The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 275 Colonization also requires training
After more than ten days of busy work, Mo Zibu could finally relax a little.

He lay on a huge colorful bed with his head resting on Wu Qian's thighs.

This Siamese woman who was married as Zheng Shishi's concubine was very plump. She didn't look too fat at a weight of 110 kilograms, but her flesh was as soft as the finest sponge. Leaning on it was like the most comfortable pillow.

Ye Yizhen, also known as Ye Xiaomei, has strong hands, so she is working hard to massage Mo Zibu's thighs.

The little cousin from the distant Chen family was the best at preparing meals, so Mo Zibu simply had a simple kitchen built in this spacious palace so that the little cousin could cook for him right by his side.

Although it is outrageous, Mo Zibu likes this feeling. As a king, if he can't even do whatever he wants, then what's the point.

He didn't want to be an emperor like the Ming Dynasty who couldn't even leave the palace. He was called an emperor, but in fact he was just a statue sculpted in the temple by civil servants and a hostage held hostage by morality.

After a while, the food was ready. They were all typical Cantonese dishes. Mo Zibu's favorite was the poached chicken with pink bones.

These days, King Mo's meals have been prepared by three women: his little cousin, Ye Yizhen, and Wu Qian. Mo Zibu is still very concerned about his own safety.

The reason is that Hue City always makes Mo Zibu feel uncomfortable, because there are too many high-ranking officials from Beijing and Han dynasties around Hue.

Among the 1.1 million people in Hue Province, the high-ranking officials in Beijing and Han controlled more than 200,000 of them, and more than half were deeply influenced by them. The public opinion in the countryside was basically in the hands of these people.

How can I, King Mo, feel comfortable staying in Hue City?

It seems that they will have to be separated in the future. If they want to become a big family that controls the grassroots, then go to Borneo or Java. In any case, they will not be allowed to continue to take root in Hue.

The maids began to move around and set out delicious dishes, but Mo Zibu still lay there without moving, as he was listening to Shishi reading to him the immigration report on Siam.

The authors of this report were Mo Zibu's civil servants.

Most of the young people around Mo Zibu now were selected by him and sent to various places for training.

Those who pursue a military career will be assigned to the staff officer corps.

Among them were a large number of small businessmen and bankrupt noble families recruited from France and Austria, who had bankrupted themselves in order to attend military academy.

After graduation, there were those unlucky people who were unable to join the army to get higher salaries and repay their debts because the army was downsized after the war.

The most outstanding officer corps chief of staff, Austrian Colonel Moritz Kluge, had even served as an advisor to the famous Austrian general Laudon. He had experienced the entire Seven Years' War and was very experienced, which greatly made up for Mo Zibu's shortcoming of not having a professional background.

Among the civil servants, most were Chinese, with only a few French. They were responsible for Mo Zibu's vision of future politics, and the outside world even called these people Hanlin scholars.

As he listened, Mo Zibu couldn't help but sit up.

It’s not that there is something wrong with this report. The author of this report is Zheng Jinshui, whom Mo Zibu rescued at Nakhon Si Thammarat Wharf that year.

At that time, his father died while killing bandits, and his mother and sister were also seriously injured. After being rescued by Mo Zibu, they were carefully cultivated by Mo Zibu.

This person is meticulous, good at discovery, and studies hard. Any report summarized by him rarely has any mistakes or omissions.

So what Mo Zibu felt was wrong was the current situation in Siam.

“Among the people of Siam today, there are no more than 270,000 or 280,000 Chinese, no more than 500,000 Najin, and the remaining 4 million are all Thais, Mons, Karens, etc.

Only if the Chinese could unite with Najin could they suppress their discontent.

But now, not only does my father-in-law condone the Chinese, but even Najin feels the danger of power being seized. If this continues for a long time, there will definitely be problems."

After the separation of Taksin and Moses Chan, although Siam lost the territory south of Nakhon Si Thammarat on the southern peninsula, it gained the vast Lower Burma, and its population grew instead of decreasing.

Hearing Mo Zibu's warning, Shi Shi didn't feel anything. She said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Siam and Xing Tang are not the same.

Xing Tang and even the entire Annan were more like a smaller version of China, while Siam had been practicing Sakdina since ancient times.

