The so-called private affairs of Gao Pragmatic are naturally related to Jinghua, and these are the same.
The first incident came from southern Xinjiang and involved two places: Longya City and Huzhou City, which were later known as Malacca City and Singapore. Both places are key areas in the Nanyang Plan. Among them, Aralia City is planned as the main commercial city in the Malacca Strait, and Huzhou City is planned as the future main port of the Nanyang Fleet.
Huzhou City, later known as Singapore, is a well-known commercial port city, and its level of development stands out among the developing countries in ASEAN. Some people think that Singapore's success is mainly due to its geographical location. This is actually a bit biased.
Of course, Singapore's unique geographical location is an important factor in Singapore's economic rise, but if it can succeed only by geographical location, then it is not the only place in the Strait of Malacca region that also has an advantageous geographical location. Why is it the only one that has succeeded? ?
The reasons for Singapore's success are actually very clear in many analyses. They include God's blessings, the implementation of the correct development path, and the firm grasp of opportunities. There is no need to elaborate here. However, Singapore's economy had already had some hidden worries before Gao Pragmatic crossed over. This was the reason why Gao Pragmatic did not regard Huzhou City as a major economic development city but as the main military port of the Nanyang Fleet.
In later generations, due to population growth, Singapore had to spend a huge amount of money and energy on fresh water supply. Gao Pragmatism was not that interested in investing in these costs that were not needed in the first place. As long as it is not regarded as a major economic city, but only as a military port city, its population will definitely not expand like that, and the pressure on water supply will definitely not be so huge.
This is not the case in Longya City. The terrain in this area is relatively flat, mostly plains, but there are some hills in the east, and the water resources are also abundant. There is the Ningyi River in the west, the Malacca River in the middle, and the Kitsan River in the east. All three rivers flow into the Strait of Malacca.
Of course, due to Gao Pragmatic's order, almost all "Malacca" in southern Xinjiang have been renamed "Longya", so in various document exchanges between Beijing and China, the Malacca River became the Longya River, and the Malacca Strait became "Longya". The Aralia Strait and even the Malay Peninsula were changed back to the Chinese name "Aralia Peninsula".
Coastal cities have rivers on three sides, which not only means that the water resources are sufficient to support the rise of a large city, but also means that its transportation is convenient enough. This was definitely a huge advantage before the arrival of mechanized mass production, and now Gao pragmatically wants to develop Longya City There are no internal constraints - after all, this place is now the largest city near the strait. How can it develop if it is not developed?
As for Huzhou City, there are only locals from the original Johor Sultanate on this island. Not only is the population small, but the culture is also so backward that you can't even see it. When Jinghua's huge fleet and army of muskets sailed southward, awakening their memories of the Great Tomorrow more than a hundred years ago, they were easily captured. As for the local people, Gao Ruichu, adhering to his pragmatic will, ordered them to be dispersed and resettled throughout the Longya Peninsula.
But this does not mean that there will be no trouble in the Aralia Peninsula. There are still troubles, and they are not small. What's the biggest trouble? It's population and governance policy.
Jinghua has been implementing the Sinicization policy of "immigration plus naturalization" in southern Xinjiang. This policy is currently implemented well, but if you take a closer look, you will find some problems. The most critical and most prominent problem is that there is no Sinicization. balanced.
Looking at the entire southern Xinjiang, the areas with the highest degree of Sinicization are undoubtedly the northern and central areas of Annan, that is, from Huang Zhiting's "fiefdom" Haidong Prefecture to Jingang in the central part, becoming the areas with the highest degree of Sinicization in the entire southern Xinjiang.
In this area, the proportion of broadly defined Han people (that is, the Han people and the Tong, Miao, Yao, etc. who moved south from Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, as long as they can speak Chinese are uniformly counted as Han people in southern Xinjiang) and naturalized Han people account for close to 60%. Considering it only took the region about ten years to get to this point, it's a remarkable achievement.
However, the reason why this area has been able to achieve such a high degree of Chineseization is not only due to effective policies. The bigger reason may also be due to history. As we all know, Annan has been part of the territory of Chinese dynasties for a long time in history, and returned to it for a period of time in the early Ming Dynasty. Although they later became independent, even the imperial examinations were almost copied from the Ming Dynasty, and scholars read Confucius and Mencius. It can be said that the culture of the upper class was completely Chinese culture, and Chinese characters were originally the official script. In this case, promoting Chinese culture will certainly get twice the result with half the effort.
