The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 434: Guangxi Wolf Soldiers Go to Southeast Asia

In the middle of June of the lunar calendar, the Dutch East India Company surrendered, and the news that Java Island had been basically pacified reached Guangzhou.

Mo Zibu was helpless about the fact that most Cantonese people still insisted on calling this city Guangzhou, even though Mo Zibu changed its name to Nanjing.

Finally, he realized that the word "Guang" is too important for Guangzhou and has almost become the representative of Lingnan culture.

So Mo Zibu simply stopped calling it Nanjing Chengtian Prefecture in his edicts, decrees and decrees and called it Guangzhou Prefecture instead.

However, seeing that the emperor seemed to be somewhat unwilling to recognize the identities of Guangzhou and Nanjing, the old Cantonese people refused to accept it and began to call Guangzhou "Nandu".

The main theme is a rebellion.

"Chen Lian was quite loyal and dedicated to his work. He almost uprooted the indigenous people near Batavia." Mo Zibu said to the ministers sitting below, holding Chen Lian's memorial.

But Liang Guozhi shook his head lightly, "The Duke of Yi'an is kind-hearted, he killed too few people!
This is such a good opportunity. Even the Sultan of Yogyakarta was captured. We should kill 100,000 in Batavia, 100,000 in Semarang, and 50,000 in Surabaya. The best thing would be to kill them until the natives dare not even show their heads.

Mo Zibu looked at Old Man Liang in surprise. He didn't expect that an old man like you would be so violent. There are only three million indigenous people in the entire Java Island, and you want to kill almost ten percent of them at one time.

"The land here is fertile, and the local population is large, similar to the old Junggar tribe.

And Dayu, like the Qing Dynasty in the past, does not have the ability to immigrate there on a large scale in a short period of time, so it is easier to kill people. Otherwise, in twenty years, the population will have to increase by several million.

Especially since this army has taken Batavia and is now heading to India, we should kill more people and make the natives so terrified that they dare not even think of anything evil.

This is indeed the truth. Damn, who said that Confucian scholars are soft-hearted and can't even tie a chicken? Liang Guozhi is 56 years old and still so cruel.

"But can such a thing be ordered by the emperor?" Mo Zibu hesitated. Countless eyes were staring at him. It seemed a little too shocking for him, an emperor, to directly order a massacre.

Even when Emperor Qianlong exterminated the Dzungar tribe, it was only after he had suffered enough from the repeated surrenders and rebellions, and he did not intend to kill them all at once.

But you have to say that this method is really effective. Look, are there still people who are speaking up for the Zunghar tribe and saying that Emperor Qianlong should not have killed them? No more!
Without the existence of the Dzungars, naturally no one would speak up for him. Not only did no one speak up, but they even thought in their hearts that the killing was justified.

Hearing that the emperor was somewhat concerned about his reputation, Liang Guozhi chuckled cunningly, "When Emperor Qianlong issued the decree to permanently exterminate the Zhun tribe, it was only directed at Zhao Hui alone. Naturally, he wouldn't issue a decree to the entire nation."

When Mo Zibu saw Liang Guozhi's smile, he knew that the old guy had a solution. As long as these old Qing Dynasty bureaucrats opened their minds, some of them could still be very useful. After all, they were the kings of the crowd.

For example, in the past six months, Liang Guozhi recruited almost all the Han officials in Guangxi for Mo Zibu. In addition, the chieftains of the Zhuang, Miao and Yao ethnic groups in Guangxi had already come to Guangzhou to pay homage to the chieftain officials, so Guangxi was basically taken over.

Currently, Huang Zhongtong serves as the Governor and Admiral of Guangxi. He is recruiting local chieftains from all over Yunnan and preparing to drive the Qing Dynasty out of Yunnan.

"Cardinal, if you have any talents to recommend, please bring them here immediately."

Liang Guozhi cupped his hands and said, "I recommend my classmate, Liu Dingjue, who ranked 38th in the second class of the imperial examination in the 13th year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty.

This gentleman is from Wuyuan County, Si'en Prefecture, Guangxi. He is of Zhuang origin and is a chivalrous, loyal, and upright person.

He was initially appointed as an editor in the Hanlin Academy, but was dismissed for failing to learn the Qing Dynasty calligraphy. He never served in an official position again. He served successively as the president of Yangming Academy in Si'en Prefecture, the president of Xunyang Academy in Xunzhou, and the president of Xiufeng Academy in Guilin. His disciples are spread all over Guangxi.

The 1748th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign was . Wuyuan County of Si'en Prefecture was Wuming County of Nanning City in later generations. This place is one of the ancestral origins of the Zhuang nationality, and Wuming dialect is the standard pronunciation of the Zhuang language.

It sounds quite funny in later generations. The Jiazhuang dialect, which is known as the two generals of Hengha together with the Tianjin dialect, is mostly the Wuming accent.

