The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 733 Is this a council member or a gangster?

Nanyang, Xinglong Province (An Dai), Xingang (Singapore).

As the real birthplace of Mo Zi Bu and his first territory, Andai Province abandoned the name Andai, which was transliterated from Thai, this year and changed it to the two words Xinglong, which has very Chinese characteristics.

Similarly, the Malay Peninsula was later called the Xinglong Peninsula.

However, the jurisdiction of Xinglong Province is not limited to Xinglong Peninsula, but also includes the island of Samui (Sumatra) across the sea.

As the capital of Xinglong Province, Xingang was far from comparable to Singapore in later generations.

At that time, Xingang included Johor Bahru in the later Malaysian state of Johor and part of the Malacca state. Batam Island in Indonesia, which was across the sea from it, was also part of Xingang.

In this way, Xingang is protected by places such as Johor Bahru in the northwest, and the Johor Strait separates it from Johor Bahru. The addition of Batam Island provides ample space for the fleet going to the South China Sea.

This is simply the unsinkable battleship of the Dayu Dynasty in the South Seas. With the completion of various defensive fortifications, including eleven satellite cities, fifteen large artillery batteries, and thirty-seven large and small bastions, the British Indian officers who were invited to watch the ceremony had to admit it.

Even if Dayu's fleet in the South Seas completely disappeared, with the capabilities of the British army, it would be impossible to capture such a terrifying maritime city without more than three years of siege by more than 200,000 troops taking turns.

So after several changes, Xingang successfully replaced Gia Dinh (Saigon) and became the headquarters of the Nanyang Mission. Even the famous Republican Parliament Palace was moved from Xingtang Hexianfu to Xingang.

When this newly built, magnificent Republican Parliament Palace opened its doors for the first time, the first thing discussed was the major political changes in the entire Nanyang Mission.

The 19-year-old fourth prince of the emperor, Prince of Vientiane, Mo Zhouzhe, sat to the left of the main seat in the Parliament Palace.

Sitting far away from each other on his left and right were republican parliamentarians consisting of vassals of all sizes from all over Southeast Asia and the top factory owners, landowners, ship owners, etc.

As for the main seat, it was simply empty because it was the seat that only the emperor could sit on. Even if it was empty, no one dared to sit on it.

Although Emperor Mo Zibu could not be present in person, two eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department who came specially from Luoyang stood beside the main seat.

The two men stood on the left and the right, the left holding the imperial sword at an angle, and the right holding the emperor's crown and robes. They both stood tall, acting as the eyes of imperial power, watching everything in the parliament palace.

"Imperial edict!" Seeing that everyone had arrived, the fourth prince, Prince Wanxiang Mo Zhouzhe stood up and shouted softly.

When they heard the word "imperial edict", all the Republican members knelt down, kowtowed to the north, and chanted "Long live the emperor". They did not stand up again until they heard the word "ceremony concluded".

If an English noble saw this scene, he would definitely vomit three liters of blood.

Because they set up parliament to limit the royal power and expand the power of the nobles and big capitalists, but in China, the parliamentarians still had to cheer for the emperor and obey the imperial power.

This is actually caused by huge cultural differences. The royal power of England has never been dominated by one party.

The royal power has always been squeezed by theocracy from above, and the King of England has never truly conquered the nobles at all levels below, so England can have a constitutional monarchy.

On the one hand, this is just putting the power structure that has long become an unspoken rule on the surface. On the other hand, this is actually relieving the English royal family of some of the responsibility. To a certain extent, the royal family also supports it.

Rights and obligations have always been two sides of the same coin.

The King of England acknowledged that he was under the constitution and that state affairs had to be discussed with the great nobles and big capitalists. Then, accordingly, his responsibilities would certainly be reduced.

For example, if any major problems arise in England now, the royal family will only be responsible for a small part of the problem, and most of the responsibility lies with the royal government.

But this is not the case in China, because since the middle and late Song Dynasty, China has truly shared the world with the literati and officials. If you, the emperor, dare to weaken your own power, they will treat you as a clay Buddha in the temple.

