The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 482: The World's Surrender Won't Work
In history, the journey to Guandong was actually bloodier, more difficult, and more cruel than the journey to Southeast Asia.

There is no shortage of food in Southeast Asia, as long as you arrive and avoid or survive malaria, you will be fine.

As for a place to live, any shack, a mat and a mosquito net will be enough.

But it was impossible to break through Guandong. After hundreds of years of abandonment, there were not many cultivated fields in the Northeast, and there were no readily available staple foods such as bananas, coconuts, jackfruits, and sago palms from Southeast Asia. Therefore, there was an extreme shortage of food.

The cold winter in Northeast China is far more terrifying than the scorching heat in Southeast Asia.

Because there is always a way to hide in the shade during the scorching summer, but when the cold winter comes, if you don’t have enough clothes, bedding and firewood, you will surely die.

How low is this survival rate? Take Shandong people as an example. Before liberation, it is estimated that about 20 million Shandong people had arrived in Northeast China. However, statistics after liberation showed that there were only 7 million people in Northeast China whose ancestors came from Shandong.

In other words, only one-third of the people survived in Northeast China, and this statistic is a bit inaccurate. Many people actually went there after liberation and were also counted as having gone to Northeast China.

Compared with other places, Shandong has much greater advantages in crossing the Guandong, but they only have a 30% survival rate. There is no need to think about other places, as it can basically be said to be a death migration.

But the situation was much better when they went to Southeast Asia. The ancestors of Fujian and Guangdong were sold like pigs and had to face oppression from Europeans and attacks from indigenous people, but they still had a survival rate of more than 50%.

If we don’t count those who died on the ships, more than 60% of them were able to settle down.

Therefore, it is certain that the people of Henan will also join the cross-Guangdong movement, but it is definitely not something that can be done now. If it is done now, it will be no different from letting them go to their deaths.

At the same time, the historical practice of Henan people going to Shaanxi and Gansu to survive was not feasible.

Because historically, the people of Henan relied on Shaanxi and Gansu for their survival, and because during the Tongzhi period, Shaanxi and Gansu became the main battlefield for the tug-of-war between the Han and the Hui.

In twelve years, the population of Shaanxi decreased by about five million. Among them, Muslims were killed, fled, and due to various emergencies, only about 100,000 people were left after the war, basically extinct.

The situation in Gansu, which includes Ningxia, was even worse. Nearly 10 million Han people died or fled, and only less than 500,000 of the more than 6 million Muslims were left. More than 75% of the registered population in Gansu died.

Only after such brutal and fierce fighting were large tracts of land freed up for the people of Henan to settle and cultivate, thus providing them with a way to make a living. Now everything is still in the brewing stage.

"Hiss!" Thinking of this, Mo Zibu couldn't help but feel a headache.

In history, Zuo Wenxianggong made great contributions, and the people of Hunan also made great contributions. Without the efficiency of the Hunan Army with an average of more than 50 people per person, Shaanxi and Gansu could not have been pacified at all.

Of course, Duolong'a, a bannerman of Daur origin, also made contributions. This old man went there earlier than Zuo Gong, leading 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers. It is said that he killed more than 1.5 million people and saved the city of Xi'an.

Therefore, what gave Mo Zibu a headache and made him a little embarrassed was that now that Henan had been taken, the Bannermen in Beijing were trapped.

But how to solve the greening problem in Shaanxi and Gansu? How to solve the problem of Yongxuan, the sixth son of Emperor Qianlong who fled to Shaanxi and Gansu?

Who will be his Duolong'a and Zuo Wenxiang?

Just then, Zheng Jinshui and Wu Shixiu walked in, the former holding the news sent back by the Jinyiwei from Zhili.

"The Ascending Emperor of Ten Directions?" Mo Zibu looked puzzled. Is Yongrong fucking crazy? He doesn't want to be the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, so why would he be the Ascending Emperor of Ten Directions of the White Lotus Sect?
"Does Yongrong think that he can stop Dayu's elite soldiers with the help of the White Lotus Sect?" Mo Zibu expressed some doubts. Is the Qing Dynasty so stupid that it has reached this point?

Zheng Jinshui chuckled, "Your Majesty, the general trend of the world is so clear that even the poorest people in Henan know who is the master of the world, the Purple Star.

Even if Sun Wu were to be resurrected, he would be powerless to deal with this situation, let alone a mediocre person like Yongrong. Besides pinning his hopes on the illusory gods and ghosts, what else can he do? "

Zheng Jinshui paused as he spoke. As the Emperor Mo's closest secretary, and one who was raised by the Emperor like his own son, he naturally knew what Mo Zibu was worried about.

Zheng Jinshui looked around. Except for people like Wu Shixiu who were originally servants of the Mo family, even the palace servants and guards were far away.

"Your Majesty, Yongrong is a fool, but the hundreds of thousands of bannermen and believers under him are not ambiguous. They are vulnerable to our Dayu, but their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the militias in the provinces."

"No hurry, don't worry for now." Mo Zibu knew what Zheng Jinshui wanted to say and quickly waved his hand to stop him.

