Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 179 Going to Nanyang and Sending a Concubine

That's the benefit of big fists.

Da Ming's fist is big, so Da Ming has the final say, even if other people are dissatisfied, they can only hide their grievances in their hearts.

How else could it be?

Join forces to fight against Ming Dynasty?
Weapons and equipment are not comparable to those of Ming Dynasty, and the countries of Europa are constantly dirty, including Britain and France, who can't wait for each other to die. Can these countries be expected to unite to form a cross-sea expeditionary army, running all the way from Europa? Come to Daming to make trouble?

Instead of fighting a war that is likely to be lost, it is better to take this opportunity to build a good relationship with the Ming Empire and get some benefits from other countries - the barbarians in Europa also know how to make close friends.

Therefore, the envoys of Europa could only send their own people to send a message to their own country, saying that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would invite all the monarchs of the world to come to the Ming Dynasty for a gathering, and that the first world-class sports meeting would be held in four years' time.

It's just that compared to the certain pot and the small broken ball games where whoever has the hardest fist has the final say, a lot of problems in the Nanyang kingdoms are the real headaches.

Take the simplest example - Yunnan.

Whether it is the Nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty or the Duan family in the Song Dynasty, basically they can only be regarded as foreign vassals in Yunnan, no different from Jiaozhi and Burma.

It wasn't until Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty that Mu Ying was made the hereditary Duke of Guizhou and ruled Yunnan forever, and Yunnan was completely transferred from the foreign domain to the chief minister under the direct management of the imperial court.

During this process, Zhu Yuanzhang not only instructed the general Fu Youde to reject Dali Duan's request to surrender and surrender, but also carried out a large-scale destruction of documents and books. Both "official classics" and "official compendiums" were burned, and then the local forces were suppressed through severe punishments and harsh laws, uprooting the Nankang and Dali civilizations that had been passed down for hundreds of years.

In addition to burning books and destroying history on a large scale, Ming Dynasty spent several decades carrying out a large-scale migration and replanting of Yunnan area—first, some local residents were forcibly relocated to Shandong, and then from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places migrated about 300 million people from the Central Plains into Yunnan, and let these people occupy land with relatively convenient transportation.

For example, on July 21, 28st year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Fu Youde and Mu Ying an oral order: "There are [-] households and [-] households under the supervision of the Yunnan chief envoy, except for the urgent delivery at Dangma Station." The shop made it so, and the rest of the people saw that a household wanted a ding, so they prepared their own knives and guns, and sent the army to the camp to conscript Baiyi. If they refused, when the army came back from enlisting Baiyi, the commander-in-chief led the army and took the money. gone."

To put it simply, Mr. Zhu used the method of "whether you are willing to bring dry food and follow the Ming army to fight Baiyi" to judge whether the local residents are reliable. Anyone who is unwilling will be regarded as unreliable and must be forced to move to the Central Plains other places in the hall.

Then, Daming tacitly allowed the local aristocratic families to "fake their nationality"—that is, to admit that the ancestors of these aristocratic families were originally Han people, and they moved to Yunnan after marching and fighting with the imperial court. Most of them pretended to be Jiangnan, For the Chinese books in Sichuan and other places, the Dali Duan family even pretended to be Wuwei County in Hexi.

At the same time, Daming spared no effort to promote the Tangkou culture of the Central Plains in Yunnan, preventing the possibility of alienation of the local people again.

This process took Daming more than 100 years.

The same is true for places such as Cochin, Myanmar and Siam.

Although the entire Cochin has been declared pacified, and Myanmar and Siam are also included, it is no different from the chief envoys like Shandong and Henan in terms of jurisprudence, and the rest is basically to set up states in Nanyang. counties, and then started large-scale immigration.

However, the pacification of Jiaozhi and the internal attachment of Myanmar and Siam only completed the formalities of transferring from foreign vassals to direct management in terms of jurisprudence. From a practical point of view, there will inevitably be a lot of problems behind.

It’s easier to say something like Jiaozhi, but many aristocratic families in Myanmar and Siam are definitely not happy with Zhu Jinsong’s version of reforming land and returning to foreign affairs—if they were replaced with Zhu Yuanzhang’s version of reforming land and returning to foreign affairs, they might still be happy, after all Changing a family tree to a family tree or something is considered an ancestral skill for these aristocratic families in Nanyang.

The problem is that Zhu Jinsong's version of reforming the land and returning the land is to fight against the evil gentry and divide the land. For the Ming court, the redistribution of wealth has been completed, but for these noble families, it is about to die.

There is also the confiscation of local books—whether it is "official classics" or "outside compendiums", these things must be confiscated, and they can be sealed in the Royal Library of Ming Dynasty, but local folks are absolutely not allowed to keep them.

Coupled with the complete abolition of its original writing and language, the full implementation of the language and writing of Ming Dynasty...

All in all a lot of problems.

Of course, other problems are not too much of a problem, even if the monkeys keep rebelling, it doesn't matter. After all, Daming's military strength is there, and it is not afraid that these monkeys will not be able to be suppressed.

The problem that really troubled Zhu Jinsong and the bigwigs in the Ming Dynasty was the immigration situation——

Zhu Yuanzhang's operations in Yunnan are there. Of course, Zhu Jinsong and a group of bigwigs in the Ming Dynasty will choose to move a large number of people there, relying on the population advantage of the Ming Dynasty itself, forming a crush on the local indigenous population base.

The question is how to get the people to migrate.

Just like when Huguang filled Sichuan and moved borders and forbidden seas in the Qing Dynasty, they used knives to force the people to move?