Moreover, Wuming not only has a unique dialect, but also has a strong sense of martial arts. This place is the junction of the Zhuang, Yao and Han ethnic groups. The people have always been tough and it is one of the main production areas of Guangxi Wolf Soldiers.

Liu Dingjue was a great literary figure in the history of the Zhuang nationality. As a Zhuang, he won the first place in the provincial examination of Guangxi Province. After he was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, he taught everywhere and spread Confucianism. He played a great role in helping the Zhuang nationality to get out of the slave society and integrate with Han culture.

How heroic was this old man? It was said that he was impeached because of his poor performance in the imperial examination. The reason for his poor performance in the imperial examination was that he was sent to learn Qingwen, which is Manchu.

At that time, not only he was a Zhuang, but even few Manchus could understand Manchu. All the Manchu teachers in the Hanlin Academy came in through backdoor channels. They did not understand Manchu at all and only knew a few simple accents.

Here, how should Liu Dingju learn and how can he learn well? In addition, Liu Dingju's Nanjing Mandarin has a strong Zhuang accent, and the Manchu teacher only knows Beijing Mandarin, so communication between the two sides is very difficult.

Liu Dingchu was so angry that he cursed these Manchus and even wanted to beat them. Naturally, his progress in learning Manchu was very slow.

In the end, Qianlong thought that Liu Dingju was deliberately not studying hard, so he dismissed him from office. Liu Dingju could only return home cursing.

"I see that Your Majesty does not look down on the Zhuang people, and that most of the Zhuang people are willing to serve Your Majesty. Why not appoint Liu Dingqun to guard Java and order him to lead tens of thousands of Zhuang, Yao, and Miao people from Guangxi to the south.

These people are extremely vicious, aggressive, and well-adapted to the climate of Southeast Asia. I will secretly inform Liu Dingchu and have him privately and severely punish the natives. I believe that within ten years, the Javanese natives will be no longer a threat."

After Liang Guozhi said this, Mo Zibu thought about it and realized that it was indeed true. Since the Han people in Fujian and Guangdong really couldn't spare many people to go to Java Island, it would be better to let the Zhuang and Yao people go.

He also thought of a group that was criticized and hated on the Internet in later generations, the Guangxi Ghost Fire Youth.

Why are there so many ghost-fire teenagers in Guangxi in the whole country? This is also due to cultural reasons, because the most primitive form of human beings has a certain similarity with the lion group on the grassland.

This is mainly reflected in the fact that in a lion group, the female lions are responsible for hunting, while the male lions seem to do nothing and have to eat first, but in fact the male lions have the important task of protecting the tribe.

It cannot waste its energy on hunting for a long time, and it must first feed itself so that it can better protect the tribe.

Many ethnic groups that are not as precocious as the Han nationality have this kind of legacy, such as the ghost fire teenagers. The reason why they appear on a large scale is that the division of labor in modern society has turned lions into cattle and horses, and the responsibility of protecting the tribe has fallen on the army.

However, some remnants still remain deep in their culture, so it seems that the responsibility to protect the tribe has been lost, but the concept of working like a beast of burden to support the family has not yet been adopted.

In other words, their social status and division of labor are completely lost. They can't do the old ones, and they can't accept the new ones, so they can only end up in this very twisted state.

But that was in the future Republic. At this time, the Ghost Fire Boy is the treasure of my Emperor Mo, okay?
With so many warlike and cruel young men who are willing to kill entire families in a fit of rage, if we move 50,000 to 80,000 people there each year over five years, there are only three million native Javanese people now, so in twenty years at most, these Zhuang and Yao young men from Guangxi will be able to completely eliminate the native Javanese.

This is a good thing. You have to know that in later generations, there were more than 100 million people on Java Island, and the land was incredibly fertile. If we didn't kill them, it seemed impossible to control their population growth.

"Alright, let the cabinet draft an edict and summon Liu Dingjue to Guangzhou for an audience!"

. . . .

Liujia Laozhai, Taiping Town, Wuyuan County.

Liu Dingjue has been standing on the village tower and looking east recently because he is unwilling to accept it!
You have to know that it is much more difficult for a Zhuang person to study and go to school than a Han person, not to mention that Liu Dingju not only went to school, but also won the first place in the provincial examination and ranked second in the metropolitan examination.

With such experience, he naturally hoped to accomplish something great, but he was dismissed from office before he even started.

In Qianlong's view, he was just dismissing a mediocre official who couldn't even learn the classics, but in Liu Dingqu's view, it was not the case.

"The Tartars bully and humiliate me. Even my accent can be used as a reason for them to laugh at me. They even say I am a Luoyi. Don't you see what kind of people you are? Do you really think that everyone doesn't know that you are Donglu?"

Liu Buyuan looked at his father cursing and swearing, and he was also indignant, because Liu Dingqun was indeed bullied in the workplace. Otherwise, he would have easily become a third or fourth rank official. Why was he still staying in his hometown?

