The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 169 That is our Han people’s own king
'Hiccup!'

Ye Xiaomei ate too much. She felt the fat was pressing against her throat, but she couldn’t help wanting to eat more.

She really likes the feeling of the fragrant oil bursting in her mouth when she takes a bite.

Pfft!
The eldest son of the Wen family, who grew up with Ye Xiaomei, fell on a haystack in a very ungraceful manner. Not far away, the sun had already set for a long time, but there were still big torches burning, and it was very lively.

Countless relatives who can only be seen during the Chinese New Year came from all over. Adults and children, men and women ate together, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of getting something for free.

"Sister, the braised lamb head is so delicious, better than anything else. I don't know if I can ever eat something this good again in my lifetime."

The eldest son of the Wen family touched his stomach. Country people don't eat much, and his intestines couldn't bear the sudden overeating. He started to have diarrhea.

Ye Xiaomei looked at her cousin lying on the ground, her eyes full of envy, "You're a boy! It's not difficult to eat delicious food if you want. Just follow Brother Ayang and the others to Southeast Asia to earn it.

It’s a pity that I’m a girl and can’t go on a boat to play conch shelling.”

"Yes!" The eldest son of the Wen family climbed up immediately.

"Sister, go and ask Brother Ayang to take me to Southeast Asia. When I dig up gold in the Gold Mountain, I'll come back and treat you to meat every day."

The two juniors were chatting outside, while Uncle San was calculating with an abacus inside the house.

In just two days, more than one hundred taels of silver were spent, and people who wanted to eat the banquet were still coming.

Although the money was not his own, Uncle San still felt a chill in his heart.

But when he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a plate of fresh lamb liver fried specially for him, and took a sip of the finest Niang wine, he felt that this kind of life was the life that people should live.

"Uncle San, hurry up and give me the money. We need more food. People from Changning, Wuping, and Shanghang are all here.

They've come a hundred or two hundred miles to congratulate us on our prosperity, so we can't treat them with disrespect."

Uncle San hadn't finished settling the bill yet when the cook in charge of purchasing came running in with a bang.

Changning refers to Changning County (Xunwu County) in Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Wuping and Shanghang counties belong to Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, located on the border between Fujian and Jiangxi.

These three places are also large counties where Hakka people live. The Hakka people in Jiaying Prefecture moved south from these counties.

This time, Ye Xianyang went home to hold a grand banquet, which had a huge impact. Not only did the villagers from Wan'an Town come, but Hakka people from several other towns also came in groups.

Although Uncle San had lowered the quality of the food by two levels, it was still very rich in the eyes of these villagers.

All the relatives who had any connection with Caotang and Jingtang came to eat and drink.

Now that Hakka families and clans in Jiangxi and Fujian are planning to send people over, the ceremony will be even more grand, and we will have to pay extra money to purchase them.

He quickly said to the cook, "All the pigs in the state capital are almost sold out. Go to Changle and Xingning and buy another thirty.

I have to go find Ayang. Someone has come to our house, so we must treat them well and extend the feast for a few more days."

At the banquet, Ye Laoliu drank for several days in a row. During these days, he received more flattery than he had received in the previous twenty years.

The elders who used to look down on him toasted him with a smile brighter than anyone else, just so that Ye Laoliu could let his children and grandchildren go to Southeast Asia to dig for gold.

Bai Yueguang, whom he had a crush on during his youth, went straight into his room last night, but Bai Yueguang didn't expect that there was already someone lying on his bed.

In the end, the three of them played poker all night long, all in the hope of getting their brothers and even husbands to follow them to Southeast Asia.

There were so many people coming to flatter him that even a big shot like Ye Laoliu could hardly handle it.

When Third Uncle was managing Ye Xianyang's business in Jingtang and Ye Laoliu was making a fortune, Ye Xianyang had already left Jingtang and came to the state capital.

He is now very satisfied because the more than one hundred taels of silver are well worth it.

