At present, due to the extremely low development level of Lanfang's territory, at least for ten to fifteen years, as long as the power of Lanfang's army does not decline, the foundation of Lanfang's country will be stable, and the overall internal contradictions will be relatively stable. Ease.
Lanfang is currently on the eve of an incremental society, and has not even had time to officially enter the incremental society. There are no irreconcilable contradictory relationships in society as a whole, which is Lanfang's special advantage.
Zhao Xuening keenly grasped this special advantage and wanted to make good use of it before it disappeared to lay the foundation for his next action plan.
So starting from June of the second year of the Republic of China, Zhao Xuening began to issue decrees continuously and began to refine his internal strength. Starting from the directly controlled areas in the local area, he officially laid the groundwork for the three-level political power of the state, county and township.
All places under the control of the central government in Lanfang must establish a three-level administrative system and transmit it from level to level.
Through the establishment of these three levels of political power, not only can the effective integration of the population be achieved, but also a good mobilization foundation can be laid for taxation, conscription, and construction, which is crucial for a small country.
So Zhao Xuening took this matter personally.
The premise of all nation-building activities is spending money, and Lanfang now spends money in many places.
Military production requires money, military construction requires money, and research and development of new technologies and new weapons require money. This aspect currently accounts for the bulk of national funding in Lanfang.
The salaries and benefits of government employees, military soldiers, and state enterprise employees also require money, but the number of these people is not large, and the costs are not very high.
Land development is a long process. Investment is not a one-time investment, but a slow investment. It requires money, but not that much.
Education is also a relatively long process, and investment is not a one-time investment, it can be done step by step.
Zhao Xuening did some calculations before.
Lanfang does have a lot of money to spend, but there are also a lot of places to make money. After the alliance with Daiying, European trade routes have been ensured, and the high-value spices produced will not have to worry about being unmarketable.
At present, trade with Japan can be maintained for the time being. After hooking up with the British, there is no need to worry about the lack of sales for the goods purchased from Japan.
Coupled with the large amount of gold, silver and other property accumulated by the other party's senior officials after the previous attack on a series of hostile forces such as Batavia, the Kingdom of Sulu, and the colonial government of Manila, Lanfang's current national accumulation is still sufficient.
The Spaniards, in particular, are very wealthy, but they are really rich. After the colonial government in Manila was eliminated, Zhao Xuening confiscated more than two tons of silver from these colonial officials and archbishops.
In addition, these guys also have an extremely large amount of Spanish silver dollars stored in them.
The Spanish foreign silver dollar can be called the world currency of this era. It is not only used in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but also in the coastal areas of Japan and the Qing Empire. It has extremely wide circulation.
The amount of silver coins seized was so large that the accountants brought by Zhao Xuening could not count it clearly for a while. Zhao Xuening felt inexplicably surging in his heart when he looked at the mountains of silver coins.
In addition to these, there are countless other types of property, including gold, which can't be counted in a short while. Now Zhao Xuening is thinking about how to sell those rare antiques to Southeast Asia and bring them out, and directly realize them.
On other levels, Zhao Xuening does not see the possibility of changing his relationship with Daiying in the short term.
Daiying needs to lick his wounds after losing North America, and he will definitely pay more attention to the Eastern trade route. Maintaining the relationship with Lanfang will be something Daiying must invest his energy in. Daiying cannot dig his own grave in this matter.
As long as the relationship with Daiying does not deteriorate, important business income will not be a problem, business will not be a problem, and Lanfang's currently fragile national finances will not have any problems.
As long as this relationship can be maintained for three to five years, Zhao Xuening will be sure to open up more land, obtain more people and tax revenue, and slightly improve the current unhealthy situation of Lanfang, which mainly relies on war and trade for income. the country’s financial status.
Therefore, on the whole, money is not a problem at present. To say that there is a problem, it is better to say that the population resources and physical resources needed for development are slightly insufficient. Some of these things can be bought with money, and some can be bought with money. Less than.
This aspect is also a thorny issue.
While in Manila, Zhao Xuening thought a lot about the long-term development of the country.
Currently, Lanfang still has a recruitment system, but after the household registration system is improved, Zhao Xuening will promote the military service system to a certain extent, appropriately accept more local indigenous people into the army, give the army collective ideological education, and speed up the assimilation process of local indigenous people.
If there is a shortage of manpower, then you can take care of it yourself, and at the same time speed up the establishment of intensive administrative cram schools in Seoul, train all available manpower as soon as possible, and then arrange for them to go out and use practical actions to practice administrative abilities.
Anyway, Lanfang has a small population, and there are not many people in each county or township who need to be managed. Ordinary administrative work is mainly complicated and not difficult. A person with a basic education can definitely take on these grassroots tasks.
In other words, as long as a normal person is given some time and resources, he can become a qualified grassroots official, but sometimes this threshold cannot be crossed.
