Enemy Chapter 391 Boiling Frogs in Warm Water for Newly Naturalized Barbarians
After finalizing the science and technology support plan for the next seven years, the topics of this Jiangning meeting have basically been discussed.
The last remaining issue of "construction and naturalization of newly occupied territories" did not take up too much of everyone's energy.
Because the management of these places, whether it is Tohoku, Ezo, Sakhalin, or Kyushu, is still purely militarized. Therefore, it is relatively quick to adjust. You can ask for instructions at any time when you encounter new problems. Zhu Shuren can make decisions directly at any time without complicated procedures.
The process of government affairs deliberations of the imperial court and cabinet.
So as long as the general direction is good, just start working on it first and solve the problems when you encounter them.
The only thing worth mentioning in this agenda is that Zhu Shuren once again temporarily included the Yunnan-Guizhou region, which was already well ruled by the Ming Dynasty, into a seven-year strict military control plan.
Li Dingguo was given certain quasi-wartime authority, further accelerating the return of the chieftains from Yunnan and Guizhou, and striving to completely transfer the unresolved chieftains to the imperial government before the conflict with Burma and Vietnam in the future.
Of course, this quasi-wartime militarized management authority must come with a strict deadline. When this seven-year plan ends and the use of troops against Myanmar and Vietnam ends, it will be delayed for another two or three years at most. By then, Yunnan and Guizhou will still have to completely
Return to the normal rhythm of official management, and it will be the same as other inland provinces in the Ming Dynasty.
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty had given the chieftains of Yunnan and Guizhou a policy as early as fifteen years ago. At that time, it involved the exclusive planting rights of tobacco and other exotic crops. Which chieftain responds to the court, accepts exiled officials to govern, and is naturalized well?
Who will be given priority in providing tobacco, cocoa, and pepper seeds?
This policy has been going on for fifteen years, so in these years, the number of toasts in the southwest has been reduced by at least two-thirds compared to fifteen years ago, and they are no longer so dense.
All the docile chieftains who responded early to the Ming Dynasty have more than doubled their average territory in recent years. And those stubborn chieftains have basically been destroyed by the powerful chieftains who have adapted to the reform.
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Of course, the people under the command of the stubborn chieftain would not be liquidated. They were just innocent people, so they were directly annexed by the docile and naturalized chieftain, and then reformed and educated. Those who were killed and exterminated were only the stubborn rulers.
family.
In the past fifteen years, hundreds of small emperor families in the valleys of Yunnan and Guizhou fell to the butcher's knife of Tobacco. More than tens of thousands of anti-Ming die-hards were killed, and even more people were exiled to hard labor and reformed.
It's more than two to three hundred thousand.
But under such an iron fist of rule, the effect is also very remarkable.
Historically, the Qing Dynasty began to make great efforts to reform the native people in the 40s of Kangxi. As a result, in the first 20 years, they became natives of Xiangxi. From the Yongzheng period to the first half of the Qianlong period, it took a total of 40 years to convert most of Guizhou.
The changes are similar to those in some areas of Yunnan.
In the second half of Qianlong's reign, they continued to reform the Daliang Mountains in western Sichuan and the Hengduan Mountains in western Yunnan. Historically, the Qing Dynasty recorded the transformation of the last batch of chieftains on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, which lasted until 1820, which was the 25th year of Jiaqing.
Years later, it was considered complete - and at this time, there were only twenty years left before the Opium War.
In other words, it took the Qing Dynasty ninety years in history to return most of the southwestern areas, except for the Yunnan-Myanmar border, to their native land. Counting the strongholds on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, it would take another thirty years, for a total of one hundred
Twenty years.
Now it only took the Ming Dynasty fifteen years to use Li Dingguo's big stick and tobacco-grown carrots, with both kindness and power. It is estimated that it has achieved the transformation effect that the Qing Dynasty spent seven to eighty years at the same time in history. It is a full five times the time efficiency.
The current progress of Yunnan-Guizhou's reform and restoration is basically equivalent to the thirty or forty years of Qianlong's reign in parallel time and space.
Therefore, Zhu Shuren decided to add fire to the fire and give Li Dingguo the last ten years. He also took advantage of the opportunity to use troops in Myanmar, and implemented both military management and military management.
We will strive to complete the thirty-year road in ten years, and then advance to the level of reforming the land and returning it to the people in the early Jiaqing period in history, and completely eliminate the problem of border areas not obeying the control of the court and fending for themselves.
