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Chapter 481 Enemy Chapter 391 For newly naturalized barbarians, boil frogs in warm water

After finalizing the science and technology support plan for the next seven years, the topics of this Jiangning meeting are basically discussed.

The last remaining issue of "naturalization of the construction of newly occupied territories" did not take up too much energy from everyone.

Because the management of these places, whether it is the Northeast, or Ezo, Sakhalin Island, or Kyushu, is still purely militarized.Therefore, it is relatively quick to adjust. When encountering new problems, you can ask for instructions at any time, and Zhu Shuren can directly make decisions at any time, without the need for complicated government and cabinet deliberation procedures.

So as long as the general direction is good, just start doing it first, and then solve the problem when you encounter problems.

The only thing worth mentioning in this agenda is that Zhu Shuren once again temporarily included the Yunnan-Guizhou area, which was already well-ruled by the Ming Dynasty, into a seven-year strict military control plan.

Li Dingguo was given a certain amount of quasi-wartime authority to further accelerate the conversion of the Yunnan-Guizhou chieftains to the local government, and strive to completely transfer the unresolved chieftains to the government before the future conflicts with Burma and Vietnam, and all of them are under the control of the court.

Of course, this quasi-wartime state of militarized management authority must have a strict deadline. When the seven-year plan is over and the use of troops against Myanmar and Vietnam is over, it will be delayed for an additional two or three years at most. Return to the normal rhythm of management of officials, and it will be the same as other inland provinces of Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, as early as 15 years ago, Daming gave Yunnan Guizhou Chieftain a policy, which involved the exclusive planting rights of tobacco and other exotic crops.Tobacco, cocoa, and chili seeds will be given priority to any chieftain who responds to the imperial court, accepts officials to govern, and is well naturalized.

This policy has been going on for 15 years, so in these years, the number of chieftains in the Southwest has decreased by at least two-thirds compared with 15 years ago, and they are no longer so densely populated.

For all the docile chieftains who responded to Ming Dynasty early, the average land area has more than doubled in these years.And those stubborn chieftains were basically defeated by the powerful chieftains after adapting to the reform.

Of course, those tribesmen under the command of the stubborn chieftain will not be liquidated. They are just innocent people, so they were directly annexed by the docile and naturalized chieftain, and then reformed and enlightened.Those who were killed and exterminated were only those stubborn ruling families.

In the past 15 years, there have been hundreds of small Tudi emperor families in Yunnan and Guizhou who fell under the butcher's knife that opened the way for tobacco.The number of anti-Ming rebels who were killed was more than tens of thousands, and the number of people who were exiled into hard labor and reformed exceeded 30 to [-].

But under such a rule with an iron fist, the effect is also very outstanding.

In history, the people of the Qing Dynasty began to make efforts to reform the natives in the 20 years of Kangxi, and as a result, they changed to a native of Xiangxi in the first 40 years.It took a total of [-] years from the Yongzheng period to the first half of the Qianlong period to transform most of Guizhou and parts of Yunnan to the same extent.

In the second half of Qianlong, the Daliang Mountains in western Sichuan and the Hengduan Mountains in western Yunnan continued to be changed.Historically, the Qing Dynasty recorded the work of returning and reforming the last batch of chieftains on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, which lasted until 1820, which is the 25th year of Jiaqing, before it was considered complete. At this time, there were only 20 years left before the Opium War. years.

In other words, it took the Qing Dynasty 90 years in history to convert most of the southwestern regions except for the Yunnan-Myanmar border.Counting the tough bones on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, it would take another 30 years, for a total of 120 years.

Now it took the Ming Dynasty only 15 years to use Li Dingguo's big stick and the carrots specially planted with tobacco, giving both kindness and strength, and it is estimated that it has achieved the transformation effect that the Qing Dynasty spent 80 years in the same period of history.It is a full five times the time efficiency.

The current progress of Yunnan and Guizhou's land reform is basically equivalent to about the third and forty years of Qianlong in parallel time and space.

That's why Zhu Shuren decided to give Li Dingguo the last ten years, and take advantage of the opportunity of using troops against Burma and Vietnam to implement militarized management simultaneously.
Strive to complete the 30-year road in ten years, and then advance to the level of reforming the land in the early Jiaqing period in history, and thoroughly eradicate the problem of the frontiers not obeying the government's control and fending for themselves.