No, it is even worse than the clay Buddha. The golden body of the clay Buddha has faded, but as long as the believers have some money, they will still get some gold powder to reshape the golden body.

But if the emperor really became the mascot and clay Buddha of the Forbidden City, the literati would dare to dictate how many times a day you should go to the toilet, how long each time should last, and when you should go.

What is even more terrifying is that the people below have seen too many sayings such as "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born of different species?" and "The blue sky is dead and the yellow sky should be established."

It is not unfamiliar for people to be willing to sacrifice their lives to dethrone the emperor. If something bad really happens, the literati may suffer a little loss, but the emperor will definitely have to play the game of elimination with his nine clans.

Therefore, Mo Zibu, who originally aimed to establish a British-style constitutional monarchy, has changed his mind in recent years. He no longer even wants a constitutional monarchy of the level of Germany and Japan.

In today's Dayu, the Republican Parliament can actually be seen as a helper that the imperial power found besides the literati.

This helper includes vassals who control military force and fiefdoms, large capitalists who control the economy, some opinion leaders who are not interested in official careers or are unable to govern local affairs, and scientific masters who represent advanced productive forces.

The emperor used his autocratic power as the founding emperor to transfer part of the imperial power to the members of the Republican Parliament through the Republican Parliament, thereby gaining the loyalty of the members to fight against the scholar-official class that controlled the government.

The scholar-official class and republican parliamentarians could, to a certain extent, interchange their identities, thus enabling the emperor to control the court.

To put it bluntly, the Republican Parliament was formed after the Emperor of Dayu lost the powerful Imperial Household Department. He gave some of the functions of the Imperial Household Department to the Republican Parliament and gave them a golden statue.

In today's Dayu, the Inner Court, the Republican Parliament, and the Fuxing Company together constituted the Silijian, which was superior to the external officials in the late Ming Dynasty.

And this Silijian was much more powerful than the eunuchs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. One hundred, no, ten thousand people like Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian could not match these talents who mastered all aspects of production and life.

This enabled Emperor Mo Zibu to effectively control all aspects of this vast empire even without taking care of the external court.

After Mo Zhouzhe and the others finished their ceremony, he slowly stood up and continued, "According to the order of His Majesty, the inner court and outer court counselors are now adjusting the administrative divisions of the Nanyang Mission.

1. Abolish the current Rinan Province and merge it into Guangnan Province.

2. The former Rinan Province withdrew from the management of the Nanyang Mission and became a province directly under the central government.

3. The current Gia Dinh Province will be merged with the Jin Dynasty, the Kingdom of Vientiane, and the Kingdom of Lanna to form the new Rinan Province.

4. The Governor-Generals of the two southern provinces will be abolished, and the Governor-Generals of Rinan, Taiping, Hanchuan, and Jiaqing will be established. No Governor-General will be appointed for Xinglong and Nanji.

5. Xinfan Island (New Guinea), Zhanzhou Island (Australia), and Zhanzhou Island (New Zealand) are under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Mission, and a Zhanzhou Protectorate is established, which is of the first rank and ranks above the Governor-General.

As Mo Zhouzhe announced the political changes in the Nanyang Mission, the voices of discussion below began to grow louder.

The three provinces of Quang Nam, Rinan and Gia Dinh were originally established on the territory of later Vietnam, mainly to absorb these three places.

After all, the Annan people have been rebellious for thousands of years, and they are a relatively brave and cohesive ethnic group in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, Mo Zibu set up three provinces. Firstly, it was convenient for more refined suppression. Secondly, three provincial units meant a large number of second and third rank officials, which made it easier to promote officials who went south and to bribe local people.

But now, after fully controlling these places, such redundant settings are no longer needed, so adjustments to administrative units are imminent.

After the adjustment, Guangnan Province owned all the territories except the Mekong Delta, which is around Saigon. At the same time, it withdrew from the Nanyang Mission and became a province directly under the imperial court.