By then, except for the chieftains in the Hengduan Mountains who are currently wavering between the Ming Dynasty and Myanmar, all other chieftains must be naturalized.
Ten years later, Li Dingguo will also be sent by Zhu Shuren to the chieftain territory newly "rescued" from Burma and Vietnam by the Ming Dynasty to continue the work he did in Yunnan and Guizhou and copy the successful experience again until the Ming Dynasty completely digests the new Southeast Asian culture.
Plan territory.
Considering that Li Dingguo was already dead at this time in history, even if history has been changed now, Zhu Shuren estimated that Li Dingguo did not have a particularly long-lived gene, so if he could solve the problem of Yunnan-Guizhou and the newly attached territories in the future, he would not give
He has a new mission. If he can survive until then, let him return home and retire.
(Note: Today is 1663. Historically, Li Dingguo died in 1662 at the age of 42. However, it is said that he died because of grief and anger and being unaccustomed to the climate and climate of Myanmar. This is very similar to Zheng Chenggong in history. Zheng Chenggong was also sad and angry.
Among them, and because he was not used to the tropical rainforest environment as a senior citizen, he died in the same year at the age of 38)
In this seven-year plan, Zhu Shuren asked people to further focus on the field of medicinal chemistry, and the research and development of drugs for tropical diseases, chemical insecticides, and disinfectants also took this aspect into consideration.
Zhu Shuren knew that the untimely deaths of Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were closely related to tropical diseases in history, so he must devote resources to developing drugs for tropical diseases.
After Li Dingguo's mission is completed, Ming Dynasty's management of new hobby crops in America will definitely be more stringent.
In the future, we can no longer pursue the path of "special treatment and exclusive cultivation of naturalized chieftains from Yunnan and Guizhou". We need to treat each province fairly (but in fact, cocoa, coffee and tobacco cannot be grown in the north. This is a climate reason, not a policy reason). Instead, the court should follow the law.
At the government level, it is directly implemented as a government-owned monopoly, and private individuals are only allowed to grow it and not operate it privately, similar to salt and tea.
On the other hand, this was also done to save the court's face, because after so many years of spreading cultivation, the seeds of tobacco, cocoa, and coffee had actually spread wildly among the people in the southwestern provinces. In the early years, the court was able to control the local area by centrally providing seeds.
I can't control it at all now.
Therefore, instead of waiting for the situation to be completely out of control in the future, it is better for the court to take the initiative to announce the release of the monopoly on planting and retreat to monopoly operations. In this way, it is said that the court does not want to control it, rather than that it cannot control it, it means that it is "unwilling to compete with the people for profits."
Zhu Shuren's initial concession of planting and the collection of tobacco taxes were only a stop-gap measure in order to meet the need for military expenditures in the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty and unify the Qing Dynasty. In the past ten years, tobacco taxes have indeed provided the Ming Dynasty with military expenditures worth tens of millions of taels of silver.
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Now that reunification has been completed, there is no need for as much military spending as during the war years. Zhu Shuren, as a benevolent person with modern ethics, also knows that this thing is harmful to health, and the scale should be controlled.
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After sorting out the ruling tone and management methods of the Southwest, the remaining Northeast, Sakhalin, Ezo, Kyushu, and Ryukyu will be relatively easy to deal with.
The problems in those places are not too complicated. Although the area is vast, the indigenous people are not large in size, so they are relatively easy to manage.
In the final analysis, the biggest trouble in developing a piece of land is people. As long as there are no constraints from the indigenous people and you can draw on a blank piece of paper, the infrastructure is still easy to overcome. Immigration and spending money can solve it.
Especially in the Ming Dynasty, gunpowder and blasting powder technology has matured. For things like digging mountains and building roads, even if you don't have heavy machinery, you can still get twice the result with half the effort by relying on blasting.
Therefore, based on the idea of grasping the big and letting go of the small, Zhu Shuren prioritized the policy adjustments in the above-mentioned territories, focusing on solving the governance issues of Kyushu and Ezo first.
Although these two islands are not large in area, Kyushu is just about the same size as Taiwa Island, and Ezo is only twice as big as Taiwa Island. But these are cut from Fuso after all, and the Ezo people on Ezo Island need strong strength.
To naturalize, Kyushu’s Xiong Ximan and other Aso Mountain residents must also be dealt with.
So after closed-door discussions at the highest levels of the cabinet, Zhu Shuren, Zhang Huangyan, and Zheng Chenggong came up with a plan—because the plan was a bit cruel and powerful, Zhu Shuren did not even let a gentleman like Shi Kefa participate.
