Chapter 1803 Following the road of twenty years ago - the situation in Hanzhou
"So, even God is blessing the feudal kings of the Ming Dynasty?" Yun said.
"Indeed, if it weren't for God's blessing, how could a plague suddenly occur? It can be seen that it must be God's blessing. From this, it can be seen that the gods believed by the Hanzhou natives are indeed changes in the gods believed by the ancient Central Plains, and the Hanzhou natives also
They are indeed the descendants of the people who moved eastward when the Yin Shang Dynasty was defeated. Otherwise, why would the gods punish them when they were going to be detrimental to the Han people who came to the Hanzhou continent again?" Yun said.
What Yun was talking about was the tense situation in the Northern Hanzhou Continent in recent years, but it was miraculously resolved. The people who came to the Hanzhou Continent, whether they were soldiers who voluntarily followed several feudal kings, or those who were later exiled,
Basically there are no good people; and because it is almost impossible for them to leave the Hanzhou Continent, all the Han, He, Yue or other ethnic groups who come to the Hanzhou Continent are ruthless in asking for money. Things are better near Jinshan, but other places
If it were not for the strict control of several vassal kings, the Orientals who came to the Hanzhou continent would have had violent conflicts with the local natives.
But even with the strict control of the vassal, the relationship between the Easterners and the local natives was still becoming more and more tense. Officials arbitrarily conscripted the natives of the vassal tribes to work, mine gold and silver mines, and build cities. That was all.
The more serious problem is that the officials do not care about the lives of the natives at all, and do whatever they want to do to the natives who are sent for requisition. The mortality rate is extremely high, but there is not much compensation. In addition, the grain requisition is very heavy on weekdays, and Eastern merchants
The natives were deceived and deceived, and the natives became increasingly dissatisfied with the vassal king's regime. No one believed the propaganda that the natives of Hanzhou mainland were "descendants of those who migrated eastward when the Yin and Shang Dynasties were defeated."
Gradually, there were more and more armed conflicts, and there were many major incidents in which the forcibly recruited native miners and other tribesmen cooperated with each other to capture the mines, brutally killed the Eastern overseers, and took away the overseers' weapons!
After hearing that a mine had been seized, Yun, Zhu Zhen and Zhu Bai conducted a detailed investigation and discovered various practices of the officials. They immediately began to rectify the situation. At least 10% of the officials had to do the hardest and most tiring work after being sent to prison, and 30%
Officials were demoted and many others were severely reprimanded. They also sent envoys to the native tribes to explain the reason to them.
Some tribes accepted the explanation, but many tribes no longer believed them and were determined not to submit to the three vassal kings anymore, and even wanted to unite to drive them away.
The three vassal kings were very nervous. Over the years, with the continuous contact between the Easterners and the natives, the natives have made a lot of progress, especially in the military. They have learned to use bows and crossbows, learned to make iron tools, and no longer see
The horses are afraid, and the organization of the army has become stronger. Although the combat effectiveness is still not as good as that of the real army, the gap has also narrowed. There are tens of millions of natives in Hanzhou Continent, even in North Hanzhou Continent, while there are only two or two Easterners.
With 300,000 people, they could swamp San Francisco with a sea of people, and San Francisco had no chance of winning. Although Zhu Zhen and Yun stopped resistance, they were also ready to run away; Zhu Bai's ruling core was still stable, but
We also plan to give up some land in the south.
But just when the war broke out, smallpox broke out in many large indigenous tribes from Mayapan City to the Valley of Mexico and then to the vicinity of Jinge City almost at the same time. The onslaught of smallpox was unexpected to everyone. This kind of smallpox was very common in the Ming Dynasty.
A disease that rarely threatens adults can actually infect more than 80% of the natives in the entire city-state! Moreover, the mortality rate after infection is extremely high, reaching more than 80%! In other words, as long as smallpox occurs in a tribe, more than 65% of the population will be infected.
People will die. This is simply massacre, no, worse than massacre.
What's even more frightening is that the smallpox epidemic quickly spread among all the native tribes, and one tribe after another turned into a hell on earth. According to the soldiers who later investigated, the ground was full of dead people, and there was nowhere to go.
They didn't dare to go in, so they could only burn the entire camp and the corpses with a fire.
Priests from various tribes held blood sacrifices again and again, praying to various gods. They sacrificed countless tons of blood and killed many innocent people. However, they still could not stop the spread of the disease, the doom of the tribe, or the end of the tribe.
To prevent themselves from contracting this terrible disease.
But almost no one in the East was infected with smallpox. By this time, variola had been invented in the Central Plains for hundreds of years. It had been born as early as the Song Dynasty. Everyone who came to the Han continent had been vaccinated against variola and would not be infected again.
Infected with smallpox. However, the local smallpox vaccination rate in the Ming Dynasty was not high. The vaccination of smallpox in this era was relatively primitive, using the scabs of smallpox that naturally emitted from the human body. The vaccinated person may be infected with severe smallpox and die.
Therefore, not everyone is willing to be vaccinated; but those who came to the Hanzhou continent were all exiles, and it was not up to them whether to be vaccinated or not. They were all forced to be vaccinated by the government. Since they have been vaccinated against variola, of course they will not get it again.
