After three hundred years of development, the original small tribe of a hundred or so people has spawned a huge family with thousands of people and sixteen branches. They control countless rice fields, workshops, Rubber forests, spice factories...
Relying on the protection of the Spanish, they used clever plunder and even blatant robbery to seize the wealth of other tribes, including the Chinese, into their own hands.
In order to protect their property and fear of retaliation from those who were harmed, these people organized their own armed forces and even sent their family members to serve as officers in the colonists' army.
It can be said that in Luzon, the Spanish controlled the cities and maritime trade, but the vast rural world belonged to these emperors.
This situation has not eased until after World War II in the 21st century. Local government orders in the Philippines have never been issued to rural areas. Many mountainous areas far away from the capital area are basically in a semi-divided state.
The local tycoons raised troops and fought guerrillas with the government troops in the dense forests. The two sides had an inseparable relationship.
The Spanish colonists and later the American occupying forces failed to solve this huge problem. In fact, it was not because they were incompetent, but because there was no need.
In fact, the vast countryside is not the core interest of the Spaniards and Americans. They are happy to throw out these bones with some meat residue for the vicious dogs below to fight for.
As long as the colonists control the nodes on the trade routes, that is, those cities and ports, they can firmly control the economic lifeline of the entire Philippines.
Because goods always have to be collected into higher-level sales channels, colonists can easily make money by controlling these gathering nodes.
As for how dark the local countryside is managed, how helpless it is, and how miserable the people are... they have no interest in taking care of it. On the contrary, they will encourage these local bullies to control the people.
They are just vicious dogs raised by bandits to maintain the order of the sheep. Wouldn't the lives of these foreign adults be much easier with the existence of vicious dogs?
This is the essence of pirate civilization, with plunder as its core, and commerce is actually an upgraded form of plunder!
They have no interest in building, which is not just the visible infrastructure of roads, dams, schools, hospitals...etc.
They also have no interest in building basic political power at the village and town levels in the colonies!
As long as these colonists can get money, it makes no difference who rules the villages, towns and cities!
They can completely give up the grassroots political power to those local powerful forces. Whoever has a gun and is obedient can become a local emperor!
Anyway, no matter how badly you fight, it has nothing to do with me. Who of us European adults care about the happiness of you indigenous slaves!
This is the essence of Western colonization, but Chinese colonization will never take this path!
To liquidate these powerful men, the first important task is revenge. Three hundred years of blood revenge must be avenged! The second important task is to penetrate Chinese rule into the villages!
Only by killing all the powerful people can the Chinese officials safely execute the decree. If the Chinese want to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in Luzon, they must first build an administrative system that penetrates villages and towns.
This is a huge project. It can be said that the European colonists failed to do it, and the Qing government also couldn't do it. Even the very end of the Qing government's current administration is the county magistrate!
The vast space of power below the county magistrate is actually blank and is controlled by the big families condensed by Confucianism!
Who dares to expect a government to extend power to every village? At present, only European countries have such administrative mobilization capabilities!
Don't underestimate these invisible infrastructures, which are important indicators of whether a country is strong!
Once a national war or a world war breaks out in the future, the Qing Dynasty can only mobilize the wealth at the county level, while the Chinese can directly mobilize it to villages and towns!
There is no wasted national power, no hidden population and wealth. All things in the world are in one furnace, hammered together and condensed into a butcher knife that kills other nations!
Or perhaps, it is the strongest shield in the world, protecting the Chinese people from growing up with difficulty and becoming stronger little by little, surrounded by all the alien races like wolves.
At present, many people still don't understand this strategy. People only see that the head of state is avenging everyone on the surface, but cannot understand the deeper secrets.
But strangely enough, Zai Chun's heart actually moved. It was an indescribable feeling. He didn't know what the master's deep intention was, but he had a vague feeling based on the difference in the emperor's bloodline. Something is wrong.
This is an intuition and a talent!
After all, Zai Chun is a real dragon who appears in the world. Although he is young, his way of thinking about problems is very different from ordinary people!
"What exactly is Master doing? Spain is so anxious to carry out massacres and revenge before the power has been handed over... This is not like Master's style!"
"Damn it, there must be some tricks here, but no one can teach me, and no one will tell me... Damn it!"
Just when Zai Chun frowned and couldn't think of the secret, the wharf was already crying loudly!
On one side were the relatives of the sixteen branches of the Kaba family. When they saw that the clan leader was about to die, they all knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. Some begged and some cursed, but no one paid attention to them.
On the other side were the Han Chinese and other tribesmen who had been bullied by the Kaba family. They saw that their enemies were about to die in front of them. Their faces were full of tears, and they shouted slogans: Long live the Chinese people and long live the head of state!
"It's already noon...the sun is high enough...execution!"
The supervisor is a young Chinese officer in his twenties, with the rank of captain but a small school emblem on the armband on his left arm.
That is the school emblem of the Chinese Engineering College, which shows that he is a college student officer with a bright future, and his experience of learning from Lu Song is just a short memory of his joining the army.
But this young man in his twenties commanded more than a hundred mercenaries who looked like wolves and tigers!
Sixteen of the tallest Cossack cavalrymen had already taken off their shirts, and each of them had a ghost-headed sword. These indigenous criminals did not have the same preferential treatment as Europeans.
Don't waste a single bullet when dealing with native monkeys!
"It's time, no matter whether it's twelve o'clock or not...execution!"
"Kill! Kill them..." Amidst the angry roars of countless people, the prison van was opened, and the frightened sixteen indigenous clan chiefs excreted and peed.
"Kill! Kill them... take revenge!"
No one listened to the verdict read by the young officer, and no one noticed the confiscation of all property, and the news that the land and mines controlled by these families would be reorganized into more than a dozen villages and towns.
Human beings! They always only pay attention to the excitement on the surface that makes their blood boil, and ignore the subtle changes behind it!