After three days, not only did everyone in Jiaying Prefecture know that he had discovered mountains of gold and silver in Southeast Asia, but even people in Ganzhou Prefecture and Tingzhou Prefecture knew about it.

Compared with Jiaying Prefecture, there are more Hakka people in these two prefectures.

Ganzhou, in particular, has a registered population of just over two million and an actual population of at least two and a half million to two and a half million, with abundant human resources.

In particular, there are a large number of Xidong barbarians in these counties, who are the She people in later generations.

At this time, after the late Song Dynasty, they jointly supported Wen Tianxiang in his fight against the Yuan Dynasty, and in the late Ming Dynasty, they supported Emperor Longwu in his fight against the Qing Dynasty.

The She people in southern Jiangxi and northern Fujian are basically the same as the Hakka people. The two sides are intertwined and can be called one.

The only difference is that the She people are even less favored by the government. If they could disappear in an instant, whether it is the administrative prefecture and county government offices or the Green Camp and inspectors in charge of public security, they would probably laugh their faces off.

Such a large ethnic group is exactly the key that Ye Xianyang believes can attract 3,000 people to Southeast Asia in a month.

On the Plum Tower, Ye Xianyang and Luo Fangbai entertained Huang Youji, who was stationed in the left camp of Zhenbiao, six inspectors from Shuikou, Baotou, Taiping Township and other places, as well as officials and squad leaders from Changle, Xingning and other counties.

In order to show off his status, Ye Xianyang ordered two tables of super luxurious banquets with a total value of forty taels, and booked the entire second floor of Meilou.

As for Zhou Huaiji, the magistrate of Jiaying Prefecture, after taking control of Master Zhou, Ye Xianyang no longer cared about him.

Because just a few days ago, Zhou Zhizhou's condition became more serious and he could no longer get out of bed. It seemed that he might have to return home due to illness.

This was indeed the case in history. Zhou Huaiji became seriously ill while serving as a prefect and died a few months after being carried back to his hometown.

Without having to deal with the higher-ups, the lower-level clerks became more important. As the saying goes, "clerks are permanent, but officials are transient." Although these people can't make big decisions, they are the ones who are relied upon in all aspects of the government.

And now, these people on the opposite side are also officials, and they also know who is behind Ye Xianyang. This guy has already established connections with the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Zhitai, and the General of Guangzhou, Yang Ning.

The real master behind this is a wealthy Chinese tycoon in Southeast Asia who can mobilize an army of 50,000.

It is said that the envoys met with His Majesty in the capital and have been granted the title of vassal king. The court is counting on them to send troops to help fight against Myanmar.

This road leads to heaven!
And this is exactly the effect Mo Zibu wants. People always like some exaggerated or even explosive news.

In the process of half-true and half-false dissemination, Lin Tong did a penny worth of work in Beijing, but it would turn into a gold leaf in Guangdong.

Everyone drank from noon to night, and in the end even the governor Zhang Tongzhi, who was not invited, came from his base specially, which greatly improved Ye Xianyang's reputation.

Finally, everyone reached an agreement at the dinner table: for every person sent to Southeast Asia, Ye Xianyang would give them one tael of silver for men and six cents of silver for women.

As for how they distribute it internally, that is not something Ye Xianyang can control.

Upon hearing this generous offer, Huang Youji and several inspectors glared at Zhang Tongzhi behind his back.

Damn, this old dog has a really sharp nose. He ran over from Songkou so quickly.

But don’t be fooled by the later dramas about people with pigtails, where they pay for a meal with large silver ingots and easily spend hundreds of taels of silver. In reality, the purchasing power of silver is very strong.

Moreover, since the importance of grain in ancient and modern times is not at the same level, the purchasing power of silver is far higher than that of one tael of silver, which is equal to seven or eight hundred yuan in later generations.

Taking Jiaying Prefecture at that time as an example, the actual purchasing power of one tael of silver was at least equivalent to about 1,300 or 1,400 yuan in later generations.

In other words, the benefit of about 30,000 taels of silver in these ten months would be equivalent to a net profit of more than 40 million in later generations.