Shi Kefa is old, has a relatively high moral limit, and is not suitable to participate in some things.
According to this plan given to Zheng Chenggong, in the future, the barbarian tribes in the Aso Mountains on Kyushu Island will be restricted from labor, forcing them to serve for the court, build local areas, reclaim terraces, build harbors, and be responsible for mining and shipbuilding.
Build corresponding factories...
After all, Kyushu Island is a volcanic island and is rich in mineral resources, including some gold, silver, and copper. Although it is not as rich as Iwami and Sado, it is still very good compared with the Central Plains.
The sulfur mines on Kyushu Island are even more outrageous, ranking among the highest in Asia - after all, if you dig a shovel into a huge active volcano crater like Mount Aso, you will be filled with natural sulfur.
The only thing we need to worry about is whether too many miners will be killed or injured if we send people to mine around active volcanic craters where sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide poisonous gases are sprayed out randomly. But since there are indigenous people to enslave, these problems are no longer a problem.
Therefore, mining in deep mountains alone can consume a huge amount of labor. The above-mentioned projects must be promoted in the next seven years to ensure that all Xiong Ximan can find enough jobs.
If the manpower is insufficient, other non-barbarian Japanese from the Kumamoto clan can be forcibly recruited as corvees. If there is not enough, Japanese poor people from Satsuma and Fukuoka can be recruited. If they dare to resist, they will be taught a lesson with bayonets and rifles.
Anyway, there were only three million people on Kyushu Island originally. After the series of bloody battles that destroyed the four Kyushu feudal clans, and the forced transfer of Kuroda Mitsuyuki to Choshu and Hiroshima, the current Kyushu Island actually only has 200 people at most.
Thousands of people.
The Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage in population and military strength, as well as an absolute advantage in weapons. If it leaves a few tens of thousands of people to be supported by the locals, it can definitely rule the country completely without spending any of its own military pay and military rations. Only ammunition and
The money for ordnance consumables still needs to be paid for and manufactured locally in the Ming Dynasty.
With such strong control, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty put a little more pressure, and the local area would not be able to cause trouble.
You must know that according to Zhu Shuren's own idea, those "damned Kumamoto miners" should have been slaughtered directly, as repayment for the blood debt of their descendants who massacred Jinling three hundred years later in parallel time and space.
Now the rulers of the Ming Dynasty have endured the "torture of not teaching but punishing them" and instead let the Kumamoto miners go to the volcano for mining and transformation. This is already a very civilized and polite country.
Of course, since preparations have been made to build a vulcanization industry and mining base in Kyushu, after some necessary infrastructure construction is invested, if the utilization rate is too low, it will also cause a waste of resources.
Then we should continue to do the same thing. Anyway, Ming Dynasty will make climbing the technological tree of chemical industry a national policy in the next seven years. Then move all the chemical production and research links of Ming Dynasty that are dangerous, polluting, and harmful to human body to Kumamoto.
New gunpowder and explosives plants should be opened in Kumamoto and Satsuma, as well as sulfuric acid plants, nitric acid plants, rubber vulcanization and nitrification treatment plants, and even coalification and crude oil simple processing plants that may appear in the future can be located there.
(Note: In this era, even if oil from shallow spouting wells is mined, it is impossible to crack and extract light components such as diesel, gasoline, and natural gas, which would be of no use. However, petroleum jelly, paraffin, and kerosene can already be refined, and kerosene can also be used for lighting.
Replacing lamp oil and whale blubber, this can be accomplished without industrial ingenuity, as long as the chemical process and reaction design are strong enough)
In addition, Kyushu already has the highly polluting Japanese ash-blowing method for smelting gold and silver, and various highly toxic environmental refining processes that require large amounts of cinnabar, lead and mercury. These production capacities can continue to be developed in Kyushu and improved and expanded.
Therefore, in the next seven years, Zhu Shuren will be determined to build the mountainous and marginal areas in the central and southern part of Kyushu Island into a mining and chemical industry zone with sulfuric acid, petroleum, explosives, and various highly toxic heavy metal industries. Mining in the mountainous areas, mountainous valleys and marginal transportation are opposite
Build a factory in a convenient location with clear division of labor.
Only the coastal plains in northern Fukuoka and Fuchi near Fuso Island are left suitable for agricultural production. Then continue farming to ensure that the island's food rations are at least self-sufficient and will not have to buy food from North Korea to maintain the food ration needs of Kyushu locals.
