The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 464 Grandpa's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

It has been seven months since Liu Dingqun led the brave men from Guangxi to the south in August last year. During these seven months, a total of more than 300,000 people have moved south from Guangxi.

The reason why there are so many of them is that Guangxi is so poor. A large number of men cannot find land to farm, cannot marry, have no food to eat, and have no hope at all in life.

So if you want them to go to Southeast Asia, you don’t have to talk about houses, money, or wives.

If you just talk about being able to have enough food to eat, there will be countless men from Guangxi who will wear torn trousers and take the initiative to go to the government office to register.

Qin Da and Qin San are typical examples of people who took the initiative to go to Southeast Asia. From their surnames, we can tell that they are most likely Zhuang people.

The Zhuang people in Guangxi often live a very miserable life. Because the Han people are only exploited by the government and landlords, the Zhuang people are not only exploited by the government and landlords, but also by their own Zhuang chieftains.

Qin was swallowing the rice from the coconut shell bowl in big gulps. A long knife dripping with blood was stuck at his feet. Then five or six heads were tied to the knife handle with ropes through their cheeks like coconut shells.

"Brother, the food is here, the food is here." Qin San ran over quickly, holding today's food in his hands.

A palm-sized sea fish was lightly fried in oil and sprinkled with a little salt.

A coconut shell of shrimp, crab and clams is stewed with chili, mint leaves, lemongrass and a little lemon juice.

It is one finger thick and half the size of a palm. You can't tell what kind of meat it is, whether it is fat or lean. It is just boiled in water and then smeared with a little black chili sauce.

Qin Da's eyes lit up, and he sighed as he frantically chipped away at his rice, "Life is so good these days, the Great Emperor is so kind! Back home, we couldn't even get enough to eat with bananas, but here we have fish, meat, and white rice. It's so good!"

Qin Da's emotion resonated with Qin San, because when they were in their hometown in Guangxi, their staple food was bananas and fish, shrimps and crabs from the river.

The most I could have throughout the year was a full meal after helping the masters with a day's work during the busy farming season. The rest of the time, there was really not enough bananas to eat.

The two brothers just sat together, surrounded by a dozen native heads, and then they ignored them and ate madly.

No, he shouldn't turn a blind eye to it. Instead, after taking a few mouthfuls of rice, Qin Da would look at the extremely hideous and bloody heads of the natives on the ground with a sense of happiness.

Because this thing is their brothers' treasure, which can be exchanged for land, houses, food, weapons, and even for an official position if the quantity is large.

Accompanied by Jinshi Junbo Majin (Colonel Marco), Bandung Junbo Lintonghuo, and Nanji Governor Liu Dingqun's son and Nanji Central Guard Commander Liu Buyuan, the fleet commander, walked through this newly captured native town belonging to the Yogyakarta Sultanate.

None of the four of them wore conspicuous official uniforms, but ordinary military uniforms, so they did not attract much attention.

Lieutenant General Su Fulang looked at everything in front of him and said to Lin Tonghuo and the other three with great joy: "Today, I have come to understand how vast the Chinese Empire is, how rich its resources are, and how numerous and powerful its people are.

These citizens from Guangxi only need two months of training and adaptation to become very qualified colonists."

Lieutenant General Souffran continued with a voice full of envy, "Whenever His Majesty the Emperor needs someone, he can always find the right person quickly.

My Lords, I need you to select another 4,000 men from these 30,000 most outstanding men and give them to me. And it would be best if you could equip every 100 men with an interpreter who can communicate in simple French.

This time we go to the Indian mainland, we will definitely be besieging the English Fort William, so we will need a large number of local natives to use as cannon fodder and livestock.

The local Chaidaming people in India are deeply bound to the English, and we are unable to mobilize them.

Therefore, at least four thousand outstanding talents are needed who know how to be colonists, who know how to capture enough young men and women from the natives, and who can extort money from them.

I think they are a good fit.”

Lieutenant General Sufran spoke very realistically, even using words like cannon fodder and livestock.

And the actual situation is indeed that it is not easy to mobilize the population from the local indigenous people of India.

Because no one likes to leave their hometown to be cannon fodder or beasts of burden, it takes some means to get them to agree.

And there was one thing Lieutenant General Sufran didn't say: in addition to men, women were also needed.

Fort William is one of the strongest bastions in Asia, and it is very likely that there is no stronger one. To capture such a place, the war will last at least half a year to a year.

