Daming 1805

Chapter 397 No news is not good news?

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know what the British were planning, but felt that now was not the time to discuss the South Tianzhu deal with the British.

It's not that Daming is not interested in Nan Tianzhu.

Only after integrating the South Tianzhu, can we truly and completely pull out all the external forces in Xiaoxiyang.

The resources and land in the Tianzhu area are also favored by the Ming people.

But this interest is not urgent, first of all because Daming already has enough colonies in Yinzhou and Mozhou.

At the same time, for the UK, this piece of land is already tasteless and a pity to abandon.

Surrounded completely by Daming, I dare not fully develop it if I keep it, and I am reluctant to throw it away.

Zhu Jingyuan fully understood this situation, so he would not pay too high a price to exchange Nan Tianzhu.

At the peace talks meeting, he directly refused to discuss the South Tianzhu deal.

After the armistice, the British decided to abandon the land of South Tianzhu, so they began to transport people and materials from South Tianzhu.

They are obviously planning to completely evacuate Nan Tianzhu, and then they can abandon it.

All valuable things in South Tianzhu have been taken away, and the remaining population is basically old, weak, sick and disabled. The whole area is a huge mess.

But even so, the psychological price for the British to sell Nan Tianzhu has not really fallen to the lowest freezing point.

In the process of preparing to abandon Nan Tianzhu, the "value" of Nan Tianzhu will continue to decrease.

After all preparations are made, the actual "value" will drop to freezing point.

But "value" is not equal to "price".

It has lost its value in itself, and keeping it will become a burden.

At the same time, if there is no next buyer to take over for a long time, the sales "price" will continue to fall, and will eventually break through the lower limit of value.

Daming can continue to wait for this situation to really happen.

Because the only person who can take over South Tianzhu is Daming, and no other country has the guts to intervene in this matter.

So what Zhu Jingyuan is going to do is to continue to forgive the British for a few years or even ten or twenty years.

In the end, it should be possible to get the land almost for free.

After Zhu Jingyuan talked with Charlotte, he basically forgot about it, because it was a long time later.

Charlotte stayed in the Lion City and spent six years of Ankang New Year with Zhu Jingyuan's family.

After the first month, Charlotte left very reluctantly.

Then came the two children of the King of Prussia.

Zhu Jingyuan asked Luo Feiya to pick up the two of them at the pier, and took them to meet Zhu Jingyuan's residence.

The two half-grown children, both dressed in Ming-style attire, bowed respectfully to Zhu Jingyuan rather apprehensively:

"See His Royal Highness Prince Dashi."

Daming Ya's speech is quite standard, and the accent attached to the language of the native ethnic group is not obvious.

Obviously, they have had the most qualified teachers since they were young, who have specially educated and guided them to learn and practice standard accents.

Zhu Jingyuan sat on the master's seat, looking up and down at the two half-grown children.

After the new year, William will be 15 years old and Louise will be 14 years old.

In Zhu Jingyuan's memory, William I was a bald and bearded image.

It may be because he was not the eldest son of his father, but he became the king after his brother died, and he was already in his 60s when he became king.

The boyish William now shows no signs of baldness, he is still young after all...

The current image is still quite upright, after all, he was born in the royal family and was pampered, at least he will not be shriveled and decadent.

As for the image of Louise, Zhu Jingyuan had no impression at all.

The one standing in front of him now is a white and clean little girl.

Although my appearance is not very outstanding, it has nothing to do with being ugly.

At least it wouldn't make Zhu Jingyuan feel uncomfortable just looking at it, otherwise, he would definitely not keep it by his side and use it.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly, and responded to their questions:

"Well, the two of you have been exhausted all the way, don't stand still, sit down and talk."

The two and a half older children immediately returned the salute and sat down, then waited for Zhu Jingyuan's further instructions.

The two of them came here, of course, with a purpose and a mission, not to play.

Zhu Jingyuan had already considered how to arrange the two of them.

Zhu Jingyuan was not prepared to train and educate the two of them for Prussia, mainly because there was no time for that now.

It should be to arrange a job for them that makes them feel close enough to themselves, but does not involve the real Da Ming's confidential affairs, and at the same time, they can get the influence of Da Ming's culture, and they will not work too hard.

