If words like "Mrs. Lao gives birth to another child" are said among best friends in later generations, even if that is what they mean, it will definitely be full of jokes.
However, Huang Zhiting, who was from the Ming Dynasty, obviously lacked the sense of humor in this regard. After hearing this, he just frowned slightly, sighed, and said: "If it is possible, I am naturally obligated. But as the saying goes: More children, more blessings, the Gao family With such a family background and such a big business, if Tan'er doesn't have more brothers in the future, many things will not be so easy to control."
Gao pragmatic was almost stunned when he heard this. Why didn't he realize that you were thinking so long-term before? I’m all worried about my son’s future!
After having this idea, Mr. Gao, who had always been "over-calculating", couldn't help but wonder: Zhiting took the initiative to take charge of southern Xinjiang. Although she said she was looking after my inheritance, maybe she was also thinking about helping her son look after the inheritance?
He recalled that when Zhiting first went to southern Xinjiang to take charge, Tan'er did not exist, which should mean that she had not considered such a far-reaching matter at that time.
However, according to "experience", women are born with maternal nature, and the more traditional a woman is, the stronger her maternal nature is. Therefore, it is very likely that with the birth of Tan'er, she "awakened her maternal nature" and did not only consider When thinking about her husband, she will also consider her son.
Gao pragmatic suddenly felt that he was not used to it, but he couldn't get angry... Well, is this what it feels like to be a father?
Even though his teacher Guo Pu pointed out that he was "excessive in calculations" many years ago, calculations are not nuclear bombs and there is no "indiscriminate attack". When it comes to his relatives, Gao Pragmatism does not calculate calculations.
Of course, he will also find out the other person's thoughts through observation and thinking, but this behavior is not malicious, and is to better understand the other person's mind, so as to decide what words and deeds he will respond with. He just thinks that this way can satisfy the other party more and he does it unconsciously.
But what he found out today was something he had never considered before, and he couldn't help but feel a little at a loss for a moment. A woman who was completely centered on him in his consciousness was suddenly half taken away by another "man". However, this "man" was his "life extension", and it was impossible for him to be angry about this.
This feeling is unprecedented.
"Master, master?" Huang Zhiting's voice brought Gao Pragmatic out of his trance.
"Huh? What?" Gao Pragmatic, who had just come to his senses, asked blankly.
There was deep concern on Huang Zhiting's face, and her voice was not like the one she had just spoken to Meng Guzhezhe. She had the majesty of Vice-Capital Annan, and it always sounded like a military chill.
At this moment, her voice returned to its pragmatic appearance, as gentle and melodious as a lark in the mountains: "They told me before coming here that the master has almost treated the household department as his own home during this period, and they can't wait to join him." I sleep in the household department so I can save time reviewing the mountains and seas of official documents."
When she said this, she opened her mouth, suddenly realized something, and turned her head to give Gao Mo a look. The look in his eyes was very simple. Gao Mo could understand it immediately and immediately sent the maid waiting in the restaurant out. Then he walked out of the door himself and ordered the sentinels arranged by Heiding to move away some distance. In the end, he himself did not come back, but closed the door and stood farther away.
In fact, Huang Zhiting knew Gao Mo's position around Gao Pingshi. There was almost nothing that this "old slave" didn't know over the years. She just asked him to send his servants away, but she didn't expect him to avoid suspicion himself.
There was no need to call people back at this time, so Huang Zhiting was too lazy to bother and asked Gao pragmatically: "Master, there is something I have always wanted to ask..."
"Ask." Anyway, there are no outsiders now. Although Meng Guzhezhe is still worthy of observation, Huang Zhiting must have a sense of proportion, so Gao Pragmatic answered naturally.
"Are the stalls too spread out now?" Huang Zhiting asked with some worry: "From Mongolia to Nanyang, from Qinghai to Japan, there is the shadow of Beijing all over tens of thousands of miles, and all aspects of things need to be The master will personally take care of it, and there are many matters in the court... If the master continues like this, I feel that I am really working too hard."
Gao Jingshi didn't expect her to say this. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Qinghai and Mongolia are actually not the focus of my attention at the moment. Things in the west and north just need to be pushed forward by inertia for the time being. After all, That was a situation that had been solved a few years ago, and I don’t put much effort into it now.
As for Nanyang, since you came to take charge, I have only been in charge of the general direction and haven't asked much about the details. If we really want to talk about places other than the Ming Dynasty, the only one I am focusing on right now is Japan, where the situation is a little more complicated.
