Wan Shide's instructions to Zhu Yijun were naturally implemented seriously.
On this day, it was the bitter cold of winter. Wan Shide braved the snow to go to a government-run hospital in Dhaka that was specially designed to treat refugees. He visited the refugees who had fled to Dhaka to avoid the war, and he appealed again with tears:
"This church hopes that the two sides of Austria and Foshan can cease the war, sit down and have a good talk, and don't poison living beings. This is unbenevolent!"
After Wan Shide said that, he personally came to a child, personally applied medicine to the child with an injury on his leg, and asked, "Does it hurt?"
The official newspaper editors around Wan Shide recorded this scene with brushes and pencils.
Seeing Wan Shide's compassionate expression, many refugees even personally applied medicine to a child. Many refugees were moved to tears.
What's more, Wan Shide also expressed their feelings. These refugees naturally felt that wise men like Wan Shide were symbols of civilization.
In fact, Wan Shide mainly did these charitable things during this period.
He, the governor-general with the strongest armed forces in the Indian subcontinent, either went to the hospital to visit injured refugees or went to the relief house to encourage the refugees who came to Dhaka to work hard to survive.
It is not difficult for Wan Shide, who was born as a Jinshi, to do these things.
Because of China’s thousands of years of civilization accumulation, especially after the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, there are many classic sentences that inspire and comfort people.
Such inspiring words as "Heaven will entrust great responsibilities to this people, they must first work hard" and "The years are cold, and then you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither." These inspiring words can be picked up by Wansi Dexin, and they can be quickly composed into chapters and articles, which are inspiring. After hearing this, many refugees rekindled their motivation to continue living, choosing to obey their fate and find peace from suffering.
"Bu Tang, can you ask His Majesty the Ming Emperor to issue a decree asking them to cease the war!"
At this time.
A Brahmin who knew a few words of Chinese asked Wan Shide with tears in his eyes, and said: "We want to return to our homeland and return to the peaceful days before."
"Yeah, we all want to go back!"
“We don’t want our homes to be under fire all the time!”
"Can Daming control them?"
…
Many refugees started talking at this time.
"Quiet!"
"Everyone, please be quiet!"
Wan Shide hurriedly shouted a few times, and then replied kindly but helplessly:
"I have submitted a letter to His Majesty, requesting the imperial court to come forward to resolve this matter and strive to regain peace for you."
"But what you need to know is that today's world is not really unified by the Ming Dynasty. The Flemish people do not listen to us because they have not joined our dynasty;"
"In addition, although Odisha has surrendered to our government, we cannot just ask him to cease the war. Otherwise, we will just sit back and watch him be wiped out by the Francons. Of course, he will definitely not choose to obey this imperial edict because of this. So maybe even if His Majesty issued an imperial edict, it would be useless."
"The Ming Dynasty should send troops to help Orissa destroy the Western Yi!"
"Yes, drive away those barbaric Westerners!"
Many refugees had new suggestions and spoke out one after another.
Wan Shide said: "But according to the treaty between our court and Aobang, unless he requests an order for the court to send troops, we will not send troops directly."
Many of the refugees fell silent after hearing this, and some said that the Brahmins of Aubon were pedantic and too vigilant.
In short, there is no blame for Daming.
But there are some sober or smart people in any ethnic group.
At this time, there was still a Brahmin who was obviously knowledgeable and boldly asked Wan Shide and said:
"I heard that the Ming Dynasty has been selling firearms to the Western Yi. Some people even say that the Ming Dynasty has single-handedly promoted wars in various places in order to sell weapons. But is this the case?"
Wan Shide didn't say anything harsh after hearing this, he just smiled lightly and said:
"In this case, the ignorant will believe it after hearing it! Anyone who has some knowledge and understands our Ming Dynasty's national policy should understand that our Ming Dynasty has always advocated equal trade. No matter big or small, all countries can trade with our country, but the premise is Can't afford to fight;"
"Before Folangji launched a war with Aobang, Folangji had not been at war with any vassal state. Naturally, my Ming Dynasty could trade with him. But now, after Folangji provoked a war against Orissa without authorization, After the war, we have been ordered to stop trading war-related materials with them, including the weapons you mentioned. The same is true for other wars. The Ming Dynasty only trades with them when they are willing to make peace, and as long as they initiate a war, War-related transactions were banned."
"So, it cannot be said that it was the Ming Dynasty that caused the wars in various places, or even supported the wars. It should be that some careerists in various places who did not abide by the new etiquette and benevolence caused the wars."
Wan Shide's words made many refugees couldn't help but nod their heads after hearing this, and began to admit that this was indeed the truth. The Ming Dynasty could not be blamed, but the careerists were to blame.
Even the Brahmin who just asked Wan Shide was speechless, with a look of shame on his face: "It's because I don't understand the truth clearly enough."
