In Crescent Bay City, vigorous construction has begun.
The people from Ming Dynasty who immigrated here earlier were the most positive. This time, they understood that Ming Dynasty was their strongest supporter.
If Du Mingen and others hadn't just arrived here this time, no one would have cared about their losses, their grievances, their tears, and their blood.
The wealth accumulated over a lifetime of hard work disappeared overnight. Without the arrival of the Ming army, how could it be possible to get it back?
For the dead relatives and friends, if there is no Ming army to avenge them, they can only watch their enemies do whatever they want. How can they take revenge and repay injustice as they do now?
The lost wealth was recovered, and Du Mingen paid it back tenfold. The sinful natives were also killed, and even the princes and nobles of Luzon were killed.
The Crescent Moon River has turned red, and all the natives have lowered their heads when they saw them, not daring to make any sound.
Only at this time can they truly feel the benefits of having a powerful country behind them. Even if it is Luzon, which is thousands of miles away, the Ming Dynasty can easily deal with these people.
"You all have to work hard~ If you dare to cheat and act sneaky, I will carefully chop you up and throw them into the river to feed the fish~"
Old Chen held a whip in his hand and whipped it in the air from time to time, staring at the natives in front of him. These natives were all recruited from Crescent City to build the outer walls of Crescent City.
According to the latest Crescent City law issued by Du Mingen, all natives within a hundred miles of Crescent City are considered reserve citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and must be loyal to His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and at the same time pay taxes and perform corvee services to the Ming Dynasty.
Only a few days after this law was promulgated, the conscription decree in Crescent City was issued. The natives within a hundred miles around did not dare to resist at all, and came over obediently.
What happened here in Crescent Bay also spread quickly throughout Luzon. The whole country of Luzon was shocked, but there was no way. The indigenous people in the remaining cities even hurriedly sent people to send gifts.
, and also shows that there is no opinion at all.
They are scared to death. They are all afraid that Du Mingen will continue to attack. If they lose Crescent Bay, they will lose it. Don't lose other cities. Once Du Mingen continues to attack other cities, they will not be able to stop him at all. Is it possible that when the time comes?
Go into the tropical rain forest and become primitive like those black dwarves?
What's more, the king of Luzon and many princes and nobles were all killed. Now the remaining people of Luzon are fighting for the right to rule Luzon. Who will care about the Crescent Bay.
Thousands of indigenous people came to Crescent Bay and began to fulfill their corvee duties as preparatory citizens of the Ming Dynasty and build Crescent City.
These indigenous people were recruited to build Crescent City. As for the original local Ming people, they all became the managers of Crescent City, responsible for supervising construction, delivering messages, translating, etc.
After all, they have lived here for many years and are familiar with it. With them here, many things will be easy to handle.
When the natives around them heard what Old Chen said and looked at the whip in Old Chen's hand, they all couldn't help but speed up their work.
In the past, everyone felt that Akito was easy to get along with. Akito was very kind and gentle, so everyone was not afraid of Akito at all. That's why this incident happened again.
But now, these Ming people have suddenly changed, becoming more ferocious than tigers. The Ming people overseeing the work in front of them, and the Ming army resting under the tree not far away, everything is telling them that if they are not honest,
If they work hard, they will surely reap the rewards.
"You all listen carefully~"
"As long as you work hard, be obedient, and learn our Ming Dynasty's Mandarin and our writing, you will also have the opportunity to become official citizens of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, your descendants can also study and
If you take the imperial examination, you can also become an official in the Ming Dynasty."
Old man Chen remembered some of the things explained above, so he said in a gentle tone.
"Of course, these things are still far away from you. What you need to do now is to work hard. As long as you work hard, you will be rewarded with money, and you can give priority to learning the language and writing of our Ming Dynasty, and become a Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.
I am a Ming Dynasty person."
"My Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, thousands of miles of fertile fields, and conquers the world. It is your glory to become a glorious citizen of the Ming Dynasty."
Old man Chen puffed up his chest as he spoke.
In fact, he did not understand why Taiping Marquis Du Mingen issued such a strange order. These natives are barbarians and not of our Chinese blood. Why should they be allowed to become citizens of the Ming Dynasty and given a chance?
Barbarians are barbarians. They are not educated and do not understand benevolence, justice and morality. Even if they can speak Ming dialect and write Chinese characters, they are still barbarians. There is no need to treat them like this.