However, things are different outside this area. Although Myanmar, Nanzhang and other places were part of the "Three Propaganda and Six Comforts" that year, Chinese culture also had a profound impact on them, but after all they did not reach the level of Annan. Although Beijing's Sinicization policy was implemented very solidly, the effect was not as good as Annan is far behind.
The Southern Xinjiang work report submitted by Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan lists relatively detailed figures, indicating that the proportion of Sinicization in Nanzhang (the proportion of Han people in the broad sense and naturalized Han people in the total population) is only 11% (the concepts of Arabic numerals and percentages have been introduced) Jinghua system for several years); the proportion of Chineseization in Cambodia is only 7%; the proportion of Chineseization in southern Annan is only 9%; the proportion of Chineseization in Bago (southern Myanmar, because the north is still a nominal vassal state of the Ming Dynasty) is also 7%; the proportion of Chineseization in Siam is the highest except for northern Annam The highest among other areas is 16%, but this is mainly due to the influx of a large number of Han Chinese into Dinnan City. The proportion of Chinese in other areas of Siam is also very low, no more than 10% at most.
As someone who often laughed at the Indian caste system before traveling across time, the highly pragmatic Sinicization policy in southern Xinjiang is not essentially intended to create caste differences between people, but in fact it has actually created caste differences at present.
Although Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan's reports stated that this kind of class gap already existed in various countries in southern Xinjiang, Gao Pingshi knew that the class gap was actually a "class difference", such as nobles, monks, landlords and wealthy businessmen, and ordinary serfs (not farmers). , really serfs) are definitely not the same class. However, now the sinicization policy has actually created another class difference: Han people and non-Han people - this is very worrying.
If this kind of policy is transferred to India, there may not be much of a problem. After all, Gao Pragmatic can directly solve all problems by simply announcing that the Han people are Brahmins or Kshatriyas. The lower-level Vaishyas, Shudras and Dali The special (untouchables, untouchables) will not put up any resistance at all. However, Southern Xinjiang is not India after all!
According to the report, sporadic rebellions in various countries in southern Xinjiang are not uncommon, with an average of 1.7 incidents occurring a month. Although the scale of these rebellions is not large, the number is generally only about two to three hundred people. The largest ones are only a thousand people, and the few are only a few dozen. They are completely useless under the dimensionality reduction attacks of the major security forces. However, Gao Pragmatic believes that this situation is very bad, and it has also greatly increased the cost of governance, resulting in Jinghua having to maintain six large garrison forces in southern Xinjiang for a long time.
You must know that Jinghua's six major security forces have basically completed the use of firearms. The weaponized army is a complete dimensionality reduction blow to these local rebellions. For comparison, when the Sino-French War broke out at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the French army only increased its troops in North Vietnam to only 35,000 people. In normal times, the number of troops stationed in the entire Indochina Federation (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) was only about 20,000. This difference Is it a little too big?
Let's just say that the three countries of the French "Federation of Indochina" are basically equivalent to Annam, Nanzhang, and Cambodia in southern Xinjiang. How many troops does Jinghua currently have stationed in these three places? There are four garrison forces: Thang Long Garrison, Golden Port Garrison, Vientiane Garrison, and Phnom Penh Garrison.
According to the highly pragmatic reorganization orders issued at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the overall strength of the four garrison armies has been adjusted. The troop configuration is as follows: Thang Long garrison town four, with a strength of 50,800 troops; Jingang garrison town four, with a strength of 50,800 troops; There are three garrison towns in Phnom Penh, with a strength of 38,100; and two garrison towns in Vientiane, with a strength of 25,400. In total, the four major garrison armies have a total of 13 towns, with a total strength of 165,100 people!
Although these troops are not only paid for by Jinghua itself, but also require each puppet kingdom to bear the total military rations, as well as part of the military salary and other expenses. However, after all, this is a firearms force of more than 160,000 people. It would be fine if they don't fight (counterinsurgency). As long as they go out to fight, they will spend money like water, and the landlords don't have that much surplus food!