At that time, except for the chieftains in the Hengduan Mountains who are still swinging between Daming and Burma, all other chieftains must be naturalized.

And ten years later, Li Dingguo will be sent by Zhu Shuren to the chieftain territory that Daming newly "rescued" from Burma and Yue, to continue the work he did in Yunnan and Guizhou, and to replicate the successful experience again until Daming thoroughly digests the new land in Southeast Asia. Planning territory.

Considering that at this time in history, Li Dingguo is already dead, even if history has been changed now, Zhu Shuren reckons that Li Dingguo does not have a particularly long-lived gene. He has a new mission.If he can live to that time, let him return to his old age.

(Note: Today is 1663. According to history, Li Dingguo died in 1662 at the age of 42. However, it is said that he died because of grief and indignation and being unaccustomed to the climate in Myanmar. This is very similar to Zheng Chenggong in history. Zheng Chenggong was also indignant Among them, and those who were not used to the tropical rainforest environment, died in the same year at the age of 38)
In this seven-year plan, Zhu Shuren made further efforts in the field of medicinal chemistry, and the research and development of drugs to solve tropical diseases, chemical pesticides, and disinfectants also took this into consideration.

Zhu Shuren knew that the untimely death of Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong in history had a lot to do with tropical diseases, so he must devote resources to the development of tropical disease drugs.

After Li Dingguo's mission is completed, Daming's management of America's new favorite crops will definitely be stricter.

In the future, we can no longer engage in the method of "Yungui Naturalized Tusi Special Preferential Treatment and Exclusive Planting", and all provinces should treat it fairly (but in fact, cocoa, coffee and tobacco cannot be grown in the north, this is due to climate, not policy reasons), and the court should follow the law. At the level, the official monopoly is directly implemented, and the folks are only allowed to grow and not allowed to operate privately, similar to salt and tea.

On the other hand, this is also done to save the face of the court, because after so many years of spreading and planting, the seeds of tobacco, cocoa, and coffee have in fact spread wildly among the people in the southwestern provinces.In the early years, the imperial court was able to control the place by providing seeds centrally, but now it cannot control it at all.

So instead of waiting for the future to completely get out of control and face the face, it is better for the imperial court to take the initiative to announce the release of the monopoly on planting and retreat to monopoly operations.In this way, it is still that the imperial court does not want to control it, not that it cannot control it. It is "unwilling to compete with the people for profit."

At the beginning, Zhu Shuren engaged in licensed planting and liberalized tobacco taxation, which was only a stopgap measure, in order to require military expenditures for the war of unification of the Qing Dynasty.Over the past ten years, the tobacco tax has indeed provided Daming with military expenditures worth tens of millions of taels of silver.

Now that the unification has been completed, there is no need for so much military spending during the war years. Zhu Shuren, as a benevolent person with modern ethics of later generations, also knows that this thing is harmful to health, and the scale of the control should be controlled.

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After the governing tone and management methods of the southwest region are clarified, the remaining northeast, Sakhalin, Ezo, Kyushu, and Ryukyu are relatively easy to deal with.

The problems in those places are not too complicated. Regardless of the large area, the aborigines are relatively small and relatively easy to manage.

In the final analysis, the biggest trouble in the development of a piece of land is people.As long as there is no constraint from the aborigines, you can draw on a blank sheet of paper, and the basic infrastructure is still easy to overcome, and immigration and spending money can solve the problem.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, gunpowder and blasting powder technology has matured. Even if there is no heavy machinery, blasting can be used to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, based on the idea of ​​grasping the big and letting go of the small, Zhu Shuren prioritized the policy adjustments of the above-mentioned territories, and first focused on solving the governance issues of Kyushu and Ezo.

Although these two islands are small in size, Kyushu is just similar to Dayuan Island, and Ezo is only twice the size of Dayuan Island.But these were harvested from Fusang after all. The Ezo people on Ezo Island need strong means to naturalize, and the Xiong Ximan in Kyushu and other Aso volcano mountain people have to deal with it.

So after a closed-door discussion at the highest level of the cabinet, Zhu Shuren, Zhang Huangyan, and Zheng Chenggong came up with a plan—because the plan was a bit cruel and powerful, Zhu Shuren didn't even involve an honest gentleman like Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa is old and has a relatively high moral limit, so some things are not suitable for participation.