Now my father has upgraded the Chinese in his hometown to Royal Chinese, which is equivalent to all of them becoming the lowest-level Sakdina Lords, which is in line with the national conditions of Siam!
The Sukhothai and Ayutthaya dynasties of the past all transformed their tribes into nobles and surrounded the king to secure their rule.

After hearing this, Mo Zibu was stunned for a few seconds, and then combined it with the basic information about Zheng Xin given by Chen Hui.

Mo Zibu also felt that he had vaguely grasped the reasons why Siam had problems in history.

To sum it up in one sentence, the Chaozhou folks failed to keep the situation under control.

Because what Shishi said was true, Siam has been doing things this way since ancient times, and slavery like Sakdina should also be done this way.

That is, the kind of people who use their fellow countrymen as their own weapons to defend the king, and even low-level nobles who can own slaves.

Use them to form the core base, and then extend power from the inside out to all directions.

The previous Siamese dynasties, whether it was the Sukhothai Dynasty or the two Ayutthaya Dynasties, all followed this rule of the game.

Taksin, who was deeply influenced by Siamese culture, received this kind of education since childhood. So after he became the King of Siam, he recruited 170,000 to 180,000 Chaozhou compatriots from his hometown Chaozhou to Siam.

There may not have been so many in history, probably only about 80,000 to 100,000 people.

Then these people were called Royal Chinese, and Taksin settled them around Thonburi. His original intention was to have them settle and raise slaves around the capital to protect the royal family.

However, Zheng Xin overlooked one problem, that is, Chaozhou at that time, and even the entire mainland, had been destroyed by the Qing Dynasty and there was no culture and spirit left.

Do you expect a group of poor people who are just penniless people in the mainland and whose horizons have been completely erased artificially to become slave owners in Southeast Asia?

Stop dreaming. They might have been able to do it during the Han and Tang dynasties, but now they have no idea how to play the Sakdina system.

It’s just like you have worked hard to build a big group and want to replace the people with your own, but your second uncle and third uncle who used to raise chickens and pigs in your hometown are unable to help you control this big group.

In addition, Chaozhou has always had a strong atmosphere of mercantilism. There are far more people who take advantage of loopholes to become officials and sell high as profiteers than those who work honestly as farmers.

This resulted in people arriving in Southeast Asia but being dispersed across various industries.

Less than half of the people around Thonburi honestly farm, and even this half are not good at establishing settlements and raising slaves.

Later, Zheng Xin found that these people were unreliable, so he began to send back those villagers who were just there to extort money and were of no use.

This situation can even be confirmed in Chaozhou folklore. According to Chaozhou legend, after Taksin became king, some of his fellow countrymen came to Siam, but Taksin did not give them official positions. Instead, he gave them a few jars of pickled vegetables and sent them back to Chaozhou.

These people got angry and threw the jars into the sea as soon as they got on the boat. As a result, some people kept one or two jars and found out that they were filled with gold and silver after returning to Chaozhou.

Although there are obvious signs of processing, it can still reflect some of the conditions at that time.

Seeing that his fellow countrymen from Chaozhou were unable to protect him, Zheng Xin turned his attention back to the Nazhens whom he had originally swept aside.

Although these Najins pledged allegiance to Taksin again for the sake of profit, the seeds of distrust had already been sown.

Many people think that King Taksin only loves his Chinese compatriots and does not love Najin, and he is deeply worried and even afraid that he will lose the king's favor one day in the future.

Zheng Xin also saw this situation, so he was more tolerant towards these Na Jin, hoping to reassure them.

At the same time, he attempted to make Siamese Buddhism respect him as the Buddha King, and tried to use the authority of religion to win over and suppress them.

But it was too late and the result was counterproductive.

Excessive tolerance made it easier for the Najins to collude with each other and reduced their awe of the king.

Excessive persecution of Buddhism has instead led to greater opposition.

Siam is a country where theocracy can sometimes go hand in hand with monarchy!

So later, tragedy happened easily. First there was a small-scale rebellion, and then the guards took the opportunity to riot against the king and control Taksin.

He finally returned with a large army from the front, pretending to purge the court, but in fact he killed the rebellious guards and controlled Zheng Xin, thus reaping the benefits.

In the end, Taksin's nephew led a small number of Taksin's people who were still in Siam and had mastered the Sakdina system to rise up and rescue Taksin.

Then they were easily defeated by Thong and all were killed. Taksin also died and the Thonburi Dynasty came to an end.