Tens of thousands of soldiers stay in India for about a year. If their physiological needs are not met, big problems will arise.

Not to mention the army at that time, even the non-top elite benevolent and righteous army in the future would not dare to say that it could withstand it.

You know, the environment on the battlefield where people can die at any time is completely different from daily training in a military camp.

Lin Tonghuo smiled and replied, "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, please rest assured. We have over 300,000 young men from Guangxi, and tens of thousands of outstanding talents from other places to choose from. It will be no problem to select 4,000 people."

Qin Da was still a little hungry, but there was no more food. Team leader Huang Renyong glanced at him sideways, then carried a large bunch of bananas to him.

"That's weird. You can eat almost as much as I can, so why aren't you gaining weight?"

Qin Da was an honest child and didn't know what to say. He could only smile foolishly with a bit of flattery, and then put the head into a basket.

Then the two brothers dragged two baskets of human heads and bananas at the same time. The knife that had just been used to chop off the heads and then washed with water was now constantly cutting bananas and throwing them into its mouth.

When they arrived at the officer, they quickly handed over the head to record their merit, and then went to see their spoils of the day.

Well, there wasn't much gold, silver, or food, but more than twenty native women and seven or eight native children.

There are both boys and girls among the children. Some of the boys are only about five years old. If you start raising them at this age, they can generally be brought up to maturity. Those that are not easily tamed will be "naturally" eliminated.

These 'trophies' gathered together can also be converted into merits, and before the merits are converted, the team members have the right to purchase them at a very low price.

As for why you should buy it, it's simple.

At present, the practice of military farming has not yet begun in South Java Province because there are still three million indigenous people who have not been completely conquered.

The current strategy is to organize the 300,000 young men from Guangxi who have come to Nanji Island, as well as some other Chinese who are willing to go to Nanji Province, into troops and put them under semi-militarized management.

Instead of establishing their own farmland, they captured natives and forced them to settle there. They then launched numerous attacks, creating conflicts and encroaching on their land. Their principle was that if they couldn't cultivate the land themselves, they couldn't prevent the natives from doing so either. If they couldn't control the banana groves themselves, they would cut them down, leaving nothing for the natives.

This move was extremely cruel. The natives did not farm, there were no banana groves, and even the sago palm trees would be destroyed by these vicious Chinese, causing severe famine.

But for the Chinese, all the food they ate was transported from the prosperous Tangjiang Plain (Chao Phraya River Plain) in Thai Binh Province and the Minh Huong River Plain (Mekong River Plain) in Hung Thang Province. They were rationed by the imperial court and half sold and half given away, so they didn't have to worry about running out of food.

The very few who were able to start reclamation were the injured evil young men from Bagui.

Qin Da followed Huang Renyong to the spoils market to buy because Wei Da from their team was injured and his left knee was hit by a matchlock rifle used by the natives.

Although he was lucky enough to survive the inflammation, he became lame, so he had to retire in tears and become a landlord.

Huang Renyong is extremely famous among Chaozhou people in history, because in history, the next year, that is, in 1781, he would pass the examination for a scholar, and then suddenly gave up literature and took up military studies, and passed the examination for the number one spot in the Bingchen year, the year when Jiaqing ascended the throne.

His partner, Luo Asheng from Meizhou, was not an easy person to deal with either. Historically, he would become a local bully who often did business with no capital and would rob the rich to help the poor to win people's hearts.

When the family business was passed down to the grandchildren, a man of unparalleled bravery and extraordinary ferocity emerged. He was Luo Yawang, also known as Luo Dagang, the King of Fen, who was as swift as the wind in his military operations and the most powerful general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Huang Renyong is a martial arts expert and well-educated. Although he is only seventeen years old, he is already the backbone of the group.

He took out his merit book, counted carefully and said, "Since we formed the team, the first one to die was Sun Acai, but he didn't die in battle, he died of diarrhea.

He has only an elderly mother at home who is being raised by his elder brother, so we exchanged our merits for twenty taels of silver and asked the government to send him back to his hometown."

Huang Renyong paused and said, "Sun Acai has only been with us for half a month and hasn't killed many people. Giving him twenty taels of silver is not a small amount, don't you think?"

After hearing this, everyone called the captain benevolent and righteous. He had been a comrade for a month and a half, and even if he died of illness without any merit, he still gave him twenty taels of silver. This was absolutely benevolent and righteous.

If this happened in Sun Acai's hometown, Guixian County, Guangxi, he would be dead and worth nothing more than a dirt pit and a roll of straw mat.

