Tirumala lay on the table and wolfed down the bowl of porridge. He hugged the empty bowl and asked, "Is there any more? I'm hungry."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "I've been hungry for a few days. I can't eat too much at once, nor can I eat too greasy. I'll give you a bowl of vegetable porridge later."
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Tirumala sat there politely and asked curiously: "Are you really my brother-in-law?"
Wang Yuan said: "That's true."
Tirumala asked again: "Then where is my sister?"
Wang Yuan said: "In Malan Port, when I finish cleaning up the place, I will send someone to pick them up."
Tirumala stopped talking. He seemed a little introverted.
Wang Yuan asked: "Who did you learn Chinese from?"
Tirumala replied: "The palace is all Han Chinese. The Tianzhu guards and maids were only recruited after I was twelve years old. I have always been able to speak Chinese as long as I can remember."
Wang Yuan asked: "Can you let me be your king?"
Tirumala asked, "Then what should I do?"
Wang Yuan said: "You don't have to do anything, just eat, drink and have fun every day."
"That's good, brother-in-law, you are so good!" Tirumala was overjoyed.
Wang Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and kindly warned: "Don't eat so much in the future, otherwise you will get fatter and fatter, and you won't even be able to walk."
Tirumala said: "I was also afraid that I wouldn't be able to walk, but I couldn't help myself when I saw the food."
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "I will help you lose weight, ration your meals every day, and reduce your food intake little by little. You will definitely become a young man running around like flying in the future."
"Oh, I listen to my brother-in-law." Tirumala looked forward to it, but at the same time he was afraid that he would not be full.
Wang Yuan asked again: "Have you read the book?"
Tirumala shook his head.
Wang Yuan asked again: "Do you know the local language of Tianzhu?"
Tirumala said: "I can understand a little bit, but I can't speak well."
The pig-raising plan of the Tianzhu Cotton Association was so successful that it actually raised the puppet king into a mediocre man who could only speak Chinese.
Wang Yuan rested in the palace for one night, and the next day he took people outside the city to review the army.
Before going out, housekeeper Zhou Chong asked: "Old... Your Majesty, do you want someone to repair this palace?"
"No need for the time being, just make do with it." Wang Yuan said.
Sixteen years ago, the palace was ransacked once. All kinds of gold and silver ornaments were taken away, and even the gems embedded in the walls were dug out.
It has not been maintained for more than ten years, and moss has grown in some corners, and some places even leak.
Wang Yuan rode to the military camp outside the city, and Lu Sheng immediately came to see him in armor.
After Wang Yuan moved into Yuci Mansion, he recruited six students when he founded the laboratory. They were all children of his own servants or tenant farmers, named Hong Gui, Lu Yu, Lu Sheng, Lu Xiang, Fang Xiaoyan, and Li Erya.
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Two of them were named by Wang Yuan with help. Their original names were Fang Xiaoyan and Li Erya.
More than thirty years have passed, and each of the six people has a different situation.
Hong Gui was originally responsible for managing the land in the suburbs of Beijing, and was later transferred to Jiangyin Factory. Now he is managing the manor in Tianzhu, which is the 200,000 acres of land bought by his father-in-law in Tianzhu.
Lu Yu and Lu Sheng went to sea together and participated in the founding of the Guangyuan Society.
Unfortunately, Lu Yu died of illness at sea.
Lu Sheng followed Wang Ce to establish the country in Luzon. He became the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, and had a conflict with Wang Zhi (Wang Zhi), the Minister of War. This time Wang Yuan asked his son for troops and horses. Wang Ce not only gave 5,000 infantry, but also sent the Ministry of War to the Ministry of War.
The reason why Zuo Shilang gave them away together was simply to weaken Wang Yuan's influence in Luzon's military circles. Sooner or later, father and son would have to settle accounts.
Lu Xiang followed his adopted son Wang Fang and is now in the country of Gujarat, responsible for managing the country's finances.
Fang Xiaoyan died of natural illness, so we won’t mention it for now.
Li Erya is the head of the maids of the Wang family. She has always been with Huang E. Now she is stranded in Malang Port with her mistress.
Wang Yuan was riding on horseback, looking at the troops lining up: "Tell me what's going on."
Lu Shenghui reported: "Reporting to Your Majesty, except for four of the five thousand soldiers who came from Luzon, who are stranded in Malang Port due to illness, the rest have been assembled here. However, the morale of the army is a bit low. Their wives, children, and children are all in Luzon. They must
Immigrate the soldiers’ families to Tianzhu as soon as possible.”
Wang Yuan asked again: "What else?"
Lu Sheng continued: "There are more than 8,000 troops left by the Tianzhu Cotton Association scattered in various places. We must send people to receive them as soon as possible. The Peiyang army has a total of 16,000, including 3,000 Han troops and the rest are indigenous soldiers.