The natives of the Hanzhou continent soon discovered that Easterners were not infected with smallpox. They immediately came up with many explanations, all related to gods. Some natives said that smallpox was created by the gods of the Ming Dynasty to punish them. This idea quickly
It spread throughout the country. Needless to say, it triggered blood sacrifices one after another. The priests went crazy killing people and bleeding people, begging the local gods to defeat the foreign gods, but to no avail. The disease continued to spread and devour people.
with their lives.
At this time, a new explanation emerged. The content of this explanation is: In fact, the ancestors of the native people in the Hanzhou continent did come from the Central Plains, and were the descendants of the people who migrated eastward when the Yin and Shang Dynasties were defeated; the gods they believed in were also the gods believed in by the ancient Central Plains.
This was not because the Han people were deceiving them. The reason why smallpox was prevalent was because they did not recognize their ancestors, even if the newly arrived Han people gave various examples, so the gods punished them.
As soon as this explanation came out, it was immediately believed by all the natives. They came to see the three feudal kings crying and shouting, admitting that they were descendants of the Han people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and begging the gods to forgive them.
Yun was baffled by their request. What does the occurrence of the smallpox epidemic have to do with whether they admitted that they were descendants of the Yin Shang Han people? However, the officials in charge of religion under his command found that this was a way for them to admit that they were descendants of the Yin Shang Han people and thoroughly civilize the native people.
This was a good opportunity for someone to give Yun some advice. Although Yun felt that this was deceiving the natives, it was good for his rule after all, so he agreed. These officials immediately took action and pretended to be a magic stick.
The gods already know their thoughts. As long as they put a little of the 'miraculous medicine' into their nostrils and do not come into contact with people suffering from smallpox within seven or forty-nine days, they will not be infected with the smallpox epidemic again in the future.
The natives took the magic medicine and left. Most of them did not get smallpox afterwards. They believed from then on that their gods were changes in the gods of the Central Plains. They were the descendants of the Han people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and they were very loyal to the three vassal kings. Yun
, Zhu Zhen and Zhu Bai also strictly restricted officials from levying corvee labor from the natives, punished merchants who deceived and abducted merchants, eased the conflicts with the natives, and finally completely stabilized their rule.
Yun was not surprised by the large-scale outbreak of smallpox in Hanzhou Continent. Hanzhou Continent was too 'clean' and had no resistance to many diseases. As long as a person traveling to Hanzhou Continent carried the smallpox virus, Hanzhou Continent would be
There will be an outbreak of smallpox.
But he was still surprised by the coincidence of the timing of the smallpox outbreak. He couldn't help but think: 'Could it be that God really protected the Ming Dynasty? In other words, it protected every country that first controlled the Hanzhou continent, whether it was Castil in the previous life.
Leah, or the Ming Dynasty in this life?'
"After this incident, the three of you have completely stabilized your rule in the fiefdom, and you no longer have to worry about unstable rule." Yun said with a smile: "In this case, there is one thing I can ask you to do."
"What's the matter?" Yun asked.
"From Hanzhou mainland, transport the local natives to the Central Plains." Yun said.
"Transporting natives from Hanzhou Continent to the Central Plains?" Yun asked doubtfully, "Why is this? What's the use?"
"Of course it is to stabilize the rule of the vassal states near the Central Plains." Yun said with a smile: "There are not many Han people in the Central Plains, and many have been exiled in recent years. All criminals have been exiled overseas, and it is difficult to transport them to the vassal states.
Han people; but the vassal state needs Han people to stabilize its rule."
"Since you can't give them enough real Han people, give them some fake Han people. Since the Hanzhou natives already believe that they are descendants of the Han people of the Yin Shang Dynasty, they can be sent to the vassal states near the Central Plains as Han people to help them stabilize their rule. Don't worry.
, I will also instruct the vassal kings in Nanyang and the northwest to treat the natives of Hanzhou as Han people, so that they will not doubt again whether their ancestors are Yin Shang Han people because of the different treatment."
"This." Yun did not agree immediately. He also wanted to keep them in Hanzhou to serve as soldiers and errands for him. There were millions of natives in his fiefdom, but in his opinion, they were not many at all.
"Every time you transport a hundred natives from Hanzhou to the Central Plains, I will give you a craftsman." Yun said.
"In this case, I agreed. The sixth uncle and the twelfth uncle will also agree." Yun said immediately. There is a shortage of craftsmen in Hanzhou now. After all, craftsmen generally do not commit crimes. Even if they did, Yun would not necessarily exile him.
Overseas, he offered high salaries many times to lure craftsmen to Hanzhou, but not many people took the bait. He did not dare to rob by force, so he could only act anxiously. Now that he had a simple way to get the craftsmen, he and Zhu Zhen,
How could Zhu Bai not agree?
And coming to Nanyang or the Western Regions is not necessarily a bad thing for the natives of Hanzhou. In their hometown of Hanzhou, they are the most ordinary people, but in Nanyang or the Western Regions they can obtain a higher status than the locals, and enjoy the enjoyment of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
It was also far away from his hometown in Hanzhou. Yun felt that transporting the natives from Hanzhou to the Central Plains was also a good deed, and he could agree with peace of mind.