The only legacy this dynasty left to the Chinese was that although the Teochew people did not understand the Sakdina system, they completely controlled Siam in education, commerce, technicians, trade and even grassroots officials.

Tong had no choice but to continue cooperating with the Chinese and continue to play the role of one of the Chinese using his identity as Nazhen.

Then it took two or three generations to gradually Siamize these Chinese who controlled almost all industries in Siam except the military and the titles of great nobles.

Shishi and the other women looked at Mo Zibu in surprise, sweat even beads began to appear on their heads, but they did not dare to disturb him.

The women didn't know that in such a short period of time, Mo Zibu had completed a review that was basically consistent with history.

The overthrow of the Thonburi Dynasty was more a tragedy of the times than due to Taksin’s personal ability.

After more than 3,000 years of development, Chinese culture has lost the era of the Xia Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty when a nobleman could cultivate large tracts of fertile land and control tens of thousands of savages with a hundred people.

What is even more tragic is that the Chaozhou ethnic group from which Zheng Xin came is the most business-oriented ethnic group among the Chinese who are no longer able to be the barbarians of Xiajun.

This made Zheng Xin naturally lame.

It is conceivable that if Zheng Xin's ethnic group was the Hakka or other groups that were relatively more capable of settling, they could at least establish a stable base around Thonburi City, and would not have to go back to their old ways halfway.

This review also made Mo Zibu feel a chill in his heart. He vaguely felt that if he wanted to use the Chinese to control Southeast Asia, the most important thing was not to conquer the indigenous people, because that was not difficult at all.

If he wanted to, Mo Zibu could take his big ships and attack all the natives in Southeast Asia one by one, and he would definitely win.

But after winning the war, who will tame these indigenous people, complete the settlement and control the local area will be a huge problem.

Even though Mo Zibu's selection of talents was much wider than Zheng Xin's, he still faced the problem of lack of suitable talents for settlement and reclamation.

Although it seems good now, that is because those who dare to go to Southeast Asia at this time and are willing to exchange their lives for wealth are actually the more daring Chinese in mainland China.

After most of them went to Southeast Asia, those who were forcibly pulled down were those who lacked the courage to take risks.

Mo Zibu estimated the situation in his mind and found that his judgment was accurate.

Because the number of people going to Southeast Asia is decreasing year by year.

When Mo Zibu first started to recruit people to Southeast Asia, including the money they paid, more than 100,000 people came in the first year. In the second year, the money was halved, but there were still 70,000 people. In the third year, no money was paid, but there were still more than 50,000 people.

However, by the fourth year this year, only more than 20,000 people went to Southeast Asia, and it is difficult to exceed 40,000 people throughout the year.

This shows that the number of people who dare to go to Southeast Asia is decreasing rapidly.

On the other hand, it also shows that the population on the mainland did not explode to more than 1840 million around .

Especially Guangdong and Fujian, which now have a combined population of only 24 to 25 million. If everyone works together to hold on, they can still make ends meet.

Most people, as long as they can survive in their hometown, would not dare to take the risk of going south.

To put it cruelly, in this situation, basically all those who are enterprising have come, and those who are not here will only be bullied by the natives even if you ask them to come.

At the same time, in history, these young and strong people were sold as pigs to Southeast Asia. The colonists needed them as labor, so they would not care whether you Chinese can suppress the problems of the indigenous people. It would be better if you can't.

But Mo Zibu was not like that. The Chinese could not suppress the natives when they arrived in Southeast Asia. For him, except for those who were settled in Jiading and Guiren, if they could not suppress the natives, their trip would be in vain and even a burden.

No, Mo Zibu stood up. He had to find a teacher for the Chinese, a teacher who could teach them how to play colonial games again.

Then we will organize a short-term training course to teach them how to manage and educate the natives in Nanyang, and also teach them martial arts to cultivate their ability to solve people when they cannot solve problems.

Well, in the whole East, only the Japanese samurai have rich experience in this. Just look at how badly those old farmers in Japan were suppressed.

Otherwise, how about using gunboats to "recruit" some Japanese warriors to serve as dogs?
Anyway, since Mo Tianci wrote a letter to the Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate as the King of Cambodia ten years ago, the two sides have been in contact.

Merchant ships from Haxian can also dock in Nagasaki, but there are restrictions on trade volume.

If it really doesn't work, you can capture them by force and treat it as training for the fleet.

(End of this chapter)