Now after a pause, Zhu Jingyuan looked at the two and a half older children:

"Your father asked me to take you with me to teach, but I don't have time to do it myself.

"So I put you next to me to do some simple work, and you follow the predecessors to see and learn by yourself.

"William, you go to my prince's guard to be a personal soldier, and occasionally do some errands for me and send out notices.

"Louis, you go to the office of my Johor co-prefect and act as a clerk for visiting officials.

"When I am free from work, I will also chat with you.

"Can you accept it? Do you have any comments?"

Of course, the two of them dared not disagree, and indeed they did not.

Although the rank of personal soldiers may not be high, whether it is Taixi or Daming, they have very special identities.

If it is a native of the country, it is easy to establish a personal friendship with the prince by providing the prince's current guards.

In the future, he will be able to serve as the new king's confidant, and be sent out to be the leader of the army.

Wilhelm was an outsider, and he would return to Prussia sooner or later, and he didn't care about the rank of the position he held.

His most important task is to establish friendship with Zhu Jingyuan and maintain the relationship between the royal families of the two countries.

A personal soldier who can be in constant contact with Zhu Jingyuan couldn't be more suitable.

Louise's job is similar. This kind of office receptionist is secretarial in nature, and it is also a job where she can often come into contact with Zhu Jingyuan.

I don't know how many job opportunities there are simply going in to report letters and coming out to deliver notices.

The two immediately stood up and saluted respectfully again:
"As ordered."

Zhu Jingyuan directly handed William over to Guan Tianpei's captain of the guard.

Guan Tianpei is no longer directly with Zhu Jingyuan. He is now the commander of the Dashiguo Fleet that has begun to take shape, and he spends most of his time presiding over the training of the fleet.

The soldiers who followed Guan Tianpei and served as Zhu Jingyuan's guards were now officers and sergeants of the Dashi Kingdom Fleet.

The guarding officers around Zhu Jingyuan were also selected from these veterans.

Louise was directly handed over to Luo Feiya, Luo Feiya, An Xiaona and other Zhu Jingyuan's first maids, who have been used by Zhu Jingyuan as personal secretaries. Now Zhu Jingyuan's offices and the reception room at home are all They take turns in charge.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to chat with them casually for a while, and today's meeting is over.

Three days later, the two began to work beside Zhu Jingyuan.

After the two stabilized, they sent a telegram to their parents in Prussia.

After receiving the news, William III and his wife breathed a sigh of relief again.

The arrangement of the soldiers and the office secretary really reassured them.

From then on, Zhu Jingyuan's work centered on the promotion of general education examination certificates.

This policy of absorbing assimilated surrounding ethnic groups was officially promoted in places that already belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

Now an ethnic group named "Da Ming" is being formed, if the population that could have been absorbed is not absorbed into the group of Ming people in this process, then they will become "outsiders" within Daming in the future.

Daming people regard them as outsiders, and they will also feel that they are outsiders, and they will become a natural incubator of separatism.

Now the same certificates are issued to the original "barbarians" and the Ming people, so that they can enjoy the same treatment as the Ming people. Of course, this is a bit of a challenge to the nerves of the original Ming people.

It's just that Daming is currently in a state of labor shortage, and there are plenty of jobs in society.

Even if the barbarians were given the same employment conditions, it would not have an obvious and direct impact on the interests of ordinary Ming workers.

Ordinary Ming people might dislike these colleagues of barbarian background, but they should not directly conflict with them.

Even if there are individual personnel, they will ask the boss and shopkeeper not to use these barbarians, but if the boss and shopkeepers don't use these barbarians, there will not be enough Ming workers.

So now is the best time to promote such a system.

In the era of great technological development, rich technology and war dividends can offset the contradictions caused by this system adjustment.

When the bonus disappears, it will be difficult to do this kind of thing again.

Zhu Jingyuan doesn't know when the bonus will disappear, so he must seize the time as much as possible.

After running around the entire Ming Dynasty, I want to popularize this system throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The popularization of the certificate system is actually only the first step.

The second step is to abolish the original household registration system.

Because the household registration information has ethnic group information, and the records are very detailed, the identities of three generations can be traced back.

Finally, the qualification certificate will be converted into the only Daming identity card.