According to the plan given to Zheng Chenggong, in the future, the barbarian tribes in the Aso mountain area on Kyushu Island will be restricted to labor, and they will be forced to serve for the imperial court, build local areas, reclaim terraces, build port affairs, and be responsible for mining, shipbuilding, Build the corresponding factory...

After all, Kyushu Island is a volcanic island, and it is still rich in mineral resources, including a little gold, silver and copper. Although it is not as rich as Iwami and Sado, it is still very good compared with the Central Plains.

And the sulfur mines in Kyushu Island are even more outrageous, which can be called the most in Asia-after all, digging a shovel into a huge active crater like Mount Aso is full of natural sulfur.

The only thing to worry about is whether sending people to dig around the active volcano crater where sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide poisonous gas is spraying randomly will kill or injure too many miners.But since there are natives who can be enslaved, these problems are not a problem.

Therefore, just the mining of deep mountains can consume a huge amount of labor.The above-mentioned projects must be well advanced in the next seven years, which is enough to ensure that all bears can completely find enough jobs,
If the manpower is not enough, other non-barbarian Japanese in Kumamoto Domain can be forced to conscript them into corvee, and if there is not enough manpower, Japanese poor people can be recruited from Satsuma and Fukuoka.If you dare to resist, you will directly use bayonets and rifles to teach you a lesson.

Anyway, there were originally only 300 million people on Kyushu Island. After the bloody battles that annihilated the four domains of Kyushu, and forcing Kuroda to move to Changzhou and Hiroshima, the current Kyushu Island actually has a population of at most 200 million. .

On the other hand, Daming had an absolute advantage in population and military strength, as well as superior weapons from generation to generation. If a few tens of thousands of people were left behind for the support of the local people, they could definitely rule completely without costing Daming's own military salary and rations.Only the money for ammunition and ordnance consumables still needs to be produced and manufactured locally in Ming Dynasty.

With such a strong control force, the pressure from the rulers of the Ming Dynasty was slightly greater, and the local area could not turn the tide.

You must know that according to Zhu Shuren's own thinking, those "damn Kumamoto miners" should be slaughtered directly, and it should be repaid for the blood debt of their descendants who slaughtered Jinling 300 years later in parallel time and space.

Now the rulers of the Ming Dynasty forbear "not to teach, but call it abuse" and instead let those Kumamoto miners go to the volcano to mine and reform. It is already a very civilized and etiquette state.

Of course, since we are all ready to build vulcanization industry and mining bases in Kyushu, after some necessary infrastructure construction is invested, if the utilization rate is too low, resources will also be wasted.

Then keep doing one thing and keep doing the other. Anyway, in the next seven years, Daming will make it a national policy to climb the chemical industry technology tree, so all the dangerous, polluting, and harmful chemical production and research links in Daming will be moved to Kumamoto.

New gunpowder factories and explosive factories should be set up in Kumamoto and Satsuma, as well as sulfuric acid factories, nitric acid factories, rubber vulcanization and nitrification treatment factories, and even factories that may appear in the future for coalification and crude oil simple treatment can all be located there.

(Note: In this era, even if oil from shallow gushing wells is exploited, it is impossible to crack and extract light components such as diesel, gasoline, and natural gas. It is useless to extract them. But petroleum jelly, paraffin, and kerosene can already be extracted, and kerosene can also be used for lighting Replacing kerosene and blubber, this can be done without industrial life, as long as the chemical process and reaction design are strong enough)
In addition, Kyushu already has a highly polluting Japanese-style ash blowing method for smelting gold and silver, and various highly toxic environmental refining processes that require a large amount of cinnabar, lead and mercury.These production capacities can also continue to be carried forward, improved and expanded in Kyushu.

Therefore, in the next seven years, Zhu Shuren will aspire to build the central and southern mountainous areas and fringe areas of Kyushu Island into a mining and chemical industry zone where sulfuric acid, petroleum, explosives, and various highly toxic heavy metal industries gather.Mining in mountainous areas, building factories in mountainous valleys and areas with relatively convenient transportation, with a clear division of labor.