The current situation in Guanzhong is still unknown, because the Jinyiwei has limited manpower and is unable to infiltrate Guanzhong. The only communication channel is some businessmen doing business.

Moreover, the ethnic conflicts at that time were not as acute as they were during the Tongzhi period, so Mo Zibu was not in a hurry to ignite them.

But who knew what would happen next, Wu Shixiu said: "Pingyuan Bo, Anxi General Ye Xianchun reported that he has surrounded more than 100,000 elite members of the Hubei Christians.

However, the city of Yunyang was located in a high and dangerous area and was very strong. There was also abundant food in the city, so it was impossible to attack it in a hurry and the only option was to lay siege.

A few days ago, the leaders of the sect in the city, Song Zhiqing and Qi Lin, sent people out to ask for surrender, saying that if Your Majesty would pardon them, they would open the city and surrender.

"Qi Lin?" Mo Zibu exclaimed. He didn't know much else, but he knew about the White Lotus Rebellion in Sichuan and Hubei. Others didn't know, but he knew Wang Cong'er's husband Qi Lin.

Because Mo Zibu had few entertainment activities when he was a child, the comic strip of Wang Cong'er, the white-clad knight, was his few spiritual food. He read it at least dozens of times, and it was to the point that when he turned a page, the illustrations on the next ten or eight pages would automatically appear in his mind.

Wu Shixiu heard Mo Zibu muttering Qi Lin's name and thought that the Jinyiwei had reported something to the emperor, so he explained:

"Bandit leaders Song Zhiqing and Qi Lin confessed that after the arrest of Hunyuan Sect leader Liu Song, the rebels exiled him to Longde, Gansu.

After he arrived, he was involved in the local disputes between Han and Hui people and could no longer stay.

Not long ago, Liu Song heard that the rebels against the Qing Dynasty were defeated by our Dayu, so he wanted to return to Hubei and summoned his disciples Liu Zhixie and Song Zhiqing to support him several times.

Liu Zhixie wanted to go, but Song Zhiqing and Qi Lin did not, so they sincerely surrendered and begged Your Majesty for a pardon."

Wu Shixiu did not take White Lotus leaders like Song Zhiqing and Qi Lin seriously because the White Lotus's doctrines and organization were problematic.

The end of the world in their theory comes too quickly, often causing them to be unable to continue what they are working on. This is the same as the fantasy novels where the plot is not written well and the story has to be hastily finished or even abandoned.

Secondly, the leader is just a mortal leader. If he wants to obtain divine power, he can only use a medium to possess the spirit world like Master Hong did.

This is a huge problem. Even with the buff of God's Second Son, Hong Xiuquan couldn't withstand it, let alone the small leaders of the White Lotus Sect.

Therefore, in prosperous times, dynasties throughout history were too lazy to even crack down on the various White Lotus sects, as long as they did not cause trouble.

However, Mo Zibu knew these people were quite capable of causing trouble. He glanced at the rather excited Zheng Jinshui, who immediately intervened. "Your Majesty, if we could utilize these people and form a semi-imperial army, it might be helpful in resolving the problems in the northwest."

Mo Zibu pretended to think for a moment, then nodded. "That's an option, but they alone aren't enough. How many people are there in Zhili?"

"Under Yongrong's influence, almost all the bannermen believed in it, and there were also tens of millions of Han people." Zheng Jinshui flipped through the report and gave a general idea.

"Then don't kill too many of them. Ignore the ones on the periphery and control all the core members. Send them all to the northwest in the future." Mo Zibu whispered.

He already had a rough idea in his mind, "Have Hailancha come to Kaifeng as soon as possible to pay me a visit. I want to see if this man can be used."

Wu Shixiu had already understood a little bit. Although his abilities were not particularly strong originally, he had followed Mo Zibu for so many years, and the things he had done and the scenes he had witnessed were not comparable to those of ordinary people.

Therefore, at present, the capabilities have been substantially improved compared to before.

"Your Majesty, if you want to send Song Zhiqing and Qi Lin to the northwest, you must beat them severely. Beat them until they are pardoned and feel grateful for having survived. They realize that it was Your Majesty who spared their lives. Only then will they be easier to control.

Liu Zhixie in northern Shaanxi must also die, let him die at the hands of the Muslims, and then provoke the anger of Song Zhiqing and others."

Hearing Wu Shixiu say this, Zheng Jinshui suddenly had an idea, "Your Majesty, if you want to force the White Lotus Sect to work, perhaps you can ask Master Dajue Guangde Puji to think of a way.

Isn't he holding a Dharma meeting at the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva temple on Mount Putuo? Perhaps he can find a way to unite this group of scattered people."

Hey, this is a good idea. It is appropriate to let Zheng Xin deal with this kind of weird stuff. After all, the origin of the White Lotus Sect is the White Lotus Sect.

They really need to redefine the White Lotus Sect so that they can complete Mo Zibu's mission.

The mission was nothing but a purge, because Mo Zibu did not intend to let the Xing Tang Army be stained with too much blood, so other people had to do the dirty work.

In other words, these organized White Lotus Sect members do not need to be responsible for frontal defeat, but they have to be used in post-war cleanup and local suppression, as semi-regular paramilitary forces.