The Ming Dynasty's rule over Xiong Men was still very relaxed, and they would not exhaust the lake to catch fish. When people engage in such strenuous mining and chemical construction, they must be given plenty to eat.
The policy at that time was to conscript all the local Kumamoto and unmarried Fuso men from other vassals into the imperial service. The imperial court would provide them with food to ensure their nutrition, and they might even eat better than they did when they were under the Fuso daimyo.
Fuller.
In this way, they will not resist. They are single and engage in such toxic, dangerous and heavy physical labor. The average life expectancy is estimated to be less than 40 years old, so they will have to change their jobs in more than ten years.
Calculating this, at most thirty years later, the Kumamoto men on Kyushu Island and the unmarried Fuso men in other domains will basically disappear on their own, without the need for Ming Dynasty to use a butcher knife.
As for married people, they can stay in the countryside and continue farming. However, these farmers must be levied high taxes. They will definitely not be based on the land tax standards of the Ming Dynasty, but will be based on Fusang's most ruthless "six publics and four citizens" during the Warring States Period.
That means taking 60% of the grain harvest and returning it to the court, and only 40% to yourself.
After all, only by charging such a high tax on Fusang farmers can we ensure that Fusang people can still have food to eat when most of the population is not engaged in agricultural production.
And as long as the Ming court guides it well, it can definitely direct the hatred of Fusang miners and workers to Fusang farmers, making them realize that "they are just this group of people, they have women, they occupy land for farming, and they don't want to pay more."
Food is for us miners to eat.”
Once the Fusang farmers dared to resist, the Ming Dynasty could instigate the Fusang miners and farmers to fight among themselves, just like the Europeans instigated African tribes to fight among themselves at the same time, using barbarians to fight barbarians.
The price that the Ming Dynasty had to pay was just to ensure that the accounts were clear and that "the food collected from Kyushu Island was never transported out of the country and was eaten by the local people in Kyushu."
This is what Zhu Shuren paid special attention to Zheng Chenggong in the end, and he must do it when the time comes.
Because the Ming Dynasty did not lack the surplus food from a barren volcanic island like Kyushu Island to feed other regions.
Instead of taking away the surplus grain from Kyushu Island, various publicity and publicity announcements emphasize "Kyushu grain, Kyushu eats", which can completely lead the contradictions among the Fuso indigenous people in Kyushu to the internal strife between the miners and farmers.
The Ming Dynasty paid a negligible economic price, but it was able to achieve long-term peace and order and kill those restless people. It was a great deal.
After setting such a tone of rule, Zhu Shuren finally added something extra-legal, which was not suitable for inclusion in national policies and court documents. When the time came, he would send a private letter to Zheng Chenggong to explain.
Zhu Shuren asked Zheng Chenggong to confiscate the Fusang farmers who were killed because of their resistance in the subsequent process of suppressing the rebellion. If there were any extra female relatives in the family, they would be confiscated and sent to the official position.
Because a large number of men were recruited as miners and there were more women among the folk, they were given to Han farmers from the Ming Dynasty as concubines.
In order to encourage Han immigrants to infiltrate the local landlords on Kyushu Island, the imperial court could privately promote some preferential policies, mainly to attract the poor bachelors of the lower class Han people and ensure that they would be given a Fuso wife after they went to Fuso.
If this is not enough to absorb the extra Fusang women, then another batch can be shipped to the Northeast and distributed to the bachelors of the Eastern Han Dynasty who are colonizing and opening up wasteland in Heilongjiang. Similar preferential policies can also be provided to attract them.
If this happens within a few decades, the proportion of Fuso Y chromosomes on Kyushu Island will drop off a cliff, and in half a century there may be no Fuso Y chromosomes on the island.
The same policy can be applied appropriately in Ezo. However, there is no mining and chemical industry to develop in Ezo, only animal husbandry, fishing and hunting.
Therefore, if the male labor force of the Ezo people is rich, they can go to Kyushu Island to do the hard work of mining, opening mountains and building roads, or go to Outer Tohoku and Sakhalin Island to build the earliest infrastructure.
Similarly, men are given enough food to eat but they are not given the opportunity to marry and reproduce, and women are used to immigrate. All women who are moved out must learn Chinese. If they are over thirty, then at least their descendants must follow their fathers.
If you learn Chinese without being able to speak Japanese, the problem of integration and assimilation will gradually be solved after a few decades.