Gia Dinh (Saigon) later formed the new Rinan Province with Cambodia, Laos and northern Thailand.

Well, the dream of future generations of Cambodians came true at this time.

Another change is that the highest provincial official in the three provinces of Taiping (Thailand), Hanchuan (Lower Burma), and Jiaqing (Kalimantan), along with the new Rinan Province, has been upgraded from a Governor to a higher-ranking military and political leader capable of commanding the garrison troops. This allows for quicker response to emergencies within the province and indirectly weakens the power of the Nanyang Prime Minister, preventing the Prime Minister from becoming too powerful and becoming a vassal.

Especially the first point. Nanyang has not been peaceful in recent years. According to statistics from the imperial court in the 1794th year of Guangzhong (), the total number of reported disturbances by Nanyang indigenous peoples reached more than .

Among them, there were eighty-six riots involving more than 500 people, which means that the natives of Southeast Asia have been causing trouble at a low level.

Therefore, promoting the governor to the governor-general will help mobilize the garrison troops to quell the rebellion and eliminate the disaster at the beginning.

As for the two provinces of Xinglong (Andai) and Nanji (Java Island), there were no governors but only governors.

Haha, the Xinglong Peninsula in Xinglong Province, which is also the Malay Peninsula, was the place where Mo Zibu took care of the natives himself when he started his business.

Moreover, the great vassal states of Nanyang, including the fiefdoms of Lu and Pengzhou, the Marquis of Songcheng, the Marquis of Jeddah, the Marquis of Taogong, etc., were all here. The natives were either killed or assimilated so much that they could hardly be distinguished from each other, so naturally there was no trouble.

The island of Koh Samui (Sumatra) in Xinglong was where the Imperial Han general Dong Jinfeng led the great expedition to Aceh.

Nanji Island (Java Island) was even more brutal. This was because the Nanji Governor Liu Dingchui recruited the men from Guangxi and carried out a conquest that was almost a clean sweep. It can even be called an extermination.

Therefore, these two places do not need a governor at all.

As for Xinfan Island, it is New Guinea Island. During the Dayu Dynasty, New Guinea Island was merged with Zhanzhou Island (Australia) and Zhanzhou Island (New Zealand), and it was also administered by the Nanyang Mission.

"The second thing is that the native officials and a small number of vassal states of the former Jiading Province must be relocated. All of them must be relocated to Zhanzhou Island and Zhanzhou Island. Please vote on this."

The second thing that Mo Zhouzhe brought was simply life-threatening. This was digging up the roots of those high-ranking families in Beijing and Han who had defected to Mo Zibu back then!

Moreover, these people are not active. For example, the Wu family of Wu Shizun, the brothers Wu Ren and Wu Xing are still serving as senior officers in the Imperial Guards, not to mention the local tyrants like Mo Zibu's grandmother's family - the Bian and Pei families.

But unexpectedly, after only a brief discussion, the Republican Parliament passed it unanimously.

This is because, before the vote, Mo Zibu personally communicated with them one by one.

Although the hereditary local officials and fiefs of these people were changed, local taxes would still be paid to them for the next twenty years.

Moreover, the payment is based on the highest value in the previous ten years. Regardless of whether they make a profit or a loss in the future, the emperor guarantees their income.

Of course, these local officials and vassals also promised that half of the annual fiefdom taxes received would be used to develop the Big and Small Zhanzhou Islands.

"The third matter is the Nanyang vassal states' response to His Majesty the Emperor, including contributions of money and manpower to colonize the Zhanzhou Province. Each vassal state needs to come up with a specific amount today."

The work is becoming more and more difficult. Songcheng Marquis Wu Rang and others sighed in their hearts.

Indeed, thanks to their early support for the emperor, they were able to become powerful vassals in Southeast Asia, ruling over tens or even millions of people, even without many military achievements.

But the price is that they have to follow the emperor's baton. In order to develop here and there over the years, Wu Rang and others have invested financial and human resources, and each family has accumulated millions of silver dollars.