Not only the refugees, but also many Ming Dynasty officials, generals and soldiers who came with Wan Shide nodded frequently because of this, and felt a lot less guilty, and no longer thought that they started industrialization and greatly increased the production of firearms, causing more killings. , began to feel that the Ming Dynasty was right to trade for the benefit of everyone, but some ambitious people bought firearms not to maintain public order, but to attack cities and seize territory.
Because the Ming Dynasty's productivity is more advanced and its expansion methods are more advanced, plus the Ming Dynasty is currently the only super empire on this continent.
So for a time, in the Indian subcontinent, both Han Chinese and foreigners had a good impression of the Ming Dynasty. They believed that the Ming Dynasty was the center of world civilization, and joining the Ming Dynasty was joining the most ideal country.
They couldn't help but think so.
Not to mention the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, in the current Indian subcontinent, the Daming Enlightenment Zone is the only place with order, security and warmth in the entire Indian subcontinent. It is the only place that can embody benevolence and human civilization, and it is the only place that is developed and wealthy. The place.
Because there is no war here, only fair transactions and a large number of hospitals and almshouses that are not primarily for profit, as well as advanced technology, beautiful art, and schools with low tuition fees.
This also caused wealthy and talented people from many other places in the Indian subcontinent to migrate here, settle here, and actively join the people of the enlightenment area.
Not to mention the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. After seeing the prosperity of the education area of the Ming Dynasty, many people wanted to visit the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and regarded the mainland of the Ming Dynasty as a paradise.
When Wan Shide asked these refugees what their next plans were, one child replied: "I want to go to Middle Earth."
"Why do you want to go to Middle-earth?"
Wan Shide therefore asked.
The child replied: "Where there is no war disaster, I heard that people do not have to serve in the army, and do not have to worry about being hungry every day, but they can live happily."
Wan Shide did not deny it. He only smiled at these refugee children and said:
"Then you should study the saints' classics and the articles and poems of the Shangguo well, because if you want to go to the middle of the Shangguo, you have to pass a strict assessment to prove that your education has been successful and that you are a person who knows etiquette and observes etiquette."
These children all nodded ignorantly.
This is indeed the case. The Ming court set very high entry barriers for foreigners who came to China as slaves. Especially those who wanted to obtain the right of permanent residence in the Ming Dynasty, or even become Han Chinese on the Ming Dynasty household registration, or have a degree of Hanization. Extremely high, even more educated than ordinary people of the same race, or they must make particularly great contributions on the basis of qualifications.
After all, what the Ming Dynasty needs are foreign slaves, not foreign subjects, so the threshold will naturally be very high.
But even so, there are still a large number of foreigners who want to come to the central part of the Ming Dynasty to buy property or settle down. Even if they cannot come to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, they will first live in the education area.
What this phenomenon brings is that a large amount of wealth and talents gather in the Daming Educational District, making the Daming Educational District richer and more worthy of investment than other places.
Even many feudal lords, Portuguese governors of India, and even the emperors of the Mughal Empire purchased properties and shops in the Jiaohua District, and even did not hesitate to exchange land for shops, real estate, or other investment products in the Ming Jiaohua District.
This allowed Ming Dynasty to continuously acquire large amounts of land through non-war means.
Basically, these lands would be granted by the Ming Emperor to meritorious soldiers and distributed to Han people who were willing to move out.
It is mainly awarded to meritorious soldiers.
Because other places have already hosted a large number of Han immigrants, and there are still very few Han people who are really willing to take the initiative to move out. Basically, only the soldiers who came out could not help but think about it when faced with the temptation of being given hundreds or even thousands of acres of land. .
Gao Yingkui, who was originally stationed in this state, was given 300 acres of land in the lower reaches of the Ganges River in India for his merits when he reached his age.
And on this day, he was sitting on a haystack by the river next to his 300 acres of fertile farmland, holding a dry tobacco in his mouth and looking at his farmland and the tenant farmers who were working for him in the farmland with a smile on his face.
The main source of tenant farmers were refugees who fled to the correctional areas.
Frequent wars forced many defeated feudal lords to sit back and watch many of their own subjects and serfs escape and become refugees, and the peasants among these refugees became tenant farmers of the Ming Dynasty's military landlords.
"Tell them to sprinkle more seed cake, don't just dig in."
Gao Yingkui did not forget to give his instructions to his farm head, and then got up and left his farmland and returned to his house.
The entire Ming Dynasty Educational Zone was very orderly, both in terms of agricultural production and industrial production. Matteo Ricci, who had returned with the Ming Dynasty's envoy fleet to the West in advance, was moved by the prosperity and orderliness of this area when he arrived in Dhaka, and sighed. explain:
"Today's Ming Emperor is indeed great. A few years ago, this place was just a place of ragged people and thatched farmhouses with no shelter from the wind. But after his rule, this place was filled with shops and pavilions. "
(End of chapter)
