The Spanish's principle of treating these indigenous people was exploitation and plunder, which had nothing to do with their original way of life and production methods.
In the current era, Spain's main focus is still on the Americas, and it does not pay much attention to the Philippines. Its intervention in Philippine society mainly relies on religion rather than political systems.
For the indigenous people who are not easy to manage, they mainly rely on force to intimidate them into paying protection fees, which are very high. They also go to the countryside from time to time to sweep away some property and people, so they treat these Spaniards with a bit of dignity and autonomy. Conscious natives will hate it very much.
So as soon as Manila was destroyed, a large number of natives there rose up and besieged the Spaniards.
Earlier, when the British attacked the Philippines, the same was true for the natives.
The main reason is that the Spaniards' behavior in the Philippines during this period was too inhumane. As long as they had a little sense of governance and did not be so rough and bloody, these indigenous people would not resist so fiercely.
However, Zhao Xuening also wants to thank these Spaniards. If they are not inappropriate people, then Zhao Xuening would be too embarrassed to use the principle of "comparison produces beauty" to dress himself up as a tender white lotus.
Just like when Zhao Xuening overthrew Batavia's rule before, Zhao Xuening's way of ruling those small countries and small forces that did not confront him and joined Lanfang as a whole was slightly better than Batavia's.
Batavia was asking for whatever they wanted, unreasonable, and plundering at will, showing no humanity.
Zhao Xuening, on the other hand, made the rules and abided by them himself, thus gaining their acceptance and favor, just like his benefactor. However, in fact, Zhao Xuening's tax collection on these vassals within his sphere of influence was no more than Bada's. During the Via period, there was a decrease of about 30%.
To be honest, the overall number is actually not low.
But compared to Batavia, his behavior is obviously much more tender.
He cut off 30% of such a huge burden with one stroke, and his generosity could be called tens of billions of subsidies for Zhao Duoduo.
So these vassals were happy to pay him protection fees and were quite content.
So the most fearful thing about anything is comparison. Without comparison, everything is fine. With comparison, nothing is pleasing to the eye.
It is worth mentioning that in terms of tax model, Lanfang Republic actually has two models.
One is the normal state tax model for the territory under actual control, and the other is the protection fee model used for vassal territories within the sphere of influence.
Really controlled territory must be carefully constructed and treated properly, so a formal and standard tax model is adopted to demonstrate the light of civilization and national style. The land is captured by Lanfang's army and awarded to individual farmers in the form of national welfare. The individual farmers then use the land as shares to join the collective farms.
Under this model, farmers’ ownership of land was established.
The national land law that Zhao Xuening is promoting clearly states the protection of farmers' land ownership. No group or individual can deprive farmers of their ownership of land held by law.
However, in terms of buying and selling, the land market is restricted, and neither farmers nor collective farms can freely decide whether to sell or buy land.
In this regard, the national land management department needs to be involved, and a tripartite agreement must be signed and entered into the national archives before it can take effect. Otherwise, it will not be protected by national laws.
Once this happens, the state has the right to legally confiscate the relevant land, both parties to the private transaction will also be investigated, and the party that clearly violated the law needs to be sanctioned.
It is equivalent to Lanfang recognizing the private ownership of land and recognizing that land belongs to farmers' personal property and is sacred and inviolable. Farmers can freely decide how to use the land.
However, in terms of transactions, restrictions need to be imposed, and the state can intervene to prevent and limit possible land mergers.
At the same time, Lanfang’s land law also confirmed the existence of state-owned land, such as government land, military land, medical land, educational land, etc.
Regarding the land system of the actually controlled territory, Zhao Xuening and the relevant officials had a long discussion, and little by little they came up with legal provisions that they thought were suitable enough.
In some respects, they also referred to some of the current situation of the Qing Empire, discussed the very acute conflicts between man and land in the Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian regions, and constantly patched some systems to prevent the current situation of land that had already appeared in the Qing Empire.
For example, Fei Yongfeng, Director-General of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, made suggestions.
He suggested that Zhao Xuening set up a special land management department to deal with land statistics, measurement, division of use rights and land transactions, strictly control the use and transactions of land, and intervene from time to time to avoid large-scale land mergers.
