"Your Majesty, large-scale migration is not easy. If it's not done well, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of troubles. Since ancient times, resettlement has been a tradition."
Lin Shizhong said.
Lin Shizhong is now an elderly man of seventy-five years old. He once served as the magistrate of Nanyang Prefecture in Nanyang and was responsible for the management of this section of the Yellow River.
During his twenty years in office.
The section of the river where it is located has never had a dam collapse accident.
He has done a lot of research on river management, and now he is also specially present to listen to the discussion, which can be regarded as Emperor Zhu's "Yellow River Advisor".
"Tradition also needs time. To control the Yellow River, we need to build flood control embankments along the river, set up flood discharge channels, and plant trees to prevent soil erosion. All of this will take up a lot of land." Zhu Daohua thought about the governance of future generations. Huang experiences and talks eloquently.
To prevent the Yellow River bed from getting too high, the fundamental method is to limit the amount of sediment entering the Yellow River.
As long as less sediment enters the Yellow River, a large amount of sediment will be washed away by drinking water and sent to the sea, which will gradually lower the bed of the Yellow River. The lower the bed of the Yellow River, the higher the probability of flooding!
"I believe that if we want to control the river, we must treat the root cause. To immigrate to northern Liaoning, we can start by moving the people on both sides of the Yellow River."
Zhu Daohua said.
"Your Majesty, it is not difficult to immigrate to the Central Plains. In places such as Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, and Anhui, there are many poor people who cannot afford to eat in their hometowns. Therefore, if immigration from northern Liaoning can be opened, they will be very enthusiastic!"
The person who was speaking was Huang Yue, another surrender of the Qing Dynasty. He was from Wuhu, Anhui. He was a well-known contemporary painter and had also been an official in Henan.
Emperor Zhu had heard about him because he had obtained Huang Yue's calligraphy and paintings in later generations, so he had some impressions of this Qing Dynasty minister.
Now that he is under the influence of Emperor Zhu, he may be of great use.
Now the Ming Dynasty has too many people from the south and too few from the north.
This is not conducive to unity.
So now Emperor Zhu has also promoted a group of people from the northern literati and gentlemen of the former Qing Dynasty. In addition, he has opened Enke in the north and set up the Beibang imperial examination.
For Emperor Zhu.
He actually didn't care much about who was more powerful, southern officials or northern officials.
Balancing the number of officials in various places is actually a political issue.
This is a top priority that affects whether the position under Emperor Zhu's butt can sit securely.
"Your Majesty, there is already a lot of mature land in Liaodong. As long as there are enough people, it can be cultivated at any time. The only trouble is the old forests in northern Liaoning and the swamps on both sides of the Songhua River. It will really take a lot of effort to develop them."
Peng Jun, the governor of Liao, said.
"Today, there are twenty-three military camps in Liaodong, each with about 300 households and a population of about 1,000 people."
"There are thirteen military garrisons in Vladivostok, and they are about the same size."
After Zhu Daohua heard Peng Jun's report, he pondered for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "The land in Liaodong and Vladivostok is relatively easy to develop. Liaodong was originally cultivated land and a place for farming. It was only abandoned after the Qing Dynasty banned Han people from entering. , and Vladivostok is close to the sea, and there is a sea to transport supplies, so it is easy to establish a foothold, but if you want to go deep into the Liao Dynasty, this kind of military garrison system may not be suitable for the inland."
Peng Jun was thoughtful when he heard the words, but Zhao Si on the side then asked: "Your Majesty, the Weisuo military camp is based on the clan and the relationship between the same villagers and fellow townsmen. It can twist the strength of everyone into a rope. What's wrong with that?" What about?"
Zhu Daohua shook his head when he heard this.
He certainly did not think that society with this structure was well organized.
Because in Zhu Daohua's view.
Clan-style villages, which are united by fellow villagers, clans, and blood ties, have the advantage of being organized and convenient, but they also have the disadvantage of being prone to self-isolation and exclusion.
in other words.
In Liaodong, which the Ming Dynasty could firmly control, this kind of clan-style military garrison could be established.
After all, there is no need to take on too big a mission of foreign war.
In Lanfang, the shortcomings of this kind of clan military garrison have already emerged - the Ming Dynasty's expansion in Borneo must rely on the troops sent by the Ming Dynasty to drive out the local indigenous people. Otherwise, it would be impossible to rely solely on the Jiaying Prefecture clans. Even within a hundred or two hundred years, it would be impossible to capture all of Borneo.