As for the imperial court... this is also the end of the year. In addition, I have set up a large household department this year. This is considered a pioneering stage and will definitely be busier. But with this year's experience at the bottom, next year should be much better, so you don't have to worry. "
Huang Zhiting was still confused about her worries and said: "Not long after I talked to Miss Liu about Japan, the master came back... Can you tell me why Japan is important? Just now Miss Liu told me, Japan is not as big as Siam, excluding Ezo and Hokkaido.”
Liu Xin is obviously very familiar with the land area of these places. Japan, excluding Hokkaido, has an area of only 295,000 square kilometers. Even Thailand in later generations has an area of 513,000 square kilometers. Siam is now larger than Thailand in later generations. It's much bigger, almost twice as big as Japan, not counting Hokkaido.
Note: The territorial area of Siam and Thailand has changed greatly. In the case of this book, it first recovered part of the territory occupied by Myanmar, and then because of its high pragmatism, it used Siam as the center of Beijing's rule in southern Xinjiang. Cambodia got part of it, and its current area is estimated to be about 600,000 square kilometers.
"If you only talk about the size of the country, this is true, but Siam only has about 10 million people, or just over 10 million people, but Japan has 20 million people." Gao pragmatically said: "So from this perspective , Japan is really not a small country except in front of the Ming Dynasty."
Japan's population has been mentioned before, and it has also been analyzed by Japanese historians in later generations. Generally speaking, from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Taiko Inspection" to Tokugawa Ieyasu's "Keicho Township Account" statistics on Japan's Ishiga, we can roughly get the population at that time, which was approximately between 19,002,200 million.
If we want to apply the term "population density", then the population density of Japan at this time in southern Xinjiang can only be compared with the northern and central areas of Annan, that is, Annan, which Gao pragmatically won at the beginning, excluding the three Guangnan areas later. town and later the Mekong Delta and other areas.
The northern and central areas of Annan were originally split from China in the late Tang and early Song Dynasties. Its population density is higher than the average of the current "Two Capitals and Thirteen Provinces" of the Ming Dynasty, but it cannot compete with some of the population explosions. compared to regions.
Even so, when Annan did not have the south in hand, although its population was already very high in southern Xinjiang, it only had a population of about five million. Adding the south, it only had more than seven million. At this time, compared with Annan's southern development degree Low, and complete Annan is basically equal to Vietnam in later generations being slightly larger than Japan without Hokkaido. It can be seen that Japan's population density was very high in this era.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic is not trying to purify Japan's race. Although he has no favorable impression of Japan due to a certain period of history in his previous life, he believes that the Japanese under the influence of Japanese national culture are at least better than the natives of southern Xinjiang countries. Be better and might be a good one to take advantage of.
Everyone knows a certain characteristic of the Japanese. They are typical of beating and not eating. Although he may be arrogant at first, as long as he beats him to death with absolute strength, he will immediately become honest and recognize himself from then on. The position of , refers to east to east, refers to west to west.
Uncle Sam had a perfect experiment with this and got a satisfying experience out of it.
Gao Pragmatic also wants to experience it. The main reason why he thought this way was not because he wanted to get some revenge-like pleasure, but because he found that Jinghua now had this need.
Although there were many disaster victims in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic found that the cost of introducing Ming disaster victims to southern Xinjiang was a bit high, and he was also worried that too many introductions would weaken the strength of the Ming Dynasty itself.
But if some people can be transferred from Japan to southern Xinjiang, there may be a better way to govern. To put it simply, it is to artificially create an extra social class, so that this class can share the firepower and serve as a shield for Ming people who are at the highest level of society.
To put it simply, Gao Pragmatic has begun to imagine using the Japanese as "Korean sticks" in the future.
When Japan invaded Northeast China, the "Japan-North Korea merger" had already been going on for some years, which meant annexing North Korea. Japan had already trained many lackeys in North Korea, so many Koreans were recruited from the Korean Peninsula to suppress the resistance of the Chinese people.
However, the Japanese did not really regard them as their own people, so they did not issue weapons to them. This was worse than treating China's puppet army and police. At that time, the Chinese pseudo-police at least had a baton, but these Koreans could only take out the laundry sticks used by women at home as weapons and carry them with them. If they saw someone displeased with them, they would beat them with the stick.
Therefore, the people in the Northeast called them Goryeo Bangzi behind their backs. From word of mouth, "Goryeo Bangzi" gradually became a derogatory name for these Koreans who worked hard for the Japanese.
Call it contemptuous, but if the status of the two parties were reversed, Gao Pragmatic felt that it would be very good. He really wanted to turn the Japanese into the "Japanese sticks" of southern Xinjiang.