What's more, the Bago garrison has more than 50,000 people in four towns, and Dingnan has not only the "Dingnan Five Towns", but also 8,000 royal guards and 9,000 Siam independent garrison divisions, totaling more than 80,000 troops. Now that the Longya Peninsula has been captured, southern Xinjiang still needs to train the Longya Garrison...
Under such circumstances, Southern Xinjiang now needs to be Sinicized, raise troops, and build. Although Jinghua is ruthless in making money, no one can spend it at such a speed. In their reports, Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan had to recommend slowing down the follow-up pace of the Nanyang Raiders, and even the construction of the Huzhou Military Port. Take it slow.
According to calculations by Southern Xinjiang, just the expansion of the original Siamese Independent Garrison Division into the Yongya Garrison and the planning and construction of the first phase of the new city of Yongya City will cost 700,000 to 900,000 taels of kupin silver. .
Needless to say, after the Longya Garrison is built, it will be a pure waste of money. Even after the re-planning and expansion of Longya City is completed, the cost will not be recovered immediately. It is estimated that it will take at least ten years to recover the cost, and Ding Nancheng almost.
Under this situation, Southern Xinjiang could only submit a report and ask Gao to make a pragmatic decision. At the same time, they also asked about the situation in Japan. The reason is not surprising. Jinghua has also spent a lot of money in Japan this year, and even directly purchased from Japan. Southern Xinjiang shipped a lot of food to Japan. In view of the fact that Jinghua's attributes are completely pragmatic, although Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan would not express dissatisfaction, they obviously must "repay attention".
The Japanese issue is therefore Gao Pragmatic’s second “private matter” recently.
Basically, the situation in Japan is pretty good right now. The Narita family's new territory, Tamana Castle, and the Misaki Castle directly controlled by Kyoka, together gave Kyoka virtually control over the entire Miura Peninsula. The strength of the "Kanto Squadron" was also enough to control Tokyo Bay in later generations and today's Edo. Gulf, and enjoys hegemony over the entire eastern seas of Japan.
However, the strength of maritime power does not mean everything. After the Odawara conquest, due to limited financial resources, the Narita family would definitely not maintain wartime troops, and reduced the family's standing military strength to 1,000. His family originally only had about 1,000 troops during non-war times, so the Narita clan chief took away the troops at that time. Half of them went to Odawara Castle, and there were only 80 samurai and more than 400 ordinary soldiers left in the hometown of Ninja Castle. The rest were farmers who temporarily participated in the defense.
As a result, even if the 1,800 regular Kyoka Marines in Misaki Castle are included, the entire Miura Peninsula's marine strength is actually less than 3,000. The usual claims of "nearly ten thousand" are purely a bluff, because the rest are actually sailors in the fleet.
Fortunately, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had just moved to Kanto, could not take care of them. He first gave up the plan of placing his seat in Odawara Castle and settled on Edo Castle - nominally too close to the Miura Peninsula, but in fact Gao Pragmatic knew very well that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not choose Odawara Castle in the original history, because he believed that only by settling in Edo could it more conveniently radiate power to the entire Kanto region.
At the moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu is busy moving, and at the same time he is busy suppressing the sporadic disturbances caused by the forces loyal to the Hojo family in various places. He has a very kind attitude towards Kyoka and Narita on the Miura Peninsula, and even strongly invites Kyoka to set up various shops and industries in Edo.
Because the Kyoto Kanto side did not understand their master's attitude towards Tokugawa Ieyasu, they gave ambiguous answers. While stabilizing Tokugawa Ieyasu first, they urgently sent people back to Beijing to ask for instructions on the next steps and their attitude towards all parties.
In addition to these things, there is another more "private matter" on the Japanese side that must be decided pragmatically and personally, which is the issue of Kaihime.
According to Luo Yuan's report, Kaiji is now very prestigious in the Narita family. On the one hand, it is due to her amazing fighting performance in the Battle of Ninja Castle, and on the other hand, because she has become a highly pragmatic concubine with a very special status. .
Luo Yuan said that the Narita family comes from the Fujiwara Kita family and has a very high family status. Although it is not one of the five regent families according to Japanese custom, in terms of bloodline and family status, it can even legally serve as regent and guanbai.
