The use of carrots and sticks to manage slave labor is not Wan Lei's invention, but the long-term experience of the Northwest Military Region. The Northwest Military Region occupies the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the Mobei Prairie. The territory is vast, and there are too many places for soldiers to be stationed.

There was no spare time for farming, and the people used for farming were hundreds of thousands of slave laborers brought from the Western Regions.

The Northwest Military Region has more than 80,000 troops. On the one hand, it has to defend the territory and fight, and on the other hand, it has to manage hundreds of thousands of slave workers. You can imagine the heavy burden. To deal with this problem, the General Staff of the Northwest Military Region came up with a set of slave workers.

Labor domestication method, using the most effective means to manage more slave labor.

This set of slave labor domestication methods has many subtle tricks, but it boils down to one, carrot and stick. Separate male and female slave workers, male slave workers are outside the owner, and female slave workers are inside the owner, and "excellent" men are given from time to time.

Slave workers are given certain material rewards, including women, to encourage male slaves to work actively. At the same time, slave workers who disobey or want to escape are given the most severe punishment, so that slave workers will be afraid and enslaved obediently.

Dare to feel rebellious again.

In addition, give them a visible hope, that is, if they serve as slave labor honestly for ten years, they can get rid of their slave status, obtain the status of residents of the Republic of China, and be protected by the laws of the Republic of China. There is such a hope,

Even if those slave workers are dissatisfied, they will choose to be patient and will not jump over the wall easily.

Huihuang Petroleum Company uses a large number of slave labor, and also draws lessons from the practices of the Northwest Military Region. As for whether these slave workers can live for more than ten years, Huihuang Petroleum Company has no hope. After all, the environment in the Northwest region is harsh, and they are engaged in road construction in such a ghost place.

With this kind of high-risk operation, not many out of 100,000 people will be able to make it through ten years alive.

Wan Lei has no sympathy for the tragic fate of slave workers. Whether it is the Western Region slave workers used by the Northwest Military Region or the Japanese slaves used by Huihuang Oil Company, Wan Lei has no good impressions of these people. Most of those Western Region slave workers are

Descendants of Mongolians or Turks, these people have brought countless sufferings to the people of the Central Plains. Now enslaving their descendants can be regarded as repaying the debt of the father and the son.

As for the Japanese slaves, Wan Lei was even less impressed. If it weren't for the fact that the resources on the Japanese island were poor and there was no value in occupying them, Wan Lei would have sent troops to capture them and implement a policy of genocide. Even if they are useless, Wan Lei is not interested in them.

The Japanese country is still worried and wants to divide and rule it to prevent it from becoming too big. Now it even intends to use troops against Kyushu Island to cut off a piece of Japanese flesh and hammer it into the bones of the Japanese country like nails, making it difficult for it to stand up forever.

Wan Lei did not put too much energy into the matter of using troops on the Japanese Kyushu Island. He mainly left it to the navy and the Second Army. After all, Kyushu Island was just a small place with a population of just over one million. In addition, the hunting had just occurred.

During the Slave War, more than 200,000 strong men were lost, and there was almost no resistance on the island. All the Peiping Army lacked was an excuse for invasion.

In mid-July, the Peking Army got the excuse they wanted. Because the Satsuma and Chikuzen feudal clans kept hunting slaves, they aroused the collective hatred of the other clans. Finally, a joint war broke out. The allied forces of the Satsuma and Chizen clans fought with them.

The allied forces of the Seven Domains launched a decisive battle in the middle of the island. In the end, the Satsuma-Chikuzen Allied Forces were defeated due to insufficient strength and had to seek help from the Peking Army. The nearly 50,000 naval and land coalition forces of the Peking Army marched to Kyushu Island at the request of the two vassals.

It is said that it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. When the Beiping Army entered Kyushu Island, it was natural that they would not leave. The Satsuma Chikuzen Domain also knew this and did not dare to expect the Beiping Army to leave on its own initiative. They just wanted to keep the existing territory. As for the other

The territory of the Seven Domains is of course owned by the Peking Army.

Kyushu Island has many mountains and few plains, and the terrain is complex. Wan Lei never thought of using this place as a colony, but as a practical training point for troops. The Peking Army, like the two Satsuma Chikuzen vassals, carried out a slave-hunting war on Kyushu Island, that is,

By catching slaves and training troops, Kyushu Island will become the slave island of the Republic of China.

Some of the captured Japanese slaves were used in railway construction, some were taken to Taiwan to work as sugar cane workers, some were transported to Qiongzhou Island to grow rubber, and the largest part were transported to the Western Regions to work as coal diggers and oil operators. In short

They are engaged in the heaviest and most dangerous work.

As the Republic of China's control over the Western Regions strengthened, the influence of the Republic of China in the Western Regions also gradually strengthened. Coupled with the successive collapse and disintegration of the various Mongolian khanates and the Timur Khanate, the great imperial barrier between the East and the West disappeared.

, mutual exchanges have also been strengthened a lot. The Ottoman, Byzantine and other great empires located in the central and western part of Zhongzhou have successively broken through the blockade of the Timur Khanate and sent envoys to get in touch with the Republic of China.

The Byzantine Empire was a large empire that had been entrenched on the coast of the Mediterranean for thousands of years, controlling the trade routes between the East and the West. The Ottoman Empire was not weak either. It emerged from the east coast of the Mediterranean and continued to devour the territory of the Byzantine Empire for decades.

In short, these two empires are mortal enemies.

However, compared to the long-standing Byzantine Empire, the foundation of the Ottoman Empire is obviously much worse. Ten years ago, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Tamerlane Khanate, and even the sultan of the empire was captured.

, fell into a situation of civil strife.

Now Mohammed bin Bayezid bin Murad has the upper hand in the civil war and has almost achieved the position of Sultan. He sent an envoy to the Republic of China in order to import cannons from the Republic of China and prepare them for use.

They came to attack Byzantium

The capital of Constantinople. Because he knew that once he captured the most heavily defended capital of Byzantium and controlled the route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, he would accumulate enough prestige to overwhelm other factions and become the Ottoman Empire.

Imperial Sultan.

Faced with the ambitious envoys of Muhammad, Wan Lei did not refuse their trade request. Not only did he readily sell the artillery to them, he also sent an ocean-going caravan to transport the artillery directly to the Red Sea for handover.

Of course, Wan Lei was not so enthusiastic as to be charitable. He asked the Ottoman Empire to pay for the artillery and at the same time sign a secret agreement. In this secret agreement, it was stipulated that the Arabian Peninsula would be the sphere of influence of the Republic of China, especially the Persian Gulf coast, where there would be

As a colony of the Republic of China, the Ottoman Empire could not station troops here, and was even obliged to assist the Republic of China in imposing a military blockade on the Arabian Peninsula.

Wan Lei values ​​the desert in the Arabian Peninsula so much mainly because of the countless oil resources it contains. Wan Lei sent the ocean-going troops here to first occupy the coast of the Persian Gulf, which has the richest oil reserves, and at the same time find a way
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