"Dad, I heard that Grandpa Guangzhong has our Zhuang bloodline. Is this true?" When Liu Dingchu had almost finished scolding, Liu Buyuan asked in a low voice.

Recently, it has been rumored among the Zhuang people in Guangxi that Emperor Mo Da, like the former Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, had maternal ancestors who were Zhuang and Yao.

The rumor probably originated from the millions of acres of excellent paddy fields left by Mo Zibu in Beihe. Since there were too few fellow countrymen in western Guangdong, he called on some strong men from Qinzhou and Lianzhou who were on good terms with the Mo family to go and make a fortune together.

This was nothing in Mo Zibu's eyes, but it was different in Zhuang Ren's eyes. Among all the emperors in history, there was no one who thought about Zhuang Ren.

It is not known whether Mo Zibu's family had married into the Zhuang people, but many of the Mo clan members in western Guangdong had indeed married into the Zhuang people, so this rumor began to spread.

However, the fact that Mo Zibu agreed to let tens of thousands of Zhuang people follow the Han people from western Guangdong to Beihe to enjoy a better life became evidence that Mo Zibu had Zhuang ancestry.

If he is not your relative, who would give you such a great benefit?

When Liu Dingju heard his son ask this, he turned around and said to him, "This must be true, do you understand?"

Liu Buyuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Seeing that his son still didn't fully understand, Liu Dingjue simply made it clear, "I have already asked my fellow top scholar, Liang Huiji, to speak to Your Majesty. If all goes well, Your Majesty will most likely appoint me to guard a place in Southeast Asia."

As he spoke, Liu Dingjue looked at his son with a wry smile. It seemed that the Liu family's cultural heritage was inherited by him alone. He had five sons, but none of them could read.

Making them read the Four Books and Five Classics was more painful than beating them up, but they were more adept at wielding swords, guns, and muskets than the other.

This is truly a natural born killer.

“If we want to go to Southeast Asia, we can’t go alone. We should bring some people with us.

If we can make this rumor more reliable, we can make more Zhuang and Yao people feel close to Wansui, and when they arrive in Southeast Asia, they can defend their country like the Han people do."

"That's great!" Liu Buyuan jumped up after hearing this, "Hahahaha, our family can finally be toast!"

As a Zhuang, Liu Buyuan had a different understanding of the Nanyang vassal states from the Han. The Han believed that they were barbarians who had gone to conquer the Xia monarch, but the Zhuang simply brought the Nanyang vassal states in and made them chieftains.

Well, it seems about the same.

"Father, it turns out you often look east because you think there will be good news from Cardinal Yaofeng!
This is great. Dad, you have been teaching in the academy for many years. You don’t know that the Tartars have caused a lot of trouble in the past few decades by changing their land ownership to Han Chinese.

The chieftains fell one after another, which directly led to many of the chieftain's soldiers losing their jobs. Many of them went up the mountain to become bandits and engaged in the profit-less business of robbing and robbing on the road.

We have been doing chivalrous work in all the thirteen prefectures and counties of Guangxi, and have made the acquaintance of a large number of such heroes. They can't do anything else, they can't farm, they can't do business, they can only kill people with knives, and they are just suitable for going abroad to fight the natives of Southeast Asia.

I just don’t know how much territory His Majesty can give me. If it’s big enough, I can find thousands of heroes for His Majesty.”

Liu Dingjue nodded. Among his grandchildren, there were still a few who could read. He would focus on training them in the future.

As for these sons, it would be better to just send a few of them to Southeast Asia to be chieftains. Not only can they have many children in the future, but they can also have the protection of being a republican parliamentarian.

The father and son discussed for a while. The third son, Liu Bu Tong, ran up to the fortress happily, "Dad, the family of Cardinal Liang sent a letter and asked for a reward. It seems like a great news!"

Liu Dingju was overjoyed and hurried back to the main hall of his ancestral home. He took Liang Guozhi's letter and read it, and his eyebrows flew up.

"Your Majesty intends to appoint me Governor of Java and to send 300,000 of our Zhuang and Yao people to Java Island to suppress the local natives."

"Hahahaha, that's great!" Brothers Liu Buyuan and Liu Butong jumped three feet high.

"Java Island is great, the land is fertile. Compared to it, the Shiwandashan Mountains in Guangxi are simply not a place for people to live. Our Liu family and our Zhuang people are going to be prosperous!"

"Father, we will immediately contact the brave Zhuang and Yao warriors in the Shiwandashan Mountains. Together we will go over there to suppress the local people for His Majesty, and we can also become chieftains ourselves."

"Alright, let the fourth one not come with me to the Southern Capital, Chengtian, Guangzhou Prefecture to meet the Emperor. The three of you brothers quickly gather our strong men, as well as the leaders and warriors of the Yao people. As soon as the Emperor's decree arrives, we will transport 10,000 young men to Java Island.

Tell them they don't need to take anything with them when they leave; they can just rob the women, land, and houses when they get there!"

(End of this chapter)