Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 349 What is Colonization?
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the New Year is here again.

The climate of the Satsuma Domain is actually more pleasant. In winter, there is no place to freeze, let alone snow. During the Chinese New Year, it is like the late autumn in Beizhili.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Ming army were indeed very happy, because they just captured the entire Satsuma domain before the New Year's Eve.

Taichang is also very comfortable, because this time the conquest of Dongying went so smoothly.

Although it took him nearly three months to win the land of the Three Kingdoms among the 66 countries in Japan, he was very successful strategically.

The 40 people of Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp, including weapons and equipment, have been successfully transported to Dongying, Zhenwa City and Dongyang Port have been built, and the city wall of Dongyang New City is almost completed. More importantly, they have hoarded enough food, grass and supplies. .

It can be said that the most difficult and dangerous period of conquering Japan has passed. They have already gained a firm foothold in Japan, and Japan has no chance!

As for the marching speed, don't worry about it.

The so-called sharpening the knife does not miss the woodcutter. After everything is fully prepared, it will only take a few knives. If you don't sharpen the knife and chop, it will take a long time to chop.

Zhenwa City, Dongyang Governor's Mansion, in the meeting hall.

All civil servants and military generals were very happy, even though the emperor summoned them to discuss matters, they were still very happy.

They are really happy, because they won the land of the Three Kingdoms without any effort, and Dongpu is simply vulnerable!

The 66 countries in Japan, what a huge territory, they have made up their minds about the expansion of the territory!

Naturally, Taichang didn't call everyone to discuss how to continue to attack other places in Japan.

No matter what, let everyone have a good New Year's Eve, right?

It's the Chinese New Year, and he congratulated each other with a group of civil servants and military generals, and then smiled slightly: "It's the Chinese New Year, and the soldiers have worked hard, so you can find Jiandou to lead this time's military rewards to your subordinates later. General."

Oh, it's such a good feeling.

You must know that military merit rewards did not come down so quickly in the past, especially before the Taichang Dynasty, the military merit rewards had to live long to receive them.

At this moment, it was released within three days after the battle!
A group of generals stood up quickly and handed over their hands to thank them.

Taichang raised his hand slightly, motioning for everyone to sit down, and then smiled and said: "Also, the Beiyang navy fleet just brought in some delicacies and drinks yesterday, and you also asked Li Qing to get them and distribute them to your officers and men , Reward them well. However, there is one thing to remember, you must not drink too much alcohol when you are fighting outside, and you must not get drunk, you have to explain it carefully."

All the generals naturally responded with a thousand thanks.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then seriously said: "Everyone, you have also won the land of the Three Kingdoms, and the people in Dongying should have seen a lot, how are their lives going?"

Ah!
Why did the emperor suddenly ask this?

All the civil servants and generals were dumbfounded when they heard the words.

Everyone was stunned for a while, and Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, do we also want to take care of the ordinary people in Dongying?"

What he means is that the people in Dongying are not Japanese pirates, they are also Japanese pirates' family members, why should they care about how they live?
Taichang nodded without hesitation and said, "Take care, of course we have to take care of it."

Lu Xiangsheng was still a little puzzled and said, "Your Majesty, do we really want to take care of it?"

Taichang still nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course, don't care, should they be so hungry that they can't help but rebel?"

Uh, this, okay.

People who are too hungry will go to extremes, let alone Japanese pirates in Japan.

It seems that it's really not good to ignore these ordinary people in Japan.

Hearing this, Qi Jin couldn't help sighing slightly: "Your Majesty, from what I have seen, the people in Dongying are not doing very well. I feel that they are similar to the disaster victims in the Northwest back then. They have no clothes and no food. It will be estimated that even if we don't call over, they are afraid they will fight back."

This is indeed true.

At this moment, the Warring States Period in Dongying has just ended, and the Tokugawa shogunate is busy wooing various princes to control the entire Dongying, and they don't care about the lives of the people at all. Therefore, during this period of history, there are many rebellions among the people of Dongying.

After all, during the Warring States period in Dongying, the princes fought back and forth, making it impossible for the common people to grow food in peace, and with such a large population in Dongying, it is no wonder that the common people are not hungry.

Although there is no war at the moment, this situation has not been alleviated much, because there are too many princes in Dongying, and the fields in Dongying are basically divided by the Tokugawa shogunate to princes from various places.

