The stars move quickly, the sun and the moon fly by. Time always flies by, and when you want to catch it, it suddenly spins up.
For the Ming Empire, which has embarked on the road of no return to the fiery capitalism, more and more people have begun to feel that there is not enough time!
time is money!
Time is the new world!
Building ships, training sailors, recruiting immigrants, preparing supplies, and sailing eastward all take time, and they all produce the profits that capitalists love most. This is probably the most evil thing about capitalism. It can control almost all human behaviors. They are all linked to commercial profits, and then profits are used to drive human greed and make people pursue it crazily.
And Zhu Cihong's financial methods can amplify capital, profits and people's greed again and again. So since the 10th year of Hongxing, the United States of Xinzhou has become the most eye-catching wealth outlet...so much so that people living in the rich and prosperous place in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty have almost forgotten that their homeland is actually True unity, even in name only, has not yet been achieved.
Because in the southwest corner of the Celestial Empire, there is still a Dashun Empire that openly confronts the Ming Empire and also regards itself as the Celestial Empire!
Dashun is now also a colonial empire!
Because she also has her own colony.
After the successful raid on Awa, the Dashun court established the Awa Governor's Palace and the Salim Governor's Palace to take charge of upper and lower Burma. After breaking the city of Ayutthaya, the Dashun court conveniently established a Ayutthaya Governor's Palace to govern the Siamese lands they conquered.
Because Dashun used a sneak attack to annex the vassal state of Myanmar that was dependent on him, it was tantamount to tearing up the "Treaty of Suzerains and Vassals" with his own hands. Therefore, while opening up territory, he also destroyed his own celestial dynasty system. Therefore, after seizing upper and lower Burma and part of Siam, the Dashun court had to find another way to rule.
At first, Li Guo, Li Laiheng and others wanted to move Dashun's land grant system to upper and lower Burma. But later, they discovered that this method was not feasible!
The reason why the implementation of the Fu soldiers system in Upper and Lower Myanmar has been frustrated is that there is no way for the Fu soldiers to take root in Myanmar!
The Fu soldiers system must be rooted in the countryside - the Fu soldiers in Dashun are actually soldiers from small landowners. After receiving one or two hundred acres of land, the Fu soldiers will sub-lease the land to farmers and use the rent collected to support themselves. and family and pay for military service.
However, Fubeng households who moved to Myanmar from Sichuan, Shaanxi (Hanzhong, Gongchang), Hubei (Yunyang) and other places found that they could not take root at all. After all, the Burmese are not Han farmers in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Although there is a gap between the latter and the Shaanxi people, they can still communicate with each other reluctantly. Moreover, while the Dashun imperial court implemented the Fubing system, it also implemented the land equalization scheme to win people's hearts, which benefited the poor farmers, so the Fubing system was successfully established.
But in Myanmar, the situation is very different.
The Han soldiers had no way to communicate with the Burmese farmers. If they couldn't communicate, of course they couldn't talk about taking root. Moreover, there are no intensified land conflicts in Myanmar, and there is no concept of equality that the Han people in the Central Plains have gradually developed since the Warring States Period. They are very accustomed to the enslavement of the Burmese nobles and do not need the Dashun Tianbing to liberate them.
Moreover, Myanmar is a land of miasma, and the soldiers who migrated from Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei are easily infected and die from diseases. It would be better if they lived in a relatively highly developed city, but if they were dispersed to the countryside, the chance of getting sick would be greater.
Among the "Northern Expeditionary Army" who followed Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo in their southern expedition, the number of people who died due to epidemics was several times more than those who died on the battlefield.
Since there is no way to go to the countryside to take root, Dashun's rule in upper and lower Myanmar can only be centered on the city and for the purpose of grabbing economic benefits - the purpose of Dashun's raid on Myanmar was not limited to opening up territory, but also included Obtain the southern seaport, obtain Western firearms technology, and obtain export channels for the Shu Brocade produced by the government-run handicraft industry.
