanese natives.

    Those who most want to obtain household registration status are naturally the wealthy non-Han people. Of course, they cannot kill people themselves, so hiring a professional slave-catching team becomes their first choice.  It is worth mentioning that the Han slave-catching teams are generally large in scale, and they not only have fixed slave-catching grounds in Africa and other places, but also have their own fixed sales channels, with very considerable income every day. If you want to hire  If they go to Java to catch slaves, the price will be very high.

    In comparison, those foreign slave-catching teams are relatively small and have no fixed income, so the rich will definitely hire these non-Han slave-catching teams at high prices, and facts have proved this.  It¡¯s just that there are too many monks and too little food. Even though there are nearly one million natives in Java, there are more people who want to obtain Han household registration. Therefore, in order to compete for limited resources, conflicts will definitely break out among these slave-catching teams, especially some of the slave-catching teams are originally  Even if they have a lot of grievances, for example, like Kawana Ishi and Cui Zhong, they can be said to be enemies on a narrow road.

    In fact, before the fight between Kawashitaishi and Cui Zhong, there had been several incidents of slave catching teams fighting each other on Java Island. Especially after the heads of the natives were fried to hundreds of pieces each, it caused countless people to go crazy.  , some slave-catching teams that exterminated native tribes often encountered several bloody fights on their way back to the city. The strong ones could return to the city, while the weak ones were wiped out halfway.  The native head handed over to the government had changed hands several times before. It was not only stained with the blood of the killed native, but also stained with the blood of more other people.

    "By the way, have the 50,000 army troops transferred to Java already set off?" Li Min suddenly remembered something and asked again.  The island of Java has attracted so many slave-catching teams, and most of them are foreigners, which threatens the security of the island. So just a few days ago, Li Min mobilized an army of 50,000 to station in Java.  Departure also takes time, so he asked this question.

    "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the 50,000-strong army has set off yesterday. With the speed of steamships, I believe they will reach Java in a few days. In addition, the Nanyang Fleet has also set up a station on Java Island, with a force of 20 main warships stationed all year round.  Our fleet can definitely guarantee the safety of Java Island!" Wang An bowed to report.

    Li Min nodded with confidence, but Wang An did not stop after speaking, but hesitated, and finally reported again: "Your Majesty, the 'European Nobles' plan launched by His Highness King Wu some time ago has been  It has attracted thousands of Han youths, many of whom are recent graduates. These students are urgently needed talents in all walks of life. Isn't it a pity that they were lost in vain?"

    The "European Nobles" plan that Wang An talked about was actually a way that Li Ke, who was far away in the Mediterranean, came up with in order to recruit more Han people to settle there.  This method was named European Nobility. As the name suggests, all Han Chinese who are willing to move to the Mediterranean will be granted the status of a baron by Li Ke as soon as they arrive on the Iberian Peninsula, which means they will have the status of a noble.  It's just that Li Ke hasn't established a country yet, so the title he bestowed is only valid within his own ruling area, which is the Iberian Peninsula, so he is called a European aristocrat.

    When Li Min heard this, he immediately understood what Wang An wanted to say. He just smiled lightly and said: "Wang Fu, as far as I know, the third brother's plan is not only to recruit people in Daqi, but also in Datang.  Recruiting manpower, how will Datang react now?"

    "This" Wang An was speechless for a moment, and finally said helplessly, "The people of the Tang Dynasty seem to like to be aristocrats more than we in Daqi. Now nearly ten thousand people have rushed to the Mediterranean, and the Tang Dynasty officials have not done anything about it.  prohibit."

    "That's it. Even my father has stated that he will support third brother. How can I, as a biological brother, drag him back at this time? What's more, although we in Daqi are short of people, third brother has more people than us.  There is a shortage of people, and the situation in the Mediterranean is now at a critical period. The third brother must prepare enough manpower to deal with this change. If he can profit from it, then he can lay the foundation for his ambition to dominate the Mediterranean in one fell swoop!" Li Min said!  At the end, the eyesHe almost penetrated everything and saw the drama that was about to be staged in the distant western land.
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