In June of the sixth year of Ankang, when Zhu Jingyuan was copying the routine news sent to him by various departments of the Ming Dynasty, he saw the news of a plague in South Tianzhu.

However, the officials of Xichang, Beitianzhu, and Zhu Jingyuan himself did not feel that there was anything unusual about this news.

South Tianzhu has fought wars for more than ten years, and the British have engaged in plundering population and material transfers for several consecutive years.

The social order in South Tianzhu has almost collapsed, and the occurrence of the plague is not surprising at all.

This is a normal thing for everyone.

The relevant bureaucratic knowledge made a report stating that he would strengthen the security of the border area.

Prevent the crowds from southern India from crossing the border into the north.

Then there is no other reporting and analysis.

In the following months, some new news came one after another.

The number of southern Indians trying to cross increased, but so did the border guards.

In this era, compared to direct killing, driving away is a benevolent approach.

When the security forces can't manage it, they will be killed directly.

Then the density of related news gradually decreased, and by the end of Ankang Sixth, there were no direct reports.

In fact, Zhu Jingyuan didn't realize that, unlike modern times, no news is good news, no news at this time may be the biggest bad news.

In a modern society with smooth communication, there is no news in a certain place, which means that there are no unexpected news worthy of news in the local area, which shows that the local situation is relatively calm and stable.

But at this time, especially in places where the order has collapsed, there is no news. It may be that there is no one in the local area who can pass the news to the outside, or even there is nothing that can form the news.

The current situation in South Tianzhu is unknown in the whole world.

After the New Year of the seventh year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan started to pack his bags again, ready to go to the new location of administrative training.

This time the destination is closer to the mainland.

After the first month, Zhu Jingyuan received notices and appointments from his father and the court as in previous years.

Edo chief envoy councilor, governor of the military and political affairs of the Japanese archipelago and the Korean peninsula.

The name of "So-and-so chief envoy" still exists, but it has become the name of the government office corresponding to the province.

The Chief Commissioner is equivalent to the provincial government, the Commander is equivalent to the provincial military division, and the Procuratorate is equivalent to the provincial court.

Continuing to retain these names can not only clearly distinguish the names of government affairs from military affairs, judiciary, and supervision systems, but also reduce unnecessary adjustments in administrative links as much as possible.

(As well as convenient anti-harmony...)
Except for the official overall name of the province, which was changed from "waiting places" to provinces, the organization itself has not changed at all.

Because "waiting places" are originally provinces, there are a complete set of provincial government offices.

The governor of North Korea and Japan, this may be the smallest governor Zhu Jingyuan has ever done.

There are only three provinces below, the area of ​​the palace is more than 20 square meters, and there are only more than 5000 million people.

However, the chief envoy, who was a member of the Senate, was promoted again during the normal governance training process.

In particular, the scope has spanned from the prefect's yamen to the chief minister's yamen.

Tongzhi is the fifth rank, and the counselor was originally the fourth rank, but after the adjustment of the official rank in the local province, it became the fourth rank.

Just skipping the threshold of the fourth grade, this is the privilege only for princes...

But when I was in Johor, as a co-prefect, I had only one prefect on my head.

When it comes to the chief envoy, in addition to participating in politics at the third rank, there are also chief envoys who have been upgraded to the second rank.

The key point is that there are "indeterminate quotas" for both consultation and political participation, and specific numbers will be set according to the situation, and they will be in charge of certain affairs.

Therefore, if the additional post of Governor-General is not considered, Zhu Jingyuan doesn't even know how many positions the Senate's official position can be ranked in the team of the Edo Chief Commissioner.

But these things are actually not important, Zhu Jingyuan read the official letter of appointment and put it aside.

What is important is another piece of news, the news of my father himself.

There is only one content, asking myself to go to Yingtianfu on the way to Edo to take office.

My grandfather, Zhu Zhongliang, the Supreme Emperor of Ming Dynasty, is now in Yingtian Mansion.

He, the Ming emperor, will also use the banner of inspecting the southern shipbuilding industrial zone to inspect Yingtianfu after the year.

The two of them want to discuss a problem with themselves on the spot.

As I mentioned in the "Paper" before, the power of the imperial court will continue to decline during the reform.

This matter directly attracted the attention of two generations of emperors.

Because it is related to the future stability of the royal family and even the Ming court.

(End of this chapter)