Only Fukuoka in the north and the coastal plain near Fuso Main Island are left, and those suitable for agricultural production should continue to farm to ensure that the island can at least be self-sufficient in rations, and it is not necessary to buy food from North Korea to meet the ration needs of local people in Kyushu.

Daming's rule over Xiongren is still very relaxed and moderate, and he will not exhaust the water for fishing.If someone is engaged in such physically demanding mining and chemical construction, he must feed the other party.

The policy at that time is to conscript all local bears, as well as unmarried Fusang men from other domains, into imperial corvee service.The court gave them food to ensure their nutrition, and they might even be fuller than they were when they were under Fuso Daimyo.

In this way, they will not resist. They are single, and they are engaged in such toxic, harmful, dangerous and heavy physical strength. The average life expectancy is estimated to be less than 40 years old, so they have to be replaced after more than ten years.

Calculated in this way, at most 30 years later, the Kumamoto men on Kyushu Island and the unmarried Fusang men from other feudal clans basically disappeared on their own, and there was no need for Ming to use a butcher's knife.

As for those who are married, they can stay in the countryside and continue farming.However, these farmers must collect high taxes. They will definitely not follow the land tax standard of Ming Dynasty, but according to Fusang’s most ruthless "six publics and four people" in the Warring States Period, which means that [-]% of the grain harvest will be collected and returned to the court, and only [-]% will be collected. own.

After all, only by collecting such a high tax on Fusang farmers can we ensure that Fusang people can still have food when most of the population is not engaged in agricultural production.

And as long as the Ming court guides it well, it can definitely guide the hatred value of Fusang miners and workers to Fusang farmers, making them realize that "it's all these people, they have women, and they occupy land to farm, and they don't want to pay more." Food for our miners to eat"

Once the Fusang farmers dare to resist, Ming can provoke the Fusang miners and farmers to fight among themselves, just like the Europeans provoked the African tribes to kill each other at the same time, using the barbarians to control the barbarians.

The price that Daming has to pay is to ensure that the accounts are clear, to ensure that "the grain collected from Kyushu Island will never be exported, and it will be eaten by the local people of Kyushu."

This is what Zhu Shuren paid special attention to Zheng Chenggong in the end, and he must do so when the time comes.

Because Daming did not lack surplus food from a barren volcanic island like Kyushu to feed other regions.

Instead of taking away the surplus grain of Kyushu Island, various publicity announcements emphasize that "Kyushu grain, Kyushu eats", which can completely lead the conflicts among Fusang natives in Kyushu to internal strife among miners.

Daming paid a negligible economic price, but was able to kill those restless people for a long time, which is simply too cost-effective.

After setting such a ruling tone, Zhu Shuren finally added an extralegal point, which is not suitable for national policy and court manuscripts, and then sent a private letter to Zheng Chenggong to explain.

Zhu Shuren asked Zheng Chenggong to confiscate the Fusang farmers who were killed because of their resistance in the follow-up process.

Because a large number of men were conscripted as miners, and there were more women in folk Fusang, they were sent to Han farmers from Daming as concubines.

In order to encourage Han immigrants to infiltrate the landowners in Kyushu Island, the imperial court can privately promote some preferential policies, mainly to attract the poor and bachelors of the Han people at the bottom, and ensure that they can get a Fusang wife after they go to Fusang.

If this is not enough to digest the extra Fusang women, then another batch will be shipped to the Northeast and distributed to the Eastern Han bachelors who are reclaiming wasteland in Heilongjiang. Similar preferential policies can also be given.

In this way, within a few decades, the proportion of Y chromosomes of Fusang people on Kyushu Island will drop off a cliff, and after half a century, there may be no Y chromosomes of Fusang people on the island.

The same policy can be applied appropriately in Ezo.It's just that there is no mining and chemical industry in Ezo, only animal husbandry, fishing and hunting.
Therefore, if the male labor force of the Ainu people is rich, they can go to Kyushu Island to do the hard work of mining, opening mountains and building roads, or go to the outer northeast and Sakhalin Island to build the earliest infrastructure.

In the same way, men are given enough to eat but they are not given the opportunity to marry and reproduce, and women use it to immigrate.All women who are removed must learn Chinese. If they are over [-] years old, at least future generations must learn Chinese from their father, and they cannot speak Japanese. After decades, the problem of assimilation will gradually be solved. .

(End of this chapter)