Don't talk nonsense, the Qing Dynasty can do this kind of thing that directly uses a knife to force the people to relocate, even Zhu Chongba, Zhu Laosi and even the emperors in history can do it, but Zhu Jinsong can't do it .

This is the doomed result from the time when Zhu Jinsong raised his troops against the Qing Dynasty.

The current situation is in an extremely painful state: if Zhu Jinsong needs money, food or troops to fight, the people of Ming Dynasty are very willing to support them. They are even willing to use the last grain of rice in the family as military rations and send their last son to go to war. battlefield.

But it would be very difficult to get them to leave their hometowns and move to Myanmar, Siam, Cochin and other places. No matter how much the local government and peasant associations tried to persuade them, few people were willing to respond.

Give the An family money?Give seeds to cattle and farm tools?
If such a good thing happened in the Qing Dynasty, the people who rushed to it would be able to get their brains out. The key is that the people of the Ming Dynasty were unwilling.

too far.

Before the popularity of such artifacts as trains, a distance of more than a hundred miles could already be regarded as a long journey. It is normal for a thousand miles away to not know life and death.

After all, there was no WeChat at this time, no mobile phones, not even telephones and telegrams.

In addition, clan relations have to be considered.

How did the term "people leave their hometowns and cheap" come about?
In the place where the clan is located, it has been multiplied from generation to generation, and the people and relationships they meet are intricate, and many things are easy to do.

And once you leave the clan's sphere of influence, if you want to do something, it's easy to just ask your grandpa to sue your grandma, unless you have a lot of money and use money to open the way.

The problem is, if there is a lot of money, who is free to leave their clan's sphere of influence?
Not to mention going to places like Cochin and Myanmar.

Once you go, the hope of returning to your hometown in your lifetime is basically zero. That is to say, unless a clan intends to spread its branches and leaves, no one is willing to go.

Unless they can't live - the problem is that the people of Daming live well in Daming, and it's not that they can't live without the little Anjia money and seeds and farm tools.

Therefore, the problem returned to Zhu Jinsong's hands.

It is foreseeable that it will definitely be more difficult to migrate people to farther places such as Liaodong and Alaska in the future.

Zhu Jinsong looked at Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs with a gloomy face, and said, "We have [-] million people in Ming Dynasty, but in the end, there are not even [-] who are willing to move!"

"There are not enough people to migrate there, so what is the difference between Myanmar and Siam? There is also Cochin. There is a large piece of empty land, but no one cultivates it? Is this plausible?"

Zeng Cheng and the other big bosses watched their noses and noses, and thought to themselves, who is to blame for this?Look at the Qing Dynasty, put a knife on the neck of the common people, and move as much as you want!

Of course, if he were an ordinary person, it would be better to be under the rule of Zhu Jinsong, the great Ming emperor, at least he could live like a human being.

After being silent for a while, Zeng Cheng turned his attention to Zhu Erdan: "Your former military governor's mansion, how many laborers were arrested in Jiaozhi this time? Are there any women?"

Zhu Erdan was taken aback for a moment, and said, "There must be a lot of arrests of laborers, there are a lot of men and women."

Zeng Cheng hummed, and then turned his attention to Zhu Jinsong: "Your Majesty, why don't we give concubines to the common people who are willing to migrate to Nanyang? Anyway, we don't have much else in Ming Dynasty, those bachelors who haven't got wives But there are."

Hearing this, Zhu Jinsong couldn't help cursing himself for being confused—so many textbooks in a certain orphanage had written about this trick, why didn't he remember it?

After thinking about it secretly, Zhu Jinsong said: "Then let's go, the former military governor's office intercepted all the women who were supposed to be laborers at Cochin, and whoever goes to Nanyang first will pick first."

"As well as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, ask those soldiers who are about to retire if they would like to go to Nanyang, as long as they are willing to go, all the benefits will be doubled-the settlement fee will be 20 taels of silver, which is [-] dragon yuan, Two cattle for farming, two concubines, and two hundred mu of cultivated land."

After all the bigwigs bowed down to answer, Zhu Jinsong ordered Ke Zhiming again: "Go and spread some news to me."

……

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that a certain bachelor who has never married a wife, because he responded to the Emperor Ming's call, voluntarily chose to move to Jiaozhi, and in the end he picked an extremely beautiful concubine.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that after a certain gentry went to Nanyang, he took in more than a dozen concubines. He was a groom almost every day and a bride every night. It was very beautiful.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that an unknown retired soldier of the former military governor's mansion chose to settle in Myanmar because he responded to the call of the Ming emperor. As a result, he discovered a jade mine in the land allocated to him by the government, and was awarded tens of millions of taels by the court. If you buy it at a low price, you will become the richest retired soldier in Ming Dynasty.

Especially after the Ming court announced in the new issue of the "Da Ming Newspaper" that it will soon start building passenger steam engine fire lines running through Cochin, Siam, Burma and other places, the bachelors and some old perverts in the Ming Dynasty couldn't sit still. Living.

According to the plan announced by the imperial court, it will take five to ten years for the Ming Dynasty to build the railways in these places. If the speed of steam locomotives can be increased, it is estimated that it will only take two or three days to travel from Siam to Jinling. time.

In this way, the worry of not being able to return to the roots after death will no longer exist.

Then, the people of the Ming Dynasty discovered that the officials in the government had changed—when they originally begged the big guys to go to Nanyang, these officials made promises and made wishes, so they almost knelt down and begged their grandpa to tell their grandmothers. Now the big guys I'm rushing to go to Nanyang, these officials and gentlemen are short of writing love on their faces, and they don't want to roll these words.

(End of this chapter)