Therefore, parts of the land in Upper and Lower Burma and Siam became annexes for the Dashun Empire to seize resources and money, that is, colonies.
Moreover, since there was no way to place a large number of government soldiers in upper and lower Burma, the Dashun court had no way to transform Burma from a colony into a native province...
Therefore, the Dashun court could only establish three governor-general districts with large cities as the core of governance in the lands of Upper and Lower Myanmar and Siam, and implemented colonial rule over Upper and Lower Myanmar and Siam that was very different from that of Dashun itself.
After completing the establishment of the three major governor's offices, Prince Li Laiheng, the commander-in-chief of the Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army, ended his several-year trip to the south and handed over the army and territory to the governor of Ava, Li Dingguo (the third southern governor of Dashun). Headed by Governor Awa), he led a small number of guards back north, and in the spring of ten years of co-ruling in Dashun, he returned to Chongqing, the northern capital of the Dashun Empire, with a heavy heart.
It was not without reason that he felt heavy. When he was in Burma and Siam, he once set up his Fujun Prince's Palace in Shalian, the seaport of Lower Burma. There are many mixed Portuguese and Burmese people living there, and they have relatively close connections with the outside world, so Li Laiheng also knows that the Ming Empire has become more and more prosperous in recent years.
For Dashun, the prosperous life of the Ming Empire was not a good thing...
After entering the boundaries of Chongqing Prefecture, Li Laiheng did not head to Chongqing Prefecture without stopping, but first went to the Bishan Imperial Tomb of the late emperor Li Zicheng. He also has a manor in Bishan, near the imperial mausoleum. After paying homage to the imperial mausoleum, Li Laiheng took his subordinates and one of his sons, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy named Li Jicheng, to dismount their horses and walk slowly toward his manor.
Both sides of the official road were already green. In the paddy fields, Bashu farmers wearing short clothes and bamboo hats were dotted. While working, they shouted and talked in Sichuan accent. The voices kept coming and going, making it very lively.
Passing by a village, groups of children were playing and playing at the entrance of the village. When they saw Li Laiheng and others leading a big horse, they all gathered around and sang and danced in great harmony.
Li Laiheng also stopped, picked up a six- or seven-year-old boy, and asked with a smile: "Kid, what's your name, and how old are you?"
The child spoke in a Shaanxi accent: "Uncle, my name is Shuanggui, and I am eight years old this year!"
"Are you from Shaanxi?" Li Laiheng smiled even more happily, "Where is your Ada?"
"E Ada has been here last time. The family consists of E, E's mother, E's second mother, E's two brothers, two sisters, and a younger sister."
"Hey, there's a whole family here!" Li Laiheng's smile dropped a little unconsciously.
This child has one father and two mothers, and his peers include two brothers, two sisters and one sister. Including him, there are six children...it seems a bit too much!
Li Laiheng knew that since the beginning of the joint rule, Dashun's rule in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places had gradually stabilized. The Ming Dynasty did not launch a crazy attack, but "ignored" Dashun to a certain extent.
In this case, Dashun's more than 200,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of government officials had nothing to do. Apart from going on duty, they just gave birth to children at home and played.
Therefore, there are many families with six or seven children in Fubing Gate!
The next generation of more than 200,000 government soldiers and officials may grow to one million people! Even if you exclude women, the number will increase to more than 500,000!
Can the Dashun court grant jobs and land to these 500,000 people? If one person is granted 100 acres, it is 50 million acres...
Moreover, it is not only the military households and official households that are multiplying rapidly, but also the farmers who are planning to transfer their land to the countryside are also trying their best to have children.
Because under the Oral Farm Plan, farmers' incomes and burdens have been equalized, it is easier to get married and have children, and there are no contraceptive methods these days. Therefore, when the food supply is relatively abundant and the social environment is stable and stable, the population Production was greatly accelerated.