Earning more than 40 million in ten months, more than 4 million per month, this is a very terrifying benefit, so Ye Xianyang dared to be so unscrupulous.

For example, Zhao Xunjian of Dongxiangbao, whom he had slapped a few days ago, now acted as if nothing had happened. He even toasted Ye Xianyang frequently and was extremely happy.

But seeing Ye Xianyang so calm, Luo Fangbai felt that his three views were shattered.

I think even if he worked hard to pass the imperial examination, his fate would be the same as Zhang Tongzhi.

I originally thought that these people were like in heaven, but now it seems that they are just like that, not as majestic as Ye Xianyang at all.

After the banquet, Ye Xianyang took Luo Fangbai and traveled overnight to Wu Shiying, who was trying to bribe the Huizhou prefect.

Here, Luo Fangbai once again saw that the official of a prefecture was also quite kind in front of Wu Shiying, like an elder who cared for the younger generation.

Luo Fangbai suddenly felt that the world seemed to have widened, and his way out was not entirely in the imperial examination!

But Luo Fangbai still had questions, so he asked Wu Shiying.

The Mo family of Hexian is from western Guangdong. Why don’t they go to western Guangdong to recruit people, but instead want to recruit these Hakkas to go to Southeast Asia?

Wu Shiying smiled bitterly, "Fangbai, the Hakka people have a large population and a small land area, but that's not the case in western Guangdong.

Although western Guangdong has little land, it has even fewer people. Who would want to go to Southeast Asia if they can make a living in their hometown?

This is half true and half false.

It is true that western Guangdong has a small land area and a small population. Take Leizhou Prefecture and Lianzhou Prefecture as examples. The former enjoys the large Leizhou Peninsula including Zhanjiang, but has a population of only over 400,000.

The latter included the two cities of Qinzhou and Beihai in Guangxi in later generations, with a population of less than 700,000.

The area of Jiaying Prefecture is only 60% of the size of the two prefectures combined, but its population is more than 100,000 more than the two prefectures combined.

It can be said that at this time, western Guangdong had little land and few people, and the contradiction between population and land was not prominent. It was completely different from Jiaying Prefecture, which was like rolling in hell.

The fake side is the fellow villagers of Gao, Lei and Lian prefectures in western Guangdong, especially Lianzhou, which is the Qinzhou, Hepu, Beihai and other cities in Guangxi near Vietnam in later generations.

There are not many people in this area. If we take over Nanyang, there will be no one to respond when Mo Zibu counterattacks North Vietnam and occupies the Red River Plain.

I, Mo Dalongtou, am planning to make a big fuss in the Red River Plain. I believe that after more than ten years of war, large tracts of fertile farmland will be freed up.

At that time, the Mo family's fellow countrymen from western Guangdong will be settled in the Red River Plain, and at least hundreds of thousands of people will be moved there.

Only in this way can Mozibu have a base in the Red River Plain and gain a firm foothold in industrialization.

After listening to Wu Shiying and Ye Xianyang's detailed introduction to Mo Zibu, including Mo Zibu's personal compilation of the so-called deeds of killing the son of a traitor in anger and rescuing Chinese people from all over Southeast Asia, Luo Fangbai was immediately impressed.

When Ye Xianyang spoke of his deep feelings, tears came to his eyes. He was really moved and thanked Mo Zibu.

"Fangbai, we Hakkas have suffered for hundreds of years, and finally we have found a king who can accept us and does not despise us for our poverty and arrogance.

You are a hero of our Hakka people, so why do you need to take the imperial examination? That is not something for a person like you.

Why not pack your bags and come with me south to that vast land, to build a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for Lord Xuande, for the Hakka people, and even for all Han people, free from the oppression of the Manchus!

After listening to this, Luo Fangbai bowed to the south and replied in a deep voice, "I am grateful for the favor of Master Mo. I will go home and prepare.

The emperor of Beijing doesn't want me to serve him, so I, Luo Fangbai, will serve the Han Chinese king of Hexian!"

(End of this chapter)