After the idea was basically determined, the matter was temporarily put on hold because the pacification of the four provinces of Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan needed to be completed first.

As more and more people defected, the Qing Dynasty's rule in Henan became like a mudslide, which was lost in an instant.

This chain reaction even affected neighboring Shandong. On the fourth day after Mo Zibu arrived in Kaifeng, Liang Guozhi, who stayed in Xuzhou, sent him news.

A large number of Shandong gentry arrested the Qing officials stationed in Shandong, and under the leadership of Yuan Shoutong, sent an envoy to ask Mo Zibu to order the army in Xuzhou to take over Shandong.

He could choose not to give face to others, but he still had to give it to Yuan Shoutong. Mo Zibu really couldn't find any fault with this Qing minister who began to surrender before the Dayu Dynasty even entered Nanjing.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Shoutong and the Shandong gentry have provided six million acres of farmland that they have concealed over the years for Your Majesty to distribute equally among the people of Shandong."

You see, this is courage. According to the estimates of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the current arable land area in Shandong is about 85 million mu.

At this time, land annexation was not particularly serious. Landlords in Shandong who owned more than 3,000 acres of land occupied approximately 30 million acres of land.

In other words, they directly gave one-fifth of the land to Mo Zibu in exchange for the Dayu court not carrying out the brutal equal distribution of land in Shandong.

Qian Daxin, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, looked at Mo Zibu's unhappy face. Although he knew that the emperor was not happy, he could only persuade him:
"Yuan Shoutong has always supported Dayu and is a respectful person. Now he has offered the entire province of Shandong and voluntarily offered six million acres of land. If Your Majesty does not accept it, I am afraid that the gentry of Shandong Province will be terrified."

Mo Zibu knew that what Qian Daxin said made sense, but if he accepted Yuan Shoutong's pledge of allegiance, it would not only mean that the equal distribution of land in Shandong would not actually be much, but it would also bring huge prestige to the Yuan family.

I'm afraid that the Yuan family will immediately become the largest family in Shandong. The gentry in this province will all be indebted to them, and the future will be even more difficult.

Just when Mo Zibu was at his wit's end, he suddenly thought of a person, that was the Kong family of Qufu, who were the hereditary Duke of Yansheng and the magistrate of Qufu, and were like a feudal state.

How should I put it? If we really want to find the most shameless family in China, the Kong family in Qufu would be second, and no one dares to claim to be first.

When the Jurchens came, they defected to the Jin Dynasty; when the Mongols came, they licked Mongolia; when the Bannermen came, they naturally licked the Qing Dynasty.

The most outrageous thing is that when the Japanese army came later, the Kong family still bowed to the Japanese.

It is outrageous that he is called a saint after this.

Mo Zibu flipped through Yuan Shoutong's memorial and said calmly, "I understand and appreciate Yuan Shoutong's intentions and the Yuan family's contributions.

But looking through the memorials submitted by the Shandong gentry, it seems that there is no mention of the Qufu Kong family, and among the acres of land they donated, there is not a single cent of the Qufu Kong family's land. What's going on? Does this Yansheng Duke of the Great Qing have any objections to me?"

Qian Daxin was stunned and quickly said, "The Yansheng family has a special status. There are precedents for how to settle them in the new dynasty. I guess that's why they didn't submit a memorial together with the Shandong gentry."

"Hmph!" Mo Zibu snorted coldly, furious. "As descendants of a saint, the Kong family should have been role models for all eternity, but they surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty and then to the Qing Dynasty. Now they are waiting for me to reward them.

What does this mean? The Han leader has arrived, but we are still treating him like a barbarian. Damn it, is this saying that I came from Southeast Asia and was also a barbarian after being beaten back?!"

Shit! Qian Daxin was dumbfounded. This could even be forcibly pulled together. Then he suddenly realized that the emperor was taking advantage of the situation to stir up trouble!

Scholar Qian stammered twice and dared not continue to speak for the Shandong gentry. He still knew whose food he was eating and where he should sit.

Moreover, the family of Duke Yansheng is indeed seeking death. At this time, they still want to be reserved and wait until the enemy is at the gates and clearly expresses their good treatment before coming out to express their position.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Shandong to find out whether the Yansheng family has any disrespectful intentions." After thinking about it, Qian Daxin took the initiative to take on this matter.

Mo Zibu still looked extremely angry. He quickly waved his hand and said, "You, the Grand Secretary, don't need to go on this matter. I will send the imperial guards from the Palace Front Department and the Criminal Law Department, and the tax envoy from the Internal Court Transportation Department!"

They were definitely going to cause trouble, and it was going to be a big one. If the Tiqi of the Criminal Affairs Department and the Taxation Ambassador of the Internal Court Transportation Department were combined, they would specifically investigate tax evasion.

The Tiqi of the Palace Front Office investigated acts of treason and other heinous crimes that insulted the imperial family.

I hope the gentry in Shandong are less stupid and don’t get dragged into the vortex designed by the emperor to implicate people by targeting the Kong family in Qufu.

(End of this chapter)