He even wanted to play another trick like "the emperor is always a good guy, and the only fault is that he has treacherous ministers", so that the Japanese can play the proper role of bad guys, stabilize the hatred of the people in the southern border, and allow Akito to do a better job. to play with social balance, but he is aloof from it.
Once the Japanese do this, they can never look back. They can only hold on to Jinghua's thighs more honestly and beg to maintain their "second class" status forever.
But having said that, the original naturalized household registration system is also effective for the Japanese. Since they are highly pragmatic, even the active and outstanding elements among the southern border people are willing to naturalize them as Han people, not to mention that overall they are better than they should be. What about some Japanese people?
In the eyes of the overlord, either I am the enemy; in the eyes of the king, either the enemy is me.
Those who are either self or the enemy can unite the core forces around them and be strong and tenacious for a while, but their dominance will never last long. Once a failure occurs, it often means that the main force will be severely damaged, and then it will be difficult to recover.
He who is neither the enemy nor me can unite all non-major opponents. The stars hold the moon and hundreds of birds look at the phoenix. When we are in trouble, there are people who help us. In difficulties, there are people who accompany us in life and death. We have accumulated a lot of experience and are indomitable. Its power is like the endless flow of a river. Its momentum is like a river. The waves are surging, and the steps of thousands of miles will eventually lead to great achievements.
The former is like Xiang Yu, and the latter is like Liu Bang.
Like many people, in his previous life, when Gao Pingshi was young, he thought that Xiang Yu was a hero and worthy of the title of Overlord. However, as he grew older, he realized that an overlord was only an overlord after all. At that time, only Liu Bang was worthy of the title of "Emperor". name.
Before the great cause is accomplished, if you throw away a lot of help because of an old grudge in your heart, that's just the youthful spirit.
What's more, with their highly pragmatic plans and understanding of the Japanese national characteristics, they could even shout the slogan "Leave Asia and join Europe". During the Song Dynasty, many Japanese gave their wives and daughters to The Song Dynasty businessmen who traveled to Japan stayed overnight just to improve the "breed".
So under the naturalized household registration system, how aggressive should these people be in order to transform themselves into noble "Han people"?
Note: During the Song Dynasty, the Japanese gave their wives and daughters to Song Dynasty merchants to improve the "breeds". I did not make this up. It was indeed very common at the time, but I want to explain the reasons.
The Japanese attach great importance to the name of the family, but not too much to the bloodline. For example, during the Warring States Period, many daimyo discovered outstanding young people and believed that he could help revitalize their family name in the future. They often adopted him as an adopted son, or married their daughter to him, thus becoming a "family member". This can be roughly understood as The family even passed the position of family governor to him in the end.
Therefore, for the Japanese, inheriting the family name is more important than traditional bloodline, which is a very common thinking and phenomenon at this time.
In the Ming Dynasty, things like family names were probably the "family name of the surname". The meaning of revitalizing a family name is probably to ensure that the family name remains unchanged and the family status is improved.
This kind of thinking of the Japanese cannot be better than high pragmatism. I have a hundred ways to feed this carrot to you in fancy ways! And if you want to eat this fancy-fed carrot, isn't it worth sacrificing everything you have?
Just like Gao Pragmatic's original intention when he designed the household registration and naturalization system, he not only wanted to absorb all the outstanding "dominated classes", but also let that class always maintain its yearning for "upward".
People at the bottom of society have no room for advancement and are the formidable and even mortal enemies of any rule. Just like why the Ming Dynasty in history lost to the Jurchens who had only a small population despite having billions of people, a large part of the reason was because the Ming Dynasty’s army had no motivation to fight. No matter how hard you work and how powerful you are, the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies will You will never be able to take the position of governor of the government.
Unable to prove one's own worth, and unable to obtain corresponding rewards through hard work, no one else would have the will to fight without risking one's life. Of course, all of them would be able to fool around, and they would run away as soon as the battle came.
Huang Zhiting's eyes sparkled when she heard Gao Pragmatic's explanation.
Meng Guzhezhe, who was standing aside, heard this grand speech from her nominal husband for the first time. For her, these words were like opening the door to a new world, making her entire world view seem to be changing. In an instant, it was first subverted and then reshaped. It was truly a completely new thing.
Only Liu Xin understood Gao Pragmatic better and was generally quite calm, but in fact she was secretly surprised. She didn't even know that Gao Pragmatic could be so "yin". What was the difference between this approach and killing people?
Turning the best people of a nation into our own, but insisting that that nation always exist, wouldn't that nation be equivalent to a blood bank, whose only function is to provide services to those represented by Gao Pragmatism? The "Han" class provides fresh blood?
Thinking of this, Secretary-General Liu shivered.
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