Now the Narita family has three daughters and two sons. The eldest daughter is Narita Kai, and the second son is named Han, but he died young. The other son is named Uji Mune. He is not his biological son, but adopted from his cousin Narita Nagatada. Originally the second son of Changzhong.
It's nothing to adopt. Anyway, the Japanese value the family name rather than the bloodline! But the problem is that the Narita family belongs to the "early marriage and late childbearing" family. He is already fifty years old this year, and his eldest daughter is less than twenty years old. Recently, the Lord of Yusheng City has become ill.
It was a serious disease for the Narita clan. There were more than one or two people who came up with crooked ideas, and the most critical one was none other than Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
No one knows what Toyotomi Hideyoshi planned. All they know is that the monkey suddenly gave him the position of "the fifth highest Sagami guardian" of the Narita clan. Then he specially sent someone to check on his condition, and then "suggested" him to visit the emperor in the name of the transfer of the Narita family title to Kaen (increased by Shi Gao), and then go to Osaka Castle for treatment and recuperation.
Due to the banner of meeting the emperor, and the fact that the transfer of the Narita clan has indeed increased the stone height, the head of the Narita clan, as a direct descendant of the Fujiwara Kita family, can't find any reason to refuse, so he gets angry.
The Japanese value the continuation of the family name above all else. The elder is afraid that if he dies in Kyoto or Osaka, his son will not be his biological son. What if something happens to him in an accident?
Don't think that the clan leader is worried that his cousins will seize the throne. In fact, if it were really them, the clan leader would not be worried, because at least the cousin's surname is Narita, so the continuation of the family name will not be a problem. What Mr. Narita is really worried about is Kyoka.
Japan is different from the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese allow a son-in-law to inherit. Although generally speaking, the daughter is required to be the son-in-law's main wife, this rule is not so strict in reality. If the son-in-law is powerful enough, forced inheritance is not uncommon in Japan.
As for your question, if your daughter has a stepbrother (Narita Nagamune is 24 years old this year, older than Narita Kai), why can the son-in-law inherit? Well, when the son-in-law is strong enough, is it so surprising that the daughter's brother dies inexplicably?
Oh, you have to ask your daughter about her attitude again. Do you think she will try to protect her stepbrother? This is really sorry. The most common educational philosophy among Japanese samurai families is to marry and obey your husband, which requires putting the interests of your husband's family first. Although not everyone can do this, at least on the surface, the vast majority of women do not. violates this purpose.
In other words, if Gao Mingshi insists on annexing Tamana Castle after the death of the Narita clan, Narita Kai can theoretically only agree - not to mention Narita Nagasune is not her biological brother, which is even more dangerous.
Ever since the Battle of Ninja Castle, the Narita family has been experiencing a clear trend of rising yin and declining yang. Although there are several men in the family, no one can compete with Kabi-hime in prestige. In such a situation, coupled with Kyoka's great strength, the Narita clan chief's worries could not be concealed at all.
Luo Yuan said in his report to Gao Pragmatic that the most likely plan of the Narita clan leader is to abdicate early and live in seclusion behind the scenes, allowing Narita Nagamune to succeed the family head. He asked his master if he wanted to stop this.
The reason why Luo Yuan asked this question was mainly because he was worried that the change of head of the Narita family would affect Jinghua's control of the Miura Peninsula. After all, the reason why everyone is so close now is because Narita Kai has the status of a highly pragmatic concubine.
After all, Luo Yuan is not Japanese. According to his thinking, Narita Nagamune and Narita Kai are just cousins. If this were in the Ming Dynasty, they would separate as soon as the Narita clan died. They would be two families instead of one. When the time comes, Jinghua The relationship with the Narita family suddenly became estranged.
Luo Yuan's own attitude is even more interesting. He believes that since the Japanese, like the chieftains of the Ming Dynasty, can accept female family governors, it would not be a bad idea to simply push Kaiji to the position of head of the Narita family.
And he provided more than just this plan. He said that although Mr. Narita was ill, he might not die soon. Therefore, another way can be considered, that is, the master immediately takes Narita Kai back to the capital, "When Qilin'er comes out, Narita Miao can inherit the jade rope, and after the matter is completed, he can change his surname back to Gao."
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