And this is not something Zhu Daohua can afford to wait for!
Colonization requires breaking up clans.
The immigration settlement in the Northeast will be a model for the Ming Dynasty's future experiments in the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, North America and other places.
In this way, we must learn from the experience and lessons in Borneo, and create a farming village that can manage itself, work collectively, everyone can benefit from it, and everyone is willing to carry a gun to defend their own interests!
Such a village.
It's not something that the clan villages in the south can do.
"Old Zhao, you have also worked hard in Nanyang. Don't you know the disadvantages of people of the same clan relying on each other? If you are not a member of the same clan, you will not believe it if you are not a fellow villager. The wealthy families in Lanfang have always only recognized the Hakkas of Jiaying Prefecture. If If I hadn't conquered with force and established my authority with muskets, how could this scattered Lan Fang be twisted into a rope?"
"Compared to Lanfang, the clan relationships here in the Central Plains are more complicated, and some clans have deep grievances with each other and are prone to fights. There are also conflicts between various sects and gangs, which are intertwined! If we use the same hometown and clan as the bond, It is equivalent to moving these contradictions intact to the Northeast."
"The coastal area is okay. Going further to Heilongjiang, there are the remnants of the Qing Tatar forces and the infiltration forces of Tsarist Russia. Can those clan villages cope with it? Will the court send a large army to protect them? Then the immigrants The cost of dragging the edges is prohibitively expensive!”
Zhu Daohua said, a bright color appeared in his eyes.
He seems to have some ideas, and in his mind, the organizational form is definitely a hundred times, a thousand times more powerful than a clan-style village!
He thought of the later collectivized production in the 1950s and 1960s.
Collectivization of the countryside!
If a collectivized countryside can be formed in which everyone has "shares", and collective farms with military and political integration are used as the basis of future social organizations in the Northeast, then this collectivized society in the Northeast will also be a powerful force for the Ming Empire's external expansion in the future. cornerstone!
If thousands of collective farms appear, the Ming army will be able to obtain millions of reserve troops and logistical supplies at any time.
The collective farms that are "especially capable of fighting" must also become fortresses that are difficult to break down and become models of colonialism with Ming Dynasty characteristics!
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What should Zhu Daohua do with this collective farm in his mind?
It was just a vague idea in his mind.
Specifically, we certainly cannot copy the rural collectivization of later generations.
Because that and collectivization methods are not profitable.
But what he decided in his heart was that the clan must not get involved in the colonial collective farms of the Ming Dynasty.
This collective farm must break up all the original social structures and organizations.
All the farmers’ original social connections and interests will be wiped out, and their core interests will be firmly bound to the collective farms.
Only by fighting for profit can such collective farms survive in northern Liaoning, Southeast Asia, and North America!
Like seeds and sharp knives, inserted into every corner of the world.
Although in Zhu Daohua's mind, the production capacity of the "collectivized countryside" is not necessarily stronger than the small-scale peasant economy of "dividing fields to households".
But in terms of combat effectiveness.
It will definitely destroy all clan systems, tribal systems, and serfdoms.
The terrorist mobilization capabilities of later generations are clearly there.
So colonize and expand.
The rural structure of collectivized large-scale production is much better than the scattered clan-based countryside.
after all.
A structure like a clan has been proven by history to be able to form a particularly effective organizational structure - countless invasions in history have proven this.
Think of this.
Zhu Daohua seemed to have an idea.
He stood up, turned around and looked at the map spread out behind him.
Then he turned around and said: "Recruit some people on both sides of the Yellow River as experimental sites in advance to break up the structures of all clans and fellow villagers. I don't want a military camp united by blood clans, but a collectivized farm with real combat effectiveness. !”
"In addition, I decree that some officials with experience in border expansion in Borneo and farmers with good production will be selected to come to Beijing. I want to learn from them!"
Zhu Daohua said.
"Large-scale immigration is a national policy of the Ming Dynasty, but how this people immigrate, how to organize, how to manage themselves in foreign lands, produce collectively, and fight together requires careful study. The clan cannot bear this responsibility, so I do not want foreign colonization. Clan, I want a new organizational model that can be applied to the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, Northeast China, Siberia, and even North America!"
(End of chapter)