Fei Yongfeng still has fresh memories of the human tragedy of large-scale land annexation in his hometown. He really does not want such a situation to happen in Lanfang, so he actively puts forward initiatives to ask the government to vigorously restrict land annexation, regardless of whether it is possible now. , there must always be legislative restrictions to be prepared.
Fei Yongfeng's suggestion was supported by many officials with similar experiences who came from difficult backgrounds.
All in all, Zhao Xuening was very attentive in terms of the land ownership of the actually controlled territory and the agricultural taxation established here. He established the basic concept of light corvee and low tax, careful care, careful management, and checking for deficiencies.
But in non-actually controlled territory, this is not the case.
Here, his land system has not been implemented, and the land, wealth and population there cannot actually be reasonably utilized by the Lanfang government, so the original set of rules of the law of the jungle will be followed.
If you don't listen to me, you don't want to hand over the land to me for overall planning, and you want my protection so that you can continue to live a good life of domineering you, then you have to pay me a high protection fee.
Of course, I, Zhao Xuening, am not a bad person. I will give you a 30% discount on how much you gave to the Europeans in the past, and I will subsidize Zhao Duoduo with tens of billions. How comfortable is that?
If you can't afford it or don't want to give it, you can either accept my actual rule, measure the land, and reorganize the farm. In that case, you can be protected by the "Land Management Law of the Lanfang Republic" and enjoy the preferential treatment of light corvee and light tax.
How about it?
Choose yourself!
Before the destruction of Batavia, many of Lanfang's non-actually controlled lands were governed by this method. Zhao Xuening did not care about their actual management, but asked them for protection fees, and just paid the protection fees on time.
But after the destruction of Batavia, Zhao Xuening's prestige greatly increased. He was no longer satisfied with this model, so he used the blood of the Dutch to frighten the vassals, and began to use half force and half redemption to obtain money from these vassals. Get population and land.
Those who accepted the reality received sufficient compensation, moved their families to Seoul, and enjoyed the best urban construction and medical and educational services. They could accept the influence of Han culture as quickly as possible and strive to become honorary Han people.
Those who did not accept it were physically erased by Zhao Xuening.
After the Second Year of the Republic, Lanfang began to gradually carry out actual control reforms on the previously non-actually controlled territories, officially began to take over land and population, established more township-level collective farms, and expanded the number of controlled populations.
Although there were some back-and-forths during this period, there were still some tribal leaders who did not want to lose their power and openly and covertly caused trouble for the Lanfang working group.
For example, the leader of a certain tribe used his illness as an excuse to delay time, refused to cooperate with the Lanfang working group's field expedition, repeatedly denied the previously agreed time, and finally annoyed the head of the physics department of the Lanfang working group.
As a result, the leader of the tribe was broken into his home by the head of the physics department of the Lanfang working group and was forcibly taken to Lanfang Hospital. Later, he was diagnosed with "hypothesis", that is, mental illness, by a Filipino indigenous doctor from Lanfang Hospital.
After Zhao Xuening learned about it, he personally gave instructions that he must be treated with the best medicine, and the largest amount of medicine must be injected with the thickest syringe, so that he could quickly return to normal no matter what.
But it is a pity that the tribal leader's condition was too serious. Although Lanfang Hospital tried its best, including bloodletting, poison and poison, it could not save his life.
In the end, he died because of his severe mental illness.
Then this tribe no longer had a leader, and then it successfully became the actually controlled territory of the Lanfang Republic. Half a month later, a brand new township-level farm was born here.
Similar situations have happened several times. Seven or eight tribal leaders or other powerful figures were too seriously ill due to sprains, diarrhea, toothache, etc., resulting in the failure of treatment at Lanfang Hospital and their unfortunate deaths.
Later, in order to avoid the unfortunate outcome of death, more and more leaders took the initiative to settle in Seoul, enjoy the best urban construction and medical services, and send their children to Lanfang for education. Receive education in the institution, work hard to Chineseize, and strive to become an honorary Han Chinese.
It can be said that the Schrödinger level of diagnosis and treatment of Lanfang Hospital is also an important way for the Lanfang Republic to increase its actual control territory.