In other words, the people in Dongying are basically the same as the people in the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. They are basically tenant farmers, and the food they grow is not distributed to them at all. , they can eat leftovers.

Cao Wenzhao also nodded slowly and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, the last general saw the same. The people in Dongying are really no different from the disaster victims in the Northwest."

uh, what's the matter?
I don't mean to pity them!

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "It doesn't matter if they don't have food, we can sell them food, and it doesn't matter if they don't have clothes, we can sell them clothes."

Everyone couldn't understand what he said.

If people have money, can they have nothing to cover their bodies and food?
What does the emperor mean by this?

Yuan Keli couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, do you think they are rich?"

Of course they have no money.

It's fine if you don't have money!

Taichang still smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if they don't have money, we can lend them money, open the branch of Daming Bank, and give them a loan, wouldn't it be enough?"

Yuan Keli couldn't help being stunned and said: "Usury!"

Are you afraid you'll lose your pants?
They have no money to pay back at all!
However, Taichang said seriously: "What usury loan? The interest is as much as the interest. We are here to make money, not to force them to death."

Is this still profitable?
Yuan Keli couldn't help reminding: "Your Majesty, they have no money to pay back!"

Taichang still calmly said: "Isn't it easy? We hire them to work, pay them wages, and they will have money to pay back."

what?
Hire Japanese pirates to work!

Yuan Keli couldn't help asking: "Why do we hire them?"

Taichang broke his fingers and introduced: "We can hire them to dig iron mines in Liaodong, we can also hire them to dig coal mines in Shanxi, we can also hire them to open up wasteland in Dongfan, and even open up their silver mines in the future." After we come down, we can still hire them to dig silver mines."

This, probably, seems, seems to work!

Question, can Japanese pirates work honestly?

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng cautiously reminded: "Your Majesty, what if they work hard and only want to make trouble, or even plot to rebel?"

This really has to be guarded against.

After all, they are planning to destroy Dongpu, can they not hold grudges?
Taichang still calmly said: "Make trouble? Can we give them a chance to make trouble? We will hire young and strong to work, and leave all the old and weak, women and children behind. Let's see who dares to make trouble!"

Well, this trick does work.

However, all civil servants and military generals still don't understand what the emperor is going to do.

This Dongpu hasn't been defeated yet, so why do you start thinking about these things?

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, isn't the most important thing now is to take down Dongpu? We are thinking about this now, isn't it a little too early?"

All civil servants and military generals nodded slightly when they heard the words.

They really don't understand why the emperor started to think about things after taking down Japan at this time.

You don't understand this.

Taichang said wisely: "With our current strength, it is not difficult to conquer Japan, but how to control Japan is rare. We have to find a way to completely control them and let them create benefits for us. This is the so-called colonization of European barbarians. Do you know? Otherwise, what will we do after conquering Dongpu? Do we still pay money here every year? Dongpu has a population of tens of millions, so we can pay at least?"

This money-losing business really cannot be done.

Everyone understands this.

However, no one really understands what this colonization means.

What is colonization?

Taichang then explained: "Colonization literally means transplanting or migrating people.

This understanding is actually problematic.

The purpose of colonization is not to move the common people to newly laid territories.

In essence, the purpose of colonization is to gain benefits by controlling new territories through various means.

There are many modes of colonization. At the beginning, the European barbarians chose the simplest and most brutal mode, that is, plundering by force, direct robbery!
This model is not acceptable, because there are only so many things, and there will always be a day when they will be sold out.

Moreover, if you keep robbing, people will resist when they can't bear it, even if they know they can't beat you, they will resist desperately.

So, we have to try another mode.

Such as this.

We hire them to work, to mine minerals, to grow food, and even to produce supplies for us.

In this way, they also have food to eat, and we can also obtain more supplies and food. "

It turns out that colonization is such a thing, and all the civil servants and generals were stunned when they heard the words.

The colonization method mentioned by the emperor is indeed better than direct robbing. The barbarians in Europe are just catching fish, and the method mentioned by the emperor is like raising chickens to lay eggs.

The advantages and disadvantages of the two methods are self-evident.

When everyone heard the words, they all cupped their hands and said: "The emperor is wise."

In fact, this method is not the best way to colonize.

However, this method is indeed the best when used on Japanese pirates in Japan.

(End of this chapter)