Seeing that no one objected, Huang Renyong continued, "Although Wei Da is a Yao, he has been with us for four months, killing people together, looting together, and eating from coconut shell bowls together. I think Wei Da is a man, so we can't treat him unfairly."

"The captain is absolutely right. We should not mistreat our brothers." Hu Quan, a tall and thin man with a face that looked like an eagle or a wolf, and whose mind was dark and ruthless, spoke in agreement.

Hu Quan's hometown is Pingnan County, Xunzhou Prefecture, Guangxi, and the next county to Pingnan County is Guiping County. There is a village called Jintian Village in Guiping County.

Therefore, Emperor Mo specifically instructed Huang Zhongtong to select and remove more troublemakers from Guiping and Pingnan counties.

Therefore, the great-uncle of Hu Yihuang, the Prince of Yu of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was tempted by the government's propaganda and chose to go abroad.

Of course, this was also because Hu Quan was not satisfied with being a local rich man in the mountains of his hometown and wanted to go out and make a living, becoming a nobleman and an official.

Huang Renyong was actually a little afraid that Hu Quan would have an opinion, because although this guy was his fellow teammate, he always gave people the same cold and oppressive feeling as Guo Shanfeng (Eye King).

Although Huang Renyong was not afraid of him, he was unwilling to conflict with Hu Quan.

Hearing Hu Quan's agreement, he heaved a sigh of relief and immediately said, "Then let's buy Wei Da 500 mu of land and three banana groves, and as for women, buy him four.

If there are too many, I’m afraid these women will harm him together, so I’ll buy two little ones. After raising them for a few years, they can help with the work.”

Everyone burst into laughter, making Wei Daqi's face flush. Unfortunately, he only knew a little Cantonese, and his speech was not fluent. Now that he was anxious, he mixed in a bunch of Yao dialect, and no one could understand him.

After laughing and scolding for a while, the team members dragged Wei Da in front of a group of native women.

Huang Renyong didn't have much experience in choosing women, but the 30-year-old Qin was very experienced, and he quickly selected three for Wei.

These three women all have dark skin, but strong bodies, gentle features, and look a bit timid and easy to train.

Everyone thought the choice was good, but Wei Da was not satisfied. He kept muttering and pointing at a native woman in the distance, his eyes unable to move away.

She was a rather fair-skinned native woman with thin arms and legs, and tears on her face, which made her look pitiful. It seemed that her family must have been of some status.

"Fuck you, are you stupid? You have skinny arms and legs, your waist isn't even as thick as the captain's calf, and there's not even a pound of flesh on your butt. What good is it other than looking good?"

"When we get this back, will she serve you, or will you serve her?"

"No, you can't choose this!" Qin Da very experiencedly knocked down Wei Da's raised hand.

As for the five hundred acres of land, although you don't need to cultivate it now, you have to plant at least a few dozen acres first, and then you can hold on until large-scale immigration from the mainland comes over.

This was also the policy of Dayu. If the immigrants were unable to fight the natives, then after arriving in Southeast Asia, they had to farm for the government for a few years before they could be allocated land.

The land cultivated by these non-killing immigrants is the land of people like Wei Da who retired due to injury.

After they had cultivated Wei Da's land into mature fields, the court would fill the gap with serfs from Siam, Qui Nhon and other places, and even serfs from Korea and Japan, to ensure that these lands that were damaged and had no labor force would always be cultivated.

Therefore, the most difficult years for Wei University are those when waiting for the large-scale immigration, which may take about three years.

So, under Wei Da's reluctant gaze, Qin Da chose another strong and durable woman for him.

Wei Da looked at these four dark-skinned wives and concubines. Although they were not particularly ugly, they could not be considered pretty either. He knew that this was a good life that he had never dreamed of in his hometown, but he just wanted to cry.

After selecting the people, the teammates went to register with laughter. These four women and the selected boy and girl would not be given to Wei Da immediately.

They also need to be tamed and trained by professionals from Siam, and to identify whether they are relatives, belong to the same tribe, etc.

Otherwise, if these four women had bad intentions, someone like Wei Da, who has difficulty walking, might really be in trouble.

"Huang Renyong, good news has arrived. Lord Jun Bolin of Wanlong wants to recruit you. Gather quickly and prepare to go to Wanlong for training."

Hearing the shouts of the military judge running from afar, Huang Renyong excitedly agreed. He didn't know where they were going at this time.

(End of this chapter)