Of course, this is just Old Man Chen's idea.
After all, he only had a little knowledge, and Du Mingen also followed Liu Jin's instructions. In the parlance of later generations, this approach was called cultural export, also called assimilation.
Through such a method, the ethnic groups and cultures in the occupied areas will be slowly eliminated, and Chinese culture will be gradually established, thus achieving the ultimate goal of assimilation.
Of course, giving them some hope is also to reduce their own losses.
Humans are very strange animals. When they are desperate, they will burst out with extremely powerful power.
Giving them some hope is also to reduce the possibility of them rioting.
This place is far away from the Ming Dynasty. In a short period of time, the Ming Dynasty people are still a minority. Although they have powerful force, the number is still relatively small. Once there is a riot, there will still be casualties.
Give them hope and let them see that there is a future for them to follow the Ming Dynasty, which will naturally reduce the occurrence of such things. Subtly, they will slowly consider themselves people of the Ming Dynasty, and finally succeed in completely occupying this place.
In addition, most of Luzon has not been developed, which requires a lot of labor. How can these indigenous people not make good use of it?
You can also set a model for other regions and countries in Southeast Asia to see. If you offend the Ming Dynasty, the consequences will be miserable. If you follow the Ming Dynasty, you will be able to enjoy the world.
This is considered an advanced form of colonization.
Although Europeans once occupied almost the whole world in history, they only established a foothold in two places, America and Australia, and other places eventually gradually got rid of their colonial rule.
A very important reason is that their colonial rule is still very low-level. It is just to plunder wealth and economy, and they do not intend to truly rule and occupy these places.
Liu Jin is different. It is necessary to plunder wealth and economy, but Liu Jin does not intend to let go of these good places, and is prepared to gradually swallow them all into Ming's mouth.
It is impossible to kill all the indigenous people here. That would be unrealistic, would cost a lot, and would also cause heavy losses to oneself.
This is more of a Nanyang region, where the Ming Dynasty still has a great influence. Many of them are vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. The indigenous people here are not very resistant to being ruled by the Ming Dynasty.
Annan, Siam, Luzon, Sulu, Bo Ni, Brunei, etc. are all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, especially Annan was directly ruled by China for a long time in history.
Chinese civilization has had a great influence here, and it is also what the local indigenous people yearn for.
"Sir, is this true?"
Someone heard what Old Man Chen said and stood up and asked in disbelief.
"That's of course. Our Ming Dynasty is a kingdom, and we always keep our word. As long as you work hard, you can become an official citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and your descendants can go to the Ming Dynasty to serve as officials."
Old man Chen looked at the other person. He happened to know this person. He was a Malay who had worked for him before. His name was Alai. He was a relatively honest Malay and a relatively diligent person.
"The descendants of future generations will go to the Ming Dynasty to become officials?"
When the surrounding natives heard this, they couldn't help but shake their heads slightly. This was something they couldn't even imagine. Let alone going to the Ming Dynasty, even here in Luzon, it was hard for ordinary people like them to have the chance to become officials.
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The Malays are also greatly influenced by Tianzhu. The caste system in Tianzhu is deeply rooted and has a great impact on them. Although there is no caste system here, the class differentiation is still very obvious. Ordinary indigenous people want to become princes.
Being a noble is too difficult, too difficult.
But this Alai believed it.
They had heard that Ming Dynasty was very big and rich before. They didn't believe it at first because they were far away. But this time, they really saw how powerful Ming Dynasty was.
The large ships anchored in Crescent Bay, the powerful Ming army, the terrifying artillery, as well as the clothing, food, etc. of these Ming people, all showed them the confidence of a powerful country.
Even if the food given to them, the slave laboring natives, is much better than them, they actually have fish and meat to eat every day, and the taste of the food cooked by the Ming people is really not comparable to them, everything is incomparable.
yearning.
"I must work hard, learn the Ming dialect well, and strive to become an official citizen of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible."
"In the future, like the people of the Ming Dynasty, my children can go to school, take the imperial examinations, and become officials in the Ming Dynasty."
Alai silently remembered Old Man Chen's words, and at the same time silently worked hard.
In their hearts, the Ming Dynasty is synonymous with strength and prosperity. Now they have the opportunity and hope to become people of the Ming Dynasty and become people of that rich and powerful country.
Thinking of this, many people feel that something is different about themselves.