Moreover, they are in Southeast Asia. If these supplies were led by the imperial court and sent from the Red County of Shenzhou, it would cost at least 10 million.

Once this topic was brought up, it finally looked like a parliamentary process. Although there was a rough plan, all parties still argued back and forth for three hours. The MPs had lunch in the parliament hall before they finally reached a consensus.

Mo Zhouzhe swallowed and looked at his uncle Ruan Fuping nervously.

Azhe's mother was Nguyen Ngoc Xiu, the elder sister of Nguyen Xiaoqiang and Nguyen Phuc Anh in history. The one who supported him behind the scenes was also the only remaining member of the Nguyen clan of Guangnan Kingdom.

When Nguyen Phuoc Binh saw the nervous look in his nephew's eyes, he suddenly became a little nervous too, because the topic to be discussed now was the distribution of industries in the various provinces of the Nanyang Mission.

This thing is really deadly because it concerns the livelihoods of hundreds or even tens of millions of people.

Currently, due to the great success of rubber, this cash crop transplanted from South America has far surpassed sugarcane, spices, fishing, fruits and rice, becoming the most profitable industry in Southeast Asia.

According to Emperor Mozibu's idea, rubber plantations should be developed as the main industry on Koh Samui (Sumatra) and the Great Spice Island (Suveras) managed by the Southern Province.

Kaqing Island (Kalimantan Island) mainly produces spices.

Thai Ping (Thailand) and South Java (Java) mainly produce grain.

The Xinglong Peninsula (Malay Peninsula) produces sugarcane, fruits, etc.

The advantage of this arrangement is that it allows us to concentrate our efforts on major tasks in an era when economic activities are still greatly restricted by transportation conditions.

It also prevents everyone from rushing into rubber, which would ultimately result in no one making any money and delaying food production in Southeast Asia.

But if you think about it, this can only be accomplished through a series of brutal games.

Therefore, as soon as the topic started, it quickly became heated. Hundreds of vassals, large and small, hundreds of farmers and manor owners, and dozens of large and medium-sized capitalists first started to curse at each other while discussing, and then resorted to violence.

They started fighting right in the parliament hall. The fight was so intense that even the parliament guards called by Mo Zhouzhe couldn't stop them. Soon, someone was bleeding from the head.

This doesn't look like a Republican parliamentary meeting, it's more like a gang negotiation.

Uh, it seems that these people were originally a gang of gangsters created by his father.

Many people still use the list of generals that the emperor made based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and call themselves the Little Ma Chao of Nanyang or Sai Zilong of Nanyang.

They are a group of gang members who have achieved success.

Thinking of this, the fourth prince Mo Zhouzhe had to cheer himself up and appease people everywhere. He remembered what his father had said to him.

"If you can sort out the chaos in the Nanyang Republic Parliament and understand the cause and effect behind it, your father will be able to rest assured that you will be relocated to Jiaqing Island."

This was what Mo Zhouzhe desired most, to leave the poor and mountainous Vientiane Kingdom and move to Jiaqing Island to rule the eastern part of the island and Brunei, and become a neighbor of Prince Yi Sun of Korea.

"Your Majesty, the fleet of cultural and scientific celebrities from France has arrived in Malacca and will reach Xingang the day after tomorrow." In the chaos, my uncle Nguyen Phuoc Binh walked through the crowd and even lost his hat.

Mo Zhouzhe was shocked. He had finally waited for these people.

Because many people regretted their decision after boarding the ship, and Lavoisier and others fell ill soon after having never been to sea, these most talented French people took more than two years to arrive in China from Paris.

Mo Zhouzhe took a look at the still chaotic Republican Parliament Hall, his face darkened, and he personally ordered the accompanying Jinyiwei to step forward and pull these people apart.

"Everyone should elect some representatives. I have plenty of time. We can slowly solve these problems."

After saying that, Mo Zhouzhe quickly left to prepare to welcome these French scientists. This was also the most important task his father gave him when he arrived in Southeast Asia.

(End of this chapter)