The three thousand Han troops are all cavalry, but their military discipline is lax and not all of them are very obedient. Those native soldiers are obedient, but their combat effectiveness is worrying, and they only drill several times a year."
The merchants of the Tianzhu Cotton Association were not only cruel to the puppet king, but also to the local nobles.
Almost all the Indian nobles in Peizhou (the basin where the capital is located) were purged by them.
First, the nobles were not allowed to control the cavalry. The cavalry troops were all replaced by Han people, and land and gold and silver were exchanged for the horses in the hands of the nobles. After the Han cavalry was formed, they immediately turned their backs and ransacked the homes of all the military nobles around the royal city. Then they robbed India.
The businesses of merchants and the large shops in the royal city were all changed to the business names of the shareholders of the Cotton Society.
Boil the frog in warm water, and use differentiation and recruitment to control the entire basin and plain step by step.
Of course, the actual territory controlled by the Tianzhu Cotton Association is the basin where the Royal City is located, with an area of about 4,000 square kilometers. The rest of the land is either controlled by local nobles, or is a manor purchased by the shareholders themselves - several important ports, also in
In the hands of the Cotton Society, more than 8,000 Han troops were dispatched to major ports.
The local nobles in India have completely become local emperors of all sizes, and they only need to pay enough taxes to the Cotton Federation every year. Their lives are better than before, because the Tianzhu Cotton Federation is too lazy to manage the local area and does not have the energy and strength to do so.
This gave Wang Yuan a very headache. It meant that he had the title of king and the territory he could directly control was only the 4,000 square kilometers of land in Gyeonggi and some important ports along the coast. The rest of the place was a country within a country, and what was even more terrifying was that
I don't understand both the spoken and written languages.
Wang Yuan asked: "Any more questions?"
Lu Sheng said: "The most difficult thing now is that the food and grass we brought and the food and grass left by the local army are only enough for the soldiers to eat for a month. The Tianzhu Cotton Association has emptied their treasury, and they have no money and no food.
If the food and grass problem is not solved as soon as possible, I am afraid that the soldiers may easily mutiny."
Wang Yuan said: "I have money, and it is all piled up at Malan Port. You send a thousand cavalry to escort it, and pick up the mistresses as well. As for the food, you have to find another way. You can buy it on credit from the grain merchants of the Cotton Association.
, if you really can’t go out and grab big customers.”
Lu Sheng said: "Only after the food and grass are ready can I dare to clean up and train the army."
"It's so troublesome," Wang Yuan sneered. "The five thousand Luzon soldiers you brought are divided into five teams, each leading a local army, and go to those Tianzhu nobles to collect grain. Remember, collecting grain is not the purpose.
, you have to disarm the local nobles and not allow them to have private soldiers anymore. If anyone doesn't want to, just start a fight! After disarming, let the local nobles count the land and population on their own. It doesn't matter whether it is accurate or not, what is important is that there is
For this thing, we can initially establish the household registration yellow book and fish scale book, and then slowly revise it based on this."
"I obey the decree!" Lu Sheng said.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Don't sing opera to me. You led the troops out this time, and another purpose is to improve military discipline. We have just started, and the authority has not been established yet. Kill a few disobedient people and kill a group of lax military disciplines. What's more?
Those soldiers who are the least capable of fighting will be directly eliminated when they come back. I don't want to raise so many useless native soldiers."
In fact, Wang Yuan hasn't finished speaking yet. He always takes one step at a time and sees ten steps before doing anything.
Ask Lu Sheng to divide the 5,000 Luzon soldiers into five teams and lead the Tianzhu army to collect grain. The main functions are as follows:
First, solve the problem of insufficient food and grass.
Second, let the generals from Luzon become familiar with the situation around the capital.
Third, contact the armed forces of nearby lords.
Fourth, initially establish the household registration yellow register and land fish scale register around the basin.
Fifth, purge the Tianzhu army and establish the authority of the king.
Sixth, observe and eliminate the weakest group of soldiers, and use local nobles to test the soldiers' combat effectiveness.
Seventh, these Tianzhu troops were all allocated land near the royal city, but Wang Yuan did not know the specific information. After pulling out all the troops, he immediately sent out the physics disciples to take the opportunity to measure the land in Gyeonggi and control the household registration information in Gyeonggi. This was the only way.
Wang Yuancai has the real basic territory, that is, the 4,000 square kilometers of territory around the capital. If the Tianzhu army is not taken away, it may be difficult to clear the land and register the population. If you are not careful, it may lead to a mutiny.
Article 7 is the most important thing.
He couldn't even figure out the land and population of Gyeonggi Province, so Wang Yuan still acted like a shitty king!
Centered on the capital city and the port, it was Wang Yuan's first step to colonize and expand while controlling the indigenous people.
After you have a basic base, control the major inland cities. Then use these cities as the center, continue to expand immigration, and continue to control the natives. Naturally, you will have to fight a few wars during this period.