Once you cross over, you will find a sudden enlightenment.
Lanfang is currently short of manpower, and has no intention of conducting examinations and selections. As long as he is a normal person with normal intelligence and meets the identity conditions, then all of them can be used. Whether it is a mule or a horse, it depends entirely on ability and nothing else. .
This is the so-called "era dividend".
When the population of Lanfang increases in the future and the national system is established, this situation will not happen again.
But for now, it still makes sense to use this three-level administrative structure to cultivate as many administrative talents as possible. Even if the population is not large now, the population will increase in the future. If you spend more money now to train administrative talents, they will be needed sooner or later.
In addition, during the Spanish rule, Catholicism was mainly used as an ideological weapon to try to assimilate the locals, and the effect was still there.
However, the emergence of Zhao Xuening directly interrupted the Catholicization process of the Philippine Islands. Zhao Xuening arrested all Spanish missionaries and destroyed all their churches.
No one raised any objections to this point, and even if the British knew it, they would not say anything - they are a country dominated by Protestantism, and they are in the same boat as Spain, which is dominated by Catholicism.
The British would only be happy if Zhao Xuening taught the Spanish missionaries such a lesson.
After interrupting the spread of Catholicism, Zhao Xuening issued a decree explicitly prohibiting the spread of Catholicism. He also arrested the local devils trained by Spanish missionaries and continued to eradicate the soil of Catholicism.
Zhao Xuening also has a clear idea on how to assimilate the locals in the future.
Since he will return north sooner or later, it is natural to build Lanfang's national ideological system based on Chinese culture. However, traditional Confucianism has reached a dead end, so Zhao Xuening must find another way and take a brand new path.
It must be admitted that at the current stage, Lanfang does not have a unified national official ideological system. The current existence of this country is mainly due to Zhao Xuening's personal ability and the strength of Lanfang's army.
This is a country built on the strength of its leaders and the force of its military. Once there is a problem between Zhao Xuening and the military, Lan Fang's existence will immediately face a serious threat and even fall apart.
This situation cannot exist for a long time, even if Zhao Xuening and the army become stronger together, it will not work, because an important part of the northward strategy is to compete with the traditional rigid Confucian thought.
Therefore, Zhao Xuening must build a national official ideological system for the Lanfang regime that belongs to Lanfang's other line. In the process of creating the education system, he must also simultaneously establish the national official ideological system so that the citizens have a deep sense of national identity. .
Zhao Xuening has been thinking about this issue since the late stages of Lanfang Company and has been making drafts.
In the end, he decided to build an official ideological system belonging to Lanfang based on the ideas of the Chinese nation and democracy and republic.
A very important point here is the Chinese national ideology.
Zhao Xuening's idea is to create a national concept based on the country within the territory of China.
Accept each other's differences in appearance, starting from unifying language and writing, then unifying living customs, and gradually building a national community through education, military life, ideological propaganda and other gentle methods. If you accept my teachings, you will become a member of our country, regardless of where you come from.
If it can't be completed in one generation, then two or three generations will do it.
As long as we adhere to this policy unswervingly, in two or three generations, both language and living customs can be unified, and this goal will definitely be achieved.
Zhao Xuening intends to create a framework that is grand enough, a framework that can accommodate everyone's different opinions, and significantly increase the upper limit of the greatest common denominator of people in the entire Greater China region.
Once the national ideology is established, it will become the greatest common denominator in the Greater China region. In this era when nationalism has not yet been formed, as long as the action is fast enough and the education intensity is strong enough, Zhao Xuening believes that it is not difficult to implement this concept at least in the traditional Greater China region.
In this way, it is a matter of course to replace Confucianism as the official dominant ideology and thus incorporate the entire Nanyang region into the Chinese mainland.
As for the idea of democratic republic, it is also a very important idea. The Chinese national idea can build the foundation for the future country, so democratic republic is the political foundation of the future country.
It is his ideal to replace the centralized monarchy with a democratic republic. In addition, focusing on science and technology and military development to replace rigid Confucianism is also the only way to glory.
With such a grand wish, Zhao Xuening took time out from his busy official duties to begin describing the ideal world in his heart, writing all his thoughts into words and summarizing them into a book.
Legend has it that the founding emperor of every imperial dynasty will lay a foundation for the dynasty. No matter how the emperors change in the future, there will be an inescapable background left by the founding emperor.
Zhao Xuening was not the founding emperor, but he was also the founding father of Lan Fang. He believed that he had the obligation and the right to paint Lan Fang's national background with his own hands.
A national background that belongs to Greater China.
So he wrote vigorously.
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PS: I ate a bowl of sesame rice noodles in the morning and beat an egg. It tasted good and was quite comfortable to eat, but I didn’t add luncheon meat. I always felt unsatisfied, so I didn’t add more.
